Saturday, March 17, 2007
Wellington Meeting for 21 March, 2007
Alan Royal will talk about blogsites and podcasting from a personal perspective this coming Wednesday at St Giles. This should be a most interesting presentation, so don't miss it.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Hutt SIG Meeting for March 2007
The next Hutt SIG meeting is Monday 12 March 2007. Details are here.
With the recent release of Microsoft's new OS (Vista) many people are considering whether to upgrade, especially as to take advantage of the new features of Vista, considerably upgraded or even new hardware may be required.
This is a good time to consider the alternatives to Windows. The meeting will focus on the current state of Linux, and will cover running versions of Linux on old hardware, as well as the very latest cutting edge desktop technologies. There will also be a demonstration of some of the ways to use existing Windows applications with Linux.
This topic will only be covered at the Hutt SIG (and almost certainly won't be repeated at the Wellington meeting), so make an effort to attend this meeting, or you will miss some possibly quite useful information.
You will see things that you probably never thought possible - guaranteed to be interesting!
With the recent release of Microsoft's new OS (Vista) many people are considering whether to upgrade, especially as to take advantage of the new features of Vista, considerably upgraded or even new hardware may be required.
This is a good time to consider the alternatives to Windows. The meeting will focus on the current state of Linux, and will cover running versions of Linux on old hardware, as well as the very latest cutting edge desktop technologies. There will also be a demonstration of some of the ways to use existing Windows applications with Linux.
This topic will only be covered at the Hutt SIG (and almost certainly won't be repeated at the Wellington meeting), so make an effort to attend this meeting, or you will miss some possibly quite useful information.
You will see things that you probably never thought possible - guaranteed to be interesting!
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Friday, March 02, 2007
Recent Changes at Megabaud
Observant NZPCA members may have noticed changes to our website at http://www.computers.org.nz. This is a 'Blogger' web log, hosted by Google on Blogspot.
Since December 2006, Google has migrated many blogspot web logs (including ours) over to their new system. I'm glad that this happened over the Christmas break, because the migration was far from seamless; in fact for many people it was a total disaster. We were lucky - our site was available throughout the whole time, but could not be edited for more than a month. Some people lost their entire website contents, and for most people this was a serious exercise in frustration. Web 2.0 and hosted services are all very convenient, but this kind of experience shows the downside to it all.
The new system has several new features The new templates have some quite nice 'widgets' that make it easy to add RSS feeds, images, lists and the like, so that the site will always have new content added automatically; something to look forward to on your daily visit to see what is happening.
Apart from changes behind the scenes that ease administration, the biggest feature that visitors will notice is the inclusion of 'labels' (AKA tags, categories etc). This allows content to be arranged according to keywords, so all articles that are tagged 'Hutt SIG' will appear at the link: http://nzpca.blogspot.com/search/label/Hutt SIG for example.
We also now have more RSS feeds incorporated - you can easily locate the most recent Megabyte online, this is updated automatically with no intervention whenever a new Megabyte is uploaded. There is another RSS feed that displays links that may be of interest to visitors.
Not all of the RSS feeds are directed into the web log - there is now a feed out so you can be reminded of meetings without needing to visit the site at all. Just point your RSS feed reader to http://nzpca.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default and you'll always know what is happening. This feed replaces our previous feeds which will be phased out.
There a couple of outstanding items that need attention, if some NZPCA member would write a brief post to put under the 'About the NZPCA ' link, that would be much appreciated. There is also a lot of oustanding information required for the 'Contacts' link - please add or update your information if you can. Details can be emailed to usually@mail.com
Since December 2006, Google has migrated many blogspot web logs (including ours) over to their new system. I'm glad that this happened over the Christmas break, because the migration was far from seamless; in fact for many people it was a total disaster. We were lucky - our site was available throughout the whole time, but could not be edited for more than a month. Some people lost their entire website contents, and for most people this was a serious exercise in frustration. Web 2.0 and hosted services are all very convenient, but this kind of experience shows the downside to it all.
The new system has several new features The new templates have some quite nice 'widgets' that make it easy to add RSS feeds, images, lists and the like, so that the site will always have new content added automatically; something to look forward to on your daily visit to see what is happening.
Apart from changes behind the scenes that ease administration, the biggest feature that visitors will notice is the inclusion of 'labels' (AKA tags, categories etc). This allows content to be arranged according to keywords, so all articles that are tagged 'Hutt SIG' will appear at the link: http://nzpca.blogspot.com
We also now have more RSS feeds incorporated - you can easily locate the most recent Megabyte online, this is updated automatically with no intervention whenever a new Megabyte is uploaded. There is another RSS feed that displays links that may be of interest to visitors.
Not all of the RSS feeds are directed into the web log - there is now a feed out so you can be reminded of meetings without needing to visit the site at all. Just point your RSS feed reader to http://nzpca.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default and you'll always know what is happening. This feed replaces our previous feeds which will be phased out.
There a couple of outstanding items that need attention, if some NZPCA member would write a brief post to put under the 'About the NZPCA ' link, that would be much appreciated. There is also a lot of oustanding information required for the 'Contacts' link - please add or update your information if you can. Details can be emailed to usually@mail.com
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