About 6 people showed up for the meeting. At this meeting we had two new people. One person Bob, brought in his new Linux Laptop. The other, Perry, was interested in gaining more information about Real Time Linux for embedded systems. Since Patrick, our embedded systems guru was missing, we gave Perry some ideas on…

About 8 people showed up for this meeting. We had to fight for chairs with the Annapolis Linux knitters who seem to be getting really big. Subjects Discussed: Amanda Tape backup system. Dustin, a new guy from Zamanada , gave a basic description of the Amanda backup system. In summary, Amanda does backups as if…

I noticed that some robots are coming to the Kennedy Center. http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/festivals/07-08/japan/events.cfm?genre_pick=MIS

About 6-8 people showed up for the meeting. Bob G. brought in a laptop that he purchased from the one laptop from child project. Dave had a problem with a weird application called Gnopernicus or something similar was starting on bootup of his kde desktop. He said he tried Gnome desktop once and this application…

About 8 people showed up. Topics: Sling box a streaming video device for cameras. Sling box allows you to view tv or camera data from your a hand held device. Bob, one of our members, was using it to view security cameras from his work place. If you use Sony Cameras, Sony has a proprietary…