3rd April2004

When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 3rd April 2004

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

Photos:

• http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_04_2004

Webcam Movies:

• Mirror 1 Mirror 2

Who was there:

• AdrianBridgett (Wyvern)

• AlanPope (popey)

• AndyBettger

• AndyRansom

• CiemonDunville (!CieD)

• DanPope (Mauve)

• DeanEarley (Dee, IZS)

• FrankColinTaylor

• GlenSearle (glen)

• HarryBragg (tiberious)

• HugoMills (hugo, darksatanic)

• IanBrazier (linux lad)

• JohnLewis (jayell)

• JonathanHudson

• LisiReisz

• MatGrove (MonkeyBoy, MB_AFK)

• NickChalk

• RichardGellman (Rickeh)

• RichardMace

• ThomasAdam (thomas_adam)

• TimHenley (xendistar)

• TomBragg (rph)

• TomBrazier

• TonyWhitmore (tonytiger)

• WilliamPalfreman (billp)

Who was there via IRC

• GrahamBleach (gdb)

• HeatherStern (editorgal)

• JaredBelkus (the_cre8or)

• RobSmith (bob-la{d,ppy})

• NeilFerguson (blueGremlin)

What happened:

• The IRC visitors watched the action live on popey_cam

• HugoMills and AdrianBridgett fixed TimHenley‘s 2.4.24 booting problems (adding the initrd to lilo.conf helps) and sorting a problem with locales.

• HugoMills compiled up endless kernels for RichardGellman‘s laptop – at under 4 minutes each.

• TonyWhitmore and RichardMace chatted about blackbox and working environments in general.

• TonyWhitmore compiled a 2.6.4 kernel for his laptop, less that 24 hours before 2.6.5 was released.

• ThomasAdam helped Lisi setup a friend’s machine running SuSE.

• ThomasAdam sorted sound out for JohnLewis so he can learn French on his laptop.

• ThomasAdam generally chatted to TonyWhitmore while tweaking some things on his laptop.

• ThomasAdam helped TomBrazier setup appropriate symlinks for init so that ‘networking’ would run at the appropriate time.

• JohnLewis got sound working on his laptop, as did RichardGellman.

• DanPope worked on a new look and new stylesheets for the LUG web pages.

• TomBragg with the help of AlanPope and TonyWhitmore fixed freevo, usb support (fixing the mouse and all other non-usb2 devices), card reader and usb storage on his PVR box.

• AlanPope competed with HugoMills for “who can eat the most chocolate muffins at a meet”. But who won…..?

• CiemonDunville got loads of help from loads of people, and was very grateful

• CiemonDunville tried in vain to get his USBstick to work, even with lots of help

• CiemonDunville compiled his first kernel (2.6.4) even though lots of things don’t work anymore

• CiemonDunville managed to get apm to work, and his laptop now suspends instead of screaming when he shuts the lid

• CiemonDunville soaked up lots of linux out of the ether and feels a lot more confident with it.