18th May2006

When: 19:30 – 21:30, Thursday 18th May 2006

Where: JamiesComputerClub

• Gallery: http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_Sladen_05_2006

Who was there

• AndyRogers

• AndrewSweet

• ChrisSmith

• GraemeHilton

• HugoMills

• IanBrazier

• LauraCowen

• LisiReisz

• MairAllenWilliams

• NickChalk

• PaulSladen

• TonyWhitmore

• VictorChurchill

What happened

• Paul Sladen from Ubuntu (and Debian) talked about:
  • The Ubuntu project, how it was started and why.
  • Why supporting laptops is so hard.
  • How Ubuntu fits in with the Debian project.

  • Everybody Loves Eric Raymond

  • Laundry powder and boots.
  • The stupid keys put near the cursor keys on laptops.

• IanBrazier showed off the animated mouse on the Xubuntu Live CD.

• TonyWhitmore got Paul to look at the suspend on his ThinkPad R40 (which worked under Breezy) only to find that the BIOS doesn’t report a model number so the feature had been disabled! A small config file edit made it all work again.

• IanBrazier noticed the strange effect passing trains had on PaulSladen,s chair, sending it sliding across the room, when they passed.

• Our mystery visitor was the Society’s director, coming to pick up a computer his brother had purchased. Nick did know he was coming, but was so engrossed in the talk he’d forgotten.
• 100% of people who viewed the new, improved warehouse – complete with fork-lift – said “Wow” or equivalent.
• The evening was miraculously free of interruptions by pimps, drug dealers, or future clients.

Big thanks to Nick Chalk and the folks at [[JamiesComputerClub]] for arranging the venue!