Re: [Hampshire] LUG Website
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 time we are in the same place. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Linux and LED Scrolling Signs
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 well with Linux? I don't have any experience with the device you linked to, but the following links suggest that it is possible with at least some similar devices. https://github.com/jnweiger/led-name-badge-ls32 https://github.com/DirkReiners/LEDBadgeProgrammer http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1440 It looks like there are a few different types of device out there and if it was me I'd be buying from a cheaper source like: https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/274310652674?chn=ps&var=574414481122&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=574414481122_274310652674&targetid=938486033460&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9045748&campaignid=10195651586&mkgroupid=107296210212&rlsatarget=pla-938486033460&abcId=1145987&merchantid=6995734&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxNT8BRD9ARIsAJ8S5xbE757dDAek12CV32-K6-LROdiyWosJwPf6IA6A_sMsooWpOdfsoaYaAtOsEALw_wcB https://www.ledcontrollercard.com/english/led-name-badges-mini-led-screen-built-in-lithium-battery.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwxNT8BRD9ARIsAJ8S5xYEdJN1Z35vrSv_humOKehYZd9bJaJi8fuTw9nVcJN1WOl8jDERTXoaAvpbEALw_wcB https://www.wish.com/product/5b2b9a3cdfc57b64c25681c0?hide_login_modal=true&from_ad=goog_shopping&_display_country_code=GB&_force_currency_code=GBP&pid=googleadwords_int&c=%7BcampaignId%7D&ad_cid=5b2b9a3cdfc57b64c25681c0&ad_cc=GB&ad_curr=GBP&ad_price=8.00&campaign_id=6493229882&exclude_install=true&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxNT8BRD9ARIsAJ8S5xZQDLoeUeEzmJrHDLpD-Rp4KwRekMWn5OeyCx3h_M6VCP4_GztzNFcaAlYcEALw_wcB&share=web However I've not personally used any of them so I'm not recommending any of them and most of them seem to be shipping from the Far East and will take a while to reach you. The upsides of Amazon are faster delivery and if you order from them and can't get it to work with Linux within a reasonable time you are likely to be able to return it. If you do order something I'd be interested to hear how you get on. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu and i386
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 announcement here has a lot of useful information on the impact and possible work arounds: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/i386-architecture-will-be-dropped-starting-with-eoan-ubuntu-19-10/11263 but the short answer seems to be 18.04 LTS will be supported for a long time to come. Personally I still have several 32 bit machines running Lubuntu (I actually have half a dozen, but only a couple of them are still being used regularly) and I'm not sure what I will do when the security updates stop but I guess I'm hoping I'll have replaced them by then, either that or I'll have to consider re-installing them with a distro that does still offer 32 bit support, but they may be few and far between by then. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Portsmouth and South East Hants LUG meeting Saturday, 15th June 2019
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 coming Saturday, 15th June 2019 from 1pm to 6pm in the Broad Oak Social Club, Hilsea. Talks start at 3pm. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html No booked full scale talk, but lightning talks are always welcome. Bring along a problem or two and ask for help solving them... or come along to get stuck into somebody elses challenging issue. Anything related to Linux, open source, Raspberry Pi, etc. most welcome. There will be plenty of good chat, problem solving and general geekery. Sandwiches, tech talk and excellent company guaranteed as usual, of course. Thanks, Paul -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Raspberry PI
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 your own software and then do everything in house, or use their own cloud based solution. I was going to suggest you look at ESP8266 controlled relays when I saw you were thinking of a PI per radiator, but Tim beat me to it. I'd not seen the TH16 before though, looks useful to have the option of a temperature sensor in the same unit. Of course that might mean you haven't found something you need a PI for after all, but such is life. Though if you still want to roll your own software rather than trust to the cloud offering of an unknown Chinese company then I'd +1 James suggestion of looking at OpenHAB. Annoying heating issues aside I hope things are going well in France? Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] re new linux
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 true, but doesn't stop them applying a RedHat like subscription fee if you want easy updates/security fixes/support. It looks like it is aimed at small devices/IoT so this is either a play for market share or they hope to make money out of support fees. I'm not at all surprised by this though, Microsoft have embraced open source recently. I went to a Linux event last year where Microsoft had a stand and did presentations, I gather they now have a whole division dedicated to open source. My understanding is this is all due to their desire for Azure to compete with AWS. Someone important in M$ realised that most of the people who wanted to run servers in the cloud wanted to run Linux not Windows Server and if they wanted to compete with Amazon they had to offer decent support of Linux in Azure. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Vic Watson
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 Crematorium (East Chapel, I think). Flowers are being accepted or you can make donations to the Samaritans. The reception will be held at the Frog & Frigate." "In case you are interested, there has been a facebook page created where people are sharing any photos they have of Vic, and you can share your memories with his friends and family if you wish to do so. Dr. The Rev. Vic Watson Many thanks" https://www.facebook.com/awalkingbeer/ Sorry to bring bad news. Regards, Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, step...@mpeforth.com MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England tel: +44 (0)23 80 631441, +44 (0)7803 903612, fax: +44 (0)23 80 339691 web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone going to OggCamp 17?
