[ale] ALE NW meeting was a success?

[Dow Hurst]

The last ALE Central meeting at Emory would have been great for you to go to. 
  I missed it too!! :(

Anyway, nice to hear your email!  Welcome!  The next ALE-NW LUG at KSU meeting is 
  always the third Thursday of the month.  So, 2 weeks from next Thursday.  We 
usually meet in Clendinin 1007 at KSU at 8pm.


I am going to use MythTV and ask questions here for my PVR project.  Security 
is definitely a nice topic that we can cover.  Also, dual boot can be done too 
without much problem for a meeting.  If you have any specific questions just 
fire away since everyone likes the challenge.  Lot's of topics have been 
covered.  Just about anything that comes to mind.

RAID
Bash tutorial
Wireless
Dual monitor display
Security
GPG Key
Oracle


All kinds of Linux related stuff.  I am going to talk at ALE Central on the 
second Thursday of April on the Sharp Zaurus.  The www.ale.org site usually 
has topics, meetings, directions, and the ALE archive.  You can search it 
using Google's "site:ale.org" directive.

You know, I have been running logged in for over two months.  Running 
Schrodinger modelling software for manipulating a protein and ligands, mozilla 
1.4 for email, XMMS for music (Creed, Van Halen, Classical), Konsole shells, 
OOo 1.1, Gimp, XCDRoast, and whatnot.  Well, I had VMware running Win98 and 
the one dang time I try working a significant amount on a Powerpoint file it 
crashed!  Luckily the file wasn't corrupted and I didn't lose too much time, 
but it really gets you when you aren't used to it!!!
Dow


Michelle Mason wrote:
> HI, I'm Michelle and new to the list.  I did not attend the last meeting, so
> when is the next NW meeting so I can attend?
> 
> I'll just speak up here and make a list:
> 
> Linux Security -- along the lines of security the box on the Network
> Distros geared toward multimedia and/or configuring PVR cards - Has anyone
> done that yet?
> Dual Boot installations
> 
> 
> My experience with LINUX is messing around with REDHAT and Mandrake. And I
> have no idea what's been presented so
> you may have already covered.
> 
> Michelle Mason
> Acworth GA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <audilover at atlantabroadband.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 5:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] ALE NW meeting was a success?
> 
> 
> 
>>Quoting Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>:
>>
>>
>>>Matthew Magee wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thursday 25 March 2004 06:20 am, Geoffrey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I think the three way install was too much.  It was too difficult
>>>>>to focus on any one install, much less pick up useful information
>>>>>from all three.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I think that we would have been better served by doing the installs
>>>>before the meeting.  All three of those distros are designed to be
>>>>very easy to install, and one could expect that any difficulty would
>>>>be due to a glitch rather than an inherent design flaw in the install
>>>>process.  With all the machines up and running, there would be a
>>>>decent amount of time to compare/contrast the distros.
>>>
>>>But the one of the main points was to see how true they were to their
>>>'easy to install' claim.  Xandros, for example, initially proved to be a
>>>challenge for Ray, who is quite experienced with various flavors of
> 
> Linux.
> 
>>>>Once everybody is in, a poll can be taken to determine the
>>>>applications that are important for an average user.
>>>
>>>I agree with this to the extent that I would have liked a follow up
>>>meeting to do the contrast/compare.  I like the idea of the side by side
>>>installs, but I'm just not sure how to present it with out it being
> 
> chaotic.
> 
>>>>As for the young lady in attendance, I am surprised she stayed as
>>>>long as she did. It was a free-for-all, and historically, women have
>>>>not fared well in such environments.
>>>
>>>Likely so.  I think we need to work on this issue.
>>>
>>
>>In all fairness to Xandros and myself, the hardware proved to be the
> 
> problem.
> 
>>The original unit had a defective CDROM drive.  When Dow brought in
> 
> another
> 
>>unit the install was fairly effortless.
>>
>>Ray
>>
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