[GRLUG] Saturday Social Summary

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/29/2010 2:30 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>> I was there 2-6PM, Matt Seely and a friend of his (I can't remember
>> your name--sorry!) were there fairly early. Matt showed the Ubuntu
>> 10.04 beta, and we chatted about about programming languages, CMS and
>> hardware. (ATW really ought to have been there; Matt's on the brink of
>> diving either into Python or Ruby.)  Matt's friend has to be the
>> computer geek equivalent of the star of one of those "flip this house"
>> reality TV shows; I imagine him going through hardware upgrades like
>> World 1-3 of SMB--constantly jumping higher and higher.
>>
>> Pyeps came by a bit into it. Apparently he'd gotten misdirected by my
>> bad link last week, and initially went to the wrong Subway. We chatted
>> a bit about the SCO trial revival, the details of copyright, software
>> licenses and license compatibility, and he showed me some neat stuff
>> he'd been working on that uses cookies to store program code. (Before
>> you jump all over the security implications of that, consider that
>> it's not code being trusted by a server.)  We chatted a bit about
>> Bounjour/Avahi/MDNS, machine languages and programming languages and
>> code bloat and where it comes from.
>>
>> There was another guy there, whose name I also can't remember (I
>> really should have written this on Saturday, but I had some urgent
>> things crop up at home.), who uses Mandriva, Fedora and Win7.
>>
>> Interesting times, interesting discussions. Hope to see more of you
>> this week. :)
>>
>>
> I'm getting my house, yard, and car in order so as soon as the weather
> breaks, this meetup will likely be my afternoon ride for exercise.  Hope
> i'll still be presentable coming from Kentwood.  Anyone else bike?

I have the bike and gear, but I haven't given it a workout this
season. I might bike the run, but I should probably pack a change of
clothes. :)


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