[lug] Hacking Society Meeting Minutes - 20020404

[Kevin Fenzi]

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Had a nice gathering last night for hacking society. 

It's worth noting that if you can't make it in person to cafe sole',
you can still join in via IRC. Use irc.community.tummy.com as your IRC
server and channel #hackingsociety as the channel. 

- From http://hackingsociety.org/chapters/blug/minutes/20020404/ 

Kevin Fenzi:

Worked on getting the latest openoffice to build. Needed jdk
installed. Pulled down 1.4 and installed it, but then it wanted
1.3. Pulled that down and installed it. Fixed lots of refrences to
gcc-2.95 instead of gcc-2.96 that redhat 7.2 has. 


Jeremy Hinegardner

Listened to the musical genius of Tom Smith. Browsed interesting 404
pages. Continued working on a ruby application, but realized
ruby-tmpl's looping functionality is not implemented yet. Jon
mentioned the IOWA package so downloaded and installed it to try it
out. 

Jonathan Conway

No report yet.

Chris Riddoch

No report yet.

Rob Riggs

Upgraded laptop to KRUD 7.2. Fought with the neverending demand for
more disk space during the install. Seems the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2
requires and additional .5GB in /usr, and wasn't happy until almost
.75GB was free. Ran through the interminable "preparing to install"
phase four times before the installer was happy. 

Mike Smith (via IRC from Quincy IL)

Changed startup to not initialize unnecessary services and then spent
a few hours getting OpenNMS running on the lowly e-machine
box. Discovered the devices on the first class C of his work's network
and then did some polling of devices and configuring alerts. Looks
like a neat program, especially the feature that generates and mails
PDF reports. Worked on getting rid of the mail loop on Postfix for the
1postfix cron - learning the finer details of Postfix config.... 

Archer Sully

I was writing a small Ruby program to connect and monitor ssh
forwarded ports. BTW, Ruby rocks, and is even better than Python,
which, IMHO, is saying something. Finally, a modern language that
catches up the implied do of Fortran ;-).  

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