A talk presented by Joshua Malone on the basics of networking. This was an encore presentation of talk Josh gave in May.

A talk presented by Brian Mays on building a custom Linux kernel. This presentation included a live demonstration of building a custom kernel and a brief discussion of Debian's make-kpkg utility for building custom kernel packages.

A PDF file of the slides (58k) is available.

A talk presented by Anthony Johnston on setting up and using Apache's Java tools to create an environment (a servlet container) for working with Servlets as well as JSP pages on Linux. Cocoon, Apache's XML processing framework, also was covered.

A talk presented by Adrian Filipi-Martin and Brian Mays on stupid Unix tricks. Several tricks were discussed including Keyboard Tricks, X Cut-n-paste Tricks, LaTeX Tricks (preprocessing), and Ssh Tunneling Tricks.

PDF files of the slides (one - 80k and two - 64k) are available.

A talk presented by Adrian Filipi-Martin on the pitfalls of DNS. Topics covered included BIND, root-servers, registrars, resource records, valid hostnames, and DNS tools.

A PDF file of the slides (105k) is available.

A talk presented by Joshua Malone on the basics of networking. The goal of this talk was to introduce the real complexities behind TCP/IP and give people enough know-how to set up a home LAN with masquerading and (basic) firewalling. This was an encore presentation of a talk he gave at Virginia Tech.

The PDF file of the slides and notes are available in the form of a compressed tar file (451k).

A talk presented by Pat Murphy on the Secure Shell (SSH). His talk provided a gentle introduction to this essential tool for secure remote access. It began with an explanation of what it is, what it is not, why it should be used, how it works, and what advantages it provides over more traditional means of network access (rsh, telnet, etc.). Advanced topics included X forwarding, compression, and the use of "special keys" to restrict ssh, which is useful trick for automated tasks.

The notes for this presentation are available.

A talk presented by Brian Mays on Text Processing in the Unix environment. His talk discussed the advantages and disadvantages of text processing versus word processing and included an introduction to troff and TeX. It included several examples of input to these programs and their preprocessors.

A PDF file of the slides (263k) is available.

A talk presented by Sean Michael Whipkey on spam. His talk detailed a little of the history of spam, what is and isn't spam, both by e-mail and by USENET, and what are some of the current actions against it, including both Internet-based (such as MAPS and ORBS) and legality-based (such as the Virginia anti-spam law). It included several spam-fighting hints, such as how to block it and how to report the spam that one receives.