Bruce sent me a reference just after the last meeting to a new Holographic Storage media developed by Maxell. It looks promising, and it says that it will be available in late 2006. Given that it’s the end of the first quarter of 2007, I have to wonder. I haven’t seen it advertised anywhere, but then again, it may be quite expensive.

The capacity of the first generation media (it looks a lot like standard magneto-optical) will hold approximately 300GB, a nice hard drive of today’s capacities. The data transfer rate is also pretty zippy - 160Mbps. That’s hope inducing, as this may be the media of choice for backups. Expected life is ~50 years.

Highlights

• We had 6 attendees which is pretty good given our recent dry run.
• We have photos (candid shots, need to do better)
• After the usual social session, we got around to talking about the LPI certification and the training course we are going to be doing for those who need it.
• Some discussion of directory services ( this would make a good item for a future meeting)
• Announced our affiliation with LOPSA

Other

Tim has offered us the use of the training site at Kuzink to provide the training platform and to create content. I’ll be creating content as well as Andrea. Others are welcome to assist, as it can’t hurt to have at least seen some of this while entering it. We will be using moodle as the framework, so that should be interesting at the very least. Exposure to multiple web based systems isn’t gong to hurt and who knows, we may even have talent for this.

Well, it should help with a lot of them at least. I don’t remember where I saw this, but here we go:

echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc

It’s trite, but then again, so am I. I just thought I’d share.

This is a list for the people who actually show up for meetings.

I’m not sure if it was late yesterday or early this mornong, but we are now a recognized LOPSA affiliate (the first in North America). We have been asked if we wish to be a local chapter, but that requires 12 members who are members of LOPSA and at my last count, there were only 4 LOPSA members and we don’t have 12 regular attendees. Perhaps this will change over the next few months, especially as we get started on the new education project. More info at tonight’s meeting.