There's another British Computer Society meeting in Oxford on Thursday in
Comlab to which we're all invited - see below.
Also note that the Greater London Linux User Group meeting on Saturday
has been postponed until some time in January.
The first OxLUG meeting of Y2K will be on the *second* Sunday of January -
the 9th.
There's still time to book for the UKUUG's conference in Cambridge next
week with a strong technical programme that covers Java Security, Secure
Single Signon, Spam, Data Protection, Exim, Sunsite Northern Europe
and lots of opportunity for discussion etc.
http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter99/
office(a)ukuug.org (students: ask for details of the special price)
Malcolm Blackmore's auction on Sunday raised a magnificant GBP 26.86 - so
OxLUG now has some funds! Thanks to everyone who contributed and
especially to Malcolm! Full accounts will be kept in the "members only"
part of our web site in due course. (Volunteers for writing a web
interface?)
Alasdair.
BCS Oxon
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7.30pm 9th December, Prof. A P Willmore, Professor of Space Research,
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, and was intended to tackle
its objectives in a far superior way to what could be obtained on the
ground. Once the initial problems with the optical system were resolved
(after launching) Hubble has contributed in an important way to our
understanding of the formation of stars, the formation and development of
galaxies and the evolution of the Universe. No prior knowledge of this
subject is assumed.
http://www.bcs.org.uk/branches/oxon/events.htm#four
We will be holding the meeting at the Wolfson Building, South Parks Road,
Oxford. Please use the link below to see a local map.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=451200&Y=206800
Next Sunday, Keith Matthews will lead our session.
The topic will be 'Linux on Laptops' - so do bring along your laptop or
simply come along and have a look at what other people have managed to do
with theirs!
** Please note the venue: Trinity College, Oxford **
The entrance is on Broad Street, opposite the end of Turl Street, to the
left of Blackwell's Travel Shop, and through a small door immediately to
the right of the large gates. There is no free parking provided at this
venue, unfortunately.
Reminder
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oxlug.org email addresses are available to active OxLUG members:
see http://www.oxlug.org/members.html
Another event
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On 13/14 December the UK UNIX User Group is running a conference in
Cambridge on technical, legal and practical aspects of Internet
Technologies.
Speakers include:
Alec Muffett (the author of crack) talking about a new security auditing
tool (Bruce) and the way it makes use of Java - securely;
Phil Hazel (author of exim - www.exim.org - and PCRE) on how writing
free software changed his life;
Martin Poole on how he put together his Secure Server Distribution;
Andrew Findlay on Secure Single Sign-on;
Richard Francis on the legal issues surrounding spam;
Eddie Bleasdale on how to market Linux & Open Source: www.netproject.com
Stuart McRobert about migrating to Gigabit ethernet.
More details at http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter99/
There are a limited number of cheaper places for students.
Details/booking from office(a)ukuug.org
Alasdair.
