CTACS General Meeting for September 17, 2007

Attending were John Herron, Keith Sterzing, Mark Thomas, David Williams and George Wyche. Charlie and Chris emailed their regrets.

• George asked David and Mark if Windows XP could be made to ignore a particular PCI card. They agreed that one goes into the Device Manager to disables that card. So it has to be recognized once only.
• George also inquired about Windows programs that could drive the GUI of a program and Mark and John said to look for a demo driver type program.
• Keith asked again for a list of conversion programs from various windows offerings he is stuck with in real life. George suggested he make a list of formats (with version numbers!) and George would provide a checklist
• Keith asked if there were a wireless signal "booster" box. Consensus was, "Yes", but without any suggestions of brands.
• George asked for help with ideas for cycling images on the screen after being dissatisfied with 2 offerings currently available for OS4. Several suggestions were forthcoming and lots of observations about similar things available on a myriad of other devices, including the XBox, which will funnel images on to your high definition TV.

• George demonstrated the TuxPuck_OS4 which is a shuffle board game that is TOOOOO hard, even on the Easy setting.
• George insisted someone else apply themselves to the other game, PachiElMarciano_OS4, which is a LodeRunner style game. We set it to Easy (still too hard for George). John volunteered and we had to pull him away after he mastered Level III.
• George asked for suggestions for an icon for his Games directory so that Chris can find it more easily. Consensus was Space Invaders with the selected icon exploding some invaders
  
  
• John, Mark, and George discuss programming, OS security issues.
• In the parking lot they continue to talk about why otherwise technically competent people are not programmers. Answer? Many reasons
• Last item in the parking lot: Mark and George discussed how not to save the world's environment and, tentatively agree that government will have to be the playground's authority so everybody plays by the rules with mother nature's commons. Until then, YOU be the one to forego the pleasures your neighbors enjoy.

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