Merk answers your intraweb questions.

Merk · Post by **Merk** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:22 pm

Close enough!

Jeff Jeff Revolution · Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:40 pm

Anyways Merk, thanks for the fill-in. I live about 80 mins away, but I might stop by sometime next summer, when the parents get more lenient about me driving.

Also, I plan on going to IU, so if you guys live on campus or are planning on getting held back for 3 years, I can stop by regulary.

Merk · Post by **Merk** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:49 pm

Fluffyumpkins will still be at IU in three years and I assume Japan Night will still be going strong!

V · Post by V » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:51 pm

Aww, Chad shall nevar leave us!!

Long live JAPAN!!!

(And Ice Balls)

Arka · Post by **Arka** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:41 pm

Explain Japan Night. Is it an arcade thing, an IU student thing, or something in between?

lgolem · Post by **lgolem** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:46 pm

Arka wrote:Explain Japan Night. Is it an arcade thing, an IU student thing, or something in between?

Look one page before on this same thread...he explains it....it is kind of an IU student thing since the majority of them do go to IU...excect me and Kyler's gf we go to Ivy Tech, it is just a really freaking fun time.

Arka · Post by **Arka** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:52 pm

lgolem wrote:
Arka wrote:Explain Japan Night. Is it an arcade thing, an IU student thing, or something in between?
Look one page before on this same thread...he explains it....it is kind of an IU student thing since the majority of them do go to IU...excect me and Kyler's gf we go to Ivy Tech, it is just a really freaking fun time.

Wow. How the heck did I manage to miss that?

Firmware glitch... that's the only explanation.

Anyway, it sounds like a lot of fun - if you don't mind a weirdo crashing, I may come down there one of these weeks. I can bring cool games and controllers.

CgSquall · Post by **CgSquall** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:02 am

Are Transformers the best organisms in the universe?

If Optimus Prime and Abraham Lincoln had a battle, who would win?

danc1005 · Post by **danc1005** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:43 pm

Abraham Lincoln ran away because Optimus Prime came to save the day...the fact that Old Abe's running plus the fact that Mr. Prime is capable of "saving the day" with Abey present implies that O. to the P. would, in fact, win.

hascoolnickname · Post by **hascoolnickname** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:58 pm

dance1005 wrote:Abraham Lincoln ran away because Optimus Prime came to save the day...the fact that Old Abe's running plus the fact that Mr. Prime is capable of "saving the day" with Abey present implies that O. to the P. would, in fact, win.

I smell bullshit

Fluffyumpkins · Post by **Fluffyumpkins** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:31 pm

Japan night is on a temporary hiatus. Thursday nights many of the residents, myself included, are busy. Once the schedule opens up again, I'll be sure to let people know! PM me if you have questions.

Riot · Post by **Riot** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:11 pm

Fluffyumpkins wrote:Japan night is on a temporary hiatus. Thursday nights many of the residents, myself included, are busy. Once the schedule opens up again, I'll be sure to let people know! PM me if you have questions.

THAT'S NOT A QUESTION DUMMIE.

This thread is so locked now.

Merk · Post by **Merk** » Tue May 10, 2011 11:45 am

I'm bringing this thread back. I just re-read it all and man there were some great posts in here. Truly this was a different era of indyDDR.

Ask me anything you want and I'll try my best to answer as eloquently as I used to.

DAVE101 · Post by **DAVE101** » Tue May 10, 2011 1:54 pm

How do you appropriately use a school listserv?

Merk · Post by **Merk** » Tue May 10, 2011 2:30 pm

Well a listserv is really just a fancy IU name for a "Distribution Group." If you've ever played around with Active Directory and looked at the properties of a group object, you'll see that a group can either be a "Security Group" or a "Distribution Group." A group in AD is, as you would imagine, simply an amalgam of users. The distinction between a security group and distribution group is really just a human construction and functionally they are the same. In other words, you could mark a group as a distribution group and have it perform the functions of a security group and vice versa.

In an IT environment that isn't a clusterfuck, a security group is used to handle permissions. As a student you're a member of the "Undergraduate students" group in AD and as such your permissions on the ADS domain at IU are limited to those of a student. Ever notice how you can't dick around in the Windows folder on the C:/ drive and how you can't fuck around with the Control Panel? That's because your permissions have been set that way through the "Undergraduate students" group in AD.

A distribution group (or listserv at IU) is used to group e-mails addresses together. Every user object in AD has an e-mail address associated with it (for example, DAVE101@indiana.edu). Group objects can also have an e-mail address associated with them as well (example ITG_PLAYERS@indiana.edu for the ITG Players group). If I were to write an e-mail to ITG_PLAYERS@indiana.edu it would be distributed (hence, distribution) to every member of the ITG Players group in AD that had an e-mail address associated with it.

As far as how to use it though, that's really up to whoever manages the listserv in question. As a member of a fraternity, I was on my fraternity's listserv which was managed by the chapter president - he could add and remove people as necessary through https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?INDEX. So functionally, it's just an e-mail address, if you have questions about how you're supposed to conduct yourself in regards to a specific listserv then that's a question I cannot answer.

Here's a look at my object in AD at IU:

Notice that I have an e-mail address associated with my account. The "Security" tab is used to define my individual permissions on the ADS domain (individual permissions supersede group permissions FYI). The "Member Of" tab lists whichever groups, both security and distribution, that I am a part of.

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