Ok, Tony asked me to write up a brief summary for the SLUG meeting last week so now I'm trying my best to remember what's happened.
This SLUG night started off with Glen Brunning and Tyson Clugg from Melbourne Wireless giving a brief talk on their organisation. They covered plans for community networks and described how Linux can be used to provide these wireless networks. It was a very good and informative session with lots of questions from the audience answered. Anthony talked about this nice web pad device called Aquapad. It is powered by the Transmeta Crusoe processor, installed with Midori Linux with X running at a decent resolution, with 32MB of internal compact flash for data storage. It has a pcmcia slot, a compact flash slot, an infrared port, a cradle for turning it into a small workstation, and much more. It has Mozilla installed, so with a wireless LAN card you could browse the web in your bed before you fall asleep :) Tony Green briefly talked about how good Spam assassin is and everyone had gone sort of very excited all of a sudden. It was a nice and quick talk. Got spam? Install Spam assassin! It rocks! Tony said his^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H's talk rocked too! :) And then Andrew Bennetts went through the basics of Python and showed us all kinds of funky stuffs you could do, such as changing the object hierarchy on the fly! Also the python one-liner mandelbrot. He also announced the beginning of the SLUG Python Interest Group (PIG) starting from May 20th 2002 at Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel, on the third Monday of every month. Everyone is welcome to join in and share the passion for Python. I didn't go for the dinner but I'm quite sure it was real fun, so now maybe someone could continue this SLUG summary with the dinner :) -- Pigeon. ----------------------------------------------------- "If you have the source, you have the whole world..." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
