On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 12:04 +0100, samwise wrote:
I didn't think that there was a Linux users group in Suffolk until I stumbled across your web page. Hopefully the group is alive and well.
Well, alive, certainly...
Though, not necessarily early on a Sunday morning. ;)
I was up early this morning: won't do that again in a hurry.
Thanks for the reply Brett. Is there an active turnout of folks to meets or is the mailing list the main outlet?
There are two sets of meets - Ipswich and Norwich. I can't comment on the latter (tho they've been going so long, one assumes they're numbers are healthy!). The Ipswich meets were started up regularly again, a little over a year ago. Numbers vary, but you can get an idea of them and what we get up to by looking at the Ipswich meeting notes on the wiki. On top of that, the mailing list gets a lot of action and there's usually quite a few ppl in the IRC channel. Info on all that stuff is on the website.
I fired up pigin and had a peek at #ALUG, thanks for the info. When I've got more time I shall log on and actually say something.
I see that you have meetings at the Milestone Beer House - when is your next meet? I'm guessing the 21st from your web page.
That ain't a guess. It's clearly stated. :) I'll be sending out a reminder email on Tuesday, assuming I don't forget!
One day I might remember to trip over and say hi :-P
I think the BBC's been surprised at how popular iPlayer has been judging by the number of complaints from ISP's about bandwidth...
I don't think so - they just think it's the ISPs problem, not theirs. The Register has some interesting commentary on the subject. Personally, I blame the marketeers - unlimited broadband doesn't exist and if they hadn't sold it as such, ppl would pay for what they actually use ...
I use Linux because it's easier to work with (haha, but seriously it's getting easier to work with) although I hanker after games.
We've covered games-playing under Linux off and on, but the main round-up was in November last year. Check the meeting notes for a list of stuff we had running in the pub ...
I had a quick check through the meeting notes and got the games section. I've had quite a blast with Quake 4 a few months ago.
If there are any lurking Debian/Ubuntu users around please get in touch: I'm always happy to chat, although I can't say I'm the most technical of users out there. I have to say that I've stuck with GNOME because it's there.
Debian user here ... but I was Kubuntu before that. Tend to be a KDE person usually, tho. There's plenty of variety at the Ipswich meets including Gentoo users. :)
Hope to see you a week on Monday - the more the merrier. Annoyingly, there's a new regular meeting of poker players every Monday @ 19:30, which moved us from our usual collection of tables. If they become a pain, we'll have to discuss changing venues/nights and/or times.
Peter.
One of these days I will try Debian seeing as I've been running Ubuntu for long enough.
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