With apologies for the very short notice, the April 2011 meeting will be a social meet-up at Mr Foley’s.
Feel free to bring your Linux problems and issues down for the experts to take a look at (laptops only, of course).
If you’re new to Linux and want a little hand-holding, do come along, or if you just fancy a bit of geeky chat there’s always lively debate on a range of geek and non-geek subjects.
We’ll be in the back room from 7pm onwards.
The next meeting will be on Monday 14th March at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds.
This month we have a talk from Paul Brook on IPv6.
IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated IPv4 address exhaustion. Like IPv4, IPv6 is an Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched internetworking and provides end-to-end datagram transmission across multiple IP networks. While IPv4 allows 32 bits for an Internet Protocol address, and can therefore support 232 (4,294,967,296) addresses, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, so the new address space supports 2128 (approximately 340 undecillion or 3.4×1038) addresses.
This expansion allows for many more devices and users on the internet as well as extra flexibility in allocating addresses and efficiency for routing traffic. It also eliminates the primary need for network address translation (NAT), which gained widespread deployment as an effort to alleviate IPv4 address exhaustion.
Paul will be assisted by Andy Davidson of Hurricane Electric, who will be aiming to provide a live interactive demonstration. Please feel free to bring your own IPv6-capable wireless devices.
The talk commences at 7:00pm with the venue opening for chat and coffee from 6:30pm.
After the talk, we all go down to Mr Foleys for beer and more geeky chat.
The meeting is open to all, and new visitors are most welcome.
The next meeting will be on Monday 14th February at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds.
This month we have a talk from Tim Nash:
Tim is back yet again, this time to discuss real time systems communications using open standards, Looking at the needs for real time systems over simple polling through to some of the current implementations, both on small and large scale and how linux has made it possible for companies such as twitter and facebook to deliver millions of real time messages.
The talk commences at 7:00pm with the venue opening for chat and coffee from 6:30pm.
After the talk, we all go down to Mr Foleys for beer and more geeky chat.
The meeting is open to all, and new visitors are most welcome.
The first meeting of 2011 will be on the 10th of January at Mr Foley’s for a social meet-up.
Feel free to bring your Linux problems and issues down for the experts to take a look at (laptops only, of course).
If you’re new to Linux and want a little hand-holding, do come along, or if you just fancy a bit of geeky chat there’s always lively debate on a range of geek and non-geek subjects.
We’ll be in the back room from 7pm onwards.
The Christmas / birthday meal is tonight and will be at Red Chilli.
The table is booked for 7pm, hope to see you there!
For those wishing to skip the meal, it is likely that the group will move to Mr Foleys afterwards. Keep an eye on the @wylug Twitter page.
The next meeting will on Monday 13th December 2010 and will be the traditional Christmas / birthday meal (13 years old!).
We have used various venues in the past, some satisfactory, some less so. This year, following some discussion at the last meeting, the venue will be determined by a poll.
The possible venues are listed below, chosen by location and prior experience or recommendation.
Brio Pizza, The Light (Italian)
Bianco, Great George Street (Italian)
Chaophraya, Swinegate (Thai)
Red Chilli, Great George Street (Chinese)
Spice Quarter, Millennium Square (Chinese / Italian / Indian / Thai Buffet)
Akbars, Eastgate (Indian)
To ensure that there is time to book, the poll will close at 11pm on the 29th November 2010.
The next meeting will be on the 8th of November at Mr Foley’s for a social meet-up.
Feel free to bring your Linux problems and issues down for the experts to take a look at (laptops only, of course).
If you’re new to Linux and want a little hand-holding, do come along, or if you just fancy a bit of geeky chat there’s always lively debate on a range of geek and non-geek subjects.
We’ll be in the back room from 7pm onwards.
The next meeting will be on the 11th of October at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds.
Peter Robinson will be giving a talk on building a MythTV media server. In his presentation, he describes why he decided to build a Mythbuntu based multi-media server and how he went about it.
The original idea was to have a single server for playing and recording TV programmes, plus storing video DVDs and music CDs without the necessity for numerous set-top-boxes, DVD and CD players plus wires everywhere.
Mythbuntu is a version of MythTV based on Ubuntu and although MythTV can be installed on any Linux distribution, mythbuntu is fully integrated with Ubuntu, in general following its release schedule. The presentation covers the design objectives I set for the system, why and how I selected the hardware and software components and the problems (and successes!) I had building it and making it all work.
The final system has achieved most of the original design goals resulting in a system being housed in a 12U, 19 inch rack located in the cupboard under the stairs, well out of sight. The system will record and play back standard and HD TV programmes in 5.1 sound and DVDs in full 7.1 surround sound to two rooms in the house.
The project shows what can be achieved using opensource software, rivalling the functionality of many commercial Home Theatre systems, all at a fraction of the cost – and it was fun!
The talk will begin at 7:00pm, with the doors opening from 6:30pm for coffee and chat.
After the talk, we will move to Mr Foley’s on the Headrow for beer and geeky chatter. No formal booking has been made, but if the back room is available, then it would make sense to congregate in there.
Links/directions:
This months meeting will be on the 13th of September at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds.
Paul Brook will be giving a talk on the Open Pandora handheld/games console.
Most games consoles are produced by large corporations which are generally hostile to open source software. Unless you happen to be a large commercial games developer, developing/distributing software for these devices is tricky, and often impossible by legitimate means.
Some years ago an alternative appeared in the form of the GP32, and subsequently the GP2x, which encouraged “homebrew” games. These never really gained mainstream acceptance, but did foster a fair sized niche community.
The Pandora is a next generation device designed and built by members of the GP2x community. It provides a linux based gaming platform, but is also powerful enough to double as a netbook replacement in some cases.
There will be Chuckie Egg.
The talk will begin at 7:00pm, with the doors opening from 6:30pm for coffee and chat.
After the talk, we will move to Mr Foley’s on the Headrow for beer and geeky chatter. No formal booking has been made, but if the back room is available, then it would make sense to congregate in there.
Links/directions:
The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 9th of August 2010 and will be the traditional summer social meet. Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve attended before or not.
We’ll be in Mr Foleys on The Headrow, Leeds from 7pm onwards.
Feel free to bring your Linux problems and issues down for the experts to take a look at (laptops only, of course).
If you’re new to Linux and want a little hand-holding, do come along, or if you just fancy a bit of geeky chat there’s always lively debate on a range of geek and non-geek subjects.