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 to OggCamp 17 next weekend. I'll also be delivering a talk on... well, you just have to attend to find out ;) I'm planning to arrive in Canterbury on Friday 18th evening and hook up with the Friday night OGGCamp pub crowd. Anyone wants to car share with me then please contact me off-list. I'm aiming to leave after work from Havant though at 4pm and would like to avoid going back to Southampton but let's see. Thanks :) On 27 June 2017 at 22:39, Imran Chaudhry wrote: Hello All, 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/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone going to OggCamp 17?
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 not booked a hotel or arranged travel, but my aim would be to get there by train and be there for the whole weekend. This also assumes that by the time I get around to it I can find accommodation that I consider affordable and still go. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Southampton Python meeting - detecting clickbait using machine learning
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. If you're coming to this, please bring a laptop to get the most out of it. Detect clickbait with machine learning Date: 6pm-7.30pm 3rd May 2017 Venue: University of Southampton, Nuffield Theatre Room 1083 (6/1083) - see https://maps.southampton.ac.uk/ Speaker: Oliver Laslett, Uni of Southampton Oliver has kindly agreed to run his tutorial which has already been accepted for PyData London, so this should be a really interesting session! Because this session is interactive, it will be a bit longer than our typical meetings: around 90 minutes. Nearer the date, a link to the tutorial materials will be available on the SPUG website and Google group. I won't spam other lists again for that, so keep an eye out if you're interested. http://southampton-python.github.io/ As usual, refreshments will be provided before the talk, and everyone is welcome to join us in the pub afterwards. Thanks, Thomas With this one weird trick you can build a text processing pipeline! We've all fallen for clickbait articles online. They pollute our news feeds and make it harder to filter out valuable information. In this workshop we'll stream news articles in real-time and detect clickbait using simple machine learning techniques. By the end of the workshop you'll have your very own python app for streaming real-time news and detecting click bait. In the workshop we'll cover: - Streaming data from a REST API - Preprocessing textual data - Training a simple machine learning classifier for clickbait - Putting everything together in a scikit-learn pipeline - Analysing our results (which news source is the most clickbaity?) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] OggCamp 17 has been announced (fwd)
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 this is the 8th event run by the team. For tickets, more details about the venue, accommodation plans etc, please go to http://oggcamp.org [1] Free Culture includes Free/Open Source Software, Open Data, Creative Commons, Open Hardware and Maker environments. Any issues or queries, please address them to me, as I'm one of the organisers. All the best, --- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Partitioning etc. problem was: Re: [Portsmouth LUG] Does anyone use Fedora?
