Re: [Hampshire] Testing your code with CircleCI - 6pm Thursday 4th August, Southampton Uni

2016-08-05 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Thanks Thomas, It was an interesting meeting. CircleCI looks like quite a nice way to do automated testing on open source projects without having to do the work to set up your own CI infrastructure. Andy On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: Hi all, The next Southam

Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG

2016-09-02 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Tony Whitmore via Hampshire wrote: When will the outcome be announced for those who were unable to attend? I understand that it may take time to write it up, so just curious. I believe Tim said he was aiming to publish something by the end of the weekend. However he did

Re: [Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (Southampton Python group)

2016-10-03 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Thanks for the heads up Thomas. I'm hoping to be there, any idea how long the talk is? On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be on Monday, with a talk about robotic sailing: When: 6pm, Monday 3rd October Where: R

[Hampshire] Best place to buy a Raspberry Pi?

2017-01-09 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Hi, So I've resisted buying a Pi until now because I have way too much junk in the house I bought and never really used and given the way the Pi has changed since it was first launched that was probably a good plan. However now I have something I want a low power always on wifi enabled devi

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone use Fedora?

2017-01-15 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Lisi Reisz via Hampshire wrote: Does anyone other than Thomas use Fedora? And is said user going to be at the meeting next Saturday? Depend on how detailed the question is... I have a machine with Fedora installed on it though I'm more familar with RHEL/CentOS and onl

Re: [Hampshire] Partitioning etc. problem was: Re: [Portsmouth LUG] Does anyone use Fedora?

2017-01-20 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Hi, On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Lisi Reisz via Hampshire wrote: Further to this. I had received the following request for help: I have been using Fedora 20 for a long time, and now it is so out of date that I need to do a complete re-install to get to Fedora 25 (I have tried alternative approache

[Hampshire] OggCamp 17 has been announced (fwd)

2017-03-06 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
FYI Oggcamp is always a good weekend! -- Forwarded message -- Subject: [lugmaster] OggCamp 17 has been announced Hi all, OggCamp '17 was announced last week. It will be on 19th and 20th August in Canterbury. OggCamp is the largest Free Culture [1] conference in the UK and thi

Re: [Hampshire] Southampton Python meeting - detecting clickbait using machine learning

2017-05-03 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Thanks for the announcement Thomas. I'm hoping to make it along tonight, as long as I can escape work on time. Andy On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be a workshop on text processing and machine learning. I

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone going to OggCamp 17?

2017-06-28 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire wrote: Just curious if anyone was planning to go this year? If anyone is going to go by car I'd be happy to contribute petrol money to tag along. http://oggcamp.org/ I'm planning to go, but haven't got beyond that yet. By that I mean I've no

Re: [Hampshire] Anyone going to OggCamp 17?

2017-08-18 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Hi, After some debate, I'm now in Canterbury, so I guess I will be going :) Not sure if I will be at the pub or not tonight, but I'll catch up with people tomorrow. Andy On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire wrote: Just a follow-up that I've booked accommodation and am going

Re: [Hampshire] Vic Watson

2017-08-25 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
I'm really sorry to hear that! Thank you Stephen for passing on the sad news. Andy On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Stephen Pelc via Hampshire wrote: Vic Watson took his own life on 12 August. "It has been announced that the funeral will be held at 2pm on Wednesday 30th August 2017 at Southampton Cr

Re: [Hampshire] re new linux

2018-04-19 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Keith Edmunds via Hampshire wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:39:29 +0100, hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk said: Any news about the licensing? What news are you expecting? If it's Linux, it needs to be GPL (or as appropriate for the various applications). That's certainly

Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry PI

2019-02-21 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Hi Adam, Good to hear from you. On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Adam John Trickett via Hampshire wrote: I was looking at that last night. You can get boxes that have a 15 A relay, a jack for a digital thermometer and the ESP8266 controller and their own AC/DC, e.g. Sonoff TH16. You can flash them with

Re: [Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG meeting Saturday, 15th June 2019

2019-06-13 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Hi, I'm intending to be there this month. For anyone who misses the old Hants LUG meetings I'd recommend coming along, it's a good afternoon. Andy On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Paul Tansom via Hampshire wrote: The next Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Linux Users Group meeting will be this co

Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu and i386

2019-06-19 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, James Courtier-Dutton via Hampshire wrote: I have heard that Ubuntu is dropping i386. Does this mean 32bit programs will stop running. A lot of wine games are still 32bit so that could be a problem for some. Yup, no more Ubuntu releases for i386/x86. The announceme

Re: [Hampshire] Linux and LED Scrolling Signs

2020-10-25 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
Hi, On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, Rob via Hampshire wrote: However, I don't want to use Windows and I have in mind a bash script to output the text to be displayed. Not too fussed about speed, font size, any other such settings - it's just the text we need. Does anyone know one of these that plays

Re: [Hampshire] LUG Website

2021-05-31 Thread Andy Random via Hampshire
On Sun, 30 May 2021, Tony Whitmore via Hampshire wrote: It's now back up! Sorry it took so long. Thanks Tony! Your efforts in sorting this out are much appreciated! It's been a long time since we had a meeting and even longer since I saw you, but remind me I definitely owe you a pint next