Tuesday 24 March 2015

Season 2 Episode 4: Wayne went to a LUG

After a jolly old game of darts, Wayne reports from his night out at a Linux User Group where he learned how to compile a Linux kernel on a Raspberry Pi. Andy has a cold but soldiers on selflessly.



Here's the links bit:

Exeter Linux Users Group (LUG) - http://exeter.lug.org.uk/ - The notes and stuff from the meet Wayne went to: https://github.com/mdinsmore/raspi-notes and their G+ page for hangouts - https://plus.google.com/115032276916379190211/posts
Their next meeting is on Friday 10th April at 1930 (UK time).

Darts for Windows - http://www.dartsforwin.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/makeitdigital. The TV shows Andy found were made by BBC Northern Ireland, clips are at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gvk8k

Linux from Scratch - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Mastering Emacs - http://www.masteringemacs.org/
An emacs power user at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8AqHdZTgNI
Org mode in emacs: https://youtu.be/fgizHHd7nOo
and for balance, here's a good introduction to learning vim: http://usevim.com/2013/01/11/vim101-core-skills/

Redo backup: http://redobackup.org/

The game show Andy remembered was called First Class, and yes they used an arcade machine behind the scenes to run the games on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84rj6-glh4
And here is a full episode of the BBC's God's Wonderful Railway, including an appearance by Dot Cotton! It doesn't look quite as dark and miserable as Andy remembered: https://youtu.be/4I3wkBrD7gg

Only Office: https://www.onlyoffice.com/

As-Easy-As - now free DOS spreadsheet app. http://www.triusinc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10

The online SDR at the Univerity of Twente: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
(some more are listed at http://websdr.org/, Twente has a wider frequency range than the others)

Dokuwiki - https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki#

XPEnology - http://www.xpenology.nl/

CSVkit: https://csvkit.readthedocs.org

Swiss File Knife: http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html

Android apps - Plex: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexapp.android&hl=en
JuiceSSH: https://juicessh.com/

Enjoy!
Wayne & Andy


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