There is a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting tomorrow:
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!!!WLUG LanParty
Meet up at the university, usual meeting room for Monday meetings: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 10am to 4pm
Come along and bring your favourite free/ open source games or games that run on free operating systems. Suggestions include:
* Bzflag
* World of Padman
* urban terror
* Sauerbraten
* More on WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games)
We'll have internet access (48Mbit/s).
Entry is free for visitors and club members.
However, if you, as a visitor, wish to connect your computer to the internet for more than a few minutes, a fee of $4 dollars to cover internet costs would be appreciated. We will accept membership applications on the day ($20).
There are no kitchen facilities within the room. Toilets will be available around the campus, a couple of bakeries not far from campus.
"After years of battling Linux as a competitive threat, Microsoft is
now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud
service. The Linux services will go live on Azure at 4 a.m. EDT on
Thursday. At that time, the Azure portal will offer a number of Linux
distributions, including Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, OpenSuse
12.01, CentOS 6.2 and Canonical Ubuntu 12.04. Azure users will be able
to choose and deploy a Linux distribution from the Microsoft Windows
Azure Image Gallery and be charged on an hourly pay-as-you-go basis."
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/06/2150202/microsoft-to-run-linux-on-a…
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
'Obnam, "a snapshotting, de-duplicating, encrypting backup program"
has been released by its developer, Lars Wirzenius. The application
has been in development since 2006 when Wirzenius decided that he
could not find a backup application which met all his demands, despite
finding various applications with one or two of his requirements.'
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1605021
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Any progress on the bulk purchase plan?
Stephen
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> 1) A starter to the world of computer programming using Scratch
> 2) Use the Raspberry Pi as an inexpensive media centre.
> 3) Attach a large external hard disk to the USB ports and create your
> own inexpensive and low-power NAS server.
> 4) Given the incredibly low power requirements of the Raspberry Pi and
> its silence (no fan noise), it has the potential to be a useful
> personal web server.
> 5) Make your own secure file repository, joining the cloud computing
> revolution.
> 6) Build your own Arcade cabinet to play your favourite arcade games.
> 7) Home-brew voicemail system using FreeSwitch.
> 8) Convert the device into a touchscreen tablet.
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> http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20120603092224252/RaspberryPi-ThingstoDow…
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> Cheers, Peter
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> Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
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1) A starter to the world of computer programming using Scratch
2) Use the Raspberry Pi as an inexpensive media centre.
3) Attach a large external hard disk to the USB ports and create your
own inexpensive and low-power NAS server.
4) Given the incredibly low power requirements of the Raspberry Pi and
its silence (no fan noise), it has the potential to be a useful
personal web server.
5) Make your own secure file repository, joining the cloud computing revolution.
6) Build your own Arcade cabinet to play your favourite arcade games.
7) Home-brew voicemail system using FreeSwitch.
8) Convert the device into a touchscreen tablet.
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20120603092224252/RaspberryPi-ThingstoDow…
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today:
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!!!WLUG LanParty
Meet up at the university, usual meeting room for Monday meetings: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 10am to 4pm
Come along and bring your favourite free/ open source games or games that run on free operating systems. Suggestions include:
* Bzflag
* World of Padman
* urban terror
* Sauerbraten
* More on WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games)
We'll have internet access (48Mbit/s).
Entry is free for visitors and club members.
However, if you, as a visitor, wish to connect your computer to the internet for more than a few minutes, a fee of $4 dollars to cover internet costs would be appreciated. We will accept membership applications on the day ($20).
There are no kitchen facilities within the room. Toilets will be available around the campus, a couple of bakeries not far from campus.
