xrefer

Tuesday 28th October, 20:30
Comlab

Tim Bruce will explain to us how he and Steve Coast have been using layout algorithms developed for mapping the Internet to make an applet for exploring xrefer's data set (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, etc), and the open source backends behind it.

Herald Infrastructure

Thursday 30th October, 20:30
Comlab

Ray Miller from OUCS will give us a talk on Herald and related services. The Herald system provides a mail store facility to almost 30,000 users across the University of Oxford, with access via POP, IMAP and the WING web/mail gateway. The service is provided using commodity Intel-based hardware and 100% Free Software. In this talk he will describe the hardware and software components that make up the Herald cluster, with particular emphasis on the areas currently under active development.

Ray works as a Unix Systems Programmer at Oxford University Computing Services, where he leads the Systems Development and Support Team. He is a strong advocate of Free Software, particularly the GNU/Linux operating system.