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 Matt warming up to the crowd... |
 He's cookin' now! |
 Checking out the hardware rev. hi-res shot. |
 The fully exposed motherboard... hi-res shot. |
NOTE: PC Board is not a "Personal Computer" board.. but is a "Printed Circuit Board". What an engineer typically creates to build a permanent circuit.Very cool. If you've ever tried making your own PCB (with echant and the like), then you'll find this step by step overview, from schematic to final production board, invaluable. Come and check it out. He may also demo his new 127M USB flash drive. Very fun.
- PCB: For creating the PCB layout and creating the gerber or PS files to send to the PCB fab house. SCREENSHOT HERE.
- GerbV: A free gerber viewer to check out your final output before sending it to the fabrication house. SCREENSHOT HERE
- 4pcb.com: The professional Fab house that cann turn your gerber files into a real live PC board for as little as $33/board, with NO TOOLING OR SETUP CHARGES! I'll bring in a demo board so that you can see he quality work that they do.
[UPDATE: John did indeed have his software RAID-5 running. It was using Carnegie Mellon University's RAIDFrame package that John is running on NetBSD.]
John is also bringing his MVME167 (headless) VME Card Cage system (Motorola 68040 processor), "just because you guys seem to freak out when you see it...". :)
He will be running NetBSD on both of these systems.
- As usual, we will have some Linux Journal magazines to giveaway this month for those who come and enter to win.
- P I Z Z A - N - C O K E ! Free for those who show up before 7:30.
Group Photo Album Check out our new Group Photo's area! Some good geeky pictures of stuff we love to do! "The XCSSA Files" All the useful info that we share and document--we store here and call, "The XCSSA Files". The files are chocked full of useful information that the guru's in our group create. The XCSSA Archives We have so much good stuff demo'd at our group, we've decided to start archiving the montly group pages. Check'em out! This area contains most of what we have done 2000-05 on and should give you a good idea about the type of stuff that we do on a regular basis... Our Mail List Like what you see? Join Our Monthly Mail List. This is not one of those chatty Spam user group mail lists... We promise. : v )
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Our user group's members are not your normal run of the mill geeks. We pride our- selves in having a wide array of technical and IT professionals who excel in their fields. I have found that I can bring most any question to the group and get an insightful answer, and thus, have begun point recruiters to our members as a service to both. Feel free to contact the members below for job history and resume information. They're a powerfully diverse resource!
| Email / Web / --- | Randal is a real entrepreneur! He owns his own software programming company, Endicore and does in-house X-otic systems programming on various OS' (including BeOS)! | |
| Email / Web / Resume | IT/Telecom-Geek. Solaris, Linux, NT/9x, Integrator Guru. Also President of XCSSA. | |
| --- / Web / Resume | A real Web/CGI/DB/Programming Guru! One of our remote members, but this guy really knows his stuff. | |
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| Email / Web / Resume | John Baker, "Super Geek Extraordinaire!" is a CS major with much expertise in hardware/firmware design, microkernel hacking, device driver writing and debugging, and much much more. Get him before someone else does! | |
| Emaili / Web / Resume | NT and 2000 expert with web development experience. Hot on network implementation and accounting. | |
| Email / --- / Resume | Norma likes working with RDMS, such as Oracle, in Linux and Windows. She is quick to learn new things and is constantly experimenting with things on her own. | |
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Email The XCSSA "Reverse Dictatorially Elected Coordinator" Thomas Weeks: tweeksjunk@theweeks.org
