Ryedale Linux User Group Previous Meetings
Another evening at the Spotted Cow with Paul T and Dave joining me for a chat.
We started the evening with sharing the sad news that Bob Garrood from the Scarborough LUG had died the previous week and that it would be his cremation the next day. Bob had taken on the role of LUG co-ordinator and been enthusiastic in organising meetings and bringing the LUG closer to the Blind Society in Scarborough. Without doubt he will be sorely missed by Scarborough LUG. Our thoughts go to his family.
Dave has kindly loaned me his Garmin eTrex GPS so that I might join in with the Open Street Map project. He's been trying to find it for several months now so I can only assume he uses the same filing system as myself. :) Or maybe he uses a snow-blower search technique, which is my personal favourite! Still, whatever he uses, he gave a very useful quick introduction to its use. Cheers Dave.
We talked about the forth-coming joint meet with Scarborough and a little about general GnuPG use. I described how I've made a 3D image representing my Web of Trust using sig2dot, springgraph and povray. I'm trying to create a rotating movie image of this, but as I'm heading into completely new territory with this it might take some time. However, if you'd like see how far I've got here's a link to my little WoT.
This talk of movies inevitably led to a discussion of movie file formats, which proves to be a real can of worms. Further the Asus EeePC received a mention as an alternate venue to replace the Brooklyn Centre was discussed. We need a way of linking to the Internet and using a machine connected to a moblie phone seems an easier option than gaining access to a buildings network for us. So USB modems and BlueTooth devices received a fair bit of discussion.