Some of the things covered... Publishing on demand with lulu and how many still useful books are out of print but not out of copyright. http://www.lulu.com/uk/
Microsoft going after TomTom for violating patents relating to the FAT filesystem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomTom#Patent_infringement_lawsuit How Sco made the source of Open Unix 8 available back in 2001. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090302180710908 The Uzebox, a homebrew games console built with just two ICs; an 8-bit microcontroller and an RGB to NTSC converter. It produces 8-bit colour and 3-channel sound. All the source and schematics are available. There's a couple of videos on this page. http://belogic.com/uzebox/ [That reminds me of another interesting video. It's worth watching all the way through as things change after a bit. http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/craft/ ] Producing sound on a speaker by driving the output pin of a microcontroller using a square wave, and then using pulse-width modulation to approximate a sine wave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation The Bresenham line drawing algorithm, and how the Wikipedia page is misleading at best with its "remove duplicate pixels" example. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/goa/mallinnus/lines/bresenh.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham's_line_algorithm The Gnome Partition Editor, and how it doesn't queue changing partition flags, or let you see or edit partition UUIDs or labels but will happily copy a partition, creating a duplicate UUID. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ The easy peasy distro for netbooks. http://www.geteasypeasy.com/ The frigate H.M.S. St. Albans' recent open day at Weymouth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_St_Albans_(F83) http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.1332 -- Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ irc://irc.blitzed.org:6667/dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-04-01 20:00
