ManLUG

The Manlug meeting for May 2012 is taking place on 12th May, this is due to venue availability, details below:

Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN. – (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”
Date: Saturday, 12th May 2012
Starts: 14:00
Approximate finish: 17:00

Summary:
This is the postponed talk from last month and will be given by myself, it will be an introduction to MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher), requirements, how to install and how to graph devices on your LAN and more besides. I would suspect most would find it useful to be able to probe their home router and servers.

Please come along, bring your friends and relatives, please feel free to cross post this far and wide.

PS, a voluntary contribution of £1 – £2 per person would be highly appreciated to assist our good friends at Madlab in their day to day running costs.

The Manlug meeting for April 2012 is taking place on 21st April, the long awaited, ok since last month, details below:

Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN. – (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”
Date: Saturday, 21st April 2012
Starts: 14:00
Approximate finish: 17:00

Summary:
This talk will be given by my good self, it will be an introduction to MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher), requirements, how to install and how to draw pretty graphs of devices on your LAN etc. I always get a tad suspicious when I see the lights on my router flashing away like it’s Christmas, ohh and I like to know what is going on, this is a good start. I would suspect most would find it useful to see what their home router is seeing, it is capable of much more.

Please come along, bring your friends and relatives, please feel free to cross post this far and wide.

PS, a voluntary contribution of £1 – £2 per person would be highly appreciated to assist our good friends at Madlab in their day to day running costs.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Due to circumstances outside of my control this month’s meeting has been cancelled. I am as disappointed as everybody else regarding this. I hope to announce a new date in May at the earliest opportunity.

Update – 17th April 2012

This has now been rescheduled to 12th May 2012, see next post.

The Manlug meeting for March 2012 is taking place on 17th March, details below:

Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN. – (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”
Date: Saturday, 17th March 2012
Starts: 14:00
Approximate finish: 17:00

Paul Waring has very kindly agreed to step in at the last moment and give a talk.

Summary

Verifying the source and content of downloads’ md5sum and beyond to cover additional aspects of how to be sure (if you ever can be) that what you are downloading is from a trusted source and whether it has downloaded without errors.

Update:

Talk notes can be found here.

The proposed theme was a discussion of Desktop managers, which do you use? Why do you use it and what do you like about it, what are the great features, what con’s are there? It could of course be more imaginatively named Desktop Manager death match or a Unity bashing session (personally I don’t mind it) ????

Do you use one of the below for example:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-great-alternative-desktop-managers-for-linux/

This would be a great opportunity for everybody in the group to get involved, if you don’t particularly want to talk prepare a short piece and send it on to me, I’ll present it on your behalf.

The Manlug meeting for January 2012 is taking place on 21st January, details below:

Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN. – (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”
Date: Saturday, 21st January 2012
Starts: 14:00
Approximate finish: 17:00

Summary:
As previously mentioned this will be an install-fest, bring along those newly purchased pc’s/laptops and netbooks and free them !!

Please come along, bring your friends and relatives, please feel free to cross post this far and wide.

PS, a voluntary contribution of £1 – £2 per person would be highly appreciated to assist our good friends at Madlab in their day to day running costs.

No, there isn’t a meeting in December – Not of ManLUG anyway.

Following on from the normal ManLUG tradition, we won’t be holding a December meeting as the 3rd Saturday in December is too close to Christmas. Information about January 2012! will be available as soon as possible.

Merry Christmas and God Bless

Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN. – (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”
Date: Saturday, 19th November 2011
Starts: 14:00
Approximate finish: 17:00

Summary:

Dr Dave Gilbert a Manlug regular of many years has kindly agreed to give the November talk, the subject is ‘SSH – not just a secure shell’. I suspect as it has done with myself made you put down your favourite caffeine based beverage and chalk in 19th November as a date not to be missed. I promise you will learn something new about your Tux based distro.

Please come along, bring your friends and relatives.

Update 21/11/11.

Click here to download the talk.

The Manlug meeting for October 2011 is taking place on 22nd October, details below:

Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN. – (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”
Date: Saturday, 22nd October 2011
Starts: 14:00
Approximate finish: 17:00

Summary:

There is no particular subject, a general get together and chat. Bring anything to play with, I’d like to get your idea’s on future subjects and a possible change to the time we meet.

Manlug is teaming up with MFS this month for Software Freedom Day 2011 in Manchester.

If you can help out in anyway please advise via the mailing list.

* Event: Software Freedom Day 2011 in Manchester

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/UK/Manchester

* Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
* Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN.
“(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”

http://madlab.org.uk/

* Date: Saturday, 17th September 2011 (3rd Saturday in September)
* Start time: 11:00
* Finish time: 17:00

Details
——-
“Firefox. Linux. Ubuntu. Want to learn more about these and the massive
amount of other Free Software? Then come to Software Freedom Day 2011 in
Manchester at Madlab on Saturday, 17th September. 11am-5pm.”

Software Freedom Day is an annual world wide celebration of Software
Freedom with the aim of promoting Free Software to everyone. This year
the event lands on Saturday, 17th September. You can see the teams
around the world that will be participating at:

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011

This includes Manchester, UK!

Helping out
———–
There are several ways:

* If you know people and/or groups that would be interested in finding
out more about Free Software then please forward this email to them and
encourage them to attend. You can use our tag line:
“Firefox. Linux. Ubuntu. Want to learn more about these and the massive
amount of other Free Software? Then come to Software Freedom Day 2011 in
Manchester at Madlab on Saturday, 17th September. 11am-5pm.”

* Manchester Free Software are working with HACMan, ManLUG, green h and
others on the event and we would like to work with more groups wanting
to help out. So if you or your group want to help out then please send
an email to fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org .

* If you use Free Software, even it is on Windows or MacOS, and would
like to show new people how you use it and explain why you like Free
Software then please send an email to fsuk-manchester-team@nongnu.org
and help out on the day.

Location
——–
The event will take place at Madlab on Edge Street in the Northern
Quarter. “(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called
Common)”. The venue provides wifi. After the event we will go for drinks
and food to continue the informal discussions. This will be at
location(s) decided on the day.

Transport
———
Parking: There are parking meter bays on the street but its very
expensive, only really good for a short stop. There are paid parking
lots around the venue, the light blue P in this OpenStreetMap centred on
Madlab

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M

. A lot of them, perhaps all, are are owned by NCP http://www.ncp.co.uk/
. If you can’t decide otherwise then park in Manchester Arndale
http://www.manchesterarndale.com/directions.aspx .

Public Transport: Manchester Victoria (MCV) train station, Shudehill
tram station and Manchester Piccadilly bus station are all fairly close
to Madlab, see OpenStreetMap centred on Madlab

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.48427&lon=-2.23652&zoom=15&layers=M

. Manchester Piccadilly (MAN) train station and Manchester Central Coach
Station are not too far either.

Further details at:

http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/UK/Manchester

The Manlug meeting for August 2011 is taking place on 27th August, details below:

Location: Madlab. (Manchester Digital Laboratory).
Address: 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. M4 1HN. – (Between Thomas Street and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)”
Date: Saturday, 27th August 2011
Starts: 14:00
Approximate finish: 17:00

Summary:

IPV4 and Linux.

There will be an overview of IPV4, it would be a good session for anybody who wants to learn and for those who have not touched it in a while. Then there will be overview of Linux networking commands:

- howto check your locally assigned details
- howto set a static address
- and more besides

There will be gui and command line examples.

Click here to download the talk.