[Nottingham] Offer for February's meet

Mike Martin nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Jan 20 10:17:01 2003


 --- Michael Erskine <Michael.Erskine@JASMIN.PLC.UK> wrote: > >
-----Original Message-----
> > From: Duncan John Fyfe
> [mailto:duncan@little-wonder.freeserve.co.uk] 
> > Sent: 19 January 2003 20:04
> > To: nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: [Nottingham] Offer for February's meet
> 
> > Okay Lords and Ladies,
> > I'm forwarding the bit below 'cause you might be interested.
> > 
> > I've not heared anything from Mike ala Pixie so I'm guessing 
> > he is busy
> > or on holiday (somewhere nice I hope).
> 
> I'm over here and unfortunately not on holiday! I will be fine
> presenting the Pixie but I only need a short slot - perhaps we can
> get
> both in?
> 
> Although interesting in a Questions and Answers type way I don't
> think
> there's too much to actually demonstrate -- I'm sure that some will
> have
> some good uses for the ideas behind it and this can be discussed at
> the
> pub on a one-to-one basis. The interesting stuff is the filesystem
> layout and that the platform is cheap, has no moving parts, and
> boots
> over the network from both Windows and Linux servers. I will
> summarise
> this in slides and rehearse a demo to see how long it takes -- I
> can cut
> it down to fit if necessary without missing out the salient points.
> I
> will be emulating the server side of the train timetables in Perl
> to
> demonstrate the Java app that this system is designed to
> accommodate.
> 
> Michael.
> 

If anyone wants I could do a short talk on samba afterwards (from
what Michael says, it would seem to be a close fit)

I have commercial experience of samba for info


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