Show Past Events (11)
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: First meeting of the semester; Intro to VTLUUG!
Presenter: rsk (rishik@vt.edu)
Description: Discussing VTLUUG past, present, and future.
slides @ https://vtluug.org/files/2024/rsk-intro/intro.pdf
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: Funding, CS Afilliation, and server room field trip!
Presenter: rsk (rishik@vt.edu)
Description: We will briefly meet in MCB 240, before moving to the TOP SECRET seventh floor of Whittemore hall
to pay a visit to the VTLUUG/WUVT server rack.
Items up for general discussion:
+ Funding -- how much we have, and what to spend it on.
+ Colo in WHIT is a pain in a post-jkh world. would CS help?
+ server happy happy playtime
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: Retro gaming and ripping dvds
Presenter: Brendan W. Roeting (roetinb@vt.edu)
Description: An original N64 will be brought for people to play and take a look at along with some gameboys to show how saving
ROMS and Save Files are done. We will also learn how to rip dvds to an .mkv format to be used without the physical
medium including blue-rays and 4k movies.
+ elections soon?! think of all the cool new officer titles...
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: elections!
Presenter: milo (miloc@vt.edu)
Description: it's VTLUUG election season, this time for the Spring '25 - Fall '25 cycle!
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: LIGHTNING TALKS!
Presenter: various (officers@vtluug.org)
Description: The lightning talk: the favorite clubular passtime of LUUGers who can't muster up the end-of-semester energy to come up with a real presentation.
Premeditated lightning talks (follow the guide on the vtluug/calendarium github repo to add yours, if you feel like it):
+ typst: LaTeX for rust-huffing zoomers (rsk)
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: Free (as in speech) Computer Algebra Software
Presenter: Ross George (rossgeorge@vt.edu)
Description: Why use a regular calculator when you could use a really awesome one? Where can you find a really awesome one? How do you use one? Why do you want to use one? Find out!
Location: McBryde 240, maybe. we'll find an empty room day-of if that one's occupied.
Subject: Installfest planning and the Spring semester
Presenter: Rishi Krishna (rishik@vt.edu)
Description: We're going to hold an Installfest on the first week of February. This meeting, we'll hash out the details (what date, who's coming, what flavor pizza, ...). Also up for discussion: the rebuilt 100TB cyberdelia, and our new GPU compute server 'gibson'.
Location: McBryde 240, maybe. we'll find an empty room day-of if that one's occupied.
Subject: Fooling around with local LLMs, as well as more Installfest & semester planning
Presenter: Rishi Krishna (rishik@vt.edu)
Description: Talking about Installfest some more (possibly re-scheduling it per room availability), and playing with the (now actually set up) AI server, Gibson.
We can also start planning talks for the upcoming meetings.
Location: McBryde CS Lounge
Subject: Installfest!, (12:00PM to 5:00 PM)
Presenter: VTLUUG (root@vtluug.org)
Description: VTLUUG's once-and-now-again semesterly festival of pizza & install media. Come experience
+ linux users in a room for five hours
+ esoteric operating system installation (TempleOS, anybody?)
+ doing irresponsible things with infrastructure
+ free pizza
Location: McBryde 238
Subject: snow day!
Presenter: VTLUUG (officers@vtluug.org)
Description: campus is snowed-out! rsk's still going to be hanging out at McB, but feel free to stay home. enjoy the winter wonderland.
Location: McBryde 240
Subject: Introduction to Proxmox
Presenter: Mikhail Schneide (mikhail@licas.dev)
Description: A basic introduction to Proxmox which goes over installation and basic usage.
2025-02-26 19:00:00
Location: McBryde 224
Subject: Leveraging Botnet-as-a-Service "Free VPN" services to harvest working SOCKS & HTTP proxies
Presenter: rsk (rishik@vt.edu)
Description: It's an open secret that most shady "Free VPN" services are actually using reselling your live connection as a residential proxy. But what can we gain from this?
As it turns out, apart from backdooring you, they do actually provide users with valid SOCKS5/HTTP proxies -- rsk will demonstrate using wireshark & other request monitoring tools to sniff their proxy-fetching handshake and make off with free working proxy lists.