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Minutes of Meetings
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December 17, 2007
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President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:24 pm. Attendance: 6.
Discussion
Kevin Cook recommended a program called Derek's Boot'n'Nuke.
Debris was demonstrated on Dale's computer. Impressive graphics from an unbelievably small program. At first we thought it had crashed the computer, but instead it was power cord problems. After that was fixed the program ran to conclusion.
Discussion wandered off onto many miscellaneous topics.The meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm. |
November 19, 2007 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:20 pm. Attendance: 5, 6 later on.
Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the October meeting.
Discussion
(Update) Dale Roethig was able to fix Larry's installation of Ghost Recon by reinstalling the graphics drivers.
Kevin Cook suggested looking for Debris from .theprodukt.
There was discussion of USB drivers and devices.
Gary Köhler had a question about pen drives.
Kevin Cook described a youtube video on charging an iPod using a white onion in Gatorade.
Dennis Drewek spoke about an ancient device known as Hero's Fountain.
Kevin Cook and Gary Köhler spoke about dead appliances. This led to discussion of miscellaneous other appliances.
Discussion wandered off into perpetual motion machines, American Science and Surplus, and Mythbusters.The meeting adjourned at 8:42 pm. |
October 15, 2007 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:12 pm. Attendance: 7, 6 later on.
Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the September meeting.
Discussion
Gary Köhler demonstrated MikeOS on Dale's computer.
Attempted to decompress and install Gate 88.
Gary Köhler attempted to find WinRAR on John Schwarzmeier's computer. Had to resort to DOS commands in a console session to find it due to a buggy search engine.
There were reminiscences of things blown up.
Scott Brunkow came up with the word of the day -- "selfservatism".
Gary Köhler attempted to get .theprodukt to run on John Schwarzmeier's computer to no avail.
Dale Roethig tried to determine the nature of the the problem with Larry's installation of Ghost Recon.The meeting adjourned at 8:50 pm. |
September 17, 2007 |
Secretary Gary Köhler called the meeting to order at 7:16 pm. Attendance: 5, 6 later on.
Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the August meeting.
Discussion
John Schwarzmeier installed a new video card.
Gary Köhler announced the upcoming "Talk Like a Pirate Day". ARRRR!!
Scott Brunkow was able to replicate lockup of his computer, believed to be due to heat problems.
President Dale Roethig arrived later.
Some time was spent watching some Anime.The meeting adjourned at 9:15 pm. |
August 20, 2007 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:15 pm. Attendance: 7.
Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the July meeting.
Discussion
(Follow-up) Dennis Drewek has not made much use of that new video card.
There was discussion of crapware and how a certain clueless company that no longer has stores in the metropolitan area actually had the gall to charge a fee to remove the stuff from the computers they sold!
Gary Köhler compared OOBE (out of box experience) with that of an article Dennis Drewek brought.
Gary Köhler spoke about power-saving and the idle loop. Indeed, what better time to put processor(s) to sleep than at a time when only the idle process is likely to be the only thing that can run?
There was a demo of .theproduckt, a 3D first-person shooter game in only 96K.
The meeting then dissolved into chaos until adjournment!
The meeting adjourned at 8:41 pm. |
July 16, 2007 |
Secretary Gary Köhler called the meeting to order at 7:17 pm. Attendance: 5. He then read the minutes of the June meeting.
Discussion
Dennis Drewek noted some recent purchases. Among them was a digital video capture card. He described problems he had with conflicts between the on-board and card video.
Gary Köhler described a possible trick for loading a larger than normal boot sector -- alas, only for floppies!The meeting adjourned at 8:31 pm. |