January Meeting Recap

Thanks to all who attended the January AITP meeting at ITT Tech.  We had a great time and learned some things about VirtualBox.  Dave Cannon gave a presentation showing how to load Ubuntu on a Virtual Machine using the Sun VirtualBox software.  Both programs are free and can be downloaded here:

http://www.virtualbox.org/
http://www.ubuntu.com/


I also gave a presentation for a "virtual job hunter" using www.indeed.com and Goolge's iGoogle.  www.IGoogle.com is Google's RSS Feed reader and Indeed.com is a website that searches all the career websites from the Internet.  You can input your desired search criteria and set it up to RSS feed you the job updates EVERYDAY to your IGoogle home page.  You just check your home page everyday and you are kept current with all the open positions that are available.  This is an invaluable tool when you are ready to hit the job market.

Door prize winner:  Curtis Calloway - 16GB Flash Drive

Next Meeting:  Saturday January 30th @ 12:30pm in Lab 3
This is an added meeting because we have the opportunity to host a guest speaker from VMWare.  Please make sure you are able to attend this meeting.  Virtualization is going to be a huge thing when you graduate and any extra information you can gain from this meeting will only help you.

Bear's First Ever LAN Party

Games, food, prizes, and a rockin great time!!  That is what you missed if you didn't get a chance to make it to the LAN party last Saturday night(1-09-10).  We played WoW, Call of Duty - Modern Warfare II, Myst, and a ton of other games.  Bear had Lab 3 segmented so we could enjoy some multiplayer action while toppling our fellow classmates in some of the best games around.  We enjoyed Roman Coin pizza and all the soda one person could want.  But the reason we were all there, PRIZES!!!  Bear had them covered.  He had some great prizes.  The list of prizes and winners are as follows:

Subroto Sengupta (Instructor):  Dell Netbook w/ 15GB SSD
Aaron Vader:  HP Netbook
Andrew Bolas:   250GB Portable Hard Drive
Ruben Valdez:  16GB Flash Drive
Diane Schultz:  16GB Flash Drive
Derek Minor:  4GB SD Card

There are rumors of another LAN party in the Spring.  Keep your ears open for that.