To coincide with our Hoodies and T-Shirts (which are now on sale), here’s a few wallpapers for your computer which feature the duck based design:
Computer Wallpapers
Making a Hot Wire Cutter
Had a go at making a hot wire cutter to cut plastic and polystyrene. Experimented with 2 types of wire. Tried a thinner wire which worked at about 8 amps, but used a thicker wire in the end, as the thinner one broke. It draws about 16 Amps. Managed to cut the tops from some bottles with it. Will experiment a bit more and fine tune it. Want to try some expanded polystyrene. More pics here….
A Year of Beer
TOG will be hosting Capital Brewers brewday Saturday 14 Dec 12:00-17:00
This brewday will mark 1 year since the start of a beautiful friendship, and you can expect all-grain beer brewing with expert advice, tips and tricks, tasting sessions, demos and maybe even a BBQ if weather permits.
Drop in anytime from noon; cost is free and all are welcome.
Donations for TOG are welcome too!
Linux 1. Introduction to the Command Line
Linux is a free open-source operating system invented by Linux Torvalds and developed by a community of developers worldwide. Linux is based on UNIX and has been ported to every platform in use today including PC, Mac, Sparc and ARM and is the base operating system behind Arduino and Android. It is released under the GNU public license and can be copied and reused freely.
TOG will be offering a six week introductory course to the Linux Command Line on Monday nights starting in January. This course assumes no previous programming experience.
This course will teach you how to administer your Linux system from the command line. It will not cover installing Linux nor will it cover Gnome or KDE functionality. Instead, we will be using VirtualBox and each student will download a virtual hard drive with the latest Debian preinstalled and configured for the course.
| When: | Mondays Jan 6th – Feb 10th 2014. |
| Time: | 7:00 – 10:00pm (with 30 min break) |
| Sessions: | 6. |
| Where: | Tog Classroom. |
| Price: | 100 euros. |
| Curriculum: |
- Introduction – setting people up, using the command line.
- Linux file system
- Processes
- The vim Editor
- Command Line Utilities
- Shell Scripting
- Startup and Shutdown
- Globbing and Regular Expressions
- awk, sed, grep
- Installing Software with apt-get and make
Continue reading “Linux 1. Introduction to the Command Line”
Book Club January
TOG’s book club is back in full swing. The next meet up is January 17th 7pm.
The book we are reading at the moment is Old Man’s War by John Scalzi.
The book was available in a free ebook from the tor.com (if you signed up to their newsletter). Hopefully you were lucky enough to grab a copy, otherwise there are ebook versions available for as little as €1.99. We checked, there’s also an audio book available.
(There are tools available to help you find the best deal, for example Luzme for UK.)
Christmas at TOG: cookies and crochet
As we’re well into December by now, we can talk about the C word all we want! As is tradition by now, the final craftnight of the year will be a sugar-fuelled glitterfest where we try to finish Christmas gifts while raising our blood glucose levels. By the time your insulin sorts that mess out, the crochet class on Saturday 14th will let you return to the scene of the sugarcrime and see what you recall.
Sugar craftnight kicks off from about 6:30pm in TOG on Tuesday December 10th. All are welcome, and all sorts of tasty treats are welcome too! There’ll be hot chocolate to wash down the Christmas cookies, and I’ll have some spare felt and sparkles for anyone who’d rather build decorations than destroy their pancreas (of course you can do both). Coordination of baking will happen through the craft mailing list (anyone can join the list and get regular reminders of craftnights during the year). As with all craftnights, you can just pop down on the night. Our first craftnight of 2014 will be on January 7th.
There will be a crochet bauble workshop run on the afternoon of Saturday December 14th from 2:30pm till about 4:30pm. Participants don’t need any prior experience at crochet, and will still make a pretty netted bauble for the tree. The class will cost €7 including materials (or €2 for members for the materials). Sign-up form for the class after the break.