June 2005 Minutes

The month of July is an odd month, so we will be meeting on Thursday, the 14th. K-LUG will be hosting PCIGers for a presentation on the python programming language.

The next Social will be a soldering party in Dennis Delorne's garage. The time will be announced as soon as we know when it is. Those who are interested in getting together for assembly assistance, tools, etc should send email to Dennis Delorne (dennyd@attglobal.net).

Kevin Arhelger was recognized for his MythTV demo with a free movie pass. Dennis was likewise thanked for his presentation.

The winner of the K-LUG Challenge was Tina Wood. Tina's answer was the most complete. There were quite a few good answers, but hers was the best.

The winner of the Puzzler was Kevin Arhelger. He wrote a Bourne shell script that executed sed as follows:

 sed -e "s/i'/I'/g" -e "s/i /I /g" $1 > $2

Another answer, slightly shorter and shamlessly my favorite,

 sed -r -e "s/i( |')/I\1/g"

There were quite a few answers, but Kevin's was probably the best. Tim Massaro gets an honorable mention for the most lines of code... Almost, but no sticker.

The new Challenge and Puzzler will be posted on the web site in the next few days, for those of you who couldn't make it to the meeting.

Dennis Delorne presented information about setting up an LCD character display. His notes will be available in the next few days on the K-LUG web site. He provided a goodly amount of source code, which will also be available on the web site shortly.

LCD Load Meter kits were handed out. Mark Harris, Mark Diez, Steve Fox, amd Mark Clancy should contact Kevin Neffabout picking up their kits.

We have several extra kits. Please contact Kevin Neff if you are interested in a 2x12 LCD character module that interfaces to the parallel port. NeffK@IEEE.Org or 507-252-0579.

Finally, Steve Fox contacted me a few days ago to tell me that he has been busy and doesn't have time to organize a linux boot camp. This is probably for the better--it's too big of a job for one person. I think the boot camp is a great activity for our club. I suggest that we form a committee that can organize a boot camp. Are *you* interested in helping out? Do you want to get involved in your (geek) community? Let me know via e-mail or talk to me at the next meeting.

Sincerely --Kevin Neff