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by Ronnie Collinson
Sounds good. Just some small typos corrected and I booked the room for 25/2:
Regrettably, I must inform you all, that we failed to attain quorum at
the AGM last night, with only 7 members arriving. As by the charter,
we will hold a second AGM on February 25th (after Christmas and summer
festivities).
If we fail to obtain quorum or a new committee, we may have no choice
but to file for dissolution with the registrar (could be re-registered
for a fee of $204.45). If this is needed we will endeavour to leave as
much of the online presence running as possible. The club does however
remain in good financial standing.
If any member is unable to attend the AGM, we will be happy for you to
attend via IRC, we will attempt to stream the meeting too (perhaps
audio-only via mumble).
On behalf of committee
7 years, 3 months
Dell launches Ubuntu-powered Sputnik for developers
by Peter Reutemann
"Dell has launched its Ubuntu laptop for developers in the US. The
project, which was first announced in May, uses an XPS 13 Ultrabook as
the base for a customised Ubuntu 12.04 installation that is aimed at
application developers and systems administrators. Dell has worked
with Ubuntu sponsor Canonical and various hardware manufacturers to
provide support for the hardware, and the system ships with additional
features such as the sputnik command that allows developers to easily
replicate their development environment on other machines."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1759350
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 6 months
AGM Tonight (7.30)
by Ronnie Collinson
The AGM is tongiht at MS4.G.02 Waikato University, 7.30pm, come along
chat, have some pizza, hear how the year has been for the club, and
prehaps run for the committee yourself.
7 years, 6 months
Cinnarch: Arch Linux with Mint's Cinnamon desktop
by Peter Reutemann
"Cinnarch project lead developer Alex Filgueira has released an update
to his Linux distribution that includes a new default file manager and
LibreOffice installer and improves the live system's overall
stability. Cinnarch is a rolling release operating system based on
Arch Linux that features Linux Mint's Cinnamon as its default desktop
environment. The OS uses the LightDM login manager and Chromium, the
open source browser project run by Google, as its default web
browser."
-- source: http://h-online.com/-1755860
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 6 months
Linux Mint 14 Is Out
by Peter Reutemann
"New submitter medge_42 sends words that Linux Mint 14 has been
released. Check out their list of features and release notes to see
what's new. One version uses MATE 1.4, which includes some long-needed
bug fixes as well as functional bluetooth and mate-keyring, its own
character map, fast alt-tabbing, and improvements to Caja. The other
version uses Cinnamon 1.6, which contains a huge number of fixes and
new features including its own file browser, persistent workspaces and
a window quicklist to go with them, a notifications applet, an
improved sound applet, and alt-tab graphical improvements. MDM now
supports legacy GDM 2 themes and userlists, and has improved user
switching. Gedit 2.30 has replaced Gedit 3, and MintStick replaces
USB-ImageWriter."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/11/21/0455245/linux-mint-14-is-out
What a shame that I don't have time at the moment to play around with it... :-(
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 6 months
Minecraft Ported To the Raspberry Pi
by Peter Reutemann
"The amusing 'but does it run Crysis?' question has a cousin: 'but
does it run Minecraft?' The makers of Raspberry Pi can now officially
say that yes, yes it does. Called Minecraft: Pi Edition, the latest
flavor of the popular game carries 'a revised feature set' and
'support for several programming languages,' so you can code directly
into Minecraft before or after you start playing. That means you can
build structures in the traditional Minecraft way, but you can also
break open the code and use a programming language to manipulate
things in the game world."
-- source: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/11/24/2334209/minecraft-ported-to-the-...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 6 months
On Demo, a $25 1080p Camera Module For Raspberry Pi
by Peter Reutemann
"The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new add-on – a camera
module that will enable the credit card sized computer to snap
pictures as well as record 1080p videos. Showcased by RS Components at
the Elecontrica 2012 in Germany [watch video here] the £16 (apprx)
module will be equipped with a 5MP sensor and will plug into the
otherwise unused CSI pins of the Pi. The camera module's board is
still in prototype stage and is expected to reach production sometime
soon. Liz Upton, Executive Director of the Foundation said in a blog
post, 'We've a (very) little way to go before we're able to send it
out to manufacture.' According to Upton, testing slots have been
booked in December to check on electromagnetic radiations from the
ribbon cable."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/23/195219/on-demo-a-25-1080p-cam...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 6 months
Hardware Hacking Entries Open For First Ever 24-Hour Raspberry Pi Hackathon
by Peter Reutemann
"Called the Raspberry Pi 'hack day', the competition will pit 100
entrants against one another in a number of categories using only the
board, Internet access, soldering irons and as much coding as they
think appropriate. Participants will have 24-hours to complete
projects, at the end of which winners will be awarded from a variety
of prizes including camcorders, Android tablets and the geek
must-have, the Hubsan H107 Quadcopter."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/22/0342241/entries-open-for-firs...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 6 months
