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/

Websites and HTML5

Any voluntary organisation trying to maintain a website has two main problems: making sure it will work on any browser and keeping the content up-to-date. The arrival of HTML5 makes both these tasks easier.

3rd Birthday Meeting, Sept 2011

Happy Birthday to us, and thanks (once again) to Andrea for the baking. Yum!

September 28th 2011 - 3rd Birthday Meeting

Doesn't time fly? BradLUG (BradGNU/LUG?) is now 3 years old. It's one of those "queen's birthday" things as September has been chosen as the official marker of the years. John has produced this graphic to try to illustrate the different things that have happened in that time. You can download a higher pdf version if you'd like to give a closer inspection. As for September's meeting. We're just discussing that. As ever, your biggest conundrum is to work out whether or no the talk of cake is a lie! Download: Third year of Bradlug

31st August 2011 - Darktable, buses, desktops and HTML5

David Spencer presented Darktable, which does similar things to DigiKam, Shotwell and F-Spot but generally does them better. Its key feature is that the original photos remain untouched; instead Darktable manipulates a history stack of changes, including changes to the metadata, which can then be exported elsewhere....

July 27th 2011 - Distros, Raspberries, and Microsoft

A select group discussed distributions, including Galpon Minino, a Debian based Spanish distribution which will run on old computers and their version for children ( http://gruvi.galpon.org/minino/miscelanea/PicarOS.avi) and the Turkish produced Pardus distro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viEQ-DWxX50), progress with Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/), due out in November, and setting up Myth TV.

June 29th 2011 - Open VPN, Truecrypt, Bitcoin...

At last night's meeting we discussed OpenVPN, Truecrypt, Bitcoin and Tomboy Notes.

The slides from the talk on OpenVPN are available from Github, but probably don't make any sense on their own.. We covered the use-cases for OpenVPN, along with discussion on problems setting it up people had encountered and tricks and tips. We also quickly installed a server on the night, so hopefully people feel more comfortable setting it up now.

Tomboy

Tomboy can be used for multiple note taking and then all the separate notes are available, in a list, for you to consult.

Images and photographs

Images, whether graphics, figures or photographs, can be included in almost anything a voluntary organisation produces from newsletters and manuals to a website.