Local events & Geek Radio

I forgot to post about these earlier, so if you’ve got time this weekend here are some geek things to do:

Marketpro Computer Show is in Orlando this weekend at the Central Florida Fairgrounds. From 9:30 AM today till 4PM tomorrow. Central Florida fairgrounds is at 4603 W Colonial Dr. If you’ve never been to Marketpro… think of it as a mobile eBay of junk. You can score some pretty cheap network cards, modems, older computer parts and as usual tons of pirated software. Nothing like paying to be a thief. If you need to stock up on spare parts and don’t want to pay shipping, this is the place to be. Ticket is $6.

Central Florida Computer Society is meeting this weekend (http://www.cfcs.org/) with the general meeting covering Linux at 2:15 PM. Individual membership in CFCS is $36 and their membership is mostly home-user / soho so if that sounds interesting to you, or if you’ve got customers/family that could benefit from great presentations on general computer use – this is the place to be at. Don’t let the $36 fee scare you, these folks do a lot of good work. This weeks meeting is on Linux, or rather Knoppix so if you wanted to find out more about Linux this would be a great opportunity to see it from the ground level. You can download Knoppix at http://www.knoppix.com

Along the same lines as the above, the CFCS has a Windows SIG meeting at 1:15 PM this Sunday. I am not sure what they will be covering but Stan Wallner, SIG Chair, is also a member of Orlando IT Pro so I hope he’ll share what they are up to this weekend. This is more technical than the general meeting.