- Bring-A-Box: 13th February 2010: Nokia, Farnborough(Bring-A-Box Meeting)(4 days)
- Bring-A-Box: 13th March 2010: TBA(Bring-A-Box Meeting)(32 days)
- Bring-A-Box: 10th April 2010: TBA(Bring-A-Box Meeting)(60 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.
issyl0 blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
This must be a first, a post about things that happened at school on this blog! Here I go.
Monday:
Well Monday was pretty stupid. I will now type up the thing I wrote on a little scrap of paper as I was bored out of my mind because… well, you’ll see if you read on!
I wrote this and it is entitled ‘What A Messed Up Day’. And yes, it is true!
“I am handwriting this from the dining hall. What a messed up day this is so far, and we’re not even a quarter of the way through yet!
It snowed this morning, only a little so the school was still open, however the snow sure enough turned to ice and the majority of the teachers can’t get into school! I walked to school and then found my form tutor had not arrived, so we were directed to the dining hall....
robert_ blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
Some people have asked me about my electronic document management system (though I often suspect it’s a reaction to me going on about it so much). However, the philosophy behind is worth discussing as I consider it to be an example of the principles: the perfect is the enemy of the good or worse is better.
That comes about from previous attempts to create such a system. Essentially, the idea is to scan in all my paperwork, including legacy stuff going back years, so I can access it quickly, easily and efficiently on my computer - and consequently get rid of all the paper (as I only have a small apartment). The ideal solution would have been:
- being able to access documents online
- searching...
issyl0 blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
As the freenode seven migration draws to a close and I have finally calmed down a bit (it wasn’t as spectacular as I’d planned, but never mind), I can get back into the swing of things. I’ve been re-doing my CV over the past few days for work experience and writing covering letters, and it’s amazing how much time that takes. Now that’s nearly over (despite having only applied to one company so far), I can get back into the world of Ubuntu. Not that I’ve been excluding it, of course not, I have 400 and something Launchpad karmas due to the translations I’ve been doing from American English into British English and some French over the last couple of days. Yay!
Other than that, another of my recent roles is bug triaging on Launchpad for Ubuntu...
issyl0 blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
Freenode is still alive! I am on the other side. Everyone who connects to freenode will be using ircd-seven, now, hyperion is at long last gone! I was rather excited, to the extent that I woke up at 6:45 to watch the proceedings! Now it’s all done though, yes!
popey blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
Ubuntu is switching the default search from Google to Yahoo!
Those of you testing out the development version of Ubuntu Lucid should notice a change in Firefox very soon. The default search provider for new installations of Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and upgrades will be Yahoo! and not Google. Canonical have struck a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! which generates income for the company. This revenue should help pay the wages of Ubuntu Developers employed by Canonical, and support the infrastructure required to develop and build the distribution.
So when using the search box in the top right corner of Firefox on...
popey blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
I discovered a great blog post some time ago, and typed up a reply but it’s been sat in my drafts for too long. It’s the new year so I figured now is as good a time as any to publish it.
The post details how Michael had some “fun” with the Viglen MPC, a small low-power PC. I tried to leave a comment, but his wordpress blog wouldn’t let me, so I’m pasting it here instead.
Hi Michael. I was the one who filed that bug and the workaround about the IDE driver being missing from the kernel on the Viglen MPC-L, so I feel your pain at the...
issyl0 blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
As many of you know, freenode is migrating to a new irc daemon (more commonly known as ircd), seven which will provide greater functionality in just over 10 days. Just in case you don’t follow the freenode blog, a link to the official blog post is here:
http://blog.freenode.net/2010/01/ircd-migration-sat-jan-30th-2010/
The changes that affect users are documented here.
By far one of the best capabilities of this new system is that it will support SSL, something users of freenode have been asking for for a long time. Also, it includes better functionality to deal with and stop the sort of spam that has been going on for the past few days on...
popey blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
I previously blogged about MiserWare, a company making software to save money. Well previously you could only get the Linux version (which for me is great) but now they’ve extended the beta to Windows. They’ve also added an (unnecessary but fun) GUI to the Windows version.
If you have any Windows machines (desktops as well as laptops) then maybe you want to take this for a test drive. Click the image above to join the beta and get the software for free.
Note: I may get a reward if enough people sign up. If you know other people who run Windows, then you too can get rewards if you refer them!
chrisjrob blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
Yes once again I come to complete my tax return, last time (see 11/01/2009: UK Self-Assessment for Linux) I created a page Submit A Uk Self-Assessment Return Under Linux, but it was a far from successful exercise.
Given that that page is now a year old and my next year's return is required, I thought it was an opportune time to update it. Unfortunately nothing much has changed, the list of personal tax applications has shrunk, as TaxCalc's market domination continues. The only Linux-compatible competitor seems to still be ftax and it requires Acrobat Reader, which isn't available for 64-bit Linux.
The problem is that you don'...
popey blog
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1 hour 24 min ago
A little while ago I bought an Acer Aspire Revo 3600 which is basically a small PC suitable for media playback. It has HDMI out and plays up to 1080p HD video in certain formats, so is ideal for connecting to a TV to consume video content. I previously blogged about the Acer, and how I setup the device for use with Boxee on a pre-release version of Ubuntu. I wanted to post some updated detail because people keep asking me how the Acer is going, and how I’m using it.
My use cases are quite straight forward. I wanted a box which would sit near the TV and allow me to play back HD content. I don’t have a blueray player or Freesat HD,...
