- Bring-A-Box: 13th March 2010: Sirius, Addlestone(Bring-A-Box Meeting)(2 days)
- Bring-A-Box: 10th April 2010: TBA(Bring-A-Box Meeting)(30 days)
- Bring-A-Box: 8th May 2010: TBA(Bring-A-Box Meeting)(58 days)
Surrey LUG Planet
The following are the blogs added by our members. If you have a blog that would be of interest to other Surrey LUG members, please add it below.
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
Google have finally (street)mapped most of the UK. Look at all that blue!
From Land’s End..
..to John o’Groats..
and pretty much everywhere in between.
Including my own back yard! Not found myself on it yet, but have had a great time ‘driving’ around the country. Found anything fun? Leave a comment...
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
Some time ago I bought a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop. At the time it was the fastest thing I could buy. It was also the heaviest! With a 17″ 1920×1200 screen and all the toys, it’s a bit of a dead weight. It was always intended to be a desktop replacement, so it mostly sat on my desk all of its life so the weight wasn’t an issue. Having nice big screen was lovely for desktop use and playing the odd game.
It has a 1.8GHz Pentium CPU and an nVidia 6800Go video card. Not long after I bought it, the video card failed. I blogged about...
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
I asked last week if anyone knew of any cool podcasts I should subscribe to. I had a few suggested, one of which I’m now hooked on. Hacker Medley is a fairly new podcast started by Alex Graveley and Nat Friedman.
So far they’ve cranked out 3 episodes and in my opinion they’re all great. They’re all quite short but nicely packed with useful geeky information. Many Supreme Overlord geeks will probably say the content isn’t geeky enough, but it’s pitched at the right level for me. I learned plenty from all three episodes which covered...
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
I’ve got my ticket for Farnham Beer Exhibition 2010 (along with 5 others) which takes place (as usual) at Farnham Maltings in Farnham, Surrey, UK. The tickets cost £7 each and there’s a tradition of queuing up to get them when they go on sale at 7AM at the Maltings itself. Yes, that’s 7AM on a Sunday morning. What’s even more bizarre is that in order to get within the first 50 people you need to be there before 5AM!
This was my first time queuing for tickets, and only my second Beerex visit. Last year one of “The Alans...
issyl0 blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
I finally decided to bite the bullet and install Lucid Alpha 3 to my laptop last night, mainly due to the fact I couldn’t wait to experience the shininess of the new design and the “light” themes. It all went well and it booted, which was a significant improvement from Alpha 2, even if the screen resolution wasn’t correct. I noticed a bug then and reported it, however I didn’t do it properly which caused a bit of kerfuffle when I realised it was NVIDIA’s fault and had nothing to do with Ubuntu directly! I don’t know what happened to that one, I think it went down in the list. I have since found and reported more (bug numbers 521908 and...
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
People often (yes, really) ask me which audio podcasts I listen to and which video ones I watch. I have recently rationalised my list as I migrated from iTunes on the Mac to gPodder on Ubuntu.
I thought now would be a good time to publish the list of what I subscribe to. I’ve attached an OPML file that was exported from gPodder (subscriptions -> export to OPML file). You can just import that OPML into your podcast client, or just open in a text editor and pluck out the interesting URLs and use those instead.
I don’t listen to every episode of every podcast, but usually...
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
Just a quick update.
Matt Griffin has updated the Ubuntu One Music Store FAQ with this gem which is probably one of the single most often asked question.
Q: Ubuntu can’t play MP3s out of the box so how will we play purchased songs?
Canonical has put effort into making the customer experience as effortless as possible. When you visit the Ubuntu One Music Store, it will detect if you have MP3 support installed. If you don’t, the store will install the Fluendo MP3 plugin for GStreamer. The MP3 plugin is distributed worldwide at no charge under a license from Fluendo. An Internet connection is required.
So, we have a free legal mp3 decoder in the repository which semi-automatically installs and makes it easy to...
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
Seriously, I can’t be the only person who does this?
Incoming flash blob (or HTML5 video if you have a decent browser)
Combining this with my compulsion to
watch -n 0.1 cat /proc/mdstat, I clearly need help. Is there a support group for people like me?
popey blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
Time for a change..
The new style of Ubuntu is driven by the theme “Light”. We’ve developed a comprehensive set of visual guidelines and treatments that reflect that style, and are updating key assets like the logo accordingly. The new theme takes effect in 10.04 LTS and will define our look and feel for several years.
Back in October 2008 at the Ubuntu Intrepid Release Party in London we celebrated the release of Ubuntu 8.10. It was a great party with loads of Canonical and Ubuntu Community representation present. In the UK the London release parties...
issyl0 blog
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23 min 54 sec ago
Now I have calmed down considerably since the whirlwind of last night, I will now attempt to write this blog post (some of which I drafted last night) coherently.
As some of you may know, but the majority of you probably do not as this blog has hopefully now being fed into the official Planet Ubuntu, last night I went for my Ubuntu Membership and succeeded! I have never been so nervous about anything in my life before, and I can tell you I don’t want to get that way ever again, I feel I was incredibly silly getting so worked up about something so small and insignificant to anyone outside Ubuntu and its community! Thank you to everyone who left me a testimonial on my wiki page.
Well, I’m now an Ubuntu Member, waheey! That’s brilliant, I think. I certainly wasn’t...
