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Security talk - Thursday 17th Jan (BCS Oxon)
by Alasdair G Kergon 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

The January BCS Oxfordshire Branch meeting is on Thursday (17 January 2002) at 7:30pm. http://www.bcsoxon.org/dynamic.htm?/calendar/spring2002-detail.htm#jan Speaker: Mr David Love, Head of Security TAG at Computer Associates Whilst companies selling point solutions are good at describing the particular threat against that which they are targeted, a consolidated view of the overall threat picture is rarely adequately depicted. The presentation will describe the various threat areas ranging from individual hackers, through commercial electronic espionage to state sponsored commercial espionage. The expanding utilization of IT by organized crime will also be covered. Given the increasingly sophisticated nature of tools available to attack IT systems, pointers to the future of IT protection will be extrapolated Wolfson Building, South Parks Road, Oxford. http://www.bcsoxon.org/dynamic.htm?/calendar/location.htm After the presentation, the committee will be adjourning to the Lamb and Flag public house (St Giles - about 200m away) for a drink, and informal chat. If you require more information please email mailto:events@bcsoxon.org

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Wireless Networking - Sun 6th Jan 2002, 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Wireless Networking or "You did what with a Pringles can?" Martin Ling Sunday 6th January 2002 6.30pm, Comlab How radio networks work - problems and solutions in implementation Current hardware, the 802.11b standard, and future developments Using wireless with Linux & BSD Wide-area wireless - for both commercial and community networks Aims and benefits of Consume and other projects - broadband to the streets. Problems and challenges: - legal issues, routing design, feasible distances & antenna construction Security implications War driving - scanning for and penetrating wireless LANs Vulnerability of the WEP encryption protocol Advice on securing wireless systems The meeting will (as always), be followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag. The Comlab entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html Happy New Year! Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org http://www.oxlug.org/

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Linux Package menagement - Sun 2nd Dec 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Topic: Linux Package Management Speaker: Piercarlo Grandi (MathEngine) Date: Sunday 2nd December Time: 6.30pm Venue: Comlab Followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag (as always). The Comlab entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html Synopsis: * Filesystem structure * Multidimensional view * Hierarchical view * Which view? * Package structure * Files * Scripts * Metadata * Build prereqs * Runtime prereqs * Install provides * Info * How to map packages onto filesystems * Requirements * The problem with overlapping packages * Some solutions * 'depot' * Lots of others ('stow' etc.) * Major Linux ones * RPM * DPKG * POSIX * Package building * Why * How The topic for January's meeting will be wireless networking (including consume.net). Martin Ling, Sun 6th Jan 2002. Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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BCS meeting tonight (Met Office)
by Alasdair G Kergon 08 Nov '01

08 Nov '01

7.30pm tonight, Comlab (Thurs 8th Nov) ----- Forwarded message from BCS Oxon Events <events(a)bcsoxon.org> ----- We are very pleased to have Mr Peter Kaminski, Civil Applications Group Manager of the Meteorlogical Office, Bracknell who will be presenting what the Met Office does, how it utilises the latest technology to assist all aspects of modern society, and the computational techniques involved to weather forecasting and prediction. http://www.bcsoxon.org/dynamic.htm?/calendar/autumn2001-detail.htm#nov

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Linux Games Programming - Mark 'Nurgle' Collins - Sun 4th Nov
by Alasdair G Kergon 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

Mark 'Nurgle' Collins, author of 'Linux Games Programming' (ISBN 0761532552), will present an introduction to games programming under Linux, covering SDL, OpenGL and OpenAL. He will also discuss getting the maximum performance out of games. Date: Sunday 4th November Time: 6.30pm Venue: Comlab The meeting will be followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag (as always). The Comlab entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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BCS Xmas Presentation - Heinz Wolff - 13th Dec - Tickets
by Alasdair G Kergon 29 Oct '01

29 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from BCS Oxon Web Master <events(a)bcsoxon.org> ----- Heinz Wolff Xmas Presentation --------------------------------------------- This is a quick reminder that we are rapidly filling up the available seats for our special Xmas Lecture to be given by Prof. Heinz Wolff (Great Egg Race etc) on the 13th December in Oxford. Entrance is by ticket only, and is free to BCS members and ?5 for non-members - please visit our web site and reserve your seat to avoid disappointment The reservation form can be found online at http://www.bcsoxon.org/dynamic.htm?/calendar/xmas2001.htm If you have any questions, please email me at the above address. Regards Neill Lawson-Smith BCS Oxon Branch Secretary

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Sun 7th Oct: The Journalling Flash FS - Dave Woodhouse (Red Hat)
by Alasdair G Kergon 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Dave Woodhouse (RedHat) is travelling over from Cambridge on Sunday to give October's talk at 6.30pm in the Computer Lab. The Journalling Flash File System JFFS is a log-structured filesystem designed by Axis Communications AB in Sweden specifically for use on flash devices in embedded systems. It is aware of the restrictions imposed by flash technology and operates directly on the flash chips, thereby avoiding the inefficiency of having two journalling filesystems on top of each other. This presentation will give an overview of the restrictions imposed by flash technology and hence the design aims of JFFS, and the implementation of both JFFS and the improvements made in version 2, including compression and more efficient garbage collection. Maps at: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html Lamb & Flag afterwards. November's talk will be about Linux Games programming. Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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Oxlug list move.
by Dominic Hargreaves 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

We're pleased to announce that the OxLUG mailing list has finally moved over to Mailman, a move which we've been planning for a while. This brings us benefits including web-based management and archives and also reduces the amount of work for the list admins dealing with bounces, approval & spam etc. The new main list address is: oxlug(a)lists.oxlug.org Whilst the oxlug(a)oxlug.org (and oxlug(a)lists.ox.compsoc.net) will continue to work, you should change addressbooks and the like to instead use oxlug(a)lists.oxlug.org. The other addresses are now considered deprecated, and will cease to work in a few weeks. The main list will continue to receive announce posts. You will notice that this message has different mail headers, from previous ones, and so will probably not be filtered correctly. The recommended rule on which to base filtering (for procmail etc) is: X-BeenThere: oxlug[-announce,chat](a)lists.oxlug.org The web site for the lists is at http://lists.oxlug.org/. From there you can read list archives, subscribe, unsubscribe, set options such as password changing, disabling of delivery (nomail) if you want to stop receiving messages temporarily, and digest mode, if you prefer to receive list messages batched together into larger messages. You have also been assigned a password for the lists, which you can have mailed to you from the above site. If you haven't been on a mailman list before, I recommend you take a look! You can also perform most of these functions by email. To get information on how to set such options, send an email to oxlug-request(a)lists.oxlug.org with a body of 'help'. I'd also like to take this opportunity to remind people that for off-topic chat, the list oxlug-chat(a)lists.oxlug.org exists. You can find the URL for it from the above page. If you have any problems with the lists, please email oxlug-admin(a)lists.oxlug.org or oxlug-announce-admin(a)lists.oxlug.org Regards, Dom. -- ... Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

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Local BCS Branch meetings
by Alasdair G Kergon 10 Sep '01

10 Sep '01

September BCS Oxfordshire Branch meeting on Thursday (13 September 2001) How does a Corporate change a culture of Knowledge Hoarding to Knowledge Sharing? - Mr Matthew Doucy, Associate Director and Chief Knowledge Officer for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Details: http://www.bcsoxon.org/calendar/autumn2001-detail.htm#sept Time: 7.30pm Venue: Comlab Map: http://www.bcsoxon.org/location.html Contact: events(a)bcsoxon.org Berkshire Branch meeting: Weds 12 September C# and .NET - Mobile Computing on the Internet Venue: Microsoft, Reading Details: http://www.bcs.org.uk/branches/berks/2001.htm Oxon December presentation: Heinz Wolff Admission by ticket only: cost for non-BCS members is 5 pounds http://www.bcsoxon.org/calendar/xmas2001.htm

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Sun 9th Sept - Porting Linux to AMD - Bo Thorsen, SuSE Labs
by Alasdair G Kergon 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

September's meeting is this weekend: Bo Thorsen will discuss the porting of Linux to AMD's processors. Sun 9th Sept, 6.30pm, Comlab. October's meeting (Sun 7th Oct) is provisionally Dave Woodhouse of Redhat speaking about JFFS - a Journalled File System using Flash memory. Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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