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
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Stephen White OU Compsoc System Administration Team
<swhite(a)ox.compsoc.net> http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/
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.
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events(a)oxlug.org
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.htmlhttp://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.
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
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