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Tugger the SLUGger! Sydney Linux Users' Group

Past SLUG Talks

With speaker permission, SLUG records video footage of the talks given at meetings, and other events. The slides and video footage are available under the Creative Commons ShareAlike License unless otherwise noted.

If you're interested in speaking to SLUG, please see our Call for Participation.

If a talk that you'd like to see isn't online yet, or if you gave a talk but we don't have the slides, please contact the committee.

2005

MonthDetailsSlidesRecordings
July Jamie Honan
mod_perl V2
N/A
June Nick Urbanik
Setting up an OpenLDAP environment using Linux.
here
April Bruce Badger
Introduction to OpenPGP and OpenSkills.
N/A
MarchJeff Waugh
Introduction to Postfix and Q&A on Ubuntu Linux.
N/A
FebruaryConrad Parker
Update on Annodex
N/A
FebruaryJeff Waugh
Flumotion video streaming
N/A
FebruaryPia Smith
Report on the Brazil Software Livre conference
N/A
FebruaryDuane Groth
Asterisk
N/A
JanuarySjoerd Jongens
Building an affordable world-wide Intranet with the help of Linux
N/A
  • Not yet available
JanuaryRuediger Berlich
Grid Computing
N/A
  • Not yet available

2004

MonthDetailsSlidesRecordings
NovemberLuke Yelavich
Linux Accessibility
N/A
  • Not yet available
OctoberGavin Sherry
PostgreSQL 8.0
N/A
  • Not yet available
OctoberStuart Guthrie
Fun with calendars
N/A
  • Not yet available
SeptemberJeff Waugh
Ubuntu Linux
N/A
JulyAndre Pang
Beyond C, C++, Perl and Python
N/A
  • Not yet available
MayChris Collins
Home 802.11b wireless networks and security
N/A
  • Not yet available
MayKen Foskey
Recent OpenOffice development
N/A
  • Not yet available
MayGrant Parnell
OSIA
N/A
  • Not yet available
AprilPaul "Rusty" Russell
The Australia/US Free Trade Agreement
N/A
MarchJeff Waugh
The Planet blog aggregator
N/A
  • Not yet available
FebruaryDuraid Madina
The AC3 Computing cluster
N/A
  • Not yet available
JanuaryShane Owenby, Redhat Australia
Redhat and the new Enterprise Linux
N/A

2003

MonthDetailsSlidesRecordings
NovemberMark Greenaway
Musical things you can do with Linux
N/A
  • Not yet available
NovemberJamie Honan
Recording Digital TV signals under Linux/td>
N/A
  • Not yet available
NovemberKen Yap
Recording radio with free software
N/A
  • Not yet available
OctoberConrad Parker, Silvia Pfeiffer and Andre Pang
Intro to Annodex.net
N/A
  • Not yet available
OctoberAngus Lees
Apache and mod_perl
N/A
  • Not yet available
SeptemberDaniel Morrison
Xbox - Bill Gates' Gift To Linux, or, Why Microsoft Want To Lose Money
N/A
  • Not yet available
SeptemberRob Collins
The Arch version control system
N/A
AugustJamie Wilkinson
Testing and Maintaining Multiple Distributions with UML
N/A
  • Not yet available
AugustJeff Waugh
Firewalls when you have better things to do
N/A
  • Not yet available
JulyJon Teh
Introduction to IPtables
N/A
  • Not yet available
JuneAngus Lees
mod_perl, embperl and the SLUG website
N/A
  • Not yet available
MayBruce Badger
Smalltalk
N/A
  • Not yet available
MayRoss Vumbaca
Linux on a PowerPC ATX motherboard
N/A
  • Not yet available
FebruaryAdrian van den Dries
Introduction to Zope
N/A
  • Not yet available
FebruaryPeter Miller
AEGIS
N/A
  • Not yet available
JanuaryConrad Parker
Linux.conf.au - Sweep demo
N/A
  • Not yet available
JanuaryJeff Waugh
Linux.conf.au - Gnome talk
N/A
  • Not yet available

2002

MonthDetailsSlidesRecordings
NovemberJeff Waugh
Open Mosix clustering
N/A
  • Not yet available
NovemberSLUG Forum
Package Management Systems comparison
N/A
  • Not yet available
OctoberJan Schmidt
Video manipulation tools for Linux
N/A
  • Not yet available
OctoberMary Gardiner
Contributing to OSS/Linux for Coders & Non-coders
N/A
  • Not yet available

Playing the Recordings

Video footage is encoded using the freely available Theora codec. Audio is encoded using Vorbis or Speex

For Linux, the appropriate codecs should be available in any recent distribution. There are also DirectShow filters available for Windows playback