We normally meet every second Tuesday of the month for talks and demonstrations from 7:00pm onwards at BCB Radio in February, May, August and November and online in other months.
Why not come along to a meeting?
Until the start of the pandemic in 2020, some of us used to create IT Stuff for BCB Radio (106.6 FM). Shi has looked back on this for us.
After a period of general chat Brian talked about his visit to the BarCamp Manchester where he had given two talks and heard an interesting talk about building a house with straw bales; it needs to be rendered with lime and have stakes to support it.
After we had cut the cake John did a review of 2013–2014 suggesting, among other things, that people who had not already done so should take a look at the IT Stuff website.
This led into a discussion of security, passwords and the iCloud breach.
Businesses have lots of Customer Relations Management software to choose from; the voluntary sector has one, tailored for the needs of voluntary organisations from the outset. Unlike most similar software, it is not a free-standing program but runs as an extension to Drupal (for which it was originally designed), Joomla or Wordpress. Moreover, you can select the components of CiviCRM that you need. So you don’t have to burden yourself installing features that you are never likely to need.
John H summarised his experiences of the Linux Foundation LFSx101: Introduction to Linux course.
David C reminded people not to forget that the function keys on their devices sometimes control whether hardware is or is not available for use.
Brian warned people that the permissions relating to SD cards have changed in KitKat.
IT Stuff now has its own dedicated website where you can find full details of recent programmes.
David S celebrated Slackware’s 21st birthday with a slide presentation in which he pointed out that, among other things, it:
Without our regular note taker present, the minutes from June’s meeting is a little lacking. We spoke about Leeds Art Crawl, Flight Radar, Truecrypt, and secure VoIP whilst attempting to install Android on an EePC (and getting slightly further in doing so than WYLUG).
Brian presented a number of recent discoveries:
Shi brought in the first edition of Linux Voice.
John H did a brief history of MIME Types in response to a question at an earlier session and then
David B introduced the Manchester Space Programme using the slides which had been used at the 27 February 2014 launch. MADLAB has considerably expanded and Makerspace has moved to new premises.
When Adobe created the PDF (Portable Document Format) in 1993, it was aimed at large companies who wanted to distribute documents without having to bother about whether those who received them had particular fonts on their computers. While the software to create a PDF was fairly complicated — and expensive, the software to read it was simple. In 2000 this software began to be given away free and in 2008 all the software became an open standard.
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