CUUG Past Meetings
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October 2024:
What's With Calgary's Water System?
Roy Brander, CUUG Life Member and retired Senior Infrastructure Engineer,
Calgary Water Resources
September 2024:
Unix Tips, Tricks, and Quirks
Alan Dewar, Senior Staff Engineer, Synopsys
June 2024:
An Introduction to Wireless Location,
Kyle O'Keefe, Professor of Geomatics Engineering,
University of Calgary
May 2024:
Artificial Intelligence: Friend, Foe or Frenemy?
Tom Keenan, FCIPS, I.S.P, ITCP;
Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape,
University of Calgary
April 2024:
Dot Matrix Display Pinball Clock,
Chuck Rohs
March 2024:
Engineering-Grade OT Security: Latest Developments,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
February 2024:
Things We Love About Unix,
Alan Dewar, Senior Staff Engineer, Synopsys
January 2024:
Learnings from Running a Free Public Cloud for 10 Years,
Micheal Jones, Technical Operations Manager, Cybera
December 2023:
CUUG December Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2023:
Exploring the World of Meshtastic: A Journey into Offline Long-Range Communication,
Christian Falkenberg-Andersen, retired M.D. and tech enthusiast
October 2023:
Home Introspection with Barbed Wire & Duct Tape,
Raymond Burkholder
September 2023:
Unix Video Night
June 2023:
A Brief History of the Internet,
Alan Dewar, Software Engineer Staff, Synopsys
May 2023:
OT Security Engineering,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
April 2023:
Build Your Own Pinball Machine,
Chuck Rohs
March 2023:
The Go Programming Language,
Alan Dewar, Software Engineer Staff, Synopsys
February 2023:
Mitigations for Blind Return Oriented Programming (BROP) attacks,
Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD
January 2023:
Introduction to the Platform Innovation Centre
December 2022:
CUUG December Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2022:
Application Security Testing,
Alan Dewar, Software Engineer Staff, Synopsys
October 2022:
Open Source based Whole House Audio with Snapcast,
Mark Olson, President, Flokk
September 2022:
Home Assistant: Introduction and Initial Experience,
Christian Falkenberg-Andersen, retired M.D. and tech enthusiast
August 2022:
August Virtual Social Evening
July 2022:
July Virtual Social Evening
June 2022:
Annual General Meeting and Elections
May 2022:
Virtual Social Evening
April 2022:
How Resilient Are Our Vital Services in a Cyberwar?
Roy Brander, CUUG Life Member
March 2022:
Backups: How and Why,
Christopher Aziz, President, and Alan Dewar, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
January 2022:
Happy New Year!
December 2021:
CUUG December Holiday Season Virtual Social Evening
November 2021:
Unix Retrospective
October 2021:
General Discussion
September 2021:
Remote Collaboration Alternatives to Zoom,
Alan Dewar, Software Engineer Staff, Synopsys
August 2021:
August Virtual Social Evening
July 2021:
July Virtual Social Evening
June 2021:
Security Lessons From Lockpicks and POODLEs,
Philip Chong, Software Engineer Senior Staff, Synopsys
May 2021:
OT Cyber Risk Management and the Colonial Pipeline Attack,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
April 2021:
The Latest on Operations Technology Cyber Risk,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
March 2021:
Cord-Cutting Adventure,
Roy Brander, CUUG Life Member
February 2021:
CUUG's 30th Anniversary Virtual Social Evening
February 2020:
Raspberry Pi 4 First Impressions,
Greg King, Retired IT infrastructure consultant
January 2020:
Quantum Without Solace,
Dr. Thierry Lavoie, Ph.D., Manager - Static Analysis Technologies (SAT),
Synopsys
December 2019:
CUUG December Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2019:
Linux Networking & Security: Current & Future,
Raymond Burkholder, One Unified Net
October 2019:
Security and Privacy for the Connected,
Raymond Burkholder, One Unified Net
September 2019:
Android - What is under the hood? Should you care?
