Hey there :)
> Nice to meet you! Thanks for `sticking your neck up', Welcome to the
> Band of Merry {,wo}men. I still can't remember where Calverton is though.
It's good to be part of it :) Calverton's just north of arnold, if that helps?
One of those funny pit villages.. I reckon I don't count as a calvertonian,
though, since I live on the hill leading out of it just *after* the
'calverton' sign. I look out from my uh.. mighty mansion, nay castle - and
survey my subjects 8*)
> What's the community centre like; could you describe the format of their
> meetings? What sorts of things to they do and what varies from week-week/
> month-month?
The communtiy centre itself used to be a really huge private house, but many
years ago was aquired by the county council and hosts all manner of clubs and
societes. On monday nights alone there is a our computer club, a chess club,
and (I think still) the model railway club :) We have three room for use on a
monday night; in one room they tinker with all manner of ancient and arcane
beasts of computing, making them do things god never intended them to do.
I've seen a spectrum linked up (concurrently) to no less than four 5 1/4 inch
disk drives - for what purpose /*00000000000022222222222222222222222221neral
chat, fix who's ever computer didn't survive the last week, and usually
finish with a game of unreal tournament :) I'm currently in the process of
converting them to this, our super duper operating system and so far there's
two others besides me who use linux as a fairly 'primary' operating system,
and quite a few who are dabbling! The third monday of every week is 'special'
and something interesting usually happens then - either a talk from one of
the members or a guest speaker, or occasionally a visit - we've been to see
what makes the sainsbury's finance and stock system tick (turns out to be two
noisy ibm servers ;), to radio nottingham, the traffic control centre, the
horological society etc. It's all in good humor, and we enjoy ourselves :)
We're always looking for potential recruits, so feel free to drop in one
evening and see if you like what you see!
> > If you're interested, i've been happily running debian for the past year
> > and whilest not perhaps having attained 'guru' status,
>
> Debian, my favouritist choice! I think you're most of the way to being a
> proper `guru' when you know which Operating System to choice! ;-)
Amen :)
Regards,
Philip
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