We've two talks this Sunday, starting 6.30pm in Trinity College.

Linux as a Digital Video Recorder - Jon Burgess

Linux provides an ideal platform for building a multimedia server capable of performing the roles of the traditional VHS video recorder, CD and DVD players. It is allows many new applications such as streaming media around the home.

This talk will give an introduction to some of the options available for building your own linux based video recorder. It will include some background in the different hardware and software available and hopefully a demo of a digital terrestrial system.

The Kibo Web Application Package - Ian Leonard

Kibo attempts to give the user a really easy-to-use programming language for application programs. It uses a novel approach and is quite different from the likes of PHP.

Date: Sunday 2nd November 2003 Time: 6.30pm Venue: Danson Room, Trinity College

The meeting will (as always) be followed by drinks at the Lamb and Flag.

Trinity College entrance is from Broad Street and directions can be found at http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/maps/

Advance notice of next OxLUG meeting ==================================== Sunday 7th December, 6.30pm Linux Clusters, Dr Jon Lockley, Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Other events ============ Wednesday 5th November, 8pm, Comlab An introduction to HTML and CSS. No previous experience will be assumed - by the end of this talk you'll know all you need to create your own web-pages from scratch! http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ (Small charge for Compsoc non-members)

Thursday 6th November, 8pm, Comlab Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management: The Good, The Bad, and The Future http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ (Small charge for Compsoc non-members)

Tuesday 11th November, 10.45-16.00, Stockley Park (near Heathrow) Mac OS X and the Power of UNIX http://www.ukuug.org/events/apple03/ Free pre-registration required.

Tuesday 18th November, 7.30pm Comlab An introduction to PHP KDE enthusiast Lee Jordan will explain how you can use PHP to create dynamically generated pages quickly, highlighting the security traps people all too often fall into. No PHP experience is assumed. http://www.ox.compsoc.net/events/termcards/current/ (Small charge for Compsoc non-members)

Weds 26th November, 8.15, Inorganic Chemistry Lab, South Parks Road The Screensaver, Lifesaver Project Professor W. Graham Richards CBE Chairman of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Over 2 million Personal Computers from over 200 countries are being harnessed to screen a database of some billions of small molecules as potential drugs. The grid project provides an effective 100 teraflop machine which is more powerful than the biggest super computer. An added bonus has been the involvement of the general public in a real scientific project.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~science/details/mt03.html#Richards (Small charge for OU Scientific Society non-members)