Re: tlug: Re: December 13th

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, John Little wrote:

>   A short description and a few pictures of the Saturday meeting are
>   now to be found at:-
> 
> 		http://www2.gol.com/gaijin#TLUG

Awesome pictures!  The meeting was great.  

I didn't even realize that you guys got NIS up on
Sparky.

Sorry I had to leave early to attend a company function
and was unable to help with the cleanup.   

There were about 27 people at the meeting, including three women,
and 8 Japanese people.  Also of interest were Karl-Max from
Germany (who lives in Germany) and Nick from Ukraine (who
I think may live in Japan now).  

Dmytro Kovalev and his son Yuri won for smallest Linux machine.
They had it running on an IBM palmtop, complete with X windows.

David Riley had to take a plane to get to the meeting.  He's
one of the guys in a pony-tail sitting next to me in the
Chinese restaurant picture.  

Jim Tittsler showed me yet another UNIX command-line trick
that I didn't know (make zImage &&make modules &&make modules_include).
Joe and I were still using make zImage ; make modules ; \
make modules_include. 

Frank O' Carrol has 64 processors hooked up with gigabyte
hardware and BSD.  Maybe one day, it will churn Linux.  :-)
Frank agreed to give a talk on high-performance super-computing
in the future.  If I remember correctly, he mentioned that
he saw a 124 (around) processor Linux pyramid at a 
conference and heard of projects to build ones close
to 1,000 processors.   

Gaspar Sinai probably had the second fastest box with his
600mhz Alpha machine.  Unfortunately, I had to leave
before his demonstration of Yudit unicode editor.

Two of the new members, Ayako Kato and Yohko Kase, are
working at a company that sells fully configured Linux
servers for intranet/Internet use and supports them. 
Amazing.  I spent about 30 minutes reading their web
page at http://www.10art-ni.co.jp and found out that their
company is very Java and very Linux oriented.  From
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TLUG Meeting Dec. 13, 12:30 at Tokyo station Yaesu Chuo ticket gate
13:30 Starbuck's coffee.  13:45 HSBC | info: joem@example.com
At least 3 functional Sparc IPC machines will be raffled out
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