4th December2004

When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 4th December 2004

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

• Gallery: http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_12_2004

Who was there

• AdrianBridgett

• AndreaFuller

• AndyRansom

• BobJelf

• ChrisAitken

• ChrisDawe

• GlenSearle

• GrahamBleach

• HugoMills

• IanBrazier

• JaredBelkus

• JohnLewis

• JohnPaulWallington

• JolandaTromp

• JonathanHudson

• Kate

• KimGiles from DorsetLUG

• LisiReisz

• MarkPhelan

• MikeEvans

• NeilFerguson

• NickWhitelegg

• RichardGellman

• RichardMace

• RobSmith

• SeanGibbins

• StephenDavies

• ThomasAdam

• TomBragg

• TonyWhitmore

• VictorChurchill

Via IRC only

• ZoeVanDeZande

• editorgal (HeatherStern)

• lister747

• popey (AlanPope)

• DeanEarley

What happened

• HeatherStern and JaredBelkus fail to convince his computer’s insane BIOS to allow truly dual booting; the BIOS will have to be used as the OS switcher. Drat. We tried everything. We swear!

• NeilFerguson has successfully booted Gnoppix.

• MikeEvans got his serial mouse working in X, with editorgal’s help

• ThomasAdam helped RichardMace compile some kernel modules against 2.4.27 under Debian.

• ThomasAdam helped ChrisAitken (ish) with an ALSA issue. 2.6.9 successfully installed too.

• AdrianBridgett helped IanBrazier get K3b burning, and made an annoying cd for Adrian’s boss.

• StephenDavies donated the LUG banner which was proudly displayed on the conveniently placed display boards.

• TonyWhitmore press-ganged TomBragg, NeilFerguson and RobSmith into tearing out and folding jewel case inlays for InfoPoint the following day.

• HugoMills tried building a box out of random SCSI parts, and utterly failed to persuade it to boot the CD he got from AlanPope.

• HugoMills, SeanGibbins, NickWhitelegg and RichardGellman, with input from StephenDavies, between them managed eventually to solve LisiReisz‘s Grub problems.

• HugoMills explained device nodes to Kim, and some of the problems of mesh networking to JolandaTromp (it’s all to do with Russian trains, you see…)

• TonyWhitmore and NeilFerguson relaxed as JaredBelkus did not need to install a USB mouse or have anything important fixed at all

• TomBragg finally persuaded Bind 9 to replicate zones correctly and got mailscanner installed.