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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Hi all (Sebastian)
2. OT: TiVo and streaming boxes (Sebastian)
3. Linux Job Opportunity in Bristol (Sam Pearson)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:45:43 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Hi all
Message-ID: <54283B37.1060004@gmx.com>
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On 28/09/14 10:51, John Honniball wrote:
> On 27/09/2014 20:02, Sebastian wrote:
>> For anyone else who's reading this that did come along to today's
>> meeting, what was the turn out like, and what happened?
>
> About ten of us turned up in the end. I had my Arduino running
> a little test program that drives a 7-segment hex display. The
> display was made partly as a test run with KiCad (PCB design
> software on Linux) and the Dirty PCBs service in China. We
> also had a guy with an Asus Eee PC running a wireless network
> USB-stick on a rather nice USB gooseneck.
>
> A couple of new members showed up too.
>
Ok sounds like it was a good meeting.



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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 22:00:28 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: [bristol] OT: TiVo and streaming boxes
Message-ID: <542876EC.5050706@gmx.com>
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Hi

Ok I got a nice enough HD TV, but a few years old or so V+ Box
connected to it, and from what I know about the TiVo it has never
really seemed worth the upgrade as such in my case.

Now days these streaming boxes seem to be the thing, the Chromecast
that Peter was emailing about is one of them. It's cheap and then it
seems the idea is to get people buying music,etc, from Google Play.
There's Apple TV to, and soon Amazon Fire which looks like it's going to
be a good one, especially if the being able to search using the
microphone in the remote works properly. However of course with Amazon
Fire people are then meant to use Amazon Prime really with it as well,
which would be about the same price as the box itself per year.
Although Netflix and Spotify will work on the Amazon Fire as well.

I also know that in Linux land we can do magical things with XBMC, which
no I don't think I have used.

Not a major TV watcher, mainly channels such as Sky One and BBC One. I
also have no additional move channels such as Sky Movies, but would be
nice to be able to stream more movies onto the TV via Netflix or
possibly something else maybe even.

It's all a bit confusing really, because I am not sure really if it
would be better really in my case to get the TiVo or some sort of
streaming box, or carry on without anything like that for now anyway.
So any suggestions? With a thanks in advanced.

Also Peter how have you been getting on with your Chromecast more recently?

Regards

Sebastian



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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:45:46 +0100
From: Sam Pearson <sam@sgp.me.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [bristol] Linux Job Opportunity in Bristol
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Hi all,

Just a quick post to plug a job opportunity here in Bristol at my employer,
LinuxIT.

We're looking for a Support Engineer to join a busy Service Desk team at
our office in Emerson's Green.

We've got a broad range of support customers in all sectors running all
sorts of systems (mostly Linux of one form or another but there is some
UNIX and Windows from time to time). It's a good place to gain broad
experience of Linux in all sorts of environments.

We ideally need someone with workplace experience of supporting Linux. It's
a customer-facing role so good interpersonal skills are a must. If you have
a relevant academic or professional qualification all the better.
Ultimately, though, what we need is someone who is enthusiastic about
Linux, Open Source and technology generally, hard working and professional
so if you're interested please get in touch whatever your background or
experience.

If anyone wants more information then you can check out
http://www.linuxit.com/who-we-are/work-for-us/ or email me off-list (either
at this address or at <sam.pearson@linuxit.com>).

Cheers,
Sam


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Sam Pearson : sgp.me.uk : @sagepe : 0x40e74c48
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