VTLUUG:2012-10-11
Contents
Date, Time and Location
- Thursday, October 11th
- 8:30pm - 10:30pm
- Durham 261
Open Source News
- Chrome Pwned
- 121 btrfs commits pulled into the kernel
- Various ext4 fixes pulled into the 3.7 kernel
- Linux too slow?
- Webconverger
- Yay Samsung
- Free books
- Ubuntu shutting out old hardware
- Ubuntu shopping search may violate EU law
- Canonical: "Pay what you think Ubunutu's worth"
- Some company got Linux to boot to GUI in less than a second
- Linus Torvalds answers questions in a Slashdot interview
- Linux on an 8-bit AVR
- FSF is now doing hardware certification
Andrei's News (next week)
VTLUUG Announcements
- October 2012 is the 15th anniversary of VTLUUG! How should we celebrate?
- Nag the officers about the status of:
- New server - mutantmonkey
- luug3 issues - mutantmonkey, wallmani
- Office space - telnoratti
- Obtaining roof access for the Darknet - wallmani
- T-shirts
- You should apply to be a member of the COE Student Technology Council because tablets suck
- Dtella is awesome and you should use it
Technical Talks & General Discussion
- Future of Uniluug discussion
Hacking & Projects
- Magstripe fun! (bring your cards)
- mutantmonkey - How I wrote magstripe.py
- Getting luug.vt.edu?
- Surveillance mapping - mutantmonkey
- "Students Against Surveillance" RSO - Matt, mutantmonkey
- FOIA all the things!
- Feel free to contribute to matt's list of RSO ideas
- telnoratti is getting all of our important legal questions answered by Student Legal Services
- Kerberos party! See mutantmonkey for info!
