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26/10/09 - LugRadio Live & OggCamp
Over the weekend Lug Radio Live was on over in lovely Wolverhampton a brilliant Linux and Open-Source conference, organized by the famous Lug Radio crew! I (RedBrain) attended and will update with more pictures and gossip soon over at Photos keep and eye on that space and an article on here!
31/07/09 - Ethics
There has been a lot of discussion about the ethics of the software industry and the licensing issues surrounding it. We have been having a lot of our own opinions and our own disucssion about this on our mailing list: here. The main question posed is as follows; With the increase adoption of the Open Source/Free Software culture in the propitiatory industry and software does this harm free software or aid it? Have your opinion.
06/04/09 - Mobile-Monday Mozilla + Cibenix
So it was a Monday not everyone's favourite day of the week, but this was pretty cool Monday. It is not everyday here in sunny(raining) Northern Ireland do you see the likes of the famous non-profit organisation Mozilla creator's of the web-browser Firefox the email client Thunderbird and various other projects like bugzilla etc. With such a big project there has been a lot of technology created and designed by many creative minds at the mozilla labs and this is leading to a new open-source media player, songbird based on mozilla technology which makes it cross-platform as in Windows/Mac/Linux/BSD/Solaris.
So on 6th of April, it was arranged there would be a talk in the Invest NI building around half 5 or so with food ;) . So In true fashion I dashed off from work early to see what this was all about. The day was labelled 'Mobile Monday', so this specific talk had to do with mozilla's new venture into the mobile computing market, so porting a version of firefox code named fennec, to a mobile embeded platform. There are a lot of technical issue's and targets to meet, which I will highlight later. readmore
28/01/09 - Just a little nostalgia
So there was some time ago the question was posed.. and the fire starters were primed, "Emacs vs Vi". So where do your allegiances lie! You can check out our mailing list thread over @ : emacs-vi-thread. You can check out the goings on there! So lets take a peak through the results:
GNU/Emacs: 2
vi(m): 8
nano : 1
I guess the result is obvious (emacs won)! I just put people saying vi/vim in the same, because I am the die hard emacs user and counted Colin Turner's vote for emacs (even though you actually use geany).
I nearly feel like saying 'vim ooh i thought you mean emacs viper mode! (and use their votes to beef up emacs there!)'. But yeah I think this is/will-always-be some flame-war that rages on!
I think where emacs fails is at it takes a little bit of learning curve just to open it up and use it save a file and exit! Where as vim/vi's approach is much simpler and quicker, but i do feel the learning curve for emacs is definitely worth it! Some people use it as their mail client news reader and calender replacement. I guess us emacs advocates have to bide our time some time longer!
Peace <3 Gnu :)
27/01/09 - Flash from the past
So its been a long time since the last news update but why not start with a flash to the past http://www.linux.com/feature/50586. This is a really nice article showing, i guess how far as we in Northern Ireland have come in our ICT/Computing endeavors! Tt references to our past and mentions: "Two members of the BLUG, Marty Pauley and Dr. David R. Newman of Queens University. Quoting the article, "Both men are longtime Linux users" Ah yes we like to hear that! Anyways its a nice article see you soon.
12/06/07 - BarCampBelfast
A BarCamp is to be held in the Peter Froggatt Centre at QUB on Saturday 30th June. It's an all day event in the spirit of open source with interactive workshops, talks discussions and anything else you can suggest. BarCamp is a community event run by and for the local open source community. developers, admins, users, abusers...
For more information and to sign up for this event see http://barcamp.org/BarCampBelfast
19/02/06 - Stallman and Perens in Belfast in March
Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens will be speaking in Belfast on 16th March 2006 at an event that is free (as in beer) to attend.
19/02/06 - Free Software Mailing List Announced
The FSFE now have a free software mailing list for Northern Ireland:
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-ni
17/01/06 - EU in for new patent fight - EurActiv
As Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy makes "one final effort" to break the impasse on the EU community patent, campaigners warn that the Commission's proposal could bring back software patents "through the back door". More...
13/01/06 - Judge dreads software patents - ZDNet UK
An Appeals Court judge has questioned whether software patents should be granted, and has criticised the US for allowing 'anything under the sun' to be patented More...
14/12/05 - The state of ICT in Northern Ireland - NewsForge
Invest Northern Ireland, an agency of the UK government, recently funded a whirlwind trip to Northern Ireland by a half dozen journalists in order to show and tell them about Northern Ireland's high-tech industry. More...
12/12/05 - Ireland Open to Open Source - eWeek
Ireland's government is the latest in Europe to consider embracing Linux and open-source software, with initiatives under way to create nationwide Open Source Centers of Excellence. More...
06/12/05 - Irish Eyes Are Smiling on Open Source - eWeek
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Initiatives are under way to create an Open Source Center of Excellence across Ireland that will provide the expertise to examine and discuss the use and potential of open source going forward. More...
01/12/05 - Digital Rights Ireland Formal Launch - Digital Rights Ireland
December 6th sees the formal launch of Digital Rights Ireland, with a press conference in the Conference Room, Pearse St. Library, Dublin 2 at 11.30am. More...
13/09/05 - AIB embraces Linux-based solutions - Electric News Network
AIB has rolled out Novell Linux-based solutions on both the server and desktop, moving away from IBM and Microsoft systems. More...