Re: [Hampshire] Southampton Python User Group

2016-07-05 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
ocolat!) > > I guess someone could argue that a Linux list would get overrun by > cross platform language user groups like (for e.g.) perl, ruby and > javascript, but I think the volume is low enough and the relevance high > enough to cope. > > Cheers, > Chris Edsall > >

Re: [Hampshire] Southampton Python User Group

2016-07-05 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
ent. > > Thank you Thomas > > > On 30/06/2016 12:18, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We're starting up a Python user group in Southampton, and I thought > > there might be some overlap of interests with this list. Our next > > mee

[Hampshire] Southampton Python User Group

2016-06-30 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi all, We're starting up a Python user group in Southampton, and I thought there might be some overlap of interests with this list. Our next meeting is at 6pm on Tuesday (5th July), when we'll be hearing from Robin Wilson about how he wrote Python code in one weekend to process millions of

Re: [Hampshire] HTTPS Certificate problem

2017-02-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
I'm not at all an expert on HTTPS, but if you're running a public web server now, the standard advice is to use letsencrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/ ) to create certificates. They're free and you can get them from an API, but unlike a self-signed certificate, it will be trusted by all major

Re: [Hampshire] Testing your code with CircleCI - 6pm Thursday 4th August, Southampton Uni

2016-08-05 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
astructure. > >Andy > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > The next Southampton Python User Group talk will be a bit more hands on; > > it's best to bring a laptop if possible: > > > > Continuous Integra

Re: [Hampshire] ELF problem

2016-09-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016, at 05:48 PM, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > I can only guess that the program isn't expecting a 64-bit system. Is > there any way round this? If it's a 32-bit program, it will need a complete set of 32-bit libraries. It's possible to install these on a 64-bit

[Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (Southampton Python group)

2016-09-27 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be on Monday, with a talk about robotic sailing: When: 6pm, Monday 3rd October Where: Room 1083, Nuffield Theatre (Building 6), University of Southampton. (Right by the university bus interchange, if you're coming on public transport)

Re: [Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (Southampton Python group)

2016-09-28 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote: > Why would I want a robot if I can just lash the tiller, trim the mizzen > and sit back and marvel at what the old lady does all on her own? A speaker introducing the conference after the competition did trace the history of

Re: [Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (Southampton Python group)

2016-09-28 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016, at 02:22 PM, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote: > I remember an article some years ago about a robot auto-navigation > voyage in which, as so often happens in cars, they'd put in a slightly > wrong name and the yacht ended up on the west coast of America, rather > than in

Re: [Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (Southampton Python group)

2016-10-03 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016, at 03:04 PM, Andy Random via Hampshire wrote: > I'm hoping to be there, any idea how long the talk is? The talk itself will probably be around 40 minutes; with the refreshments and the lightning talks I guess it will be an hour or a bit over in total. -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] How to get a laptop with Linux?

2016-11-03 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
System76 do a range of laptops with Ubuntu; they're US based, but ship internationally: https://system76.com/laptops Dell sell a few laptops with Ubuntu installed. The UK site usually seems to say they're unavailable, but maybe a phone call would have better results. The XPS 13 in particular is a

Re: [Hampshire] How to get a laptop with Linux?

2016-11-04 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, at 09:03 AM, Bob Dunlop via Hampshire wrote: > Avoid modern Lenovo [1]. Although they've reluctantly issued a BIOS > fix it sounds like it a performance hit. Lenovo's Thinkpad line is still mostly pretty good with Linux, at least when I was looking last year. Those

Re: [Hampshire] Best place to buy a Raspberry Pi?

2017-01-09 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017, at 06:27 PM, Andy Random via Hampshire wrote: > So where is the best place to buy one? I haven't bought one either, but I was looking around before Christmas. There are dedicated sites based in the UK like Modmypi and Pimoroni, where you can get the boards with a wide

[Hampshire] Southampton Python meeting - detecting clickbait using machine learning

2017-04-20 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be a workshop on text processing and machine learning. If you're coming to this, please bring a laptop to get the most out of it. Detect clickbait with machine learning Date: 6pm-7.30pm 3rd May 2017 Venue: University of Southampton,

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry Pi based Air quality monitoring project

2017-05-09 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Tue, May 9, 2017, at 10:19 AM, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: > They have raced ahead developing the monitor but have now reached the > point of early deployment and have come against an unexpected problem. > How to organise themselves. They are about to receive some grant funding > but

Re: [Hampshire] Linux laptop

2017-05-02 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Tue, May 2, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > If I were to get one of these: > >

Re: [Hampshire] Home user Linux Support opportunities in Southampton/Eastleigh area?

2017-09-20 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017, at 09:06 PM, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Since everyone has a phone > or tablet these days it might be more traction. Lets see. Yes, anecdotally it does seem like many people are using phones & tablets at home now rather than desktops & laptops. I'm thinking of offering to do a

Re: [Hampshire] Home user Linux Support opportunities in Southampton/Eastleigh area?

