[MVLUG] Re: Meeting Wednesday, Jan. 31st at 5:30

[Ed Lappin]

Ed Lappin vote:

I would like 1, 3, 6


Don McCoy wrote:

> 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).
>>
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>
> My votes are 3, 1 and 5.
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