[Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program,
August 6]
Malcolm Allison
Malcolm.Allison at computerland.co.nz
Sun Aug 8 18:39:18 CDT 2004
i for one would like to see more of these. there are several links in here that i found interesting.
Thanks,
Malcolm Allison
Enterprise Systems Management Bureau
Computerland NZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant McLean [mailto:grant at mclean.net.nz]
Sent: Saturday, 7 August 2004 12:41 p.m.
To: Wellington Perl Mongers
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 6]
Hi Perlers
Each month Marsee Henon, the tireless user groups coordinator from O'Reilly and Associates, sends all the user group leaders a newsletter full of:
- links to open source news and articles
- conference schedules
- O'Reilly publication announcements (and offers of review copies)
- special offers
I have not been in the habit of forwarding the email to the list but I guess that's why she's sending it so perhaps I should.
I've attached the latest one below. If you think it would be useful to post this once a month to the wellington-pm list, then speak up and I will do so.
If no one wants it then I won't.
Regards
Grant
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> Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 6
> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:33:34 -0700
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> -XML Hacks
> -CSS Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
> -IRC Hacks
> -Cyber Adversary Characterization
> -OpenOffice.org Writer
> -AI for Game Developers
> -IT Ethics Handbook
> -Upgrading to PHP 5
> -SpamAssassin
> -We the Media
> -Zero-Day Exploit
> -Mono: A Developer's Notebook
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> -We the Media Blog
> -Techies Reshape 9/11 History
> -O'Reilly Radar: OSCON 2004
> -Top 10 Online Investing Tips
> -The Great Linux Desktop Migration Contest--Enter by August 9
> -O'Reilly and MySQL AB Present the MySQL Users Conference -Questioning
> Promises at LinuxWorld -Open Source and NASA's Mars Rover
> -21.5 Things You Can Do with Office 2004 -Creating DVD/VCD Photo Slide
> Shows for Your Mac -OS 9, Mine, All Mine -Windows Server Hacks:
> Creating a Password Reset Disk -Power Up the Windows Clipboard -Rapid
> Application Development with VB.NET 2.0 -XML-Java Data Binding Using
> XMLBeans -Keeping Up with the Java Joneses -What Countermeasures
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> The ever-increasing emphasis and reliance on the use of computers and
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> ***Zero-Day Exploit
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> A group of highly sophisticated cyber-terrorists have developed a
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>
> ***Mono: A Developer's Notebook
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> ISBN: 0596007922
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> ---------------------
> General News
> ---------------------
> ***"We the Media" Blog
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> ***Techies Reshape 9/11 History
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> ***O'Reilly Radar: OSCON 2004
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> announcement that O'Reilly will be producing the third annual MySQL
> Conference next year in Santa Clara, CA
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/07/29/radar.html
>
>
> ***Top 10 Online Investing Tips
> Plucked from the pages of "Online Investing Hacks," author Bonnie
> Biafore offers ten of the most important things you can do to improve
> your financial situation, and the tools that will simplify these tasks.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/07/23/onlineinvestinghack
> s.html
>
> ---------------------
> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***The Great Linux Desktop Migration Contest--Enter by August 9 If
> you're considering, or you have already embarked upon, a Linux desktop
> migration, here's your chance to help guide and inspire others and be
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> and O'Reilly Media have joined forces to present this contest and are
> looking for entries that describe the benefits realized from a desktop
> migration, a phased migration plan, or the most practical tips for
> migrating to Linux. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/contest/
>
>
> ***O'Reilly and MySQL AB Present the MySQL Users Conference According
> to Tim O'Reilly, "MySQL is at the heart of revolutionary changes in
> the computer industry." Join us in Santa Clara, CA in April 2005 to
> meet the MySQL development team, peruse the latest products and
> services, get detailed insight into new features in MySQL 5.0, and much more.
> http://www.mysqluc.com/
>
>
> ***Questioning Promises at LinuxWorld
> O'Reilly editor Andy Oram reports this week from LinuxWorld 2004 in
> San Francisco. He'll be exploring the promises of Linux and trying to
> determine how realistic they are, because, as Andy writes, "In many
> areas, the important foundations have been laid--but a lot remains to be done."
