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Minutes of Meetings
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June 15, 2011 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm at the Southridge Food Court. Attendance: 4. Secretary Gary Köhler summarized last month's non-meeting. Discussion
Kevin Cook spoke about a recent small car rally at Wisconsin Dells.
Discussion turned to small car fun and gourmet burgers.
We left Southridge and regrouped at Adventures in Gaming. After examining the premises it was decided that our main meetings would be held there too.
Gary Köhler described a new program he is writing for initial orbit determination.The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 pm. |
May 18, 2011 |
We were not able to hold a formal meeting as Milwaukee Magic Cards and Games was closed. It was decided that we should meet at the Southridge Food Court, east end, until a more suitable meeting-place could be found. |
April 20, 2011 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 6:34 pm. Attendance: 3, 4 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the March meeting, which were horribly butchered in the newsletter. Treasurer Gary Köhler reported a balance of $784.88. Discussion
Gary Köhler showed off his Solar System program, which is now giving numbers you can believe in.
Discussion turned to Borders, error messages, and baking.
Gary Köhler gave an update on DSL at home and the horrors of WarpIn.
Kevin Cook told of how a program called PeerGuardian wound up accumulating a huge database that had to be trimmed.
John Schwarzmeier spoke about a USB cable for a phone.
Kevin Cook spoke about a one-terabyte drive that was really four 320GB drives in one housing. Shades of RAID.
John Schwarzmeier related recent doings at the Game SIG.The meeting was adjourned at 8:13 pm. |
March 16, 2011 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 7:16 pm. Attendance: 3, 5 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the February meeting. Treasurer Gary Köhler reported a balance of $784.88. Discussion
Gary Köhler spoke (at length!) about operating system matters, such as BeOS, Brick, and filesystems.
Gary Köhler and John Schwarzmeier described problems with the latter's desktop computer. It doesn't boot Windows and for some reason the recovery console doesn't work once started.The meeting was adjourned at 8:33 pm. |
February 16, 2011 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 6:40 pm. Attendance: 3. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the January meeting. Treasurer Gary Köhler reported a balance of $784.88. Discussion
Gary Köhler spoke about the mailing of the newsletters.
Discussion turned to cars and emission tests.
Gary Köhler reported that his dad had gotten DSL, what installation entailed and what he will have to do to get himself on line.
Gary Köhler asked John Schwarzmeier about the System Tool 2011 infection of John's computer.
Discussion turned first to The Wizard of Oz and then for some reason to bad movies.
We sought a translation for the word sacudillo, to no avail.
Gary Köhler mentioned the release of BareMetalOS 0.5.0, a hobbyist operating system for x64 processors.
John Schwarzmeier spoke about Watsonmania.
Gary Köhler spoke about OsDev.org.The meeting was adjourned at 8:09 pm. |
January 19, 2011 |
President Scott Brunkow called the meeting to order at 6:43 pm. Attendance: 3, 4 later on. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the November meeting. (There was no meeting in December.) Treasurer Gary Köhler reported a balance of $779.88. Discussion
Gary Köhler showed off a recent Foxtrot cartoon with an error concerning dice. Discussion turned to whether fair dice are possible for polyhedra other than regular ones.
(Update) Gary Köhler explained how his modem woes were "spontaneously" fixed. Phone line troubles in New Berlin are now suspected.
John Schwarzmeier is still trying to set up a new joystick.
Kevin Cook asked if anyone has looked up 3 terabyte hard-drives on Google lately. Asked if it will need a new adapter/software drivers for older PCs.
Gary Köhler asked John Schwarzmeier about his recent computer woes, they've been resolved.
Kevin Cook asked about Avast!
Gary Köhler searched online (at Kevin Cook's earlier suggestion) for 3 terabyte hard-drives.
Discussion turned to animal cruelty.
Gary Köhler related the continuing problems with his brother's computer.
More online searches turned up a list of America's Rudest Cities (Philadelphia #3, New York City #2, and Los Angeles #1 -- anyone surprised?) and some recent tea-party nonsense.
Kevin Cook showed us his GameBoy DSi X-model.
Scott Brunkow spoke about his research into game interpreters.
Discussion turned to languages and Dorothy Parker.
Lastly we looked up System Tool 2011 online, and found what a truly nasty bit of hoaxware it is. This was the program that caused John Schwarzmeier so much grief, and we suggested that he take some of the extra precautions listed in the article.The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 pm. |