On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 07:10:28PM +0100, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 06:51:26PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
From what you write, I think you dislike meetings without kit-fixing, rather than kit in general?
Nope. I prefer meetings without kit because people talk about much more interesting things other than "yeah, this has 2700 DDR Ram and a 7200rpm disk, I want to upgrade it to a faster cpu and GFX card" (which is similar to what I spent lots of the last meeting discussing, but that was more interesting for me as it was about my laptop ;)) I reckon that much more interesting subjects get talked about when there is lots of beer to be consumed other than computers (which many of the members who work with computers probably want to forget about them until the next day when they have to use, support and fix them)
I'm with Adam on this; I find I get to hear about a lot more interesting stuff when we sit around in the pub rather than there being lots of kit around and people spending ages just fixing one little bit of it. I'm not even that fussed about there being beer; I'd be happy to have meets at a coffee shop or something instead. (Though either good beer and/or good coffee are important. ;)
J.