Next Meeting - 27th April

[Duncan Roe]

Hi everyone,

The next meeting is 3 weeks from tomorrow. I have reset the attendance
list and updated https://mlug-au.org. Here's the URL for the online
meeting anyway: https://meet.jit.si/mlug-au

We have no talks scheduled yet - does anyone have something they'd like
to share?

It seemed to work well last time, so if there's time we'll again do some
of the extras in the "MLUG workshop extras" para right at the end of the
website:-
- Improvements: website, publicity, other
- Cool Things this month (including your own projects)
(but keep it to a few minutes per Cool Thing;)
- Too Hard Basket.

Do put your name on the attendance list (on the website) if you'd like
to have an in-person meeting again next month. I book the venue once we
have 4 names: if you find you're the 4th person to register then drop me
or the group an email so I know.

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Everyone,

Next meeting is a fortnight next Monday.

There being 4 names on the list, I booked the venue but had to settle
for the Snug as the dining function room was already reserved by another
group.

We have yet to organise any talks. Malcolm, you nearly launched into one
as a Cool Thing - would you like to do that as a talk?

For those who haven't been in the Snug before: it's a small(ish) room
out the back with an HDMI screen and seating capacity of about 10. It's
a bit noisier than the dining function room owing to having an window
overlooking the beer garden (just so you know).

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Malcolm Herbert]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2026, at 09:57, 'Duncan Roe' via mlug-au wrote:
> We have yet to organise any talks. Malcolm, you nearly launched into one
> as a Cool Thing - would you like to do that as a talk?

yes, can do - this is probably a good spur to clean up that code and publish it

was idly wondering whether folk might be interested in more historic talks - Unix was born as an integral part of many of the Universities in the US in the early 70s, so many of those that worked on it were students at the time ... very few of these systems had any graphical capability and the only interaction possible was via punched card or teletype if you were lucky ... and so of course there were early text-mode games

many of these are still around and are eminently playable on modern systems ...

Regards,
Malcolm

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[Duncan Roe]

Hi Malcolm,

On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 11:52:21AM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2026, at 09:57, 'Duncan Roe' via mlug-au wrote:
> > We have yet to organise any talks. Malcolm, you nearly launched into one
> > as a Cool Thing - would you like to do that as a talk?
>
> yes, can do - this is probably a good spur to clean up that code and publish
> it
>

That's great! What title should I put for the talk on the website?
I've put TBC for now (site is still up).

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Malcolm,

On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 11:52:21AM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:

> [SNIP]

>
> was idly wondering whether folk might be interested in more historic
> talks - Unix was born as an integral part of many of the Universities in
> the US in the early 70s, so many of those that worked on it were
> students at the time ... very few of these systems had any graphical
> capability and the only interaction possible was via punched card or
> teletype if you were lucky ... and so of course there were early
> text-mode games
>
> many of these are still around and are eminently playable on modern
> systems ...
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
>

Yes I'd certainly be interested.

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Pool Master]

I have an idea for anyone to look into and possibly do a talk.

Many AI models are being used to write code. Some good, some bad, but they are always improving. I think Anthropic and Google have very good models.

If anyone has tested the most popular models, they can share their results and recommendations. What the models are used for varies depending on what you need done. As an example, a user actually used AI (It might have been various custom agents) to develop a Linux desktop with full apps, each app works. Duncan you might want to play around with this idea and see what you can fine tune or add to your old O/S to test on another second hand laptop?

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[Duncan Roe]

Hi Everyone,

I've booked the Snug for Monday evening. There are still only 4 names on
the list - is no-one else coming?

As expected, the website is currently unavailable but you can get to the
attendance list at http://visualsynth.com/mlug/

Malcolm - I put you down for a talk as you offerred but you never got
back to me with a title?

If anyone can't remember how to get there, email me.

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Pool Master]

Phew, thanks for the reminder, time flies, the meet is this Monday.

What has happened to Howard? He hasnt been turning up and I need to catch up with him.

Also if that Asian newbie can turn up again, gotta speak to him. He came the last meet.

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