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Minutes of Meetings
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December 20, 2004 |
The meeting was devoted to a viewing the ultralow-budget movie "Z" starring
several of John Schwarzmeier's friends, filmed about 1986 and
actually shown on MATA. |
November 15, 2004 |
Gary Köhler called the meeting to order at 7:18 pm. Attendance:
5. Gary Köhler read the minutes of the October meeting. Discussion
Kevin Cook discussed some of the shortcomings of WinMediaPlayer
with regard to DVD's.
Gary Köhler showed some of the features of the Knoppix,
a Linux distribution on a live CD-ROM using John Schwarzmeier's
laptop, Speedmeier. Gary had some successes with running
programs from the CD, but had problems with detecting digital cameras and
getting their pictures to show up in a directory. Also had trouble finding
a good candidate Word document in order to demonstrate
OpenOffice. Was successful only after most people left.The meeting was adjourned at 9:08 pm. |
October 18, 2004 |
Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:13 pm. Attendance, 6,
5 later on. Dale found that Windows XP SP2 was incompatible
with the DIVX driver, eventually found a patch. Gary Köhler read the minutes of the September meeting. Discussion
There was a discussion of video formats. The new DIVX driver compresses
by a factor of four and is very efficient.
We attempted to diagnose a problem with Randy Jaeckel's computer.
Kevin Cook had his Nextel phone/internet browser along and
used it to check out some of the malware afflicting Randy's computer.
We were not able to remove all of the malware at the meeting.The meeting was adjourned at 8:54 pm. |
September 20, 2004 |
The meeting was called to order at 7:10 pm. Attendance, 6, 8 later on.Discussion
There was a discussion of wireless networking.
The website savemybetamax.org was mentioned.
We watched the ScreenSavers interview with Bram Cohen,
author of BitTorrent.
We discussed the speed of RoadRunner, with an explanation of why it
is supposedly faster.
Dale Roethig had a number of pointers about the installation of
Windows XP Service Pack 2. He recommends not using the
built-in firewall if you already have one.The meeting was adjourned at 8:52 pm. |
August 16, 2004 |
A somewhat more informal than usual meeting was held. The theme for the
meeting was the same as that of the August 2004 edition of The Monitor
Newsletter -- Security.
Gary Köhler read a story from the Washington Post concerning
one reporter's ordeal in clearing their system of spyware and restoring the
computer to functionality once again.
Dale Roethig demonstrated Hijack This! and other anti-spyware
software.
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July 19, 2004 |
A somewhat more informal than usual meeting was held.
Much of the discussion centered around this year's GameCon which
netted our treasury $202.75, which will be most helpful in the year ahead.
Scott Brunkow's computer seems to have acquired a virus,
miscellaneous files seem to disappear at random.
Scott briefly showed us an implementation of Niklaus Wirth's
Oberon operating system, however it does not seem to be fully functional.
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