Ryan Medeiros, computer hobbyist
June 2019:
Secure Operations Technology,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
May 2019:
Deterministic Behaviours are your Attacker's Friend,
Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD
April 2019:
A Cloud On Three Switches,
Raymond Burkholder, One Unified Net
March 2019:
Your Smartphone Apps Are Spying on You,
Joel Reardon, Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
February 2019:
Software Design Considerations for Multicore CPU Architectures,
Christopher Aziz, HPC analyst (retired)
January 2019:
Embedded made easy: piCore,
Mark Olson, Solon Technology Consulting Services
December 2018:
CUUG December Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2018:
Hardware as Software: How To Write A Cycle-Accurate Emulator,
Dr. Thierry Lavoie, Ph.D., Manager - Static Analysis Technologies (SAT),
Synopsys
October 2018:
The Top 20 Cyberattacks on Industrial Control Systems,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
September 2018:
The Importance of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Management,
Fady Bashay, Senior Security Consultant, Difenda Inc.
June 2018:
Google Vision AIY (Artificial Intelligence Yourself) Kit,
Christian Falkenberg-Andersen
May 2018:
Home Network Intrusion Detection and Malware Mitigation,
Greg King, Retired IT infrastructure consultant
April 2018:
IoT Ransomware - We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (or Have We?),
Tom Keenan, Professor, University of Calgary
March 2018:
Thwarting Return Oriented Programming (ROP) Attacks,
Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD
February 2018:
13 Ways To Break A Firewall, With Live Demonstrations,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
January 2018:
Designing and Building Printed Circuit Boards on a Shoestring Budget,
Chuck Rohs, Endpoint Security Developer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
December 2017:
CUUG December Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2017:
How To Train Your Modern C++ Dragon:
A Guided Tour in The Zoo of Wild Language Constructs,
Dr. Thierry Lavoie, Ph.D., Manager - Static Analysis Technologies (SAT),
Synopsys
October 2017:
Public Key Infrastructure,
Fady Bashay, Senior Security Consultant, Paladion Cyber Security Experts
September 2017:
Building a Dumb Web Server, and Why That Can Be a Smart Thing to Do,
Alan Dewar, President, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
June 2017:
SCADA Security - What's Broken and How To Fix It,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
May 2017:
How to over-engineer a coffee machine and other gadgets,
Chuck Rohs, Endpoint security developer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
April 2017:
YYCIX: Calgary Internet Exchange,
Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD
March 2017:
ERPNext: Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning for Small Business,
John Clarke, ERPNext Champion, Consultant at Apropos Computing
February 2017:
Raspberry Pi Show and Tell,
Matt Mulrooney
January 2017:
Configuration Management 101,
Pat Valentine, Sr. Systems Administrator, Cloud Automation and Engineering,
IHS
December 2016:
CUUG December Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2016:
O-NET: How Olds, Alberta, Acquired Town-Wide Fibre Optic Internet,
Robin Harder, Chief Technologist, O-NET; and
Nathan Kusiek, Director of Business Development, O-NET
October 2016:
General Interactive Discussion of UNIX-Related Things
September 2016:
SCADA Security - What's Broken and How To Fix It,
Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
June 2016:
Configuration Management Tools in the Enterprise,
Pat Valentine, Sr. Systems Administrator, Cloud Automation and Engineering,
IHS
May 2016:
Better than a sandbox, safer than a jail, it's ... Pledge,
Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD
April 2016:
General Discussion: Items in the News
March 2016:
Ceph Software Defined Storage — The Future of Storage,
Tomas Florian, Florian Consulting Inc.
February 2016:
Strong Encryption: Good for Society?
