2010 Sept meeting notes

about 6 people came to this meeting. Jessica Tanenhaus gave a presentation on Inkscape. In summary, Inkscape is an advanced image creation program that is similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw. In contrast to most image creation programs, Inkscape creates scalable vector graphics (SVG) files rather than ‘raster’ files. The difference is that raster images distort…

Speaker: Dr. Carl Albing Subject: Bash $x=’ls’ $x=$(ls) echo $x printf “….%s..%05d\n” loops while read aline do . . . done echo $? to see if things were successful $? — get results cd /tmp/mytmp || exit -2 rm $filename cp /tmp/mytmp || {echo “error: can not cd”; exit } rm $filename cd /tmp/mytmp &&…

We had an open meeting. About 8 people showed up for the meeting. We had a bunch of new people during this meeting. We discussed using the Linux command line. We helped a user with an Ubuntu install. We also discussed Linux news sources.

Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday March 1 2010.

About 7-8 people came to this meeting. Scripting Languages: We started the discussion talking about scripting languages. Dustin uses Perl for his Amanda project at work. He went in some detail on how they used the scripting language to run a bunch of different processes and encapsulates some of it in C. I mentioned that…

About 6 people showed up for this meeting. Topics discussed: NIS/and NFS SCO Linux and who uses it. Games: 1. Phun 2. Jrisk A new meeting place. Panera might be a good place to meet.