[GRLUG] Saturday Social Summary

[Steve Romanow]

On 3/29/2010 3:03 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Steve Romanow<slestak989 at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On 3/29/2010 2:30 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
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>>> 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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If its a cool day, its not a race.  We could also find a meetup spot 
that has outdoor seating and wifi.  Does the subway have any outdoor 
seating?