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Ubuntu Install Day, Swindon |
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Written by Henry Tarling
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:54 |
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Saturday 26th of April, 10 am to 4 pm At the Swindon Computer Museum Ubuntu install day you'll be able to talk to Ubuntu users, try Ubuntu out, see videos showing common tasks, and take home a LiveCD to try on your own machine. You don't have to install it to try it; just boot from the LiveCD. You'll get a leaflet with information on finding out more and getting help. Swindon Computer Museum Homepage
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 May 2008 10:39 |
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WCUG Meeting - Saturday 12th Jan 2008 |
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Written by Henry Tarling
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:20 |
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The first WCUG meeting, was a small but fun meeting, thanks all for coming along, may this be the first of many great meets.
The meeting was packed full of web design chat, web technology and more than a PDA or two
as well as the usual amounts of beer and food we all expect at these type of events.
Jim has been bumped to Editor, and will be helping with spell checking on the site Elderflower has been bumped to Editor, and will also be helping with the spell checking Austen has been bumped to Editor So thanks to those people, and look forward to fewer spelling mistakes on the site in the future.
Members at meet: - Henry, Jim, Austen, Ros
Until next time, Mid Feb 2008, Date TBA |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 18:00 |
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CES 2008 - Optimus Maximus Keyboard |
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Written by Henry Tarling
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 21:55 |
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With just one day of CES 2008 left, the blogs, technology sites and podcasts are packed with articles about the latest and greatest hardware, software and gadgets to hit the the streets in 2008, I wish I was able to cover more of CES or even visit myself. That goes for Mac world starting this week as well. However it is not possible. I will post a few articles that I think have captured the best from CES 2008 / Mac World 2008.
The Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard
 Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it. Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc.—as well as of any other character sets: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions and so on to infinity. The display can be configured to display anything on each key, Photshop short cut keys can be displayed directly to the keys, When playing a game you can turn off all but he keys that you need for the game, The 10 Keys to the left of the main keyboard can be used as quick launch, on the picture above you can see them configured for, Google Mail, Firefox, Photoshop, Microsoft Word and more. Thanks to engaget.com for this great video.
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Swindon Museum of Computing Christmas Event 2007 |
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Written by Henry Tarling
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Friday, 07 December 2007 12:13 |
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The Museum of Computing is committed to the preservation and display of examples of early computers. This web site is designed to showcase exhibitions past and present and to help the user find out more about the UK's only museum dedicated to the history of the computer.
Source: Museum of Computing web site, link at bottom of page.
Ho... Ho... Ho...
Its Christmas time again and the Museum of Computing would like to invite to you to along to
'Challenge Santa' day on Saturday 8th December 2007. 9am - 4pm. Challenge Santa will be a day for kids of all ages. Competions, prizes and free crackers! Here are some of the games you will be able to play... | Game | Platform | | The Polar Express | Nintendo Gamecube | | The Snowman | PC and Sinclair Spectrum | | The Official Father Christmas Game | Sinclair Spectrum | | Moley Christmas | Sinclair Spectrum | | The Grinch | Sega Dreamcast | | The Nightmare before Christmas | Sony Playstation 2 | | Christmas NiGHTS | Sega Saturn | | The Santa Clause 3 | Gameboy Advance | | Santa Clause Jr | Gameboy Advance | | Holiday Lemmings | PC |
And don't forget, we have the fantastic Nintendo Wii, so come and have a go! www.museum-of-computing.org.uk
Tel 07939 582544
The Museum of Computing
The University of Bath in Swindon
Oakfield Campus, Marlowe Ave
Swindon, SN3 3JR
Source: Museum of Computing web site. I attended the event to take some pictures and find out more about the museum of computing, it was great to see so many examples of hardware and software from the 1970's and 1980's the museum itself is very well layed out and is very hands on. Many of the systems had been setup for everyone to use, it was nice to see people of all ages enjoying them and using them as easily as more modern technology, in fact in the 3 hours I was at the event only one system went down (A Nintendo Wii 2007 Console) so much for modern design, here is a few pictures. 
View the complete album of photos on my web album Here
I will update this post with some more pictures and more details of how the event went very soon!
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Last Updated on Sunday, 10 February 2008 17:09 |
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