Monday's Meeting (07-Jun-2010)
by Dave R
Hello all.
Well, Monday's meeting was very productive and we've come up with a list
of subject that would be good as technical meetings / talks.
In order of preference:
- Linux surgery. Have a melting pot of brains to see if we can work out
what problems you are having.
- Visualization / Cloud computing
- IPv6
- BSD (Various flavours). Yes it's not Linux, but it's stable and worth
knowing about.
- VoIP
- Poss HTML5
If you feel you can contribute to any of these subjects, let me know and
we can try and coordinate people.
Also, if you can think of anything else, the shout up.
Along side the technical meetings, the following have also been decided:
- Who's going to meeting will remain in the mailing list, so if possible
when replying to the list, try and keep the formatting the same. But what
I will do (Dave) will try and keep tabs on the emails and send out a
cleaned version and the end of the day. But if I should miss anyone, any
help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again to everyone who attended on Monday.
Dave
16 years, 1 month
Blackpool Barcamp
by Peter Cannon
Hi All
There will be a 'Barcamp' at Blackpool I'm thinking of going so maybe
I'll see you there?
When: Saturday 3rd July 2010
Where: Blackpool Pleasure Beach (inside the white Casino Building)
Twitter: @bcblackpool
Tags: #bcblackpool
Google Group: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/bcblackpool
What is it?
A free ‘unconference’ with no scheduled speakers. Attendees arrive on
the day armed with talks and decide which ones they want to go along to!
The talks can be on anything, from android application development to
learning the British Sign Language to Electronic Organs played by BBC
Micros!
But don’t worry, you don’t have to do a talk to participate! The evnt is
paid for by our lovely sponsors on the right hand side. Thanks
especially to Yahoo! Developer Network for sponsoring the venue.
16 years, 1 month
Re: [Staffslug] Speed things up
by Adam Egan
Very good point Ben :p
some people dont like relying on things outside of their control though..
Sign onto mondays meeting btw! :p
Adam
-original message-
Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Speed things up
From: Ben Skan <ben.skan(a)gmail.com>
Date: 02/06/2010 21:13
Can't you do all this stuff with an OpenDNS account?
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Tig <staffslug(a)caveconnect.com> wrote:
> Re-sent as I sent from wrong account :-)
>
> What that looks like is a block list for a load of websites, shock sites
> and advertising sites, if you were to put it in /etc/hosts when your
> machine went to connect to any of those servers (or try to) instead of
> connecting to them it would try to connect to itself instead and fail.
>
> Basically on a normal linux box when you ask your machine to connect to say
> news.bbc.co.uk it will need to look up the IP address associated with it.
> The first place it checks is in /etc/hosts and then it will look at your DNS
> server. By putting these entries into your hosts file you overrule what
> ever is in DNS.
>
> The format in your hosts file is :
> ip.address servername.com
>
> 127.0.0.1 is the "loopback" address on your computer, it is not a real
> address as such it is a network connection that never leaves the computer.
> So when your computer asks for the IP address of any of those sites it is
> going to ask the fastest place it knows for an answer (itself) and will then
> fail and not load the site.
>
> This is a simple way of explaining it, I am sure someone will nitpick on
> some details but I was trying to do a simplified version.
>
>
> Tig
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:11 PM, stuart bell <sailing1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone any experience with this?
>>
>> http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
>>
>> Stuart
>>
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16 years, 1 month
Listing who's going to the meeting
by dave＠staffslug.org.uk
Hello all,
Firstly I have an apology to make, I remember someone posted a message
about how we say "Can attend" etc to the meetings via a web site instead
of having emails bouncing around on the mailing list, but I've forgotten
who it was and the link to the site.
So, if the very kind person could re-send the link so I can have a look at
the site to see if it will work for us, I would be very grateful?
Dave
16 years, 1 month
8mm Film Transfer
by walt
Hi all,
I have a 6 reels of silent 8mm film from way back I'd like to transfer to
mpg or similar. Does anyone know a kind soul that could do this for a
reasonable consideration?
By the way I have a Plustek Optic Film 7300 with which I transferred my
1000s of 35mm slides to png. I might be selling it soon but if anyway can
make use of it in the meantime, let me know.
Walt
16 years, 1 month
