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.

If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it.

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.

IT Stuff: 30th May 2013

Broadcast on: 30th May 2013 18:00 and 31st May 2013 13:30 BCB 106.6FM The show includes:

• 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.

Worth tuning in for:

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

If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it.  

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.

IT Stuff: 2nd May 2013

Broadcast on: 2nd May 2013 18:00 and 3rd May 2013 13:30 BCB 106.6FM The show includes:

• An interview with Fab Lab (by Brian)
• Shi's début behind the scenes 'driving the desk'
• Studio guests - John H and Kriss
• Book reviews, news, and general tech chatter.

It's our first show that we have managed to create produce entirely on our own, so that's a bit of a milestone, and credit to everyone that has put their time and effort in so far! If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it.  

April 15th 2013 UEFI, JavaScript 1K demos and vector animation

We had a general discussion around installing UEFI secure boot and then looked at a couple of April Fool RFCs: RFC 1149 and RFC 1925.

Coding Freedom review

A review of Gabriella Coleman's book Coding Freedom is available in PDF format.

IT Stuff: 4th April 2013

The bulk of the show is based around an interview Brian did at a RepRap workshop in Hebden Bridge recently. Links from the feature:

• http://reprap.org
• http://www.openscad.org/
• http://tvrrug.org.uk/

The rest is news, and a couple of articles about on-line security, 'cyber' this and that, fake sites and the such like.

• http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/