[tslug] First Meeting of Semester; Maestro; Beep

[Ian Monroe]

Unless there's something I don't know about, meeting this Wednesday at 
6:30 in VH1232. Things slowed down TSLUG wise towards the end of last 
semester. Which is logical. So we need to be sure to get things started 
early. We should think about things like dues, when to do installfest 
(is there a demand?) and what other activities and projects we should 
do. Ideas of a speaker to bring in next year. That sort of thing.

Ideas are welcome for the non-business portion of the meeting. Well, 
ideas outside of SCO-bashing. That goes without saying. We could look at 
 Maestro http://mars.telascience.org/ the Java program JPL uses for 
controlling the Martian rovers and looking at the images it sends. They 
released a home version, the difference probably being limited to the 
way it acquires and sends data. I think running it was the first time my 
swap has been used extensively when not compiling; I'm sure it was 
written with a 3 gig of ram workstation in mind.

On a unrelated note, the XMMS replacement XMMS2 was renamed Beep Media 
Player. I installed it today, it seems to be quite stable. Basically, 
its the exact same as XMMS but with good fonts and good open file dialog 
boxes. The XMMS open directory dialog would  hang for a few seconds 
before opening, Beep's dialog opens fine. http://beepmp.sourceforge.net/

Ian Monroe
Co-President
http://www.monroe.nu
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