April 25th 2012: Show and Tell

This month we had a general show and tell session. John showed us how to convert a bitmap to a vector, Dave S showed us around XFCE and some crazy patents, Darren showed us KDE, Nigel demoed Linux Mint, and Dave C showed his Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. We also had an interesting presentation on Maser (Microwave Laser) from Brian.

March 28th 2012: Go search

Graham introduced Munzee, a 21st century scavenger hunt; it is similar to geocaching except that one uses a QR code; placing Munzees can overlap with Geocache as long as you get the geocacher's permission. Munzee can be played individually or in a group. It requires an Android or iPhone with 3G reception. Graham has planted 22 Bradford Monopoly Munzees if you fancy finding them! David C demonstrated how he had...

Five favourites - Alice Kaerast

I’m an open source/free software developer who strongly believes in sharing as much of my code and data as possible.

February 29th 2012

On the day the Rapberry Pi people made a big announcement, BradLUGers met up to discuss: Media servers,cheap android tablets, the Raspberry Pi, Scratch, Big Buck Bunny, WPA security, the Epson hx-20, and much, much, more.

February 29th 2012: SqueezePlayer, BubbleUPnP, Raspberry Pi, Scratch and WPS

Brian demonstrated SqueezePlayer, the Logitech version and BubbleUPnP running on a mobile ’phone to play/control a media centre.

Databases and storage

At the start of the PC era, computers had so little memory or storage that programmers had to use all sorts of tricks to fit the data in.

Five free software favourites

I first used a computer to produce documentation over thirty years ago but my first experience of free software was just over ten years ago ...

Festive Food Fight 2011

Dec. 16th, 7:30pm. We're going for the same idea as last year. 2 meals to choose from at separate places. Then all meet up afterwards at the Corndolly pub. Your choice is the Sir Titus Salt (Wetherspoons) or Omar Khans. Please fill in the doodle to help us get something booked: http://www.doodle.com/rywupdthb3ya52vq See you there.

November 26th 2011

In the last meeting of 2011... Dave S showed us some of the documents in the Barnes & Noble dispute with Microsoft over infringement claims. Interesting stuff. There was then a bit of discussion about the Apple v's Samsung dispute in Australia.

October 26th 2011

Nigel showed the video of RepRap, the 3D self-replicating printer: http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page Alice demonstrated Munin, which provides updates every ten minutes of the performance of a server: http://munin-monitoring.org/ and also Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA), a php/mysql tool for testing website vulnerabilities. http://www.dvwa.co.uk/