[aklug] Re: Friday Night Linux goings on

Highland Tech High, old Boniface Mall. Far East end doors. Friday
nights. I think the "official" start time is 6:30, but we usually try to
get opened up about 6.

-- 
Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:02 -0800, Thomas Plastino Martin wrote:
> Where are they usually held?
> 
> Thomas Plastino Martin
> https://launchpad.net/~tenach
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> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         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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