January 2016:
Hookflash and WebRTC,
Trent Johnsen, Co-Founder and CEO, Hookflash
December 2015:
CUUG Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2015:
Technocreep,
Tom Keenan, Professor, University of Calgary
October 2015:
The Internet is Full! What To Do? IPv6!,
Gustin Johnson
September 2015:
From Calgary to Silicon Valley,
Olivier Aubin, Google
June 2015:
Raspberry Pi Show and Tell,
Alan Dewar, President, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
May 2015:
Stuxnet 5 Years Later -- Did We Learn The Right Lessons?,
Andrew Ginter, Vice President of Industrial Security,
Waterfall Security Solutions
April 2015:
Meta-discussion
March 2015:
PowerShell,
Neil Glenn
December 2014:
CUUG Holiday Season Social Evening
October 2014:
Shellshock: UNIX Remote Exploit
June 2014:
The 2013 Flood for Engineers,
Roy Brander, Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Water Resources,
The City of Calgary
May 2014:
LibreSSL: an Open-Source Replacement for OpenSSL,
Bob Beck, OpenBSD Developer and OpenBSD Foundation Director
April 2014:
City Mapping with Free Software Solutions,
Roy Brander, Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Water Resources,
The City of Calgary
March 2014:
Explaining Technically Difficult Things
February 2014:
Internet Trends: Ignore Your User Base at Your Peril
December 2013:
CUUG Holiday Season Social Evening
October 2013:
What's Inside the Data Hive?,
Marjorie Zingle, Owner and CEO, DataHive.ca
June 2013:
YYCIX - an Internet Exchange for Calgary,
Theo de Raadt, Network Manager, YYCIX
May 2013:
Developing Games for HTML5,
Jim Parker, Lead Designer, MinkHollow Media
February 2013:
Oracle Enterprise Linux,
Rolawe Bakare, Systems Sales Consultant, Oracle
December 2012:
CUUG Holiday Season Social Evening
October 2012:
3D Printing,
Shawn Grover, open2space, Make3D
September 2012:
Roundtable Discussion: Privacy on the Internet,
Moderator: Mark Hewitt, Lead System Administrator, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
June 2012:
PKI Encryption: More Vulnerable Than Most Imagine,
Andrew Ginter, Director of Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions
May 2012:
A Ten-Year Retrospective: the Good, the Bad and the Legacy Trap,
Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD
April 2012:
OpenStack or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud,
Joe Topjian, Cybera
February 2012:
Speaking Your Language,
Ian Graham, Developer, Risk Analytics, Markit
January 2012:
Un-redacting documents using Web Inference,
Rei Safavi-Naini, iCORE Chair in Information Security, University of Calgary
December 2011:
CUUG Holiday Season Social Evening
November 2011:
An Oracle Open World Update,
Rolawe Bakare, Systems Sales Consultant, Oracle
October 2011:
R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie, Father of UNIX,
Alan Dewar, President, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
September 2011:
Attack Trees - Thinking Like an Attacker,
Terry Ingoldsby, President, Amenaza Technologies Limited
June 2011:
Crowdsourcing,
Todd Courtnage and Jaime Soulodre, Chaordix
May 2011:
IPv6 - Is it finally arriving?,
Mark Hewitt CD, computer & network professional
April 2011:
OpenBSD Q&A with Theo de Raadt,
Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD
March 2011:
The Stuxnet Worm: Most Sophisticated Malware Ever?,
Andrew Ginter, CTO, Abterra Technologies
February 2011:
Cloud Computing,
Tom Malaher, NetStart Consulting Ltd.
January 2011:
SQLite for Sysadmin and Non-Programmers,
Yves Dorfsman, SollerS
December 2010:
Internet at Sea,
Roy Brander, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
November 2010:
Update on Solaris Technology and Direction,
Linda Kateley, North American OS Pillar Specialist, Oracle
October 2010:
GPU Computing,
Chris Mason, Acceleware
September 2010:
Stupid Browser Tricks: Fun and Games with JavaScript,
Alan Dewar, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
June 2010:
Facebook and FarmVille,
Dick Miller, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
November 2008:
How can Web Services be saved from themselves?,
Paul Gordon, PhD student, University of Calgary
October 2008:
Technical Sharing,
Alan Dewar, Yves Dorfsman, Harold Ditchfield, Hrvoje Lukatela
September 2008:
CUUG Show & Tell,
CUUG CRC volunteers
June 2008:
A Linux Only Enterprise -- 8 years and counting,
Ron Visser (Founder and CEO) and Shane Denovan (CTO), Beyond Compliance Inc.
