[HLUG] October meeting

[Meijin Linux]

Sounds great !!! Shame I missed it

As for Android - my Android phone was a free ZTE Racer on Three and 
costs me £13 per month !! Free Three to Three calls / texts, 300 mins 
others, and 500Mb per month Mob Internet...... doesn't get much cheaper 
than that ! ;-)

On 31/10/10 18:59, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 18:45 +0000, info at lifespacedesign.co.uk wrote:
>> Our October meeting, again at the Point4 in Venns Lane Hereford, was the best
>> turn out for some time, despite the absence of many regulars ( including our
>> Lugmaster!). It was a great buzz to see so many new faces, and to find such a
>> wealth of talent and wide range of interests and experiences, from hard core
>> Unix sysadmin to customer facing IT support professionals, both paid and
>> volunteer!
> Shame I missed it! Hope to make the November meeting, which reminds me -
> are we going to try and organise a Christmas bash this year? (Not
> volunteering - don't have the time, sorry, but just a thought... :P )
>
>> Some of the topics discussed during the meeting -
>> It is always a pleasure to welcome members of other LUGS that chance brings to
>> our gatherings, in this case Andrew from Gloucester brought his extensive
>> experience of hardcore infrastructure admin.
> Bugger, could have done with talking to a fellow SysAd about a few
> issues I'm seeing at the moment that Puppet/Cobbler just won't resolve -
> Automating MySQL Replication is just the start of my issues at the
> moment... :(
>
>> A discussion of the Android mobile phone came to an agreement that they are
>> technically great but too expensive :-(
> T-Mobile Pulse-Mini - great little phone (just bought one for my wife) -
> free on contract @ £15 pcm including 300 minutes free calls, unlimited
> SMS and 'unlimited' internet (I've yet to find out what T-Mobile
> classify as 'unlimited', however as I sometimes stream on-line radios to
> my mobile via stitcher.com and haven't been charged I'd imagine it's
> generous!) - Easy to replace the firmware with your own from MoDaCo and
> works like a dream, although I don't know if you can install Angry Birds
> on it (yet)... ;)
>
>> Pete H@
> Thanks for the write-up Pete, much appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> M