February 2017 - luv-talk

Take action: Don’t send 267 people back to offshore detention
by Peter Ross 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

http://bit.ly/1R3MiYB Maybe Australians can avoid another "Sorry" fifty years later this time. Thanks Peter

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Free stuff
by Russell Coker 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

I have a free fax machine and some desktop PCs that are probably quad core. Contact me off list if interested. -- Sent from my Nexus 6P with K-9 Mail.

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free Google cloud training event
by Russell Coker 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

https://cloudplatformonline.com/gcp-au-googlecloudonboard.html It's free as in training not free as in software. But will still interest some people. It's not clear if the lunch is free, but that's a possibility. ;) -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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The REAL conspiracy against LUV beginners meeting on Saturday, 18 February 2017
by David E Payne 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

If you go to Wadham House, 52 Wadham Parade, Mt Waverley, Melbourne Australia from ~2:30 Saturday 18th you're likely to see some old relics from the early days of personal computing; and some of them will probably bring some old computer equipment. It doesn't seem to be mentioned on https://www.facebook.com/MICOM -The-Microcomputer-Club-of-Mel bourne-147406550461/?fref=ts The Google Plus group https://plus.google.com/102315068350046740812 is dORMANT. A bit of life at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/micommem but it's a closed Google group you have to apply to join. It may appear that The Grand Conspiracy inconvenienced LUV by arranging maintenance of the LUV Beginner's venue to avoid a conflict with the MiCOM'S 40th anniversary. No no no! Actually the original MiCOM group was influenced in early 1977 to adopt the third Saturday for meetings so that their 40th Anniversary Meeting would be on the same day that LUV Beginners WEREN'T going to have a meeting! Presumably THEY wanted some LUVee Loveys that once were were MiCOM LUVers to turn up at the underwhelming 40th wet blanket. (I think they are also behind Mark's Willow stump problem for opposite reasons ;~) I say RESIST! Don't let THEM push you around! Spend the time preparing White Knight sorry, "White Night" placards & costumes to show your support for the only people that can save us from Hilarious & other elitists' CONsPiracy :- President Donald Jesus Trump and his mentor Lyndon LaRouche!

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Multicore World 2017
by Lev Lafayette 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

The 6th Multicore World will be held on Monday 20th to Wednesday 22nd of February 2017 at Shed 6 on the Wellington (NZ) waterfront. Nicolás Erdödy (Open Parallel) has once again done an amazing job at finding some the significant speakers in the world in parallel programming and multicore systems to attend. Although a short - and not an enormous conference - the technical quality is always extremely high, dealing with some of the most fundamental problems and recent experiences in these fields. This year's conference includes figures such as Tony Hey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hey) speaking on the convergence of data and compute, Michelle Simmons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Simmons) on quantum computing, John Gustafson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gustafson_%28scientist%29) on hardware for universal numbers, Satoshi Matsuoka on Japanese HPC, Big Data, and artificial intelligence, Juan Carlos Guzman and Andrew Ensor on developments with the Square Kilometer Array, Nathan DeBardeleben on supercomputer resilience, Happy Sithole on using OpenStack for HPC in Africa, and many other high quality speakers (even some politicians). For anyone interesting in parallel programming and high throughput computing this is certainly one of the best local conferences that concentrates with a laser-like focus on those subjects. Of course, you do have to put up with me being MC. :) Multicore World http://multicoreworld.com/ Multicore World Programme https://openparallel.com/multicore-world-2017/program-2017/ Multicore World Speakers List https://openparallel.com/multicore-world-2017/ -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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