Westside Stammtisch Details

[Lyle Tuttle]

Uh, you could also show it off at the next Westside PLUG meeting on 
Dec 8 -- yes, a one-time date change to allow for two 
holidays.......we will return to normalcy in January.

At 06:16 PM 11/16/2010, you wrote:
>Hiya,
>   I just want to verify location and time of the next
>Westside Avondale/Goodyear informal "Stammtisch" meet.
>"Sal's Tusan Grill" on McDowell at 7:00 pm this Thursday the 18th?
>Or is that "Tuscan"...  Or is that Wednesday the 17th?
>The PLUG website needs work.  It's calendar thinks today is the 17th.
>I think today is the 16th (in the PM).
>
>Multi-Boot vs. VM:
>   There's been some talk about using Win XP in Linux VM emulation
>for developing/debugging web pages.  Specifically, for that buggy M$ I.E.
>This method may be OK when using XP's Internet Explorer,
>but what will you do when M$ upgrades Vista and Seven but not XP?
>Vista and Seven do not allow running in VM (by E.U.L.A. license).
>Microsoft ain't stupid.  XP is about ready for the upgrade cascade.
>   Lately, the "ntfsresize" utility has been wonderous with NTFS partitions.
>Instead of VM, I do not hesitate to recommend a "grub" multi-boot
>(using a newer M$ system) to avoid when XP's I.E. becomes
>yet another software-war casualty.
>   I recently aquired an 80Gb laptop and have set it up as multi-boot.
>Currently it's a work-in-progress, but XP and Fedora 12 are so far
>happy together, with room for Win98 and a second major Linux distro.
>
>Stammtisch:
>   I'd love to show it off, and discuss grub's capabilities at the meet.
>So, where and when is the next Westside Stammtisch?  Really.
>
>   (-:  Chas.M.  :-)
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