Saïd Business School
Thursday, 20 June 2002
Workshops
Programme | Workshops | Who's Who? | Registration | 7th ITSSC Home Page
Programme | Workshops | Who's Who? | Registration | 7th ITSSC Home Page
| Content production at the BBC | Interactive Factual and Learning (iF&L) is a part of the BBC
that produces web sites and Interactive TV content for education, science,
history, languages etc. Until recently the majority of our hundreds of sites were produced as hand-crafted HTML. The problem was that this is very labour intensive and very difficult to maintain consistency or accomodate redesigns and ports to other platforms (e.g. web on TV). We've been working on some "down to earth" content production approaches that allow content and presentation to be separated (to varying degrees). We look at three approaches - from crude server-side includes though simple publishing of spreadsheets and databases to complex XML transformations. One thing we've certainly found is there is no simple "one size fits all" solution. If you use the wrong tool for the type of content, you can make more work than doing it by hand and need a whole team of geeks onhand. On the other hand, if you get it right, you can publish a thousand page site at the touch of a button. |
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| Extending the Reach - Collaborative and Distance Learning Solutions Made Easy | With the deployment of broadband solutions becoming more prevalent the opportunity to exploit the capability of networks that are able to carry data, voice and video enables us to look at ways of providing teaching and learning techniques remotely on both a one to one or one-to-many basis. The historical complexity and prohibitive price tag associated with techniques such as video conferencing or data collaboration has now been superseded by innovative techniques to make these technologies reliable, accessible and usable by any user whether a Key Stage 1 pupil at a primary school, a network manager, senior executive, or home user. We are now able through to deliver extremely high quality video and audio solutions across the Internet, enabling us to further bridge the digital divide. These techniques will be demonstrated during this session. | |
| eScience Update | The Oxford e-Science Centre has made rapid progress over the last year, and the Grid can be said to be online in Oxford. The University has been very successful in bidding to the Research Councils to develop e-Science applications. This workshop will review progress in the national e-Science programme, consider implications for computer service organisations and support staff, and consider the future infrastructure which will be required to implement this new computing paradigm. | |
| 4 | Career Development | For those newer to Oxford IT Support, a look at the opportunities, schemes, organisations, facilities and training possibilities open for career development, professional development and training. |
| Netware 6 Update Notes | A quick look at what's involved in upgrading your Netware servers to version 6 - what's in, what's out, various ways of upgrading, and what to watch out for. This is a distillation of the recent one-day seminars given by Joe Doupnik and Gary Porter, and will include a lot of their valuable tips that are less widely known. | |
| So Many, So Few - A Model for Providing & Supporting Distributed Services | This workshop will give an overview of how IMSU successfully implements and supports services for 2500+ users, in 35+ units over more than 6 hospital sites spread across the city. Discussion will cover the rationale behind the use of various technologies, including Novell Netware as being key to ease of management of user accounts. | |
| The OUCS VPN Service | A repeat of the popular ITSS Seminar from Hilary Term | |
| ACDT Projects: New, Refurbished and Recycled | A look at some of the current and completed ACDT projects with technical background, and an emphasis on how they might be reuseable by other departments. | |
| Sophos Deployment and Maintenance in a Local College Environment | This will cover the installation of sophos anti-virus software on a central server in a college envirunment for distribution to trusted or untrusted users. It will also cover updating the software and virus definitions on MS windows, Novell or Unix servers. | |
| University Telecomms | Telephone systems are sometimes seen as the "plain Jane" of the IT
revolution. but, like the spinster who, whilst "on the shelf" occasionally gets
taken down to be dusted, there's life in the old girl yet. Voice remains the
most natural and widespread communications medium and, after several false
dawns, the promised land of voice and data network integration looks as though
it really might now be a possibility. Indeed we already have Voice Over IP
(VOIP) pilot schemes working in the university, so the question is "when",
rather than "whether". What does this mean for network managers? What are the
benefits and what are the issues that need to be addressed in colleges and
departments now in order to be ready for it? More generally, what does the customer (you!) want from our voice network? Are autoattendants ("for sales, press four, to wait in an interminable queue listening to the same 12 bars of the Water Music repeated ad nauseam, press 5") enough or do you want voice recognition with intelligent robot operators, who understand questions like: "When are your opening hours" and reply accordingly? That's already happening at a university not so far away. |
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| Perl for Systems Administrators | Perl is sometimes known as the Swiss Army Chainsaw of systems administration, but what makes it so well-suited to the task? Simon Cozens shows how to program in Perl by looking at some common system administration tasks and using Perl to tackle them. The talk will cater for those with little to no Perl experience, but experienced programmers will be able to pick up some new tricks. | |
| 12 | Microsoft Windows XP | Windows XP is Microsoft's Latest Windows operating system. This workshop will cover the new features available in the Home and Professional editions of Windows XP (as well as indicating the differences between these two version). It will also briefly mention some of the new features in the forthcoming XP/.NET versions of Microsoft's server software. |
| 13 | OSIRIS Client Support Issues | In early 2003, the OSIRIS finiance system will begin takinging over from the existing Prophecy system for departments. The OSIRIS system has a different client from Prophecy: this workshop is intented to introduce departmental IT staff to the new client and some of the support issues associated with the new system. |
| 14 | New College Firewall System - Firewalling specifically designed for Oxford colleges | Several years ago New College decided that firewalls were required to protect and control its networks. The firewalls were required to not only prevent crackers from exploiting vulnerable hosts, but also to force registration with the IT department of all network users, and to keep logs of dynamic IP address allocation. A further objective was to minimise the administrative time required for each host. No single product could be found on the market so a new Linux based system was written. This presentation discusses the details of the system, and its successful use within New College since the beginning of the academic year. |
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