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6th August2005

When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 6th August 2005

Where: SeminarRoom1

[[TechTalks]]

You’ll find slides, video and other media from the talks on the TechTalks/6thAugust2005 page.

AGM Minutes

  • Welcome. The Chairman welcomed everyone to the meeting. There were 21 eligible Members, forming a quorate Meeting.

  • Matters [continued…]

  • 12th June2004

    When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 12th June 2004

    Where: SeminarRoom1, Building 59 (Zepler), Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.

    Who was there

    Multimedia keyboard hot keys

    Introduction

    A lot of keyboards now have multimedia hot keys on them. For example, most of the Logitech keyboards have the ability to mute the sound and turn the volume up or down. It is possible to use them under X on Linux.

    Keyboard keys pass through a ludicrous number of different remappings on Linux before X applications receive them.

    But they’re not “remapped” at all. The XServer has to communicate back to the XClient (via the window manager) the key that was pressed. This isn’t remapping whatsoever.

  • The keyboard generates scancodes
  • The Linux console driver remaps these to Linux [continued…]
  • Qemu Tips

    Qemu Video Performance

    To optimize video performance under Qemu you should use a 16-bit colour depth on both the host and guest operating systems. To set 16-bit colour depth do:

    $ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

    Find the line which starts ‘DefaultDepth’ and change it so that it reads…

    !DefaultDepth 16

    Remeber to restart X in order to make your changes take effect.

    Qemu Launcher

    Qemu Launcher is a GNOME / Gtk front-end for Qemu which can Create and save multiple VM configurations and can create disk images from the GUI using dd, qemu-mkcow, and vmdk2raw for raw, COW, and VMWare converted [continued…]

    6th October2007

    What happened

    10:30 – doors open 12:30 – AGM including [[Elections2007]] 13:30 – Stephen Davies will be giving a demo of VMWare Fusion (showing OS/X hosting Fedora, Ubuntu and maybe, just maybe Windows XP) 14:30 – GPG keysigning 16:30 – doors close

    Who was there

    Just Edit

    “Just edit this file…”

    “Err… how do I do that? When I type edit it just does nothing.”

    If you’re new to this UNIX lark, you will rapidly discover that more or less all of the configuration of your computer is done in text files, and that therefore you will need an editor to get things working. (Or at least, to follow the instructions that the weirdo hair-shirted gurus on the MailingList will try to get you to follow).

    Something which is usually implied is that you know how to edit these files, which implies [continued…]

    Samba Auth

    Setup Linux to authenticate against a Samba server

    This will show you how to setup Debian GNU/Linux to authenticate against a remote Samba server (Samba could also imply a Windows PDC too). It also details how to setup pam_mount to mount Samba shares automatically on login, so when a Samba user logs on to the Linux client, they get their $HOME as their home directory on the server. There’s also a shell script I devised to allow changing of passwords.

    The article is based on a Linux client running Debian unstable and a Samba server running on a Debian stable [continued…]

    4th July2009

    When: 10:00 – 16:30, Saturday 4th July 2009

    Where: SeminarRoom1, Southampton University.

    Who Was There

    What Happened

    • Tony gave Adam the LUG laser pointer and info point float
    • Clive demonstrated his music database (telico) that started a web cam application when you pressed the search button…

    See Also

    10th November2007

    This was a joint meeting with the members of Surrey LUG – many thanks – especially to Dominic for organising it.

    What happened

    HantsLUG rocked the TechTalks, with talks from Adrian, Alan and Tony. See more on the TechTalks/10thNovember2007 page.

    Who was there

    10th February2007

    When: 10:30 – 16:30, Saturday 10th February 2007

    Where: SouthamptonUniversity

    Gallery: http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_02_2007

    [[TechTalks]]

    • TonyWhitmore on “Installing Ubuntu from scratch” (beginner level)

    • DanPope on “Scalable Vector Graphics with Inkscape” (beginner level)

    Media and slides from the talks are available on the TechTalks/10thFebruary2007 page.

    Who Was There