Some things came up during the Installfest that I thought deserved
comment:

1.  It was suggested that for future Installfests, it should be advised
that people bring Ethernet switches rather than just hubs.  I think Scot
Jenkins was having trouble helping someone because of a lot of
collisions on the network were slowing down his downloads (though it
occurs to me that maybe a bad cable or card was the real culprit..)

At any rate, there have been similar problems in the past, so it would
be advisable to get good hardware whenever possible, rather than using
the buggy box that's been sitting in the closet for years.  I know my
apartment network could last an afternoon without its switch, so I'll
have to remember this in the future (even a kind soul or two with
Linux-powered Ethernet bridge boxes would be good)

2.  I overheard Munir mention something about "SSH in a box" (or
something similar) -- apparently a way to SSH from most any computer. 
Anyway, I've been looking for something like that.  Does such a thing
really exist, or was I just imagining things? ;-)

3.  Late in the day, it sounded like someone had the (mis)fortune to be
using a Serial ATA controller with some real SATA drives.  I was under
the impression that Linux would be able to talk to most any SATA
controllers (I thought I heard that they generally look like ordinary
IDE controllers, but maybe I'm mistaken).  Did that person have any luck
getting their system working?

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