[klug] Meeting tonight

[kluglinux.grp.lancer at xoxy.net]

Thursday already. Yow.

That means a meeting for tonight. 7:30pm at Thomas Kennedy Junior 
Academy, 98 Glen Rd (it's really across the road from 98 Glen Rd as the 
school covers two corners of the street).

I have it on schedule to bring along the movie "Revolution-OS" which, 
while being a bit long winded, gives a very insightful look at the story 
of how Linux got made and how it was "discovered". There are a lot of 
interesting side projects which affected the process, that perhaps too 
few people really know about.

...anyway, I digress. We are also looking again at the direction of 
KLUG. This may or may not mean the above movie gets "held" for another 
session. Depends how time goes. Depends on the mood. etc.

For myself, I would be interested if someone would show me whether it's 
possible to stream rendering in Blender 3D across several computers, 
making a renderfarm. I am wanting to use Blender in the senior class 
this term, and am predicting large rendering jobs being a problem 
otherwise. I have ClusterKnoppix which contains Blender, but not the 
newer "thread friendly" version required for farming. Maybe a solution 
is to import a newer version on USB stick? I dunno. I may be forced to 
overwrite the lower install on all farm boxes, which may not be possible 
if booting ClusterKnoppix from a read-only CD, and as usual I've run out 
of time looking for other solutions. Maybe someone at KLUG knows how to 
get things going.

Anyway. That's what would be valuable for me.

So, I'll be at the door at 7:30 tonight.

Haven't heard anything from the list of late. Hope people are able to 
make it.

Lancer.







Peter Dinnan - pral at paradise.net.nz wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>It's two weeks to our next meeting and while Lance has posted he would
>like to run the Revolution OS documentary (which I would like to see)
>I'm of the thought we would be better of discussing our...  1) survival,
>and 2) if so, direction;
>
>The LUG is of benefit to all, to the nearly 30 on this list and to
>the ??? who will join if we get our act together; 
>
>Please, it's in your interests to respond to this post, have a say so we
>can set up the agenda... first of all, please confirm who will be at the
>meeting?, and then; what sort of direction do you want the LUG to go -
>geek only, perhaps a combination of desktop users and geek??, maybe just
>desktop users only  ;-)
>
>Plus, all and any topics, Linux hidden dreams, any ideas you may have. 
>
>This email is open - I'm attempting to stimulate if that's the correct
>word ;-)
>
>Peter          
>
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