ITEC Setup

[Dustin Decker]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, A Duston wrote:
> Well,  hrmmm.  I'm just at home for a minute to check up on things.  We
> _really_ need to be all set up by 6:00 this evening.  There wouldn't be
> much point in bringing it this afternoon and then taking it home again.
> Hrmmm, hrmmm, hrmmm.  I've got two machines there already which I need
> to finish setting up.  I'm going to call another person who offered some
> things for us to borrow.  I should be back at Bartle by 2:00.

I just spoke with Hal, who is headed back to Bartle shortly.  I have a 
doctors appointment at 3:00, and anticipate being tied up with that 
until 4:00, after which I'm taking a couple of Intel boxes down there 
for him.  If I'm lucky, I'll have the gear there by 5:00, but this is 
putting Hal in a pinch since one has no OS on it yet.  If anyone has 
stuff to offer, get in touch with Hal ASAP - the sooner the better.  If 
you don't have a number for him, you can ring me at 913.579.7117.  (He 
has his wife's cell with him - not gonna broadcast that number here.)

In short, anything you want to offer for use in the KCLUG booth needs to 
get there in a hurry.
Dustin

-- 
I think that the message is very clear here: somewhere outside of and beyond our universe is 
an operating system, coded up over incalculable spans of time by some kind of hacker-demiurge. 
The cosmic operating system uses a command-line interface. It runs on something like a 
teletype, with lots of noise and heat; punched-out bits flutter down into its hopper like 
drifting stars. The demiurge sits at his teletype, pounding out one command line after 
another, specifying the values of fundamental constants of physics: 

universe -G 6.672e-11 -e 1.602e-19 -h 6.626e-34 -protonmass 1.673e-27.... 

and when he's finished typing out the command line, his right pinky hesitates above the ENTER 
key for an aeon or two, wondering what's going to happen; then down it comes--and the WHACK 
you hear is another Big Bang. 

Neal Stephenson - "In the beginning was the command line"