[Nottingham] Nottingham Digest, Vol 298, Issue 2

[tony atkins]

daft question
sad conclusion
boring so what about everybody meeting up @ milliways
something positive (sorry got to have a slap-up @ boring rip-offs for tea)
oh no let us talk about nothing for a while
what a waste of something built up over a (in computer terms) of a long while



how about a table of new computer gear that works well with linux?
e.g. i have a slot in my machine that allows ide devices (4) to function on a motherboard intended to  have sata - works after using gparted discovering new devices


how about a top 10 linux distribution in nottingam?
e.g. i have a love-hate relationship with PCLinux (never the same after reboot) - my head says debian or even fedora everytime - but in practce something else!


how about a fixed it section eg. this keyboard (crap ms bluetooth - size of a plank) does not work in linux and yet works fine in windoze
e.g. ms optical desktop elite

how about a few new ideas in nottingham's linux answer, to the all pervasive micro-we-will-shaft-you-soft?
e.g. this should not be difficult - but how about guy's n girls


how about anything new of any account to do with linux?
in short anything to make this column relevent






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>    1. What has Linux done for you? (Martin)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:59:45 +0100
> From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
> Subject: [Nottingham] What has Linux done for you?
> To: NLUG <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Folks,
> 
> To paraphrase a certain (in)famous phrase from The Life of Brian[1], 
> here's a possibly interesting article on the place of Open Source in the 
> real world:
> 
> How Open Source Can Beat the Status Quo
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166551/how_open_source_can_beat_the_status_quo.html
> 
> ... Or can it?
> 
> (I suspect that a certain big vendor will simply recolour it's spots and 
> lead people up a garden path to lock them into "open sauces" (garden) 
> forks...)
> 
> 
> So what has Linux done for you?
> 
> Initially for myself, it was an 'obvious' route to avoid the silliness 
> with anti-virus and (the lack of) security with the OS I was using at 
> the time. Linux also offered unix-style preemptive multitasking and 
> threads, both not available at the time on that certain other 'OS'. The 
> zero licence fee was very good also. Since then, lots of friendly fun!
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> 
> [1]: See 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian#Political_satire
> 
> -- 
> ----------------
> Martin Lomas
> martin at ml1.co.uk
> ----------------
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:15:14 +0100
> From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] What has Linux done for you?
> To: Notts GNU/Linux Users Group <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Message-ID: <4A37E132.9080105 at ml1.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Martin wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > To paraphrase a certain (in)famous phrase from The Life of Brian[1], 
> > here's a possibly interesting article on the place of Open Source in the 
> > real world:
> > 
> > How Open Source Can Beat the Status Quo
> > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166551/how_open_source_can_beat_the_status_quo.html
> > 
> > ... Or can it?
> 
> Errr... Perhaps not if the UK is committed to blundering onwards with a 
> mere 2Mbps over ADSL for "broadband"... Staying with such old slow 
> technology, Google's Cloud Computing may as well evaporate :-(
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8102756.stm
> 
> Whatever happened to optical fibre to the home?
> 
> 
> > (I suspect that a certain big vendor will simply recolour it's spots and 
> > lead people up a garden path to lock them into "open sauces" (garden) 
> > forks...)
> > 
> > 
> > So what has Linux done for you?
> > 
> > Initially for myself, it was an 'obvious' route to avoid the silliness 
> > with anti-virus and (the lack of) security with the OS I was using at 
> > the time. Linux also offered unix-style preemptive multitasking and 
> > threads, both not available at the time on that certain other 'OS'. The 
> > zero licence fee was very good also. Since then, lots of friendly fun!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > [1]: See 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian#Political_satire
> 
> 
> -- 
> ----------------
> Martin Lomas
> martin at ml1.co.uk
> ----------------
> 
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