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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-01-23" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="Regular Expressions">
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<short>Find your perfect match</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>Stephen Kleene developed regular expressions to describe what he
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called <q>the algebra of regular sets.</q> Since he was a pioneering
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theorist in computer science, Kleene's regular expressions soon made
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it into searching algorithms and from there to everyday tools.</p>
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<p>Regular expressions can be powerful tools to manipulate text.
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You will be introduced to them in this talk. As well, we will go
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further than the rigid mathematical definition of regular
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expressions, and delve into POSIX regular expressions which are
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typically available in most Unix tools.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-01-30" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="sed & awk">
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<short>Unix text editing</short>
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<abstract>
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<p><i>sed</i> is the Unix stream editor. A powerful way to
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automatically edit a large batch of text. <i>awk</i> is a
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programming language that allows you to manipulate structured data
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into formatted reports.</p>
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<p>Both of these tools come from early Unix, and both are still
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useful today. Although modern programming languages such as SNOBOL,
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Perl and Python have largely replaced the humble <i>sed</i> and
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<i>awk</i>, they still have their place in every Unix user's
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toolkit.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-02-06" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="LaTeX: A Document Processor">
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<short>Typesetting beautiful text</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>Unix was one of the first electronic typesetting platforms. The
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innovative AT&T <i>troff</i> system allowed researches at Bell
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Labs to generate high quality camera-ready proofs for their papers.
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Later, Donald Knuth invented a typesetting system called
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T<small>E</small>X, which was far superior to other typesetting
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systems in the 1980s. However, it was still a typesetting language,
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where one had to specify exactly how text was to be set.</p>
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<p>L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X is a macro package
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for the T<small>E</small>X system that allows an author to describe
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his document's function, thereby typesetting the text in an
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attractive and correct way. In addition, one can define semantic
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tags to a document, in order to describe the meaning of the
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document; rather than the layout.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-02-20" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="LaTeX: Beautiful Mathematics">
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<short>LaTeX => fun</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>It is widely acknowledged that the best system by which to
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typeset beautiful mathematics is through the T<small>E</small>
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typesetting system, written by Donald Knuth in the early 1980s.</p>
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<p>In this talk, I will demonstrate
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L<sup><small>A</small></sup>T<small>E</small>X and how to typeset
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elegant mathematical expressions.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-02-27" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="The GNU General Public License">
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<short>The teeth of Free Software</short>
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<abstract>
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<div style="font-style: italic"><blockquote>
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The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General
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Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and
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change free software---to make sure the software is free for all
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its users.
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<br />
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<div style="text-align:right">--- Excerpt from the GNU GPL</div>
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</blockquote></div>
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<p> The GNU General Public License is one of the most influencial
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software licenses in this day. Written by Richard Stallman for the
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GNU Project, it is used by software developers around the world to
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protect their work.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, software developers do not read licenses
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thoroughly, nor well. In this talk, we will read the entire GNU GPL
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and explain the implications of its passages. Along the way, we
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will debunk some myths and clarify common misunderstandings.</p>
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<p>After this session, you ought to understand what the GNU GPL
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means, how to use it, and when you cannot use it. This session
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should also give you some insight into the social implications of
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this work.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-03-13" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="XML">
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<short>Give your documents more markup</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>XML is the <q>eXtensible Markup Language,</q> a standard
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maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium. A descendant of IBM's
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SGML. It is a metalanguage which can be used to define markup
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languages for semantically describing a document.</p>
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<p>This talk will describe how to generate correct XML documents,
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and auxillary technologies that work with XML.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-03-20" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="XSLT">
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<short>Transforming your documents</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>XSLT is the <q>eXtended Stylesheet Language Transformations,</q>
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a language for transforming XML documents into other XML
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documents.</p>
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<p>XSLT is used to manipulate XML documents into other forms: a sort
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of glue between data formats. It can turn an XML document into an
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XHTML document, or even an HTML document. With a little bit of
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hackery, it can even be convinced to spit out non-XML conforming
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documents.</p>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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<eventitem date="2003-03-27" time="6:30 PM" room="TBA"
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title="SSH and Networks">
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<short>Once more into the breach</short>
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<abstract>
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<p>The Secure Shell (SSH) has now replaced traditional remote login
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tools such as <i>rsh</i>, <i>rlogin</i>, <i>rexec</i> and
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<i>telnet</i>. It is used to provide secure, authenticated,
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encrypted communications between remote systems. However, the SSH
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protocol provides for much more than this.</p>
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<p>In this talk, we will discuss using SSH to its full extent. Topics
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to be covered include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Remote logins</li>
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<li>Remote execution</li>
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<li>Password-free authentication</li>
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<li>X11 forwarding</li>
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<li>TCP forwarding</li>
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<li>SOCKS tunnelling</li>
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</ul>
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</abstract>
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</eventitem>
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