Subject: Minutes May 4, 2005
From: RLaRosa331@aol.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:51:43 -0400 (EDT)


Telephone referral service volunteers:
May - Larry Rachman
June - John Dunn
July - John Liguori

Mike Tedaldi reported that we might be able to start the new Vonage 
referral service this month. We will still need a volunteer to contact 
people who inquire about our services.

There were announcements about some event at Eisenhower Park Aug. 19, 
20, 21 (my notes don't say what it is), a request for someone familiar 
with wireless technology to help organize a training course, NYSSPE 
meeting at Montauk Point June 2-4 dealing with continuing education, 
and industrial shelving available from Chris Early.

At the June meeting, Irwin Weitman will speak about the benefits of 
being a P.E. There will be a discussion of problems that members have 
encountered in their consulting practices, along with their solutions 
and comments from other members.

I counted 31 people total at the meeting.

The main topic was a course of instruction on self-booting CD-ROMs 
with full Linux operating systems and support applications. These can 
be used with solid state "Thumb Drive" memories to remove viruses from 
servers and computers.

Ed distributed copies of Knoppix 3.8. My computer booted and worked 
from my copy, but it refused to copy it. I had no problem making a 
few copies of a Knoppix 3.6 disk, which also came from Ed (Ed is the 
gift who keeps on giving.), so that''s what I'll be bringing to the 
June meeting. It's probably not too different from 3.8, I hope. Ed's 
phone numbers: 516-249-9308 (preferred) and 516-694-6440.

Richard LaRosa, Secretary
516-486-7827
r.larosa@ieee.org