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 approaches with no success). In doing so I have made the machine unbootable on its own, but I can get a live version of Fedora 25 running from a USB stick (the DVD drive is also u/s -- it destroyed the first disc I used). I had a dual boot with Windows Vista, just in case, and I would like to preserve that. If you have a working Windows install on the machine or there is any data on the machine at all that you would like to keep I would strongly recommend backing up before you make any partition changes. If it is just data you should be able to get it off via the live boot you mentioned, but if you want to retain the Windows partition then I'd suggest backing up the drive with something like Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/) before going any further. I believe the installation process is pretty well the same for all main flavours of Linux until it gets to the point of actually installing the software on to the hard drive. My question is only about partitioning. I have looked at how Ubuntu is installed and there seem to be several methods, but they all go through the partitioning stage, so I am sure this is common to both Ubuntu and Fedora, and probably all versions of Linux. The last time I installed Fedora (23) the partion manager seems quite different from either the CentOS or Ubuntu partion manager I am familiar with so I'm not sure that is true, however if all you need to do is understand the partitions currently on the disk to know which to reuse that is likely distro independent. My problem is that I don't understand the result of parted run under Live Fedora 25, nor the information given when I get to allocating partitions during the installation to hard drive, nor how to relate the two -- it is that particular area that I would like help with. If I make the meeting (and I'm still hoping to) I maybe able to help with that, however this process is potentially risky and I repeat I would strongly recommend backing up the partitions first. It is what I would do if it was my own system as If you don't you could wipe everything accidentally and if you proceed without a backup I take absolutely no responsibility for the results. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone use Fedora?
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 only use the Fedora machine as a server so if the question is X/graphical display related I'm probably not going to be much help. I'm hoping to be at the meeting, but not 100% sure I can make it and probably won't know for sure until Friday. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Best place to buy a Raspberry Pi?
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 device for and I'm think a Raspberry Pi fits the bill. So where is the best place to buy one? I'm happy to buy one from a real shop if there is one I can visit easily and won't make me pay significantly over the odds (hello Maplin) or order online. I'm an Amazon Prime member so ordering from Amazon is easy and delivery is free, but honestly I try not to buy everything from Amazon just on principal. I'm looking for a Pi with wifi (Pi 3 model B?) an SD card for it and a power supply, I don't need a case but if the cheapest/easiest way to get what I want is some kind of starter kit that includes a case that's fine. I really don't want an HDMI cable (I have too many already) or a Keyboard or mouse as once setup the Pi will run headless and be administered via SSH. So recommendation please? Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October (Southampton Python group)
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: Room 1083, Nuffield Theatre (Building 6), University of Southampton. (Right by the university bus interchange, if you're coming on public transport) The speaker, Sophia Schillai, led a team from the University which earlier this month won the small boats class of the World Robotic Sailing Championship in Portugal. As usual, after the talk there will be a chance to give lightning talks - the suggested theme is robots, sensors, and code that interacts with the physical world. If you'd like to give a brief (maximum five minutes) talk, please let me know! Refreshments will be provided, and we'll go to a nearby pub afterwards for drinks and food. Best wishes, Thomas - Sophia led a team from the University of Southampton which recently won the World Robotic Sailing Competition (Micro Sailboat class). Come and hear about how we used Python and Linux to make a boat sail itself, including: - Why is it so hard to make a robot sail? - What happened to us at the World Robotic Sailing Championship (besides winning it)? - Who are ROS and Brian? - What tools did we combine to make the Black Python sail? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Annual General Meeting - Future of the LUG
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 also mention that he was very busy at the moment so please be patient. Andy -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Testing your code with CircleCI - 6pm Thursday 4th August, Southampton Uni
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 Southampton Python User Group talk will be a bit more hands on; it's best to bring a laptop if possible: Continuous Integration with CircleCI Date: 6 p.m. 4th August 2016 Venue: Nuffield Theatre Room 1083 (6/1083) Speaker: Ryan Pepper, Alvaro Perez-Diaz, Uni of Soton As usual, refreshments will be provided before the talk, and everyone is welcome to join us in the pub afterwards. There will also be a chance to give brief lightning talks - perhaps about other tools for testing code. If there's something you'd like to tell people about, let me know! Continuous integration (CI) is an integral part of modern software development. It is very useful to check that changes have not broken features in software in an unexpected way, and it would be very rare to find software developers based in companies not using at least some form of regular testing to ensure that regression does not occur. Major scientific software projects such as Numpy, Scipy and Jupyter are good examples of how to use CI in practice. In this talk, we'll give a brief introduction to continuous integration, how it can be used in scientific software development, and demonstrate how to set up CircleCI to automatically test an open source project which is written in Python and stored on GitHub. Bring a laptop with you if possible, to get the most out of the talk. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
