6th December2003

When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 6th December 2003

Where: Seminar Room 1, Building 59 (Zepler), Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.

Photos:

• http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_12_2003

Who was there:

• AdamCripps

• AdrianBridgett

• AlanPope

• AnnaleaWhite

• AntonySeedhouse

• AndyRansom

• BarrieAlmond

• BenSutton

• BobDunlop

• DanielSaggers

• DanPope

• DeanEarley

• GlenSearle

• GrahamBleach

• HugoMills

• IanBrazier

• JamieRobinson

• JohnPaulWallington

• JonathanHudson

• JosephEarley

• LisiReisz

• MikeSaywell

• NeilFerguson

• NickChalk

• PhilipStubbs

• RobinCoady

• RichardGellman

• ThomasAdam

• TomBragg

• TonyWhitmore

• VictorChurchill

• WilliamPalfreman

• ZoeVanDeZande

What happened:

• TomBragg & NeilFerguson helped AlanPope to get his Dell Latitude P133ST on the wireless network, to install Xwindows and Fluxbox.

• AlanPope used his USB Philips Toucam webcam and the linux-based utility “webcam” to take a few pictures http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_12_2003

• TonyWhitmore helped NeilFerguson get his “School Tools…..” project working (after a fashion).

• TonyWhitmore spent a lot of time talking to BarrieAlmond about Linux and open source stuff in general.

• DeanEarley learned that leaving your laptop unlocked and logged in when you pop out is probably a bad idea (while around AntonySeedhouse anyway).

• TomBragg brought in a rather neat looking little PC, and hooked it up to the projector, showing films and some video clips showing some fine-lookin’ ass using Freevo.

• HugoMills brought along miyu the EPIA-M box and showed off some DVB recordings made from digital terrestrial TV.

• HugoMills and RobinCoady talked about digital signals processing for a bit.

• ZoeVandeZande and AnnaleaWhite came to see the inmat… err… Geeks for themselves.

• AntonySeedhouse spent 2 hours getting on the network and in the end got XFree86 working on his laptop, and went off for an hour with Zoe & Annalea “exploring the Zepler building”, or so they claimed!

• ThomasAdam and AdamCripps worked more on a joint java-project.

• ThomasAdam helped AdamCripps do several things to his computer. It appears he also has the LUG record for the number of partitions on a single disk (18 in total!). – hehe! Soon to be reduced – watch this space.

• AdamCripps helped LisiReisz with an OpenOffice.org installation up to the latest 1.1 version.

• PhilipStubbs helped DanielSaggers to upgrade from Debian Stable to Testing. He also managed to get the nvidia driver working in X, and then went to Burger King for a feed.

• As AlanPope was packing up his stuff he unplugged a few network cables. Including (accidentally) the one connected to the PC AdamCripps was using to download a debian ISO image. AdamCripps had got to about 96% with only 16 seconds to go. Sorry.