Hi All I did try to get a forum going some time ago but at that time there was little or no interest in it by the members. The preference seemed to be for the mailing list although I think an RSS feed was discussed as another preference at the time but never got off the ground..
I have some limited html skills and would be happy to be happy to at least try and keep the current site up to date if that would help. I seem to remember that there was a problem accessing the files for the site last time we discussed this - is this still the case? All we need is for a few of us to have access and we can all keep it up to date. It doesn't have to be too demanding - we can work on a new design as we go along. Stuart has suggested some great idea's which I certainly feel are worthy of further discussion. May I suggest a social type meeting, perhaps in a couple of weeks ( and at a suitable real ale establishment) :) so that we can chat informally about the way forward an bring in idea's from all members as to how they want to see things develop. Things have been stagnating for a while now so it is perhaps a good time to make this a more exciting year for us all. In fact lets take the bull by the horns and make a date now - how does next Wednesday (7th) 7 to 7.30 at a pub of someone else's suggestion sound? Anybody up for it? Stu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Lonnen Sent: 02 February 2007 21:01 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Follow-up to 30th January PLUG meeting Hi Al, I have zero knowledge about usb modems (or indeed pci modems in general) so cannot help with getting them working... ...however I do have an old (still working) USRobotics serial modem (gotta love hardware modems ;-) )that you can have if you want. It maybe just the thing to get you onto the internet - although it will restricted you to the speed of 56k modem. I can bring it with me to the next meeting if you want? Regards Stuart On 02/02/07, alan dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peterboro mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.19/663 - Release Date: 01/02/2007 14:28 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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