May 2008:
Software Development and the Law,
George Wowk, Duckworth & Palmer
April 2008:
IBM POWER Technology: Past, Present, and Future,
Ray Williams, IBM
March 2008:
High Performance Computing and Linux,
Peter Madden, IBM
February 2008:
CUUG Open House
January 2008:
Linux4Kids,
Kin Wong, Calgary Linux Users Group
December 2007:
Moore's Law Said It Backwards: Why Microsoft is Doomed,
Roy Brander
November 2007:
Military UNIX simulation,
Lyle Bateman
October 2007:
New Developments at MySQL,
Peter Gulutzan
September 2007:
Monitoring Heterogeneous IT Environments with Open Source Tools,
Greg King
June 2007:
FPGA Development using Open Source Tools,
Andrew Seniuk
May 2007:
OpenBSD Hackathon
April 2007:
Open Source based Spam Filtering with Realtime Updates,
Mark Leonard
March 2007:
A Quick Look into HPC,
Dave Tsang, IBM
February 2007:
I use UNIX, so I'm Safe Forever,
John Aycock
January 2007:
CUUG Open House
December 2006:
Open Source Desktop Software Directions,
Aaron Seigo
November 2006:
Solaris ZFS--The Most Advanced File System on the Planet,
Curtis Eisinger, Sun Microsystems
October 2006:
Open Documentation: Absolutely or Else,
Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD
September 2006:
Portable GUI Programming with wxWidgets,
Brian Richardson
June 2006:
Phoning Home with Open Source,
Mike Babulic
June 2006:
OpenBSD Presentation,
Bob Beck, Reyk Floeter
May 2006:
BrandZ - Running Linux in Solaris 10 Zones,
Willem van Schaik, Sun Microsystems
April 2006:
Calgary LinuxFest 2006,
Shawn Grover, open2space
March 2006:
WAN Acceleration,
Greg King, DNS Inc.
February 2006:
NikSun Systems,
Ryan Sutton, Proactive Data Solutions
January 2006:
Open House
December 2005:
The Challenges of Enterprise Systems Development with Linux,
Richard Huntrods
November 2005:
LDAP for authentication in the enterprise,
Harold Ditchfield, CCSI
October 2005:
Asterisk™ - the Open Source PBX,
Tomas Florian, Asterisk
September 2005:
Subversion on Unix,
Mike Mason, ThoughtWorks
June 2005:
MEPIS Linux,
Roy Brander
May 2005:
OpenBSD's packet filter, PF,
Ryan McBride, CISSP
May 2005:
The Danger of Software Patents,
Richard Stallman
April 2005:
MySQL version 5.x,
Peter Gulutzan, MySQL AB
March 2005:
Freedom of Reach,
Herman Oosthuysen, Guest-Tek Interactive Entertainment
February 2005:
Open House
January 2005:
Beowulf Clusters for the Home Hobbyist,
Damien Hocking, Unified Simulation Environment
December 2004:
Declaration of War!
