[aklug] Friday Night Linux goings on

Not many people showed up. Schools network seems to be turned off for
the Summer still, making do w/ Clearwire - not great, but workable.

Had some 11 year old kid there for a while. Kid has apparently been
doing stuff with computers since he was 4. Mom didn't really understand
what he was talking about any more, thought maybe we would. Kid had an
Apple laptop, but did not refer to the OS as Apple or OSx, referred to
it as BSD. He also had all the anti-Microsoft propaganda down pat. Kid
probably new as much about Linux as any of us and was a lot faster. I
think his hands were having a hard time keeping up with his mind :-)

Figured out how to boot Greg Madden's Debian mirror over VBox. Greg was
there to celebrate the Debian freeze.

VBox isn't really intended to boot over USB, but it can be made to do
so. Found some step-by-step on how to do it here:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81036

Worked pretty well, but they neglected to mention one thing. The
instruction to run the command to create the mount point,
VBoxManage internal ..., neglects to take one thing into account. It
can't create a file (the mount point) in a sub-directory that doesn't
exist. Had to run 'mkdir ~/mnt' first.

-- 
Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
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