[Hampshire] July meeting

This is going ahead and Jeff Best is speaking. Hopefully there will be some notification going out shortly. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

[Hampshire] August meeting

Sadly, I am faced with probably having to cancel the August meeting. Since I do not want to do so at two minutes notice, I shall do so in the near future if no-one can make a constructive suggestion, either on or off list. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Linux support required in Southampton

Forwarding to Portsmouth and SEHants mailing list. Lisi On Friday 30 June 2017 15:51:33 Chris Dennis via Hampshire wrote: > On 29/06/17 13:29, Chris Dennis via Hampshire wrote: > > Hello HantsLuggers > > > > I've just had a phone call from someone in Southampton who needs support > > for a

[Hampshire] Fwd: Re: [Portsmouth LUG] Portsmouth Digest, Vol 395, Issue 1

That's a great offer! Thanks. Forwarding to HantsLUG Lisi -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Portsmouth LUG] Portsmouth Digest, Vol 395, Issue 1 Date: Friday 30 June 2017, 13:59:51 From: KingFisher via Portsmouth To:

Re: [Hampshire] [Portsmouth LUG] Fwd: Linux support required in Southampton

Forwarded on to Hants LUG list On Thursday 29 June 2017 19:56:13 aidangc...@btinternet.com wrote: > I'd be happy to assist if I can > However:- 1)I am not back in the UK until the middle of July. 2) I have > no means of direct contact with the OP > > > Aidan > > On 29/06/17 16:11, Lisi Reisz via

[Hampshire] Talk confirned for Saturday Portsmouth and South East hants PLUG meeting

PLEASE NOTE: TALK HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. The next Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux Users Group meeting will be this coming Saturday, 17th June 2017 from 13:00 to 18:00+ in the Broad Oaks Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Ian will be talking on: "Creating

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG meeting Saturday, 17th June 2017

The next Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux Users Group meeting will be this coming Saturday, 17th June 2017 from 13:00 to 18:00+ in the Broad Oaks Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Unfortunately the talk has not yet been able to be confirmed, But I am

[Hampshire] 3G and 4G signal at today's meeting.

"However indoor signal strength may vary." 3 Mobile is working on upgrading the signal in the BOSSC postcode from this Monday, the above is a quote from what to expect this weekend. Mystery of slightly erratic signal solved - but sorry for inconvenience. Hopefully the improvements will

[Hampshire] Further progress on projects from last month's Pi fest

I have just heard from Chris that the little Pi that was repaired is working beautifully and will be with him tomorrow for anyone that wants to see it. Also that he has done some more work on the Raspberry-Pi-television AIO so that now it runs from only one power source instead of three.

[Hampshire] Things I hope to bring to Saturday's meeting and might like help with.

Things I hope to bring to the meeting and might like help with. 1. There is my “new” netbook, at which I have so far not looked. If it has a shiny screen it will be no use to me for now, but I still don’t know whether it has. I am intending to try and install Stretch without systemd and with

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG meeting on Saturday

Belatedly, here is a call for the next Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux Users Group. This coming Saturday, 20th May 2017 from 13:00 to 18:00+ in the Broad Oaks Social Club, Hilsea. I haven't managed to get anything specific arranged, but that makes it an ideal opportunity for an

[Hampshire] PLUG Easter meeting addendum

The end got missed off that: Aidan Cole then gave us a very interesting talk on sshfs. The slides will soon go up on the web. Thank you Aidan, and sorry for the delay. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire

[Hampshire] PLUG Easter meeting

Here is my report on the Raspberry Pi Fest at the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group meeting on Saturday 15 April 2017, Easter Saturday. I would be grateful for corrections and offered re-writes before I put it up on the web. We had a lively and enjoyable session. Four

[Hampshire] ADMIN: Help with speakers - and other help - needed for Portsmouth and SE Hants LUG meetings

I was going to make my plea simultaneously with telling all those of you who missed it about our very interesting meeting last week. But life has caught up with me again, and it is probably already too late to plead with someone to help with a speaker for May. But please, people. Many of you

Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] Raspberry Jam - April 30th - Egham, Surrey

On Tuesday 11 April 2017 14:06:47 Lisi Reisz via Surrey wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2017 12:50:51 Martin Rowe via Surrey wrote: > > Date for your diary. Everyone welcome. > > > > Raspberry Jam - Sunday April 30th 14:00-17:00 - Gartner Offices in > > Egham,Surrey (M25 Junction 13). > > > >

Re: [Hampshire] Portsmouth and SE Hampshire LUG meeting on Easter Saturday

Correction - but it does say Easter Saturday! On Friday 07 April 2017 23:46:28 Lisi Reisz via Hampshire wrote: > The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User > Group will be next Saturday, 15th APRIL 2017, from 13:00 to 18:00+, at > Broad Oak Sports and So

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and SE Hampshire LUG meeting on Easter Saturday

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 15th March 2017, from 13:00 to 18:00+, at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.php We shall have our usual Bring a

[Hampshire] Slides from Portsmouth and SE Hants talks

At long last I have put the slides from Adam Trickett and Luke Stutters talks on the website. I have had both for some time - Adam's since days after his talk and Luke's for some six weeks - and apologise for my own dilatory performance. At least Luke's were on the mailing list!

