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Minutes of Meetings
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June 19, 2000 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:01 pm. Attendance: 7, 9 later on. He announced that next month's meeting would feature Newtek's Video Toaster demo tape and possibly a tape the club received from Bounce-back Videos of the recent banquet at Amiga 2K. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the May meeting. Discussion
There was discussion of the new Amiga, the just announced Developer's Kit, and Gateway.
Gary Köhler described what drove him to finally print in Linux after almost two years' time.
Eddy Werner expressed disappointment that we would not be at GenCon this year, which led Dale to explain in detail the reasons why.
Dennis Drewek described a new discount outlet that might be of interest to members.
Dale Roethig reported about his research into "free" ISP's but has experienced difficulties in getting through to any of them.
Gary Köhler spoke about computer security, especially as it relates to "always on" connections and about how some TCP/IP services should be turned off.
Dale Roethig answered a question concerning cookies.
Dennis Drewek described a "dirty BIOS trick" with hard drives in Windows 98.The meeting was adjourned at 8:53 pm. |
May 15, 2000 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:16 pm. Attendance: 7, 8 later on. He spoke briefly about the recent demo at Safe Harbor of Video Toaster 2.0, and that he hopes to present it at a future meeting. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the April meeting. Discussion
Don Bedroske had several questions about receiving streaming audio of radio stations over the Internet.
There was discussion of the Microsoft anti-trust trial, the imminent demise of OS/2, history of the Amiga, and so-called Internet appliances.
Phil Moughmer asked what the alpha channel is in graphics, is having trouble using it.
Dennis Drewek described freei.com, an ISP.
Gary Köhler described IDG's bullying tactics over their trademarking of the formula "xxx for Dummies", and wondered whether they could have really trademarked every conceivable homonym of "for" (fore, four, 4, plus perfectly possible spellings allowed by English such as phore, gheaurrhe, etc.).
The meeting was adjourned at 8:34 pm. |
April 17, 2000 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:01 pm. Attendance: 6, 5 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the March meeting. PresentationThe meeting was taken up by a videotape of a recent demonstration of the latest version of NewTek's Video Toaster for Windows NT and its associated software. This demonstration was given on March 25th at Safe Harbor by Phil Nelson, Midwest Representative for NewTek and taped by Phil Moughmer.Three programs were demonstrated:
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 pm. |
March 20, 2000 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:31 pm. Attendance: 9. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the February meeting. Elections were held by acclamation, and all present officers were retained, with the exception of the Vice-Presidency, which is once again filled by Scott Brunkow. Discussion
Discussion ranged over such topics as CD-ROM writers, upcoming demos from NewTek and Pinnacle, and the Adobe Acrobat program.
PresentationOff to one side, Gary Köhler worked on Scott Brunkow's machine, Sybil, where SuSE Linux 6.3 has recently been installed. Gary was able to get X-Window to start in KDE for Scott's user as well as for Root.The meeting was adjourned at 8:44 pm. |
February 21, 2000 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:09 pm. Attendance: 7, 8 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the January meeting. Discussion
Dale Roethig commented on the Digital Camera Buying Guidelines articles running in The Monitor Newsletter.
Phil Moughmer asked about the various video file formats.
PresentationFor the first demonstration John Schwarzmeier demonstrated how his new Sony Mavica digital camera can even take a 15 second MPEG-1 movie.For the second demonstration Dale Roethig showed us a copy stand and lighting system salvaged from an old Amiga DigiView package that he uses for photographing objects that he sells on on-line auctions. The meeting was adjourned at 8:28 pm. |
January 17, 2000 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:13 pm. Attendance: 6. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the December meeting. Discussion
Dale Roethig noted with relief that we all survived The Big Rollover. This led to a discussion of Roman numerals (what a relief it will be to see copyright dates of MM instead of MCMLXXXVIII!) and numerals in general.
Scott Brunkow and Gary Köhler shared a story they heard of an unfortunate corporation that did not prepare for Y2K and probably will not survive The Big Rollover.
There was a discussion of The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll.
PresentationGary Köhler demonstrated BeOS installed on Kundry, his notebook computer. (Don't try this at home!) One unfortunate side-effect, which he showed before the meeting is that Linux no longer boots because its partition has been bumped up one position. Gary hopes to have this fixed by the next meeting.John Schwarzmeier brought his new Sony Mavica camera, this one with a resolution of 1024x768. Gary then demonstrated BeOS's JPEG viewer to look at some of the pictures taken on John's camera. The meeting was adjourned at about 8:30 pm. |