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January 2017
Angelic Bits’n’Boris
Folks, We have quite an ad-hoc mixed bag for our first 'talk' of 2017 with a fun mix of any and/or all of: Blinking lights on a Raspberry Pi (Python Library for Blinkt) "5 minutes" with QMapShack Boris backup and recovery continued, with added disks And there will be no doubt our usual mix of discussion of anything and everything Linux and FLOSS and everything else! All at the Angel Microbrewery. (They may even have their first homebrew ready…
Find out more »February 2017
A Pit, A Pendulum, And Yo! Sushi!
Folks, For our February foodie social, we have: A spooky beer infested pit to then swim over to something somewhat more healthy with... :-) 7:30pm: The Pit and Pendulum 17 Victoria Street Nottingham, NG1 2EW Telephone 0115 9506383 OpenStreetMap: Pit and Pendulum Followed for 8:30pm nearby: Yo! Sushi 1 Weekday Cross The Lace Market Nottingham, NG1 2GB Telephone 0115 8720280 OpenStreetMap: Yo! Sushi We have the bar area at Yo Sushi reserved for us from 8:30pm. If not too busy,…
Find out more »IT is Your Data, Your Life: Online and Real-World
Folks, We have an informal mixed bag of general bits for this month's 'talk' with any and/or all of: What digital baggage do you carry?... To start discussion in our quickly evolving real-world times, two fun bits to consider: The Register's guide to protecting your data when visiting the USA; XKCD - Encryption Security. What is an honest citizen supposed to do?... Roll your own personal cloud?... Fail2Ban hints and tips and fun! And there will be no doubt our…
Find out more »March 2017
Cheese it to the Poacher
This month's social will be at the fine establishment of the Lincolnshire Poacher. No need to move on as they serve fine food right on the premises.
Find out more »Linux Limits
What's the significance in a few moving numbers?... How far can our penguin swim into the big or small, fast or complex? We have the ideal of (GNU/)Linux (GPL) Freedoms. Regardless, we still have some very real real-world physical limits... To misquote Star Trek: "Ye cannae change the laws of physics" (for example for just one hyper-IT example...)! Linux is certainly well proven to work, and works well, but only within certain parameters... There are fundamental limits in our known…
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