From dh at iucr.org  Mon Feb  4 14:04:58 2008
From: dh at iucr.org (David Holden)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:04:58 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Stephen Fry the renaissance man
Message-ID: <200802041404.33618.dh@iucr.org>


Stephen Fry the renaissance man

http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=39


Dave.


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From les.pritchard at gmail.com  Mon Feb  4 17:12:23 2008
From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:12:23 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Stephen Fry the renaissance man
In-Reply-To: <200802041404.33618.dh@iucr.org>
References: <200802041404.33618.dh@iucr.org>
Message-ID: <a801c01e0802040912i7d3448fem9bd41d8b82eb01f6@mail.gmail.com>

It's always nice to see articles like this written by someone Joe Public
'trusts'.  Someone who isn't viewed as being too technical to understand.

Parts of the article give me the feeling that he thinks that Open Source is
a relatively new thing.  But still, all good publicity!  I'd be interested
to see if people who have bought the Asus would be willing to install Linux
on their desktop system.

Has anyone on the list got one of these?  Would be interesting to hear a
techie's experience with it.

Les
p.s. on another topic; some amusing reading....
http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08


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> Stephen Fry the renaissance man
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From stuart.james.burns at gmail.com  Fri Feb  8 00:20:51 2008
From: stuart.james.burns at gmail.com (Stuart Burns)
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:20:51 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Spare parts
Message-ID: <b8b7bbcc0802071620o58421524pd0df5dd2b9592680@mail.gmail.com>

After scavenging round and building 4 !!! pcs out of bits, I have a few odds
and sods left over.

I have an Intel Mobo and celeron (1.6 GHz I think) onboard sound, lan, video
etc etc with 128MB RAM if anyone wants it. I also have a busted mobo of the
celeron variety but i suspect this has a mobo fault due to lockups (I know
for a fact) but the cpu should still be good if anyone wants to chance it.

Also have a few odd memory sticks, matrox video card and a bucket of
winmodems. also have a hp vecta 450MHz/8GB/64 MB ram and a spare case and
psu of same style.

If anyone wants any of it let me know.
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From les.pritchard at gmail.com  Mon Feb 18 12:52:24 2008
From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:52:24 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Funny...
Message-ID: <a801c01e0802180452s7762484axdb08f9bb7ba37e12@mail.gmail.com>

I think we've all seem the mock computer desktops on TV that bare no
resemblance to real OSs.  Well somebody was just showing me the Spooks game
on the BBC website, you are presented with a most desk in some hacker's
place and the computer is running Ubuntu!  Albeit a little TV-fied.

Only a matter of time until we see it creep into the TV series?!

(I doubt we'll see it on the good guys' machines on TV, these programmes get
paid loads by Apple et al to product place their goods)
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From dh at iucr.org  Mon Feb 18 13:29:57 2008
From: dh at iucr.org (David Holden)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:57 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Funny...
In-Reply-To: <a801c01e0802180452s7762484axdb08f9bb7ba37e12@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a801c01e0802180452s7762484axdb08f9bb7ba37e12@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <200802181329.48593.dh@iucr.org>

On Monday 18 February 2008, Les Pritchard wrote:
> I think we've all seem the mock computer desktops on TV that bare no
> resemblance to real OSs.  Well somebody was just showing me the Spooks game
> on the BBC website, you are presented with a most desk in some hacker's
> place and the computer is running Ubuntu!  Albeit a little TV-fied.
>
> Only a matter of time until we see it creep into the TV series?!
>
> (I doubt we'll see it on the good guys' machines on TV, these programmes
> get paid loads by Apple et al to product place their goods


I've always though of myself as the dangerous, underground going against the 
grain type :) But what does this make the Linux from scratch folk.. 

Dave.



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From lists at mat.tl  Mon Feb 18 19:26:57 2008
From: lists at mat.tl (Matt Lee)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:26:57 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Manchester Free Software - 19th February 2008 -
	Stuart Langridge
Message-ID: <2d820fce0802181126q19fb41afo87e5604b61c24500@mail.gmail.com>

(My apologies if you've already seen a message about this
meeting on your list. One of our members took it upon
himself to send out an incorrect email.)

** Tomorrow's meeting will start at the slightly later time
of 7.30pm, but if you're in town before that, come to the
Fab Cafe next door and join us for a drink beforehand **

Manchester Free Software was formed in response to a growing
apparent need for a group based in the Manchester area that
focuses on Free Software and GNU/Linux primarily, but also
on issues such as Digital Restrictions Management and other
issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.

All our meetings take place at Manchester Digital
Development Agency (MDDA), on Portland Street.

http://www.manchesterdda.com/directions/

February 2008
=============

Our next meeting will be February 19th 2008, with Stuart
Langridge (also known as Aq) of LUGRadio fame joining us for
a talk about his experiences with free software.

We also have Yuwei Lin, who's going to tell us all about the
Oekonux conference in Manchester next March. Oekonux is a
free software project whose aim is to promote discussion
about social and political issues of free software. The 4th
Oekonux conference is going to be held at Manchester on
27-29 March 2009.

The main theme of the Oekonux 4 will be "Free Software and
Beyond - The World of Peer Production", and Yuwei hopes to
get some more people from the local area to get involved.

We do have room for one more lightning talk, if you're
interested please go to: http://tiny.pl/llfb and sign up.

If you're coming to the meeting, please let us know by
signing up at: http://tiny.pl/llf3 - then I know how many
biscuits I need to bring.

