[GRLUG] Saturday Social Summary

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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. :)
>>>
>> 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?
>
> This one does, yes. I haven't looked at how much power is out there, though.

Two outlets. I already bring an extension cord with three grounded
outlets, but a power strip would probably be a good idea.

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