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Category Archives: Software

Paignton Code Club 5

Posted on 2018-11-28 by Paul Sutton

CODE CLUB PAIGNTON

The next Paignton code club is this Saturday 1st December 2018.   Paignton Library at the usual time.     Please visit https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ for more information about Code Club and please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information about the Paignton sessions.  Places are limited.

You can also contact Paul Sutton via the DCGLUG mailing list.

Torqauy Library also run sessions.  Please contact  https://www.torbay.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/torquay-library/ 

Places are limited

Posted in Code Club, coding, Courses, development, education, Scratch, Scratch 2, Scratch 3, Software | Leave a comment |

Paignton Code Club 4

Posted on 2018-11-12 by Paul Sutton

The next Paignton code club is this Saturday 17th November 2018.   Paignton Library at the usual time.   Please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information.

Posted in Code Club, coding, programming, Software | 1 Comment |

Paignton Code Club 3

Posted on 2018-10-29 by Paul Sutton

The next Paignton code club is this Saturday 3rd November 2018.   Paignton Library at the usual time.   Please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information.

Posted in Code Club, coding, programming, Software, Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

Cosmic Cuttlefish

Posted on 2018-09-26 by Paul Sutton

Ubuntu 18.10  aka Cosmic Cuttlefish is currently in Beta and looking for testers.    More details on how to get involved in this can be found here

Looks like it has a some interesting new features, including kernel 5.0  which is another milestone.

Anyway the above page has a link to the usual image archive, so get downloading and testing 🙂

 

Posted in Cosmic Cuttlefish, Kernel, Linux, programming, Security, Software, Testing, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 18.10 | Leave a comment |

Ubuntu for Containers

Posted on 2018-08-03 by Paul Sutton

Ubuntu for containers

Posted in containers, development, Privacy, programming, Security, Software, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | Leave a comment |

National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide

Posted on 2018-07-30 by Paul Sutton

National Cyber Security Centre publish Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Guide.

Last week the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) in the UK issued their latest publication which gives advice on how to configure Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in accordance with their security best practices.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)is the UK government department responsible for providing guidance on Information Security to the UK public and private sectors as well as responding to online security incidents and securing networks.

https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/30/national-cyber-security-centre-publish-ubuntu-18-04-lts-security-guide

Posted in coding, education, freedom, hacking, Internet Safety, Linux, NCSC, Security, Software, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | Leave a comment |

Holsworthy Coderdojo

Posted on 2018-06-07 by Paul Sutton

Anyone who has been following the list recently will be aware of Tom, from Holsworthy who has been setting up a Coderdojo in Holsworthy.

Today, it was announced,  this is now all set up.  Please go here for more information.   I have added the details to the other events page.

We wish Tom best of luck with this venture and hope that it grows and does well,  which I am sure it will.

Paul

Posted in Arduino, coderdojo, coding, education, Events, hacking, Hardware, Linux, lug news, programming, Raspberry pi, Software, workshop | Leave a comment |

Fallout 4 and Manjaro Linux

Posted on 2018-01-28 by Paul Sutton

 Fallout 4 and Manjaro Linux

Latest video from Bob’s Distros on Youtube,  Fallout 4 on Manjaro Linux.  Not played this but I know it is very popular and gaming is a big barrier to the take up of desktop Linux.

Posted in Fallout 4, freedom, Games, hacking, Hardware, Manjaro, Software | Leave a comment |

Activity Pub now a standard

Posted on 2018-01-28 by Paul Sutton

News from the Free Software foundation is that ActivityPub is now a web standard thanks to the W3C.  If you are not sure what this is please check out the link below:-

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview

 

 

 

Posted in 4 freedoms, coding, debian, freedom, hacking, Hardware, Privacy, programming, Software | Leave a comment |

Free Software Promotion

Posted on 2015-10-22 by Paul Sutton

For the November Tech Jam I should have some resources available for promoting both free software and e-mail self defence.

These were obtained from the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)

 

Posted in 4 freedoms, e-mail self defence, education, Events, freedom, fsf, gpg, Privacy, Software | Leave a comment |
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