Kevin McGregor

Nominee: Kevin McGregor, Network Specialist, City of Winnipeg
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Kevin McGregor provides network administration and system support services for the City of Winnipeg. After having briefly used UTS on an Amdahl mainframe in university in the mid-80s, he dabbled in Coherent and then converted to Linux. He has been a member of MUUG since the early 90s and has served on the board for the majority of that time. Kevin is the editor of MUUG Lines, the group's newsletter.
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Supported by: Kevin McGregor, Network Specialist, City of Winnipeg

This month, MUUG members Kevin McGregor and Gilbert Detillieux each covered a short topic, in a mini-HOWTO format.
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Kevin McGregor talked about NTP, the network time protocol, and the UNIX ntpd

Kevin McGregor, Network Analyst with the City of Winnipeg, described the theory, benefits and general operation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. DHCP is a well-defined protocol which is widely implemented but not well understood. The goal of this presentation was to leave you with a good idea of how and why to implement DHCP in your network environment, whether you manage a home network or a WAN in a large company.

The meeting also included our usual round-table discussion, plus the vote on the by-lawamendments and the election by acclamation of the newMUUG board of directors. A big welcome to our new board members, Adam Thompson, Sean Walberg, and Shawn Wallbridge, and a big "thank you" to our returning board members, Gilbert Detillieux, Kevin McGregor, and Doug Shewfelt!
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Kevin McGregor showed us how to get started in testing this leading-edge technology.

Kevin McGregor walked through the installation procedure, configuration tuning, and ran a few simple demos of Windows applications.
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Kevin McGregor, of the Manitoba Department of Natural Resources, and Gilbert Detillieux, of the University of Manitoba, demonstrated connecting Windows to Linux using the Samba file server, connecting Linux to a NetWare server as a client using ncpfs, and using Linux as a client and server at the same time.
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Kevin also talked about Intranet services with this configuration, and demonstrated both the Apache web server under Linux, and the web server that is part of Novell's IntraNetWare package.

We also had a draw for a copy of the newApplixware 4.3 for Linux, courtesy of Red Hat Software, and BRU (Backup & Restore Utility), courtesy of Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. and SSC, as well as a couple recent copies ofSSC's Linux Journal. Winners were Tim Lavoie, Arne Grimstrup, Kevin McGregor, and Gilbert Detillieux.

First off, Kevin McGregor, our newsletter editor, talked about the O'Reilly & Associates' Perl Resource Kit, which he had a chance to evaluate recently. (A review of this kit appears in the April 1998 MUUG Lines .)

Kevin McGregor, MUUG's own illustrious newsletter editor, presented a whirlwind tour of the best-of-breed games available for your home (or office!) UNIX/Linux system. There were some old stand-bys and classics including X-MAME, the Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator, which ran several of everyone's old favourites like Galaga, Asteroids, Frogger, Dig-Dug, and Gravitar. Kevin also talked about some of the more sophisticated game console emulators like the Atari 2600 VCS, and about work that's under way on Sony Playstation, NES, SNES, and Nintendo 64. Also shown or described were strategy games like FreeCiv (a Civilization II derivative) and some of the new 3D games. It was an exciting attempt by Kevin to cram all this into one short presentation.
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Kevin McGregor gave a concise review of his experiences setting up his Red Hat Linux 5.1 system with the Shaw@Home cable Internet service. Most of his troubles and frustrations were not related to Linux, and not even directly related to the cable modem setup, but were Windows setup issues.
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This month, Kevin McGregor presented VNC, and demonstrated the servers and viewers being run on a number of platforms, both local and remote.

Our feature presentation this month wasVMware, demonstrated by Kevin McGregor.
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This is the product for you! (The preceding announcement was brought to you by Kevin, who is not in any way employed by, or affiliated with, VMware Inc.)

Kevin described the main features of VMware, some of its strengths and its limitations. He then demonstrated multiple VMware sessions running simultaneously on a Linux box, each one running a different system (Linux, DOS, Win98, WinNT Workstation and Server), and all communicating with each other using SMB-based protocols over TCP/IP on a virtual LAN.
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Kevin McGregor started by describing and demonstrating BladeEnc, an MP3 encoder for WAV files, and then talked about XMMS, the X Multimedia Sound system, which allows recording and playback of audio from various sources.
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Kevin McGregor, MUUG's ever-informative newsletter editor, described and demonstrated a few Linux distributions that go against the current "bigger is better" trend.