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2004 Past Events
| Date: | Thursday, 5 February 2004 | |
| Topic: | How does the boot loader work? What is happening behind the scenes when the machine boots? This will be a presentation on how the boot process is and give some insight into whats gone wrong when your box won't boot. |
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| Speaker: | Sean Preston | |
| Date: | Thursday, 4 March 2004 | |
| Topic: | HylaFAX | |
| Talk: | OpenOffice Presentation - Download | |
| Speaker: | Warwick Chapman & Anthon Walters | |
| D ate: | T hursday, 1 April 2004 | |
| T ime: | 7:1 5pm for 7:30pm | |
| V enue: | Glenwood High School | |
| Topic: |
Objective-C and the GNUStep Development Environment
A brief synopsis of the areas to be highlighted are:
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| Speaker: | Ralph Moeritz | |
| D ate: | T hursday, 6 May 2004 | |
| T ime: | 7:1 5pm for 7:30pm | |
| V enue: | Glenwood High School | |
| Topic: | Wir eless Networking | |
| Speaker: | Jeremy Thurgood & Rodney Arne Karlsen | |
| D ate: | T hursday, 3 June 2004 | |
| T ime: | 7:1 5pm for 7:30pm | |
| V enue: | Glenwood High School | |
| Topic: |
Regular Expressions ``How grep got its name: text patterns and regular expressio ns'' - quick history of regular expressions - types: POSIX basic and extended, Perl-compatible - tools (sed, awk, perl) and examples of REs in daily use - getting the power of REs in Windows: vi ports, ActiveState perl - Q&A plus look forward to a Perl talk in the future |
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| Speaker: | Jonathan McKeown | |
| D ate: | T hursday, 1 July 2004 | |
| T ime: | 7:1 5pm for 7:30pm | |
| V enue: | Glenwood High School | |
| Topic: | LaT
eX LaTeX2e is a macro package that enables authors to typeset and print their work in the highest typography quality using a predefined, professional layout. It uses the TeX formatter as its typesetting engine. TeX is aimed at typesett ing text and mathematical formulae. In this presentation a brief overview will be given on the capabilities of LaTeX and why it is a good opensource replacemen t for Microsoft Word, for anyone creating serious technical documentation. |
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| Speaker: | Stefan Scriba | |
| Date: | Thursday, 5 August 2004 | |
| Topic: | Apache 2 | |
| Talk: | OpenOffice Presentation - Download | |
| Speaker: | Sean Preston | |
| Date: | Thursday, 2 September 2004 | |
| Topic: | Remote Terminals | |
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| Speaker: | Warwick Chapman | |
| Date: | Thursday, 7 October 2004 | |
| Topic: | Advanced Routing under Linux using IPRoute2 The Iproute2+tc (http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/iproute-notes.html) package allows access to the variety of networking features in the 2.2/2.4/2.6 kernels such as: Policy routing, NAT, QoS, advanced tunnels, RSVP and DiffServe, etc. In this talk we will scratch the surface of what is possable with these tools and show how they can be applied to solve a real South African problem. |
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| Speaker: | Rodney Arne Karlsen | |
| Date: | Thursday, 4 November 2004 | |
| Topic: | Knoppix Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org) is a LiveCD Linux distribution based on Debian. As a LiveCD, it runs directly off the CD -- just stick it in the drive and reboot. This presentation will briefly touch on some of Knoppix's interesting features and then go on to explain how to create your own custom Knoppix-based LiveCD. |
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| Talk: | OpenOffice.org Presentaion - Part1 Part2 | |
| Speaker: | Jeremy Thurgood | |
| Date: | Thursday, 2 December 2004 | |
| Time: | 6:15pm for 6:30pm | |
| Venue: | Centre Court, Suncoast Casino | |
| Topic: | December Meeting Social | |
| Details: | The Centre Court at Suncoast is a buffet. The cost for dinner is R55 / person. You are more than welcome to bring partners as this is a social get together. As they do not take bookings please can you email Sean (sean@crypto.co.za) if you are going to come and the number coming just so that we have an idea of numbers. It will make it easier when we get there to organise tables. |