====== 2007-03-06 The Royal Oak, Dorchester ======

There were eight of us there:  me, Peter, Terry, George, Kelvin, Laura, Andy, Marti.

Some things I can think of that cropped up, in no particular order:

  * VMware to turn multiple PCs into a single Windows server.  I could have the wrong end of the stick on this one.  http://www.vmware.com/
  * Qemu, the Free Software machine emulator.  http://www.qemu.org/about.html
  * The Python programming language.  http://python.org/
  * That Python comes with Tkinter for cross-platform GUI work.  http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/index.htm
  * The pygame Python library.  http://www.pygame.org/wiki/about
  * TinyCAD (Win32) for drawing circuit diagrams.  http://tinycad.sourceforge.net/
  * Plan 9 from Bell Labs http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
  * Google's internal technology, specifically the Google File System, http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html
  * and their MapReduce programming model.  http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
  * openMosix, alternative way of spreading heavy computation across machines.  http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/#What
  * Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
  * Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Simple_Storage_Service
  * The AWK programming language.  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/
  * sudo, in particular "sudo -i" being a good way to get a root shell.  http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/sudo.html#item__2di
  * Free beer, "free" as in speech, not free as in beer.  http://free-beer.dk/blog/about/

--- //Ralph Corderoy//