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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 [...]
Meeting #7 announcement (for November): Open Source at the SAPS Cyber Crime Unit
Topic: Use of Open Source Software at the SAPS Cyber Crime Unit 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). IMPORTANT: There will be NO meeting on 5 October 2009
Meeting #6 feedback: Getting started with Django: from installation to, first application
Topic: Getting started with Django: from installation to, first application Speaker: Carl Sandrock Date: 7 September 2009 Feedback: Carl’s provided an excellent introduction to rapid web app development with Django, explaining the concepts, and demonstrated the real thing, live, by writing a simple application. Thanks Carl, and all attendees. Due to technical problems, no audio [...]
Meeting #6 announcement: Getting started with Django: from installation to, first application
Topic: Getting started with Django: from installation to, first application Speaker: Carl Sandrock Date: 7 September 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).
Meeting #5 feedback: Embedded development with FOSS
Topic: Embedded development with FOSS Speaker: Stewart Allen Date: 3 August 2009 Feedback: Our most successful talk to date (~60 people attended)! Stewart’s talk was informative and he had real life gadgets and code to demo. Thanks to Stewart, and all those who attended Slides: stewart_tlug_presentation.pdf.tar.gz Code: stewart_demo.tar.gz Audio recording: tlug-talk-5-stewart-embedded-dev-with-foss.ogg (16 MB)
Meeting #5 announcement: Embedded development with FOSS
Topic: Embedded development with FOSS Speaker: Stewart Allen Date: 3 August 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). Content: What FOSS Schematics capture/ PCB layout tool are out there. Talk about Eagle CAD (not FOSS but works [...]
Meeting #3: Distributed Version Control – better than you think it is
Topic: Distributed Version Control – better than you think it is Speaker: Gary Pampara Date: 1 June 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). Feedback: Thanks to Gary for a very interesting talk indeed. Thanks also to [...]
Server pics: old and new
This is cluon, the TLUG server. The old one was a AMD Duron 900Mhz with 512MB RAM and first 60, then 20GB of disk space. It was donated by Prof Barnard (then with Electronic Engineering) and it served us well for many years before it developed old-age instability. The new server is a nice rack-mounted [...]