[HLUG] Next meeting/Spring clean

Julian Robbins joolsr at fastmail.fm
Thu Apr 10 20:41:31 BST 2008


george at dicenews dot com wrote:
> ps if wednesdays meeting is here at HR6 0SD
> then you could carry on all night
> with a few beers and sleepover
> and tootle off thursday morning...
Thanks George for your offer. Unfortunately, I'll be back at work on the 
Thursday, but I think it would be a nice idea to have the meeting at 
your place for a change.

I can give anyone a lift to or from Leominster as I'll be passing 
through ....

Julian

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>                   [george]
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> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "george at dicenews dot com" 
> <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Next meeting/Spring clean
>
>
>> i need a linux book,
>> how uptodate are they and relevant to ubuntu?
>>
>> I dont know how to install drivers,
>> or to do system/hardware devices etc
>>
>> we/you could have the meeting here,
>> Hatfield Court HR6 0SD,
>> I have broadband and a router
>> but the last bus from leominster is at 3.30pm!
>>
>> [g]
>>
>>
>>                   [george]
>>
>> ~                      [g]                         ~
>> ~        george at dicenews.com      ~
>> ~               07970 378 572            ~
>> ~         www.dicegeorge.com        ~
>> ~                     (c)2008                  ~
>> ~                                                   ~
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Jones" <ralphkj at gmail.com>
>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." 
>> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:23 AM
>> Subject: [HLUG] Next meeting/Spring clean
>>
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>> Would I be correct in assuming that the next meeting is on the 16th of
>>> April? At the last meeting at the Canal Road Day Centre, one of the
>>> ladies mentioned that our regular room/meeting space was booked by
>>> another group (Green Party/FoE? - I forget). Are we
>>> rescheduling/relocating?
>>>
>>> I (still) have, and would love dearly to find a new home for, the
>>> following which might be of use/interest to somebody:
>>>
>>> 1) A removals box ful of general computing and Linux magazines that I
>>> scrounged off Julian about two, posibly three, years ago, with the
>>> intent off going through them and absorbing whatever was of interest.
>>> unfortunately, that never happened! Still, is there someone there who
>>> would like to have a look at them. Otherwise I'll hand them over to the
>>> toilet paper manufacturers.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) An HP NetServer LC3 PII/350. It was working when replaced two years
>>> ago by my old boss for a newer unit, and is complete apart from the
>>> three removable SCSI drives (I had to return those for destruction,
>>> sensitive company data etc, even though I promised to zero-fill them 
>>> for
>>> him.)
>>>
>>> I grabbed it because it seemed like a nice big housing for a 
>>> workstation
>>> with multiple drives, but time prevents me from dedicating myself to
>>> this project.
>>>
>>> 3) I still have three Linux books, hardly used.
>>>
>>> - Linux in a Nutshell - A Desktop Quick Reference, 4th Edition; 
>>> publ. by
>>> O'Reilly
>>>
>>> - Running Linux - The Essential Guide to Linux, 4th Edition; publ. by
>>> O'Reilly
>>>
>>> - RUTE - Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, by Paul Sheer, complete
>>> with CD which has the whole boook on it in elec. format.
>>>
>>> They'd be of more use to sysadmins and people who would like to study
>>> Linux a bit more seriously than I have the time for. Ideal for anybody
>>> who spends a lot of time working on Linux offline. The only thing I
>>> actually remember using them for was to get a better understanding of
>>> PATH/CLASSPATH, back in the day when I had problems getting Java to
>>> work.
>>>
>>> The mags and the server are FOC, but I'd like a fiver each for the
>>> books, tenner for the whole lot, made out to St. Michaels Hospice or
>>> A.N. Other charity. Otherwise I'll have to eBay them at 0.99 starting
>>> price. They're too good to skip.
>>>
>>> I look forward to receiving a torrent of emails!!!
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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