Monthly Archives: February 2008

Shellac shock

February 26, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I went up to the Black Cotton Club night at Volupte to celebrate Kate’s birthday. Kate is an old school friend, another one of those who I haven’t seen for over ten years. I also met up with Mark and Dave that evening, for whom it has been a similar [...]

FOSDEM 2008

February 25, 2008

Today has been the traditional “recover from FOSDEM” day. There’s so much packed into three days that a fourth is sensible to recover from it!A lot of people I spoke to said they thought this year was busier than ever. It certainly seemed manically busy, but then it always does! I think I went to [...]

FOSDEM baby!

February 13, 2008

Pin It I’m off to FOSDEM next weekend, all being well. If you’re going (and I know and preferably like you) then drop me a mail to arrange a meet up!

Quite a lot different

February 11, 2008

I recently posted about winning the first ever reader competition over at the lovely Amy’s lovely blog. I eagerly awaited the arrival my prize, although as a fallible human being, I was less eager to blog about it. That’s not to cast aspersions on the quality of the prize itself, merely to justify the tardiness [...]

February’s HantsLUG talk videos

February 10, 2008

The videos from this month’s HantsLUG meeting are available for download from the website. This month includes: Practical Cryptography: GnuPG. Hugo Mills gives a short talk on GnuPG, a Free Software PGP replacement. This talk also covers some basic cryptography principles, but doesn’t involve any mathematics! OpenVPN Adrian Bridgett gives a short demonstration of and [...]