[bulug] Re: proposed presentations/tutorials for BU-LUG meeting
- From: rmcgowan@xxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:56:43 +0000
2, 4, 6, and 10 sound more interesting than the others. Let me know if I can
help with logistics.
Robert McGowan
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From: "Jimmy C. Chau" <jchau@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:14:38
To: <bulug-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bulug] proposed presentations/tutorials for BU-LUG meeting
It seems like we haven't done much as BU-LUG in a long while. To
prevent BU-LUG from disappearing due to inactivity, I'm offering to
present a tutorial on one (or more) of the following. Please let me
know if any of you are interested and which topics interest you.
1. How to report bugs
2. Linux wireless routers: OpenWRT, Tomato, long-range antennas, and
connecting to BU's wireless network (from far away).
3. wpa_supplicant and connecting to "BU (802.1x)"
4. Basics of network security: netfilter/iptables (firewall)
configuration with BU specific rules and nmap
5. udev basics
6. Basic/intermediate SSH (& related): overview, key-based
authentication, connecting from a Windows computer, SFTP, chroot,
firewall, and nohup
7. Accessing the BU engineering network drives: via SFTP and via CIFS
mount
8. Locating drivers for USB devices (very short presentation)
9. Working with (APC) uninterruptible power supplies: apcupsd
10. Scripting and useful scripts: alarm clock program & simple dynamic
DNS updater
11. Data-recovery (may also briefly cover backups and SMART)
12. Electronic design automation tools: gEDA & friends
13. Basic LaTeX: for creating professional-looking reports and papers
14. Partitioning a hard-drive (this will probably be more of a
discussion of the various ways we partition our hard-drives)
15. Intermediate dial-up networking: AT commands, chat scripts, kernel
configuration, (and possibly also over Bluetooth modem)
16. How to build programs (basic overview): GCC, g++, makefiles, java,
configure files, flags, and Java.
These are the topics that came to mind but there are probably others
that I can teach. If you want a different topic, let me know and we'll
see if I (or someone else) knows that topic well enough to teach.
It'll take me some time (a week or two) for me to prepare the actual
tutorial after you choose. And obviously, some tutorials will be long
and some will be short. If anyone wants to team up and make another
tutorial to complement mine (or work together on one tutorial), that
will probably make the tutorials much better in general.
Note that while I have experience in each of these topics, I am not the
authoritative expert on any of these topics; I may make mistakes, so
please forgive (& correct) me if I do.
Ryan, if this tutorial happens, I'll probably need help with the
logistics: planning a place and a time. Let me know if this will be a
problem (I know you're probably busy with senior design & other work)
and how I can help.
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-Jimmy C. Chau
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