Stuart,
i am a newbie Linux user who is backsliding.
i have installed Ubuntu on an old machine but have no access to the net
(USB MODEM) so am struggling.
all your suggestions would be great, especially newbies to Linux, a
Forum would be great news for myself.
Anyway, good luck and hopefully we'll meet up at some point?
Al
Stuart Lonnen wrote:
Hi all,
Just a quick email to follow up to some things said at the end of the
last meet.
First off, I know that I left the meet having failed miserable to set
up WEP encryption on my wireless connection under Linux...but, and I
can't offer an explanation for this but the following morning (around
5:30am) I plugged everything back in and powered up the laptop and
everything is now working! :-)
I was going to say that next month I would concentrate on getting my
scanner working and looking into the fine art of OCR, but I had a
little play about 1/2 an hour ago and it seems I'm on a roll, the
scanner (Mustek bearpaw 1200 CU Plus) is installed, configured and OCR
works reasonable well. :-)
Enough about my happy thoughts, it was mentioned at the end of the
meeting that there is some room for improvement within PLUG, most
noticeable is the website.
My thoughts on this are as follows:
1. The Peterborough lug website needs to be worked on; the next
meeting is currently set to read as 28 March 2006, if it's going to be
to time consuming to update the website monthly I feel that it would
be better to just change this to read that meetings occur on the last
Tuesday of the month.
2. Is it possible or even worthwhile adding a forum?
3. What does everyone think about posting the first names of active
members and which distro they use? This could give prospective new
members an idea of the likelihood of meeting a Plug member who maybe
able to offer them support with their distro of choice.
4. Could we list on the website somewhere topics that people want to
be discussed/attempted at specific meetings?
I have some other ideas about things we could do as a group.
How about running install days? We could encourage people to try out a
live version of Linux or even help with setting up dual-boot systems.
Does anyone think it would be worthwhile contacting the Central
Library or even one or more of the local branch libraries of
Peterborough with regards to finding a new venue to hold monthly
meetings or to run install days at?
Likewise would it be worth contacting the Peterborough Regional
College Dept. with respect to install days/introducing Linux to the
students?
BTW how much space do we have on the website? If we did run install
days and events would there be enough space for write-ups of events
with/out pictures.
Finally there are some things I am personally interested in with
regards to Linux. As a newbie/noob/numpty (delete as per your
preference) I would like some hand holding/advice with respect to the
following (and these are listed in no particular order):
1. Burning CD/DVD including ISOs
2. Using Skype or other telephony software under Linux.
3. How to compile from source code.
4. Recording desktop activity including voice/audio with respect to
creating tutorials.
5. Remote accessing of windows/Linux PCs under Linux.
6. Recording TV to HDD possibly using MythTV.
7. Emulation of 8bit computers from the 1980s (i.e., C64, Spectrum 48k
and Amstrad CPC range).
OK tirade over, what does everyone think?
Regards
Stuart
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