[Re: Hi]

[Matt Graham]

Sean <picasso@madflower.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Jo Dillon wrote:
> 
> > I've just joined the mailing list so I thought I might introduce 
> > myself...
> > I'm Joel Dillon, a programmer at Trolltech (makers of Qt) - I mostly
> > hack on Qt/Embedded writing device drivers and graphics code. I'm 
> > moving
> > from Oxford, England to Michigan to live with my fiancee and being a
> > longtime member of the Oxford LUG I thought I'd join the Lansing one.
> > Anyway, a couple of quick questions:
> 
> Welcome!!! Glad to have you aboard!!
> 
> > Where's a good local shop to get computer hardware?
> 
> CompUSA, its the only place that sells real hardware (Apple) locally,
> besides the MSU Computer Store. *ducks*

Well, there's a small place on the west side called "Good Deals" that
stocks parts as well.  If you need a 486, an ISA Real Modem, or EDO RAM,
you can get it there.  They also have more current x86 junk.  It's on 1406
W. Saginaw (eastbound).  Like Sean said, CompUselessA is also around. 
There's also Digilink in Okemos.

Getting an AT&T cable modem going is pretty simple.  They'll give you a
hostname, something like "C-1337-FOO", on the work order for the
connection.  You connect your machine to the cablemodem via Ethernet, then
you run "dhcpcd -h C-1337-FOO eth0" and you're good to go.  Keep in mind
that they block incoming traffic to port 80 and cap the upstream at 128...
evil idiots. 

> We killed regular meetings, although we did just have a going away party
> for one of our founding members last night.
> 
> Maybe we should think about having get informal togethers more often and
> not just for sad occassions. Like release parties for the 2.4.XXX 
> kernel, or Debian XXX releases for PPC or something =)
> 
> Speaking of crap like this, should we be thiking about an installfest?

Yes, organization for the group is basically nonexistent now.  More
informal get-togethers would be a good thing.  I'd be up for working on an
installfest....



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