From kim at hawtin.net.au Wed May 9 14:33:38 2012 From: kim at hawtin.net.au (Kim Hawtin) Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 14:03:38 +0930 Subject: [technest] Next Meeting - Thursday 24th May, 5:30pm Message-ID: <4FA9F3A2.4050800@hawtin.net.au> Evening all, So we are in planning for the next Adelaide Tech Meet. WHEN; The next meeting is planned for the evening of Thursday 24th May. Doors open 5:30pm, talks start 6:00pm WHERE; Level 1, 115 Grenfell Street, Adelaide Opposite Haighs on Adelaide Arcade. I will have signs up need the entry doors in the foyer. WHAT; David - Old School Analog Computing, The abacus Your talk here Your talk here Your talk here Ok, so we could do with a few more talks. Please discuss on list if you have a short (10-20 minutes) talk you would like to present on you favourite bit of software or hardware. What ever you are hacking on at home or work =) Or you can email me direct. AFTERWARDS; So we go find local food and or drink as appropriate, with discussion. regards, Kim From kim at hawtin.net.au Mon May 21 13:20:15 2012 From: kim at hawtin.net.au (Kim Hawtin) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 12:50:15 +0930 Subject: [technest] Adelaide Tech Meet, 24th May Message-ID: <4FB9B46F.2010204@hawtin.net.au> So thats the 24th May, arrive from 5:30pm, talks start at 6:00pm. Level 1, 115 Grenfell Street, Adelaide. Opposite Haighs on Adelaide Arcade. Signs will be up in the foyer. This meetings talks; - David; Ancient Retro-Computing - Simon; Drupal classifieds - Kim; Using Perlbrew - Your tech talk here! Looking for additional speakers, lightening style talks 1-15 minutes =) In depth talks too. If you have something cool you are working on, we'd love to see it. After the tech talks we find somewhere within walking distance for dinner. Updates or more details at; http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/7111 regards, Kim From kim at hawtin.net.au Wed May 23 13:31:42 2012 From: kim at hawtin.net.au (Kim Hawtin) Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 13:01:42 +0930 Subject: [technest] interesting discussion on coding and development Message-ID: <4FBC5A1E.4080608@hawtin.net.au> hi folks, i know ESR isn't amazingly popular, but this is an interesting talk/QA session =) lots of coding/development, discussion on various languages; https://plus.google.com/118131797905622113230/posts/FBTdvYhR8qS also has some interesting points on 'bufferbloat' cheers, kim From ubermonk at gmail.com Thu May 24 23:12:00 2012 From: ubermonk at gmail.com (Andrew Kirkpatrick) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 22:42:00 +0930 Subject: [technest] URL top up Message-ID: Hi all, Here's some links that were mentioned in passing this evening. Nice abacus. They didn't make them like they now do. Or something. http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/resurgence-of-the-abacus/ Perhaps more importantly, if you have some time to sink, is Eben Moglen's keynote at F2C2012 as discussed at the pub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VHf5vpBy8 Choice (if long) quote: ?"Those of you old enough to remember when fighting public key encryption tooth and nail was the United States Government's policy will remember how hard they fought to prohibit $3.8 trillion dollars worth of electronic commerce from coming into existence in the world. We were [labelled as] proponents of nuclear terrorism and paedophilia in the early 1990s, and all the money they earned in campaign donations, private equity profits and all the rest of it is owing to the globalisation of commerce we made possible, with the technology they wanted to send our clients to jail for making. That demonstrates neatly, I think, to the next generation of policy makers how thoroughly their adherence to the received wisdom is likely to contribute to the death spiral they now fear they're going to get into. And it should embolden us to point out once again that the way innovation really happens is that you provide young people with opportunities to create on an infrastructure which allows them to hack the real world and share the results." Cheers, Andy