Where: OEC Auditorium

See how Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system enables your computer to be more secure, productive, and fun! Prizes will be given away and may include an Xbox or a Zune!

A super exciting event. It'll be the second time in history Microsoft will be on our campus. This event will be open to everyone and held in the OEC Auditorium.

Sign in using your UST username and password and click sign up to let us know you are coming.

Students will be awarded scholarships in recognition of their passion for software, academic excellence, and ability to make a difference in the software industry.

More Information: http://www.microsoft.com/college
Deadline: January 15, 2007

CS Club meeting. Location is OSS 313.

Some kind of food will be there. Yay!

oreo_masta mentioned portable IE. Well, there's a lot more portable apps than that.

Most are open source, because you can redistribute them ready to run. :)

Someone from my database class found a nice package of portable apps at http://portableapps.com/. The suite installs to your USB drive. Just plug in into a Windows computer to get Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, Gaim, and others, as well as the data on your drive.

I've got a mirror of the portable installer up at http://csclub.stthomas.edu/pub/portableapps/.

Well... we started the UST OpenCD during a lull in the official OpenCD's development. The OpenCD project just released v4.0 of its CD and the product is much improved over v3.0. Unlike v3.0 the Live Ubuntu Linux isn't bundled on the CD anymore. It's just open source Windows apps, like our UST OpenCD was.

With more room on the CD they added more programs like we did on ours. Here's the official list of programs.

They now have all the software on their CD which we have on ours except VLC media player. I would suggest that we discontinue our fork, the UST OpenCD and instead focus our efforts and contribute to the official OpenCD project.

One of the great things about open source software and development is that when there's something you don't like... you can change it, like we did. That also means that when there are two projects doing the exact same thing... it's wise to merge those projects, as not to spin our wheels.

Marius Tegomoh, software engineer with GPS & QMCS, will conduct a hands-on session on the popular open source web framework application, Ruby on Rails, Part II.

Location: 333 OSS
Food: Free CDs & Pizza! (first come first served)