oxlug-announce March 2000

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VMware - Trinity College, Sun 2nd April, 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 30 Mar '00

30 Mar '00

Sunday evening's meeting will now be about VMWare. The Firewall talk has been postponed. VMware is commercial software which allows you to run several operating systems simultaneously in separate virtual machines on a standard PC. The talk will be given by John Edwards, European Marketing Director. ** Please note that this meeting will take place at Trinity College. ** The entrance is through a small door just to the right of the large gates half-way along Broad Street. And any students on this list, there's just still time to enter the Linux/Open Source Foundation's competition, with prizes of up to 2000 pounds for innovative ideas for internet applications. See my message of 26th Jan, or http://www.4linuxjobs.co.uk/ for full details. Alasdair. -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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Who pays by Ferryman? (BCS, Thurs) / GLLUG (25th March)
by Alasdair G Kergon 14 Mar '00

14 Mar '00

Two meetings coming up: British Computer Society 7.30, Comlab, Oxford, 16th March (see below) Greater London Linux User Group, Sat 25th March, GND Distribution (10min walk from Canary Wharf tube on the Jubilee line - DLR apparently closed) 1pm onwards http://gllug.linux.co.uk - always a good day out! Alasdair. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:08:10 -0000 From: Neill Lawson-Smith <nls(a)bcs.org.uk> Subject: Who pays by Ferryman? - BCS Oxon Meeting - Its This Thursday!!! Dear Mr Kergon, I am dropping you a short reminder that the October BCS Oxfordshire Branch meeting is on this coming Thursday (16 March 2000) at 7:30pm. With E-commerce via the Internet being one of the fastest growing technologies, The Food Ferry is one of the longest established home-gocery shopping businesses. The Food Ferry have built up an enormous bank of knowledge and experience in the art of telephonic and e-commerce transactions; in enlightened customer service at-a-distance; in local fresh food supply chains and in direct delivery into the customers' home. Everything they do is handled by their computer systems and they are dependent upon the internet for an increasing percentage of their business. James Millar, Strategic Director for The Food Ferry will be giving a general presentation on who The Food Ferry are, what they do and what methods and systems they use in converting experienced supermarket-shoppers into ecstatic home-shoppers.... and then retaining them. We will be handing out CPD certificates at the end of the presentation. If you haven't already done so, it would be a great time to start your CPD records. Please look at the web site http://www.bcs.org.uk/branches/oxon/events.htm#seven for a brief description about this presentation. We will be holding the meeting at the Wolfson Building, South Parks Road, Oxford. Please use the link below to see a local map. Please use the following links to find the location General Oxford Directions http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=451200&Y=206800 http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/sheet/pdf/central_ox_map.pdf which is a detailed PDF roadmap and shows the Computing Labs (OUCL) http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html which is Computing Labs own directions and map [snip bit about oxit.org.uk q.v.] or if you require more information please email mailto:nls@bcs.org.uk We look forward to seeing you there, Neill Lawson-Smith Branch Chairman

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Working with Linux - Tuesday 8pm, Comlab
by Alasdair G Kergon 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

The final part of our introductory series takes place on Tuesday 7th March at 8pm when we will demonstrate and discuss some common applications under Linux, including StarOffice and GIMP. (Maps are at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html) Next month's meeting, on Sunday 2nd April, is about Firewalls. Alasdair.

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Intro to DVD Technology (Sun 5th March)
by Alasdair G Kergon 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

An Introduction to DVD technology and its implementation on Linux Jonathan C. Masters Sunday 5th March 2000 Computing Laboratory, 6.30pm This month's talk will be about DVD technology and the current status of DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) on Linux systems. Jonathan will provide an introduction to the DVD technology itself, the video technology, hardware and features. He will also cover the current status of DVD on Linux systems and what is likely to be available in the future. 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 events(a)oxlug.org

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