[Hampshire] Adapters for Saturday's Portsmouth and SE Hants LUG meeting

"Our" projector has a VGA connection. Most laptops these days do not. Could all of you please bring Video port adapters with you if you own such things? In particular Display Port, HDMI, Mini (or is it Micro?) Display Port to or from any of them or any other video port - DVI anyone? - to

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and SE Hampshire LUG meeting on Saturday

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be the coming Saturday, 18th March 2017, from 13:00 to 18:00+, at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.php The talk is that which

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG March meeting

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be on Saturday 18th March 2017, from 13:00 to 18:00+, at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.php The talk is that which was

[Hampshire] Last reminder: Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG meeting tomorrow

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be tomorrow, Saturday 18th February 2017, from 13:00 to 18:00+, at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.php We have a change of

Re: [Hampshire] Change of speaker for Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG meeting

Paul Tansom sent the following reply to Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG Note he last sentence. ** Lisi Reisz via Portsmouth [2017-02-14 23:35]: > We have a change of speaker for the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire > meeting this Saturday. Dr.

[Hampshire] Change of speaker for Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG meeting

We have a change of speaker for the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire meeting this Saturday. Dr. Jacek Kopecky is unfortunately indisposed. Dr. Thomas Kluyver has kindly stepped in and will talk about the Southampton sailing robot project. He warns that this will be a bit repetitive for

[Hampshire] Speaker for Saturday.

I am so sorry. For personal reasons this month's speaker is unable to be with us. He hopes to be with us another month. For personal reasons I have very little time to look for another speaker. Is anyone able to step into the breach? If you could do it, but transport is a problem, get back

Re: [Hampshire] Any of you guys after a Job in Portsmouth?

On Tuesday 07 February 2017 11:57:31 Aaron West via Hampshire wrote: > Hi Guys, > > It's been years since I last posted on here at all but I'm in a bit of a > bind looking for a good support engineer for our team. > > Key skills are of course Linux but also some networking and Microsoft > server

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG February meeting

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be on Saturday 18th February 2017, from 13:00 to 18:00+, at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.php Dr. Jacek Kopecky will give us

[Hampshire] Final reminder: Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG meeting tomorrow, Saturday 21st January 2017

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be tomorrow, Saturday 21st January 2017 from 13:00 to 18:00+ at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.php Dr. Adam Trickett will be

[Hampshire] Partitioning etc. problem was: Re: [Portsmouth LUG] Does anyone use Fedora?

On Sunday 15 January 2017 17:10:37 Lisi Reisz via Portsmouth wrote: > Does anyone other than Thomas use Fedora? And is said user going to be at > the meeting next Saturday? Further to this. I had received the following request for help: I want to install Linux Fedora 25 on my laptop, but I get

[Hampshire] Does anyone use Fedora?

Does anyone other than Thomas use Fedora? And is said user going to be at the meeting next Saturday? Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hampshire LUG meeting on Saturday 21st January 2017

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be on Saturday 21st January 2017 from 13:00 to 18:00+ at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.php Dr. Adam Trickett will be giving a

[Hampshire] Thomas Kluyver's slides etc. are up

Thomas Kluyver's slides etc. are now up on the web, including some new material. The layout still needs working on, but all the information is there. Hopefully I shall succeed in improving the layout a little bit over the next 24 hours. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/201612.html

[Hampshire] Final Reminder: Portsmouth and South-East Hampshire LUG December meeting

Final reminder for the next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group, tomorrow, Saturday 17th December 2016 from 13:00 t0 18:00+, at the Broad Oak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. For information on everything from car parking to the location of the club and room,

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group meeting on Saturday 17th December 2016

The next meeting of the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux User Group will be on Saturday 17th December 2016 from 13:00 t0 18:00+ at the Broad Oak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. For information on everything from car parking to the location of the club and room, please do read

[Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hampshire last and future meetings

We had a good meeting last Saturday. Gareth gave us a very interesting talk on drones and model planes. Unfortunately safety considerations meant that he could not give us a demonstration. He is an enthusiastic hobbyist, but says that new safety regulations may effectively put hobbyists out

[Hampshire] FINAL REMINDER: Portsmouth Linux User Group November Meeting

The November Portsmouth Linux User Group Bring a Box meeting will be held tomorrow, Saturday November 19th, from 13:00 t0 18:00+ at the Broad Oak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html This will be an opportunity to install or update Linux for those who want

Re: [Hampshire] free DDR3 RAM

On Thursday 17 November 2016 08:43:33 A. J. Trickett via Hampshire wrote: > Hi, > > Before I buy them, does any one have a spare pair of 2 GiB > DDR2-800/PC2-6400 SODIMMs that they no longer need? > > I've been given an old HP CQ60 laptop fitted with two 1 GiB of RAM > and taking it up to the

[Hampshire] GoPro Hero 4 Silver "action camera"

This seems not to have got through. If it has in fact got through, and this is the second copy you receive, I apologise. But it isn't so far in the archives. I mentioned two projects for Saturday's PLUG meeting. In the end there are three. Here is Chris Aubrey-Smith's first one. Second to

[Hampshire] Broken Raspberry-Pi SD card holder

I've broken my Raspberry Pi. A well-documented weakness, the incredibly fragile SD card holder has broken. There are accounts on the web of how users have replaced this, but Dr. Parkinson has ensured that my days of wielding a soldering iron are probably over. If any electronics hobbyist

[Hampshire] URGENT CORRIGENDUM:  SATURDAY 19th November Re: Portsmouth Linux User Group November Meeting

It will be on **SATURDAY 19th** November On Sunday 13 November 2016 22:48:21 Lisi Reisz via Hampshire wrote: > The November meeting of the Portsmouth Linux User Group will be held on > 17th November, from 13:00 to 18:00+, in the Broad Oak Sports and Social > Club: http://www.portsmouth.l

[Hampshire] Talk on building and programming a drone

May I ask those of you who are members of Hack Spaces or Maker Spaces or groups to publicise this talk to your members, who may well be interested. Gareth Owenson (né Owen) will be giving a talk on Saturday at the PLUG meeting entitled "Building and Programming Drones."

[Hampshire] Portsmouth Linux User Group November Meeting

The November meeting of the Portsmouth Linux User Group will be held on 17th November, from 13:00 to 18:00+, in the Broad Oak Sports and Social Club: http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Please come and make it a lively and helpful meeting. I have been notified of at least two projects

[Hampshire] Problems with replying to list.

If I reply to list from a mailing list folder, I normally achieve just that. I have just checked several other LUGS. If I reply to list from my Hampshire LUG folder it replies to me. Why on earth and what can I do? KMail 1.9.10 on Trinity DE R14.0.4. Lisi -- Please post to:

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

On Friday 04 November 2016 16:24:31 Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: > 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

[Hampshire] Speakers wanted

We (PLUG) are in need of volunteers for speakers. Come on, some of you must have something you could/would like to share! ;-) Any length of talk welcomed: full length talks are great, but so are two minute demonstrations. In particular, has anyone got anything fun for our December meeting?

[Hampshire] SORRY

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[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG meeting reminder

Tomorrow is the third Saturday, and we therefore have our BaB meeting at 13:00 in Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Note that in addition to Jeff doing his postponed talk on JjQuery and Node.js, John W is also doing a short mystery talk, and Thomas Kuyver may just possibly be

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG meeting reminder

Tomorrow is the third Saturday, and we therefore have our BaB meeting at 13:00 in Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Note that in addition to Jeff doing his postponed talk on JjQuery and Node.js, John W is also doing a short mystery talk, and Thomas Kuyver may just possibly be

[Hampshire] Sandwiches for Saturday.

One of our ongoing problems is the lack of available food. Seasoned visitors come provided, but sometimes people are caught short, or once or twice a new attender hasn't known Yes, I know that I say so, but people don't read things. So I hope you are reading this. Starting this Saturday, as

[Hampshire] Portsmouth Linux User Group October 2016 meeting

We are still hoping to hear what is to become of Hampshire LUG. But whatever may be its eventual fate, and there are reasons for optimism that at least this mailing list will survive (\o/), give us a try anyway! We are very welcoming. We are just in the Unitary Authority of Portsmouth, but

[Hampshire] Final Reminder: Portsmouth Linux User Group September Meeting

I had hoped to know by the time I sent this what was to become of Hampshire LUG. But give us a try anyway! We are just in the Unitary Authority of Portsmouth, but are almost into Hampshire, not right down at the tip of Portsea Island, and we are very welcoming. The next meeting of Portsmouth

[Hampshire] Portsmouth Linux User Group September Meeting

I had hoped to know by the time I sent this what was to become of Hampshire LUG. But give us a try anyway! We are just in the Unitary Authority of Portsmouth, but are almost into Hampshire, not right down at the tip of Portsea Island, and we are very welcoming. The next meeting of Portsmouth

Re: [Hampshire] [JOB] Full Stack Engineer – Web Development & Other roles

On Saturday 03 September 2016 11:53:21 Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire wrote: > Hello All, > > My employers, Jobsite Ltd, are looking to fill several technical roles: > http://www.jobsite.co.uk/vacancies?agency_id=17872 > > Most are based at our Havant offices. Not all are Linux-related! > > It's the

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG September meeting

Our talk on 17th September will, Deo volente, be “Open Source Science” by Matthew Withers. For more details about both the talk and Matthew, see: http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/201609.html I am looking forward to this. I am assured that the original topic of Astrophotography is

[Hampshire] Report on PLUG August meeting

Luke Stutters gave us a very interesting talk on making contact over the Internet with ssh, in particular by using a virtual Ubuntu server in Google Compute Engine. Hopefully he will be letting us have some slides to put up on the website. Thank you very much, Luke. We are very grateful.

[Hampshire] Final Reminder: Portsmouth Linux User Group August 2016 meeting

The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be Saturday, 20th August, (tomorrow), from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html Note that Hilsea, which is almost out of Portsmouth and into Hampshire, is very accessible

Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG

On Thursday 11 August 2016 21:10:35 Tony Whitmore via Hampshire wrote: > Is just leaving the hants.lug.org.uk domain and the mailing list intact > an option? Presumably that is zero cost and would allow what little > traffic there is to the mailing list (and whatever to the website) to > continue.

Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG

On Wednesday 10 August 2016 22:59:32 Tim Brocklehurst via Hampshire wrote: > Details of the date and location will follow in a second e-mail. I would > urge everyone to attend if at all possible. Ultimately, it's your LUG and > up to you to decide it's future. May I make a plea that you avoid the

Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG

On Wednesday 10 August 2016 22:59:32 Tim Brocklehurst via Hampshire wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Sparked by the imminent renewal of the HantsLUG domain name, the committee > has recently been discussing the future of the group. If there was > significant mailing list traffic we would just renew

Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG

On Wednesday 10 August 2016 22:59:32 Tim Brocklehurst via Hampshire wrote: > a) Nominations for suitable open-source projects/LUGs/Makerspaces etc. are > called for, over a period of a week. A list of all nominations will be > posted by the chairman. Nominations must be linux-related, open-source

[Hampshire] Portsmouth Linux User Group August 2016 meeting

This is coincidence, not design. I was half way through typing the emails for this announcement when the sad news came. But all the more reason why you might want to give us a try, and some encouragement. The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be Saturday, 20th August, from

Re: [Hampshire] [Portsmouth LUG] Help! Speaker(s) and or helpers/teachers needed for August.

On Monday 25 July 2016 19:37:34 Jeffrey Best wrote: > I have a talk, "A Whistle-stop Tour of jQuery and Node.JS", ready to > roll if you are desperate. It isn't very exciting. Thank you, Jeffrey. Yes, please. But how now do I publicise a talk you have already told everyone you think is

[Hampshire] Help! Speaker(s) and or helpers/teachers needed for August.

Anyone? Our speaker having had to reschedule, we are left without a speaker for our next meeting. Whilst that gives us an especially good opportunity to offer help to newbies, and find solutions to members' problems, many people come largely for the talk. Then find enjoyment in the chat and

[Hampshire] July Portsmouth LUG meeting

I apologise for this announcement being late. The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 16th July, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. The tennis is over, so

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG Past and Future Speakers

The last speaker, Prue Amner, sent me her slides on the Saturday she spoke to us, and I am very remiss in not having passed them on sooner. I cannot open them in Power Point to check what happens, because I have not got it, but they appear to open reasonably in Google slides and Impress. They

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG Meeting on Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00

The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. You wouldn't miss an England match, and it doesn't sound like very good

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG Meeting on Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00

The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. Prue Amner will be talking about the dawn of computing. (She gave up

Re: [Hampshire] Bootable USB drives

On Tuesday 31 May 2016 12:12:52 Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: > I am trying to replace an old failed Epos system which is no longer made > with a second hand pos PC. > > The new second hand PC had its disk wiped so I had to buy a copy of > Microsoft "PosReady2009" which is a version of XP for

[Hampshire] Final reminder: Portsmouth LUG meeting tomorrow, Saturday May 21st

The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be tomorrow, Saturday, 21st May, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. It will be our usual Bring a Box meeting: bring your problems, bring

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG meeting on Saturday May 21st

The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 21st May, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. It will be our usual Bring a Box meeting: bring your problems, bring your