2001.01.15 Meeting Notes

News

• Linux Kernel 2.4 is out! Z-World burned 50 copies for us to give out!
• Roseville Linux Training Center announces advanced Linux 2.4 workshop program.
• France will be taxing blank computer media, to compensate (artists, or publishers?) for pirating.
• Police arrest teen, Christopher Hennah, for making web sites that mocked the Salem, Oregon police department.
• Strong link found to cell phones and eye cancer.
• Ken Starr says Microsoft has a monopoly, and it's bad (well, DUH)
• VA Linux Systems is hiring. Contact Rick Moen.
• Some members are buiding Athlon systems (buying in bulk to reduce cost)
• John Alden donated 2 RedHat 6.3 CDs, 1 floating penguin desk accessory, 1 Lexmark color inkjet, 1 NEC SuperScript 750C inkjet, and 1 IBM 8512 UGA monitor to the club for giveaways. We gave them away!

Committee Reports

• Demo - No demo will be held in January. The machine is happy.

• DCN - No news.

• Other LUGs
  
  • 1/21 - LUGOD Installfest
  • 2/1 - SVBUG: Ernest Prabhakar - Apple Open Source Product Mgr.
  • 2/6 - LUGOD: Matt Bishop of UCD
  • 2/19 - LUGOD: Henry House and Eric Engelhard - PostgresSQL, Perl and PHP.
  • 3/1 - SVBUG: Jef Raskin - The Humane Interface.

• Installfests - The next IF will be January 21st. As usual, EUII Room 1131 at UC Davis. RSVP online. http://www.lugod.org/if/

• LERT - One call will occur tomorrow.

Other Business

• Financial Report - $???.?? in voluntary dues were collected.

• LUGOD T-Shirts - T-Shirts are in, and were passed out to those who ordered them. If you missed out, and would still like one, LUGOD bought a number of extras.

• Games - We played "signal charades," where people had to mime different Unix signals (interrupt, alarm, segfault, etc.) Prizes were given out (see above).

Presentation

• Jeremy Allison from VA Linux Systems (and co-author of Samba) talked about Samba.

  Presentation notes available (COMING SOON)

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Jen Rutherford
• Pete Salzman
• Mark K. Kim
• Alex Chan
• Joel Baumert
• Nicole Carlson
• Eric Engelhard
• John Lin
• Ian Bowman
• Rick Moen
• Rick O'Shaughnessy
• Lee Welter
• Jeff DeFay
• Henry House
• Stephen Helms
• Rusty Minden
• Alfredo Lopez
• Jim Riffel
• Jeff Newmiller
• Cornell Chesnick
• Alderian Chesnick
• Allan Hollander
• Steve Nguyen
• Dan Shapiro
• Jan Wynholds
• Kimberly Horan
• Joe Arruda
• Matt Snellham
• Geoff Herteg
• Zach Johnson
• Mike Simons
• Brenon Reynolds
• Kevin Murakoshi
• Dale B.
• Kevin Atkin
• Jeff Duncan
• Don Foster
• Joe Hudson
• George Finch
• Christine Scobee
• Robert Jackson
• Verbus Counts
• Evan Scarisbrick
• Marianne Waage
• Gabe Rosa
• Rhonda Bailey
• Melissa Hardenbrook
• Paul Bertain
• Ken Godwin
• John Lalaine
• Chuck Ritchie
• Foo Lim
• Seth Nagao ...and two others

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