This is a collection of presentations and tutorials which have been either written by LUV members, or presented at the monthly LUV meetings. Please bear in mind that all material available from here is copyrighted by the respective authors.

Would you like to give a presentation to LUV? If so, please read the Presenting instructions page, and then contact either the Luv Vice President or if you get no response, try the Luv Committee.

Meeting Presentations

Our monthly meetings usually consist of a talk about some aspect of Linux or something relating to Linux. Here you will find links to slide decks or URIs from previous talks we've been sent by the presenters.

2009

January
BBQ at Docklands

February
* Paul Fenwick - The Art of Klingon Programming
* Robin Gareus - State of the Art: linuxAV 2009

March
* James Turnbull - How to write a technical book
* Avi Miller - Oracle VM and Enterprise Life-Cycle Management

April
* Sandrine Balbo - The Deakin University Learning Repository
* Arjen Lentz - Relax! A Failure is NOT an Emergency

May
* Russell Coker - DNS and Bind
* Mick Wharen (Red Hat)

June
* Elena Kelareva - Automated Scheduling Problems
* Andy Gelme - Hacking the world... using an Arduino or two

July
* Ben Powell - GPL, BSD, WTF? Demystifying Licensing.
* Jacinta Richardson - 'On Speaking' and 'On getting your talk accepted'

August
* Jon Oxer - Geek My Ride
* Simon Hobbs - The Guts of Drupal
 

2008

December Raena Jackson Armitage - Usability on a Beer Budget Tyscon Clugg - OpenSSH: a quick tour November Brianna Laugher - Hacking Mediawiki for Users [video | slides] Russell Coker - Cloud Computing [video | slides] October Streaming Mobile Media - Ben Balbo Drizzle - Stewart Smith September Annual General Meeting An Illustrated History of Failure by Paul Fenwick, Perl Training Australia August Computer cabinets of curiosity by David Demant Accessing the Web the Linux Way via Speech and Braille by Jason White July Networking Linux.conf.au by Steve Walsh Mercury by Ralph Becket June Puppet by James Turnbull Clutter by Josh Stewart May Inkscaping for Fun and Profit by Donna Benjamin PHP CodeSniffer [PDF] by Avi Miller April AbiCollab - Rich Text Collaborative Editing [ODP] by Martin Sevior [OGG video] Using your Windows Smartphone on Linux by Stewart Smith March Pyglet Piñata by Alex Holkner and Richard Jones February Microsoft and Open Source? Oxymoron you say? [PDF] - Sarah Bond OpenSSH [PDF] - Damien Miller

2007

December Unbreaking MythTV - Jaymz Julian An introduction to puppet - Grant Diffey November Blogging - Russell Coker Introduction to textutils - Steve Walsh October GPG Web of trust - Kristy Gray Emerging Linux Filesystems - Chris Samuel September KDE Development - Ian Wadham Annual General Meeting August Inkscape and Open Source graphics - Andy Fitzsimon Andy conducts a live demo showing the capabilities of Inkscape, GIMP and Scribus. July Eat My Data: How Everybody Gets File I/O Wrong - Stewart Smith Xen: A Gentle Introduction - Lev Lafayette June Bluetooth and Linux [ODP] - Grant Diffey May GnuPG and You - Kristy Gray Intro to SE Linux - Russell Coker April New Features in OpenOffice.org - Colin Charles March Making NFS Suck Faster - Greg Banks February CERN's LHC Worldwide Computer Grid - Marco La Rosa and Graeme Stewart

Archive

Beginners Tutorials

• Aptitude by Ben Finney March 2005 and source code
• Xandros by Herbert Young March 2004
• LCA by Frederich Schultz February 2004
• LinuxWorld by Mike Gigante February 2004
• Fedora by Richard Keech November 2003
• Postfix by Keith Owens October 2003 and source code here
• Introduction to Unix file permissions by Kim Oldfield December 2003
• How I learnt to stop worrying and kill the spam by Keith Owens September 2003
• Linux vs. SCO: How Linux will be affected by Con Zymaris July 2003
• Awk: when sed and grep aren't enough by Jason King June 2003
• Introduction to X Windows by Daniel Stone, May 2003
• Regular expressions: How to find more stuff Jason King April 2003 See the movie! (46.6M)
• Introduction to Unix filesystems Kim Oldfield March 2003
• Report on the LCA conference Grant Diffey February 2003
• No meeting in January 2003
• Winex David Hammerton December 2002
• Find Alec Clews November 2002
• Mutt, Ben Finney October 2002
• no beginners talk in september.
• Networked Loudspeaker byJan Newmarch August 2002
• The gimp, Lachlan Mulcahy July 2002
• Evolution , Mike MacCana , June 2002
• Samba for the homeMatthew Parslow, May 2002
• Configuring Broadband Internet in Linux, Leigh Dyer, December 2001
• The Linux Boot Process, Kim Oldfield, November 2001
• RPM, Richard Keech, August 2001
• Compiling programs under Linux
• Configuring X Windows
• Getting to Know Bash
• Getting Help for Linux
• Key Internet Resources for linux
• Linux Startup Scripts
• Process Management
• SSH
• Unix Permission System
• Virtual Consoles

General Presentations

• remastering knoppix by Jason King August 2005
• