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chombee

tis easy to embed youtube videos, just a copy and paste, right milk?

chombee

I don't really think we need usb sticks or offsite storage, we can put our hard drives to use.

chombee

Yeah we should get together. I spent all weekend sorting out the music and jukebox, so am not keen to take the lead on this one, but I'll come along

chombee

If we want to stop people from installing programs we can just take away the necessary permissions. As for user quotas, depends on the size of the hard drives and the number of users, I think they might be 80GB drives. I would go for no enforced quotas, but then if one user fills up the whole disc i...

chombee

I think we are using the computers wrong. Thing is, Ubuntu is designed to be a mulit-user system in which each user has an account and logs into that account when they use the computer. You're not meant to have everyone using one login like we do. Ubuntu thinks that all of us are one person and beha...

chombee

Oy. I guess we should come round one day and do that rsync thing we've been talking about.

chombee

The Linux Emporium sells linux compatible wireless cards in the UK, either buy one from them or find the same model somewhere else:

http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/

chombee

We gave them a grant to do their performance. These guys want to be shown how to use the lights and sound system in the hall. I don't know. Who should I put Jose in touch with this time? As far as I know there is no permanent sound system in the hall, so it sounds like they want to move the PA upsta...

chombee

Sounds like you're doing the right thing. Ubuntu will detect your Windows installation and offer to resize it for you and install Windows alongside. Just make sure you choose the 'Resize partition whatever and used freed space' option instead of the 'use entire hard drive' option. It is very easy th...

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Well, Premiere not withstanding, I was just over at my friends place, they use Windows virtual machines on Ubuntu a lot. They say it is really easy to setup and then pretty much works just as if you had Windows installed. Their only caveat was accessing external hardware, if you connect a bluetooth ...

chombee

I don't think Adobe Premiere will work in Wine, that's my guess. In general, not all programs work under wine, some do, some don't. My advice is to avoid it. Trying to force programs from one proprietary system to work on a completely different open system is ugly. Your best bet for getting stuff li...

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Also text:

Dance Performance
*DO NOT DANCE UK *presents "*Big Faux Pas"*
Friday 8pm
Above the Forest Cafe in the Hall
Free Admission.
Come enjoy dance works by the DO NOT DANCE UK collective. A night of short
experimental and technical dances.

chombee

You know, those little paper ones we've had for the last few weeks. Great stuff. Who makes them? I think Olivier was doing it but it's been someone else recently. Jose is organising an event for a week on Friday and has a poster for it, which he requests goes in the listings. The poster is here: htt...

chombee

I don't have access, but Jose sent me this poster. Someone put it on the site?

chombee

Behind the scenes working group minutes, 19 Jun 2008. I want to apologise about the faciliation for this meeting. I was sort-of-not-officially facilitating, basically it wasn't really facilitated, but it needed to be because when we all just have a conversation and talk at once the European voluntee...

chombee

One more for the £100: short film about volunteers building accommodation for street children in Peru.

chombee

Add your agenda points here. Mine: The monthly £100 grant. We have had a number of exciting applications: blind cider date , Voices of the Wilderness , Bosnian folk music . Ryan, did you receive a CD from two clowns? If so that is another £100 application, and also a guy called JM told me he was gon...

chombee

This was on faceberk but not our own site. Sob. Ryan, if you want to be reminded of things there is this great site called rememberthemilk.com.

chombee

This seems to be the overriding rift within the forest that in order to exude control on quality (or rather - maintain a unified theme or style) we seem to believe this negatively affects "openness". Does it? Not necessarily, I think a balance can be struck. For example, if we saw the benefit of ha...

chombee

There's a place near my house in Newcastle that tries to imitate the honest ed's signage approach but with a geordie twist to it, and let me tell you its fucking horrible. They sell carpets. Honest Ed may be responsible for spawning thousands of awful copy cats.

chombee

I've worked in bars before. We can figure it out. It isn't hard.

chombee

Someone write in my shifts for me? Dunno when I'll be able to drop by.

chombee

Sat:

11-3
12-2
12-5 Sean
2-5
3-6

Sun:

11-3 Sean
12-2
12-5
2-5
3-6

chombee

So is there a rota yet? I'm happy to do a whole day at the bar, or half of one day then half on the next, or maybe all or most of both days if pushed. Depends how many other people want to be on the bar and how many we need on the bar at a time. I like the idea of serving beer on the meadows all day...

chombee

I think the forest should pay for my tickets so I can go to this and have a good time.

chombee

Nice Swithun. I went to a film showing/talk from the Scottish Zapatista Solidarity Campaign at the weekend. Did you know that this Scottish group is twinned with a Zapa autonomous municipality in Mexico? They have direct communication with them, send representatives to visit them, and raise money fo...

chombee

A lot of customers seem to look at our wraps and think they are the burritos. It's an understandable mistake. Then they will ask for it to be heated up, or sometimes silly volunteers will offer to microwave wraps. I hadn't heard of someone actually ordering a burrito and getting a grilled wrap on a ...

chombee

Anyone know anything about fixing or replacing these?

