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2009-08-26 pubbage with tech talk
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Hey guys
Another great night, was a really good turn out even after many people not being able to make it! So there was a lot of different things discussed, and i probably can't remember or note everything so i ask if I missed anything try and fill it in. Note we moved to the small alcove some people didn't realize, keep an eye on the meet reminders for the location.
For some lifting music while you read this check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LapknbGS7Os my new favourite metal band unsun some good ole polish metal :) Or if you dont believe in proprietary music try some creative commons http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/49760 try track 3.
So some of the topics discussed include:
- @paul build-systems are fiddly to make a decent cross platform
solution. gnu/automake helps a lot cmake is useful for porting to windows platforms.
- @grieve the movie 21 is pretty awesome with the probability thing
with the 3 doors problem.
- @noodles had a great time at debconf and had purple hair for some
time! And is a member of SPI, software in the public interest the main asset holder for debian and other big free software projects.
- @anyone who attended the Mozilla talk in the Invest NI building
Christian has reigned from Mozilla http://www.christiansejersen.com/blog/2009/07/leaving-mozilla/ moving to nokia from his work on fennec.
@redbrain i got access to the gnu compile farm of servers, MIPS is interesting its fast and i don't understand the $cat /proc/cpuinfo what does this mean:
[redbrain@gdium ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo system type : gdium processor : 0 cpu model : ICT Loongson-2 V0.3 FPU V0.1 BogoMIPS : 598.60 wait instruction : no microsecond timers : yes tlb_entries : 64 extra interrupt vector : no hardware watchpoint : no ASEs implemented : shadow register sets : 1 VCED exceptions : not available VCEI exceptions : not available
Thats just one of the mips machines :) The other looks a little different i think.
- @steve is sleepy being up early 6am each day to go the gym, and is a
php guru ;)
- @grieve/steve there should be a buffer between clients and
developers to keep clients from being very annoying!
- @noodles makes SAN software and enjoys it always a win :) , running
on top of debian.
- @all programming languages C++ its nice if you use STL, otherwise C
is fine, but making a clear cut library interfaces C++ is nice to have the notion of privacy protected or public access.
- @redbrain GCC work check my post http://redbrain.co.uk/?p=446 for
more info, but i am working on 2 main projects my own language crules and a python compiler/front-end in gcc.
- @noodles will be playing risk on Christmas with a take out
Chinese...... no comment :-) .
- @all do people still enjoy the lug meets in the tap house? We enjoy
it so far as its informal and easy to keep going. Please make other suggestions for talks or new locations anything its open for debate! :)
- @anyone interested http://oggcamp.org/ oggcamp an event the day
after lug radio live as lug-radio live is only a 1 day event this year. Hosted by Linux Outlaws and Ubuntu UK podcasts. Should be interesting and i am going this year hopefully. http://www.lugradio.org/live/2009/
Anyways it was a great night everyone hope you had a nice time. I think i have missed several different things so fill in where appropriate guys! :)
Have fun with the rest of the summer. See you next month! Oh and we missed CT :) .
--Phil
- put in the follow ups here :)