My Baycon Schedule

The Perfect Filk Friday 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Monterey

What do you need to know in order to write the perfect filk song? Experienced filkers discuss strategies. (Jane Mailander (Moderator), Steve Savitzky, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Jeff Bohnhoff)

Meet the Guests Friday 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Pine/Fir/Oak

Deconstructing SCO Saturday 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Carmel

Be amused at how efficiently SCO is destroying itself in its assaults on Linux and IBM. Find out who's behind all this skullduggery. (Michael Siladi, Laura Majerus, Steve Savitzky, Chris DiBona, Rick Moen (Moderator))

Concert: Steve Savitzky Saturday 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. San Juan/San Carlos

Including my new song about...SCO! No, this is not entirely a coincidence.

Good vs. Religious Sunday 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. San Carlos

Steven Weinberg: "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people do evil. But for good people to do evil -- that takes religion." Panelists discuss the concept of good vs. religious. (G. David Nordley, Deborah J. Ross, Mike Van Pelt, Diana L. Paxson (Moderator), Steve Savitzky, Randy Smith)

The latest geekery -- about time!

Well, over the weekend I:

• Installed an ethernet cable from the hub in the garage attic down to the area near my side of the bedroom where I plan on doing my recording. About bloody time. I may be running out of excuses.
• got NIS working on my home network, so that when I change the user IDs I won't have to go fixing up password files on all the client machines.
• finally turned my ancient (RH 5.1, but still not broken) dialup/mail/news machine into a pure relay, so it doesn't have to mount /home or /var/mail anymore. Again, that'll make it easier when I fix the userids. It will also mean that I only have to install SpamAssassin in one place.