[Newark] Newark LUG Meets

[Steve Caddy]

Paul Mellors wrote:
> Didn't people go to a meet the other night?  How it go?  Fun?

I don't remember, I drank too much... 3 pints enough for me to talk extreme 
garbage and not rememebr much of it the day after.

I do seem to remember saying nice things about Ubuntu 8.04 and how I installed 
Ubuntu on my new Dell computer, which I bought with Vista because it was £30 
cheaper to do so... and no, I haven't tried to claim back the cost of the Vista 
licence yet, but I really should.

I also noted that my Wacom graphics tab works just fine under Ubuntu, but my 
webcam seems to have issues. It's a Kodac EZ200 and Camerama seems to have the 
blue and red video components swapped, and I can't see a way of swapping them 
back. Xawtv shows video from the camera normally, but I can't take automated 
captures from it.

We then talked about the pitfalls of writing scruffy code in C. Chris, the book 
I mentioned was "C For Programmers" by Leendert Ammeraal, second edition ISBN 
0-471-92851-8.

Umm... I don't remember much more than that. I got very wet as I walked home 
though.

Steve

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Steven M Caddy, MEng ------------------------------------------------------
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