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Date: 2006-05-18 20:16:39.215341
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: blug 2006-05-18
Body: Joined in virtually tonight and created an RPM for GTS, the Gnu Triangulated
Surface Library.
Date: 2003-03-26 23:00:00
Chapter Name: golden
Meeting: 20030326
Body: Drank a lot of coffee, enjoyed the conversation and demos of
the others' projects, and worked on a colorimetry project.
Date: 2003-02-26 23:00:00
Chapter Name: golden
Meeting: 20030226
Body: Drank a lot of coffee, enjoyed the conversation, and worked on some shell and
MatLAB scripts for X-ray data analysis.
Date: 2003-01-15 23:00:00
Chapter Name: golden
Meeting: 20030115
Body: Fixed Mike's XFree86 configuration problem. Apparently, SuSE 8.1 will
automatically configure the framebuffer on the first console and that
caused problems with the ATI Rage Mobility P/M chipset. This is yet
another reason for beginners to avoid SuSE since having the framebuffer
device is nothing but useless eye-candy during the boot-up sequence and
it caused serious conflicts (screen corruption) with XFree86. Note that
the Rage Mobility is an incredibly popular laptop chipset and this would
NOT have been a problem (everything would have "just worked") with Red
Hat or KRUD.
Spent time talking with Percy about GSXM and FFTs as implemented in FFTW.
Also enjoyed some yummy coffee and caught up on email.
Date: 2003-01-08 23:00:00
Chapter Name: golden
Meeting: 20030108
Body: Enjoyed the conversations and the Belgian chocolate flavored coffee.
Looked at a demo of Percy's Gxsm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gxsm)
and was impressed. Wrote something like two whole lines (!) of code
for my X-ray tomograph simulator. Really enjoyed the after-meeting
talk where Jonathan suggested a slick idea for platform alignment with
a laser and photodiode.
Date: 2002-12-18 23:00:00
Chapter Name: golden
Meeting: 20021218
Body: Enjoyed the conversations with Percy, Sean, and Jax over an eggnog
latte. Worked on some X-ray simulation code, switching parts of it
from Xerces-C++ to libxml++.
Date: 2002-12-11 23:00:00
Chapter Name: golden
Meeting: 20021211
Body: Did no coding as the KRUD 8.0 install on my laptop took up the entire
evening. I'm very pleased with it, so many thanks Tummy.com folks! ;-)
Enjoyed the coffee, the conversations with new acquaintances, and the
after-hours tour of the CESEP lab.
Date: 2002-08-29 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020829
Body:
Got a good dose of Sole caffine, IRC, email, and conversation. Hacked
on a user-space version of a serial port driver for an Amptek MCA8000a
(www.amptek.com) and, apparently, was able to successfully send my first
few dozen bytes to it. Yey! It has an ugly (IMHO) and unusual hardware
flow control design which uses the RTS, DSR, and DTR lines for *every*
byte sent. Yuk.
Date: 2002-08-22 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020822
Body:
Got fairly wired on the yummy Cafe Sole brew. Started writing a C
(POSIX) library and demo program for serial communication with an Amptek
(www.amptek.com) MCA8000A Multi-Channel Analyzer. Talked with Chris
about coordinating a joint CU-Mines Linux Installfest.
Date: 2002-07-18 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020718
Body:
Updated the "multi-distro-dev" mini-howto, worked on my ugly
InitiateCapture hack for the PTP camera driver within gphoto2-2.0, and
enjoyed the conversations. A *BIG* thanks to Jonathan who, a few weeks
ago, spent nearly an hour listening to my vexing serial communications
problem. His suggestions lead to a solution just a few days later.
Date: 2002-06-27 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020627
Body:
Hacked on C code (called from LabVIEW) for decoding X-ray spectra as
measured and encoded by a Princeton Gamma-Tech SYS4004 photon detector.
This has to be the most esoteric device employed (remotely!) for the
evening. Enjoyed the conversations and coffee.
Date: 2002-06-20 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020620
Body:
Enjoyed conversations with many folks. Prepared a bug report for
OpenSSH installs on Solaris 8 (their entropy collection scheme fails to
run--hangs!--in certain cases). Compared, contrasted, and complained
about the difficulty of installs of various Free and Open Source
packages (eg. OpenSSH, PHP) on Solaris versus Linux. Forget about cost,
ease-of-setup alone is reason enough to see Linux marginalize all
commercial Unixes. Did some much-needed package upgrades and caught up
on emails.
Date: 2002-06-06 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020606
Body:
Asked for Solaris admin pointers and got some very helpful advice
(thanks, Kevin!). Hacked on my serial-snooper (ssnooper) and X-ray
analysis (QAXA) codes. Enjoyed the conversation and some coffee.
Date: 2002-05-23 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020523
Body:
Worked on a serial "snooper" (sourceforge.net/projects/ssnooper) to help
me debug problems I'm having with a serial driver for a photon detector
in our lab at Mines. The current version of the ssnooper code is mostly
garbage written in a hurry. I'm rewriting and adding the ability to
save and replay logged sessions.
Also enjoyed the conversations--especially how Cafe Sole got wireless.
Date: 2002-03-28 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020328
Body: I came to work on coding up some new estimators for material presence by
differential X-ray absorption but I didn't have the theory finished. So
the time was spent working on the theory and no coding happened...
Date: 2002-03-21 23:00:00
Chapter Name: blug
Meeting: 20020321
Body: Attended my first Hacking Society meeting and (1) tried out WLAN for the
first time (many thanks to Jonathan and Kevin for loaner cards and
helpful advice), (2) downloaded, built, and started learning the Matrix
Template Library.