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The first ever HantsLUG Christmas Lecture was held on Saturday 1 December in the Zepler Building at Southampton University. The speaker was Mike Bond, of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he has been researching security in the banking system for 10 or more years. He gave us a talk on “Hacking bank cards: 10 years of tools” – a subject that sounded distinctly illegal to me. In fact the work on computer security done at Cambridge has been an important tool for [continued…] Using Markdown to format posts and pagesMarkdown can be used to format posts and pages on this wiki, as an alternatve to the CK Editor or raw HTML. Just tick the box in the top right-hand corner of the editing page to use markdown. See John Gruber’s page on the markdown syntax. This is bold. This is a blockquote
Code: Hello. This month's Surrey LUG Bring-a-box meeting will be next Saturday 10th November, hosted by Lincore at the ReigateHub in Reigate – courtesy of Jay Bennie. Details are at: http://surrey.lug.org.uk/content/bab-nov-2012 We have one talk planned so far: 'Using Illumos & SmartOS as a bare metal hypervisor' and more are always welcome – even if you only decide to do one on the day! I won't be able to be there this month but leave you in the capable hands of Jay – we are very excited about being able to use this new venue [continued…]
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce the first HantsLUG Christmas lecture which will take place on 1st December. This event is in place of our normal December meeting, and will take place at Southampton University. The lecture will start at 5pm (please arrive early), and is followed by a dinner served at 8pm at the Mercure Dolphin hotel, just north of Town Quay. Our speaker, Mike Bond, who did his PhD in electronic bank security and now works to improve banking security, will be giving a talk titled "Hacking bank cards: 10 years [continued…] The LUG has an IRC channel which everyone (especially members) is welcome to join. Network: Blitzed – irc.blitzed.org (but use irc.lug.org.uk if you are in UK – same network but shows support for your LUG server and ensures you don't end up connected via Timbuktu!) Channel: #hants – for Linux or computing based chat Chat via web: http://www.blitzed.org/java/chat.phtml?chan=hants Some regular members in the channel are:
Chris Dennis has been working intermittently on brandysnap for over a year, and it's nearing some sort of completion. It's a Perl script that uses rsync to create backup snapshots. Which hardly makes it unique — there are plenty of other scripts that do the same sort of thing. What's different about brandysnap is the way it handles which snapshots to keep and which to delete as they get older. Other scripts assign importance to snapshots when they are created — for example, Friday afternoon snapshots may be considered more important that Tuesday [continued…] … otherwise known as the Hampshire Linux User Group. This is a new version of the website, with many links to the old wiki. Please contact the webmaster with any comments, ideas, or new content. We aim to encourage and support the use of Linux and other free operating systems. You don't need to live or work in Hampshire to join-in: in fact about half of our members are from outside Hampshire. The mailing list is where most of the activity happens: please [continued…] Seminar Room 1 in the Zepler Building is the venue for many HantsLUG meetings. Come to the door between Zepler and Mountbatten. If the door isn't open, there will be a notice telling you how to get in — often involving calling a mobile phone number. Or else jump up and down outside the window to the right of the door until someone notices you. Parking is free at the weekends in the car parks near Zepler. Buses to use are the U1 from Southampton Parkway station or Southampton Central station, or [continued…] |
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