October Meeting Recap

I want to let everybody know what happened at October's IT Professionals Group meeting, so you know what your missing if you don't attend.

Shortly after 1:00 PM, when people stopped trickling in, we headed off to the student lounge for FREE PIZZA! More often than not, lunch is provided by the school just for showing up.

When we returned to the lab, at about 1:20, Ken (the ITPG President) began his presentation on how to create a bootable flash drive complete with Puppy Linux. Attending members were given more than just knowledge though. They got to keep the 1GB flash drives!

During this time I (the ITPG Secretary) was busy preparing a prize drawing. Everybody who showed up got their name placed in the proverbial hat, along with an additional entry for each non-perishable good they donated to the food drive. At 1:40 the winner was decided. Angela Bennett (the ITPG Vice President) won the 16GB flash drive due in no small part to her donation of 40 cans!

As if that wasn't enough, Ken then demonstrated some of the features of DDWRT, which he had shown the group how to install on a router at a previous meeting. With that, we wrapped up the meeting, though many stayed awhile to play with and configure Puppy Linux.

All said and done about 15 members, new and old, attended. Where were you? Well, whether you attended or not, we hope to see you next time!

October Meeting

I would like to welcome everyone to join us for this month's meeting this Saturday, October 24th at 1pm in Lab 3.  This month we are going to do a "hands on" lab.  We have shown you how to use a flash drive as a hard drive when booting from a Linux CD.  For this lab, we are going to make it possible to boot from the flash drive.  Everybody will get the opportunity to do this lab.  I will be making LiveCDs and passing out flash drives so that everyone gets do so something this month besides sit and watch me fail miserably.  Actually, I did get the router to work and will bring it in for a real quick run down of the new functions and talk about the fix.  Since I have to make sure that I have enough flash drives and CDs for the meeting, I would appreciate it if you could send me an email at kenduncanjr@gmail.com and let me know if you plan to attend.  I will still try to have extras in case you don't get a chance to email me, but it will help.

BIG NEWS!!!!!
We are still having the food drive until the end of the month and I have to embarrassingly announce that the IT barrel in the LRC is COMPLETELY EMPTY.  We have not received ANY donations and the other departments are winning the drive. So in order to fill the barrel we are going to have a give-away at this months meeting. For every piece of nonperishable food item that you bring in, you will get your name entered in a drawing. So if you bring in 2 items, you get 2 entries.  If you bring in 20 items, you get 20 entries! As for Ramen Noodles, they are acceptable, but one case will equal one ticket.  At the end of the meeting, we will draw a name from the entries and the winner will get a 16GB flash drive. So check your cupboards, ask your neighbors, do what ever it takes to fill our barrel and bring the IT department to the front of this competition for a great cause.  

Thank you for all your help with the food drive. I hope to see all of you for another fun filled meeting.

 

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Food Drive

ITT Tech is having a food drive.  The holidays are around the corner and this is an excellent time to give a little back to help those in need.  The school has made this a little competition by setting up four barrels in the LRC, one for each department of the school.  We need to make sure that everyone in the group helps out if you are able.  ITT is going to donate $100 to the club of the department that generates the most donations.  I would like your help to make sure the Information Technology Department gets this donation.  If everyone can pitch in we can make this happen.  Thank you all for your support.

CompTIA Network+ Study Group

We kicked off the study group this week.    You can find the slides from the class here.  One important announcement for the study group is we will have the class from 12:30pm to 2:30pm in Theory 8.  The book, Network+ 2009, is on the virtual library linked here.  We will attempt to cover two chapters per week.  This study is anticipated to last 10 weeks.  There is still time to join the group if you like.

CompTIA Network+ Study Group

We kicked off the study group this week.  There is still time to join the group if you like.  You can find the slides from the class here.  One important announcement for the study group is we will have the class from 12:30pm to 2:30pm in Theory 8.