Club Linux Coffs Harbour

For those that missed Sundays meet-up here is a brief synopsis of of our nerdly chatterings;

• Mike Stanton was kind enough to show us around his expansive Customer Relations Manager Application, "DAM Suite CRM" which he has developed using PHP and MySQL. It is great to see a local developer using open source technology so effectively.
• We discussed, amongst other stuff:
  • the Australian Governments' disturbing plans for filtering the Internet. Now may well be a good time to join the EFA
  • The amazingly excellent Stellarium - A planetarium on your computer. I was very impressed with the slick interface and endless tweakabilty... (is that a real word?).
  • Again with the tweaking with gedit and nano two of my favourite text editors. Unlike Mike, my brain cannot handle vi.
  • Matthew kindly showed us a few holiday snaps which reminded me of an excellent hack I recently discovered for Canon Digital Cameras. CHDK can be installed on top of the existing camera firmware to unlock heaps of hidden functions.

I expect I have forgotten some of the things we covered. For those of you with a better memory or who drank less beer please share in the comments.