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2009-01-29 Meeting Minutes

VTC Computer Club 
Meeting Notes
January 29, 2009

Meeting Time: 8:00pm

Members present:
    Phil Baldyga
    Chad Loseby
    Cale Loseby
    Ryan Bigelow
    Andrew Matt
    Forest Immel

Topics of Discussion:
- We received our budget items earlier this semester
- Chad was curious if people were interested in some club projects over the 
    weekend
    - Phil has the Ardino in his room
    - Some people are interested in playing with it over the weekend?
- Community Service
    - The requirements were NOT for this semester...they were for Fall of 2009
- BOINC
    - VTC3 well over 11 million credits
    - Looks like all labs have been ghosted to run Rosetta@home when not used
- Green 111 computer lab
    - We should try to dual boot the lab computers with Ubuntu and 
      Windows XP Pro
    - XP pro would be default, but GRUB could run for a brief timeframe (2-3sec)
    - We can try to experiment with Linux on Active Directory (see if it works)
- Next meeting location
    - Studio Council Room
    - Tuesdays would be a better day for all present members @ 7pm
    - Week after break would be another club meeting
- Windows 7
    - Forest reports that Windows 7 works really well on ancient hardware
    - ATI open-source drivers are less than desired for the video card hardware

Meeting End:  8:30pm