oxlug-announce February 2000

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Tuesday's Talk
by Stephen White 27 Feb '00

27 Feb '00

The line of Linux Introductory talks continues at 8pm on Tuesday (in the Computing Laboratory on Parks Road, the same place as previous talks). This week's talk will cover dialup and email configuration, how to get help in Linux and on the web and will also look briefly at the filesystem layout and using floppies and cd-roms. We will also describe how to correct a printer settings bug in RedHat's Installation and how to get things to work with MS-DOS floppies. The evening will also provide a tenative introduction to configuration files and the command prompt! To find the Computing Laboratory see: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html -- Stephen White OU Compsoc System Administration Team <swhite(a)ox.compsoc.net> http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/

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Installing Linux / PGP Keysigning
by Alasdair G Kergon 20 Feb '00

20 Feb '00

Two events this week. On Tuesday evening at 8pm in Comlab as the second part of our 'Get to Know Linux!' series, we will be demonstrating how to Install Linux. Enter from Parks Road - for maps see: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html On Thursday, we have been invited to join in a PGP Keysigning Party arranged by CompSoc. To take part, simply send your PGP/GPG key to pgp(a)ox.compsoc.net *before the end of today, Sunday* and come along on Thursday with some photo ID. Full instructions are at: http://www.ox.compsoc.net/compsoc/events/pgp-keysigning.html This event is in Trinity College - the entrance is just to the right of the large gates half-way along Broad Street. 8pm Alasdair. -- events(a)oxlug.org

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This week's events
by Alasdair G Kergon 13 Feb '00

13 Feb '00

On Tuesday evening from 8-9pm it's the first part of our weekly 'Get to Know Linux!' series, with an Introduction to Linux - exploring its history; assessing its capabilities, its strengths and weaknesses; seeing it in action and discussing why you might want to use it and what sorts of computers you can use. On Thursday 17th Feb at 7.30pm the BCS have invited Mr John Stevens from Racal Securities and Payments to speak about Public Key Infrastructure: With E-commerce via the Internet being one of the fastest growing technologies, does anyone trust technology enough to deal with financial and personal transactions? Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) defines one mechanism to allow totally secure communications over the Internet. The presentation will explain the key components, their functions and how they inter-react to form a working PKI system. It will then look at some real applications for PKI. All events in Comlab (Parks Road/Keble Road) as usual, see: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=451200&Y=206800 And finally, if you haven't yet filled in the survey, there's still just time before we start to analyse the responses on Tuesday: http://www.oxlug.org/survey/ Alasdair.

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Get to Know Linux!
by Alasdair G Kergon 01 Feb '00

01 Feb '00

Get to Know Linux! Feel intimidated by Linux? Need a helping hand to complete your first installation? Then you need OxLUG's Introduction to Linux: Four short talks on consecutive Tuesdays over the next month. 15th Feb: Introducing Linux 22nd Feb: Installing Linux 29th Feb: Communicating with Linux 7th Mar: Working with Linux Time: 8-9pm Venue: Oxford University Computing Laboratory The entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html For more information contact info(a)oxlug.org

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Crusoe & PGP: Sun 6th Feb
by Alasdair G Kergon 01 Feb '00

01 Feb '00

Transmeta's Crusoe: the Technology and its Implications What if your CPU could run code for any other chip at native speeds? Or speed up your code the more times you ran it? Maybe even add capabilities to itself on the fly? And all this with power usage so low you could run a laptop for weeks on end? Martin Ling will discuss Crusoe - Transmeta's new processor. This will be followed by an introduction to PGP, the de-facto standard for encryption of email, and how to prepare for the Key-Signing party on 24th Feb. Date: Sunday 6th February 2000 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Oxford University Computing Laboratory Entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html

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oxlug-announce February 2000