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meeting-2010-03-06

Sat, 03/06/2010 - 14:02 — Lesp

Today we had Dave, Tony, Mike and Les present at the LUG..With a guest appearance from Colin.

The focus of todays session was my presentation on the basics of web design.

Guide available here

I explained the basics of web design using the Kompozer application

  • Text
  • Tables
  • Images
  • Hyperlinks

    • The session went well, with lots of questions and answers.

    Looking forward to running a further session in the future,building on our basic knowledge and introducing CSS and new HTML tags? Perhaps we could create our own site to consolidate our knowledge?

    Dave and Mike also looked at blogging using the Blogger platform provided by Google. (May I also suggest the wordpress platform? Wordpress.)

    We also looked at audio editing, using Audacity.
    The BBC's new creative vision for their website Here
    Cheese Webcam Booth Here.

    Plus the usual coffee and chocolate.

    See you all next week.
    Les

    meeting-2010-02-27

    Sat, 02/27/2010 - 13:06 — Lesp

    Today we had Colin, Mike and Les present at the LUG.

    Today's session was split into two distinct sections.

    Colin used Chromium OS in a virtual machine (Virtualbox), and Les learnt how to install Slackware from scratch.

    Colin used a virtual machine image (*.vmdk) in Virtualbox, to run ChromiumOS, and first impressions were that the distro was firmly based on on the Chrome / Chromium browser. So instead of using a desktop, the user uses different tabs to perform certain tasks.

    Link to Chromium OS videos on Youtube

    Les felt the pain of Slackware for the first time.
    Modern distros really do hold the users hand during the install process.
    For Slackware, after booting from the DVD, the user must first partition the hard drive, so that there are at least two partitions. The tool I used for this was cfdisk (a command line tool for partioning hard drives)

  • The partition that will contain the Slackware install
  • A swap partition, that will be used as virtual memory, and for when the PC is hibernated

    • After that was complete, I ran the setup tool, and followed the text based installers instructions, then after 4.8gb was copied to the hard drive, I was ready to play.
    On boot I was presented with a terminal, no GUI! So I logged in and started the GUI using startx (btw I was using KDE4 with Slackware, so that only increased the pain!)
    I managed to get a desktop, but no networking capability, so no internet. My mission for next week, get the internet working on Slackware.

    See you all next week
    Les

    **Breaking News**
    Slackware network config help found...Here my sanity may now return!

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