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Meeting #10 announcement: Fiber optic networks
Topic: Fiber optic networks
Speaker: Simeon Miteff
Date: 1 March 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Simeon (hi, it’s me…) will be presenting a talk about fiber optics in computer networks, covering the basics like fiber types and transmission technologies, then discussing advancements (40/100Gbps, etc), and wrapping up with [...]
Meeting #9 feedback: Attacks and Defences
Topic: Attacks and Defences
Speaker: Marco Slaviero
Date: 1 February 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Slides:
attacks_and.pdf (1.2 MB) [Sorry for the manky quality of this PDF export -Simeon]
attacks_and.ppt (4.0 MB)
attacks_and.ppt.sig (72 B)
Although this talk was entitled Attacks and Defenses, it focused mostly on hacks, and pretty cool ones [...]
New dates and venues for 2010
Here is a list of new dates and venues for TLUG meetings in 2010. I’ve also updated the Google calendar. We’ll announce each talk with speaker and topic as we go along.
Meeting #9 announcement: State of the security world
Topic: State of the security worldAttacks and Defences
Speaker: Marco Slaviero
Date: 1 February 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.
Update:
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE HAS CHANGED A SECOND TIME
For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #8 feedback: Smashing the stats for fun and profit
Topic: Smashing the stats for fun and profit
Speaker: Shaun Dewberry
Date: 7 December 2009
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building
Slides: shaun_tlug_presentation.pdf (1.8 MB)
Audio recording: tlug-talk-8-shaun-smashing-the-stats-for-fun-and-profit.ogg (5.2 MB)
Feedback:
Shaun presented his work on gaming a popular South African blog aggregator ranking and pay-per-impression web advertising system with [...]
Meeting #8 announcement: Smashing the stats for fun and profit
Topic: Smashing the stats for fun and profit
Speaker: Shaun Dewberry
Date: 7 December 2009
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm).
Event calendar and new/reorganized links
So, I’ve created a public Google Calendar for TLUG (and related) events, now embedded at the top of the sidebar on the right. This is how I hope for it to work:
If you would like me to add an event that I’ve missed, you can send me an email.
If you use Google Calendar yourself, I [...]
Meeting #7 feedback: Botnets
Topic: Botnets
Speaker: Beau Grobler
Date: 2 November 2009
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Feedback:
Beau presented his talk to ~22 guests and included a case study of an actual botnet related to an ongoing investigation. For this reason, (as Jaco points out) there won’t be any audio or slides published, sorry. I guess the point is that you should attend [...]
Meeting #7 tonight: Botnets (topic changed)
Hi All
Our topic for tonight has changed, Beau will be talking about botnets. See you all there!
Regards,
Simeon.
Topic: Botnets
Speaker: Beau Grobler
Date: 2 November 2009
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm).
What TLUG is (and isn’t)
TLUG is an informal and diverse group of people with a common interest in Linux, UNIX, Open Source, electronics, networking and any other interesting and vaguely related (geek|hack)ery. One evening each month we get together at a venue on the University of Pretoria campus, and get someone to present a talk on ${topic_of_their_choice}. Afterwards we [...]