[glug-t] Re: A few minutes late.

Nice work Muthu. But a few points I would like to make.
* Please insert a space after a full stop. While, a two space is the norm, you 
should at least insert a single space.
* Please insert a space after a comma as well.
* A blank line after a paragraph would give look better.

Vijay

Quoting Muthiah Annamalai <ec10130@xxxxxxxx>:

> Dear GLUG-Tians,
> The GLUG-T meeting on 12th of october 2003, was held at the A2 hall in
> the NIT-Trichy campus.The meeting was delayed as we were waiting for people
> to arrive.It started by 10.00am.The topics to be discussed for this meeting
> were (i) FIFO's and pipes  & (ii) Network Programming.
>       This time for a change NIT-T could Vijaykumar started the proceedings
> by presenting the case on FIFO's and pipes.IPC's were introduced as a method
> of
> communication in the *NIX world.He started by recollecting that we 
> were all familiar with |'s [pipe's] as we use it in the shell.Then went on
> to
> show how useful they could be.Vijay talked about a few system call's after
> explaining what they were;of interest was dup,dup2,fork,execve etc.Then he
> showed various slides for explaining half duplex,full duplex and simplex
> commmunication.The session was very useful for anyone who would've been
> starry
> eyed with acronyms and the alphabet soup called IPC's.Vijay did not have the
> luxury of time to complete his FIFO's at his pace.He hurried through the
> presentation, but not before he did justice to FIFO's.FIFO's he said were a
> simple way of IPC's between foreign applications.FIFO's were also called
> "named
> pipes".A few questions on FIFO's were raised and aptly answered with the
> computer at hand.
>         Next was our friend Manickam's turn to don the mantle.He was dejected
> as
> hios presentation coulnt be "transported" from the NIT-T LAN to the computer
> system in A2 hall.So the crestfallen Manickam,he was began his presentation,
> regretting for the mishap [actually the  not-happened thing].Manickam talked
> about the various layers in the Network stack of the OSI & DARPA model.He
> went
> on to say how networking was very useful for many things we overlook as
> everyday.Then went on to show a simple echo server program.Many many queries
> were raised about sockets and networks, clients and servers.They were more
> than
> answered by the Gurus's present at the meeting.Many points of agreement were
> disputed and disproved.A lively discussion and argument followed on the
> networks
> lectures.Little & Big endians were equally bewildering with the jargon
> Mr.Manickam was throwing at all of us.And the disucssion was prematurely
> closed,
> as had to be due to time constraints for a topic as broad as Networking.
>       Next Vijaykumar disucssed some issuses in the news.He elucidated about 
the
> SCO/IBM tussle, and the stand of FSF.Finally we talked about the next
> meeting,
> and agreed that it would be decided on the mailing lists.Topics for the next
> meeting were to be decided later,I guess.
> And we said Bye,but not before Vijay admonished the attitude of some of the
> volunteers for their lethargy in distributing the books on "Free Software &
> Free
> Society".
> 
> Cheers
> Muthu.
> 
> Its more certainly GNU.               
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