[wellylug] July City Meeting

[Klenner, Colin]

There were about 25-30 people last night enjoying intense sessions around
particular problems. 

A machine with images was available after some initial trials getting ftp
server going on Win98. At two machines copying images the disk was
thoroughly exercised (thrashed itself) keeping up. It would be interesting
to get the same going on a Linux machine and see the result.

CD's of OpenOffice 1.1 were available to all and many took a copy with them.
One of the workshops was on features of OO which included an in-depth
session on the database side. Apparently very interesting as there were 8-10
people crowded around the one computer.

After some trials I  am happy to have had the tape drive functional on my
machine using taper - an older tape utility. Others had various points of
interest, but I did not garner what these were, unfortunately - can someone
else tell us what was going on?

Various other discussions were taking place and I hope we can expect a
presentation on a trip to Sun HQ next month - as well as a session on PHP.

~~~
Colin Klenner