[Watford] Watford Digest, Vol 134, Issue 1

[Toby Deans]

2009/7/28 <watford-request at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>   1. Fwd: Watford Linux User Group (Mark Stewart)
>   2. Re: Fwd: Watford Linux User Group (Alain Williams)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:36:15 +0100
> From: Mark Stewart <markwstewart at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Watford] Fwd: Watford Linux User Group
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> Hi Everyone, who's leading the group nowadays? Please see the mail below. I
> think we can request books to review as well as the one suggested.
> Hope to see you all at the September meeting when I'm back in blighty.
> -Mark
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Lisa Lau <lisalau at apress.com>
> Date: 2009/7/27
> Subject: Watford Linux User Group
> To: "markwstewart at gmail.com" <markwstewart at gmail.com>
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>  Dear Mark,
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> I hope this email finds you well.  It is a pleasure to meet you. My name is
> Lisa Lau; I am the new User Group Liaison at Apress. I just wanted to
> introduce myself to you and send along my contact information.
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> I was also wondering if you had a copy of James Turnbull?s latest book ?Pro
> Linux System Administration? (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219122)?
> It?s our latest Linux release. If you don?t have a copy yet, I would be
> happy to send you or any members a free book review copy if you?re
> interested.
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> I look forward to hearing from you.
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> Kindest regards,
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> Lisa
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> Lisa Lau
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> Public Relations
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> Apress
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:58:40 +0100
> From: Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Watford] Fwd: Watford Linux User Group
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> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:36:15AM +0100, Mark Stewart wrote:
> > Hi Everyone, who's leading the group nowadays? Please see the mail below. I
> > think we can request books to review as well as the one suggested.
> > Hope to see you all at the September meeting when I'm back in blighty.
> > -Mark
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> Excellent idea.
>
> May I suggest that whoever wants to review it drop her a line saying that
> they are a member of the Watford Linux UUG.
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> The normal deal with this sort of thing is:
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> * you get the book for free
> * you write a review (1/2 -> 1 page of A4) that gets published in a newsletter
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> We don't have a newsletter, but we could publish things like this on our web site,
> something more to use our slug for!
>
> --
> Alain Williams

I'd be up for reviewing stuff but maybe not this one as I don't work in IT.

I think we could stick some notes up about things we have achieved at
the meetings like getting Matt's USB internet thingy working.

I've been teaching myself bits of CSS for site layouts so I can
incorporate that into anything we want to do on the slug.
Some early attempts here: http://plumsweb.org.uk

Lots of fun learning about the various browser bugs - IE6 really is
horrific and some of the CSS effects I tried out only really work
properly on mozilla or safari with CSS3 support. Still, early days and
learning.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to link from the WLUG site, let me know.
It's a simple enough system if anyone wants to edit it or add things.

plum