2009 Talks
24-11-2009: AGM: Some real-world-interfacing fun
Presenter: Mark Welz and Marc Ter Morshuizen
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
10-11-2009: upstart
Presenter: Stefano Rivera
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
27-10-2009: Chatty topic: Mini-talks on Netbooks, Ubuntu Netbook Remix (TBC) and New things in Ubuntu 9.10
Presenter: Michael, Dave and a Jonathan.
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
13-10-2009: Splunk - Log Management Software
Presenter: Jeremy Thurgood
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: Splunk website
29-09-2009: VirtualBox - Desktop Visualization Software
Presenter: Jonathan Carter
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: More oriented at beginners than sysadmins
08-09-2009: PAM
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
25-08-2009: Experiences as a novice Linux user
Presenter: Marcus Coetzee
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
11-08-2009: Panel Discussion: What can/should CLUG do?
Presenter: All Members
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
28-07-2009: The Bazaar Distributed Version Control System
Presenter: Michael Gorven
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
09-07-2009: Puppet - configuration management solution
Presenter: Guest Speaker: R.I.Pienaar
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
30-06-2009: Shell Environment Tweaks
Presenter: Graham Poulter
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: History tweaks, Readline tweaks, Colour tweaks (prompt, ls, less, and grep), SSH tweaks, Screen tweaks. Download Tweaks: http://sites.google.com/site/grahampoulter/files/Shell.zip
09-06-2009: Git
Presenter: Neil Muller
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: It'll be somewhat tutorial'ish, but I should also be able to cover some aspects of the overall design and implementation, as well as a bit about common workflows.
21-05-2009: Microsoft Open Source and Interoperability
Presenter: Paulo Ferreira
Venue: Hubb Room, Bandwidth Barn
Time: 6:00pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
12-05-2009: IPTables Firewalls
Presenter: Stefano Rivera
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
28-04-2009: Microcontrollers
Presenter: Henny Keyzer
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
14-04-2009: Timekeeping under Linux
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
24-03-2009: Split ADSL Routing
Presenter: Stefano Rivera
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: Using some advanced features of the Linux networking stack to achive cost savings with split-routing between normal and local-only ADSL accounts.
As described in http://tumbleweed.org.za/2007/09/01/local-only-dsl
10-03-2009: The Cloud
Presenter: Jeremy Thurgood
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
24-02-2009: Security - Least Privilege Principles
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
