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Date: 2005-05-03 22:51:04.326124
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-05-03
Body: - caught up on e-mail
- messed around with video players for Ubuntu
Date: 2005-03-29 22:33:48.845934
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-03-29
Body: - tried (unsuccessfully) to get my DWL-G630 wireless card to work with Ubuntu Hoary LiveCD Array7
- caught up on GMail
- Web surfing
Date: 2005-03-15 21:50:35.096349
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-03-15
Body: Mucked with my Netgear card. It's failing intermittently. Caught up on e-mail. Ego surfing. Played with Perl (perl -MCPAN rocks!)
Date: 2005-01-25 23:10:05.312688
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-01-25
Body:
- Brought up my hp pavilion ze4145 from scratch off Knoppix 3.7 CD.
- Checked gmail. (Need an
invite? Ask me in #hackingsociety.)
- Listed Sprint
Samsung Model SPH-N400 Dual Band/Tri Mode Phone at eBay
Date: 2005-01-04 23:09:35.221063
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: nclug 2005-01-04
Body:
- upgraded some software
- del.icio.us/tbc
- remote tech support to help my wife get wireless working on our DSL modem
- shopped at eBay
Date: 2004-12-05 20:10:03.227970
Chapter Name: pphs
Meeting: pphs 2004-12-05
Body:
- converted address list from PDA to .csv for Robin
- IRC
- PPHS admin
Date: 2004-11-21 17:31:49.252511
Chapter Name: pphs
Meeting: PPHS 2004-11-21
Body: Did the "paperwork" with jafo to get this chapter off the ground.
Date: 2004-11-16 23:11:05.065993
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-11-16
Body: Various tweaks to my Ubuntu installation. Achieved a major milestone. I sync'd my Treo 300 to evolution 2.1.0 via USB!
Date: 2004-11-03 00:07:13.645632
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-11-02
Body:
- Configured Ubuntu on my laptop.
- Network config GUI worked great. (I modprobed prism54 first.) No Orinoco USB support, it seems. :(
- Yay. Ubuntu has meld, dante-client, keychain, gaim, flashplugin-nonfree (& all dependencies, of course).
- Too hard to install java or the plugin.
- Caught up on gmail.
- Followed the election results.
- Stumbled.
Date: 2004-10-19 23:10:03.053587
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-10-19
Body:
- Overwrote my laptop with Ubuntu Linux.
- Did a little configuration. (It worked quite well by default, though.)
- Stumbled.
- Caught up on e-mail.
- Ordered a CD.
Date: 2004-10-12 22:30:14.606823
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-10-12
Body:
- Freed up space on my hard drive.
- Unpacked a patched 2.6.6 kernel source tree. (Gave up on 2.6.7 -- trying a known good configuration from a colleague.)
- More stumbling.
Date: 2004-09-14 23:13:03.473733
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: NCLUG 2004-09-14
Body: (1) still trying to build 2.6.7 kernel
(2) stumbleupon.com is more fun
(3) Web mail
Date: 2004-08-31 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040831
Body: Tried to get his 2.6 kernel to boot.
Date: 2004-08-24 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040824
Body: (1) Built 2.6.7 kernel for my Evo N410c. Several times. Stymied by
orinoco-usb at the moment. (2) Stumbled upon several sites.
Date: 2004-08-17 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040817
Body: (1) installed the kernel (.deb) I built last week (2) installed grub and
waited forever grub-install (3) surfed via StumbleUpon toolbar
Date: 2004-08-10 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040810
Body: (1) configured & built 2.6.7 kernel, (2) upgraded mozilla, (3) stumbled
Date: 2004-06-29 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040629
Body: (1) caught up on mail, (2) managed mail subscriptions, (3) wrote scraper
for Yahoo stock quotes.
Date: 2004-06-22 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040622
Body: for minutes (1) mucked with port forwarding (unsuccessfully), (2) blogged,
(3) read some news, (4) surfed
Date: 2004-06-15 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040615
Body: (1) caught up on Yahoo mail, (2) stumbleupon.com, (3) other Web surfing
Date: 2004-05-18 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040518
Body: I studied the whereami documentation. I also played with StumbleUpon.
Date: 2004-05-11 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040511
Body: 1. caught up on backlog of photos uploaded to church Web site
2. played with stumbleupon.com
Date: 2004-04-20 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040420
Body: I played with stumbleupon.com all night and wrote 25 comments.
