Talks 2004
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Past Talks
30-11-2004: rsync
Presenter: Warwick Duncan.
Venue: UCT Old ChemEng LT2
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: AGM
As usual we will have pizzas and drinks at the AGM. If you plan to attend please RSVP to the secretary by Thursday, 25 November 2004 for catering purposes.
The meeting will include the following:
- A shortish talk on rsync by Warwick Duncan
- Election of the 2005 Committee
- Pizza and beer / cooldrink
09-11-2004: Understanding CD Media
Presenter: Mark Ter Morshuizen
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
02-11-2004: Sun Microsystems
Presenter: John Foster of Sun Microsystems
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: John will cover Sun's general operating system and software strategy regards
Linux and Solaris, including the latest software release on the Linux
platform. He will also talk about the latest additions to the AMD platform
range that fully support Linux and will also give a glimpse of what can be
expected in the future from Sun.
26-10-2004: LDAP
Presenter: Johann Botha
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
28-09-2004: VLAN Trunking and Bridging
Presenter: Hendrik Visage
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: 802.1q
14-09-2004: Linux Startup Process
Presenter: Marc Welz and Abraham van der Merwe
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Marc will be talking about init, inittab and runlevels while
Abraham will give an overview of the workings of initrd, pivot_root, loopback and bootloaders
- all some of the bits that contribute to getting your linux machine to the login prompt.
31-08-2004: Scalable Web Applications Using Open Source Software
Presenter: Neil Blakey-Milner
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
10-08-2004: PHP
Presenter: Abraham van der Merwe
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: I demonstrated how to use php for scripting and to write web pages, explained some of the advantages and drawbacks to the language, etc. You can find some of my examples below:
27-07-2004: FreeDOS running inside bochs
Presenter: Mark Ter Morhuizen
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Bochs is an i386 emulator that can be used run other operating systems on top of linux - for more information see http://bochs.sourceforge.net/.
FreeDOS is a functional clone of the old MS-DOS with support for useful features like networking
- for more information see http://www.freedos.org.
13-07-2004: Everything you ever wanted to know about tunnelling
Presenter: Abraham vd Merwe
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: I explained why and what tunnels are used for, some of the problems related to tunnels, and talked about a few different tunnel implementations. You can download my slides below:
29-06-2004: Shell scripting
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Marc will also show off some of his collection of tips and tricks for interactive bash use.
25-05-2004: VI
Presenter: Eddie Dunckley
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: VI, the editor - from beginner to advanced.
27-04-2004: Benchmarking network equipment
Presenter: Thomas Andrews
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Tom will have a whole range of network equipment from different vendors available for benchmarking during the meeting.
Including network cards, hubs and switches.
13-04-2004: Package Management using RPMs and DEBs
Presenter: Thomas Andrews and Abraham van der Merwe
Venue: MTN ScienCentre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: Thomas and Abraham will be talking about managing packages on RPM-based systems such as RedHat and Mandrake, and Deb-based systems like Debian.
This talk will focus on topics such as creating packages.
30-03-2004: An Introduction to 3D graphics using Open Source tools
Presenter: Wayne Koorts
Venue: MTN ScienCentre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: A general introduction to 3D graphics using open source tools:
- Blender
- Wings 3D
- Yafray
15-03-2004: Block Devices
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: MTN ScienCentre
Time: 6:30pm
Notes: It will include a discussion of interesting special cases such as loop and network block devices.
