AustinLUG.org

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.

Meeting was moved to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the JJ Pickle research center were ALUG was a guest of the Central Texas Computer Club for a tour of the University of Texas Supper Computer known as "Ranger".

The friendly staff at the TACC covered general hardware designs of supper computers and the specific design of Ranger.

Other topics covered were:

* Capacity of Ranger;
* Project that the computing power of the TACC had been used on;
* Other super computers at the TACC;

Meeting adjourned at 2100, discussions lasted until 2130.

President call the meeting to order at 1830 hours.

The club celebrated Ubuntu 8.10 release program. The club provided
pizza for 23 attendees. These attendees included members of the GW
Linux Users Group and the Central Texas Users Group Linux SIG.

John Deardorf gave a presentation of the new features of *.10 Including
the new ffsf files system and encriptable mounts.

Our own President Stephen gave a presentation on "ubootem", a program to
make bootalbe CD's and pen drives from you favorite distribution.

The meeting adjourned at 2100.