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January 2013
A January Treat Retold
Last week respun! ;-) Folks, Here's a chance for anything and everything topical. I will no doubt have various notes and comments and ideas from over the Christmas period. What geekie gadgets and Linux fun did you enjoy or not? Climate Change and what is or isn’t being done about it was rather topical around the end of the world. And what is it that is GNU and Linux and what should we call what? Who is "A Very Naughty…
Find out more »Going Auroral
Folks, For the first social nosh of the year, aptly with the Northern Lights prominent at this time of year, let's go Auroral! Our usual 7:30pm beers meet is at our old favourite: Cock & Hoop 25 High Pavement Nottingham, NG1 1HE Telephone: 0115 8523231 OpenStreetMap latitude: 52.95097 longitude: -1.14433 Thence onwards in an easterly direction and around the corner at 8pm to: aurora restaurant 47 Stoney Street Lace Market Nottingham, NG1 1LX Telephone: 0115 9413816 OpenStreetMap latitude: 52.951694 longitude:…
Find out more »Beeston Blue Moon Beers
A new lunation near a Chinese New Year: Beeston Blue Moon Beers How auspicious is that?! Is there still life in FLOSS after Cox? (The one down in Wales, not that one lost in the atoms and stars!) The Oric-1 turns 30 whilst a 2.5 ton Dekatron oldest working digital computer behemoth is resurrected. Swap punched paper tape to instead enjoy backwards cursive script to behold writing قلب "beautiful code" as an art-form. More old-school, there's the ongoing…
Find out more »February 2013
Firewalls and Network Routing Lowdown
There are "HowTo"s, and then there is this Wednesday evening where we have a "Lowdown" :-) The highly hyped 'threat' of malfeasance and "cyber-warfare" on the internet apparently obliges everyone to don 'super-protection' for network connected home systems and industrial systems alike. Which is where the "Firewall" is assumed to be the catch-all panacea to keep out all internet uncleanliness... Around an informal talk/discussion, I will cover what a network Firewall is and detail what it does. Time permitting, I…
Find out more »Red Hot Langtry’s
An old and favoured venue has recently hot footed it from Hockley to just around the corner from our usual favorite Langtry’s, hence this hot combination for these cold damp nights of: Our usual Langtry’s meetup at 7:30pm: Langtry’s Pub 4 South Sherwood St Nottingham, NG1 4BY Telephone 08721 077077 Google Map Followed by something 8pm hot now nearby at: Red Hot World Buffet & Bar Trinity Square Nottingham NG1 4DB Telephone 0115 9589899 Google Map All…
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