Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] [Meeting] Bring-a-Box: Saturday at Red Hat, Farnborough

2010-11-10 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Dominic Cleal wrote: I almost forgot... On 09/11/10 21:02, Dominic Cleal wrote: = Things going on = Lots of things offered this month, hopefully we can enjoy a few of them. * Freaky Clown's running his epic Surrey LUG quiz * Richard Crossley on his Guruplug server * (hopefully)

[Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread Stephen Davies
to all HantsLug, Many of you may well have heard of Groklaw. (http://www.groklaw.net) At least two of HantsLug members are regular contibutors. I'm one and 'Vic' is another. If you are a contributor like us then you will probably know of the award that PJ and Groklaw has just received from

[Hampshire] Smart cards

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Tansom
Has anyone experimented with using a smart card and reader for authentication? I'm sure somebody must have. I'm just starting to look into it and was wondering where might be the best place to purchase a card from (not the reader, I'm fairly confident with that, although suggestions won't be

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread alan c
On 10/11/10 18:58, Stephen Davies wrote: to all HantsLug, Many of you may well have heard of Groklaw. (http://www.groklaw.net) At least two of HantsLug members are regular contibutors. I'm one and 'Vic' is another. If you are a contributor like us then you will probably know of the award

Re: [Hampshire] Smart cards

2010-11-10 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 10 November 2010 19:13, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: Has anyone experimented with using a smart card and reader for authentication? I'm sure somebody must have. I'm just starting to look into it and was wondering where might be the best place to purchase a card from (not the reader,

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread John Cooper
On 10/11/10 18:58, Stephen Davies wrote: to all HantsLug, Many of you may well have heard of Groklaw. (http://www.groklaw.net) At least two of HantsLug members are regular contibutors. I'm one and 'Vic' is another. If you are a contributor like us then you will probably know of the award that

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread Vic
GNU/Linux is offensive to me It shouldn't be. Linux is a kernel. To make a useful OS, you kinda need some userspace programs. That userspace is what converts Linux into GNU/Linux. If you sat it atop Hurd, it would be GNU/Hurd. Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 00:23, Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote: GNU/Linux is offensive to me It shouldn't be. Linux is a kernel. To make a useful OS, you kinda need some userspace programs. That userspace is what converts Linux into GNU/Linux. If you sat it atop Hurd, it would be GNU/Hurd. I

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread John Cooper
On 11/11/10 00:23, Vic wrote: GNU/Linux is offensive to me It shouldn't be. Linux is a kernel. To make a useful OS, you kinda need some userspace programs. That userspace is what converts Linux into GNU/Linux. If you sat it atop Hurd, it would be GNU/Hurd. Vic. And Apache converts

Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

2010-11-10 Thread Vic
And Apache converts Linux, GNU et al to a Web server. You're mixing apples and oranges there... The OS is defined according to the POSIX spec. To create that OS, you need both the kernel (Linux) and the userland (GNU, typically). Apache et al are applications that run on top of the OS. They