On 9 Aug 2002, Mike Martin wrote:
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> I have put up a draft redesign here
Looks great, I know there were four people who all promised to knock up a
website so I'm waiting to see the other two [(!) ;-)] so we can combine all
the ideas that need to be sucked in together. (I didn't do a links page or
any basic introduction to exactly *what* GNU/Linux might be which Mike has
clearly done). Here's my contribution:
http://www.paul.sladen.org/notlug/site/
I haven't finished Tux yet (version 0.2 /me reckons), although if anyone
knows how to get the green cap to look right, I'd love your tips. I've had
a great deal of difficulty trying to work out the prespective of the
original Larry Ewing picture and try and get it right.
Alot of discussion focused around providing a co-herent three meeting series
of talks in October, November and Decemember. Stick the following date in
your diaries now (it's two months away) and the work title is as follows:
Wednesday, 2nd October 2002 - Wiring your [Student] House for Broadband
This should be timed to match those students moving out of halls and into
shared accomadation. Topics will be physcial wiring of ethernet cable,
connectors, sockets and patch cables; working up through what equipment you
need and how you might setup an old Pentium-era machine with two network
cards with our favourite operating system to act as a cable/DSL router and
firewall.
*And* saying why this is better than Windows "Internet Connection Sharing"
and having to leave your latest Windows XP machine with its noisey AMD3000+
processor on all night just so you mates can still use the 'net.
"Fun topics will be a *who can punch the fastest socket* competition for
Linux related prizes and learning to make your very own patch (ethernet
networking) cable which you can take home at the end of the evening as
proof."
It would be good if a company would be willing to sponsor a 100m of Cat5 and
a bag full of RJ45 jacks, the latter cost 15p/20p each so if anyone can find
someone willing to fund a tenners worth and do all the hassle of actually
*getting* them, that would be great. We could also do with a couple of
prizes--Phat O'Reilly or Wrox Press books tend to go down well, and T-Shirts
even better.
If nothing else (I know we have lots of Hosteurope people, including
Godfrey), there are alot of other local-isps who probably use GNU/Linux to a
certain extent. There are twenty-or-so on the following list if people are
any contacts.
http://www.paul.sladen.org/junk/local-isps/
Wednesday, 6th November 2002 - (Meet 2/3 "Winter Sessions")
We need a suggestion for a topic for this evening, it should probably have
reasonably wide appeal and be inviting for "first timers" from the business
community.
Wednesday, 4th December 2002 - Making Windows crash without touching it
Working title only, this is basically going in for the kill with a serious
reasoned argument *for* using Free Software (and having a little fun on the
the side ;-). If anyone knows any script-kiddies who might be able to
proform the above task at whim, that would be great.
Any other ideas--SHOUT THEM OUT!! Don't worry about them sounding stupid,
we already stupid in that several of us couldn't come up with *three* topics
in one night... ;-)
-Paul
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