I'm going to start by saying that if you didn't make it to SCaLE this year you missed quite an event. Everything about this event was top notch. The Westin has the most comfortable beds in the world. I am qualified to make that statement if you need to know my qualifications, feel free to contact me by any means you have at your disposal. Oh, before I go any further, I want to thank Nate Hutchins (hutchnate) because if it hadn't been for his proactive nature I wouldn't have been able to go. Ya see, it was his idea in the first place and he drove. So we left Thursday afternoon and drove most of the way to LA and stopped for the night in some small town and slept on beds that were about as comfortable sleeping on hard wood floors without a mattress pad. Anyway, the Chevy Equinox is a great road trip vehicle in that it's comfortable and gets good gas mileage. navigation was brilliantly handled by my Motorola Droid using Google maps/navigation.

You have to read the whole entry to hear about the car.

OK, in last week's teem meeting I mentioned that toddc came up with a great idea about how to hold regular installfests in Tempe and get free advertising. Well, after some discussion with xHans and another PLUG member that is always at installfest, we decided to do a trial run of 3 months at a new location while keeping the UAT installfest going. Todd did a bunch of leg work and found us a location. He found a Community Center Manager that is the Manager of Computer Training for the Community and has a room for us.

I installed jaunty Alpha 6 i386 late last night. No updates so far and no problems.

Money can't buy you love; nor can it buy you happiness. But it just might bring you peace of mind. The Big 3 commercial Linux vendors; Canonical, Novell and Red Hat are ready to serve you through support subscription services for your Linux infrastructure. There are some big advantages to using commercial vendor support for your systems: 24x7 priority support, fixed support costs and experts who know your operating system inside and out.

All three companies provide two basic levels of support: Standard and Priority. Standard is support during normal business hours and defined as either 9x5 or 12x5 support, depending on the vendor. A priority-level subscription buys you 24x7 support and one-hour turnaround on priority-one incidents. All subscription models include unlimited incidents. Prices vary widely between vendors, but all are on a per-machine basis.

If you have a dynamic IP from your internet service provider it gets annoying when they change your IP and you do not know it, therefore you are not able to connect to your computer remotely anymore. Well Dynamic DNS services fix that problem by assigning a domain to your IP address whenever it changes. This howto will cover getting No-IP, a Dynamic DNS client working.

First if you do not have a No-IP account, create one by going to no-ip.com and registering.

It will send an email to you so you can verify that you want to create account. Click the verification link in your email and it will send you back to the No-IP site.

Log in to the site with the account you just made and click Add under Hosts / Redirects.