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 SaturdayWorkshop at [Te Whanau PÅ«tahi|http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ptahi/], the community church at the end of Oxford Street. 
  
  
 We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc. 
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+! Meeting notes  
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+John and Bruce helped Ron fix a stubborn networking problem on an acer laptop, where ndiswrapper was interfering with the eth0 lan interface. At a prior workshop we had disabled ndiswrapper, and configured the [ath5k|http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k] module which supports the wireless adapter in the laptop. It was Acer Apire 5315 iirc. Bruce figured out that the ndiswrapper package needed to be removed and stomped on a few more times. In the process we learned the "lshw -C network" command is useful for troubleshooting these problems.  
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+John helped Leo with a sed script to strip some html and do some search and replace on a large set of files.  
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+A new member signed up, another guy named John, we had 3 Johns at the meeting. The other John had an issue w/ an Ubuntu repository signing key, giving a BADSIG error. We still haven't figured that one out he had to leave before we could really look at it. So far we have compared the keys to one on a working system, and they appear to be the same.  
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+Diter came back and gave us a report on how he had been getting along with the GIMP. He became a member earlier this year, and he borrowed the GIMP Bible for awhile. He seems to be interested in writing some plugins and asked about [scheme|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_programming_language] and other programing languages.  
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+Roderick provided some Sizzlers for lunch, and toward the end of the meeting he and Tony had a look at the latest version of Puppy Linux which JohnBillings had brought in.  
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+Completely forgot about getting the books.