On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:19, Alex Earl wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:39 pm, Alex Earl wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I am new to the list and Phoenix as well. Was really happy to find an
> >> active LUG here!
> >
> > So am I!  ;^)  Welcome, welcome!
> >
> >> Anyway, I am trying to setup OpenVPN on my system at home
> >> so that I can VPN from work and ssh and so forth. Does anyone know of a
> >> good howto on configuring OpenVPN or anyone gone through the same thing?
> >
> > As another response said, I use ssh.  We'll see what others have to say.
> 
> My workplace blocks all ports except VPN, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, so I figure
> the best way to get out is with VPN. Also, my ISP (Cox) seems to block
> incoming HTTP requests, so I can't pipe SSH through port 80 like I
> originally wanted. Anyone have a good solution? I noticed there are quite
> a few Cox users on the list.
> 
> >
> >> Also, what is the main distro used by the PLUG or is there one and such?
> >> Just wondering! Thanks!
> >
> > PLUG's main distro.  I love that fact that we can to polls on our website
> > now.
> > This is the recently ended poll, "Which is your preferred Linux
> > distribution?":
> >
> > http://plug.phoenix.az.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file=index&req=results&pollID=6&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
> >
> > We don't have a group "preferred" or "official" one.  There are plenty of
> > users to go around for whatever one you want to run.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> 
> 
> I actually already run gentoo on several boxes, I was just trying to feel
> out what the group liked the most. The group I participated with in Utah
> was a very Debian oriented organization and were kind of "elitest" in
> Debian.
> 
> Another question, is there an IRC server for the LUG?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Alex
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