by Jono Bacon | Apr 24, 2004 | Uncategorized
I made a little mistake yesterday and forgot to add James Holden to the list of people volunteering for Infopoints. James has elected to manage the Leeds fair. This brings the volunteer rate up some more and I am pleased with how things are working out. We are going...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Infopoint Project seems to have kicked off to a flying start. It will be announced in Linux Format in the next issue hopefully. I have also had volunteers for Manchester, Bradford, Doncaster, Wolverhampton and possible Birmingham. I am hoping to begin arranging...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
I went to the Linux User & Developer Expo 2004 at Olympia in London this week. The event spread out over two days, and in addition to this I put on the dickie bow and suit at the Linux User & Developer Awards ceremony on the evening of the first day. So, what...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 19, 2004 | Uncategorized
OK, here are the details about my new announcement. It is something called the Infopoint project. The aim of this project is to provide a free software information point at the many computer fairs dotted around the world. These computer fairs are visited by the key...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 18, 2004 | Uncategorized
The mighty Linux box is really starting take shape now. I had a right old dilemma a while back regarding the ADMTek wireless driver that was available for 2.4. I wanted to use the 2.6 kernel and there was only a slightly hacked version from wadey. Although this...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 17, 2004 | Uncategorized
We had a gig last night at the Planet in Wolverhampton which was fun. Not much of a soundcheck but it was cool. It was good to play with our buddies in Fireswitch. We then came back, had a kebab in nan bread and watched Sex In The City DVD’s. Today I went and...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
We went to the South Birmingham LUG (SBLUG) meet last night where ESR was due to speak, but he left them in the lurch and pulled out. I really felt for these guys as they had worked damn hard to host the evening and they had laid on a buffet. Tim from SBLUG asked me...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 15, 2004 | Uncategorized
Well, last night we recorded LUGRadio Episode 5 and it was fun. We had a guest along for the ride in the form of Adam Sweet. I was up late last night mixing it and then it was released today. It is good to see lots of activity and response on the LUGRadio Forums....
by Jono Bacon | Apr 14, 2004 | Uncategorized
Easter was fun this year. On saturday my pal Alan came up to visit until Tuesday. We watched movies, ate lots of food, and played some PS2 games. On tuesday we went over to ST Records in Dudley to buy some CDs where I managed to pick up a bunch of Morbid Angel albums...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 12, 2004 | Uncategorized
The build of my mega-machine is going well. KDE is all compiled up and ready and I commited my first minor commit to the KDE CVS for a while. I plan on fixing some other bits and bobs if time permits – I would also like to contribute to some other projects. 🙂...
