Topic: General Discussions Started at roughly 10:30--Went to lunch at around 12:00 noon

Steve discussed his new cell phone. It is Android and allows him to do his networking work from his cell phone. He described it as a computer with a phone. The phone he picked is an Alcatel 990S.

Eight people attended the meeting. There were discussions about the use of the "alien" command for a while.

Then there were some general discussions about the IT job market. Discussed how to remove/change hard drive on Lenovo laptops.

Clug Meeting
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Annual Geek Toys Meeting

12 attendees

The opening question was: “Which Linux distribution did you have the most trouble with?”

The question was not answered unanimously. (That fact was a big surprise for our geek community ).) A couple of people answered that Debian was difficult for them to install. One person had problems with an early version of Redhat, Slackware 12.1 was mentioned by one and Gentoo was simply “disliked” by Steve.

Birdsall and several other folks volunteered that they like Ubuntu while Steve voted for Centos as his favorite. Craig mentioned Puppy for its ease of use.

Steve Jones called our meeting to arder at approximately 10:30 am. Nine members were present for the meeting.
The first item covered was the election of officers for next year. Craig Austin handed out ballots to the members present who voted and returned the ballots.

Following the election procedure, Steve Jones gave an informative presentation on installing the NX server for home use. NX is a commercial server with a free version. The free version has a restricted number of users, but allows access to remote computers using ssh protocol over the internet. Based on Steve's presentation, it seems to be an easy server to set up and use.

Steve Jones called the meeting to order at approximately 10:35. Approximately 15 people were present. While Steve was setting up his presentation, Mark Harris reminded the CLUG group that Oreilly offers a 35% discount on online orders of its books if we used the code : DSUG He also mentioned a special offer of $9.99 for any digital download of a book. The code for the price break for a digital download is: FABFA. Thank you Mark for informing us all about the excellent savings on good tech books. Steve packed a ton of information in his approximately 1 hour presentation. Fortunately, he provided us all with a handout with many of the important howtos associated with rescuing a system.

Bob surveyed the technology and miscellaneous issues that accompanied his development of a personal MythTV system. His attached presentation provides a starting point for "diving into" the construction of your own MythTV system.

Sat, 25-Apr-2009

Steve opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

Iassen Hristov gave a talk titled "The Wonders of S.S.H." on the versatility and various use cases for SSH.
Attached is an archive that contains the presentation in OpenOffice 2.0 and PDF format and the example shell scripts and config files

Sat, 25-Oct-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

19 people attending, 3 new faces

Dan Ford presented introduction to databases.

Dan spoke of the fundamentals of relational databases, touched on normalization, data warehouses, SQL and various tools for MySQL

The presentation is attached in PDF format. The original (in OpenOffice format) is available from Dan's web site at http://sassafrassin.com/?p=484

Craig Austin is the president of this year's election committee. Please, send nominations to him.

Meeting was adjourned at 1

Sat, 23-Aug-2008

Brett opened the meeting at 10:45 AM

19 people attending, 3 new faces

Meeting was open topic. No specific agenda. There will be a board meeting after the conclusion of the regular meeting next month (27-Sep-2008)

Meeting was adjourned around 12:30 PM

Sat, 26-Jul-2008

Steve opened the meeting at 10:55 AM

20 people attending, 5 new faces

Iassen Hristov gave a talk about VoIP technologies and Asterisk.
OpenOffice 2.0 presentation is attached. Also in PDF format.

Meeting was adjourned at 1:30 PM