Update: The contest has been close for new participants since May 31, 2011, so no value here *sigh* Voting also ends June 17 at midnight Pacific, so no chance of wining. On the other hand, the rest of the information is still of some value.

I was just looking up the model number for a drobo and I ended up hitting a hyperlink to a drobo contest. I have no information beyond the title of the page and the context of that page which seems to indicate that the entry with the most votes wins 100 drobo units. I’m guessing it’s a basic 4 bay model from the picture I saw briefly.

Title: June Meeting
Location: The Second Cup, Bells Corners
Description: We still don’t have a proper venue. I’m hoping to have that corrected by the end of the summer, so we have to suffer at a coffee shop for the moment.

No formal agenda, just whatever we come up with. I’m thinking it’s time to start messing with firewalls again, especially as I have two ISP connections now. Time to have a bake-off for M0n0wall vs. Smoothwall. I may try out a cisco ASA unit and if I can convince Bruce to help out, a small Fortigate unit.

In a desire to get better internet speed, I decided to try out the Acanac Cable offering. I’m happy with the DSL service, so I decided to give the cable service a try. I went for the 15/1 service 15 down, 1 up and the whole install and online is supposed to take 7 to 10 business days. Roughly 5 business days after the request, I received the cable modem I ordered from Acanac, a Motorola SB5101N basic unit. Just plug it in and you should be online, once the cable connection is installed.

Just a quick update in case you didn’t look at the calendar.

We will be having the meeting at The Second Cup in Bells Corners.

Topics:

• BSDCan2011
• FreeNAS and a couple of FreeNAS install media to give out
• PCBSD 8.2 media i386 and x86_64 available
• Discussion of future venues
• BSD Magazine needs writers

Also, pgcon is on this week http://pgcon.org

Sitting down and trying a blog entry via iPad. The intent is to see if the app is useful or not, rather than the content of the entry. So far it seems to be of limited utility, as it has no useful formatting capability, just plain text.

I’ll have to see what the posts look like after this is published. It would be nice if I could inline an image from the camera or photo album.