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eVoting Discussion

The Irish Government is planning on disposing of it’s eVoting machines and is seeking tenders. Various members of TOG are interested in this, and seeing if we can get some eVoting machines, so we’re going to have a meeting/discussion/brainstorming session in the space at 9pm Saturday 4th February. If you’re interested in this topic, please [...]

New Years Eve at TOG

For new years we will be having a party at TOG. Come on down and enjoy the music.  We will also be doing some hardware hacking on the night. along with the usually good mix of food, drinks and chat. The social will kick off at 7pm this Saturday until late. Feel free to bring your own beer [...]

LDAP – Its Mysteries and Example Use

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a well known and tempered method for storing information in a directory based hierarchy. This talk will discuss the core concepts of LDAP and you will be shown how to use LDAP to represent user accounts in an LDAP data store with the hopes of using this single store [...]

Movember

Following on from the recent Blogger-Twitter-Whatever event, I’m going to take part in Movember to help raise money for Action Prostate Cancer a programme of The Irish Cancer Society. You can follow my progress and donate through Robert Fitzsimons’s mospace page. Or find out more about my team beard.ie.

Selfficiency, at tog

Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of the great things your fellow space-members are up to. One of our members, Adam Sheridan, solved that problem by getting interviewed on Midlands radio last week (listen here). His site, Selfficiency, is a mixture of brief articles on eco-technology and self-sufficiency, and some great in-depth projects. He makes [...]

Unsocial Networking

There has been a fair amount of work recently on the TOG network. We have the normal wireless and then a number of wired network points that allow people to plug their machines into the TOG LAN. But what mysteries lie behind this amazing service? Curious? Of course you are. But fret not, all mysteries [...]

Starting of a FabFund

After putting out to list of full members there was a great response on getting a fabfun set-up to buy some useful machinery for space. On the initial list of things to buy are: MakerBot http://store.makerbot.com/featured-products/cupcake-cnc-basic.html Home Made CNC http://www.cncroutersource.com/homemade-cnc-router.html RepRap http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome Anything else people come up with Comments below on what you think. Reprap

php for beginners

Sometimes you simply like to learn something from scratch. Here is your chance. TOG proudly presents PHP for Beginners. In 5 weeks we will cover the basics of PHP development. The classes are 2 and a half hours long. We’re keeping the class size small, with 6 participants. The course costs €30 for non-members and [...]