From now on, there will be monthly meetings in Dublin. Read the following
extract from the
initial posting announcing them:
The Dublin section of ILUG will be having more frequent regular
meetings, with agendas to be previously announced. ILUG members will be
encouraged to come up with content to present at meetings, to give
people a good reason to come to meetings. Said content would be
something similar to (but on a smaller scale) than the Cork/Galway
presentations, and more participation from the audience would be
requested. I've taken it upon myself to both give the first talk (on
setting up and using mutt with POP/IMAP/LDAP/PGP). Anyone else that
thinks they could give a chat on something, drop me a mail. I'll
announced a "cut off" a week before the event, and put something up on
the main page as to what's on.
The idea is that talks shouldn't be too specialised, so most attendees
would get something from them. Perhaps once we get rolling, we could
have more specialised ones, perhaps having "newbie" and "hacker" level
ones running concurrently.
We are waiting on people from TCD (a nice central location) to get back
to us on a permenant room booking, but it's hoped that it'll be early
afternoon, once a month, on a Saturday.
We were also thinking about trying to have a "keynote speaker" every
month, and perhaps have some way of covering expenses, if they had to
travel. The problems of coming up with a keynote speaker, and a way of
providing expenses were not discussed.
When ? Where ?
Every Third saturday of the month, starting with the 15th of January,
2000, at 14:00pm (real geeks don't like mornings that much). A room has
been made availible in Trinity College, but due to security arrangements,
it's quite difficult to be very flexible about arrival times - so the
doors will be open from 13:45 to 14:15 every Saturday. If you intend
arriving later than that, please arrange with someone to open a door for
you. The talks themselves will not start till around 14:30, but it's
fun to arrive early, and chat to other ILUG people that are attending.
At the moment, if you don't know where to go, be outside the Hamilton
building, but on the TCD campus, at 13:45. You don't know where the
Hamilton Building is ? Check the
East TCD map
Want to speak?
If you feel you have something that Linux users would like to know (it
doesn't have to be about Linux - anything from FreeBSD to politics on the
internet are of interest to our members. Mail the current Lord of the Instrumentality, organisation section ,
John 'Kate' Looney any ideas that you
have for talks, or if you wish to give one.
Bring CDs!
Everyone has old CD's at home they don't want anymore. Bring along a few
CDs, and hopefully there will be people there that can make use of them!.
If you have a CD burner, bring along a few copies of the latest Linux
distributions, and you are bound to find someone to pay a few quid for
them!
| Planned upcoming talks |
| 25/3/2000 | TCD |
John 'Kate' Looney |
Developer |
Intro to OpenGL |
| Details: |
3D cards are all the rage, and OpenGL is the most common 3D API for Unix
machines. However, Linux has always had trouble with OpenGL - until
recently it was an expensive, and proprietry API, without any free hardware
acceleration.
This talk will concentrate on how to get OpenGL working on your machine, so
you can play QuakeIII, and how to write simple OpenGL programs in C.
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| 25/3/2000 | TCD |
Kenn Humborg |
Intermediate |
Intro to troubleshooting linux problems |
| Details: |
"Brief intro to tools like syslog, tcpdump, the /proc hierarchy,
single-user mode. Kind of 'the things we'd really like you to do yourself
before you post your question to ILUG'."
|
| TBA | TBA |
Liam Bedford |
Advanced |
IPSec & FreeS/WAN |
| Details: |
IPSec and FreeS/WAN are free tools for running a secure, encrypted Wide
Area Network over an "insecure, hostile" network like the internet.
Standard internet tools like webservers and FTP can run over IPSec, and
the data being sent is safe from prying eyes, and tamper-proof. Liam will
be giving a talk on his experience in setting it up, and a review of how it
works.
|
| TBA | TBA |
Many speakers |
Beginner |
A horde of operating systems |
| Details: |
Although Microsoft Windows is the first computing environment that most
people are likely to see, there are many, many others. We hope to have a
long seminar one day, where advocates of lesser-used operating systems can
introduce the attendees to their favourites!
If you feel you could give a ten to twenty minute talk, and a questions and
answers session on your favourite operating system (everything from
AmigaDOS to MVS considered), we would love to hear from you!)
|
| TBA | TBA |
Kevin Lyda |
Intermediate |
Introduction to Programming, on Linux |
| Details: | Discussion on C, C variants, Fortran,
Pascal, M3, Lisp, the shell and other scripting languages, etc), Unix
programming tools (Makefiles, Yacc/Bison, Flex, RCS, CVS, etc), IDE
environments (including Glade, Kdevelop, etc).
|
| TBA | TCD |
John 'Kate' Looney |
Intermediate |
Compiling your Linux kernel |
| Details: |
The first big step into the more complex and powerful world of Linux is
learning how to tweak the kernel so it does what you want, and supports
all of your hardware. Also, "lilo", the linux loader, and the boot process
of a PC will be explained.
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| Previous talks |
| Date: | Place: | Speakers |
Talk Level | Talk title |
| 15/01/2000 | TCD |
John 'Kate' Looney |
Beginner |
"Setting up Mutt, the mongrel mailer" |
| Details: | Why Mutt is the best mailer, and info on PGP,LDAP,IMAP,POP |
| See also: | Files discussed
during the meeting to setup PGP and GPG support with mutt (plus my .muttrc) |
| 15/01/2000 | TCD |
Kenn Humborg |
Intermediate |
State of the Linux VAX port |
| Details: | Info on what's
going on with one of the wierder computer architechtures |
| See also: |
Linux/VAX home page,
Kenn's patches,
List archives,
Jim Agnew's MicroVAX FAQ
|
| 15/01/2000 | TCD |
Mike Knell |
Intermediate |
Backups & security |
| Details: | The field of
computer security can be as wide or as narrow as you like,
but the aim is always the same - to keep your data safe and sound.
This means protecting it against both human threats such as prying crackers
and natural threats like disk failure, flooding and fire.
|
| 19/02/2000 | TCD |
Brian Scanlan |
Beginner |
Introduction to Apache, the webserver |
| Details: |
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| 19/02/2000 | TCD |
John Bolger |
Beginner |
Use of Linux in St. Olivers Community College, Drogheda |
| Details: | St. Olivers is one of the few
secondary schools in the country that gives internet access and emails to
all it's staff and students. This was possible to do on a small budget
because they used Linux.
|
| 19/02/2000 | TCD |
John 'Kate' Looney |
Intermediate |
LDAP directories: The next big thing |
| Details: |
LDAP, the "Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol" is the next big thing, following such over-hyped ideas as
"Portals", "Thin clients" and Intranets. Is it useful, or just more
technobabble to dazzle & confuse your manager ? Kate will be showning
people what's needed in setting up an LDAP server, and an LDAP client, as
well as how applications can be developed for LDAP.
|
| 19/02/2000 | TCD |
David Malone |
Beginner |
NTP - the network time protocol |
| Details: |
NTP is an advanced protocol & algorithm for keeping the time on machines
all around the world in sync, to ridiculous accuracy. David will be giving
an overview of how it works, and a review of Nelson Minar's recent survey
of NTP servers on the internet. |
| See also: |
NTP home page
NTP survey
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| Talks we would like someone to give |
- Intro to troubleshooting Linux problems
- Choosing a desktop environment
- Installation problems
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| What would you like to hear ? |
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If you can think of any talks you would like us to give, drop Kate a shout, and we'll see what we
can do about getting someone to give a talk on the topic.
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