PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053
Speakers:
* Adrian Close: ZeroTier
* Enno Davids: Ethics - Weasel words, weasel words, weasel words, bad thing
ZeroTier
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Please note that as Adrian was not able to present this talk in February
he will be giving it this month instead.
Adrian is going to talk about using ZeroTier as the basis for a
resilient WAN. Also for access to and between boxes that have no direct
inbound connectivity. And for VPN purposes. And for doing interesting
stuff with traffic redirection and inspection.
He has worked in the local Internet industry for the last 25 years or
so, doing *nix sysadmin, security and networking, and generally just
trying to make stuff work.
Ethics - Weasel words, weasel words, weasel words, bad thing
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A discussion of ethical considerations inherent in using and writing
software, highlighting that there are few if any hard and fast lines and
that while your ethics and mine may coincide, our ethics and that other
guy's may not. WARNING: copious real world examples and audience
participation may be involved.
Enno is a 35+ year veteran of the UNIX and Open Source fields. Having
both contributed to and made use of the technologies the community has
created he has a good relationship with the creators of commercial and
free (in its various interpretations) software.
Of late Enno has been involved in data collection both the typical OS
and app based as well as remotely probed embedded (Arduino and
wemos/lolin), and other monitoring and big data. Splunk has been a
speciality for some time now as have some of the newer tools that appear
at regular intervals.
Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at
Brunetti's or Trotters Bistro in Lygon St. Please let us know if you'd
like to join us!
Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.
Start: Feb 23 2019 12:30
End: Feb 23 2019 16:30
Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond
Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE
Topic to be announced
There will also be the usual casual hands-on workshop, Linux
installation, configuration and assistance and advice. Bring your laptop
if you need help with a particular issue. This will now occur BEFORE the
talks from 12:30 to 14:00. The talks will commence at 14:00 (2pm) so
there is time for people to have lunch nearby.
The meeting will be held at Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond 3121.
Late arrivals please call (0421) 775 358 for access to the venue.
LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange for the venue.
Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: achalmers(a)westnet.com.au
Date: 5 Feb. 2019 14:08
Subject: Update on tonight's speakers.
Hi everyone,
I am saddened to report that Adrian Close has fallen ill and will
not be speaking tonight as planned.
We do have Lilly Ryan speaking on social media platforms and what
happens to user accounts and data post mortem.
In addition we will have Andrew Pam giving us all a run down of LCA
2019 ... especially valuable for those of us that were unable to
attend this year.
Hope to see you all tonight!
Kind regards,
ALC
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul(a)servalproject.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 08:53:03 +1030
Subject: Old 3.5" floppy drives
To: Linux SA <linuxsa(a)linuxsa.org.au>
Hello all,
We are looking to collect 3.5" floppy drives for use in prototypes and
pre-production units of the MEGA65 retro computer (the one I used for my
presentation at LCA2019 last week). However, it seems that in the last
couple of years the supply of new floppy drives has finally dried up.
Thus we are looking under our proverbial couch cushions to find as many
as we can. If any of you have a stash of old drives, or even single
units, we'd love to hear from you!
Paul.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Nathan Scott <nathans(a)redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 21:24:20 +1100
I'm one of the organisers of the open source Performance Co-Pilot
(pcp.io) annual conference, which will be held in Melbourne this year.
The conference includes various talks on PCP as well as other open
source software used in conjunction with PCP for analysis - e.g.
Grafana (grafana.com), Vector (getvector.io) and Redis (redis.io).
The planned schedule is: https://pcp.io/conference/2019/schedule.html
It's a free (as in beer and speech), single day event on March 1st.
We'd like people to register so we can ensure sufficient seats, tea
and coffee - https://pcp.io/conference/2019/home.html
I imagine there may be a few LUV members who might be interested in
attending - if you could share this message with them it would be
greatly appreciated. Many thanks!
cheers.
--
Nathan
PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library,
251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053
Speakers:
* Lilly Ryan: Why is software still so bad at acknowledging that all
users will eventually die?
* Adrian: ZeroTier
Why is software still so bad at acknowledging that all users will
eventually die?
Lilly Ryan is a pen tester, Python wrangler, and recovering historian
from Melbourne. She writes and speaks internationally about ethical
software, social identities after death, teamwork, and the telegraph.
More recently she has researched the domestic use of arsenic in
Victorian England, attempted urban camouflage, reverse engineered APIs,
wielded the Oxford comma, and baked a really good lemon and coconut cake.
ZeroTier
Adrian is going to talk about using ZeroTier as the basis for a
resilient WAN. Also for access to and between boxes that have no direct
inbound connectivity. And for VPN purposes. And for doing interesting
stuff with traffic redirection and inspection.
He has worked in the local Internet industry for the last 25 years or
so, doing *nix sysadmin, security and networking, and generally just
trying to make stuff work.
Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at
Brunetti's or Trotters Bistro in Lygon St. Please let us know if you'd
like to join us!
Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.
