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         Date: 2003-12-23 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031223
         
         Body: Put another new set of strings on his axe and research mace.  Was intending
on putting some things on dangerjim.com.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-12-16 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031216
         
         Body: Got dangerjim.com registered.  Read everything2.  Brought delightful
cookies.  Tried to help ant security test Brian's laptop.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-12-09 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031209
         
         Body: Just surfed.  They think this is Slacking Society, I guess.  He tried off
starting to convert a PDF to a text file, but was thwarted.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-11-25 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031125
         
         Body: Worked on junit.  Again.  Aledgedly.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-11-18 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031118
         
         Body: I read up on JUnit.  Trying to find some good examples.  Brian offered $100
if anyone could hack his cell-phone, and dangerjim asked him to show the
$100, because he was pretty sure he could hack up something on Brian's
phone.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-11-04 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031104
         
         Body: Sorta tried to work on homework.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-10-28 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031028
         
         Body: Wrote a little bit of code for one of his classes, and did his 30 second
one-man rendition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-10-21 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031021
         
         Body: Helped ant get hooked up with gftp.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-10-14 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20031014
         
         Body: Trying to know all that is knowable.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-09-30 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030930
         
         Body: Worked on getting the picturebook working as a router.  Yes, still.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-09-23 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030923
         
         Body: Trying to get his picturebook booting with the live Debian CD
off the disc image.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-09-16 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030916
         
         Body: I worked on getting phentropy working (easy) and visualizing the
resultant data (lots of sw dependencies). Also tried to explain
the purpose of HS
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-09-09 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030909
         
         Body: Tried to find a working ACM TeX template.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-08-26 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030826
         
         Body: Trying to install a Debian live disc onto his "picturebook".
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-08-19 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030819
         
         Body: Would you believe?  Overheard porn, caught up on his e-mail.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-08-12 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030812
         
         Body: Archiving some of my legally obtained music discs.  In other words,
ripping CDs.  Found the ACM conference proceedings format paper for
one of his classes.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-07-29 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030729
         
         Body: I swear I thought I did something.  I brought cookies and put on
my new watch.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-07-22 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030722
         
         Body: Didn't come.  "lurked".
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-07-15 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030715
         
         Body: tonight I tried to download updated kernel source
and I tried to ssh into my newly debianed pc at home
Brought a 6-pack of water which we appreciated.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-07-08 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030708
         
         Body: Started reading about D, now that he's got it installed from 2 weeks
ago.  Caught up with e-mail and a bunch of really useless ...
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-06-24 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030624
         
         Body: Running kmail from his house and complaining that it wasn't working well.
Receiving shite for doing so.  Installing the "D" language to try out.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-06-17 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030617
         
         Body: I worked on switching to the alsa sound packages
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-05-27 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030527
         
         Body: Tried to get sound working correctly.  Rebuilt WINE installed it.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-05-20 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030520
         
         Body: Got mplayer working, got enlightened of installing apt for RPM.
Watched too much Tank Girl.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-05-13 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030513
         
         Body: Studying for finals.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-04-29 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030429
         
         Body: Worked on some code for his class project.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-04-22 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030422
         
         Body: Installed Red Hat 9 on his new machine and started configuring it.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-04-15 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030415
         
         Body: Started trying to work on his homework.  Didn't try very hard.
Downloaded KNOPPIX from the tummy.com site at 400KB/sec.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-04-08 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030408
         
         Body: Installed together, the design modeling tool, and it works!
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-03-11 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030311
         
         Body: Worked on some Object Design stuff for his class.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-02-25 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030225
         
         Body: Wrote a little bitty program for a class and read some stuff for
another class.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-02-18 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030218
         
         Body: Upgraded open office and worked on some class stuff.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-02-11 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030211
         
         Body: Transitioning NCLUG administrative stuff.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-01-28 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030128
         
         Body: Worked on a program for one of his classes.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-01-21 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030121
         
         Body: Upgrading his kernel and replicating the experiments done on the
BLUG discussion recently with locking up RPM and clearing the lock.
Installed gkrellm.
         
   
      
         Date: 2003-01-14 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20030114
         
         Body: Read part of the course material from an MIT software engineering course.
Signed up for a couple of courses for this semester.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-12-17 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021217
         
         Body: Played with remotely sshing to his machine at home through his firewall.
Installed mplayer -- I see a trend here.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-12-10 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021210
         
         Body: Got his wireless card working.  Brought an MP3 cd for providing the
music.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-11-26 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021126
         
         Body: Trying to rebuild his kernel, right this time.  Tried to fix what Red Hat
8.0 upgrade did to his desktop.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-11-19 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021119
         
         Body: Restoring a working kernel to his picture book and helping to solve the
mysteries of the universe.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-11-05 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021105
         
         Body: Downloaded a bunch of snort packages and then was sniffing our traffic.
Bad Jim, BAD!  Not suprisingly, it was almost all SSH.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-10-29 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021029
         
         Body: Chris talked with me about installing Mandrake and brought
Snicker-doodles that his wife made for us.  I handed off some
mandrake CDs to Chris.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-10-22 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021022
         
         Body: discussed computer philosophy with Chris.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-10-15 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021015
         
         Body: "In the grim future of hello jimmy there is only grad school."
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-10-08 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20021008
         
         Body: Read some of the tomcat docs.
         
   
      
         Date: 2002-09-24 23:00:00
         Chapter Name: nclug
         Meeting: 20020924
         
         Body: Set up tomcat on my picturebook and spread chaos by mentioning oddtodd.com