Date: 2004-04-13 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040413
Body: 1. learned about whereami
2. "search & destroy" of all KDE apps on my laptop
3. other package housekeeping on my laptop
Date: 2004-03-30 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040330
Body: (1) worked for HP, (2) caught up on yahoo mail, (3) learned about ssh -L,
(4) updated http://home.pcisys.net/~tbc/hacks/dircproxy.htm
Date: 2004-03-23 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040323
Body: Tweaked boot options for inside/outside firewall.
Did some stuff for money that we aren't going to talk about (first rule
of hacking society is...). Caught up on some news
http://purl.org/net/tbc/favnews.htm. Played tuneds from
http://jazzpromo.com/. Shopped for books.
Date: 2004-03-09 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040309
Body: 1. bought Netgear 802.11g cards for me and jafo 2. tried (and failed)
to download the tracks I'm rightfully entitled to from emusic.com
3. politely asked emusic.com to give me the tracks I'm rightfully entitled
to 4. tried and failed to configure wireless under Knoppix 3.3 (neither
Lucent nor Netgear). 5. worked on boot-time configuration of networking
for inside/outside firewall.
Date: 2004-02-24 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040224
Body: 1. customized boot based on the kernel command line. 2. cleaned out
Web mailboxes.
Date: 2004-02-17 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040217
Body: 1. updated
www.christthekinganglican.org.
2. chatted via GAIM. 3. caught up reading some mailing list archives. 4.
Web surfing.
5. read http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/07/
6. tried to sell timeshare at eBay.
Date: 2004-02-10 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040210
Body: tried Morphix-Gnome 0.4-1, couldn't get wireless card recognized and gave
up played lots of Vince Guaraldi. worked toward getting my timeshare week on
eBay. bounced around on Orkut
Date: 2004-01-20 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20040120
Body: Yahoomail, IRC, proved that he couldn't get his 2.6 kernel working on his
laptop, but Skif has his working. Also messed with USB-storage.
Date: 2003-12-16 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031216
Body: I got my laptop working as a gateway using jafo's iptables script. Worked
with Ian to troubleshoot my ze4145 builtin network card. Googled for
dp83815 knoppix and found someone with the same problem. Learned how
to use mii-tool to fix the card. Caught up on Yahoo e-mail.
introduced jafo to http://www.globulos.com/
Date: 2003-12-09 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031209
Body: I got my wireless working (after getting my wired LAN working),
then I tried to download MP3s from emusic.com (no joy), then I
caught up on some of my e-mail, then I learned what a "jimmy
hat" is. then I learned what "fo' shizzle my nizzle" means
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fo%27+shizzle+my+nizzle
Date: 2003-11-04 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031104
Body: tried to figure out how to get orinoco-usb working since it broke last week
(for minutes) set up apache on laptop
Date: 2003-10-28 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031028
Body: 1. caught up on some e-mail 2. downloaded lots of free military band music.
Date: 2003-10-21 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20031021
Body: ant helped me clean up iptables so I could get on the network; he also used
dcc in xchat to transfer a file to me. I played some tunes from
http://onemangone.com/. Caught up on
yahoo e-mail (opt-in / filter out spam). Got thwarted by iptables trying
to gateway on a laptop.
Date: 2003-09-30 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030930
Body: Synced his laptop with the files with his Debian workstation, got
it working as a gateway. Bore the full brunt of a Rapid Reader
demo.
Date: 2003-09-23 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030923
Body: Surfed the web, surfed the cell phone network and set up e-mail on his
laptop.
Date: 2003-08-26 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030826
Body: Upgraded his machine, thanks to tummy for the bandwidth. Did some
account administration over the web.
Date: 2003-08-19 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030819
Body: More configuring his machine, moving in to it. Searched for the
conspiracy to call a constitutional convention.
Date: 2003-08-12 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030812
Body: Got his wireless configured and started customizing his laptop.
Date: 2003-07-29 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030729
Body: Progress getting wireless card in his Evo working. Random package
downloads. Helping Ines get her floppy written.
Date: 2003-06-24 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030624
Body: Re-configuring his kernel to try to get settings to get it to boot.
Almost ready to rebuild it now.
Date: 2003-06-17 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030617
Body: Working on getting his wireless and kernel going.
Date: 2003-06-10 23:00:00
Chapter Name: nclug
Meeting: 20030610
Body: Read some e-mail browsed. Got hooked up to the net.