Panel on operating systems
November 2004:
Open Source Groupware: Kolab,
Aaron Seigo and Andy Kopciuch, KDE
October 2004:
Exploit Mitigation Techniques,
Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD
September 2004:
Apple's Unix: MacOS X Panther,
Brian Richardson, Calgary UNIX Users' Group
June 2004:
Microsoft Services for UNIX,
Jim Sullivan, Microsoft
May 2004:
City of Calgary Goes Linux...and saved millions,
Ian Lofthouse, City of Calgary
April 2004:
Unix Servers into Unix Services,
Glenn Bontje, Hewlett-Packard
March 2004:
Making the Matrix: How We Did It,
Andrew Pearce, ESC Entertainment
February 2004:
How We Manage $3 Billion Of Water Mains, With Unix Servers and GIS Maps,
Roy Brander, City of Calgary
January 2004:
Agile Methods,
Grigori Melnik, Calgary Agile Methods User Group
November 2003:
CUUG Open House
September 2003:
Novell, Linux and Lawsuits,
Michael Subasic, Novell
June 2003:
Board of Directors Elections
May 2003:
Legal Aspects of Open Source Software,
Colin McDonald, Borden Ladner Gervais (LLP)
March 2003:
Implementing Oracle on Solaris - a tutorial for SysAdmins,
Roland Davis and Paul MacPherson, Sun Microsystems
February 2003:
OpenBSD Developments,
Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD
January 2003:
BizGuardian VPN FreeBSD-based Firewall,
Steve Drew, BizGuardian VPN Firewall, and
Michael Zaleski, Firewall Security Solutions, Inc.
December 2002:
Securing Wireless Communications,
Mike Neudoerffer, NON-ELEPHANT Encryption Systems (NE2)
November 2002:
HP's Linux strategy,
Calvin Wong, Hewlett-Packard
October 2002:
Annual Open House
September 2002:
Mac OS X.2 and Open Source,
Brian Hutchison and John Danty, Apple Canada
June 2002:
Elections to CUUG's Board of Directors
May 2002:
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Servers, Java, Linux and Network Computing,
Roland Davis and Paul MacPherson, Sun Microsystems
April 2002:
CUUG, COMPAQ and the Bethany Care Centre
March 2002:
The Furby's New Mind,
Jeffery Gibbons
February 2002:
Linux Distributions,
Calgary Linux Users Group
January 2002:
Assessing IT Risk with Threat Trees,
Terry Ingoldsby, DCExperts and Amenaza Technologies
December 2001:
Open Source / Open Standards - The Alternative to Microsoft,
Richard Huntrods
November 2001:
An overview of encryption methods, the big picture,
Dr. Mario A. Forcinito, NON-ELEPHANT Encryption Systems (NE2)
October 2001:
Backup and Recovery - then and NOW!
Glenn Stur_tevant, Hewlett-Packard
September 2001:
Open House
June 2001:
eBusiness Process Integration,
Steve Heckbert, Verano
May 2001:
Cfengine - computer immune system,
Peter Jarmola, GE Capital ITS
April 2001:
High Performance Computing... a Historical Review,
Jim Himer, Sun Microsystems
March 2001:
Porting and interoperability between UNIX and NT systems,
Ric Lam, COMPAQ
February 2001:
P-Synch,
Idan Shoham, M-Tech
January 2001:
Building a firewall for small networks,
Roy Brander
December 2000:
OpenBSD Security,
Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD
November 2000:
Managing Technology with Open Source Tools,
Aaron Seigo, Mount Linux
October 2000:
SuperDome,
Neil Kosman, Hewlett-Packard
September 2000:
Merging SCO's Unix and Linux,
Kirk J. Farquhar, SCO
June 2000:
Unix Education Trends - A view from the Hill,
Richard Huntrods, SAIT
May 2000:
Getting the Message: Email is Dangerous,
Stephen Louie, GE Capital Services
April 2000:
UNIX The COMPAQ Way: News and Views,
Dave Hornford, COMPAQ
March 2000:
What's New in SunOS 5.8,
Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems
February 2000:
Securing the Perimeter (or How to Build a Decent Moat),
Terry Ingoldsby
January 2000:
Case Study: Building a Local Area Network (LAN)
December 1999:
What is Mac OS X Server,
Brian Hutchison, Apple Canada
November 1999:
How Computer Technology Benefits the Visually Impaired, and How it is Employed,
Caprina Weibe
October 1999:
Systems Management in UNIX environments,
Greg King, Hewlett-Packard
September 1999:
How the city is wired and general communications issues,
Dave Thomson and Ken Sackley, AT&T (formerly Metronet)
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