Talks 2005
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2005 Talks
29-11-2005: SQLite
Presenter: Abraham van der Merwe
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: AGM
This talk covered SQLite, a lightweight SQL database engine. Unfortunately there's no notes for this talk, but you can find more information about this software below:
08-11-2005: Airbus A380
Presenter: ???
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: A talk from an engineer who worked on the Airbus A380 project
08-11-2005: OCR LAMP Project
Presenter: Dave Carman
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: The project involves generating PDF files and later doing character
recognition on the them once they have been filled in by hand and faxed back.
He will describe how the data is fed back into a db.
27-09-2005: Amanda
Presenter: Warwick Duncan
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: (the backup software)
13-09-2005: LDAP
Presenter: Andy Rabagliati
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Summary:
- What is LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) ?
- What isn't it ?
- Why don't you just use a database like mysql or postgres ?
- Why does everyone use it for authentication ?
- What do you keep in it ?
- Who is Babs Jensen anyway ?
09-08-2005: Asterisk
Presenter: Thomas Andrews
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: The Opensource Linux PABX
14-06-2005: KnowledgeTree
Presenter: Neil Blakey-Milner
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: KnowledgeTree is an Open Source document management system - see http://kt-dms.sourceforge.net/ for more details.
10-05-2005: Video on Linux
Presenter: Stefano Rivera
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Encoding, ripping, formats and maybe even some editing.
Slides:
26-04-2005: Hard Disks
Presenter: Mark Ter Morhuizen and Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Hardware and Software
12-04-2005: evdev and gnucash
Presenter: Marc Welz and Craig Balfour
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: This week we will have two shorter talks:
- /dev/input/event by Marc Welz
- Introduction to gnucash by Craig Balfour
29-03-2005: Advanced routing
Presenter: Abraham van der Merwe
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: This talk covered advanced routing in Linux: iproute2, source routing, etc. You can download my slides below:
08-03-2005: Lesser Known Utilities and Toys
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
22-02-2005: Accounting 000
Presenter: Piet Ackermann
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Basic Accounting for Geeks
25-01-2005: LTSP
Presenter: Jonathan Carter
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Linux Terminal Server Project (for more information, see http://www.ltsp.org/ )
