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Passed on in case anyone is interested ...

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was it reseating the cables again?
I just came in to do that but you beat me to it.
I couldn't find the glue gun which is apparently in the craft room.
I will ask bloo about it.

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I would be interested to, I think.

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would be a pc with a hard drive full of mp3s. It would have a web server making pages available inside the cafe LAN. People would be able to log on and see what tune was currently playing, who the band was, and get a URL for futher info - the big problem is the cafe is you never know who is playing....

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The Forest introduces Open Source software: A series of talks These days, Open Source Software is becoming more and more mainstream. Favoured by technical people for decades (did you know most websites are hosted on Open Source software?) it is now so easy to use that normal people everywhere are di...

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last year, the theatre and the cafe felt very separate. People would come thru the bright airy double doors direct from the street and not realise a beautiful cafe lay beyond that dark dingy set of double doors underneath the stairs. sad :-( This august, can we have a bright colourful mural saying "...

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I need a little bit of design work done for a forest project ... anyone want to oblige?
As usual in The Forest, the only payment will be free tea and hugs .. sorry.

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Right. Have PM'd and emailed people to get confirmation that they will lead things with my help (btw, the reason I'm doing this is because I don't consider myself proficient in a lot of this - some of this is also for me :-) Do we know anyone good who does open source sound and video editing? Would ...

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me and swithun got a taster DVD with the full film or whatever they are called and watched it. we thought it wasn't good enough to stand by itself but could be good as an event with something else, maybe a talk about CCTV culture and effects from someone ... we were going to talk to Shannon about it...

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Milk, I'd rather do Ubuntu last. If you do it first, its just an abstract thing that people might not see the benefit of. If you do it last, people will have seen the great things OS can do and will be more open to it. Honestly, most people don't care about the OS anymore. I found my sister looking ...

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Ubuntu itself as the 4th workshop then. as I said to milk last night, (lets replay the whole conversation!) I'd be happy to hand out Ubuntu CD's at a session on Ubuntu, but I wouldn't want to hand them out without telling people about it first. Don't want them to get scared off if it's all to new .....

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pm me your email address

I'd like a small credit somewhere if at all possible .....

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I am uploading a couple I took tonight when it was busy right now.
Have a look again.

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I want these to be practical introduction sessions to get people into things ... not sure about the 3rd one now. Might it be to specialist and complicated? But maybe the 4th could be Ubuntu itself?

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OK - we are going to take over a Tuesday evening slot in the action room. 1st & 3rd tue of each month - 6 to 8 (although chances are I can only be there at 6:10pm sometimes as I come from work.) On the 1st Tuesday of every month there is another booking starting at 8pm, so we would have to be out sh...

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How are you getting up there for Wednesday eve?

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Don't think I have as many of The Forest as I really should have .... but http://www.doubtlesshouse.org.uk/other/TheForest/ and anything @ Forest Fringe Studio in http://www.doubtlesshouse.org.uk/edfringe07/ Take your pick, email me I will add more of other peoples exhibitions in the gallery over th...

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I'm in.

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So, When I went to Big Blether I wasn't sure what I could talk about ... but then someone mentioned Open Source software round the camp fire, and I offered to do a talk about it. Sunday evening I spent a hour telling two newbies about it in practical and ideological terms, and trying to stop one oth...

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can we organise a dance off, in the traditional folk style of their respective countries?

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the eth0:avhi interface that had a IP4 address was fine, I read some ubunut forums and apparently that's normal. What did you change in the config? the relevant part was just setting it to DHCP, there wasn't much to change there.

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i moved it and it seems to work. strange.

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sorted.
one set of keys is in the downstairs safe
the other set of keys is living with me for safe keeping.

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glue gun sounds good. lets do it.

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"The radical tech collective behind riseup.net announce an initiative to help soocial movements with tech needs. Modelled on Google's Summer of Code, they want to help projects with code, support and cash." http://scotland.indymedia.org/node/10312 https://we.riseup.net/fsoc I wish they would sodding...

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so what do they then do if they actually want to remove the cables? can you melt it off or something?

