[Liverpool] Ideas for talks

[Dan Lynch]

That sounds great, thanks Julian. I will post it on the blog now. It is very short notice to come up with a talk, so a workshop sounds good.

Best wishes,

Dan

On 1 March 2022 09:09:54 GMT, Julian Todd via Liverpool <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>It's tomorrow. I'll be there and can plug in my laptop to the screen and
>have a look around what it's doing.
>
>Ill do this more as a group workshop than a talk coz I dont know linux well
>enough to recognize everything. I've just got the bare principles. To me it
>looks like about half a dozen crazy hacks that seem by chance to achieve
>everything they need to do. It feels lucky rather than being a big piece of
>philosophy (that comes afterwards). It's kind of like the luxury of being
>able to feel that money isn't important in life if you happen to have a
>trust fund, if that makes sense.
>
>Julian
>
>Julian.
>
>
>
>On Sun, 27 Feb 2022, 20:49 Dan Lynch via Liverpool, <
>liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that Seb, we can pick something off that list for next time as
>> you say.
>>
>> Julian, the next LUG meet is Weds March 2nd. Are you ok to talk about
>> NixOS at that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On 27 February 2022 17:54:38 GMT, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool <
>> liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now that we are top posting :-) ...
>>>
>>> Looking through my notes, I seem to have given talks on the following
>>> topics over the years:
>>>
>>> 1. Introduction to Asterisk VoIP system
>>> 2. Further configuration of Asterisk
>>> 3. UEFI and GPT
>>> 4. Introduction to VLAN's
>>> 5. Syncthing
>>> 6. Introduction to setting up DNS
>>> 7. Setting up an outgoing smtp server (mainly using Exim)
>>> 8. Setting up and configuring SpamAssassin
>>> 9. Using dm-crypt / cryptsetup for root partitions
>>> 10. I think there were 1-2 presentations on the cctv system for buses I
>>> was working on - which is now technically defunct
>>> 11. I think I gave a presentation on mapping for OSM - but can't find
>>> the notes
>>> 12. I'm pretty sure I showed the clocking in / attendance software I was
>>> working on. That is still a current project, installed and running at
>>> clients.
>>>
>>> It's really down to whether there is interest in any of the topics above
>>> from anyone. If all else fails, I could give a presentation on
>>> installing Slackware :)
>>>
>>> On the other hand, if Julian is ready with his Nixos talk, we could have
>>> that this week, and we can pick something from the above for one of the
>>> next meets.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25/02/2022 11:52, Dan Lynch via Liverpool wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Seb,
>>>>
>>>> That doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. Do you have something you
>>>> would be willing to re-run for next week perhaps?
>>>>
>>>> See ya,
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23/02/2022 13:36, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hello everyone. Just something that crossed my mind the other day
>>>>>  (yes, things do on occasion cross my mind!) We've had quite a few
>>>>>  talks and presentations over the years. Half of them I don't even
>>>>>  remember properly any more, the other half I didn't manage to attend,
>>>>>  and for the third half - well, we now have members who weren't around
>>>>>  at the time. Why don't we re-run some of those talks? I certainly
>>>>>  wouldn't mind going again through some of the topics. It would also be
>>>>>  less preparation for the person who is giving the talk - as they
>>>>>  hopefully still have around the materials they collated for the talk.
>>>>>
>>>>>  What do we think?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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