Linux Users' Group of Davis - "LUGOD 2000.07.17 Meeting Notes"

2000.07.17 Meeting Notes

Weather.com uses Linux servers now, replaced their Sun computers with IBM Netfinities.
"Henzai" is making GNOME work on PDA's.
Microsoft announces ".net." Like Hotmail is to e-mail, .net is to computers. Imagine running a remote word processor, and renting it. (BAD IDEA!!)
"Tux Typing," a kids game that teaches typing, has been released.
IBM is producing Crusoe-based Thinkpads by the end of the year.
It's rumored on Slashdot that Sun is going to GPL StarOffice.
A group developing a micro X-window replacement has created a tiny HTML 3.2-compliant web browser for it.
New 2.4 kernel done, coming out "soon."
FBI has a software/hardware package called "Carnivore" that they want all ISP's to put on their systems to keep track of everyone.
DVD decoding case coming out.
Campchaos.com has a great Napster/Metallica cartoon. (Warning, it contains very foul language!)
Bill will be responsible for Napsterdance.com, a Hampsterdance take-off.
Bill's "Mad Bomber" game was reviewed in Maximum Linux magazine!
People may want to go to the next City Council meeting on Wednesday to hear about winfirst.com.

Demo - We had a party on July 4, where there were 10 machines there (networked together to play Doom), plus two Atari Jaguage game consoles (networked to each other, too).
We will be having a demo at the Co-op on the 22nd from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Anyone who wants to come should let Henry know about it. Hopefully a photographer from the paper will be attending it at some point too.
DCN - Jen Rutherford is doing a story for the Davis Enterprise on DCN and LUGOD doing computer recycling and other computer-related events in the community. Anyone who has been involved in committees and wants to talk about it in the article should e-mail her. It is due on August 10 and should be coming out soon after that.
Installfests - There will only be one installfest this summer, as Pete's overloaded with moving. The July one is canceled, the next one is TBA.
LERT - One call was made, they need to work on getting him help.
Other LUGs - MaxNexus, a Mac users group in Sacramento, will meet Tuesday, 7/18 to demo MacOS X (which is based on BSD Unix!). BALUG also meets July 18th (topic TBA). SVLUG meets August 2nd (topic will be Eazel, a more user-friendly, GNOME-based GUI being developed by ex-Apple designers). NBLUG meets August 8th (topic: IP service clustering). SacLUG meets August 9th (topic TBA).

Pete held a contest in which the winner would receive his/her choice of free swag for guessing what stupid question a PacBell employee asked him. The question turned out to be "What is an IP address?", guessed correctly by Roland Minden.
Pete also did a survey for an upcoming "Linux Family Fued" game:
- 0-5 answers: Least favorite distro.
- 0-5 answers: Favorite distro.
- 0-5 answers: Favorite Window Manager.
- 0-4 answers: Favorite editors.
- 0-3 answers: Favorite Microsoft Operating System.
- 0-8 answers: Favorite game for Linux.
- 0-10 answers: Favorite non-Linux-related magazine.
- 0-5 answers: Favorite Linux magazine or e-zine.
- 0-10 answers: Favorite Linux figurehead
- 0-5 answers: Favorite LUG (Linux Users Group)
- 0-5 answers: Most exciting "dot-com" or Linux-related IPO.
- 0-8 answers: Favorite e-mail client
- 0-15 answers: Favorite TLA (Three-Letter Acronym)
- 0-10 answers: Favorite emoticon (eg, ":^)"...)
To contribute answers, e-mail: Pete Salzman before August 1st!
Financial Report - $49.79 was collected in voluntary donations.

Drew Parsons explained the GTK+ (Gimp Toolkit) graphical interface programming library.
Notes available

"Ask me about bizarre things because I'm bizarre." -Henry
"I'm actually on the Red Hat side this time." -Jessica, relating an argument over security with an insane guy.

LUGOD: PO Box 1336, Davis, CA 95617

URL: http://www.lugod.org/meeting/past/2000.07.17.php
Last updated: 2001 Jul 18 14:15