Hi everybody.
We’re at Carindale at 6:30pm this Thursday.
I’ve also booked Chermside for Thursday 27 November, but unfortunately somebody’s in there until 7pm, so we’ll have to loiter around in the library until our room is available.
This Thursday i’m going to demonstrate enough Docker stuff to get anybody who’d like a little nudge to get started. There’s still room for a second speaker too.
Any takers? <cough>VLANs</cough>
Happy to put something very basic and vendor agnostic together if there are no other takers. Otherwise, equally happy to step back and let others have a go at presenting any topic they’re passionate about. Can circle back to VLANs if someone wants to show off their cool project(s).
Or… more DNS stuff?
As you’re doing Docker, I’ve got an alternate suggestion in case you feel we should have something other than “infrastructure stuff” to mix it up a bit. At last week’s online meet, @matthew919’s Grist presentation was fantastic and a good balance with DNS Part II.
If there are no other takers for the second slot, I could do a presentation on ADS-B reception in the homelab, contributing to FlightRadar24/FlightAware, etc., getting started with an old PC or a Raspberry Pi, and so on. Will leave it up to the group - let me know by about lunchtime Wednesday and I can put something together.
That does sound interesting, but i’m not even getting to my Meshtastic stuff because my homelab stuff is such a huge list. I was very inspired by the demonstration you gave once on the radio signals that you can pull out of the air, but that’s already waay out of my reach. So, my vote is a “yes”, but not just yet.
I personally reckon there’s lots more for us to learn about the networking stuff. This Docker talk that i plan on giving is trying to make no assumptions about what people already know. @matthew919 recently mentioned that he’d like to learn more about networking. Maybe we could try to do a presentation that explained why the OSI model is so clever, but then focusing on IP4, DHCP, DNS, subnet masks, address ranges, blah, blah. A primer to help people understand the storm of packets whizzing all around them in their own homes.
For example, my Deco wireless network happened to want a 22 bit subnet mask by default. That seems unnecessarily sophisticated for a home network. 24 bit seems much simpler to me. I have a rough understanding of the difference because i had to configure devices manually, and i must have got it wrong a few times, and probably learned what the impact of that was the hard way.
Anyway, that’s just another suggestion. Who’s coming along to do more listening/learning than talking/sharing? Any requests?
Ah, I’m at eResearch this week. See you all next time.
OK. See you next time. You can give us a report on your recent conference attendances. 