Hey everyone! We're kicking off 2010 with a game of Werewolf this Wednesday at Pure Space near Oxford Road. Even if you've never played before or if you think you're an expert come on down for a bit of paranoia, mob rule and deception. Upcoming has the details: http://upcoming.org/event/5319362 Feel free to bring a friend! See you Wednesday, Tim P.S. You might want to checkout our Facebook Group: http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=65919771319
Liverpool Linux User Group Meeting - December 2009 Date Wed February 3rd, 2009 from 7:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool, England L1 4HY Speaker: Tom Hall - ZFS/btrfs. Liverpool Linux User Group are a group of Linux and open source software users that meet on the first Wednesday of the month. If no talk is organised then we will usually organise a “open stage” for people to discuss projects, current news, or just to rant. Main Talk Following on from the RAID/LVM talk last year, Tom will talk about the ZFS filesystem in (Open)Solaris, how it collapses the stack and does some of the things RAID/LVM do plus more. He will also look at btrfs and discuss why though the feature list is similar, underneath it is quite a different beast. He will be announcing a new project to build Storage Pods from a design released by Backblaze mid last year and a brief survey of clustered filesystems/high availability solutions to try and get robust file and block level storage on commodity hardware. Open Stage As per usual, time will be allocated to the end of the talk for anyone to give a five minute talk on any subject. If you want some time just drop me a mail or grab me on the day. I'm sure Dan Lynch will want to talk about OggCamp and we'll be discussing LivLUG's role in the upcoming event. Doors are usually open before 7:00pm if people want to meet up in the centre, The Liverpool Social Centre is two doors up from Forbidden Planet and is the right-hand door at the front of “News From Nowhere”. Check the window for a handy Liverpool LUG sign, which will indicate we are there and not still at the pub. Press the white(Continue reading)
Greetings all, This month's Manchester Free Software talk will take place on Tuesday, 16th February. Please read on for more details... The Talk ----------- This month's talk, delivered by Leslie I'Anson, has one simple objective which is to answer the following question: "From the literally hundreds of GNU/Linux distributions in existence, what makes Debian special?" Leslie has been using some form of the GNU/Linux operating system as his primary desktop environment since the Summer of 2007 and since then he has experimented with a multitude of different distributions; form the "easy-to-use" ( i.e Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE) to the down-right "hardcore" ( LFS, Slackware, Gentoo and Arch). All in all, Leslie's estimates that he's used over twenty different incarnations of this popular free software platform. However, one distribution keeps drawing him back - Debian (which indecently was Leslie's first ever experience of a free software operating system). Believing that he has finally settled down with his one true love, Leslie attempts to explain why this is and, as you will no doubt discover, the rational behind this decision is far from purely technical. So join us if you will for, what will (hopefully) be, an entertaining and enlightening introduction to both Debian as operating system and(Continue reading)
I thought some people might be interested in this, as I know we have quite a few people here who are keen to get involved in helping the local community.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dave <dave...@...> Date: Feb 1, 3:09 pm Subject: Connect2Communities at MadLab To: GeekUp Hi everyone, We're running an event in partnership with the MDDA at the MadLab called 'Connect2Communities'. The idea is to have an informal fair for community organisations, charities, and voluntary sector organisations who are intimidated by or don't know where to begin with online presences and social media. We're hoping to have a few introductory talks before the event begins, then we'll have an informal set of one-to-ones and and hands-on support and tutorials for attendees from the non-technical sectors to explain how to go about social media and online strategies, explain why they'd want to do them, and best practices in implementing them, as well as introducing your organisation or community group to those who may not be aware of them, and generally sharing the skill, knowledge and network outside our usual circles. I know a few people on here are keen to help out the voluntary sector and support charity and community groups - this is an idea opportunity! We're planning to run the event on the 17th February, from 2pm to 6pm at the MadLab (http://madlab.org.uk/). If you want to(Continue reading)
Hi Group, Just a heart warming link showing that Gnu/Linux is displacing Microsoft - right at the very heart of the financial industry. Shame this hasn't been more widely reported = needs shouting from the roof-tops. http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/networking/messaging/news/index.cfm?newsid=18429 Cheers, adrian.
It would be great to have some free software representation and promotion there. I encourage you to attend and do this. Regards, Mike. MFS Chair. lucyb wrote: > I thought some people might be interested in this, as I know we have > quite a few people here who are keen to get involved in helping the > local community.. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: dave <dave...@...> > Date: Feb 1, 3:09 pm > Subject: Connect2Communities at MadLab > To: GeekUp > > > Hi everyone, > > We're running an event in partnership with the MDDA at the MadLab > called 'Connect2Communities'. The idea is to have an informal fair for > community organisations, charities, and voluntary sector organisations > who are intimidated by or don't know where to begin with online > presences and social media. > We're hoping to have a few introductory talks before the event begins, > then we'll have an informal set of one-to-ones and and hands-on > support and tutorials for attendees from the non-technical sectors to(Continue reading)
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 15:15:57 Clarke Computers wrote: > right at the very heart of the financial industry. Shame this hasn't been > more widely reported = needs shouting from the roof-tops. It was, months ago, when the announcement was made. -- -- Tom Please do not put sandwiches in the disk drive.
Clarke Computers wrote: > Hi Group, > > Just a heart warming link showing that Gnu/Linux is displacing Microsoft - > right at the very heart of the financial industry. Shame this hasn't been > more widely reported = needs shouting from the roof-tops. > > http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/networking/messaging/news/index.cfm?newsid=18429 The LSE's use of Microsoft and .NET used to be listed on Microsoft's "Get the Facts." (Windows or Linux?) page at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/default.mspx but seems to have been removed. The wayback machine[1] remembers though, its the headline of "The Highly Reliable Times" http://web.archive.org/web/20080430065349/http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/default.mspx You can watch the video mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/windowsserversystem/facts/videos/LSE_CaseStudy_Rev_750k.wmv And they've made the LSE specific link point the default page http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx However you can read how LSE is (now was!) using Microsoft and .NET at http://www.microsoft.com/singapore/windowsserver/compare/CaseStudyDetails.mspx?recid=37 A blog comment on the situation: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2009/07/no-one-ever-got-fired-for-buying-linux.html Regards, Mike.(Continue reading)
Hey guys I've just found out about this. It looks pretty cool. :) Tim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Gnugeneration] TinyOgg is out! Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:38:18 +0300 From: Osama KM <osamak.wfm@...> To: gnugeneration@... Hi! Just a few minutes ago, I released my GNU Generation project, TinyOgg, which is a Free Software service designed to get rid of Flash technology in playing audios and videos over the Internet by converting them to a new standard multimedia format called "Ogg" which is supported by all major browsers except Internet Explorer.. Of course no one in this group is using it. ;) This service has very good technical advantages, such as the ability to play videos without installing any plug-ins, and to download them directly to enjoy it off-line. See: http://tinyogg.com/about/faqs/#advantages(Continue reading)
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