Any discipline with a significant gender imbalance is the poorer for it.

A recent report in The Age newspaper indicated that "Google Australia can't find any female engineers who want to work for it. Internationally, the search engine behemoth strives to employ workers from many backgrounds, a recognition that its customers also come from every ( Read more... )

Late in October 2005, the PCEDUG had a meeting Donvale Christian College hosted by Robert and afterwards a tech room tour. They have done a splendid job with their IT services and we had a good look a the way that they have implemented Novell Netware to manage the computer network. I was interested to see how they deployed so many wireless points ( Read more... )

OpenOffice.org is a multi-platform and multilingual office suite and an open-source software project. It is compatible with all other major office suites, is free to download, use, and distribute. This evening I downloaded the newly released OpenOffice.org (version 2.0.0 RC).

I got it running with a quiet install using the command line install ( Read more... )

Back in February 2005, the PCEDUG had a meeting after school at Vermont Secondary College hosted by Donald. This was the first live demonstration of Novell Linux-Desktop in a school computer laboratory, probably a first also for Australia. The other computer managers present were quite impressed and we had a good tour of the work by Donald at ( Read more... )

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