Author Archive
Meeting #11 announcement: South African FOSS Landscape
Topic: South African FOSS Landscape Speaker: Karl Fischer Date: 12 April 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. PLUG and Software Freedom Day veteran Karl Fischer (also of fandroid.org fame) will be giving a talk about Free and Open Source Software in South Africa. This promises [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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).