TUKS Linux User Group » simeon http://www.tlug.org.za Linux, Open Source, Programming, Networking, Electronics and Anything Else Interesting Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:40:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 No meeting in December http://www.tlug.org.za/no-meeting-in-december/ http://www.tlug.org.za/no-meeting-in-december/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:40:51 +0000 simeon http://www.tlug.org.za/?p=221 Hi All

In case you missed this part of the announcement for November’s talk, note that the meeting scheduled for December has been cancelled.

Thanks to all who supported TLUG in 2010 (speakers and audience)!

Regards,
Simeon.

]]> http://www.tlug.org.za/no-meeting-in-december/feed/ 0 Meeting #17 announcement: Who needs Botnets if you have Google? http://www.tlug.org.za/meeting-17-announcement-who-needs-botnets-if-you-have-google/ http://www.tlug.org.za/meeting-17-announcement-who-needs-botnets-if-you-have-google/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:01:44 +0000 simeon http://www.tlug.org.za/?p=211 Topic: Who needs Botnets if you have Google?
Speaker: Ivan Burke
Date: 1 November 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 4-3 in the IT building.

Please join us for the final TLUG meeting for 20101 this coming Monday, 1 November.

Ivan Burke will be giving a talk about his research into exploiting Google Gagets to do things you would normally need a botnet to pull off. Among other things, he will discuss proof of concept implementations of:

  • Google gadget as anonymous web browsing tool. (Use Google to browse on your behalf. Bypass corporate firewalls and hide IP while browsing.)
  • Google gadget as man in the middle attack
  • Google gadget as DDoS (using Google’s servers)

PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE: Monday’s talk will be in lecture hall 4-3, not 2-24.

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

  1. Experience from 2009 was that everyone is away in December, so we’re quitting while we’re ahead this year
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Update: Slides are here: walterl_mozilla.pdf [364KB]

Thanks to Walter, all who attended.

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Speaker: Walter Leibbrandt
Date: 6 September 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.

Sorry for the late announcement!

Walter Leibbrandt will be talking about the Mozilla platform tonight, hope to see you all there!

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

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Here are Gary’s slides: programming_in_scala.pdf [605KB]

We also have a video recording of the talk, currently in post-processing. I will add a new post when it is available.

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Speaker: Gary Pampara
Date: 2 August 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.

Gary Pampara will be talking about his new favorite language, Scala, which supports both object-oriented and functional programming, and compiles to Java byte code. This promises to be an interesting topic, hope to see you all there!

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

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SFD in Pretoria will be held at the Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria (CSIR campus) on 18 September 2010 (8:00 – 15:00). Entrance is free of charge.

For more info see:

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Speaker: Edwin Peer
Date: 5 July 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.

Edwin Peer will be presenting a talk about OpenLaszlo.

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

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Speaker: Dirk Uys
Date: 7 June 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.

Dirk Uys will be presenting a talk about programming with Haxe.

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

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Speaker: Derick Swanepoel
Date: 3 May 2010
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building.

Derick will be presenting a talk about video formats and standards, video encoding with FLOSS tools and a look at the use of various video formats in online and mobile content.

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

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