Hi All, a surfeit of blackberry wine and cheesy excalibur films last night prompted me to wonder when the next meeting was: There was talk of Simon P putting us up at his folks place in Cheveley again, and talk of end of January? How about Sunday 27th January - Cheveley (if that suits Simon?) Sunday 24th Feb - Norwich - anyone at the uni find somewhere?
If enough people could come to one or the other we could have a small website and library discussion to organise them into shape.....both topics that crop up from time to time and get dropped without being resolved.
The Central Scrutiniser
On Monday 07 Jan 2002 9:24 am, Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:
Hi All, a surfeit of blackberry wine and cheesy excalibur films last night prompted me to wonder when the next meeting was: There was talk of Simon P putting us up at his folks place in Cheveley again, and talk of end of January? How about Sunday 27th January - Cheveley (if that suits Simon?) Sunday 24th Feb - Norwich - anyone at the uni find somewhere?
If enough people could come to one or the other we could have a small website and library discussion to organise them into shape.....both topics that crop up from time to time and get dropped without being resolved.
The Central Scrutiniser
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Hi Jenny, 27th's no problem with me... I just gotta check with my folks but don't see any issues...
We could also include in the discussions setting up a software library of some kind...
Simon
Jenny:
If enough people could come to one or the other we could have a small website and library discussion to organise them into shape.....both topics that crop up from time to time and get dropped without being resolved.
It's not dropped. I'm still on the case. I might even do something about it while online today (most likely during the later part of the ALUG IRC) if things are exceedingly good. You know my plans (and they're in the December email archive).
As to the software library: do you mean that, or would a software directory on the web site be more useful? While the lending library is good (although David seems to have gone away with it?), some of us do not want to fund proprietary software products.
On Monday 07 Jan 2002 11:57 am, MJ Ray wrote:
Jenny:
If enough people could come to one or the other we could have a small website and library discussion to organise them into shape.....both topics that crop up from time to time and get dropped without being resolved.
It's not dropped. I'm still on the case. I might even do something about it while online today (most likely during the later part of the ALUG IRC) if things are exceedingly good. You know my plans (and they're in the December email archive).
As to the software library: do you mean that, or would a software directory on the web site be more useful? While the lending library is good (although David seems to have gone away with it?), some of us do not want to fund proprietary software products.
I was meaning a software library thats available at ALUG meets... Yes ISO's are avalable for download all over the place, but when was the last time somone tried downloading a 600MB+ ISO with a 56k modem!!!....
The idea (and reason) is I downloaded the RedHat 7.2 ISO's down an ISDN line and it took 3 days (including 2 disconnects that I didn't pick up on)...
So really it's for the people who don't have a blistering internet connection but do want to get hold of newer distro's without having to sell their children to pay for them....
I can provide something like this but can't give dates and times as to when I'd be getting them, as the "company's" fibre connection is down in London and I never know when I'll be in to collect the images of the servers....
Simon
What I'm quiite prepared to do is post the entire library of distributions to someone that is attending the meeting so that they can take them along.
At present, I have the following ISOs on my machine:
1) Red Hat 7.2 (2 CDs) 2) Mandrake Linux 8.1 (3 CDs) 3) Slackware 8.0 (3 CDs) 4) Debian 2.2r4 (3 CDs) 5) FreeBSD 4.4 (4 CDs) 6) Smoothwall 0.99 (1 CD)
In addition, I'm also inspecting to have OpenBSD 3.0 with me within the next couple of days.
I'm more than willing to post that little lot to someone within the next couple of days for distribution/copying during the meetings. If anybody wants copies of these CDs that can't attend or just wants a copy, then I'll happily copy and post them at £2.00 per CD + £1.50 postage and packing.
Regards,
Martyn (512Kbs ADSL at home, 2Mb at work + CD duplicator!)
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:37:06 +0000 Simon wrote:
I was meaning a software library thats available at ALUG meets... Yes ISO's are avalable for download all over the place, but when was the last time somone tried downloading a 600MB+ ISO with a 56k modem!!!....
The idea (and reason) is I downloaded the RedHat 7.2 ISO's down an ISDN line and it took 3 days (including 2 disconnects that I didn't pick up on)...
So really it's for the people who don't have a blistering internet connection but do want to get hold of newer distro's without having to sell their children to pay for them....
I can provide something like this but can't give dates and times as to when I'd be getting them, as the "company's" fibre connection is down in London and I never know when I'll be in to collect the images of the servers....
Simon
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How about Sunday 27th January - Cheveley (if that suits Simon?) Sunday 24th Feb - Norwich - anyone at the uni find somewhere?
This may not appeal to anyone but an alternative location near to Norwich for an alug meet sometime is my house. It's free, warm and there is always plenty of tea and biscuits :)
Other advantage - internet connectivity (64k isdn) and a 100tx hub with a spare uplink port. Disadvantage - a few miles out of Norwich for those not driving. Plenty of parking space though for those who are. It is on the A140 south of Norwich, just off the A11 (Newton Flotman).
Syd
Hi Cheveley is grrrrreat!!! for me (after my frosties). (I'm assuming its the Cheveley near me thus - next village being Ashley.... the Cheveley Nr Newmarket. ...). Good pubs locally... always a major factor. Cheers Earl
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-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Syd Hancock Sent: Wednesday 09 January 2002 14:24 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Next Meeting - Jan 27?
How about Sunday 27th January - Cheveley (if that suits Simon?) Sunday 24th Feb - Norwich - anyone at the uni find somewhere?
This may not appeal to anyone but an alternative location near to Norwich for an alug meet sometime is my house. It's free, warm and there is always plenty of tea and biscuits :)
Other advantage - internet connectivity (64k isdn) and a 100tx hub with a spare uplink port. Disadvantage - a few miles out of Norwich for those not driving. Plenty of parking space though for those who are. It is on the A140 south of Norwich, just off the A11 (Newton Flotman).
Syd
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Oh definitely! I hope to make it to Chevely again - I was thinking more of the proposed norwich meet in feb. Or maybe another month later in the year.
We could even have the fabled barbecue here once the weather picks up. I live in a field, you see :)
Syd
Hi Cheveley is grrrrreat!!! for me (after my frosties). (I'm assuming its the Cheveley near me thus - next village being Ashley.... the Cheveley Nr Newmarket. ...). Good pubs locally... always a major factor. Cheers Earl
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