November 2001 Meeting
Our November 2001 meeting was very popular as we
always find our meetings to be. About fifteen people turned up
for a longish chat about latest developments. I was able to bring along
the latest SuSE release which is SuSE 7.3 and we were also lucky in that
the SuSE eMail server III has just been released. James Mears and myself
were able to build a small network and test the eMail server between an IBM
notebook and the i386 machine that we installed with the eMail software.
It worked very well and there was much interest from the assembled
crowd. At the same time I installed a Toshiba 486 notebook with
SuSE 7.2. This proved to be something that even an advanced installer
or computer engineer shouldn't try to do. I suppose I'll get it right
eventually. Fuad Saeed was asking "does it do X400". This is
a network protocol which is quite definitely not owned by Microsoft.
Matt Fairtlough brought his computer along again and proceeded to do something that looked like a very complex kernel compile with all sorts of unusual
parameters. From what we could see it worked out fine.
If you do have a problem with your Linux computer than please do let us know before a meeting and please do bring it along. Oh yes ..... at the November meeting someone turned up who hadn't had a bath for at least two weeks. We could smell him from the other end of the corridor and we couldn't open a window. Being polite we didn't want to ask him to leave. If you find him can you ask him to have a wash or a shower please.
Many other questions were raised which if they had been sent into our discussion list would have destroyed the server with the volume of mail that would have been generated. Fortunately, we are able to sit in a room and talk about these things. Most of us have settled into the venue at Sheffield Hallam University and all of us look forward to the monthly meeting which is more like a familly meeting than a get together over computers and Linux. We would seem to have reached a happy state of affairs where we can just do all of the things that we want to do.
Our Christmas meeting will be on the 1st of December. We hope that we see you there. We also look forward to the meetings in 2002 and to our proposed Linux Expo session in Birmingham which promises to be something of an event. All of us hope that we will see some return to profitability in the IT sector of this country next year. The official Government statistics for the end of this year show that there has been an upturn in the unemployment figures. As far as we can see this has severely hit the MS Windows <TM> market but the Linux market for commercial use and applications is increasing due to the fact that it costs a lot less than proprietary software and it doesn't require itself to be re-installed every other week.
May father Christmas bring you something for your Christmas stocking that improves your interest in and understanding of Linux and all that it entails. You might want to buy that Christmas book for a loved one right now ?
Richard
People who were at the meeting........
Brian Mosely Richard Ibbotson Matt Fairtlough Benjamin Chan Derek Young Nic Densley Fuad Saeed James Mears and quite a few others.
Matt Fairtlough brought his computer along again and proceeded to do something that looked like a very complex kernel compile with all sorts of unusual
parameters. From what we could see it worked out fine. If you do have a problem with your Linux computer than please do let us know before a meeting and please do bring it along. Oh yes ..... at the November meeting someone turned up who hadn't had a bath for at least two weeks. We could smell him from the other end of the corridor and we couldn't open a window. Being polite we didn't want to ask him to leave. If you find him can you ask him to have a wash or a shower please.
Many other questions were raised which if they had been sent into our discussion list would have destroyed the server with the volume of mail that would have been generated. Fortunately, we are able to sit in a room and talk about these things. Most of us have settled into the venue at Sheffield Hallam University and all of us look forward to the monthly meeting which is more like a familly meeting than a get together over computers and Linux. We would seem to have reached a happy state of affairs where we can just do all of the things that we want to do.
Our Christmas meeting will be on the 1st of December. We hope that we see you there. We also look forward to the meetings in 2002 and to our proposed Linux Expo session in Birmingham which promises to be something of an event. All of us hope that we will see some return to profitability in the IT sector of this country next year. The official Government statistics for the end of this year show that there has been an upturn in the unemployment figures. As far as we can see this has severely hit the MS Windows <TM> market but the Linux market for commercial use and applications is increasing due to the fact that it costs a lot less than proprietary software and it doesn't require itself to be re-installed every other week.
May father Christmas bring you something for your Christmas stocking that improves your interest in and understanding of Linux and all that it entails. You might want to buy that Christmas book for a loved one right now ?
Richard
People who were at the meeting........
Brian Mosely Richard Ibbotson Matt Fairtlough Benjamin Chan Derek Young Nic Densley Fuad Saeed James Mears and quite a few others.