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Welcome to Southend's Linux User Group

Below are the latest updates to the site. The articles are written by the SoSLUG members themselves, in order to share their experiences, or expertise, and generally promote the advantages of Open Source software.
Only a brief summary, or teaser is listed below. To read the full text just click on any one of the individual headings

You are welcome to come along to any one of our weekly meetings. The format is informal and its an opportunity for members to discuss various topics of mutual interest and our skills range from novice upwards, so you don't need any particular computing skills to join in.

If you don't live locally, but still wish to contribute, then by logging in, you can comment on any of the written articles. Constructive opinions intended to help improve the site are always welcome


Latest articles and revisions

Title All terms Updated date Teaser
Learn To Code educational, programming, novices 04-Feb-2012

Codecademy

 

Introduction

Layout guide for novices drupal, network 31-Jan-2012

Formatting Drupal content

This page is provided as a guide for novice users, unfamiliar with HTML and CSS. It illustrates some very simple editing to show how to enhance the layout of a page.. As well as standard HTML, some additional functionality is build into to theme to simplify the task of formatting, and to give the pages a consistent look and feel.

SoSLUG Banner Competition soslug 16-Jan-2012

Outline of Competition

You may have noticed, we recently upgraded the SoSLUG theme. One key feature of the new theme is the banner at the top of the page changes, depending on the page and section of the menu you are currently viewing. At present though quite a few sections do not have their own banner and so the default banner of a jigsaw, with a piece missing is used instead (see below for example).

Samsung ML_2525w howto, tutorial 26-Jan-2012

How to install a Samsung ML-2525W printer on a Debian Squeeze – 64 bit system.

 

There's the good, the bad and the down right ugly!

The ugly!

So we'll start with the ugly and get the rant over with.

Samsung are pleased to embed a Linux system into their printer, but in my view, pay not much more than lip service, to helping Linux users to install the required drivers. More will be revealed.

Solarization in Gimp tips, graphics 30-Jan-2012

Solarization in GIMP - Howto

Introduction

GIMP Ver 2.6 as a standard build lacks a solarization filter, putting a lot of people off in the process. However, it is easily installable as an extra from the Ubuntu repositories along with a shed load of other cool filters and work scripts.

To find more about Solarization visit the site below.

Wikipedia Solarization

Installation of plugin for GIMP

If you haven't installed gimp already proceed to do so with the following command.