Monday Feb 2 2009 Meeting

This LUG meeting met at Barnes and Nobles. We had about 10 people show up for the meeting. At the meeting topics ranged from Hacking a laundry machine to getting training. As for training, Brad mentioned he took a $50 course through Piston. He said the training was ok, but the software tools they provided…

About 10 people showed up for this meeting and we had 2 women, which was a rarity. Topics Discussed: Apple Windows Spoofs Mellisa mentioned that a user on YouTube called TrueNuff had a bunch of interesting spoofs on mac’s and pc ads. Totem with ugly [windows codecs] plug ins for watching DVDs Dave said that…

We had about 6 people this meeting. There were a number of people that we have not seen in a while. Tim brought in a bunch of PC build questions. He had purchased a gigabyte mohterboard and was asking about cases. Additionally, he asked about sound cards and other components. He said he had only…

About 7 people showed up for the meeting. Topics discussed: 1. Cray computers and vector extensions. A new guy Matt was trying to get some old Cray software to do combustion simulation working on a Linux box. Dave mentioned that Crays normally used vector extensions with Fortran, so it might be tricky. 2. Astricks PBX…

We had a scribus presentation this week. In the presentation, Dave B. compared a desktop publisher with a word-processor. He showed us how he uses Scribus to make a publication that he distributes. In his presentation, he illuminated the major differences between using a word-processor and desktop publishing program. His comparison was enlightening. For example,…

About 8 people showed up for the meeting. We had two new users. Demitri a pen tester showed up. Also, Brad, who works at home for a firm in Chicago came. We had an open and lively discussion about a number of different topics. topics discussed: a) vm servers and the cloud b) init.d and…