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HACK/CHANGE

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TOG’s tornado tour continues, this time into Exchange Dublin, a multipurpose culture space in Temple Bar.

The week long exhibition in Exchange brings hacker culture to the people of Dublin, with a variety of crazy contraptions made by the mad members of TOG.

There will be adhoc hack/changes made throughout the week, culminating in a big data visualisation event 8pm on Friday 24th  – wrapping up in time for Tog’s 5th birthday party on Saturday 25th.

So take a stroll through Temple Bar this week and serve yourself a little slice of hacker heaven!

Date: 19th – 25th January

Where: Exchange Dublin

Tickets: No booking required, free entry.

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Computer Wallpapers

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:

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Making a Hot Wire Cutter

3191 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….

Hot Wire Cutter Pics

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A Year of Beer

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TOG will be hosting Capital Brewers brewday Saturday 14 Dec 12:00-17:00

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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.

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Drop in anytime from noon; cost is free and all are welcome.

Donations for TOG are welcome too!

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Linux 1. Introduction to the Command Line

tuxLinux 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

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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.)