Re: [BLUG] January meeting? February Meeting?

On 1/12/09, Paul Purdom <pwp@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

Barry Schatz wrote:

I assume the holiday season is to blame for December, but I think it's
time we got everyone together in meatspace again (IRL, for those who use
acronyms).

I've been putting off making a proper presentation on GnuPG for a while,
and a meeting (with a projector and such) would be a good reason to get
it done.

Not that I'm opposed to meeting at Yogi's again. I might show off my
refurb Dell laptop that runs KDE4 in that case. Or the latest build of
Mozilla's Fennec browser.

How about it? What you you all think?

-Barry
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In Feb. I could talk about using computers for political activities (mainly targeting voters).
I think that the library might be a better location for the kind of talk I would tend to give. If I give the talk, I have a few political friends that might want to join us for that meeting.

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Re: [BLUG] January meeting? February Meeting?

Barry Schatz wrote:
> I assume the holiday season is to blame for December, but I think it's
> time we got everyone together in meatspace again (IRL, for those who use
> acronyms).
>
> I've been putting off making a proper presentation on GnuPG for a while,
> and a meeting (with a projector and such) would be a good reason to get
> it done.
>
> Not that I'm opposed to meeting at Yogi's again. I might show off my
> refurb Dell laptop that runs KDE4 in that case. Or the latest build of
> Mozilla's Fennec browser.
>
> How about it? What you you all think?
>
> -Barry
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> BLUG mailing list
> BLUG@linuxfan.com
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>
In Feb. I could talk about using computers for political activities
(mainly targeting voters).
I think that the library might be a better location for the kind of talk
I would tend to give. If I give the talk, I have a few political friends
that might want to join us for that meeting.

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[BLUG] January meeting? February Meeting?

I assume the holiday season is to blame for December, but I think it's
time we got everyone together in meatspace again (IRL, for those who use
acronyms).

I've been putting off making a proper presentation on GnuPG for a while,
and a meeting (with a projector and such) would be a good reason to get
it done.

Not that I'm opposed to meeting at Yogi's again. I might show off my
refurb Dell laptop that runs KDE4 in that case. Or the latest build of
Mozilla's Fennec browser.

How about it? What you you all think?

-Barry
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Re: [BLUG] Looking to study further in computer science

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:21:37PM -0500, Paul Purdom wrote:
> Steven Black wrote:
>> You should've tried a hex editor on the saved games! That's how I
>> started.
>>
> When I started decoding saved game files, my eventual plan was to write
> programs to play the game (or more limitedly help automate some parts of
> the play). Of course, one often starts minor projects that don't get
> finished.

Minor projects that don't get finished... major projects that don't get
finished... the size of a project has no relationship with whether or
not it'll get finished, or even what the eventual size will be once it
is finished...

> Of course, when I started programming, people had not started writing
> computer games. Had to learn lock picking to get at the computer (Royal
> McBee) for practicing on. Caltech had a liberal attitude on having lock
> picks just so long as you did not use them for evil purposes. The
> compute had a 32 track hard drive for main memory.

My father told me of a science fair project where someone implimented
Conway's Game of Life in hardware. This was right here in Indiana, mind
you.

There have been computer games since before there have been personal
computers. Back in the day, they just required a little more hardware
development if you wanted something of your own...

Cheers,

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