Meeting.2005.09.03

Posted by Maieve Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:15:00 GMT

This meeting was more of a chilling out session than a technical discussion; pleasant and geeky both at the same time. =)

The topics discussed were as follows, in no particular order:
  • The neverending quest of finding a good place to meet. This is going to be a topic of discussion for some more time. =P
  • SCSI under Linux, which lead to a discussion about sdparm vs. hdparm.
  • How do ISPs limit sessions?
  • The agreement on not stressing on introductory topics in the case of a lecture or a presentation.
  • Some miscellaneous questions regarding Cyberia's services: Does it have a QoS policy? Is traffic shaping applied on uploads? etc..
  • Sarge (stable) vs. Debian (unstable).
  • Some side conversations. =P
  • The awesomeness of Novell desktop.
  • Vista being an OS that needs 10 Gigs in order to be installed.
  • OS X on x86 machines. There was a short demo on CodeWarrior's laptop. Everything works prefectly for the exception of iTunes, which needs sse3 or a kernel patch.
  • How do downloaded PPC applications work in OS X installed on x86 machines?
  • How FireFox still does not display Arabic webpages properly.
  • Gnome 2.12's anxiously-awaited release. It's using gtk 2.8, all art is vector-based, making the images crisp.
  • nVidia have one of, if not the, most Linux-compatible drivers.
  • Google's Summer of Code.
  • Why XGL died: There was only one developer who's not going to work on it anymore. Tsk tsk.
  • X's problem with having a huge chunk of it dedicated to 2D graphics and it's very difficult for it to move into 3D.
  • A discussion about evas and cairo.