For an interesting presentation on the complexity of e-mail check out the following presentation: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7054401183589794595# Until I saw this, I was unaware of how badly designed the current e-mail structure is, and how badly/incomplete the RFCs for e-mail are. Unfortunately the slides are blurry so you cannot see the examples very well but the talk alone is very informative.

Title: ovSAGE April Meeting Location: The Pythian Group (St. Laurent Mall) Link out: Click here Description: The next step in our mock SMB server. email and email web services will be enabled during this session. Feel free to do this in advance and bring any questions to the meeting. In addition, we will look at which direction we wish to go next. What services should be added, what else would be useful?

Before anyone points it out to me: Yes, I am aware the font size is a little small in the forums. I’ll fix it up sometime on Saturday when I feel up with wrestling with CSS and fixing the lines where the designer decided that 85% of any font size is appropriate. I ran across this before, but I have to go searching several sets of CSS files before I find the right one.

This was the first evening where we started the virtual server configuration for our mythical SMB type environment. We went over the text based install of CentOS 5.4 and initial package selection, as well as running services on the box. After a few technical difficulties while looking up some packages (trousers and fipscheck) that were installed that had not been selected, the rest of the install was reviewed. During the ‘firstboot’ process, we went through the list of services, which was rather enlightening for all involved.

We had an average turnout at the OCUUG meeting on Wednesday night. It was a good time and for those who do not know, it’s more of a social group than a technology group. Having said that, tech topics do come up. For those who were, Dru just launched her latest book: The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD. This one is published under the Apress banner. There were copies for all at the meeting and DVDs to go with it.