Drupal User Group
=================

In addition to Tuesday's events, I'm also giving a talk on
Wednesday at the MDDA, about Drupal and our use of Drupal
for Defective by Design - http://defectivebydesign.org/

http://www.drupal.org.uk/node/493

March 2008
==========

It's not too late to confirm your attendance of the Free
Software Foundation Associate Membership Meeting in Boston.

The event takes place March 15th in Boston, MA, and is open
to all FSF Associate Members. To become a member or for more
information: http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2008/

In March, the FSUK speaker will be Alex Hudson from the
Bongo Project will be joining us. He's going to be talking
about freeing proprietary software and the control of free
software projects.

Alex Hudson is an established UK-based free software author
and supporter. As well as being involved in anti-software
patent activity in the UK, and free software issues in
Europe generally, he is also leads the Bongo Project,
bringing excitement and va-va-voom to free software mail and
calendaring. He doesn't like the word "groupware".

Random free software fact: Alex Hudson does the majority of
his hacking using a Mattel Powerglove. Bonus points to
anyone who actually brings one to the meeting for proof.

April 2008
==========

We have John Leach coming to tell us all about the history,
life and times of Everybody Loves Eric Raymond, and talking
about his new free software hosting outfit, Brightbox, which
hosts Ruby on Rails web apps.

John Leach is a free software hacker from Leeds. He is the
creator of the web comic, Everybody Loves Eric Raymond,
which stars Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and Eric
Raymond living in a house somewhere for some reason. As
Richard Stallman said "It is funny, but I'm disappointed
that it accentuates the shallow."

Random free software fact: John Leach is able to draw by
harnessing the power of economic coercion and forcing it
into his USB port.

Come and speak for us!
======================

If you've got a project and you'd like to talk for 15 mins,
30 mins or even up to an hour about it, let me know.

All my contact details at on my website -- http://mat.tl/

As ever, all meeting details, both past, future and present
are up on our website: http://manchester.fsuk.org/

Hope to see you all at a meeting very soon.

matt



From fixitkwiknow at supanet.com  Sun Feb 24 17:13:29 2008
From: fixitkwiknow at supanet.com (Brian Lees)
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:13:29 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Meetings
Message-ID: <47C1A555.9080302@supanet.com>

Hi.........do you have a regular meeting of subscribers?

If so, where and when?  I need help in using UBUNTU or PCLINUX O/s such 
that I can feel confident about installing and using other Linux based 
progs and thought that meeting and discussing 'how to get started' would 
be a good idea.

Yes?

Regards,

Brian.



From les.pritchard at gmail.com  Sun Feb 24 20:01:57 2008
From: les.pritchard at gmail.com (Les Pritchard)
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:01:57 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Meetings
In-Reply-To: <47C1A555.9080302@supanet.com>
References: <47C1A555.9080302@supanet.com>
Message-ID: <a801c01e0802241201r3554cc0ak8c33e29af291ea90@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Brian,

Yes we have social meets on the last Thursday of each month in the Old
King's Head, Lower Bridge Street, Chester.  People normally turn up from
7pm, so feel free to pop along and ask us some questions.  Unfortunately I
won't be there this week, but I'm sure the others will make you feel
welcome.  I'll hopefully see you at a future event.

Thanks

Les

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Brian Lees <fixitkwiknow at supanet.com>
wrote:

> Hi.........do you have a regular meeting of subscribers?
>
> If so, where and when?  I need help in using UBUNTU or PCLINUX O/s such
> that I can feel confident about installing and using other Linux based
> progs and thought that meeting and discussing 'how to get started' would
> be a good idea.
>
> Yes?
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
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From fixitkwiknow at supanet.com  Tue Feb 26 21:51:46 2008
From: fixitkwiknow at supanet.com (Brian Lees)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:51:46 -0000
Subject: [Chester LUG] Meetings
In-Reply-To: <a801c01e0802241201r3554cc0ak8c33e29af291ea90@mail.gmail.com>
References: <47C1A555.9080302@supanet.com>
	<a801c01e0802241201r3554cc0ak8c33e29af291ea90@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47C48988.2050101@supanet.com>

Hi Les,

Thanks for your prompt reply. Unfortunately, I have already 'booked' 
this thursday. The last thursday in each month is the computer fair at 
Winsford.and, following some purchases last month that do not run 
properly, I need to take back this software and find out why it does not 
run properly. Needless to say, it's software for the PC and WIN XP!

I shall definitely try to make it next month unless something else crops 
up.  My partner, Beryl, and I are both retired and, despite what is said 
about having lots of time to kill, we just never stop.

Currently, we have the house on the market, looking for another place to 
live, and trying to get away for a break in our motorhome. BUT....I do 
need help from a more experienced Linux user so will make every effort 
to meet you.

Thanks again.

Brian.

Les Pritchard wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Yes we have social meets on the last Thursday of each month in the Old 
> King's Head, Lower Bridge Street, Chester.  People normally turn up 
> from 7pm, so feel free to pop along and ask us some questions.  
> Unfortunately I won't be there this week, but I'm sure the others will 
> make you feel welcome.  I'll hopefully see you at a future event.
>
> Thanks
>
> Les
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Brian Lees <fixitkwiknow at supanet.com 
> <mailto:fixitkwiknow at supanet.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi.........do you have a regular meeting of subscribers?
>
>     If so, where and when?  I need help in using UBUNTU or PCLINUX O/s
>     such
>     that I can feel confident about installing and using other Linux based
>     progs and thought that meeting and discussing 'how to get started'
>     would
>     be a good idea.
>
>     Yes?
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Brian.
>
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