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2nd computer from left had
ATP4.00
errors.

i reseated the cables and it seems to work
this is a consistent problem
what can we do about it?

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I don't understand it ...
the network cable is fine, i tested it
it was working on sunday
anyone want to have a look?

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With male connectors each end.
(That is actually the technical term, and it means sticky out bits that go into things, as opposed to female connectors that have holes things go into.)
If you can donate this to The Forest, we would be grateful!
Thanks.

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cables ordered.

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I saw this in Maplin in Dalry road this morning. They only had two in stock http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=47382&doy=2m5#overview Would lock the computers to the table and lock the computer shut its just what we need. Computer budget is overdrawn but with WG permission we can do it. I ...

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Greame has the DIY skills and is going to look into computer security in various ways.

I should have been at this meeting and was on a bus back from Glasgow instead. Bad Me. No Biscuit. (sorry. that was very bad of me.)

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Sat 31st May - MP3 Vollie Party
Sat 5th July - Kegger Vollie party
tis booked.
more details to come soon.

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That can do SSH? nice.

That's a good start then. It won't store our preferences, but at least we will have a central place to store our files and it will be secure.

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I did NIS 5 years ago, I'll have to refresh myself. With NIS you would also use NFS with /home shared as you describe. I will have to read carefully, if I remember rightly there wasn't much security built in and we are on a wide open network (laptops and wifi). But file server - could start this wit...

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Yeah we need this, the new action room computers are filling up with files all over the desktop, and people are all sharing the one user account and complaining that other people keep changing the user preferences, especially for printing. Could we set up user accounts such that people can use the ...

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Yup, I've seen many similar events advertised. Not an original thought, just thought it could be fun.

We will chat to Bryony.

Events book makes weekends look very full. Guess I'll phone round and ask people to move?

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clearly.

Me and pockets could have a crack at a MP3 vollie party ... we'll have a laptop and people can bring ipods, cd's, memory sticks and play a few of their fravorite tunes ..

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oh wait, think i misread you post. sorry. but my point about what the point of the argument is about still stands.(if that point makes any point)

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Implementation wise, I feel we should keep it simple and either go with no CCTV at all or have it on on all the time. I am not sure it is a good idea to have it turning on and off. Does this make it even less likely to get snaps of people? Particularly when something has been stolen, or if some tro...

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Martin, I don't think its true the quality is always shit. Some certainly, and we should make this a point we check up on, but we shouldn't rule out commercial systems entirely. Heres something to start the discussion with ... http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=220753&doy=25m4#overview htt...

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A productive meeting was held .. the mass crowd of 10 turned up. The plan for break out groups was thrown away and we just sat round a table in the cafe and chatted. Noone took proper minutes. I should have ensured this happened. Bad me. But from the meeting: A barred book will be started and kept i...

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cool, will study folder later This external group and its massive budget will need more explaining to me. its seems a bit of an arbitrary split to me. Why should a book launch or record launch not in the forest suddenly be in a different group to one in the forest? it'll be the same people surely? h...

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so, talking of devolving power to the working groups ...
why is this thread in FWG? I see no need or no secrets here.
why is it not in the shop forum? Admin!

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Budgets Budgets have started. At each WG meeting each one should look at their budgets and what was spent. Events is down already by -185. When numbers go negative each WG needs to make spending decisions, not individuals. Early days and it's working okay. Cool. Where can FWG members view all the b...

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ps. Jethro, have I talked to you before outside a Blender gig at 2am one night last year?

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All my photos are from a canon 30D and are the required 300dpi quality.
I do need some more general ones of the venue itself and not just events tho I guess.
Any other suggestions or feedback as to what goes in a press pack would be good tho ...

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I have emailed her some links.

http://www.doubtlesshouse.org.uk/other/TheForest/
http://www.doubtlesshouse.org.uk/edfringe07/ (Look for Forest Fringe Studio)

Good suggestion on working on a portfolio.

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I've already been, its very good. Enjoy.

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some of my photos from the day are at:
http://www.theforest.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4442
although I think you have to logged in to see them.

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