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December 2013
Out at the Inn – Open Night at the Falcon Inn
No real talk or anything planned for the next meet, but it would be great to hear from folks what they have been doing or try to help with any questions they may have. I can discuss (briefly): Hibernate support with encrypted swap - benefits and limitations thereof The current state of play with Bumblebee and why you need it on any Optimus laptop The general state of OEM support for GNU/Linux (power management etc) How not to buy a…
Find out more »A Christmas Monkey Shabab
Another year as the nights draw near and we hence go Monkeying to the timeless Shabab: Firstly we warm to the delights of the blue monkey brewery at: 7:30pm Organ Grinder 21 Alfreton Road, Nottingham NG7 3JE Telephone: 0115 9700630 OpenStreetMap: Nottingham Organ Grinder And then onwards to the old favorite and excellent wood paneled Pakistani restaurant that time has forgot: 8:30pm Shabab Nan Kebab 6 Radford Road, Hyson Green, Nottingham NG7 5FS Telephone: 0115 9781696 OpenStreetMap: Shabab…
Find out more »January 2014
New Year Beeston Blue Moon Beers
Happy New Year! Beeston Blue Moon Beers Folks, It’s one of those Blue Moon Thursdays months and ideal for continuing the celebrations for the Gregorian New Year. Come share and compare and toast Linux of the last year and for the years to come (and anything and everything else) at: The Last Post! And for a geekie 'pub quiz' style question: Anyone else noticed the once-in-823 years calendar quirk later this year? In contrast for something calendar…
Find out more »A Cross to Laguna
For our adventures for the first foodie social of the year, we explore above some soon to be reopened levels of an old subterranean world unique to Nottingham ;-) 7:30pm @: Warming to a favoured pair of haunts, we revisit: Malt Cross 16 St James’s Street, Nottingham, NG1 6FG Phone: 0115 9411048 Google Map They have been in the news for their expansion... downwards: Malt Cross in Nottingham to expand into caves 'Music hall' pub in Nottingham expands into…
Find out more »Gentoo: Frightening or Fantastic?
Many many years ago, in the days before the (Intel) Atom and the (AMD) Geode, and when ARM SoCs were too niche to be known of, that left a few obscure manufacturers producing low (electrical) power x86-compatible systems for, err, low power use... Our group was kindly donated a (VIA) EPIA "C3" mini-ITX motherboard and comms-cabinet (thanks Michael) which was morphed into service for the NLUG website. And thus began my adventure into Gentoo! Why?... Only Gentoo had the phenomenal…
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