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20020521
Hacking Society Meeting Page
Entries
User: Eric Schwartz
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Worked on learning Ruby, enabling sound on his laptop so he could get the
noises when playing Frozen Bubble.
User: Evelyn Mitchell
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Practicing plotting with (Mister) Biggles. Brought chocolate on
chocolate cookies with cookies.
User: jafo
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Writing a description of what I want the Hacking Society web page to do,
since shapr has put in some effort to make it happen.
Worked more on the python rsync stuff. It now compares the set of "local"
files to "remote" files as far as meta-data goes.
User: Jeff Means
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Setting up Big Brother and VPN support to his local network.
User: Katerina Carothers
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: More work with her laptop, trying to get APM going.
User: Keith Cereal
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Berating ACPI. Worked on making a set of specs for what HE would make ACPI
if HE controlled Intel. Tried to fix the 2.5 SCSI layer, but left it in a
smouldering pile on the floor in disgust.
User: Marcio Luis Teixeira
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Figured out how to update the hardware clock so that his date doesn't keep
changing when doing a reboot. Watching the kernel compile.
User: Matthew Wilcox
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Played Frozen Bubble . Hacked on fslocks.c some more. Removed the big
kernel lock, found two races involving mandatory locks, and various cleanups
and simplifications.
User: Michael Lewis
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Is releived to be over the hump with getting his job board Zope stuff
done, after getting a push in the right direction from a guy in Maylasia.
The server is getting set up right now.
User: scoth
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Did some research for a while, then downloaded and installed Mozilla
1.0rc2. Got a package for tpconfig, but didn't install it.
User: taggart
Date: 2002-05-21 23:00:00
Body: Playing Frozen Bubble . Worked on getting the multi-media keys to
work, by building a special kernel driver for them.