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June 2017
Beeston Blue Moon Beers
Folks, Putting our super-cool sunglasses away for a damp week post-summer solstice, we have an extra Thursday to shine for The Star... Yep! It's a Beeston Blue Moon! :-) There's lots of happenings and lots in the news as always. There's a few more bits in space also - "Thunderbirds Are Go" twice over in the same weekend(!) Elon Musk-style(!!) for just one example... And lots more. Nominal 7:30pm start. Food is available until just before 8pm.…
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A Malt Cross to Tuk Tuk
Folks, For this week of Indian-style heat we bask firstly in cool Victorian splendor to then enjoy some most splendid newly available Tuk Tuk food :-) All with the most splendid of Linux company :-P Usual 7:30pm meet at The Malt Cross Malt Cross 16 St James’s Street, Nottingham, NG1 6FG Phone: 0115 9411048 OpenStreetMap: Malt Cross (The entrance to The Malt Cross is through the small door directly opposite The Roebuck) Deliciously followed 8pm thereabouts at the…
Find out more »A Brief View of Virtual Worlds
Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? Thus quothed Edgar Allan Poe from some time ago... :-P Lost in The Angel Microbrewery this Thursday evening we will adventure in two parts to explore various virtualities: Installing openVPN (or some Virtual Private Network) to a remote Virtual Private Server Touring through the latest in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, and considering what might be done with such worlds and how... Phew! - All suitably mind…
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Across from the Newshouse
Folks, Roll up and roll along to a too often neglected corner of Nottingham to delight in the Newshouse of Canal Street for rustic charm, old-style old bar games, and to enjoy a good selection of real ales: 7:30pm onwards Newshouse 123 Canal Street Nottingham NG1 7HB Tel: 0115 9523061 OpenStreetMap Sometime later... We have an NLUGger speeding to join us by train from London. However, due to the minor hiccups north of Watford Gap (see also Wikipedia: Watford Gap…
Find out more »Charting the UK Powergrid
"More power!" is an often used phrase in various space Sci-Fi series, as are various comments about 'bypassed like a Christmas tree' and "This jurry-rigging won't last for long!...". And so we have the local power grid from Newcastle upon Tyne from the early days of 1901 much expanded into what we now have as the UK National Grid. More recently, near-real-time data for the electricity power generation is available to follow the ebb and flow of the UK energy…
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