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

• 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

IT Stuff: 30th May 2013

• A discussion about the Communications Data Bill witha  cameo from the Queen
• Live on air demo of the Oculus Rift, with assorted BradLUG member reactions.
• Studio guests -  Kriss, Shi and Dave C
• News, and general tech chatter, including the British Library's UK Web Archive.

• the BradLUGers reactions to virtual reality
• the technical cock up in the middle (I don't think anyone will notice)

Samba: for Windows shares

A major headache for organisations that use Windows Active Directory but want to use certain non-Windows devices on their networks has been the limitations on integrating those devices into Active Directory. The arrival of Samba 4 removes these problems. However, getting here has been a long haul.

May 20th 2013 Oculus Rift, GRAMPS, 100 top sites and ‘snooper's charter’

Shi and Kriss demonstrated the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset with a number of brave souls taking up the challenge; their recording of the session is at copy.com.