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Jason Schonberg will discuss the installation and use of several linux distributions on Sun's Virtualbox. Configuring virtual machines and using physical devices (eg. usb) within the virtual machine.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

On September 17, 2009 we will be discussing the configuration of the Apache Web server. Bob Carnaghi of the Austin Linux Meetup Group has agreed to join us in reviewing the configurations that he typically uses.

The following have been elected to the Board of directors:

President Paul Elliott
Secretary Denis Oxford.
Treasurer Clio Dunn.
System Administrator Carl Perry
Mailing List Carl Perry
Web Administrator Jason Schonberg
Program Coordinator Clio Dunn

Christian Einfeld, the producer of the film The Digital Tipping Point, put the Jim Hogg video on the film's archive site.

Tom King

• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_001.ogg (segment 01)
• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_002.ogg (segment 02)
• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_003.ogg (segment 03)
• http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv998_oa_ALGHogg_004.ogg (segment 04)

Meetings Not Scheduled.

Meeting called to order by the President at 1930 hours.

Stephen then proceeds to give a presentation on the various version of embedded Linux for consumer routers. This is mostly WRT for the broadcom chip set, but he does also cover WRT for Atheros. This discussion included:

* the history of WRT54G, the original linksys;
* other compatible routers:
* how to hard wire and access a router through a serial port;
* how to recover a brick;
* Actual examples of a flashed Linksys, Trendnet and Netgear routers.

Meeting was adjourned at 2100 hours.

Meeting Called to Order by Secretary at 19:30.

Lightly attended meeting with open discussion consisting of:

The Redmond Washington's virtual desktop.

Programing languages strengths and weaknesses. We covered:
Python
Perl
C++
Java
COBOL
JCL

For a small informal meeting a lot of information was exchanged.

Meeting adjourned at 20:30.

Thanksgiving, No Meeting.

Secretary has other commitment and no minutes are taken

Secretary called meeting to order @ 7:40

Treasure Introduces speaker "Jim Hogg"

Jim gives his presentation on his experiences of teaching Computer Programing, specifically C++ in the Round Rock School System. Some Points of interest from his discussion were:

* He teaches students to code and compile remotely in a server he maintains in his class room.
* He encourages his students to use a live cd version of Linux.
* He encourages his students to use a Debian distribution so they can easily load and try different software packages
* His favorite distribution in Mepis Linux.
* He has received commendations from various educational organization for his efforts
* His presentation was filmed and the JPEG will be made available.