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Minutes of Meetings
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December 20, 1999 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:11 pm. Attendance: 5. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the November meeting. Discussion
Gary Köhler described the peculiar problem in OS/2 that kept "poisoning" directories and preventing Lotus WordPro 96 from retrieving files that the file open dialogs could plainly "see". This was the cause for the delay in the December 1999 edition of The Monitor Newsletter.
This led to a discussion of JPG vs. BMP format for use in photographs submitted to The Monitor Newsletter.
Gary Köhler read a letter from Rick Janowski of the Milwaukee Computer Society, has put them on the mailing list for The Monitor Newsletter.
Phil Moughmer compared the services offered by two web hosting companies, QuikPage and Verio. This led into a discussion of META tags in HTML.PresentationThere was no formal presentation.The meeting was adjourned at 9:07 pm. |
November 15, 1999 |
Secretary Gary Köhler called the meeting to order at 7:12 pm. Attendance: 9. He then read the minutes of the October meeting.
Discussion
There was a question about the Amiga which led to a discussion of Internet speeds and access.
Somehow a discussion got started about irregularities in the rotation of the Earth, which induced Gary Köhler to explain the Chandler Wobble. (No, this is not a dance craze from the 20's.)
There was a brief discussion of device driver problems in Windows 98.PresentationThere was no formal presentation.The meeting was adjourned at 9:01 pm. |
October 18, 1999 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm. Attendance: 9. He commented on the recent Gateway/Amiga decision and the high price of RAM in the aftermath of the Taiwan earthquake. Dale announced the receipt of literature from NewTek for LightWave 6.0. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the September meeting. SIG Reports
Game/Networking/Hardware SIG: Dale described First Contact and the first test of Brion's game server. By RockCon we should be able to play three games simultaneously. Next game SIG will be devoted to further tests of the server.
Web SIG: Gary showed the updated GenCon '99 Scrapbook page and demonstrated a few changes that could be made to it.
PresentationAfter a brief discussion of games and USB, Dale demonstrated WinAMP, an MP3 player.The meeting was adjourned at 9:06 pm. |
September 20, 1999 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:16 pm. Attendance: 9. He commented on the recent Amiga shakeup, and how the new AMD Athlon (formerly K7) was fast, and the new G4 even faster yet. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the August meeting. SIG Reports
Game/Networking SIG: Dale described upcoming events such as First Contact and RockCon and the games to be played there. He reported that Igor is almost back to normal. Seems he forgot to reinstall the AGP driver for the motherboard.
Web SIG: Gary shared web commentary about the 10 most serious mistakes in web design and 10 new mistakes in web design. Dale suggested a Spider's Web column on web design sites.
PresentationGary showed us the K Desktop Environment (KDE) and the briefest of introductions to command-line Linux.The meeting was adjourned at 8:54 pm. |
August 16, 1999 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:11 pm. Attendance: 6, 9 later on. He reported that we grossed approximately $2500 at Gen Con, with a net of $2200. Of this, $800 will be donated to the Red Cross, and some of the profit will be invested in a 24-slot hub for use at next year's Gen Con. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the July meeting. Treasurer Phil Moughmer gave a more detailed accounting of the finances. SIG Reports
Game/Networking SIG: Dale reported that he reinstalled Windows 98 and Starfleet Command on Igor with disastrous results.
Amiga SIG: Has been downgraded to a contact.
Web SIG: Gary reported that he has not yet installed all the software on Kundry.
Discussion
Phil showed us some of his video taken at Gen Con.There was no formal presentation, the meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm. |
July 19, 1999 |
President Dale Roethig called the meeting to order at 7:13 pm. Attendance: 7. Secretary Gary Köhler read the minutes of the June meeting. SIG Reports
Game SIG: Setup at Gen Con is scheduled for Wednesday, August 4 from 2 to 9 pm, and tear-down starting at 4 pm on the Sunday the 8th. We are looking for machines with at least Pentium 100, 16 Mb RAM and a network card (or we'll install one). Lucas Arts has granted us permission to run their games, as has SSI in the case of Fighting Steel. We are still waiting for copies of Army Men to come in.
Discussion
Gary outlined what he called the "personal Y2K problem", concerning filenames that won't sort properly if a two-digit year naming convention is employed. It is a personal problem in the sense that if the sorting of filenames is of no concern, it's not really a problem.
Dale described the recent demo given at Safe Harbor of the Toaster NT and related software such as Speed Razor (a non-linear editor). Hopefully further details will surface in The Monitor Newsletter.There was no presentation, although we did get to see Gary's new notebook computer, Kundry. The meeting was adjourned at about 8:35 pm. |