oxlug-announce October 2003

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Sun 2nd Nov: Digital Video Recording / Kibo Web Application Package
by Alasdair G Kergon 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

We've two talks this Sunday, starting 6.30pm in Trinity College. Linux as a Digital Video Recorder - Jon Burgess Linux provides an ideal platform for building a multimedia server capable of performing the roles of the traditional VHS video recorder, CD and DVD players. It is allows many new applications such as streaming media around the home. This talk will give an introduction to some of the options available for building your own linux based video recorder. It will include some background in the different hardware and software available and hopefully a demo of a digital terrestrial system. The Kibo Web Application Package - Ian Leonard Kibo attempts to give the user a really easy-to-use programming language for application programs. It uses a novel approach and is quite different from the likes of PHP. Date: Sunday 2nd November 2003 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Danson Room, Trinity College The meeting will (as always) be followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag. Trinity College entrance is from Broad Street and directions can be found at http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/maps/ Advance notice of next OxLUG meeting ==================================== Sunday 7th December, 6.30pm Linux Clusters, Dr Jon Lockley, Oxford Supercomputing Centre Other events ============ Wednesday 5th November, 8pm, Comlab An introduction to HTML and CSS. No previous experience will be assumed - by the end of this talk you'll know all you need to create your own web-pages from scratch! http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ (Small charge for Compsoc non-members) Thursday 6th November, 8pm, Comlab Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management: The Good, The Bad, and The Future http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ (Small charge for Compsoc non-members) Tuesday 11th November, 10.45-16.00, Stockley Park (near Heathrow) Mac OS X and the Power of UNIX http://www.ukuug.org/events/apple03/ Free pre-registration required. Tuesday 18th November, 7.30pm Comlab An introduction to PHP KDE enthusiast Lee Jordan will explain how you can use PHP to create dynamically generated pages quickly, highlighting the security traps people all too often fall into. No PHP experience is assumed. http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ (Small charge for Compsoc non-members) Weds 26th November, 8.15, Inorganic Chemistry Lab, South Parks Road The Screensaver, Lifesaver Project Professor W. Graham Richards CBE Chairman of Chemistry, University of Oxford Over 2 million Personal Computers from over 200 countries are being harnessed to screen a database of some billions of small molecules as potential drugs. The grid project provides an effective 100 teraflop machine which is more powerful than the biggest super computer. An added bonus has been the involvement of the general public in a real scientific project. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~science/details/mt03.html#Richards (Small charge for OU Scientific Society non-members)

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Richard Stallman, London, Sun 26th Oct, 2.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

The Dangers of Software Patents Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation / GNU project) Sunday 26th October 2.30pm Westminster University Cavendish Campus 115 Cavendish Street, London (next to the BT Tower) Map: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/static/maps.asp Poster: ftp://ftp.nickhill.co.uk/pub/rms-westminster.pdf Organisers: Association for Free Software www.affs.org.uk Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure www.ffii.org.uk Coaches to London: http://www.stagecoach-oxford.co.uk/oxfordtube/ http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/new/express.htm Advance notice of next OxLUG meetings ===================================== Sunday 2nd November, 6.30pm Linux as a video recorder (provisional) Sunday 7th December, 6.30pm Linux Clusters, Dr Jon Lockley, Oxford Supercomputing Centre Other events ============ Wednesday 22nd October, 2.15pm, London School of Economics Scrambling for Safety 7 - A public meeting on the government's proposed regulations regarding communications data http://www.privacyinternational.org/conference/sfs7/ Wednesday 22nd October, 8.30pm, Comlab. AMD's new processors - Simon Cole http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ Saturday 25th October, 12pm onwards, London comp.sys.sinclair meet, Green Man (Gt. Portland St. tube station) [check newsgroup to confirm details] Tuesday 28th October, 8.30pm, Comlab Data exploration - Tim Bruce, xrefer http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/

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Tux2 talk, Sun 5th October, Trinity College
by Dominic Hargreaves 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

************************************************** ** ** ** Tux2 ** ** Thursday 5th October, 7.30pm ** ** Danson Room, Trinity College ** ** ** ************************************************** Daniel Phillips will be talking about Tux2. Tux2 is an experimental modification of the Ext2 filesystem, to implement an atomic update of data and metadata using the "phase tree" algorithm defined by the author. Unlike the traditional ext2 layout, and journalled alternatives such as ext3, with Tux2 the on-disk representation of the filesystem appears to change instantly from one consistent state to another; even in the event of a crash, the filesystem will never be left in an inconsistent state. This is the same kind of consistency guarantee as a journal provides, but without the redundant writes that a journal requires, and so it should perform better than a journalling filesystem. Development on Tux2 was stopped several years ago when the question of patent conflicts arose. However, recent successes in the fight against software patents in the European Union have motivated the author to return to this work. Directions to the venue are available at <http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/maps/>. The meeting will (as always) be followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag <http://www.ox.compsoc.net/oxfordguide/?Lamb_And_Flag>.

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