IT Stuff: 7th March 2013

In the March 2013 edition of IT Stuff: David C talks briefly about technology and some projects he is involved in. http://cyclebradford.org.uk/ http://www.recordclub.org.uk/ News City Wifi in City Park http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/10266125.Free_Wi_Fi_is_launched_in_Bradford/ EU fines Microsoft again over Browser Ballot http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21684329 Office 2013 locked to a single PC? Since the recording they have climbed down! Damn them! http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/06/microsoft-office-2013-license-transferable/ Credit: Brian Apple developers afflicted by malware http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/19/us-apple-hackers-idUSBRE91I10920130219 Credit: Brian

February 18th 2013 memtest86+, FabLab, BCB and SUSE

David S introduced memtest86+ which can diagnose faulty RAM which may cause random crashes, the storage of faulty data, incorrect checksums and a range of inconsistent errors.

GIMP: the FOSS Photoshop

GIMP, or the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is the FOSS alternative to Photoshop.

LyX: the document processor

Most voluntary organisations do not need to produce high quality reports, papers or even books but, for those who do, the best software for the past twenty years has been the free software LaTeX, particularly if their reports or papers need to have references, indexes, formulae or high quality images.

Web developments: time to update?

The arrival of Windows 8 RT in tablets and on mobile ’phones on October 26th and the announcement that Orange and T-Mobile have been given the go-ahead to offer 4G mobile ’phones raises the premium on HTML5.

The cost of cybercrime

A new report on the cost of cybercrime commissioned by the MoD suggests that we should spend a lot less on prevention and a lot more on detection.

IT Stuff: 7th February 2013

This month's show covers: Going Linux: http://distrowatch.com http://www.ubuntu.com Spoof Web Site  http://mens-life-health.co.uk/muscle/testo.html www.tineye.com Keyboards  News  Ubuntu rolling release? Ubuntu Phone http://www.ubuntu.com

January 21st 2013 Raspberry Pi Winners, LMMS and CLI

Kriss and Shi introduced the co-operative Spies vs Ghosts game they had devised for the Raspberry PiRaspberry Pi Hack Day.

November 28th 2012 FabLab, Centos and CLI

David C gave us a photographic tour of Airedale Fab Lab and suggested that we should organise a trip there one Saturday.

October 31st 2012 CLI, GIMP and more

Andy kicked us off with a look at GIMP 2.8 and some of the new features. We also got a demo on using the GIMP to produce simple web graphics and for photo enhancement. There was some interesting discussion about how this versions allows GIMP to look and feel more like Photoshop, but also about how the integration of Photoshop into the Adobe suite of tools means that, while GIMP can easily create print ready artwork, hard core Photoshopers are still not likely ot make the switch. Gimp 2.8 is not available in some distros, so the PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 (also works on Mint 13 (Maya) is: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-gimp-2-8-2-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise.html David gave us the 4th instalment in his series on the introduction to the command line. Alice pre-empted much of his talk as becoming customary, and as usual, 'we all learned something' Downloads:

•  Command Line (4) Slides
• GIMP 2.8 Introduction