On Tuesday evening from 8-9pm it's the first part of our weekly 'Get to Know Linux!' series, with an Introduction to Linux - exploring its history; assessing its capabilities, its strengths and weaknesses; seeing it in action and discussing why you might want to use it and what sorts of computers you can use.
On Thursday 17th Feb at 7.30pm the BCS have invited Mr John Stevens from Racal Securities and Payments to speak about Public Key Infrastructure:
With E-commerce via the Internet being one of the fastest growing technologies, does anyone trust technology enough to deal with financial and personal transactions?
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) defines one mechanism to allow totally secure communications over the Internet. The presentation will explain the key components, their functions and how they inter-react to form a working PKI system. It will then look at some real applications for PKI.
All events in Comlab (Parks Road/Keble Road) as usual, see: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=451200&Y=206800
And finally, if you haven't yet filled in the survey, there's still just time before we start to analyse the responses on Tuesday: http://www.oxlug.org/survey/
Alasdair.