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Installfest, 29th April, Oxford
by Dominic Hargreaves 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

OxLUG is getting involved with a nationwide Installfest, which is an event designed to introduce Linux to a larger number of people than would normally have access to it. The official website for the day is http://www.linuxday.org.uk/. We hope to attract a significant number of people to come along to the all day event, the details of which follow: * If you can help out with the event, see the bottom of this mail. Venue: 22nd Oxford Scout HQ Location: Meadow Lane Donnington Oxford OX4 4BJ A map can be found at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=OX44BJ&Z=1. There should be ample car parking. The event with be running from 10am until approximately 6pm and will hopefully feature regular talks and demonstrations as well as the core activity of helping people install and configure linux (whether as a new install or to help with existing installations). We will have a range of distributions available on CDROM and networked machines, and will discuss your requirements in order to choose the most appropriate distribution. The event is being sponsored by MandrakeSoft, and there will be free CDs available to take away. If you would like to come along to get help with your system, whether the computer is new or old, and whether or not you have Linux already installed on it the best way is to register using the form at http://www.linuxday.org.uk/requestinstall.htm. This way we have a better chance of anticipating popularity. If you have any particular queries about the event or what you'd like to get out of it, please email oxlug-events(a)lists.compsoc.net. If you don't manage to register, then do come along on the day anyway. Also, you are welcome to come along to the event, as a business or home user, without a system to install to find out why Linux might benefit you. *** We still need people to volunteer to help out, in one of several ways: - Marketing - getting in touch with the local press etc, and formulating marketing materia (ie improve on this mail :) - Organisation - coming along on the day to help set up/clear up. - Demonstrations/installing/talks - most important bit of the event, to help people install linux! Also we need people to give demonstrations of unusual or exciting uses for Linux - if you're running it on any unusual hardware or doing anything unusual let us know. Demonstrations would be a bonus! Also, to give informal talks about basic aspects of running linux. Questions/offers of help should be addressed to oxlug-events(a)lists.compsoc.net. There will be a short planning meeting after the event this Sunday (which is David Faure from MandrakeSoft on KDE, BTW - separate announcement will follow shortly). -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://dom.magd.ox.ac.uk/ You can get my PGP key from my web site.

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Forthcoming meetings
by Alasdair G Kergon 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Thursday 22nd March 7.30: BCS: Security & Encryption - see below Sunday 1st April 6.30: OxLUG: KDE, David Faure Sunday 6th May 6.30: OxLUG: SmoothWall, Richard Morrell - more details of these later. Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org ----- 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 7:30pm ** Topic - Security & Encryption Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:46:20 -0000 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 March BCS Oxfordshire Branch meeting is on this coming Thursday (22 March 2001) at 7:30pm. Are you interested in Security & Encryption and want to know more about how encryption is made to work? What are the main issues behind some of our current encryption technology? We are very pleased to have Dr Michael Ganley (Head of Consultancy) from Zaxus Ltd (formally Racal) to speak about Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) and Cryptography. Michael is an accomplished speaker in the subject of cryptography. The basis of this months talk is from a talk originally given at The World Conference on Computer Security, Compsec 2000 in November last year. He will be describing how digital signatures work and comparing the various technologies, including Elliptic Curve Cryptography which has a number of advantages its competitors - particularly when working with smart cards. 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/march2001.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 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 on Mainframes - Malcolm Beattie, Sun 4th March 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

IBM Mainframe Hardware from a Linux Hacker's Viewpoint Malcolm Beattie Sunday 4th March 2001, 6.30pm Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford This talk is intended for those who are unfamiliar with modern IBM mainframe hardware (S/390 and the newly-announced z900). It covers the architecture, reliability and performance characteristics of the hardware of a modern mainframe, compared and contrasted with those of traditional Linux/Unix systems. By the end, IBM jargon such as STI, ESCON, and SAP will hold as little terror as PCI and SCSI and the mild Linux/390 brainwashing will be lurking painlessly in your subconscious. The entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html -+-+-+-+-+- Also, I have placed a list of major events at http://www.oxlug.org/majorevents.html Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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Forthcoming Events: The Wired Society: Thurs 25 Jan: 7.30pm: ComLab
by Alasdair G Kergon 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

As usual, we're all welcome to attend this November BCS meeting tomorrow. (Details forwarded below.) Forthcoming events: Tuesday 30th Jan *6pm* Comlab: Richard Moore, IBM Linux Technology Centre, Technical talk about Dynamic Probes (tool to aid kernel-level development/debugging) We'll be joined by other members of the Linux Special Interest Group at IBM Hursley. Sunday 4th Feb 6.30pm ComLab: Pjotr Prins - ROCK Linux (a Linux distribution for sysadmins) & CFengine (GNU configuration tool for system administration) Sunday 4th March 6.30pm (Provisional) Report from LinuxExpo Paris Alasdair ----- Forwarded message from BCS Oxon Events! <events(a)bcsoxon.org> ----- I am dropping you a short reminder that the November BCS Oxfordshire Branch meeting is on this coming Thursday (25 January 2001) at 7:30pm. We are very pleased to have Mr Dharmesh Mistry who is the Chief Technology Office of Entranet (a local leading Internet and Ecommerce Development Company) to speak about the technology, concepts and challenges behind delivering a E-commerce solution using Multi-Access Devices i.e. WAP, Internet, DIgital TV, Online Phone Kiosks etc. According to Dharmesh Mistry, in the next 20 years we will see our lives changed radically. The cause - Multi-Access devices. We are already conditioned to the benfits of the Internet via a PC, but soon there will be new innovations and services being delivered via channels that we did not think possible a few years ago! As well as contributing to the Annual FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) Conference where he spoke on the subject of e-commerce, Dharmesh has experience in front of the camera and has been interviewed for TV and radio including: Tomorrow's World - Electronic Voting - Would You Vote Online? Working Lunch - Shopping Safely on the Internet BBC World Service Java Based Banking Sky/The Learning Curve - Tips for saving money on the Internet Business Breakfast - The Problems Faced by Egg Online LBC Radio - The Future of Internet Banking 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/jan2001.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 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 ----- End forwarded message -----

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Tues Jan 30th: Dynamic Probes and the IBM Linux Technology Centre
by Ganesh Sittampalam 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Richard Moore from the IBM Linux Technology Centre will talk about "Dynamic Probes". You can find more information about Dynamic Probes at http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/whitepapers/dpr… and about the Linux Technology Centre in general at http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/ This talk will be in Comlab on Tuesday January 30th. Provisionally the talk is set for 6pm, but I realise this might be inconvenient for many people and am investigating the possibility of changing it. Therefore, if the time it is held that evening would make a difference to you attending, please mail me *off-list* with a range of times that would suit. If convenient for the speaker, I'll try to rearrange it to a time that would suit the most possible. Cheers, Ganesh

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legOS: Sunday 7th January 2001, 6.30pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 04 Jan '01

04 Jan '01

Lego, legOS and Linux Steve Coast will demonstrate Lego Mindstorms Robotics - past, present & future, with some notes on alternatives. Sunday 7th January 2001 Comlab 6.30pm. http://www.oxlug.org/

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Last Night's Talk - Web Info
by Gervase Markham 04 Dec '00

04 Dec '00

The links and slides from last night are now up at: http://www.mozilla.org.uk/oxlug/ This page can be viewed with any browser. ;-) Apologies for the delay. Gerv

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Sunday 3rd Dec. - Gervase Markham - The Mozilla Project
by Gervase Markham 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

Oxfordshire Linux Users Group ----------------------------- This month's OxLUG talk will be on Mozilla, and the Mozilla project, which is developing the next generation of internet client software. I hope to cover: The Mozilla project - successes and failures Development assistance - mozilla.org's array of very cool web tools Not just a browser - where the project is headed Technologies - demo of some cool things Mozilla does already Background: http://www.mozilla.org and http://www.mozillazine.org . Also, for those of you with a more hands-on bent, visit: http://www.mozillazine.org/build_comments/ and look for a build described as a good one. If you have any questions about the project, advance warning will probably produce a better answer. mailto:gerv-moztalk@gerv.net . Note: I will _not_ be attempting to justify anything about Netscape 6 :-) Sunday 3rd December, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 6.30pm. Check http://www.oxlug.org for directions.

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Sunday 5nd Nov - Simon Cozens - Perl 6
by Alasdair G Kergon 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

"Perl 6 will be the last version of perl." Or, according to one RFC, the version number will asymptotically approach pi*2. Simon Cozens, author of the new Wrox book 'Beginning Perl', will talk about the Perl 6 project. Sunday 5th November: Comlab, 6.30pm. *No picnic* (The SGI talk has been postponed. Website yet to be updated.) Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org +44 7733 310028

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Vinton Cerf - London, Fri 3rd Nov, 6.30pm (UKUUG/ISOC)
by Alasdair G Kergon 26 Oct '00

26 Oct '00

The UKUUG is pleased to announce another free evening meeting in the very successful 1999/2000 series that has included well-known speakers such as Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, and recently James Gosling. Date: Friday 3rd November 2000 Times: 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Speaker: Vinton G. Cerf Sr. Vice President for Internet Architecture and Technology MCI WorldCom Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Title: The 21st Century Internet Tidal Wave The talk opens with a brief bit of history and philosophy related to the Internet, then discusses the current status and scale of the Internet, where its services are available, and then goes on to explore applications of the network, especially the newer ones in addition to email, world wide web, and remote interaction. The talk finishes up with a look at expansion of the Internet beyond planet Earth. The talk will be followed by a question and answer session. Vinton Cerf has been hailed as the father of the Internet. He co-created TCP/IP 24 years ago and broke down policy barriers, a feat that turned the government-based network into a revolutionary commercial medium. Throughout his entire career, the 55-year-old Cerf has taken his love of science fiction, his knowledge of computer science and his sensitivity toward humanity and melded these qualities to vastly improve the way the entire world communicates and gathers knowledge. The Internet has become the fastest-growing communications network, touched by everyone from techies at NASA to schoolchildren in rural America. Venue: Cruciform Building Lecture Theatre 1 (Red Building - opposite UCL's main gate) University College London Gower Street London WC1 This event is open to all - free of charge; advance booking is not required. For further details (Vint Cerf's full biography and related URLs) please visit the UKUUG website: http://www.ukuug.org/events/cerf -- UKUUG Administration

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