> http://oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5357
>
>
> ***Open Source and NASA's Mars Rover
> NASA's recent Mars Rover mission uses a host of open source tools.
> Three members of the team presented how they promoted open source
> software at NASA, use it in the project, and hope to release more code in the future.
> Ann Barcomb reports.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/02/oss_mars_rover.html
>
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***21.5 Things You Can Do with Office 2004 By now you've probably read
> about all the new features in Microsoft Office 2004. Good. Because
> we're not going to cover them here again. Instead, Giles Turnbull
> shows you 21 and a half things you can do in Office that you might not
> have previously realized.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/08/03/ms_office.html
>
>
> ***Creating DVD/VCD Photo Slide Shows for Your Mac Let's face it: you
> still have friends and family who've yet to enter the computer age.
> And yet you'd like to send them copies of your vacation photos (or
> your newborn, or your cat) taken with your digital camera. What to do?
> Wei-Meng Lee offers an alternative to using iPhoto for creating
> slide-show CDs--Ulead's DVD PictureShow for Mac. He walks us through
> how to burn digital photos onto disc so anyone with a DVD/VCD player
> can view them.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/27/DVDslideshowonMac.htm
> l
>
>
> ***OS 9, Mine, All Mine
> What serious Mac fan in his or her right mind would consider booting
> anything other than OS X? Well, lots of them. Giles Turnbull
> interviews a handful of dedicated OS 9 users to find out why.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/23/os9.html
>
> ---------------------
> Windows
> ---------------------
> ***Windows Server Hacks: Creating a Password Reset Disk Losing a
> password for an account can be anything from a pain to a disaster.
> Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows Server Hacks," shows you how to
> solve the problem by creating a password recovery disk.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/03/password_rese
> t.html
>
>
> ***Power Up the Windows Clipboard
> The Windows Clipboard is about as useless a utility as you can imagine.
> Throw it away and replace it with one of these clipboard power tools.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/03/clipboard.htm
> l
>
>
> ***Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0 Jesse Liberty has
> supported the idea that it really doesn't matter if you program in C#
> or in VB.NET, since both are just syntactic sugar layered on top of
> the Microsoft Intermediate Language--the true language of .NET. But
> that appears to be changing with Whidbey. Get a look at the new My
> Object in VB.NET 2.0 in this article by Jesse, author of "Programming
> Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition."
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/08/02/libertywhidbey.html
>
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> **XML-Java Data Binding Using XMLBeans XMLBeans, currently in the
> Apache incubation process, is a promising framework for providing
> XML/Java data binding unmarshalling well-formed XML into Java objects,
> and marshalling Java objects into XML files. Hetel Shah provides an
> introduction to its features.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/07/28/XMLBeans.html
>
>
> ***Keeping Up with the Java Joneses
> Ian Darwin covers a variety of new Java 1.5 features, including J2SE
> 1.5 threading, the return of printf, and the IDEs NetBeans and
> Eclipse. Ian wraps up this article with resources to help you keep up
> with the rest of the Java Joneses. Ian is the author of the recently
> released "Java Cookbook, 2nd Edition."
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/07/28/javackbk2.html
>
> ---------------------
> Security
> ---------------------
> ***What Countermeasures Really Mean
> As the number and range of attacks on computer systems have grown
> exponentially and conventional firewalls and intrusion detection
> systems have proven inadequate for the task, security researchers have
> started to talk about employing "countermeasures" to preserve security.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/security/2004/08/03/symbiot.html
>
> ================================================
> News From Your Peers
> ================================================
> ***Report from OSCON 2004
> Steve Riggins of the Portland Mac Users Group and the statewide Oregon
> MacPioneers User Group gives us his scoop on the 2004 O'Reilly Open
> Source Convention in Portland, OR. Thanks Steve! And thanks to OMUG
> leader Steve Welsh for passing this along.
> http://homepage.mac.com/ydkm/News/oscon04report.htm
>
>
> Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups
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>
> Until next time--
>
> Marsee
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