Talks 2007

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2007 Talks

27-11-2007: AGM: Compiz-fusion-beryl-BURN

Presenter: Jonathan Hitchcock
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: (Basically modern desktop effects: bling and utility). Also the AGM, so free Beer & Pizza for all.

13-11-2007: Asterisk: Blio PBX update

Presenter: Thomas Andrews
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

30-10-2007: Darcs

Presenter: Jeremy Thurgood
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)

09-10-2007: Gentoo Portage

Presenter: Jonathan Hitchcock
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)

25-09-2007: Linux Name to Identifier Resolution

Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: This talk covers how user-friendly names (for hosts, users, etc) are mapped to numeric identifiers useful to the kernel.

11-09-2007: Open Street Map Project

Presenter: Corey Burger
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)

28-08-2007: The Gnome Desktop Environment

Presenter: Jonathan Carter
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

14-08-2007: MXK - linux input mangling

Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

24-07-2007: BOINC servers and some applications

Presenter: Nicloas Maire (Swiss Tropical Institute) and Christian Soettrup (Niels Bohr Institute)
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes: Open-source software for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing

26-06-2007: Package Management (.deb, .rpm and Gentoo ebuilds)

Presenter: Stefano Rivera, Jeremy Thurgood and Jonathan Hitchcock
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

12-06-2007: *BSD

Presenter: Michael-John Turner
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes: Slides

29-05-2007: Embedded Linux in Blio's CPE

Presenter: Abraham van der Merwe
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

08-05-2007: One Laptop Per Child

Presenter: Antoine van Gelder
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes: Slides Source: olpc-dev-talk.tar.gz

24 April 2007: Erlang

Presenter: Jeremy Thurgood
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

10-4-2007: Proto Balance - Enteprise TCP Load Balancer for Unix/Linx/Win xx

Presenter: Paul Sheer
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

27-3-2007: ZFS File System

Presenter: Johan Hartzenberg
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

13-3-2007: UWC Web Framework: Chisimba

Presenter: Paul Scott
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm

Notes: Chisimba is a PHP5 rapid application development framework. It can be used to create a myriad of applications and incorporates one of the first implementations of a Services Oriented Architecture in a PHP system/framework.

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