[committee] Tech Talk Schedule - Semester 2

[James Arcus]

Thanks for getting back to me on that and confirming you'll run those talks.

Here are the proposed descriptions for the events I'm running/championing:

*Fantastic Servers and Where to Find Them / How 2 UCC
*

For those of you who signed up to UCC in semester 1 and haven't been 
back again, this talk is for you! For those of you who have been around 
the clubroom a fair bit, there's still plenty for you to find out.

I'll be going over the services that UCC offers, from the popular 
vending machines, to virtual machine hosting and our own GitLab 
instance, as well as going into some of the background detail of what 
holds it all together.

The talk will be in the clubroom and all are welcome.

*Taking Pictures... From Space! / Using a Cheap Software-Defined Radio
*

Interesting radio signals are all around us, many of them completely 
open to whoever has the right equipment. And while that used to mean 
expensive scanners, a lot can now be achieved with a $25 "TV" dongle and 
a cheap laptop.

I will be introducing the concept of Software-Defined Radio, how that 
differs from the one in your car, and some of the many things you can do 
with one. Then, we'll show off capturing a signal, and go hunting for 
other interesting signals to decode. If we're lucky, we might even be 
able to download a picture straight from a weather satellite.

Finally, if there are any door or wheel members who might want to help 
out with the How 2 UCC talk, that would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

James [MPT]

On 14/8/19 10:39 pm, frekk wrote:
> Hi,
> Below are some hopefully catchy titles and body texts for some talks 
> I'd like to run, ideally in sequence.
>
> *Learn to Love Linux I*
> Start with your very own Linux Virtual Machine (VM) hosted at UCC! 
> We'll show you how to install the latest Debian Linux, and cover the 
> basic commands.
> You'll also have the opportunity to set up a web server and start 
> making a website!
> No prior experience necessary :)
>
> *Learn to Love Linux II*
> Following on from Part 1, learn about DNS - the system which is behind 
> almost everything you know about on the Internet!
> DNS is the system that translates names like "google.com.au" to IP 
> addresses like 8.8.8.8. You'll get a domain name of your very own, in 
> the form <username>.workshop.ucc.asn.au, and learn how to host 
> multiple different websites on a single web server!
>
> *Free Internet!!1! and where to find it!*
> This time I'll talk about DNS tunnelling, which can be used to hide 
> your internet packets inside totally innocuous DNS queries (which can 
> sneak past oh so many firewalls), and give an introduction to my fork 
> of https://github.com/yarrick/iodine.
> If you've been to the previous talk about setting up your own DNS, 
> this will be a lot easier to follow, but even if you're new I'll try 
> to explain.
>
> Cheese.
>
> On Sunday, August 11, 2019 11:38 AWST, James Arcus <jimbo at ucc.asn.au> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> More news on the tech talks front! I've locked in the Thursday 5:30 pm 
> timeslot for talks this semester, starting from a week Thursday. The 
> schedule for talks at current is as follows:
>
>   * Week 4: Fantastic Servers and Where to Find Them/How 2 UCC
>     (Thursday 22 August, 5:30 pm) -- [MPT] and others
>   * Week 5: Take Pictures from Space for $25/How to Use a Cheap
>     Software-Defined Radio (Thursday 29 August, 5:30 pm) -- [MPT]
>   * Week 6: Introduction to Linux Sysadmin (Thursday 5 September, 5:30
>     pm) -- [FVP]
>   * Week 7: Introduction to Linux Sysadmin 2 (Thursday 12 September,
>     5:30 pm) -- [FVP]
>   * Week 8: TBC (likely Introduction to Linux Sysadmin 3) (Thursday 19
>     September, 5:30 pm)
>   * Week 9: Decompiling Binaries to C Code (Thursday 26 September,
>     5:30 pm) -- [LE@]
>
> Please note that these times are not final, but I'll be hoping to 
> start advertising the first few talks in the first half of the coming 
> week. I'll also be looking to schedule a welcome event of some kind 
> before the first talk on the 22nd
>
> If anyone else is interested in giving a talk to an interested 
> audience, don't hesitate to get in touch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James Arcus [MPT]
> /UCC Vice President/
>
>
>
>
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