My own demo PC decided to choose this week to have a hard disk problem.  So, we had to fall back on notebooks.  Fortunately Boris Duerner turned up from Sheffield Hallam University and so that made three notebooks that we could use or play around with.

Craig Andrews had made up his mind that his increased interest in programming methods was at the point where he wanted to install Debian 2.2 r2 into his USI Aries notebook.  So, we got to work and installed his new software.  It took ages to install.  We finally got round to sound configuration.  To get that to work we had to take the source RPMs from an SuSE 7.0 CD for Alsa 0.5.8 and use them to install Alsa into the newly installed Debian notebook.  Total amount of time spent on installation was about four or five hours for a basic install with a working sound system.   Some people wonder why more people don't use Debian more often.  Perhaps it's the number of days it takes to get things together  ?  Anyway,  Craig is now a happy Debian person who can't get his PCMCIA modules to work.

Guennadi Liakhovetski came over to see us.  He's one of Sheffield Universities mathematicians.  When he isn't working he's looking after his daughter and things like LUG meetings are down the list of priorities.  However, he was able to spare some time to come over and talk to us.   He says he was originally from Vladivostock.   Wonder if they have a sunny beach with extremely attractive girls there ?   Probably not quite like Santa Monica ?

Boris is a chemistry student at SHU.  Later on in the meeting we found that moving some files across the network from my notebook to his was a bit more difficult than we thought it would be.  Paul Sims had to give us a quick demo of how to use NFS and how to mount a disk over the network.  Fascinating stuff.

All in all the February meeting proved itself to be worth going to and we were able to once again acquaint ourselves with each other's ideas.  This is what LUG meetings are about.  A chance to make sure that your own vague ramblings aren't as daft as you might think they are :)

We look forward to the 24th of February when we think that Ruediger Berlich will visit us from SuSE Ltd to demonstrate SuSE Linux 7.1.  On the same day at 9 p.m. we will have dinner at the Tratorria Sorento at 190 Northfield Road to celebrate the fact that ShefLUG has now been operating for two years.  Time to have a drink and celebrate.
 
 
 
 

People who were there.......

Brett Royles        Guennadi Liakhovetski        Boris Duerner        Simon Brown       Fuad Saeed        Craig Andrews

Paul Sims     Richard Ibbotson     and one or two others.

Craig installing Debian 2.2 r2

Looks Gud doesn't it ?