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=== Technical Meeting: Thursday August 9th === | |||
Kevin A will present on DEF CON. | |||
DEF CON is one of the oldest continuous running hacker conventions around, and also one of the largest. Kevin has attended several times and just got back from this year, he's eager to share his experiences. He says this year (DEFCON 20) was the biggest ever! At his presentation, he will talk about the conference, and computer security in general. Questions will be welcome, come prepared. | |||
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107. | |||
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus] | |||
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map] | |||
Revision as of 14:30, 12 August 2012
Technical Meeting: Thursday August 9th
Kevin A will present on DEF CON.
DEF CON is one of the oldest continuous running hacker conventions around, and also one of the largest. Kevin has attended several times and just got back from this year, he's eager to share his experiences. He says this year (DEFCON 20) was the biggest ever! At his presentation, he will talk about the conference, and computer security in general. Questions will be welcome, come prepared.
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Social: Thursday July 26th
Disc golf! 6 pm at RCTC. If you don't have your own disc that's fine, come out anyway. Don't know where to meet? Here's a map.
Lunch: Thursday July 19th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: Thursday July 12th
Robert Nix will present on Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer...very low cost $25 or $35, HD output, USB connections or keyboard. GPIO input...We'll have a couple systems on hand to demo and inspect (Debian and XBMC). See more at http://www.raspberrypi.org or see it in person Thursday!
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
And here are Robert's slides
Lunch: Thursday June 21st
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Planned Technical Meeting: June TBD
Speaker needed, please let Tim or Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.
No presenter stepped forward, so we'll have a social instead.
Social: Thursday June 15th
Replacing our speakerless technical meeting with a social. Standard day and time (Thursday June 15th, 6 pm), at Skyline Raceway for miniature golf. $5/person, cash only. They also have gokarts and "panning".
Lunch: Thursday May 17th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: Thursday May 10th
Acu Ilie Dorin will return with a presentation on Bioinformatics.
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Acu provided this summary.
Title: Open Source Based Applied Bioinformatics
Presenter: Acu Ilie Dorin Ph.D.
Summary:
Aproximately two hundred billion cells divide daily to ensure tissue replacemet and turnover essential for our health and longevity. The division and function of each of ~ 6 X10^13 cells that make our body, are carefully and tightly regulated through intricate and redundant signaling networking. However, due to inherent genetic and/or environmental factors, the basal rate of biochemical and cellular aberations increases, and leads to aging, disease and death. Today's clinical practice and biomedical research generates unprecedented amount of potential valuable data, to be used in discovery, innovation or medicine. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field whereby biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics are integrated with the sole purpose to bring rhyme, reason, meaning and functional context to the newly generated data, which can then be integrated into models and practice for an optimal life style or personalized medicine.
Using Debian GNU/Linux as main operating system, I am going to present a brief practical overview of few major Open Source bioinformatics applications such as EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Source Software - in-silico gene and protein processing, MEV (microarray gene profiling), ImageJ quantification and analysis of 2 and 3D images) and Pymol: biomolecular crystal structure analysis(Pymol) and others. For more informations you can visit http://www.acucorporation.com/index.php/Training/Applied-Bioinformatics
Social: Sunday May 6th
Kites + Rockets
1 pm at the Century High School field, on the north side of the building. Bring your rockets and your kites, your family and friends. Kevin Arhleger has volunteered to be our Launch Master again. Rockets if it's not windy, kites if it is, last year we managed to skirt the line and do both.
Details from the Launch Master:
Rain, tornado warnings, acts of god (frogs, locusts, etc.) are all cause for cancellation.
I'll play it by ear for rockets, if the wind speed is above 15mph our field won't be big enough.
If you have a rocket make sure to have:
- rocket engine, smaller is better--our biggest launch took half a mile to come down I recommend A and B engines if you want your rocket back
- igniter
- wadding, most engine packs come with it (look for the ones that do)--this helps prevent your parachute cord from melting mid flight
- Hobby Lobby sells rockets (kits and complete rockets) as well as engines.
