HLUG next meeting - November 21, 2012

[Ron Harwood]

Hey all,

Our next meeting will be Wednesday November 21st at 7:00pm - Room 207, Hamilton Hall, McMaster University.

http://www.mcmaster.ca/welcome/findus.cfm

Hamilton Hall is building #2 on this map:

http://www.mcmaster.ca/welcome/campusmap.cfm

The agenda is still be worked out, but it will probably include:

-Raspberry Pi  (I did get one!) - http://www.raspberrypi.org/
-think|haus - a Hamilton Maker/Hacker Space - http://www.thinkhaus.org
-LaTeX - typesetting/technical document system - http://www.latex-project.org/

If you have a topic you'd like to present on, just let me know.

Regards,

Ron

[Ron Harwood]

Hey all,

Just a reminder of this week's meeting - thanks!

Ron

[Ron Harwood]

Hey all,

Thanks to everyone who came out last night - here are some pertinent links from the presentations:

LaTeX:  http://staticwave.ca/2012.11.19.GDevenyi.LaTeX.pdf

Hamilton's Hackerspace, think|haus:  http://www.thinkhaus.org/

pfSense router/firewall:  http://www.pfsense.org/

...and the motherboard that Roger spoke of (and recommended) for pfSense:

http://www.xagyl.com/store_ca/product.php?productid=16296&cat=&page=1

Here is the case for it... http://www.xagyl.com/store_ca/product.php?productid=16328

And if you aren't going to power is through PoE, you will need the AC adapter
http://www.xagyl.com/store_ca/product.php?productid=16564&cat=&page=1

Raspberry Pi - Canadian source:

http://canada.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=43W5302

...currently 0 stock, but:  "1321 Expected to ship 26 Nov, 2012"

Later,

Ron

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 1:41:41 PM UTC-5, Ron Harwood wrote: