[Dorset] The Village Hotel - Yet Again

[D-LUG]

Ralph has just told me that none of my messages on this topic reached the 
list, so having checked back, I see that my follow-up that I sent from home 
went to Tim instead of the list - Doh!

Here is what I was trying to send:


Hi,

At the last Meeting we discussed the possibility of changing the venue after 
the problems that we had during the World Cup.  Prior to the Meeting someone 
had suggested the Village Hotel bar off list, but no-one seemed to know what 
it was like.

As it happens, I've just given someone a lift to the Royal Bournemouth 
Hospital which is just across the road so I'm typing this from their bar.  
Before I describe the place in detail, be aware that it is a hotel, not a pub, 
so there's no discounted beer or special offers.  Beer is between £4 and £5 a 
pint and the only draught bitter is Boddingtons.  They do have a reasonable 
range of other beers etc on tap (see photo).

Anyway, the bar is quite large and has quite a lot of tables, (all a very 
suitable height for laptops; some of the chairs are a bit hard though :-) ).  
It is divided up into areas (see photos).

At one end there are lots of tables on either side of the big screen and in 
the other two areas there are more tables which are separate from the big 
screen area.  The area that I'm in has no screen at all.

WiFi access is free and fast, but you do have to give an email address (if you 
fail to check the 'Please send me lots of useless spam' box, it still works).  
The car par is large, but is probably quite busy at night when all the 
residents are in.

I've just realised that I can't upload the promised photos from here because I 
don't have my FTP password with me, but I'll do it from home this evening.


After my trials I didn't bother to put up the pictures, since I think we need 
a place with Internet that works

-- 



Terry Coles



-- 
Next meeting:  Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-08-07 20:00
Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...  http://dorset.lug.org.uk/
New thread:  mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING
Reporting bugs well:  http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

Re: [Dorset] Stitching two pictures together

[PeterMerchant via dorset]

On 21/07/18 07:58, Terry Coles wrote:

On Friday, 20 July 2018 22:02:04 BST PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:

I have two halves of a birth certificate as separate jpgs. Can someone
advise me how I can 'stitch' them together. Each pic is 2/3 of the
certificate. I am not fluent in gimp or other graphical manipulation tools.

Try Hugin.  It's very good at this, although it's really designed to stitch a
series of landscape views together.

Just for closure. Hugin worked very well. It just took a bit of learning 
about how to use it.


Cheers,
Peter

--
Next meeting:  Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-08-07 20:00
Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...  http://dorset.lug.org.uk/
New thread:  mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING
Reporting bugs well:  http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2018-08-07.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish.  For those that
haven't been before look out for a flip of laptops, or Terry's stuffed
penguin.  

 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub
 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles

We are ideally in the pub's "snug", a small room off the right end of
the bar.  That seems the favourite for the early birds to bag.  Or we
might be to the far left of the bar in the corner, near a mains socket,
though that can get a blast of stale smoke; revenge from the now
sweltering gaspers when the door opens.  We like corners.

See you there.

Cheers, Ralph.

-- 
Next meeting:  Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-08-07 20:00
Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...  http://dorset.lug.org.uk/
New thread:  mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING
Reporting bugs well:  http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR