We are still holding the linux user group meetings once a month
If you interested i would join the mailing list for information as we generally have meetings when we all can make it.
We are now going to the gregson institute for the meetings and we are more open now and include other technologies including coding and now we can talk about our apple macs and other devices!!!!
take a look at our site for details on the mail in list etc
been using handbrake for years on my macs but wanted it for my shiny new ubuntu 11.10 installation – the links on the handbrake site didn’t work to good so i follow these instructions which worked great – handbrake looks better on linux than its does on mac!!!
http://pasindudps.blogspot.com/2011/11/install-handrake-in-ubuntu-1110-oneiric.html
Just finished my triple boot machine – dual booting etc is usually but hackintosh ubuntu and windows can be trick with boot loaders so done in the right sequence and using chemeleon for the boot loader seems the right way – take a look at this blog for instructions
here
We held this months lancaster linux user group meeting on the 2nd wednesday of the month this time to fit in with everyones busy schedules! We havent had a meeting for a few months because we have all been to busy hence the change to the second week! Quite a good turn out so thanks to everyome who turned up! Dave brought his open moko and give us a demo of the new OS he had installed which was pretty slick – he connected it to his laptop and updated the phone using wireless from his laptop which worked nicely then he can install the network app and install the updates and proggies straight from the phone 
nice bit of kit
We talked about installing multiple operating systems on x86 hardware – making it triple boot with linux / mac / windows
We also discussed various laptops – netbooks and using external devices on the units such as external monitors and keyboards etc.
We also talked about video software and capturing video and audio – i mentioned zoneminder which is a opensource Linux video camera security and surveillance solution. Very mature product – with online viewing of cctv
I took a look at a toshiba laptop and used the hotkeys – shift and escape to change the boot order in the bios and kicked of a fedora install – i had to leave before the install finished so ill update the blog to let you know if the install finished ok and the laptop works right!!
we also had a long conversation regarding building web pages and uploading them using a ftp client – we talked about using kompozer aka NVU – cross platform software which can get you bulding web pages in minutes take a look here after the site is finished if you can use various ftp clients I use gftp as its nice and easy and very robust take a look here both items should be installable by apt so i would type apt-get install kompozer gftp – this should install both apps for you
The linux meetings are held at the brittania pub on ulswater road lancaster on the first wednesday of every month at around 8pm – I would suggest adding yourself to the lug mailing list as some months we may change it to the second wednesday of the month if everyone cant make the first!!!!
Please feel free to come along and talk – newbies welcome!! we cover all areas – linux / mac / windows – servers – laptops – workstations – mobile phones!!! come along and join in – good beer & free wifi!!!!!
Well i installed it I had to compile from source and i made some x86 and 64 bit deb packages with checkinstall while I was at it!! if any one wants a deb version just ask!!
Well for one thing i noticed the gtk version is better than the KDE version!! why?!!
And for linux i wouldnt waste your time its piss poor sorry google!!
But is meant to be cross platform! half the plugins dont work!!!
Id say install kde4 and use the widgets with that + with the widgets you can use mac osx widgets!
I found a couple of widgets that worked ok but it aint worth it! nice idea like???!!?
Hello and sorry for the late meeting minutes!!
We had a short meeting this month as i was also at another meeting on the same night!!! The morecambe mini club at the strawberry gardens..
Anyway I got there nice and early but some had stole our seats in the green room!! Anyway ken turned up and we had a chat at the bar about vista on his new computer microsofts biggest failure!! then dave turned up and then andy for a while as he had another meeting aswell!!
We had a look at kens new laptop and looked at suse linux 11 – very impressive runnning yast in the console and kstars and a graphic stacking program.
The laptop ran great very responsive I even tried suse out myself after seeing that you can add a realtime kernel patch for audio editing and you get kde 4 built on the new suse 11 live image.. i blogged it at www.wayneward.co.uk
We also talked about various discussions we could have
Me: Install and setup kolab server – configure domain and users – add shared calendar / contacts / notes / events – add kontact client to kolab server.
Ken – Graphic editing using – gimp / krita – Basic editing and layers.
Andy – Music editing part II- Midi editing
Please let us know if you have anything you would like to talk about
or if you have any comments about the ideas we have if your intrested in these etc.
Regards
Wayne
Just re-added my wordpress to facebook plugin
handy if you blog posts it to your face book 2!!
so if you are lucky enough to have a wordpress like me one of the privelaged
get this
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/
My laptop has been runing debain since christmas
No problems it sleeps allt eh programs i need wicked
I seen that kde 4.1 was released so i assumed they had fixed kdepim
So i went for it like a fool and barfed my laptop!!!! Damn!!
I pulled down the latest debian eeepc image (the lenny beta)
Copied it across to the sd card and did a install over wireless
No problems added unstable repos and installed kde 3.5.9
Worked a treat no problems !!!
Kde 4.1 is nice but still not ready 4 me im afraid 
Go on say it why didnt you test in a virtual box baaa
I managed to knacker my kolab server (its a kontact server!) so i backed up my server SQL blah blah
Reinstalled my server imported back in my sql logs
But guess what my wordpress sql dump barfed!!! aagggghhhh months of blogging gone!!
A bit of advice do a export from your blog before a reinstall!!!!!!!
Well a nice fresh start sorry to anyone is using my old blog as reference
Peace
