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- tdobson: bugger, my dedi doesn't support hardware #virtulisation. I should have checked. No learning #KVM for me, back to good ol' #Xen. Hey buddy.
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Dan Lynch from Linux Outlaws talking at Manchester Free Software group
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Engaging Young People in Technology - Talk at Liverpool LUG
I am going to be speaking on Wednesday at the upcoming meeting of Liverpool LUG
"This month’s talk will be given by Tim Dobson from DFEY-NW. He will be talking about what "Digital Freedom in Education and Youth (DFEY)" is all about and how free software communities can engage with young people. He'll then open the floor to questions. This talk will be filmed and posted online under a Creative Commons Licence.
"Tim is an active member of the Manchester Free Software group and is well known at many other technical events. Having just finished his A levels, in his spare time, he enjoys dinghy sailing."
The meeting will be held on
Wednesday July 1, 2009 from 7:00pm - 8:00pm
at
Liverpool Social Centre
96 Bold Street
Liverpool, England L1 4HY
Moral support would really be appreciated!
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Howto get Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 working in Debian GNU/Linux
Recently I have been trying to get the sound working on a Thinkpad I have been lent (I think it's a T20) in Debian GNU/Linux.
I did
sudo alsaconf but it couldn't find my card so I ran
lspci -vv and found
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM Device 0153
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
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gNewSense Review
Is gNewSense suitable for those moving from something a completely non-free?
Should usability compromise digital freedom to win users over?
Matt Lee wrote:
> gNewSense 2.0 should be able to work on 99% of people's machines.
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Getting my M6323 Generic Webcam to Work with GNU/Linux
Getting webcams to work with GNU/Linux is generally a complete nightmare, as a result of different chipsets in the same model, and some working in a vastly different way to others.
However, I was elated a few days ago when I found that my 8 pound, generic, bottom of the range, unbranded webcam worked with GNU/Linux.
I intend to outline I have no idea whether the details of how I got it working. This is is intended to be helpful to someone trying to set their M6323 webcam up or a different Generic webcam, so I'll try and go into as much detail as possible.
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What does *your* laptop look like?
My ageing laptop is somewhat trademarked:
For the record the sticker on the top right represents a sailing boat and stands for GDSC Glossop and District Sailing Club.
On the left of it is a sticker from the Free Software Foundation, in the top left is one from LUG Radio, between it and the Bad Vista sticker is a GPLv3 sticker. In the middle the GNU's head and the GNU + Linux sticker both represent GNU, whilst the sticker on the bottom right is from DefectiveByDesign.
What ever they tell you, you can never have enough stickers.
Is your laptop anything like as stickered as mine?
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Learn your permissions
Do you know your permissions?
Moral: If you aren't a techie, you won't get it.
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StumbledUpon Websites
I have been using Last.fm for a long time now, but I have always avoided StumbleUpon because I have been lazy and presumed that I wouldn't want it.
Today I installed the Firefox extension to see what it was like.
To put it mildly, I was impressed. After telling it what I was into, it was able to give me websites that I thought were really interesting and useful, though there are some which I disagree with subtly - too subtly for it's preferences engine to understand.
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Curry, Social, Sailing
Beware the flying goose… - One of the things that’s difficult for me about living in Germany is the total absence of spicy food. German cuisine is bland. The best they can think of to spice it up seems to be mustard or possibly a dab of horseradish. As someone who likes curries and chilli dishes this just doesn’t challenge the taste-buds enough.
While my Aunt, laments the lack of spicy food in Germany, I can report on my latest curry. As mentioned here I went for a curry last night (Friday) with a load of my sailing friends at The Bulls Head in Old Glossop.
The Bull is unique in being a typically English Pub, friendly and atmospheric, and having an excellent Indian Resturant attached. One the other main advantages for me being that, of course, it is in the close proximity of my home.
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