We had a great turn-out last night. Thanks to everyone for showing up.
At least 10 people by the time we quit (I lost count and didn't get
everyone's name), and I think everyone had a good time - at least
everyone was talking non-stop (it was really loud at the table last night)
I think the best part was Trevor playing the "kill minus nine" song [1]
on his laptop. :)
Michael showed me the design of his SDSL modem, which was pretty cool,
and we brought up the website [2] over the connection provided by the
actual modem we were discussing.
I learned that VirtualBox 4 had been released, seems like everyone but
me knew that...
Brad needed to flash the BIOS on his new Acer Aspire One netbook,
(Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Remix was occasionally seeing the 99% full battery
as 0% and it was doing the instant suspend thing so running on battery
was a bit problematic but the new BIOS was supposed to fix the issue)
Earlier in the day, he had found and installed the UnetBootin [3]
utility. We ran UnetBootin to automatically format a flash drive and
install FreeDOS onto it, but after copying the BIOS flash updater app
onto the FreeDOS flash drive and booting from it, it looked like the
bios flasher files were missing. Turns out the FreeDOS image boots
itself into a Ramdisk on A: and we had to change to C: to find the
updater files we had placed on the drive. Flashing the BIOS from
FreeDOS worked well, and the Aspire One runs Ubuntu netbook 10.10 great
now without any power management issues.
After standing out in the parking-lot talking for 30 minutes, Michael
gave us the scoop on potential error rates in network cable signaling,
hand-made network cables that could fail, and some other related
discussions, I understand now why Michael prefers 10/100 over Gigabit
networking. Seems like if there is a capacity which unnecessarily
exceeds the minimum requirements, it's a bad thing. I guess if you know
you only need so much, you don't want to have more capacity than that.
A (probably bad) analogy would be: if you only ever needed to drive 20
mph, and never planned to go faster, you certainly don't need a Ferrari
with a V12 engine and 6-gears. Makes sense to me. So I guess if I
only needed some certain bitrate that was fixed at a few characters per
second, I would want to standardize on 10/100 Megabit gear, since the
extra capacity would just be overkill, and would introduce more
variables or require more maintenance of or more expensive wiring, etc.
It is certainly a personal philosophy, but could be argued to be a good
one for some people.
Welcome to John, from Moreno Valley, who attended one of our meetings
for the first time. I think John said he did freelance computer repairs
and some amount of security / pen-testing work.
Chris was talking about porting some Ruby libraries to PHP, but I can't
remember the details :( Maybe we can get a demo next time? :)
Oh, and it would be nice if Panera stayed open until 10.
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4
2: http://ifctfvax.harhan.org/OpenWAN/OSDCU/
3: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
On 12/29/10 9:28 AM, Jeff Lasman wrote:
On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 07:49:49 pm Trevor Benedict wrote:
Guys, its always been the last Wednesday of the month. Which is the 29th.
I haven't seen anything yet on the list; I'm presuming the meeting is tonight.
Important for me to be sure because I'm inviting to people.
Jeff
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