[committee] Weekly Tech Talks @ UCC

Tue Aug 20 00:12:23 AWST 2019

Hi all,

UCC are running a series of weekly tech talks in our clubroom on 
Thursdays (5:30 pm onwards). The first one this week is specifically an 
introduction to UCC the club and its systems, but the rest are general 
interest tech talks on a few different subjects.

Each talk will run for around an hour and will be a mix of presenting 
and interactive parts, followed by questions and social time.

The topics so far are:

  * Software-Defined Radio
  * Learning to administer a Linux server
  * The Domain Name System
  * DNS tunnelling
  * Decompiling programs back to C

I've forwarded on the list of talks that we sent to our members, if you 
want to know more about the talks. We also have Facebook events on our 
page and group for each week.

If any of those topics sound like they would interest some of your 
members, it would be appreciated if you passed the details on. Our 
Facebook events are all public so they can be easily referred to or 
shared if that's what you want.

Thanks guys :)

My best,

James (UCC Vice Pres.)

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Subject: 	[ucc-announce] Weekly Tech Talks @ UCC!
Date: 	Mon, 19 Aug 2019 23:50:55 +0800
From: 	James Arcus <jimbo at ucc.asn.au>
Reply-To: 	ucc at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
To: 	ucc-announce at ucc.asn.au

Hi UCCans,

This semester, UCC will be hosting weekly talks and workshops on all 
sorts of tech topics! These will be held regularly in the UCC clubroom 
on Thursday evenings, starting this week with an introduction to the club.

*Fantastic Servers and Where to Find Them (How 2 UCC)
/5:30 pm, 22nd August/
*/Presented by yours truly, James Arcus [MPT]/

    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.

    All are welcome!

*Taking Pictures From Space - Things to Do With a Cheap SDR
**/5:30 pm, 29th August/*
/Presented by James Arcus [MPT]/

    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.

*Learn to Love Linux - Part 1
/5:30 pm, 5th September/
*/Presented by Felix von Perger [FVP]/

    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, everyone is welcome to join :)

*Learn to Love Linux - Part 2*
**/5:30 pm, 12th September/**/
Presented by Felix von Perger [FVP]/

    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!
/5:30 pm, 19th September/
*/Presented by Felix von Perger [FVP]/
**

    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.

*Decompiling to C
/5:30 pm, 26th September/
*/Presented by Elliot Nunn [LE@]/

    Explore the depths of assembly language - and how to turn compiled
    programs back into readable C code. More info coming soon!

Find all of these and more on the UCC Facebook Page 
<https://www.facebook.com/uccuwa/events/>!

On behalf of myself, the other presenters, and the club, we look forward 
to seeing you there. And if you have an idea for an interesting tech 
talk, we'd love to hear it!

Best regards,

James Arcus [MPT]
/UCC Vice President/

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