12th June2004

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

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

• Gallery: http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_06_2004

Who was there

• ThomasAdam (thomas_adam)

• ChrisAitken (ChrisA)

• MarkAllman (Sparky^)

• JaredBelkus (the_cre8or)

• KieranBelkus (kis)

• TomBragg (rph)

• AdrianBridgett (Wyvern / Gargoyle)

• NickChalk

• VictorChurchill

• LauraCowen (geekgirl)

• BobDunlop (rjd)

• KellyDunlop (kad/kaydee)

• JamesDutton (jcdutton)

• DeanEarley (Dee)

• NeilFerguson (blueGremlin)

• RichardGellman (Rickeh)

• MatGrove (MonkeyBoy)

• JohnLewis (jayell)

• RichardMace (delphi)

• PeterMarris

• AbbyMiana

• HugoMills (hugo)

• WilliamPalfreman (billp)

• AlanPope (popey)

• DanPope (Mauve)

• AndyRansom

• LisiReisz

• GlenSearle (glen)

• RobSmith (bob-lad)

• PhillipStubbs (stuphi)

• ColinTaylor

• PaulVanlint

• ZoeVanDeZande (Zoe)

• PhillipWaddell

• NickWarne (nickW)

• TonyWhitmore (tonytiger)

• MarkPhelan (markp)

• JustinWoods (woody)

What happened

• HugoMills showed RichardGellman and NickChalk some video editing software.

• ThomasAdam and RichardGellman helped LisiReisz generally fix an otherwise sick PC and eventually installed Libranet on it.

• ThomasAdam fixed a glitch in X11 that prevented wmaker running on JohnLewis‘ Thinkpad.

• ThomasAdam did similar for VictorChurchill and showed him that a PS/2 mouse needs the ‘mousedev’ kernel module for stock kernels.

• ThomasAdam spent the rest of the day shell scripting with cron for RichardGellman.

• NeilFerguson helped MarkPhelan set up a scripted disk mirror, home-rolled 2.6.6 kernel and some other odds and sods on a Dell PowerEdge

• AdrianBridgett helped MarkPhelan set up NIC bonding on his PowerEdge

• NeilFerguson tried to electrocute himself with RobSmith‘s MythTV box

• NickWarne arrived late after walking 20 minutes down the wrong road from Swaythling train station, sat in a corner and found out it’s impossible to install a stock ‘kernel’ on Redhat Enterprise 3 – sold ThomasAdam torsmo: http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/ while he looked at dodgy ESS sound driver for me.

• ChrisAitken set up a mail server for JohnLewis

• AlanPope brought a box of T-shirts HeatherStern (editorgal) had sent from America. Some found homes; others will be available at later meets.

• JohnLewis helped VictorChurchill upgrade his Debian woody installation to sid and a 2.6.6 kernel

• DeanEarley installed FC2 after resizing some NTFS partitions

• AdrianBridgett helped DeanEarley get CD audio working on a laptop

• TonyWhitmore helped JaredBelkus and KieranBelkus get X11 running, including upgrading to a 2.4 series kernel and configuring X for a USB mouse, MatGrove helped locate the module for the world’s most obscure network card, also, NeilFerguson was told off for leaving them alone for all of two minutes.

• TonyWhitmore and LauraCowen sort of set up their webserver. Sort of.

• MarkPhelan woo’d and yay’d as people helped get his Poweredge Debian-ised (thanks all)

• MarkPhelan drooled over the shuttle running KnoppMyth behind him

• MarkPhelan silenced the whole room by switching on the Dell PowerEdge

• TomBragg installed Debian on his awkward hardware with the help of NeilFerguson and a CD from MarkPhelan

• TomBragg broke his new debian install and fixed it again with more help from the above, finally persuading a 2.6.6 kernel and X to behave

• TomBragg configured his webcam with the help of AlanPope

• DanPope set up MarkAllman‘s webcam on his Shuttle, leading to the first ever webcast live coverage of ThomasAdam: