May 3, 2002: 9 people at Union Station, 38 at Philippe's, and 28 at Denny's. Popular topics: Linux DVD support; spooling streaing media to permanent storage in real time; PacBell's 853 prefix; hardware, hardware, hardware; anonymous credit/debit cards; automatic update mechanisms in certain software packages; polymorphic code; why skipping out on the tip at Denny's is a Bad Idea.

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