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 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:00 PM"
  room="Comfy Lounge MC3001" term="Winter 2002"
  title="An Introduction to GNU Hurd">
  <short>Bored of GNU/Linux? Try this experimental operating
  system!</short>
  <abstract>
<p>GNU Hurd is an operating system kernel based on the microkernel
architecture design. It was the original GNU kernel, predating Linux,
and is still being actively developed by many volunteers.</p>
<p>The Toronto-area Hurd Users Group, in co-operation with the Computer
Science Club, is hosting an afternoon to show the Hurd to anyone
interested. Jeff Bailey, a Hurd developer, will give a presentation on
the Hurd, followed by a GnuPG/PGP keysigning party. To finish it off,
James Morrison, also a Hurd developer, will be hosting a Debian
GNU/Hurd installation session.</p>
<p>All interested are invited to attend. Bring your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint
and mail your key to sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject
``keysigning'' (see separate announcement).</p>
<p>Questions? Suggestions? Contact <a
href="ja2morri@uwaterloo.ca">James Morrison</a>.</p>
  </abstract>
 </eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2002-01-26" time="2:30 PM"
  room="Comfy Lounge MC3001" term="Winter 2002"
  title="GnuPG/PGP Keysigning Party">
  <short>Get more signatures on your key!</short>
  <abstract>
  <p>
   GnuPG and PGP provide public-key based encryption for e-mail and
   other electronic communication. In addition to preventing others
   from reading your private e-mail, this allows you to verify that an
   e-mail or file was indeed written by its perceived author.
  </p>
  <p>
   In order to make sure a GnuPG/PGP key belongs to the respective
   person, the key must be signed by someone who has checked the
   user's key fingerprint and verified the user's identification.
  </p>
  <p>
   A keysigning party is an ideal occasion to have your key signed by
   many people, thus strengthening the authority of your key. Everyone
   showing up exchanges key signatures after verifying ID and
   fingerprints. The Computer Science Club will be hosting such a
   keysigning party together with the Hurd presentation by THUG (see
   separate announcement). See
   <a href="http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sjdutoit/"> the
   keysigning party homepage</a> for more information.
  </p>
  <p>
   Before attending it is important that you mail your key to
   sjdutoit@uwaterloo.ca with the subject ``keysigning.'' Also make
   sure to bring photo ID and a copy of your GnuPG/PGP fingerprint on
   a sheet of paper to the event.
  </p>
  </abstract>
 </eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2002-01-31" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
 term="Winter 2002" title="UNIX 101: First Steps With UNIX">
  <abstract>
    This is the first in a series of seminars that cover the use of
    the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
    applications, both in academia and industy. We will be covering
    the basics of the UNIX environment, as well as the use of PINE, an
    electronic mail and news reader.
  </abstract>
 </eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2002-02-13" time="4:00 PM" room="MC4060"
 term="Winter 2002" title="DVD-Video Under Linux">
  <short>Billy Biggs will be holding a talk on DVD technology
  (in particular, CSS and playback issues) under Linux, giving some
  technical details as well as an overview of the current status of
  Free Software efforts. All are welcome.</short>
  <abstract>
   <p>DVD copy protection: Content Scrambling System (CSS)</p>
   <ul>
    <li>A technical introduction to CSS and an overview of the ongoing
    legal battle to allow distribution of non-commercial DVD
    players</li>
    <li>The current Linux software efforts and open issues</li>
    <li>How applications and Linux distributions are handling the
    legal issues involved</li>
   </ul>
   <p>DVD-Video specifics: Menus and navigation</p>
   <ul>
    <li>An overview of the DVD-Video standard</li>
    <li>Reverse engineering efforts and their implementation status</li>
    <li>Progress of integration into Linux media players</li>
   </ul>
  </abstract>
 </eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2002-02-07" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
 term="Winter 2002" title="Unix 102: Fun With UNIX">
  <short>This the second in a series of UNIX tutorials. Simon Law and
  James Perry will be presenting some more advanced UNIX
  techniques. All are welcome. Accounts will be provided for those
  needing them.</short>
  <abstract>
   <p>
    This is the second in a series of seminars that cover the use of
    the UNIX Operating System. UNIX is used in a variety of
    applications, both in academia and industry. We will provide you
    with hands-on experience with the Math Faculty's UNIX environment
    in this tutorial.
   </p>
   <p>Topics that will be discussed include:</p>
   <ul>
    <li>Interacting with Bourne and C shells</li>
    <li>Editing text using the vi text editor</li>
    <li>Editing text using the Emacs display editor</li>
    <li>Multi-tasking and the screen multiplexer</li>
   </ul>
   <p>
     If you do not have a Math computer account, don't panic; one will
     be lent to you for the duration of this class.
   </p>
  </abstract>
 </eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2002-02-28" time="6:00 PM" room="MC2037"
 term="Winter 2002" title="Unix 103: More Advanced UNIX">
  <short>This is the third in a series of UNIX tutorials. Simon Law
  and James Perry will be teaching material following up on UNIX
  102. All are welcome. Accounts will be provided for those needing
  them.</short>
  <abstract>
   <p>
    To be announced.
   </p>
  </abstract>
 </eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2002-03-01" time="5:00 PM" room="MC4060"
 term="Winter 2002" title="Computer Go, The Ultimate">
  <short>Thomas Wolf from Brock University will be holding a talk on
  the asian game of Go. All are welcome.</short>
  <abstract>
   <p>
    The asian game go is unique in a number of ways. It is the oldest
    board game known. It is a strategy game with very simple
    rules. Computer programs are very weak despite huge efforts and
    prizes of US$ &gt; 1.5M for a program beating professional
    players. The talk will quickly explain the rules of go, compare go
    and chess, mention various attempts to program go and describe our
    own efforts in this field. Students will have an opportunity to
    solve computer generated go problems. Prizes will be available.
   </p>
  </abstract>
 </eventitem>
</eventdefs>