On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Dan Drake wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:13:58PM -0500, Timothy Wilson wrote: > > Can anyone say for sure whether I'll be able to plug in my laptop in the > > meeting room and get on the Internet? Will there be a DHCP server somewhere > > that will give me an IP address? > > Many lecture halls have tables in front of the chalkboard with a little > network hookup. It does DHCP, but you might need to be registered with the > correct U computer authorities to get it to work. Darn it, I can't make it. I could loan you a PCMCIA NIC that is registered with ADCS (you'd need to have an X.500 ID before you can). > The math building has a couple rooms like that, and I imagine in the CS > building is similar. Some sort of network connectivity could probably be > finagled. The question is whether CS 3-180 is under ADCS or whether CS has it's own DHCP server. Actually, Ben Kochie might know, 'cause the IMA schedules a lot of stuff in 3-180, IIRC. Ben, are you there? Tim, is there a chance that you can put some of this stuff on either mn-linux or tczpug web sites (that you present Sat?) I am very interested in Zope, but the documentation/Web site starts off in buzzword hell and no one has seemingly bothered to say "Here's what Zope does different than CGI and a web server." Sorry if I'm just being dense; I admit my eyes glaze over the first time someone says "object" in anything related to software. ;) -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous