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UK NOTCON / June OxLUG Talk
by Alasdair G Kergon 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

In view of UK NOTCON in London on Sunday, we'll postpone the OxLUG meeting for a week again, to Sunday 13th June. Topic TBA as usual now... NOTCON describes itself as an informal, low-cost, one-day conference on things that technologies were perhaps not intended to do. It's at Imperial College Union, 11am-7pm. http://www.notcon04.com/ Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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Sunday 9th May: IPv6 and Linux
by Dominic Hargreaves 07 May '04

07 May '04

********************************************************* IPv6 and Linux Date: Sunday 9th May Time: 6.30pm Venue: Comlab (entrance from the door by the car park) Afterwards: In the Lamb and Flag, St Giles' ********************************************************* IPv6 is the next version of the ubiquitous Internet Protocol (IP) used across the Internet and on other networks. It is currently used experimentally on the 6bone network. Peter Grandi will be discussing both the theoretical aspects of IPv6 (eg how it is designed, and what features it offers) as well as the practical sides of configuring IPv6 networking under Linux.

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OED talk tonight (CompSoc)
by Alasdair G Kergon 06 May '04

06 May '04

http://www.ox.compsoc.net/ The University Press's Mark Dunn is visiting us to explain the technology behind getting the Oxford English Dictionary online. The Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150, is available online. It offers unparalleled access to the wealth of material contained in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions Series. 8.30pm, Comlab http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html All welcome. Small charge of two pounds for non-members of CompSoc. ------- As mentioned on the mailing list, there'll be an OxLUG talk this Sunday evening (9th May), probably on IPv6. Firm details to follow.

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Tonight's meeting
by Alasdair G Kergon 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

No talk this month, so we'll meet in the Lamb and Flag from around 7.30-8pm onwards. http://www.ox.compsoc.net/oxfordguide/?Lamb_And_Flag Discussion Topic: plans for Software Freedom Day (Sat 28th Aug) http://softwarefreedomday.org/ The first annual Software Freedom Day will be held on August 28, 2004. The Software Freedom Day initiative intends to make the world aware of the existence, availability, and high quality of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and to encourage its use by as many people as possible. It is a global grassroots marketing campaign. We intend to give away informational fliers and CDs with selected FOSS, such as TheOpenCD or Knoppix, in public places on SFD. It will be up to the individual teams to chose how they wish to organize the PR effort locally, but we will assist with bulk production of posters, T-shirts, CDs and whatever else will be required. ============================= Linux Exhibition at Olympia Tues April 20 - Weds April 21 ============================= Free advance registration: http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/ Followed on Tuesday by .org Party (Pizza; tickets GBP 15) http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28 Alasdair -- agk(a)oxlug.org

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Accu conference 2004 (Oxford, 14-17 April)
by Alasdair G Kergon 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

----- Forwarded message from Richard Austin <richard(a)reportlab.com> ----- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:24:51 -0000 Subject: Accu conference 2004 info The ACCU (Association of C and C++ Users) spring conference will be taking place at the Randolph Hotel in central Oxford, April 14-17 2004. Major sponsors include Microsoft, O'Reilly, Blackwells, ReportLab, Perforce and QBS. This year, in addition to the impressive technical programme, the event aims to examine the big issues and latest trends in the software industry today and will feature a two-day Open Source Forum with experts instrumental in the Open Source revolution. Read more at: http://www.accu.org/conference/opensource.html The "Decision Makers' Day" on Wednesday 14th April covers - the rate of adoption of key open source technologies - what kind of support major players are providing - open source software in eGovernment and Financial Services - numerous case studies on best practices The"Software Industry Day" on Thursday 15th covers - after the dot com crash, which business models are actually working for companies which give their software away? - who is funding all those developers anyway? - the debate over software patents, arguably the key issue in the industry this year The keynote speaker is Eric Raymond, whose paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" popularized and explained the Open Source phenomenon. Other speakers include Paul Everitt, co-founder of Zope Corp, whose open source content management system is in massive use in the public sector; David Ascher of ActiveState (Vancouver), recently acquired by Sophos; Aljosa Pasic of Schlumberger-Sema; James Heald, a leading campaigner in the Software Patents debate. The ACCU conference is a ten year old event which has grown into one of the leading technical events for software developers worldwide, and regularly features the authors of C++ and Python as well as many other luminaries. The Open Source Forum does not presume any technical knowledge or prior background and will be an ideal opportunity to learn about the key issues affecting the software industry today. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Ig Nobel Prizes UK tour - Oxford, Thursday 11th March, 8pm
by Alasdair G Kergon 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Ever wondered why..... the brains of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of fellow citizens? If so the Ig Nobel Prizes National Science Week tour could answer your questions. From March 11th-22nd Marc Abrahams (founder of the Annals of Improbable Research) will be touring the UK and Ireland. The show features Ig Nobel winners, a limerick competition and nominees to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for scientists. The tour will be stopping in Oxford on Thursday 11th March (8th Week) 8pm in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre (Physics Clarendon Lab, on Parks Rd opposite the end of Keble Rd). To contribute to the costs of putting on the event, there will be a small charge on the door: GBP 2.50 for Oxford University students and staff (show University Card) GBP 5.00 for others (concessions GBP 4.00). Limerick Competition: http://www.thes.co.uk/story.aspx?story_id=2010541 Compose a limerick on one of the following topics: Prince Charles and science President Bush and global warming Me and my Petri dish Nominate your long-haired lecturer to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists: http://www.thes.co.uk/story.aspx?story_id=2010543 Entrants will be judged on glossiness, condition, length, style, flow and luxuriance. Photos from last year: http://www.improb.com/ig/2003/2003-ig-UK/2003-UK-ig.html To find out more see www.the-ba.net/nsw or www.improbable.com Tour organised by the British Association and supported by The Times Higher Education Supplement.

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Sunday 7th March: Logical Volume Management
by Dominic Hargreaves 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

This is the announce the forthcoming OxLUG meeting this Sunday. We apologise for the short notice. ********************************************************** Logical Volume Management on Linux (LVM) Date: 7th March 2004 Time: 6.30pm Location: Comlab (entrance from the door by the car park) Afterwards: In the Lamb and Flag, St Giles' ********************************************************** LVM is the established standard for on-line disk storage management under Linux. The aims of this talk are: To introduce existing LVM concepts and tools under Linux; To discuss the architecture used for the new LVM2/device mapper in the 2.6 kernel and the extra features and performance improvements it provides. LVM2 is a new backwards-compatible implementation of LVM using a lightweight kernel driver known as the "device mapper". The new framework supports: Writeable high-performance snapshots; Sophisticated remapping tools; Greatly enhanced configurability; Human-readable (and editable) configuration backups; Atomic metadata updates; Improved data recovery in the event of disk failure; Cluster-awareness.

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PGP keysigning tonight (Wednesday 3rd March)
by Dominic Hargreaves 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Hello, OU Compsoc is organising a PGP keysigning session tonight at the Lamb and Flag pub at 8pm. OxLUG members are invited to attend. If you would be interested in participating and/or would like to know more please see <http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/descriptions/pgp-ht04.shtml> or email pgp(a)ox.compsoc.net. Apologies for the short notice! Regards, Dominic.

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Midmonth Food and Drink
by Jon Masters 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Hi there, We will be meeting again this middle of the month for food and drink. Wednesday 18/02/2004. 20:00 - Zizzi off George Street for Italian (Pizza! Olives!). 20:30 - Bookbinders after the food. If you get lost call me using http://www.jonmasters.org/contact/. Jon.

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Sunday 1st Feb - Dick Morrell, linux appliances etc.
by Alasdair G Kergon 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Dick Morrell (co-author and founder of the SmoothWall project) is scheduled to speak about Linux device creation and also consolidation of Linux vendors and the muddled path ahead. 6.30pm, Comlab: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/about/directions.html (entrance from the door by the car park) [N.B. A last-minute postponement of this talk might prove necessary: please check the website or this mailing list on Sunday afternoon. We'll still hold a meeting in Comlab at 6.30pm regardless.] ************************************************************** High Availability & Reliability - UKUUG Winter Conference 2004 Weds 25-Thurs 26 Feb 2004 in Bournemouth A very strong programme this year, featuring a half-day tutorial and 16 speakers (including 6 experts from overseas). Lars Marowsky-Bree (SUSE Labs, Germany) Alan Robertson (IBM Linux Technology Centre, USA) Matt Asay (Novell, USA); David Axmark (MySQL, Sweden); Mark Baker & Matthew Grove - Grid Monitoring; Matthew Bloch - User Mode Linux; Peter Breuer (Madrid) - NetRAID; Tim Chown - IPv6; Julian Field - MailScanner; Tony Finch (Cambridge); Niall Mansfield - Combatting Sobig worms; Stephen Mayo (HP); Richard Moore (IBM); Philipp Reisner - DRBD; Steve Whitehouse - Cluster Filesystems For full details, see: http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/ ************************************************************** FOSDEM: Sat 21 - Sun 22 Feb, Brussels. Featuring Tim O'Reilly, Hans Reiser, Jonathan Corbet, Jon 'Maddog' Hall. Watch the programme unfold at http://www.fosdem.org/ Free (donation requested). Always great fun. Mailing list for co-ordinating travel & accommodation options from the UK: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/fosdem **************************************************************

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