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.
Life after XP
After twelve and a half years, most of them as the most popular operating system in the world, Microsoft will be pulling the plug on Windows XP on 8 April 2014. There will be no more security updates, leaving those users who choose to connect to the Internet vulnerable. Though anti-virus programs will continue to work, they will not protect users from any security holes that cybercriminals discover and which Microsoft will no longer close through their monthly security updates.
Stanbury Hill Project
Back when the world was younger, there used to be a saying: ‘A Yorkshireman is a Scotsman with the generosity taken away.’ Offensive sayings like that are thankfully rarer these days, but that one may have had a grain of truth. There's still a cultural reluctance, here in the West Riding, to spend hard-won cash on overheads like IT that benefit far-away corporations, particularly when one is volunteering one's own services for free to a community project.
GnuCash
If they use software for their accounts, many voluntary organisations will start off with a spreadsheet. These are perfectly adequate for many small organisations; my sister in law manages their church accounts entirely in a spreadsheet.
October 21st 2013 Ogg Camp, Libertree and snooping (again)
Brian described his experiences at the Liverpool Ogg Camp from which he had just returned. His choice of accommodation in the Youth Hostel had not proved entirely satisfactory. Open Street Map had worked well and got him to the University Arts Building; most of the arranged speakers were not very interesting but reps from Canonical and Mozilla were there to show off Ubuntu Touch and Mozilla OS. He had met Graham Morrison from LinuxFormat and Ben Nuttall who organises the Manchester Raspberry Jam.
September 16th 2013 Fifth Birthday, snooping and wearable technology
After we had cut the cake John H did a quick resumé of the events of the past year.
IT Stuff: 29th August 2013
Broadcast on: 29th August 2013 18:00 and 30th August 2013 13:30 BCB 106.6FM
August 19th 2013 Pi PBX, Turing's curse and HTML5 update
Brian told us ‘the things that don't go into the guides’ as far as using FreePBX on the Raspberry Pi is concerned, including:
July 15th 2013 Vector graphics programs and Audacity
John H demonstrated the very different approaches taken by two very different vector graphics programs, Inkscape and Xfig, by tackling the first two exercises in Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program (Third Edition) in both programs.
IT Stuff: 27th June 2013
Broadcast on: 27th June 2013 18:00 and 28th June 2013 13:30 BCB 106.6FM The show includes:- News about Bitcoin, Phones, Data Protection, and more.
- Goodbye to Google reader
- Launch of PS4 vs Xbox One
- Spookathon/Big Brother is watching - a discussion of recent revelations about privacy.
June 17th 2013 Big Data and Development Environments
Alice spoke about how it can be slow and painful setting up development environments, and gave a brief demo of her Hadoop development environment which lets anybody deploy a virtual machine with all the necessary tools in minutes.Ways to get in touch
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