Herefordshire Linux and Open Source User Group

Hah! The clever Ubuntu 8.04 found and identified my wireless card immediately after I'd struggled for hours to find it with an updated XP system. In XP the card wasn't seen at all in a normal hardware search. Delving deeper by another programme found it but displayed a yellow ? meaning unknown. Intel's website searched my laptop and told me the card isn't an Intel product (oh yes it is). Eventually I discovered a clever detective program which searched out all of my hardware, confirming what Ububtu had discovered. Then I was able to download the necessary driver and made my wifi work in XP.

Our next meeting will be held again on the third Weds of the month, ie 16th September 2009 as below :-

We will be returning to Cookie's this month in Leominster and we'll be returning there this month.

Where : Cookies Internet Cafe, Computer Shop, Art Gallery, 3 Black Swan Walk, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8HU

Time :- 7.30pm - 9.30pm(ish). The shop will be open just for us.
Topic :- Preparations for Software Freedom Day coming this Saturday. Also the usual Linux and open source help, advice and chat Please bring your pc and talk Linux!

The August meeting will take place on Wednesday 19th from 7pm at my home in Hereford city centre. The address details are on the mailing list, or email me on paul (at) vintage-radio.com.

There is a public car park nearby which is free after 6pm. Tea, coffee, biscuits and wireless internet are available. If anyone fancies a pint afterwards there are pubs only a couple of minutes walk away.

There is no specific plans for the evening, however we should discuss our plans for Software Freedom Day in September http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/Herefordshire

Paul Stenning

I know its been over a month now since Mint 7 was released, but I thought "better late than never" and decided to upgrade my current distro (Mint 6)...

I've been using stickwikis for my internal notes
since I read about them in a linux mag
www.stickwiki.com (is my link to them)
but as I havnt half a year spare to decipher the javascript
I worry if something goes wrong I wont be able to recover my data
so I've been looking for some way to keep lots of notes
with hyperlinks to others on my hard disk like
[file:///D:/hatfield-d/hatfieldw/hatfield-gwiki.htm]

The best I've come up with so far is NVU
http://www.nvu.com/
which is opensource and trisexual (mac winxp ubuntu)
and I can rightclick a link and jump there in another window

Our next meeting will be held again on the third Weds of the month, ie 15th July 2009 as below :-

Last month we tried out Cookie's and we'll be returning there this month.

Cookies in Leominster, is not just an Internet Cafe, but a Computer shop, and Art Gallery too.

Where : Cookies Internet Cafe, Computer Shop, Art Gallery, 3 Black Swan Walk, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8HU

This is currently the new venue for our meetings. Cookies is a wide ranging shop, Intenet cafe, and Art Gallery - something for everyone. Cookey's main focus is now being an all-round computer centre with a shop, Internet cafe, Training facilities and technical support services. They are there for both before and after you purchase just like a true local retailer should be! They sell, various computer accessories, upto netbooks, laptops and desktops.
They even sell Linux net books too. Matthew the owner also provides computer training and help with Windows or Linux pc's.

Just a quick mention to let anyone know, that we will be having a Social get together for May's meeting at the Black Lion pub in Hereford. Dates are being finalised, but will occurred next week, probably on the Tuesday 19th May.

If you are interested, please join our group, and/or check out our mailing list for details.#

I will post more details, when we confirm the exact date.

I managed to upgrade to a T-Mobile G1 phone in the weekend, I say phone but really its the closest I've seen a phone come to a computer with a phone stuck on it. Convergence is a reality, not a dream any more.

Why do I mention it on here ? Because it runs the Android operating system, using Linux kernel 2.6.27. The operating system is very polished, and I would think gives a very positive impression on using an Android Google phone.

I've attached the Open Office Presentation (in ODP and PDF formats) to this post that has a breakdown of the results.

The last page is probably the most interesting from my point of view - what people want from the LUG. Apart from the obvious "Free Beer", there are some good suggestions about advocacy and the survey as a whole raised the issue that there are a large number of people who have come across to Linux via Ubuntu and now want to learn more complex things such as setting up webservers and even compiling from source.