[Wolves] Pretty cool Wolves-Lug meeting

[Mark Croft]

yeah it best lug meeting i have been to for ages.

the crm php/mysql thing was really impresive cos i was database person
in another life before i got to sick and disabled to work anymore. Was
getting well passed my bedtime when we had that demo from ron too.
A friend is after a mid spec laptop , but not sure whether to go
download find a cheap second hand P3/P4 1GHZ. Or just go to asda/tesco
and get one them £250/£280 ones was talking about for her? The
univeristy is repairing her student one and will be without for about
6weeks so its only a temp thing. Anyway will talk to my sister and see
if they decided on something. Maybe the student lappy is fixed now.


Mark


On 08/11/2007, Philip Harper <ph004h7245 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Am I missing something?  Why do people always say hide stuff when you
> arrive, is this a standing joke lol?
>
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> dick_turpin
> Sent: 08 November 2007 09:41
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> Cc: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
> Subject: [Wolves] Pretty cool Wolves-Lug meeting
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>
> Hi All
>
> This post is really for the South Staffs guys but both Lug's might be
> interested?
>
> At the last minute, about 6.00pm, last night I discovered I had a "Get
> out of jail free" pass and headed off to the Wolves-Lug (Wolverhampton
> Linux User Group) meeting.
>
> Everyone was shocked to see me as I arrived unannounced and scurried
> off to hide wallets, purses and Christmas wish lists. I made a mistake
> in that I did not bring my Laptop along as the meeting evolved into a
> quasi 'show an tell' which was pretty cool IMO.
>
> Chris Procter and I had an interesting chat off the back of the latest
> LugRadio podcast about Distro comparisons, using 'what you are used
> too' and personal preferences e.g. KDE or Gnome browsers applications
> ect.
>
> Alex Willmer had a Fujitsu Amelio laptop with a broken screen which he
> was giving away, he was installing Ubuntu by using an external screen
> and I took great delight in scaring the life out of him by pretending
> the install had frozen, crashed and generally fecked up. :-)
>
> Adam Sweet gave away a supposedly (I've seen a mail this morning
> saying that it actually works) broken strawberry G3 iMac which was fun
> to watch four grown men spend 20 minutes taking it apart only to
> discover the replacement hard drive had been left at home. Lol
>
> As was to be expected I was surrounded by a sea of *The Brown Distro*
> which was another reason for me to regret not bring the one true faith
> of ArchLinux to this heathen coven I found myself in.
>
> Typically just as I was thinking of leaving Ron turned up, Ron and I
> have a mutual interest in all things 'Database' especially SugarCRM,
> ACT and so forth, but low did Ron have something far more interesting
> on his Laptop! The swine is running Nagios http://www.nagios.org/ I've
> tried three times to get a fully functional version running and
> failed. Installing is easy, getting it to, well, run is easy getting
> it to actually do something can be pretty painful its all about
> configuration files, as Ron said if you can get one to work your
> laughing.
>
> Ron appeared to be monitoring three quarters of the UK with his set up
> we all huddled round in a semi circle while he took us on a whirl wind
> ride round the West Midlands from server to server, firewalls, routers
> and and mysql machines.
>
> I really wanted to stay longer but had to go as it was way past my bed time.
>
> My thanks to Dave Morely for a pretty cool meeting, as I said if its
> at your place in two weeks I'll come along.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Dick Turpin
> http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk
>
> Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for
> intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release
> System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a
> snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a
> fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.
>
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