8thDecember2007

When: 10:30 - 16:30, Saturday 8th December 2007

Where: SouthamptonUniversity SeminarRoom1

Times

• Doors open @10:30

  • First impressions of the Asus 701 eee Pc and Xandros Linux - JimKissel

    • Hopefully AlanPope will be bringing an Intel Classmate too

  • Practical crypto (SSH, PGP, X.509) - HugoMills (postponed until later)

  • "A Beginner's Guide to Achieving the Impossible", a talk about how a Perl Newbie can get a lot done using CPAN - AdamTrickett

  • Soundbridge (Wifi MP3 client) - AdrianBridgett

• Doors close @16:30

Media and presentations from the talks are available from the TechTalks/8thDecember2007 page.

Who Was There

• AdrianBridgett

• AlanPope

• AndyRansom

• BenjaminAshton

• TonyWhitmore

• LauraCowen

• JohnLewis

• DaveWalker

• HugoMills

• AdamTrickett

• CliveWoodfine

• JamesGrant

• JeanWaite

• MartinWimpress

• JimKissel

• BobDunlop

• KellyDunlop

• ImranChaudhry

• FayZee

• Alex
• Andrew

• StuartMatheson

• IanBrazier

• LisiReisz

• JohnEyres

• AlanBlanchflower

• DanPope

• MairAllen-Williams

• Jonas

• KelvinSmith & wife (for all of 30 mins)

What Happened

• AdrianBridgett hopefully remembered to bring his SoundBridge wifi music player along.

  • AdamTrickett got Firefly and Amarok working at home as a result - most useful talk

• AlanPope demonstrated his (lack of) prowess at xjump

• AlanPope demonstrated video phone via Skype, Wifi, and his TWO eee PCs!

• HugoMills explained how Linux boots, in some detail, to Fay (who actually seemed interested in it... )

• AdamTrickett had a go at trying to get CliveWoodfine's Medion tablet to work. It's not working properly yet, but it looks like the udev rule needs tweaking to set up the correct nodes in /dev with the appropriate permissions.

• DaveWalker kindly helped ImranChaudhry resolve his esoteric Samba problems with his Debian Slug.