[nmglug] Meeting 10/7- High Mayhem Festival this weekend

[Jason Davis]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:22, Kevin Karns wrote:
> Jason wrote: 
> 
> > Hello everyone
> > 
> > This thursdays meeting we will need to coordinate this weekends booth at 
> > the festival. We will have a table which we can demo Gnu Linux. We also 
> > will be doing a live webcast using icecast. We need people to bring 
> > computers for demo (hopefully nice fast ones) and be at the booth. If 
> > you can't physically be at the meeting but would like to help, write or 
> > connect to IRC (irc.nmglug.org #nmglug) or just show up at Paramount.
> > 
> > This is a 3 day (8th,9th,10th) music and multimedia festival at the 
> > Paramount Nightclub in Santa Fe. About 30 acts will be performed on 3 
> > stages. The event is all ages. We will have a booth under the tent 
> > outside and will see hundreds of people throughout the weekend. Hours 
> > are Fri 8th 6p-1a. Sat 9th & Sun 10th 3p-1a.
> > 
> > Looking forward to a fun weekend of free software and free music (as in 
> > freedom, of course).
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.highmayhemfestival.org/
> > http://nmglug.org/news-activities.html
> > http://nmglug.org/irc.html
> 
> Jason,
> 
> I'll bring my gnuburner tonight.  I've been burning it in this week ...
> and burned out an adaptec controller and a SCSI drive in the process :(
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> The only other thing i'd like to do with it is to figure out why it
> won't make audio cds out of some radio-quality 22 Khz mono music files,
> not that that is critical, meaningful, or necessary.
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> Yesterday I burned-in the CD-RW drives with K3B.  I burned three iso's
> simultaneously with these results:
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> /dev/hdb - KNOPPIX_v3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso    - 699.5 MB
>            3760 KB/s (25.07 x)                 3:41
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> /dev/hdc - sarge-i386-netinst.iso            - 111.5 MB
>            610 KB/s (4.07x)                    3:59
>                                                                                                                                     
> /dev/hdd - dsl-0.8.1.iso                     -  48.9 MB
>            303 KB                              3:21
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> hcc and hdd are on the same ide chain, and i presume they must have
> been competing for bus bandwidth.
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> Here's a cd cover that i gimped up for the weekend:
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> http://www.cybermesa.com/~kkarns/cd-label-nmglug-highmayhem.jpg
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nice job kevin

jd


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> Let me know tonight how we should change it.
> 
> Kevin K.