[committee] Weekly Tech Talks @ UCC
James Arcus
jimbo at ucc.asn.au
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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