Hi Folks,

Sorry about the last e-mail. I was intending to write just to Peter, but I ended up sending my half finished e-mail out to the wlug distribtion list.

Seeing as you've now seen half my e-mail, I might as well send out the whole mail, which is a suggestion for next Monday nights meeting. All feedback other suggestions for meeting topics are welcome.

cheers,
Ian.


Hi Peter,

For the Wlug meeting I wondered about the idea of everyone brings along what they can remember of newspaper articles they have read in the last three months on either:


The CPU chip vulnerabilities  'Meltdown' and 'Spectre'. I think Lawrence might be in the best position to sort the newspaper stories into what is fact and what is C.T.; and explain what's going on / how it impacts Linux.

Cryptocurrencies. I normally check out The Guardian for general news. These days it seems to have a Cryptocurrency story every couple of days. Some are quite hard to comprehend, like capital gains of 35,000% in one year and mining coins using more power than the USA consumes by 2020. Maybe other people are reading similar stories. I'd say Cryptocurrency is 99% linux? Unfortunately I didn't make it to the last Cryptocurrency presentation a couple of years ago so I don't know what was covered. Maybe we could demo downloading and installing a wallet.


cheers, Ian.