Sequoia January Meeting

Jim plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:38:24 -0700


You are a west sider, right, Bob?

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 12:55 pm, you wrote:
> "der.hans" <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Even just a listing of others ( especially security-oriented distro )
>
> would
>
> > be cool.
>
> Hmm. I'd be game for doing a future session on system recovery using a
> couple of these tools. A colleague just used LNX-BBC to salvage files off
> of a Win2K notebook that had gone bad (OK, it was born that way, but you
> get the idea :). I knew we were getting studly when we began using ssh to
> pipe files to tar running on a remote box with no other file sharing. I
> need to try to remember the details. It was pretty intense, and highly
> educational.
>
> We've also convinced the guys at work to save $75K or so on NAI Sniffer
> software and use Ethereal on LNX-BBC instead. They were amazed when I was
> able to walk up to pretty much any desktop, boot that CD, set up the
> network and launch X, all without touching the hard disk. Ethereal meets
> 95% of the needs they have for troubleshooting (they can't tell me what the
> other 5% is), and mtr and the other tools just blew them away.
>
> - Bob
>
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Jim

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