Well this Thursday's meeting was a blast. There were about 23 people. Four computers were being worked on. One Storm Linux was installed. One machine Seth and Paul were trying to get going. It was something to do with Ezbios. Stacey was working on his system and burnt some copies of Storm and Mandrake. I brought my new system in to get Debian upgraded to Woody but ended up wiping out everything. I couldn't get the network card to work and it was getting too late to finish. Seth said he will have some burnt copies of Debian for the next meeting. I hope it's NON-US. For the fun part we had a blast with a bad-old CD toss. One of the CD's made it to the fence. There was a joke about breaking the root sector on it. I think it was the only one to crack. When we were outside we talked about Battle Bots. There is a general consensus everyone wants to build one. Seth said we should have a time frame of about a year. This should be a good time frame. Paul and I thought about a pointed plunger device. It wouldn't be a projectile so it would be legal. Everyone should start drawing up some plans on their ideas. We can can then vote on the best design and then start building. I've looked at some of the pages for Battle Bots. I will compile some URLs and post them. I will look into getting some of the toy / hobby shops involved. I'm sure some of the students at LCC and the U of O would be interested too. We could possibly get TV coverage, but that's down the road. I think everyone is pretty excited about building a Battle Bot. We will build one in time. I talked with Jamie and he has us started on the Beuwolf. We have one PC. No one posted what we need, so I guess I will do the research and let everyone know the minimum of what we will need. Rob had a list of Beuwolf clusters around the country. One was a high school in Michigan. Rob, if you will post the URL, I'll try and contact some of these guys who have built a Beuwolf. Seth and someone was talking about security and Seth told us about a program called Tee. I never heard of it. Tee reads from standard imput and writes to standard output. Man Tee or Info Tee to find out more information about this program. If you need to know exactly whan it can do Seth I'm sure can fill you in. If Seth ,Mike, Neil, Randolph or Anyone else comes up with some up with some cool program's, I will write them in these weekly e-mails. If you want me to add something to these e-mails let me know and I'll put it in. Stan should be back next Friday Sept 29th. The following Thursday Oct 5 we should have a WELCOME BACK STAN party. Just to let him know we apreciate him letting us use his place. And talking about welcoming back it was great to see Randolph back. I hope everyone welcomed him back. Randolph was showing some of us the things he's been working on with I believe it's Ray Tracing. Very Cool stuff. If you haven't seen what he's done ask him. I think he'll show you the pictures. I believe Randolph would benifit the most from a Beuwolf. He said one of his routines takes 24 hours to crunch. Ouch... Serious programming there. It's nice to see a lot of new faces. Maybe we can do another Demo Day's in the next 6 months. Just a suggestion. What do you think? I also have an Idea for our monthly meetings which I can't attend because of work. I'm sure Border's and Barnes & Noble would allow us to put a flyer up in their Linux Section aout the meeting Satuday. I can ask Borders since I work nearby. We could also Do the Eugene Weekly and the Register Guard Community Pages if we are not doing it already. Tim
