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*8th* September is next meeting
by Alasdair G Kergon 31 Aug '01

31 Aug '01

A quick reminder that the next OxLUG meeting is scheduled for the *Second* Sunday of September, not the first. Topic still TBA. Also, advance notice that we're preparing to move the mailing lists from majordomo to mailman sometime in the next couple of weeks. This will provide a better interface for managing the lists & filtering out spam and also provide web-based subscription & archives etc. Alasdair

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Powertweak: Dave Jones, Sun 5th August, 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

August's OxLUG talk will be given by Dave Jones (SuSE) on Powertweak: a utility which is particularly useful if you want to try to extend your laptop battery life. Abstract at http://www.oxlug.org/ The talk will again be held in Trinity College - entrance through the small door to the right of the large gates half-way along Broad Street. Given the anticipated hot weather, if anyone would support another Picnic in the Parks beforehand, please let me know. Other events ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There will be a free UKUUG talk in London on Thurs 9th August, 6.30pm. Tim O'Reilly was to have given this talk, but he will not now be travelling to Europe. The new speaker - also well-known in the Unix world - will be announced in the next day or two at www.ukuug.org. Linux Expo Birmingham (originally scheduled for September) has been postponed until April or May next year. There'll be a BSD conference in Brighton, 9-11 November http://www.bsdconeurope.org/ This year's DNSCON is in Blackpool, August 18th. http://www.dnscon.org/ Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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Sunday 8th July - E-Smith - at Trinity College
by Alasdair G Kergon 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

This Sunday's meeting will be held in the Danson Room at Trinity College (the same room as we have used before) and NOT in Comlab. It'll start at 6.30pm as usual. The entrance to Trinity College is through a small door just to the right of the large gates half-way along Broad Street. If you're late, ask the porter for directions to the room. The speaker is Charlie Brady and the topic is E-Smith. The e-smith server and gateway is a specialised Linux distribution suitable for small-to-medium enterprises or home networks. It provides Internet gateway functions; file and print sharing; mail, web and FTP servers; and a heap of other useful features. Best of all, it's both easy to administer (via a web interface) *and* extremely customisable and extensible by the more experienced Linux user. This presentation will introduce the e-smith server and gateway system and explore some of the features that make it appealing to novice and experienced users alike. Charlie Brady is Lead Software Developer at e-smith, inc. He's been contributing design ideas and code to the e-smith software project since soon after the initial e-smith software release announcement on Freshmeat. You can read about some of this early work (which has an Oxford connection) at http://www.caa.org.au/groups/IT/dili/ . He is currently touring the UK with YAACT (yet another Australian cricket team). (Direct any queries about the arrangements to events(a)oxlug.org) Alasdair

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Later-than-normal next OxLUG meeting: Sunday 8th July
by Alasdair G Kergon 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

The next OxLUG meeting will be held on the second Sunday of July instead of our normal first Sunday. This is (mostly) to avoid a clash with the UKUUG Linux developers' conference in Manchester. (Programme now up at www.ukuug.org.) The talk will be given by Charlie Brady and be about E-Smith. http://www.caa.org.au/groups/IT/dili/ (Venue still to be arranged.) Alasdair

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Smoothwall: Sunday 3rd June, 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 31 May '01

31 May '01

The postponed Smoothwall talk by Richard Morrell should be going ahead on Sunday. Smoothwall is an easy-to-install firewall (free) product - effectively a heavily-customised Linux distribution - which grew out of a project started by another Linux User Group in the UK a year or so ago. It's a big success and hundreds of thousands of copies have been distributed around the world. 6.30pm, Comlab. Links to maps at www.oxlug.org. Assuming the weather is good, we'll have a Picnic in the Parks beforehand. Meet at the entrance to the University Parks (on the other side of the road from Comlab) about 4.30pm. Finally, tomorrow (Friday 1st June) is the last day to book at the cheap rate for this year's Linux Developers' conference in Manchester from 29th June to 1st July. http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/ Amongst other attractions, it's likely to include a demonstration of The Baby (the world's first stored-program electronic digital computer) on the Friday evening, and plenty of opportunity to mingle with other Linux enthusiasts and meet some core developers. The cost if you book on Friday is 30 pounds plus the UKUUG membership fee if you're not yet a member. (Oxford University students/staff are already covered by an academic membership.) Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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Linux 2001 Developers' Conference: June 29 - July 1
by Alasdair G Kergon 24 May '01

24 May '01

Almost all the abstracts and biographies (+ some photos!) for this year's UKUUG Linux conference are now up on the conference web site: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/ *** The deadline for booking for this conference is now *** *** just one week away if you want the Early-Bird rate. *** Highlights of the programme include: Kernel development: Andrea Arcangeli (vsyscalls, NUMA, O_DIRECT) Samba TNG: Luke Leighton (Architecture & Design; also Trust Metrics) Flight Simulation: Alex Perry (FlightGear) Linux on PDAs and Laptops: Werner Heuser (HOWTO author) Sledgehammer: Bo Thorsen (AMD x86-64) Kernel benchmarking; Powertweak; Zerocopy; DCE; Journalling Flash File System; Heartbeat; Linux Virtual Server; Beowulf; KDE Architecture; Gimp; Zope ...and more Hope to see some of you in Manchester! Alasdair -- agk(a)ukuug.org http://www.oxlug.org/majorevents.html - links to major Linux events

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May meeting
by Alasdair Kergon 04 May '01

04 May '01

This Sunday's meeting (6.30pm, Comlab - see www.oxlug.org): Richard Morrell has pulled out (family illness) but expects to find someone to stand in for him so it can still be about Smoothwall. If not, we need some volunteers for some short talks/discussions! Alasdair

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OED - BCS - Thurs 26th April
by Alasdair G Kergon 25 Apr '01

25 Apr '01

Oxford English Dictionary talk on Thursday (see below). And don't forget to come along this Sunday and be part of our first InstallFest - even if you can only spare half-an-hour come along and don't miss out on the fun! There'll be lots happening and it'll be a great opportunity to meet in person many of the names you regularly read on the mailing list! Dominic and his team have put a tremendous amount of time and effort into the preparations, and the more people you're able to bring along and encourage to use Linux the bigger a success it will be! Full details at www.oxlug.org. Alasdair ----- Forwarded message from BCS Oxon Events <events(a)bcsoxon.org> ----- From: "BCS Oxon Events" <events(a)bcsoxon.org> Subject: *** BCS Oxon Branch Meeting *** - Its This Thursday!!!! - Details Enclosed!!!! Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:14:40 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Dear Mr Kergon, I am dropping you a short reminder that the April BCS Oxfordshire Branch meeting is on this coming Thursday (26 April 2001) at 7:30pm. This meeting is a combination of the Branch AGM and the election of the Branch committee (Please see later on), swiftly followed by the main presentation. We are very pleased to have Laura Elliot, who is OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Technical Project Manager from Oxford University, give the main presentation called OED on the Internet. Laura will be presenting details of the history of how the 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary was put online, and the difficulties that were encountered and how they were overcome. The OED Online is now the worlds leading authority on the history and development of the English Language. 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.bcsoxon.org/calendar/april2001.html 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. http://www.bcsoxon.org/location.html ***** BRANCH AGM - NOTICE AND INVITATION TO MEMBERS ***** Each year the Branch must hold its AGM (Annual General Meeting) to inform you how the Branch is progressing, and how your subscription fees are accounted for. It is also a time when you can ask us questions and also give feedback on any items you would like us to include in next years programme of events. It is also the time when the Branch Committee is elected. This is a great opportunity for anyone of any grade from student through Fellow to have their say within the Branch. Serving on the Branch Committee involves attending approximately 4 meetings a year (about 2 hours) to discuss and organise the Branch Meetings and other events the BCS are involved in. It is a great way to meet people within the BCS, and for those considering application for full BCS membership, then it is a chance to meet people who may be willing to act as sponsors once they have a chance to get to know you. All we ask is that anyone wanting to be involved with the committee to email me to indicate their interest as soon as possible, and to be willing to take an active roll in contributing new ideas for the BCS Branch. or if you require more information please email mailto:events@bcsoxon.org We look forward to seeing you there, Neill Lawson-Smith Branch Chairman ----- End forwarded message -----

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Linux Day this Sunday!
by Dominic Hargreaves 24 Apr '01

24 Apr '01

As you may already know, OxLUG are involved in a nationwide Linux Day this Sunday, and we are holding an local event. See http://www.oxlug.org/linuxday/ for full details. The day is fast approaching, and we would like to see a good number of people turning up to the event. While the focus is on new installs of linux, we'd like to encourage people who already have Linux on their systems to come along with or without their machines for help in fixing miscellaneous problems, chatting to people and generally having fun. We are also going to be having some informal talks by some of our resident experts, and hopefully they will interest people who've already taken the plunge as well as those who are just about to! If you would like to come along for any reason, please let us know by either filling in the form at http://www.oxlug.org/linuxday/register.html or email events(a)oxlug.org. I encourage people to forward this message to as many interested people as possible, as time is running out! Thanks, -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://dom.magd.ox.ac.uk/ 07976 569915 | You can get my PGP key from my web site.

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KDE - David Faure - Sun 1st April
by Alasdair G Kergon 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

April's talk will be about KDE - "the leading desktop environment for Linux/Unix". It will cover what an advanced user and a basic developer ought to know. David has five years of KDE development experience and is employed by MandrakeSoft. He is maintainer of Konqueror (the file manager) and also works on the KDE libraries, the KOffice framework and KWord. Usual time and place: 6.30pm, Comlab, entrance from Parks Road. http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html ** There will be a short meeting afterwards to discuss plans for LinuxDay ** Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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