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

• AdrianBridgett

• AlanBlanchflower

• GrahamBleach

• AlanPope

• AndyRansom

• BobDunlop

• ChrisAubreySmith

• CliveWoodfine

• DanPope

• DavidMaddock

• GavinMeikle

• GraemeHilton

• IanBrazier

• KellyDunlop

• HugoMills

• JamesGrant

• JeanWaite

• JohnEayrs

• JohnHunt

• JohnLewis

• JonathanHudson

• KelvinSmith

• LeeLawrence

• LisiReisz

• NickChalk

• PhilipGilkes

• RobSmith

• RogerMumford

• TimBrocklehurst

• TonyOlech

• TonyWhitmore

What Happened

• BobDunlop brought two boxes of computing books hoping that some of them would disappear

• GraemeHilton had his laptop overheat several times and cured it by installing Ubuntu, which also cured his wireless problems!

• GrahamBleach managed to give some surplus PCI graphics and video capture cards a new home. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade an iBook G4 to boot the Ubuntu install image from a USB flash drive.

• AlanPope spent most of the day trying to get an Open University German Language DVD to work under Linux. It had shockwave content and thus didn’t work on Linux natively.

• AndyRandom finally beat his aging Thinkpad into submission for use on the front desk

• AdrianBridgett help GavinMeikle install Vector Linux on his laptop (Gavin’s first Linux install o/)

• AndyRandom came away with more junk… err, I mean valuable old books and hardware thanks to BobDunlop & GrahamBleach

• TonyWhitmore wrote the first draft of the Three Men on Operating Systems sketch: http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2007/02/10/i-know-my-place/

• RobSmith provided technical expertise on installing Fedora Core 6 on IanBraziers shiney Dell XPS laptop, prompting a wiki article afterwards