rustington u3a

Here we are again, not many people today. We are the exclusive ones. I put this on to show Colin how it is done, and to illustrate how easy it is including editing. Unfortunately there are no pictures on this computer so I shall move to another one!

Margaret Frances Hoskins Long

My beloved sister born 1919, crossed the Jordan last night at 10.30 p.m. whilst being cared for in Cheltenham General Hospital. Two sons and their wives were at her bedside and she was comforted I am sure. I was in touch with her eldest son, David, in Forth Worth,Texas.
She will I believe, be re-united with her dear brother David and John her husband and all the family long since departed.

I shall miss her and so shall we all.

May she rest in peace and rise in glory. Alleluia

18th December Virtual Box

I spoke against this contrivance at the club on Wednesday, as I think a distro on a machine in its own right is easier to handle. e.g. I have several distros on memory cards and just swap the card for a diferent distro. But here I am with Kubuntu on my Eeepc900 along with Mandriva on the same card! It certainy works, but my poor brain is having a hard time!

I haven't used Kubuntu for ages, it uses KDE instead of Gnome. So if someone asks the question about the difference, we can see for ourselves using the vitual box.

So farI have Mandriva, Debian5, Mint, Xandros Ubuntu and now Kubuntu. I tried Crunchbang but it wouldn't boot!

Sunday 5th December

2 events worth noting!
Fay Zee has joined the Rustington lug mailing list. She is the lugmaster of the East Grinstead lug and also attends the Sussex and Surrey lug meetings.
She has also put me on to the Faversham luh (www.flug.org.uk) where many interesting things are going on.

7th meeting of the new rustington lug

We invited Desmond Armstrong to give a presentation at our weekly meeting and made an effort to publicise the event. We do have 27 names of people wo have attended or expressed interest and we had hoped for a good turn out. Alas the weather turned nasty and we had a few apologies. There was a plus in the fact that Derek had planned to attend another group on networking but due to the weather it had been cancelled!
In the end we were down to 7, but 7 is a lucky number.
Desmond and I shared mobile phone numbers and after 2 talks on the phone he agreed to set off. During the protracted waiting period my phone ran out of air time, but Derek was on the qui vive and answered Desmond once. He finally arrived at 4 pm and we were at the meeting by 4.15.
He kicked off with an introduction and then went for Pitivi, Flphoto, Gimp, Scribus, get i-player and then a Jacqui-Lawrence Advent Calendar! We overshot by 20 minutes so he had a full hour!
Fortunately the Woodlands Centre staff had gone home so we were ok. After a round of applause and a request for Desmond to come back again they let him go.
He stayed with us at home until he left ater lunch on Friday. I learned so much that my head is filled with Linux of all shapes and sizes. Especially Mandriva and F-secure not to mention Clonezilla.
Well done Desmond, a man with determination and a mission!

Thanks Desmond from all the rustington lug members.

How to finance the new lug?

I heard that the Arun U3A needed a beginners tutor. Whilst I have no qualifications for such a task, I decided to try my luck with Brian Wise who is the "IT Captain" of the Arun U3A. He agreed to send me one victim and then another
I am teaching Eldy, which is a marvellous way of introducing someone to computing. Enrico Neri one of the Eldy team approves!
I charge £2 for a one hour session, and I had my first session today. I wait for my second victim to book an appointment So far so good.

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RUSTINGTON LUG

I have tried once before to get local interest in Linux. We had one meeting and several friends attended, but alas the number was small and I gave up for a while.

Now with Winter approaching I determined to try again. I found a suitable hall for hire and advertised in the paper, in the library and on three local websites. One of the Surrey LUG members gave me advice and support.

I selected a hall that I knew had a pull-down screen and visited it with the lady responsible for hiring. She didn't even know that there was a screen available in the room. All went well until we discussed internet access. That brought the "manager" of the "meals on wheels" program into the picture. The organisation was the WRVS who had a lease of the building from the Sussex Conty Council. I was rather brusquely told that the person ale to give a ruling was on holiday for a fortnight. End of conversation. Next I was told that my car with trailer was dangerously parked outside. The lady responsible for the hiring came outside as I was leaving and apologised for the "manger's" behaviour! To enable internet access I bought a wifi modem which worked very well/
We had a first meeting and because of the sunlight and lack of curtains we could not decipher the image of the computer desktop! We soldiered on and hoped that people weren't too put off.
So in preparation for the next meeting we worked out a strategy! We would use a 40" TV as a monitor. A meeting was arranged by the WRVS "Worthing Manager" and I presented my case. Internet access was out and we discussed putting a TV on the wall. Next day, one day before the LUG meeting I was given a formal interdiction for bringing ANY TV into the hall. On the grounds that a license was needed. (exception "training" see TV license rules)
Fortunately I found a friendly Parish Council who had hall for hire, and who agreed to everything and so all was set up.

I had a problem telling the prospective attendees that the venue had been switched. Thanks to a friend who stood by the WRVS door half an hour before the advertised time of the meeting and did a noble job of redirecting.

The new room is fabulous and we go from strength to strength. Next week one of our group will give a presentation.

In spite of many spanners in the works, the RUSTINGTON LUG goes forward! This means that I don;t go to Horsham or Juniper Hill or even Guildford now. We have our own home brew LUG!