The usual time is 2pm until about 5pm when tidying up starts and kicking out is 6pm, I'm sure that Big John will be along in a minute and let us know if it's different.

Great stuff,

That's mainly what I needed to know.

Peter.

John Woodard wrote:

I'll open up around 13:30 and it all sort of fizzels out around 18:00.

Cheers, BJ

My main reason for attending is to drop off a bunch of books for the ALUG library. We are moving soon to a much smaller house so I not only need to donate these to the library I need to physically give them away. Here is a rough list of the books I expect to bring.

Programming with Qt Linux System Administration Understanding the Linux Kernel Using Linux 4th edition Unix Secrets 2nd Edition Teach Yourselk Linux in 24 hours C for Linux Programming The Official Gnome 2 Developers Guide Programming Linux Games Linus Music and Sound Gtk+ Programming in C Developing Linux Applications with Gtk+ and Gdk Xlib Programming Manual X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 hours Beginning Linux programming Apache The Definitive Guide Linux Complete Hacking Linux Exposed 2nd Edition Linux programmers Reference javascript in Easy Steps

If any of these seem not usefull let me know and I'll just bin them.

cheers

Ian

Most if not all of those seem to be pretty useful, I just hope I am there to receive them. Many thanks for the kind donation Ian.

The closer this weekend gets the more hellish it starts to look in terms of what I have to do/have promised to do :-)

But I am really really going to try and make it. if by chance I don't I would kindly appreciate someone holding these books for me.

On Monday 26 March 2007 23:26, Adam Bower wrote:

If you don't make it then I should be there and will take the books for you.

And if I can get there, I have three or four new/unused motherboards to dispose of..

Regards, Paul.

Last call, btw - if anyone else from Ipswich-area needs a lift to Syleham on Sunday, drop me a line.

Cheers,

Peter.

Hi,

Great meet yesterday. For me, it was good to get to meet some of the people from the wider region for the first time.

I'm eager to hear the results of the in-depth study into Linux Virtualisation, especially KVM, that was in progress ... I was also astonished to see a Silicon Graphics workstation being used, ironically, as a neat headless workstation - which was only brought to life after some hardcore fiddling with paperclips, a soldering iron and minicom. I was in awe ... ;)

I also got some useful background on the history of ALUG and it's members from BigJohn - thanks for hosting, btw!

Had lots of discussions to participate in, including lots of info on media PVRs and Sky Plus hacking, knowledge transfer on SIP and internet telephony gear, talks about blogging engines, CMS' and - inevitably - the ALUG wiki (speaking of which, I've updated the Syleham entry with the postcode to aid those of use using SatNav!).

Plus, there was a SCSI scanner floating around causing some grief which, it was concluded, was probably lacking a terminator ... I chatted about Bookcrossing around the region and I also got to hear about the upcoming DebConf7 event (Debian Project's developer conference) which is being held in Edinburgh this year, along with the suggestion of an organised ALUG showing of "Revolution OS" - a 2001 film I vaguely remembered hearing about, which charted the development of open source and free software and was infamous for containing Richard Stallman's Free Software Song, which I found when I got home, to my delight, on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

Awesome. But, having watched it, I still contend that it's not even close to the complete abomination that is the Star Wars Holiday Special [starwarsholidayspecial.com]. I can arrange viewings of that for anyone wanting to destroy their childhood memories (it makes the prequel trilogy look good).

All that and plenty of free kit offers as well - I'm sure there was plenty of other stuff going on that I missed but, all in all, not a bad way to get through a Sunday hangover ...

Thanks, everyone!

Peter.