When: 10:30 - 17:00, Saturday 12th June 2004
Where: SeminarRoom1, Building 59 (Zepler), Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
Who was there
ThomasAdam (thomas_adam)
MarkAllman (Sparky^)
JaredBelkus (the_cre8or)
KieranBelkus (kis)
TomBragg (rph)
AdrianBridgett (Wyvern / Gargoyle)
LauraCowen (geekgirl)
BobDunlop (rjd)
KellyDunlop (kad/kaydee)
JamesDutton (jcdutton)
DeanEarley (Dee)
NeilFerguson (blueGremlin)
RichardGellman (Rickeh)
MatGrove (MonkeyBoy)
JohnLewis (jayell)
RichardMace (delphi)
HugoMills (hugo)
WilliamPalfreman (billp)
AlanPope (popey)
DanPope (Mauve)
GlenSearle (glen)
RobSmith (bob-lad)
PhillipStubbs (stuphi)
ZoeVanDeZande (Zoe)
NickWarne (nickW)
TonyWhitmore (tonytiger)
MarkPhelan (markp)
JustinWoods (woody)
What happened
HugoMills showed RichardGellman and NickChalk some video editing software.
ThomasAdam and RichardGellman helped LisiReisz generally fix an otherwise sick PC and eventually installed Libranet on it.
ThomasAdam fixed a glitch in X11 that prevented wmaker running on JohnLewis' Thinkpad.
ThomasAdam did similar for VictorChurchill and showed him that a PS/2 mouse needs the 'mousedev' kernel module for stock kernels.
ThomasAdam spent the rest of the day shell scripting with cron for RichardGellman.
NeilFerguson helped MarkPhelan set up a scripted disk mirror, home-rolled 2.6.6 kernel and some other odds and sods on a Dell PowerEdge
AdrianBridgett helped MarkPhelan set up NIC bonding on his PowerEdge
NeilFerguson tried to electrocute himself with RobSmith's MythTV box
NickWarne arrived late after walking 20 minutes down the wrong road from Swaythling train station, sat in a corner and found out it's impossible to install a stock 'kernel' on Redhat Enterprise 3 - sold ThomasAdam torsmo: http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/ while he looked at dodgy ESS sound driver for me.
ChrisAitken set up a mail server for JohnLewis
AlanPope brought a box of T-shirts HeatherStern (editorgal) had sent from America. Some found homes; others will be available at later meets.
JohnLewis helped VictorChurchill upgrade his Debian woody installation to sid and a 2.6.6 kernel
DeanEarley installed FC2 after resizing some NTFS partitions
AdrianBridgett helped DeanEarley get CD audio working on a laptop
TonyWhitmore helped JaredBelkus and KieranBelkus get X11 running, including upgrading to a 2.4 series kernel and configuring X for a USB mouse, MatGrove helped locate the module for the world's most obscure network card, also, NeilFerguson was told off for leaving them alone for all of two minutes.
TonyWhitmore and LauraCowen sort of set up their webserver. Sort of.
MarkPhelan woo'd and yay'd as people helped get his Poweredge Debian-ised (thanks all)
MarkPhelan drooled over the shuttle running KnoppMyth behind him
MarkPhelan silenced the whole room by switching on the Dell PowerEdge
TomBragg installed Debian on his awkward hardware with the help of NeilFerguson and a CD from MarkPhelan
TomBragg broke his new debian install and fixed it again with more help from the above, finally persuading a 2.6.6 kernel and X to behave
DanPope set up MarkAllman's webcam on his Shuttle, leading to the first ever webcast live coverage of ThomasAdam: