[Bradford] Topics for next meeting

[Alice Kaerast]

Upvotes on all of those topics from me.

@climagic is a good account to follow on Twitter for becoming better at the
command line, even if they do have an over-fondness of Bash.

Are you cross-compiling stuff for the Pi?  Is it running Slackware yet?
 And how many Bitcoin hashes a second (minute?) can you calculate? :)

Alice


On 20 June 2012 17:26, David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com>wrote:

> At the risk of overloading the meeting with topics,
>
> (1) I sort-of promised to do a twenty minute slot on getting
> comfortable with the command line, possibly the first instalment of a
> monthly series of talks.  I know our illustrious Dear Leader is just
> one of the folk who would benefit ;-)
>
> (2) This last week I've had a rough time with some memory that went
> faulty.  BUT!  Linux saves the day!  You don't have to throw out your
> dodgy memory sticks!  Linux has a kernel parameter that allows you to
> reserve faulty blocks of memory.  So if people would like a short demo
> of diagnosing and fixing memory problems I'd be up for that.
>
> (3) Yeah I've been doing lots of hacking on the Raspi that Nigel
> kindly lent me, happy to talk about the Pi boot process and building
> stuff for it (distcc ftw ;-) and maybe even tell you about the Secret
> Project I've got in mind.
>
> It might be good for us to get our meeting programmes publicised well
> in advance of the meetings -- numbers seem to be up when people know
> in advance what'll be happening -- so I'm happy to hold over any or
> all of these things to the July meeting.
>
> -D.
>
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