Eric Wilhelm

# from Keith Lofstrom on Tuesday 12 March 2013:

The are.  Out of the box, they are very geared to consuming, not
hacking.  They are also very disturbingly skynet-enabled.

Finding open source apps for android can be difficult, since the mass-
consumer hype around everything android treats free and open as
interchangeable, and almost every article about anything involving
android includes the words "open source" regardless of which paid app it
is advertising.

The main thing to realize is that you don't get a standard Linux
environment with a shell (you can get a shell with connectbot to see
just how crippled it is) and you are not root until you void the
warranty.  There is also not a standard bios/bootloader, so you have to
do device-specific workarounds to "root" your device.  Then, all of the
apps are in java (although it's possible to compile and run binaries on
and the CPU/ram/camera/video capabilities of a sub-$200 7" wifi tablet
are pretty impressive.

--Eric
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# from Michael Dexter on Saturday 09 March 2013:

I try to post the pdx.pm announcements on the website, calagator, and
the mailing list 2 weeks before the meeting.  Then mail a reminder 1
week out and the night before (or morning of) the meeting.  I get the
impression that most people are using the calagator for their reminders,
but I don't twit and such much, so I like e-mail reminders.

--Eric
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# from Marvin Kosmal on Saturday 02 March 2013:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fdog http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&arch=any&[..]

I had to dig a bit for that.  My first try was to search squeeze
(default / stable.)

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&arch=any[..]

Probably should have searched for the package name: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=dog&searchon=[..] http://packages.debian.org/sid/dog http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-02/msg00048.html

--Eric
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