Minutes

Students signed in at 2:50pm.

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Seth brought in a video game controller that needs repair, but we didn't have the tools necessary to repair it (yet).

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We decided it would be a good idea to finish building our computer that we started last week. We then went to acquire a couple of screwdrivers. The first order of business with the machine was to swap out the cd-rom drive with a working one. Seth took care of that. Then we had to edit the CMOS to allow the machine to boot from the cd-rom drive. Then, we installed Yoper Linux. We then added a new user to the machine: "AggieTech". Once that was done, we installed a few necessary programs (KOffice, Java, etc.) and some games.

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There was a slight issue with the kdm process, but I think we resolved it by putting a link to it in /etc/boot.

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After the machine was all setup, we got it online and took a look at a few different technologies, mainly Babelfish and Knoppix.

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Babelfish is a website hosted by AltaVista at http://babelfish.altavista.com. It lets you translate from one written language to another. We translated a sentence in English (Seth is a bright young man) into Korean... see the entry below.

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Knoppix is a very well tested version of linux. Seth and Brian had many questions about linux, so at the next meeting, I intend to bring in a few books on it for them to take home.

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We didn't have time to fix Allison's iPod speakers (and I think we'll need to use the same tools as we would to fix Seth's video game controller), so we'll try to get to that next week. I'd also like to bring in some more parts so we can build another machine.

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Meeting adjourned at 4:58pm