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October 2016
Underground, overground waddling to Debsh
Folks, At this time of year post-Equinox and post- Rosetta crashing into an auspicious asteroid, we venture to a rustic Persian restaurant to sample the food of the ancient astronomers... Or so :-) Without further an occultation :-P We rendezvous at our usual 7:30pm at the Hand and Heart To then explore eastwards to Debsh Persian Restaurant about 8:15pm All are welcome for all and anything Linux and everything else! (Just look for anything Linux and penguins to find…
Find out more »Basford Datacentre Visit
Folks, Roll-up, roll-up, login... To venture into a Cloud... Or rather: Come watch a few LEDs blink furiously, fans whirring, LOTs of cables and racking, even LOTs MORE data flying along the wires, for the best of what Basford has to offer. Also known as touring a datacentre. Find that perfect home for your RaspberryPi3?... Or a few?... All very aptly followed up with food and our Organ Grinder talk about the Parallella. Thanks to: Barry Fox (Business…
Find out more »The Progress of Parallella
Really? Can "One Man in his garage" out-compute the 'Big Boys'? Come one, come all to see! All at our usual Organ Grinder... Just look for the Penguins and Linux! A Few More Details Just for a giggle: (YouTube) Mythbusters Demo GPU versus CPU (YouTube) Parallella Introduction Mix 'n' match your SISD, SIMD with your own MIMD or even MPMD?... (All summarized as "Flynn's taxonomy") Whatever did happen to the Transputer and Occam?... Since then, we have the…
Find out more »November 2016
A Peacock Noor Jahan
Folks, We venture this spooky evening to the far-flung North-Eastern quarter to explore anew from long ago along Mansfield Rd: Firstly for good colourful company and good beer at 7:30pm: Peacock Hotel 11 Mansfield Road Nottingham, NG1 3FB Phone: 0115 9472152 OpenStreetMap: Peacock Hotel And thence a short jump to 8:15pm: Noor Jahan Bangladeshi North Indian Restaurant 41 Mansfield Rd City Centre Nottingham, NG1 3FB Phone: 0115 9476449 OpenStreetMap: Noor Jahan Restaurant Come one, come all, to join us in…
Find out more »GNU Freedom and Just For Fun!
Another year and so how did we get here?... There are various stories of how a renegade can change the world, or for how a small number of unknown people and their ideas accidentally come together to unexpectedly forge great change. Perhaps someday, we will have a similarly romanticized or GNU/Linux-super-hero style film made for two unassuming real world heroes stirring a new revolution of the cyberworld as we know it: GNU & Linux, and their founders Richard ("rms") Stallman…
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