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…

This post was a little late. We met on 11/07/2007 at Barnes and Nobles as normal. The topics discussed where as follows: Mark brought in a USB micro controller. One of the problems that he had was the usb device numbers jumped around making it hard for him to track it. He was using lsusb…