Meet at Gloucester Green bus station on George Street at 9:15am if you
want to come on the trip to Bletchley Park. It will be a fun day.
In addition, we will be having a talk by Ensoft next Thursday. The last
talk they gave was very successful. Venue is yet to be confirmed.
- Jon
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http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
This Saturday the 31st, the University of Oxford Computer Society will
be travelling to Bletchley Park. We will be catching the X5 bus to
Milton Keynes (at a cost of £10.50 for a return ticket) and then taking
a 10 minute train trip (at a cost of £3.10 for a return ticket) to
Bletchley. Entry to Bletchley park is £8 if you have a BOD card, £10
otherwise. Once you have bought a ticket you can in fact use the ticket
for up to 12 months after it was bought.
We will meet at Gloucester Green bus station on George Street at 9:15am
on Saturday, and will probably be back in Oxford by 6 or 7pm (when we
leave is generally left up to consensus).
Bletchley park is an amazing place to visit, and if you think you might
want to come *PLEASE EMAIL ME* so that we have a rough idea of numbers :)
Hope to see you there,
- Jon
PS: Do not bring anything that could be construed as an offensive
weapon, or any controlled substances as security is pretty tight there
and they are likely to take a dim view.
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
This Saturday the 31st, the University of Oxford Computer Society will
be travelling to Bletchley Park. We will be catching the X5 bus to
Milton Keynes (at a cost of £10.50 for a return ticket) and then taking
a 10 minute train trip (at a cost of £3.10 for a return ticket) to
Bletchley. Entry to Bletchley park is £8 if you have a BOD card, £10
otherwise. Once you have bought a ticket you can in fact use the ticket
for up to 12 months after it was bought.
We will meet at Gloucester Green bus station on George Street at 9:15am
on Saturday, and will probably be back in Oxford by 6 or 7pm (when we
leave is generally left up to consensus).
Bletchley park is an amazing place to visit, and if you think you might
want to come *PLEASE EMAIL ME* so that we have a rough idea of numbers :)
Hope to see you there,
- Jon
PS: Do not bring anything that could be construed as an offensive
weapon, or any controlled substances as security is pretty tight there
and they are likely to take a dim view.
This coming Thursday (the 15th) the staff at Oxford University Computing
Services have graciously invited us on a tour of their data centre. The
tour starts at 17:30, and *YOU MUST BRING YOUR BOD CARD* otherwise the
receptionist will not let you in. You will get the opportunity to:
- See lots of computers, flashing lights, cables, air conditioning ducts
- See the amazing robot arm that moves hard disks around and then
punches you in the face
- Ask awkward questions about file sharing (don't do this)
- Complain about nexus email (don't do this either)
- Ask genuinely interesting questions about sysadmin/operating
systems/bandwidth
Afterwards, we will go to the pub, where you can talk to people who
won't glaze over if you start talking about something vaguely technical.
The person to ask the best question(s) on the tour gets a free drink at
the pub afterwards!
Hope to see you there,
Jon
ps it's roughly here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=10883277605289908082&q=oucs&hl=en