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PC Manager Meeting. October 25 th , 2006. Today. Updates Next Meeting Training License Microsoft Meeting Windows Policy Security Accelerator Division’s Experience with Windows Open Source – Sam Jarocki. Next Meeting. Nov 22 TBA In normal room!. Training Update.
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PC Manager Meeting October 25th, 2006
Today • Updates • Next Meeting • Training • License • Microsoft Meeting • Windows Policy • Security • Accelerator Division’s Experience with Windows Open Source – Sam Jarocki
Next Meeting • Nov 22 • TBA • In normal room!
Training Update • Excel 2003: Intermediate Oct. 31, 2006 • Access 2003: Intermediate Nov. 1, 2006 • Understanding and Using Digital Certificates (PKI) Nov. 6, 2006 • Dreamweaver MX 2004 Introduction Nov. 9 & 10, 2006 • Interpersonal Communication Skills for Scientific Staff, Computer Profs., Engineers and Technicians Nov. 15, 2006 • Advanced Excel Formulas and Functions Nov. 16, 2006 (am) • Excel Pivot Tables Nov. 16, 2006 (pm) • Understanding and Using Digital Certificates (PKI) Dec. 4, 2006 • Access 2003: Forms and Reports Dec. 5, 2006
Licensing • Useful information about Microsoft EA licensingHere's the link to the MS Volume Licensing page. There are useful definitions and other information & the 'Microsoft Licensing Product Use Rights' document can also be downloaded from this url.http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/PUR.aspxMore information PUR informationhttp://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/faq.mspxHere’s a url describing the DOE contracthttp://www.asars.com/ASARSdoe.html
Microsoft Meeting • Tod Tompkins will be visiting the Chicago area and would like to touch base on the EA status, Sharepoint, Email needs, etc. • Open attendance • Monday-October 30 • 2:00-4:00 • FCC2A
Windows Policy Committee • Next Meeting Nov 1st1:30-2:30pm, WH5SW • Status of Vista • Expiring Service Accounts • “State of the Union”
Security Updates • October 2006 Patches • Patches Announced: • 6 Critical • MS06-061 Re-released 10-16-2006 • 1 Important • 2 Moderate • 1 Low • Due 11/10/2006 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-oct.mspx
Main Topic • Accelerator Division’s Experience with Windows Open Source – Sam Jarocki
Open Source Software • Web viewing, authoring and publication • Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations • Audio/Video and Imaging • Security & Administration • Misc.
Web related • Content Management (CMS) and/or Portal DotNetNuke (www.dotnetnuke.com) • Very versatile, can create custom modules easily, MANY plug in modules available (some for $ with source code) • Example is our networking site at http://adweb.fnal.gov
Media Player Classic Stand alone media player that'll play just about anything
OpenOffice Change for the sake of change? Would do well if not needing high-level MS Excel features (pivot tables and conditional formats, although gNumeric is close to being able to do this too). All allow pdf export. Base – Access-like DB, can also connect to MySQL, Firebird, PostgreSQL and utilize ODBC, JDBC, ADO, etc. Calc – Spreadsheet Draw – Graphics and diagrams (XML based) Impress – Slide Shows Math - equation editor for text documents Writer – Word Processor
Keynote (Tabbed notebook and personal information manager, with tree structure and strong encryption.)
GNU utilities for Win32 “ ports of common GNUutilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools ”
7-Zip *Use FreeExtractor to create self-extracting executables
Useful Freeware Deepburner IrfanView Image Viewer DriveImage XML Sysinternals OverDisk Foxit PDF Reader
OPEN Source Links OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/download/ gnumeric (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric) S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) Amaya Browser for Windows (structured editor) (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/) NVU (http://www.nvu.com/download.php) Thuderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php) Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358&release_id=403110) GIMPShop (http://www.gimpshop.net/) Paint.net (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/download.html) InkScape (vector graphics editor) (http://inkscape.org/) Filezilla (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558) Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) Dia for Windows (http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/) Keynote (http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html) GNU utilities for Win32 (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) DotNetNuke (www.dotnetnuke.com) PDFCreator (http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/download) GnuPG for Windows (packaged) (http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html) CamStudio - Desktop Screen Recorder (http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/) Audicity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows) Eraser (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=37015&package_id=65323) Freeware Links Deepburner (http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download) IrfanView Image Viewer (http://www.irfanview.com/) DriveImage XML (http://www.runtime.org/downloads.htm) Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/) OverDisk (http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html) Foxit PDF Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/)