When: Friday, August 27, 7:00pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway
SLUG's monthly meeting. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. Please note this month's change in rooms and time. This month's meeting will be in room 1.04.06 (Building 1, Level 4, Room 6) and SLUGlets will be in room 2.07.110. There is a map of UTS availible from http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html. General Talk This month Matthew Palmer will be discussing network and host security on the modern Internet. Having recently been intimately involved with the detection and cleanup of a security breach, Matthew was surprised at the number of things that hadn't been considered by even competent Administration staff. He hopes that the issues raised and discussed will save someone the pain and suffering he has had recently. The talk will include a brief analysis of the above-mentioned security incident, a comparison to some other recent high-publicity breaches, and some commonly- and lesser-known methods of avoiding and responding to security breaches. There will also hopefully be a period of audience involvement, where everyone gets to share their security ideas, for the enlightenment of the entire audience. Special Interest Talk Following on from André Pang's talk in July titled "Beyond C, C++, Perl and Python" a dedicated C and Python coder gives his first impressions of the Ocaml programming language. Ocaml is a functional language with additional imperative and object oriented features. Ocaml programs can be run as as interpreted scripts, compiled to byte code or compiled to native binaries for all the major platforms." As usual, SLUGlets will be running in another room during the 2nd half of the meeting for those who do not wish to attend the 2nd talk. This month SLUGlets will focus on post-installfest issues. SLUGlets this month will be in room 1.04.06. 7:00pm: Doors Open & The Usual Suspects Q&A - Introduction to SLUG + "What has Linux done for/to me lately?" + SLUG News & Discussion 7:15pm: General Talk Security and the Internet - Matthew Palmer. 8:00pm: Break Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge. 8:20pm: Split into two groups for: * Special Interest: Erik de Castro Lopo - First Impressions of Ocaml * SLUGlets: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software. Dinner Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html