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/

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