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19th May 2002, The Crawford Hotel, Exeter.
This meeting got off to rather a rocky start... firstly, everything was organised
at quite short notice and so there wasn't much time to plan things. Next,
the various freebies that we were expecting didn't arrive (and still haven't
- obviously never sent). Then there's the fact that I left the digital camera
on the kitchen table, so apologies for the lack of pictures. Well, apart
from all that, everything went as planned!
Once everyone had arrived we got the demonstration machine set up and Rick
gave the first and only talk on VNC. Although he claims he didn't know until
that morning, he did offer several days previously (honest!). The talk was
very interesting and generated some interest in seeing VNC in action from
those who didn't attend our meeting at Ylem, which I hope to satify at our
next meeting.
We then tackled some problems being experienced by a few people, only one
of which did not get some kind of solution. One was an X-setting problem
which was solved quite quickly. Another was a strange problem concerning
Redhat 7.2. The machine had an existing installation of Redhat 7.1. For some
reason, the kernel on the Redhat 7.2 CD would not boot! It seemed to not
identify the fact that the machine had a CPU! It actually had an AMD - possibly
some sort of compatiability issue, although the kernel would boot on the
demo machine which is an AMD Athlon XP 1700+.
The final problem was Dr. Adrian Midgley who was having a problem with a
webcam (quite common) which unfortunately was not solved despite the best
efforts of those who tried to help.
As usual, the meeting ended with a long discussion which today covered things
such as our Linux@School project as well as current MS liscencing and the
battle for free software in Peru.
In conclusion, I'm going to steal a quote from a message Simon Waters sent
to the D&C LUG list about the meeting - I think it is a good summing
up: -
"Beer was drunk, discussions were had, cheese as a bar snack was eyed
suspiciously."
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