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Minutes of Meetings
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June 17, 2002 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. Attendance: 6, 7 later on.Discussion
Dale led off with an answer to John Schwarzmeier's question about system properties.
Dale announced an upcoming swap meet being held by the South Milwaukee Amateur Radio Club.
Dale mentioned an article in Digital Video Magazine's July 2002 issue extensively comparing both media and players.
Dale demonstrated the Pinnacle Edition preview program, a hardware/software video editing tool.
Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the May meeting.The meeting was adjourned at 8:48 pm. |
May 20, 2002 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:02 pm. Attendance: 7, 5 later on. Announced that we had earned $94.43 from Tupperware sales, will be expecting another check soon. A guest offered some Amiga items for sale. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the April meeting. Dale clarified what had happened during the demo of Dungeon Siege, that some other program must have been running in the background, causing the lackluster performance reported last month. Dale's only complaint is that he keeps getting killed too often! Discussion
Dale announced a preliminary inventory of Amiga hardware donated to us by the Great Lakes Institute.
Gary Köhler shared two reasons to be grateful for not being Mac users, one of them being the havoc caused by the recent Celine Dion plastic coasters (not CD's!).
There was a discussion of Apache 2.0 and what it is used for.
Kevin Cook asked if there was some way of automating e-mail retrieval for digital pictures sent home while on vacation.
Dennis Drewek recommended fark.com, a web-site devoted to news that would ordinarily be used as filler.
Kevin Cook mentioned the clean room cam at nasa.gov. (The .gov is very important here, you DO NOT want nasa.com!)
Gary Köhler described crank.net, a source of links to the wackier fringe sites on the web. Particularly mentioned rstolley.com, probably the most hideously disorganized and incoherent site on the web. (Do not visit this site with anything less than T1, it takes forever to load!) Also mentioned recent LawMeme articles.
Dale .The meeting was adjourned at 9:04 pm. |
April 15, 2002 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm. Attendance: 6, 5 later on. Discussed the upcoming Tupperware party.Discussion
Dale demonstrated a trial version of Poser 4, a graphics program for posing and animating human figures.
Dale showed miscellaneous pictures taken at the recent FilmCon.
Dale showed a game program called Dungeon Siege that was not very impressive, requires too powerful a machine to run well. The busy cursor kept coming up at practically every flick of the mouse.The meeting was adjourned at 8:43 pm. |
March 18, 2002 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:07 pm. Attendance: 6, 5 later on. Discussed the upcoming Tupperware party. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the February meeting. Discussion
(Update )Scott Brunkow's video card is not working again.
Dale demonstrated a new digital camera from Ezonics that Diane Cook recently bought.
Dale later attempted to demonstrate a CD-burning program called Nero (get it?), but without success.The meeting was adjourned at 8:52 pm. |
February 18, 2002 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. Attendance: 6, 5 later on. Dale is having trouble getting the DVD player to work in a new system. He also announced that a new 3D graphics benchmark was available. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the January meeting. Discussion
Scott Brunkow's video card works (for now). He recently installed SuSE Linux 6.3 and Oberon on his computer.
There was a discussion of CD burning.
Dennis Drewek told us all about the LCD monitor he got for Christmas.
Gary Köhler outlined his bizarre upgrade plans that will result in two networks of computers at home.The meeting was adjourned at 8:38 pm. |
January 21, 2002 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:15 pm. Attendance: 5, 6 later on.Discussion
Much of the meeting was taken up with the attempt to troubleshoot a video problem on Scott Brunkow's computer, Sybil. No video signal is transmitted to the monitor, although the system apparently tries to start Windows in spite of this sure-fire showstopper.
Kevin Cook suggested holding a Tupperware party as a means of raising money, and passed out appropriate literature.
Gary Köhler mentioned that Milwaukee PC is beginning to sponsor a gaming show/convention called CyberExplosion as a replacement for the departing GenCon. The intention (at the moment) is to hold this event every six months or so. Stay tuned.
In the course of troubleshooting Scott's problem the video card was removed from Sybil and installed in Dale's PC, Igor II, giving us a look at a contemporary motherboard. It worked flawlessly, indicating that the video card is probably not at fault.The meeting was adjourned at 8:57 pm. |