Often the presentations and relevant documents that are the subject of discussion at the meetings are available for download in PDF format while listening/watching the live stream. Also, such webcast meetings has a web based chat feature which allows you to ask questions and text chat during the meeting with other attendees who are logged in as well as with other remote participants. You can ask someone via the web chat to actually ask a question to the panel discussion. Do check out the ICANN Delhi, India meeting schedule page.
Also discovered Extreme Tux Racer , which has better graphics, more courses and a cleaner UI than Tux Racer which is currently included on the TTCS OSSWIN CD. Tux Racer hasn’t been updated for years and Extreme Tux Racer seems a natural replacement for it. The problem is the file size : Extreme Tux Racer is around 30MB while Tux Racer is around 8MB so don’t know how to include Extreme Tux Racer on the TTCS OSSWIN CD.
The ping times are great ; typical ping times between two Flow subscribers (one in St. James, the other in Glencoe) are around 15-25ms. However, the ping time between a Flow subscriber and a TSTT Blink Broadband subscriber is around 220ms which results in some lag during gaming.
Anyone knows what the ping times are between two Blink Broadband subscribers? Let us know
Two bits of recent (and good!) news for Warcraft III players :
First, Blizzard has released a Warcraft III patch v1.21b which allows you to run the installed game without the Warcraft CD.
Secondly, possibly the most popular game using the Warcraft III engine, DoTA AllStars (my friends haven’t played regular Warcraft III LAN games since we discovered since discovering DoTA Allstars) has a new AI version (i.e so you can play with/against bots) : 6.48b AI+ v1.52 (login required).
We hold two types of meetings : Pizza Limes and Tech Meetings. A Pizza Lime is the name given to our monthly discussion forum which is usually held at Pizza Hut, Roxy Roundabout, Port of Spain on the second Wednesday of the month. The tech meeting is when we have computers on site to demonstrate a particular type of hardware or software.
The Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS), a P-status member of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1 SC34) will soon be voting on DIS29500 (aka Office Open XML ; OOXML ; OpenXML).
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society has updated the wiki page on DIS29500 containing details such as :
Timeline of what’s happened with DIS29500 with links to relevant documents
Background/related links about DIS29500
List to proposed criteria by the TTBS to evaluate OOXML and other ISO standards in SC34
Upcoming standards in SC34 that the TTBS has to vote on.
The TTCS welcomes your thoughts and suggestions regarding DIS29500 and on the proposed criteria to be used to evaluate OOXML. If you can assist with technical understanding and analysis of DIS29500, this is also needed and appreciated. You can edit the DIS29500 wiki page or send email to admin a-t ttcsweb d.o.t org
Yay! You can now watch video clips from past Sesame Street episodes! All the videos are tagged so you can search for videos but the site doesn’t provide a way to link to specific Sesame Street clips.
Did several updates to the TTCS OSSWIN CD that will be available for this Saturday’s meeting. Here’s a list of the updated software since v1.84 was released December 29th, 2007 :
Sumatra PDF 0.8 slim, portable, open-source PDF viewer for Windows.
Halite 0.3 download files via BitTorrent, a client file-sharing protocol created to overcome the obstacles of transferring large files over the Internet
