2002.06.04 Meeting Notes

News

• Microsoft VP Jim Alchin told a Federal court that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort.
• 2600 DeCSS-linking case appeal denied.
• OpenBSD has not only disabled-by-default, but has recently REMOVED all legacy security-free protocols (e.g., the "r-tools", like rsh, rlogin, etc.)
• Fingerprint identification proven insecure thanks to $10 worth of equipment, including gummy bear candies.
• Doom 3 is coming to Linux!
• Sun is selling 2 new low-end servers. But they're x86's running Linux!
• April 2002 Netcraft survey shows ~64% of active sites run Apache. Only about 27% run Microsoft IIS.
• April 2002 was the first month that more servers ran PHP than Microsoft ASP.
• ClosedBSD announced. A BSD specializing in firewalls and NAT, which boots off of a single floppy (similar to the Linux-based LEAF project).
• Bdale Garbee is the new Debian project leader.
• Strange "rm" bug can cause deletion of the wrong directory structure if you happen to move a directory (one you're deleting) at JUST the wrong time.
• VA Software made more money this quarter than expected. (They only lost $2.6million)
• A DMCA party was held in Washington, D.C. Attendees included Jack Valenti (MPAA), Hilary Rosen (RIAA), Marybeth Peters (Bush admin.), and reps. from Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe.
• Sun Microsystems is offering unlimited copies of StarOffice for free to China's ministry of education.
• Microsoft appeal against "Lindows" name fails.
• IBM moves out of the hard drive market. Employees and patents being moved to Hitachi.
• The SEC settled the Microsoft "cookiejar" financial case for simply a "promise" from MS not to break the rules.
• A leaked memo was discovered showing a Microsoft plan to copyright the entire ".net" top-level domain to make way for their ".NET" service! (It didn't happen, of course.)
• Henry House announced the opening of his own farmer's market - the first entirely organic (and soon to be Linux point-of-sale based) one in the area. (Saturdays, 4-7pm, May through November. 429 F Street #10)

Project Reports

• Demo - There's currently no demo scheduled for this month, but Henry will look into a suitable date (the 15th is graduation). If you can help out, e-mail demo@lugod.org.

• Installfests - Our next Installfest will be on June 16th.

• LERT - No LERT news.

• Library - Verbus M. Counts donated "Gimp for Linux Bible," and "XML for e-business and e-commerce."

  O'Reilly donated "Linux in a Nutshell," "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell," "Linux Device Drivers," "How to Build a Beowulf," "The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf" and "Learning Red Hat Linux."

  Carl Yates donated "MacOSX: The Complete Reference" and "MacOSX Solutions Guidebook."

Other Business

• California 4-H Presentation - Nothing new.

• Class with DCN - There are currently no classes scheduled. We're waiting to hear back from Richard Lowenberg at DCN.

• Games - Eric Engelhard won an O'Reilly shirt for guessing that ASP is now less used than PHP. Paul Miller won a CDRW drive for guessing that Apache has 64% marketshare. Joel Baumert won a VMWare hat for knowing that Sun's new servers are x86-based and run Linux.

• Raffle - Ian McKinnon, Edward, Verbus Counts, Doug Barbieri, Mike Simons, Jeff Rousch, Michael and Cordell Newmiller each won copies of our speaker's book, "C# in a Nutshell."

  Eric Engelhard, Edit O'Neill, Geoff Herteg, Tim and Ryan Castellucci picked O'Reilly playing card packs.

  Richard Crawford picked an O'Reilly t-shirt.

• LUGODer of the Quarter - Long overdue, Joel Baumert was awarded LUGODer of the quarter. We thank him for getting us our current (and excellent) meeting place at Z-World! His gift was a copy of No Starch Press' "Programming Linux Games."

• Financial Report - $7x.xx in voluntary dues were collected.

Presentation

• Ted Neward of DevelopMentor, and author of O'Reilly's C# in a Nutshell, talked about Microsoft's .NET, and discussed COM/DCOM, CORBA, SOAP, Web Services, Java, C# and much more!

Attendance

• Mark Kim
• Ken Heron
• Stephen Helms
• Pete Salzman
• Rhonda Bailey
• Bill Kendrick
• Melissa Hardenbrook
• Ryan Castellucci
• David Teter
• Rod Roark
• Joel Baumert
• Sarah Baumert
• Kevin Murakoshi
• John
• Eric Engelhard
• Jeff Newmiller
• Cordell Newmiller
• Doug Barbieri
• Richard Crawford
• Ed O'Neill
• Ankur Shah
• Dave Griffith
• Ted Neward
• Brian Lavender
• Foo Lim
• Verbus Counts
• Mark Webster
• Eugene Dunlap
• Nancy Bross
• Patrick
• Nick
• Geoff Herteg
• Dave Thompson
• Dave
• Michael
• Dick
• Tim
• Ted
• Dave Nelson
• Paul Miller
• Henry House
• Jim McKennon
• Gary
• Mike Simons
• ... and 4 others

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