Meeting Notes Aug 2007

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 gstreamer dvd codecs break with 64bit OS.
We discovered the person having problems with Totem was using
the 64bit of Ubuntu.

xine 32bit is the recommended DVD player most are using.

Even

myth tv
which we also talked about is using xine.

Patrick’s business Plan 8. Hopefully, Pat will hire us all before he becomes one of the next billionaires.

Cavalier bought Toad.net and shipped most of the Tech people to Atlanta. So, I guess Dave at Toad
is rich and retired at thirty something.

Discovery Store in Annapolis went out of business.

iphone has a mobile terminal program now for ssh.

Patrick is thinking about taking over the Open Mosix project since the main guy is retiring the project.

Random talk about Stargate Atlantis.

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