I've got an old X22, a super portable thinkpad, not a bad little machine, but the screen hinges are so nackered that it just falls all the way open, you have to prop the screen up against something.

chombee

Hey Nix, if you want some sort of mobile zine publishing, a laptop and a desktop printer and scanner seems like the way to go, because they are mobile, they are designed more to be moved around easily and not break. They are slower, but how much printing are you expecting to do? A desktop computer a...

chombee

P.S. read the shop section of those minutes cause I had some new post-meeting thoughts on it and I just shoved them into the minutes.

chombee

I didn't finish these minutes off properly before I got Ryan to post them for me. Here is the better version. This is the working group meeting to come to -- no action points actually assigned to people! Action Points * Next Behind The Scenes meeting: We need to decide what to do about the tax situa...

chombee

Yeah could help out on the day, at the bar or whatever, give me a shout.

chombee

They are gonna be SO embarassed.

chombee

It's great to see someone taking this on.

chombee

Maybe print out the EFF info and stick in on the printer as a warning.

chombee

I just remembered I was night managing on Thursday night and I had a number of people try to take free sandwiches and cakes because they said they were 'working' in the cave. Instead of asking, they just walk into the kitchen and try to take the food. Then when I stop them they give me a story desig...

chombee

I was just about to post this. The disturbing headline is a bit of an exaggeration but still this is stupid.

chombee

You can also put a request out on freecycle. I have an old, not very good hifi that I don't want. It's a CD player, but it skips a lot, maybe that can be fixed, and a pair of speakers. We have another pair of speakers in our basement too. They're not very good though, I'm not sure you would want any...

chombee

Sorry, at 6.

chombee

Not a proper forest meeting but I'm meeting a couple of people in the cafe tomorrow who are interested in doing this tranquility thing. We want to discuss how to implement it and hopefully come up with some sort of proposal for the cafe & events working group. If you're interested, why not come along?

chombee

Well if all we want is remote accounts on the server SSH will do the trick. GNOME programs in general, the file browser, the text editor, the PDF viewer, etc., can work over SSH, though for some programs you will doubtless have to copy the file locally to work on it then copy it back (I'm thinking o...

chombee

I don't have the fonts I used at home here at work, so it's writing the meeting time on by hand. Here's a 4*a5 version for printing flyers of it. I got an email from tranquility people, they are trying to organise a meeting of the Scottish climate activists group about forming a tranquility team for...

chombee

I didn't spot that. Alex, what are you trying to pull here? It's probably because it takes 30 minutes to get the kitchen ready.

chombee

Oh alright then. I'll do it before I print them.

chombee

Source.

chombee

From Alex. Alex will print these.

chombee

So. James is talking to someone about training. Someone is gonna make a rota. Apparently there are people around who don't volunteer in the kitchen who would be up for doing this tranquility thing. But, we don't just want randoms signing up for tranquility shifts. We need to work out the details. So...

chombee

The easiest kind of file sharing to setup is SSH. Give each user an account on the server, then from any client they can login to their server account over SSH and browse the files graphically. You just need to instal openssh server on the server and openssh client on the clients, no setup needed. F...

chombee

No it looks like you're onto it. Do you know how to setup this NIS stuff? I was talking to Erik Chakravarty, who's a computing consultant who's helped out a bit at the forest before. We thought that perhaps you just make a shared /home partition on the server, shared with NFS (which is not the same ...

chombee

Thought people might be interested in this. Edlug are hosting a live demo of a pair of XOs and what you can do with them: "One Laptop Per Child" by Arron Finnon The next meeting of EdLUG is on Thursday 1st May at 7.30pm at The Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue, St Marys Street Edinburgh. There...

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Big Fauz Pas Friday July 4th

Event listings

July 4th event poster -- can this go up?

Behind the scenes working group meet, TOMORROW (Thurs) 8.30

Screen hinges for old thinkpad

'Working' in the cave

Meeting about tranquility implementation

Opening times

Tranquility Team!