2 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:00 PM"
3 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
4 title="An Introduction to GNU Hurd">
5 <short>Bored of GNU/Linux? Try this experimental operating
8 <p>GNU Hurd is an operating system kernel based on the microkernel
9 architecture design. It was the original GNU kernel, predating Linux,
10 and is still being actively developed by many volunteers.</p>
11 <p>The Toronto-area Hurd Users Group, in co-operation with the Computer
12 Science Club, is hosting an afternoon to show the Hurd to anyone
13 interested. Jeff Bailey, a Hurd developer, will give a presentation on
14 the Hurd, followed by a GnuPG/PGP keysigning party. To finish it off,
15 James Morrison, also a Hurd developer, will be hosting a Debian
16 GNU/Hurd installation session.</p>
17 <p>All interested are invited to attend. Bring your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint
18 and mail your key to sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject
19 ``keysigning'' (see separate announcement).</p>
20 <p>Questions? Suggestions? Contact <a
21 href="ja2morri@uwaterloo.ca">James Morrison</a>.</p>
24 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:30 PM"
25 room="Comfy Lounge MC3001"
26 title="GnuPG/PGP Keysigning Party">
27 <short>Get more signatures on your key!</short>
30 GnuPG and PGP provide public-key based encryption for e-mail and
31 other electronic communication. In addition to preventing others
32 from reading your private e-mail, this allows you to verify that an
33 e-mail or file was indeed written by its perceived author.
36 In order to make sure a GnuPG/PGP key belongs to the respective
37 person, the key must be signed by someone who has checked the
38 user's key fingerprint and verified the user's identification.
41 A keysigning party is an ideal occasion to have your key signed by
42 many people, thus strengthening the authority of your key. Everyone
43 showing up exchanges key signatures after verifying ID and
44 fingerprints. The Computer Science Club will be hosting such a
45 keysigning party together with the Hurd presentation by THUG (see
46 separate announcement). See
47 <a href="http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sjdutoit/"> the
48 keysigning party homepage</a> for more information.
51 Before attending it is important that you mail your key to
52 sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject ``keysigning.'' Also make
53 sure to bring photo ID and a copy of your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint on
54 a sheet of paper to the event.
58 <eventitem date="2002-01-31" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
59 title="UNIX 101: First Steps With UNIX">
61 This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of
62 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
63 applications, both in academia and industy. We will be covering
64 the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an
65 electronic mail and news reader.
68 <eventitem date="2002-02-13" time="4:00 PM" room="MC4060"
69 title="DVD-Video Under Linux">
70 <short>Billy Biggs will be holding a talk on DVD technology
71 (in particular, CSS and playback issues) under Linux, giving some
72 technical details as well as an overview of the current status of
73 Free Software efforts. All are welcome.</short>
75 <p>DVD copy protection: Content Scrambling System (CSS)</p>
77 <li>A technical introduction to CSS and an overview of the ongoing
78 legal battle to allow distribution of non-commercial DVD
80 <li>The current Linux software efforts and open issues</li>
81 <li>How applications and Linux distributions are handling the
82 legal issues involved</li>
84 <p>DVD-Video specifics: Menus and navigation</p>
86 <li>An overview of the DVD-Video standard</li>
87 <li>Reverse engineering efforts and their implementation status</li>
88 <li>Progress of integration into Linux media players</li>
92 <eventitem date="2002-02-07" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
93 title="Unix 102: Fun With UNIX">
94 <short>This the second in a series of UNIX tutorials. Simon Law and
95 James Perry will be presenting some more advanced UNIX
96 techniques. All are welcome. Accounts will be provided for those
100 This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of
101 the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
102 applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide you
103 with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment
106 <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
108 <li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
109 <li>Editing text using the vi text editor</li>
110 <li>Editing text using the Emacs display editor</li>
111 <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
114 If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will
115 be lent to you for the duration of this class.
119 <eventitem date="2002-03-01" time="5:00 PM" room="MC4060"
120 title="Computer Go, The Ultimate">
121 <short>Thomas Wolf from Brock University will be holding a talk on
122 the asian game of Go. All are welcome.</short>
125 The asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest
126 board game known. It is a strategy game with very simple
127 rules. Computer programs are very weak despite huge efforts and
128 prizes of US$ > 1.5M for a program beating professional
129 players. The talk will quickly explain the rules of go, compare go
130 and chess, mention various attempts to program go and describe our
131 own efforts in this field. Students will have an opportunity to
132 solve computer generated go problems. Prizes will be available.
136 <eventitem date="2001-01-15" time="4:30 PM" room="MC3036"
137 title="Executive elections">
138 <short>Winter 2001 CSC Elections.</short>
140 <p>Would you like to get involved in the CSC? Would you like to
141 have a say in what the CSC does this term? Come out to the CSC
142 Elections! In addition to electing the executive for the
143 Winter term, we will be appointing office staff and other
144 positions. Look for details in uw.csc.
147 Nominations for all positions are being taken in the CSC
152 <eventitem date="2001-01-22" time="3:30 PM" room="MC3036"
154 <short>Second CSC meeting for Winter 2001.</short>
156 <h3>Proposed agenda</h3>
158 <dt>Book purchases</dt>
160 <p>They haven't been done in 2 terms.
161 We have an old list of books to buy.
162 Any suggestions from uw.csc are welcome.</p>
167 <p>For doing linux burns. It was allocated money on the budget
168 request - about $300. We should be able to get a decent 12x
169 burner with that (8x rewrite).</p>
170 <p>The obvious things to sell are Linux Distros and BSD variants.
171 Are there any other software that we can legally burn and sell
176 <p>Just a talk of the topics to be covered, when, where, whatnot.
177 Mike was right on this one, this should have been done earlier
178 in the term. Oh well, maybe we can fix this for next fall term.</p>
181 <dt>Game Contest</dt>
183 <p>We already put a bit of work into planning the Othello contest
184 before I read Mike's post. I still think it's viable. I've got
185 at least 2 people interested in writing entries for it. This
186 will be talked about more on monday. Hopefully, Rory and I will
187 be able to present a basic outline of how the contest is going
188 to be run at that time.</p>
190 <dt>Peri's closet cleaning</dt>
193 <p>Current sysadmin (jmbeverl) and I (kvijayan) and
194 President (geduggan) had a nice conversation about this 2
195 days ago, having to do with completely erasing all of
196 peri, installing a clean stable potato debian on it, and
197 priming it for being a gradual replacement to calum. We'll
198 probably discuss how much we want to get done on this
203 <p>Any <a HREF="nntp://news.math.uwaterloo.ca/uw.csc/8305">comments</a> from <a HREF="news:uw.csc">the newsgroup</a> are welcome.</p>