Kansai Area Activities

This meeting will be held at the Surugadai Memorial Hall at Chuo University, just a few minutes by foot from Ochanomizu Station.

Part I

1) Brief description of myself

Name: Kilian Muster

I was born and raised in Germany.

I started using computers around 1983 (I was 12 then) with a Commodore 64, which was followed by an Amiga 1000, then Amiga 1200, then PC (those dark ages) running Windows 3.1, then first encounter with NeXTSTEP.

When becoming a Typographer I learned all the nitty gritty details of the Mac and Mac OS 7, 8 and 9.x. In 1995 I got myself my first Mac. In 1997 I came to Japan (with my desktop Mac in the luggage!), here I got my first contact with Linux (MkLinux from Apple) and liked it, but it wasn't ready to replace my desktop OS (and I'm afraid still isn't). My biggest wish was if only there was a way to take the best out of the Mac and UNIX and built a new OS with that. Be OS was close, but alas they abandoned the PPC. And finally my dreams became true with Mac OS X which I have been running as my main system since 10.0.4.

In Japan I've been mainly doing design work, multimedia design, motion graphics/2d animations, video editing and system administration (Linux and Mac OS X).

2) Brief description of demo

Mac OS X

 a) brief history

NeXSTEP/OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, Mac OS X

 b) OS X features

- the UNIX heritage

stability, portability, scalability, control

- the Mac heritage

ease of use, simplicity, consistency

- the NeXTSTEP heritage

multi-lingual support at its best, Unicode throughout, OS X Services, RAD tools (Cocoa)

- what's completely new?

Darwin (core of OS X) opensource, Hardware accelerated Java2, Quartz & Quartz Extreme, DSP Core Audio, "scalable" icons, new Finder, Rendezvous etc.

"iApplications" (iPhoto, iTunes, iCal, iSync etc.)

 c) "the road ahead"

Part II

Jerry Suppan

Biographical Description

 Jerry Suppan is an American born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.  Prior to Japan,  he lived in Honolulu, Hawaii for about 10 years.  There, he worked in the airline industry promoting passenger reservation sales, as well as PR liaison with travel agencies.  Concurrent with his airline employment, he also graduated from the University of Hawaii, majoring in Japanese language studies.

After, losing his career in Hawaii as a result of airline industry deregulation,  Jerry came to Japan in April 1982 seeking new opportunity.

Longevity in Japan and the Pacific area has provided him with a foundation of Japanese linguistic skills, and a diverse international business background, to include sales, IT network administration and management, training services, and recently talent productions.

Presently, he works independently in bilingual business and IT consulting, and also does part-time talent productions.

Today, Jerry will talk to you about Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows XP.

 パーソナル略歴の解説

ジェリースパンはアメリカのイリノイ州、シカゴ市で生まれました。日本に来る前にホノルル、ハワイに約10年ほどに住んだものです。あそこでエアライン業で働いて、乗客の予約セールズの販売促進をしながら、トラベル・エージェンシへのPRもしました。仕事をすると同時にハワイ大学へ出席して外国語学部の日本語学科で日本語の専攻をして卒業しました。

アイライン業の民営化、自由化をされることによって仕事はなくなりました。新しい機会を探して、ジェリーが1982年4月に始めて日本に来ました。

日本と太平洋地域の長期'的な居住によって日本語のスキルと多様なビジネス歴史になっています。セールスを始め、蟹Tネットワーク管理とマネジメント、研修、それともつい最近タレントプロダクションズも忙しくやっています。

現在、インディペンデントのバイリンガル・ビジネスと、ITコンサルティングとント、又はタレントやヴォイス関係の仕事もやっています。

本日、ジェリーがマイクロソフトの最新のオペレーティング・システム、いわゆる、Windows XPについてプレゼンテーションをしながら演説します。

"Windows XP  (Draft  Presentation)"

 Presenter: Jerry Suppan

The following is a summary of the main topics for presentation.  Since there will only be about one hour for the planned presentation, each section is intended to be a general overview rather then in-depth.

1. General Overview of Windows XP.

Main bells and whistles in Windows XP.  What are advantages of this OS versus previous OSes?

2. Regional Settings for bilingual and multilingual environments in Windows XP

What type of regional (multi-lingual) settings are available?  How can these be used to process bilingual / multi-lingual documents

3. Security features (local and network)

(multi-user accounts set-ups, passwords, logins, shares and permissions)

4. Virus Protection

In the day and age of increased virus and worm attacks, what local, network, and internet on-line options are available?

連絡先： 佐藤幸浩 Eメール： hanami@siren.ocn.ne.jp TEL 042-370-5404 FAX 042-370-5405

If you have any comments about or ideas for future meetings, including suggestions about prospective speakers, please contact:　

佐藤幸浩 Yukihiro Sato, JAT Director, Tokyo Meeting Coordinator.

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