ALUG Announce
Please send announcements to Announce@lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Second Thursday" ALUG Norwich Pub Meet is this Thursday, 11th May.
It's at the Reindeer pub on the Dereham Road, just opposite the City Gate. People will be there from 8pm-ish, though there may be a few people there earlier.
Topics for discussion will no doubt be as varied as ever. The Reindeer has a reasonable selection of beer as well as decent coffee (with biscuits, if you're lucky).
Directions to the Reindeer can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html
Pictures of some of the regulars, and irregulars, and, well, just some pictures of people that might or might not turn up are available from:
http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2006-02-ALUG/ http://the.earth.li/~noodles/stilvoid-alug/mp20050811/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2005-01-ALUG-Xmas/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/
Which should hopefully aid those of you wondering who to look out for. We're /normally/ just to the left of the main entrance, though sometimes we've ended up at the far end of the pub beside the pool table, as there are comfy seats at that end.
J.
Once again a good turnout - perhaps more people are coming out of the woodwork now the weather is getting better?
In attendance were Eli [sfr], Jan, James Green, Jonathan [Noodles], Lucy, Martijn [mak], Mike, Paul C [paul_c], Richard [ironChicken], Rob [robrob], Safe, Sean (Shaun?), Simon [Sionide] ,Steve [stilvoid] & Will.
Steve took some photos with his phone, which you can see at:
http://the.earth.li/~noodles/stilvoid-alug/alug-20060511/
There was a minor license debate, with Rob bemoaning Linus' attitude to GPLv3 and myself saying I didn't think it was an issue that the kernel was GPLv2. Think I need to go read the diff at some point. We moved onto agreeing that DRM was a bad thing, and hoping that in general the market would always find a way around it (eg as happened with DVDs).
There was a conversation about Postscript and PDF, and how open they were or otherwise, and how widely accepted.
Jan and I had a short conversation about PVRs and talking to them from Linux - Adam, I think he's ended up with a Topfield and was interested in being able to make DVDs of his recordings. I believe you've done this?
I talked a bit about multicast and how the BBC were pushing it but the Linux routing support wasn't great yet.
Rob extolled the virtues of the Hurd, but confessed to not actually running it.
Mak and eli and I had a chat about the inability of banks to get IT right. And separately a whine about ID cards and how it's going to be some 3rd party IT outsourcing house who's not going to complete on time and will go massively over budget. Oh, and not produce something secure enough that you'd want all your details on.
There was some chat about sci-fi books (Rob's trying to get rid of a load) and in particular Iain M. Banks.
After we left the pub and were standing around there was some agreement that going to LinuxExpo might be of interest to people. I'm not sure when the next one is; probably October? Oh, and Richard mentioned the Bletchley Park trip again.
J.
Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li
[...] Mak and eli and I had a chat about the inability of banks to get IT right. [...]
I cheat and use a cookie-guzzling Firefox with www.Co-operativeBank.co.uk and www.NPBS.co.uk and it seems to work smoothly enough. I'm sure they do lots wrong, though. What was discussed?
Yes to the no2id-ish points! IT disasters ahead!
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MJ Ray