[juneau-lug] Re: Room at UAS
- From: Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:57:15 -0800
Good points James. As a stodgy ol' sysadmin, I was initially interested in
things like Bind, sendmail, spam filtering, etc. We pretend it's
interesting of course, but truth be told we'd rather be standing in the rain
catching cohos, providing for our families. However, as time has rolled on,
I'm broadening my horizons. At home I have SuSE running on an old 300 mhz
boat anchor, and have decided to get a decent machine. Not top end lest I
offend my Scot ancestry, but something that loads before my coffee gets
cold, and that I can actually *play* with.
But what sort of playing? Well, simple things like burning CDs (no
bootlegging of course!), maybe some sound and/or video editing just for
grins, getting 3D enabled so the kids can play flightgear, that sort of
thing. Nothing I'd be doing at work. Plus, it would be good to get a nice
machine that the family could use as our primary internet connection, doing
homework on, etc. A bit more boring, but I figure now's the time to get the
kids comfortable w/Linux. They can still play Windows games on the other
computer, but being able to do some cool stuff on the Linux computer would
be valuable on keeping them going down the RIGHT PATH. I figure it would be
fun to hook the camcorder into the computer, and be able to edit videos on
it. Haven't a clue how. Or in Linux Journal in the Sept. issue there's an
article on recording your old LPs and burning a CD. I've got a stack of
those that I wouldn't mind getting on a CD. Sadly, my turntable is broken,
but sooner or later I'd like to get a new one. That sort of stuff would be
great in the meetings and something that students would be into, if they
aren't doing it already on their own.
So the heck w/business type stuff (at least most of the time), let's have
some fun...
...Kevin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Zuelow [mailto:e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:51 PM
>To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Room at UAS
>
>
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:32:52 -0800
>"Clay Robidoux" <loki@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We - as UASGC are now hosting our LAN's at the SAC, however today
>> (sat the 27) it will be on campus somewhereze. Feel free to check
>> out our website www.ultimatelan.org (the ULP2k3 has links to the
>> forum pages where u can find information on the weekly LAN) I know
>> several students that are running linux now, but not sure if they
>> would be interested in pursuing something along these lines.
>>
>
>We should probably suss them out a little bit. Juan could too, if
>he's interested in being a faculty sponsor (don't know your schedule
>or plans Juan, just thinking aloud).
>
>The LUG members so far have been mainly people who sysadmin or program
>for a living. Old, staid, boring and we talk about things like
>clustering (sigh) and thin X terminals (yawn), and we're lucky to get
>five people at a meeting.
>
>This turns off a lot of kids that show up to meetings. So a UAS Linux
>club would probably attract more users & quickly eclipse the
>membership of this group. IMHO that would be a good thing, even if it
>meant that I would be the only member of the non-UAS club. :) I don't
>have the time to promote or do much more organizing than keeping the
>web server running for the LUG as it exists now, so it is fairly
>stagnant.
>
>I see a lot of talent on the gaming club site for web design, php,
>etc. that is just beyond my skills or interests. I also see a lot of
>energy that could be put to good use promoting open source *nix in SE
>Alaska. However it depends on UAS students feeling the same way.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
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