[GLLUG] Gone Wired Cyber-Cafe

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 08 April 2005 13:17, after a long battle with technology, GJG 
wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:03 -0400, Eric Miller wrote:
> > I'm at the Gone Wired cyber-cafe eating a scone, washing it down
> > with a latte.

You latte-sipping digerati punk!  :-)

> > I asked them about having a lug meeting here. [...] they would love 
> > to host a meeting on a regular basis. They will setup an area with 
> > tables, chairs, a network drop, and provide a power strip. All we 
> > need is a network switch and the cables for each computer.

Nifty.

> > Oh, and we are more than welcome to bring in pizza. We'll need to
> > purchase beverages from them - but I think that's a small price to
> > pay for them hosting us.

Ah!  They want to get a group of people in there and have them buy 
drinks.  Makes a lot of sense, since they've already got the 
infrastructure set up and so forth.  Sounds like this would be a good 
thing to try out.

> I have a projector and some extra switches I can donate to the group.
> Nothing great, 10MB type, but free and they work. How many ports are
> needed?

Max. res on the projector?  Any projector's good, it's just useful to 
know so that presenters can set their X up for that a little beforehand 
and not have to deal with virtual screens and/or xrandr difficulties.  
(KDE 3.3's window manager doesn't really handle xrandr as well as it 
should.) I have a 5-port 100bT switch that's not doing anything useful 
at the moment.  Not much, I know, but it'd be something.

And yes, I plan to get this @#$%ing KDE presentation ready for the 
meeting on the 21st.  That will be possible.  I'll send the basic 
outline to Charles U. after it's in a coherent state, see if he has any 
suggestions, etcetera.  Also, I may want to spend a few minutes on 
xbindkeys even though it's not a KDE-specific program, since xbindkeys 
is Very Useful.

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