Linux Supporters Group

WORKSHOP: WED. 6th OCTOBER 2010

linuxlsga — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:59:02 +0000

Linux Computer Workshop
to be held on
Wednesday 6th October 2010
at the
South-West Community Centre

171 Sturt Street, Adelaide, from 7.30pm – 10pm.

This October meeting will be a “hands on” workshop where we shall present the following topics (and many extras):

Installing various flavours of Linux
Creating ‘live’ CD and USB distributions
Managing databases on Linux (MySQL etc)

Bring your laptop/tower and a blank CD-RW or USB stick

Participants may be guided by people with computer expertise and they can learn Linux through our “hands-on” approach.

This Workshop offers an opportunity to explore Hardware Problems.

Everyone welcome. Cost is $3 per person, includes tea/coffee & biscuits.

Meeting: Wed 1st Sept. 2010

arthur — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:26:41 +0000

The Linux Supporters Group, Adelaide. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm, at the Adelaide South-West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide.

Barry Dwyer presents “The ‘P’ in ‘LAMP’ — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”

Cost $3. The usual speak-to-a-geek session to help solve your Linux problems. Refreshments provided. Parking available. All welcome and bring your friends.

Meeting: Wed. 4th August 2010

linuxlsga — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:57:28 +0000

We are the Linux Supporters Group Adelaide. We meet at the Adelaide South-West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide, at 7.30pm. on the first Wednesday of each Month.

On August 4th we shalll have short talks on Linux and its promising future. Speak-to-a-Geek about your Linux FAQs. Suprise subject on the night [which turned out to be: "Creating a live USB Boot Stick for kubuntu"]. Plus hear about our future programme, and end-of-year function.

Refreshments provided. Cost is $3.00 — plenty of parking available.

Bring your Friends, All Welcomed.

In the Magazines: July 2010

linuxlsga — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:51:55 +0000

Linux Format (Jul 2010): Multi-booting summary —Better compression using xzip — Compiz-Fusion tutorial — Project management using Gnome-Planner — Introduction to version control with Subversion

Linux Format (Aug 2010): Web browser comparison — Linux phones discussed — methods of repairing damaged files — Blender in its 3D mode — Tutorial on email program ‘mutt’

Linux User & Developer (Issue 88): Review of web application programs — Tutorial on Python — Ubuntu 10.04 DVD

Linux Magazine (Jul 2010): Klaus Knopper’s column — Password management — Vim and Terminator; a new look at terminals and command-line — Multibuntu DVD

Admin Network & Security (Linux Special): Knoppix troubleshooting tools — remote administration tricks — Tools for networking with windows computers

In the Magazines: June 2010

linuxlsga — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:17:30 +0000

Linux User & Developer (Issue 85): Tutorial on virtualisation — Some bash command-line hints — GNU ‘C’ compiler explanation — Quick and easy GUI development using PyGTK — Article on ChromeOS vs Moblin — How to make bare-metal backups

Linux User & Developer (Issue 87): The German WePad (linux-based) alternative to the iPad — Creating .pdf with Scribus — A bash tutorial — How to create .deb packages — A bit about device drivers

Linux Journal (June 2010): Remote access using OpenVPN — A brief history of Linux distributions over the past almost 20 years — Linux on the PowerPC, the ARM and the Itanium — Remote backup techniques

Linux Format (June 2010): Game FlightGear ! — Firewall distriburtions —A swathe of distros. on DVD to try via virtualisation — Shell ‘zsh’ — Boost Firefox performance — Base (instead of MySQL etc).

Linux Magazine (June 2010): Get ‘git’ version control running — File permissions explained

Meeting: 7th July 2010

arthur — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:07:17 +0000

The Linux Supporters Group Adelaide meets at the Adelaide South West Community Centre, 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide on the first Wednesday of each Month at 7.30pm.

On July 7th, we have two presenters:

Adam Webb shall talk on The Latest CPUs in Personal Computers.

Peter Perry shall talk on How to Manipulate Images in Linux.

Cost $3.00. Refreshments provided. The usual speak-to-a-geek session. where we try to solve your computer problems.

Bring your friends — all welcome.

Meeting: 2nd JUNE, 2010.

arthur — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:15:33 +0000

THE LINUX SUPPORTERS GROUP meets at the ADELAIDE SOUTH-WEST COMMUNITY CENTRE. 171 Sturt Street, Adelaide at 7.30pm on the First Wednesday of each Month.

At our Wednesday night meeting in June, Trevor Glen and Michael Terrington from Sarugo will present “A new cool way to back up all your data”, using a method — “MemoryBox” — introduced by their company.

Cost is $3.00 refreshments provided. bring your friends. All welcome.

Plus our usual “speak-to-a-Geek” and solve your computer problems.

Meeting: 5th MAY 2010

arthur — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:38:41 +0000

THE LINUX SUPPORTERS GROUP ADELAIDE meets on the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EACH MONTH from 7.30PM at 171 STURT STREET, ADELAIDE.

MAY 5TH WORKSHOP: “HANDS ON LEARNING”

Bring your own computer and monitor with power cords, mouse, keyboard.

(We have a few laptops loaded with Debian Lenny available, too).

We shall be showing several ways to install and use Linux. You may make use of our debian/ubuntu partial mirror, too.

Hot Soup and crusty bread, Tea and Coffee: Cost $5.

Please RSVP for catering to: ASWCC phone 82123533 between 9am - 5pm.

Sale of books, pc hardware, disc drives, cables, kvm switches &c cheap.

NOTE: The slides and extensive supporting notes for the recent talk on MySQL have been added at the bottom of the “Tutorials” section of our website under the topic “Databases: How to manage MySQL via PHP”.

And just to make sure we are on the same page, check out http://www.promotinglinux.com/truth/ …

In the Magazines: March 2010

linuxlsga — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:20:04 +0000

Linux User & Developer (Issue #83) : A whole heap of python programming tips — How to get started with the mutt mail client — A fair bit about the Android phone — A brief look at Chrome OS — DVD containing Debian ’squeeze’.

Linux Magazine (April 2010): Knoppix 6.3 DVD — MySQL Workbench tutorial — Klaus Knopper on why KVM switches can mess up your video resolution choices — ClamAV install+configure tutorial — (the original) GRUB tutorial.

Linux Journal (March 2010): Using OpenVPN for Linux — Using ssh through a compromised firewall.

New Partial APT Mirror

linuxlsga — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:24:58 +0000

The Linux Supporters Group has created an APT partial mirror for use in our Friday Linux Learners Lounge, our monthly Wednesday Meetings and our bi-annual Workshops.

It should now be easy to bring in your own computer and install any one of over 3500 packages that you might need on the spot, by connecting to our server via ethernet cable. You may also upgrade your distro. You have to be running one of the following distristribution releases:

DEBIAN: [i386] etch lenny squeeze

[main contrib non-free]

UBUNTU: [i386] dapper hardy intrepid jaunty karmic lucid

[main restricted universe multiverse]