- Everything Hobby has a wider selection of engines as well as igniters and wadding if you have old engines you would like to use.
Social: Thursday April 26th
Disc golf! 6 pm at RCTC. If you don't have your own disc that's fine, come out anyway. Don't know where to meet? Here's a map.
Lunch: Thursday April 19th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: Thursday April 12th
Tim Massaro will present on 3D printing.
"Fun with 3D Printing, Shapeways.com
Remember the replicator from Star Trek where personnel could press a button and out would pop food, spare starship parts or other everyday objects? Well technology is not ready yet to allow us to manipulate molecular structure at this level, but 3D Printing is the next best thing. 3D printing involves using a machine that looks like a proprinter on steroids, the machine takes a design file and through an additive process builds a three dimensional object. 3D printing is now accessible enough so that nearly anyone can design a 3D object using drawing software such as Google Sketchup, upload the design to a site like Shapeways.com, submit credit card information and receive a physical 3D copy of their design in the mail. I know because I recently took the time to do just that. This month, come learn a bit about 3D printing and have a look at my first creation, a Caesar Cipher Decoder Ring."
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Social: Thursday March 30th
Disc golf! 6 pm at RCTC. If you don't have your own disc that's fine, but it helps if you let us know in advance if you'll need to borrow one.
Lunch: Thursday March 15th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: Thursday March 8th
We'll be field tripping to the Premier Bank building downtown, for a presentation on KVM. The details:
Open Source Virtualization and Cloud Computing with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
PRESENTER: Acu Ilie Dorin Ph.D.
TIME : Thursday 8 March 6:00 PM
LOCATION:
ACU Corporation
421 First AVE SW Suite 305 - Rochester MN 55902
Third Floor on Premier Professional Building
Park Free (after 5:30 PM) on the Back of the Premier Bank Professional Building -
Enter on the Back Entrance Follow the Signs to ACU Corporation
Also, PCIG elections.
Social - Dinner and a Movie: Friday February 24th
We have some options.
If there's enough snow, there will be a cardboard sled challenge on Saturday February 4th, as part of WinterFest. This is being organized by Gamehaven Boy Scouts, we could spectate at Willow Creek Golf Course. This year's flier is available at http://www.gamehavenbsa.org/documents/CardboardSledChallengePoster2012.pdf . (Last year's flier is available here). It looks like 9:45 am would be a good time to arrive, to see the sleds before they are raced/demolished.
The Cardboard Sled Challenge was cancelled due to lack of snow.
Dinner at BB's Pizzaria at 6:15 pm. The exact movie schedule for Chateau (East Circle Drive, near Shopko N) isn't released yet, but there should be ~7-7:45 pm showings of various movies that are potentially of interest, including Ghost Rider and Star Wars Episode 1 (3D).
RSVP's to Tina for dinner would be appreciated so we know how big a table to get, although hopefully we've chosen a restaurant where if you suddenly find yourself in need of dinner and company on Friday night you can still join us. Reservations as of Friday midday are for 7 adults and 2 high chairs, under "Tina".
Lunch: Thursday February 16th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Technical Meeting: February 9th
Matt Bruzek on BackTrack.
BackTrack is a Linux operating system that contains a unique collection of tools for security experts and penetration testers. The presentation will cover an overview of the system and some of its features.
-> When: Thursday February 9th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
Also, PCIG nominations.
Lunch: Thursday January 19th
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
Social: Friday January 13th
We'll be bowling at Byron Lanes. 7 pm. This is a family/friends-friendly event, hope to see you there.
Technical Meeting: Thursday January 12th
Our own Kevin Arhelger will reprise his 2008 presentation, telling us about Defcon 19 (2011).
Short demo by Lad Roering on Windows 8 (development version).
Also, K-LUG officer elections (president, vice president, treasurer) and PCIG nominations.
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