2017-09-20 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017, at 06:27 PM, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote: > Sounds good to me, we have a gap next month I'm trying to fill - or any > month after that if anyone is interested. Any talks most welcome ;-) I can't make the October meeting, unfortunately. I think I can make November, but

Re: [Hampshire] Home user Linux Support opportunities in Southampton/Eastleigh area?

2017-09-14 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017, at 08:44 PM, Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Thanks for that Thomas, this is the first I've heard about the Repair > Cafe concept but I fully support the idea.> > I will try to pop along to the next one in October. Cool! Shall I put you in touch with the organiser? > In the

Re: [Hampshire] Home user Linux Support opportunities in Southampton/Eastleigh area?

2017-09-10 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi Imran, It's not a business, but I recently started helping at the Southampton repair cafe, which runs monthly on the first Saturday of the month. Among other things, people bring in computers and electronic devices to be repaired. There's an explicit aim to help people keep using stuff rather

[Hampshire] Southampton Python talk, Thursday 5th October

2017-09-26 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi all, Southampton Python will be having a talk a week on Thursday. Title: Sustainable Scientific Software Development Speaker: Alice Harpole, University of Southampton Time: 6pm, Thursday 5th October Venue: University of Southampton, Building 7 Room 3023 Here's a university map to help find

[Hampshire] Southampton Python talk - testing with pytest, 29th November

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi all, There's another southampton-python talk coming up, this time about testing. **Python testing with pytest: motivation, demonstration, and practices** Mark Vousden When: 6pm, Wednesday 29th November Where: Southampton University, Building 6 (Nuffield Theatre), Room 1081

[Hampshire] Southampton Python talk - data visualisation

2018-02-26 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi all, This is quite short notice, but the Southampton Python group is having a talk about data visualisation on Wednesday (28th February): **Visualising Data interactively** Nana Abankwa When: 6pm, Wednesday 28th February Where: Southampton University, Building 6 (Nuffield Theatre), Room 1077

Re: [Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG - SURPRISE NO APRIL MEETING!

2020-04-15 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
Hi all, Greetings from Edinburgh! I moved away a couple of years ago, but stayed on the list in case I happen to be down near there at the right time for a PLUG meeting. Sadly, that hasn't happened yet. We had an EdLUG meeting on Jitsi recently, and it worked pretty well for most people, with

Re: [Hampshire] Linux and LED Scrolling Signs

2020-10-26 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, at 08:59, Rob via Hampshire wrote: > What we're after (for work) is a sign which shows either > something like "All Systems Go" or lists the server(s) down. > > I guess we could "sacrifice" a display and leave it on 24/7/365 but a > sign would seem to be a better (greener)

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop

2021-01-27 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, at 14:15, Gareth Evans via Hampshire wrote: > Matlab has an online benchmarking tool, which may be useful if you can > try it on prospective machines... The link you provided isn't an online benchmarking tool - it's the documentation for a benchmark function you can run in

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop

2021-01-27 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, at 10:05, Owain via Hampshire wrote: > He currently has a Lenovo ideapad 510, which has a i3 processor (2.3GHz) and > 4G ram. Having spoken to him more the problem seems to be not just with > matlab, though the way he's using that is memory intensive, as it reports > using

Re: [Hampshire] Large Backup for long term storage

2021-04-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, at 13:49, Chris Ellis via Hampshire wrote: > Have a look at backblaze.com, they offer some very compelling pricing. I think this depends whether you can use their 'unlimited' personal backup ($60 per year). If there's some 'fair use' policy that doesn't let you store 16 TB,

Re: [Hampshire] Large Backup for long term storage

2021-04-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, at 12:22, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire wrote: > * Cloud (privacy issues and would mean an ongoing cost as well as a dreadful > time to upload I'm not particularly advocating this, but if you do go for the cloud option, the big 3 cloud providers all have services where they

Re: [Hampshire] Joint LUG Event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

2021-09-29 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
We've had enough problems now that we're going to move over to the BigBlueButton server we use for EdLUG: https://links.taikedz.net/?id=bbb-edlug On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, at 19:15, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote: > On 29/09/2021 00:39, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote: >> On Mozilla Hubs -

Re: [Hampshire] Joint LUG Event: Lightning talks on Linux audio

2021-09-30 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, at 09:25, Gordon Scott via Hampshire wrote: > I can see Mozilla Hubs working for a small group chat ... book club or > similar. > It appears to me fundamentally flawed with a speaker and shared screen(s). Yeah, the need to position yourself close enough to the speaker to

Re: [Hampshire] How to connect Android phone to Debian system

2023-05-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire
On Mon, 1 May 2023, at 13:02, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire wrote: > It may be that I will have to take the phone and the files on a memory > stick to a public library and use a Windows computer there. If the goal is to get some files on or off the phone, there are also options to transfer