[Wylug-announce] ManLUG meetings for March 2003 and April 2003

[Dr A V Le Blanc]

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ManLUG meetings for March 2003 and April 2003

15 March 2003, 14:00, usual place.  (For more information, see
our web site: http://www.manlug.man.ac.uk, under 'How to find us'.)
Reminder: Please bring a 'photo ID' to show the porters if you are
asked.

     James Youngman
     Wikis - what they are and why you should use one

I'll introduce the Wiki phenomenon, and explain why you should be
using one.  Wikis are tools for building web pages with almost zero
effort; they're a bit like a weblog, but more useful and can be used
in a greater variety of ways.  In a typical website, a disparate
community of contributors use a Wiki to maintain the site or a
collection of texts.  These texts may, for example, document
software packages or answer frequently asked questions.

(A weblog (AKA "blog") is a website which is usually ordered
chronologically and which contains short articles, often but not
always contributed by the public.  Examples include Alan Cox's diary,
Advogato, Slashdot, www.debianplanet.org and so on.)

The talk features examples, including how to set up the "TWiki"
Wiki, which is written in Perl.   For a TWiki taster, see
http://www.twiki.org/.   The world's first Wiki is the Portland
Pattern Repository, http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WelcomeVisitors.

     Owen Le Blanc
     Creating a bootable CD

Putting together a bootable CD can be rather a mess.  Of course,
you can always use something like Tom's Rescue disk or the
Bootable Business Card, but it's useful to know what goes into
making a bootable CD image, just in case you want to do one
of your own.  I have a base CD image less than 5mb in size,
which I keep up to date and use as a basis for recovery CDs
for important machines: boot from the CD and type 'restore',
and you can have some 2gb of files back, waiting for any
additional data to be restored.


12 April 2003, 14:00, usual place.

Normally the April meeting would be on the 19th, but that's
in the middle of Easter weekend.  So I propose moving the April
meeting to April 12.  I'll remind you again and again, but
someone's sure to show up on the 19th!  Currently I have no
volunteers yet for April.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk


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