[MVLUG] Upcoming meeting and presentation topic

[Don McCoy]

I have tried three times to send this to the list, with no success.  
Here goes again...

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A reminder...  Please vote for what you'd like to hear about at the next
meeting.  My votes below and I believe three others have also voted.


Don McCoy wrote:
> our next meeting
>
>    Thursday, March 1st at 5:30
>
> Silence means assent, so make it known to the list if this is not a 
> good day and make a suggestion of your own.
>
!

>
> Mini-presentations
>
> We're going to try having people do presentations at future meetings.  
> Details are sketchy, but my thought was 15-20 mins with another 10 
> thrown in for questions.  That means we have to decide within the next 
> couple of weeks what the presentation will be in order to give the 
> presenter time to prepare a presentation promptly.
> Ideas on the table so far (and feel free to add to this list):
>
>   1. Voice over IP (VOIP) - how it works, how to set it up.
>   2. Home router construction - beef up your home network, customize,
>      how to set up Smoothwall or create your own firewall based on an
>      old (~200 MHz) desktop PC.
>   3. Myth TV - add a tv tuner to your PC and toss your VCR
>   4. Clustering with GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) - PS2 clusters,
>      scientific computation on gaming hardware, how research labs are
>      taking advantage of the relatively cheap computing power being
>      used for by the gaming industry.
>   5. FlashMob Computing - "ad-hoc temporary assembly of ordinary PC's
>      running special software to coordinate the PC's into one single
>      supercomputer"
>   6. WINE - software to allow Unix-based computers to run Windows-based
>      software.
>   7. PC Virtualization - how programs like QEMU and VMware are used to
>      run multiple OS instances on a single computer.  Applications
>      range from large-scale server networks running a heterogeneous mix
>      of OS's to small-scale application portability testing (using many
>      OS and hardware combinations).
>   8. iRobot demo - autonomous robotic development kit from the only
>      company that sells both robots for vacuuming /and/ bomb-disposal
>      (note: not the same model).
>


My votes are 3, 1 and 5.