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June 2011
Beeston Blue Moon Beers
A few informal beers in Beeston to celebrate the occasional Blue Moon! Post recent lunar eclipse, post solstice, who needs any excuse for a few beers at The Last Post! I'll be there from 8pm to catch up on a few beers and linux... See a few there :-) Cheers, Martin
Find out more »July 2011
GAIA – How to take a Galactic Census
Folks, As promised, for this evening we go into space in an astronomically BIG way: Gaia is ESA’s most ambitious stereoscopic astrometric mission to date. It aims to improve Hipparcos’ legacy by measuring positions and proper motions for 1 billion stars in our Galaxy (as opposed to Hipparcos’ approximately 130000 stars) by continuously scanning the sky for 5 years with its two 1.45 x 0.5m main telescopes. Complemented by blue and red photometric measurements and high resolution radial velocities for…
Find out more »A Taste of Marrakesh
Continuing exploring the world around Angel Row and Chapel Bar, we next move a little further south to Moroccan flavours: Restaurant - Marrakesh 6 Chapel Bar Nottingham, NG1 6JQ Telephone: 0115 9473038 Google map Usual rendezvous about 7:30pm: The Roebuck Inn 9-11 St James Street Nottingham Nottinghamshire, NG1 6FH Phone: 0115 9793400 JDW-Google Map And thence 8pm-ish voyaging onwards to Marrakesh! Likely, after a tagine or two, we'll then wander over to the nearby Bell Inn for last orders. All…
Find out more »August 2011
The Nuts & Bolts of Linux
Penguins, gnus, chips and fish, dragons and you? Hairy footprints and a myriad puzzle of all manner of cuddly characters and pieces... Wobbly towers, jam sandwiches, onion shells, edifices or monoliths? But how do they all stack up? This is a non-technical talk for what various pieces fit together to make up a Linux system: As to what all that looks like, you choose! All at our usual venue: Fellows Morton and Clayton 54 Canal Street Nottingham, NG1 7EH Telephone: 0115 9506795To…
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