2019-06: GDB
Sergio Durigan Jr provides an introduction to GDB, the GNU Debugger. See kwlug.org/node/1153 or additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
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KWLUG Meeting: Monday, August 12, 2019, 7pm
WRDashboard, Vim
Meeting Date
2019-08-12T19:00:00
Andrew Cant will describe the tools and workflow behind WRDashboard, an information aggregator for Waterloo Region.
Jason Eckert has been using Vim for decades. He will give us a beginner-friendly tutorial of the text editor.
Update: Jason has provided his slides, linked below.
KWLUG Meeting: Monday, July 8, 2019, 7pm
Docker Swarm, Life in a Terminal Window
Meeting Date
2019-07-08T19:00:00
Mikalai Birukou will tell us about Docker Swarm, a native clustering system for Docker.
Paul Nijjar has an old and slow computer, so lives his life in a terminal window as much as possible. He will describe some of the end-user applications he uses in this interface, including: web surfing, playing multimedia files, reading news, notetaking, and more. This presentation is beginner-friendly.
2019-05: IPFS, Curv
Nathan Fish explains IPFS, the Interplanetary File System. Doug Moen demonstrates developments in Curv, the programming language he developed. See kwlug.org/node/1150 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
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KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Sept 9, 2019, 7pm
Home Network Setup, PrivacySafe
Meeting Date
2019-09-09T19:00:00
Sandeep Johri will tell us how he set up and secured his home network. His hope is that the audience can help him identify issues and vulnerabilities. This presentation will be beginner-friendly.
Mikalai Birukou will tell us about PrivacySafe, a product he is developing to provide "simple private and secure servers for your home".
Unfortunately, Joan will be unable to present for us in September. Stay tuned for a replacement presentation.
KWLUG Meeting: Monday, June 3, 2019, 7pm
GDB, Commandline Roundtable
Meeting Date
2019-06-03T19:00:00
Update: Due to an urgent family situation, John Kerr won't be able to present his LaTeX at the Law Library talk this month. The GDB presentation is still on, and we will have a roundtable discussion to close out the meeting.
Sergio Durigan Junior will give us an overview of GDB, the GNU Debugger. He will illustrate some basic usage and show us some exciting advanced features.
2019-04: Proxmox, OpenVAS, NixOS
Bob B discusses the virtualization distribution Proxmox, and the vulnerability scanner OpenVAS. Victor Kofia discusses the Nix programming language, the Nix package manager and the NixOS distribution. Unfortunately, once again we had some A/V issues during the meeting: the recording of the end of Bob's presentation got cut off, and Victor had projector issues. See kwlug.org/node/1149 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
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2019-03: UEFI, Pop!_OS
Chris Irwin presents UEFI (the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and Jason Eckert discusses Pop!_OS, an Ubuntu remix focusing on developer productivity. Unfortunately, Jason's microphone cut out halfway through his presentation, so we lost a lot of audio. See kwlug.org/node/1145 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
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KWLUG Meeting: Monday, May 6, 2019, 7pm
Interplanetary File System, Curv
Meeting Date
2019-05-06T19:00:00
Nathan Fish will tell us about the Interplanetary File System, a peer-to-peer distributed protocol that could replace HTTP and make the Web decentralized again.
Doug Moen will revisit Curv, the functional 3D modelling language he developed to create art using mathematics.
KWLUG Meeting: Monday, April 1, 2019, 7pm
OpenVAS, NixOS
Meeting Date
2019-04-01T19:00:00
Bob B will give us an introduction to OpenVAS, the Open Vulnerability Access Scanner, including how he used Proxmox to set up his demo lab.
Victor Kofia will discuss NixOS and the Nix package manager. Nix takes a declarative approach to systems configurations, and all upgrades/rollbacks are atomic. It bills itself as "the purely functional Linux distribution."