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Minutes of Meetings
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December 15, 2010 |
No meeting was held. |
November 17, 2010 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 6:41 pm. Attendance, 4. Vice-president Kevin Cook showed the results of a mishandled order. (DVI to RGB cable instead of a SATA cable.) Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the October meeting. Treasurer Gary Köhler reported a balance of $779.88. Discussion
Kevin Cook is still having problems with the computer that was infected, the drive has been removed and the data is being extracted from it.
Gary Köhler summarized current progress on Brick.
Discussion turned to the Beatles because Apple and Apple have settled their lawsuits and the Beatles are on iTunes at last!
Kevin Cook mentioned two anime conventions, KollisionCon in Schaumberg, IL and the upcoming Anime Milwaukee.
Gary Köhler spoke about the problems his modem has given him.
Kevin Cook contributed this "Don't Try This at Home" project: use of a leaf-blower to clean dust out of a computer.
Discussion turned to the movie Tron.
John Schwarzmeier and Scott Brunkow demonstrated Half-Life and Battlefield Vietnam.
Gary Köhler showed his snowflake program, Flake, to Kevin Cook.The meeting was adjourned at 8:23 pm. |
October 20, 2010 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 6:37 pm. Attendance, 4. Vice-president Kevin Cook reported that he recently had problems with a number of "anti-virus virus" and "fake Trojan" programs making his computer almost unusable. Downloaded a fix for it called RKILL.COM from bleepingcomputer.com. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the September meeting. Treasurer Gary Köhler reported a balance of $739.88. Discussion
Gary Köhler spoke about osdev.org and current progress on Brick.
Gary Köhler then spoke about the old Doctor Dobb's Journals from 1988 - 1995 that he had been browsing.
Gary Köhler spoke about floppies, CP/M and disk geometry.
John Schwarzmeier showed Quake III Arena and a really cool game controller from Microsoft. Unfortunately John did not get a CD-ROM with the device, and we were unable to find a driver on-line.
On-line we ran into a page demonstrating the joys of hard drive partitioning.The meeting was adjourned at 8:32 pm. |
September 15, 2010 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 6:52 pm. Attendance, 4. Secretary Gary Köhler did not read the non-minutes of the August non-meeting. Treasurer Gary Köhler reported a balance of $737.88. Discussion
Gary Köhler spoke about the software that accompanied his dad's e-book reader and how the progress meter must have been written by a moron because it used floating-point and resulted in displaying "-1% NaN of NaN".
Kevin Cook talked about his vacation to Colorado and Wyoming last month.
Gary Köhler filled everyone in on the progress made on his OS, Brick, and a new boot-sector to be written for it.
Kevin Cook reported that his computer's power supply blew out.
Gary Köhler described the documentary movie, Atomic Cafe, recommending it for the nuclear bomb test footage.
Scott Brunkow asked Gary Köhler if he had investigated getting VICE, a Commodore emulator. Gary said no.
Discussion turned to miscellaneous horror films, then to 9/11, and ultimately to the BP oil spill.
The topic of people with similar or same names turned up, and Gary Köhler listed a few of the many such friends/acquaintances/co-workers he's met over the years with such names.
Lastly we turned to the problems with John Schwarzmeier's computer.The meeting was adjourned at 8:29 pm. |
August 16, 2010 |
No formal meeting was held as Milwaukee Magic Cards and Games was closed. It was agreed by those present to change the meeting day back to the third Wednesday of the month. |
July 19, 2010 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 6:35 pm. Attendance: 4. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the June meeting. Treasurer Gary Köhler reported the balance at $832.88. Discussion
Scott Brunkow asked about the "Pres Sez" column.
Gary Köhler brought in a mystery piece of mail addressed to Scott Brunkow at our mailing address. Turned out to be two videos about a Commodore 64 program.
This led to discussion of some of our favorite and not-so-favorite old Commodore hardware.
Gary Köhler mentioned downloading and studying the source code for BareMetal 0.4.8, an operating system intended for ia86-64 systems.
Gary Köhler showed the latest versions of the software he's been writing.The meeting adjourned at 7:55 pm. |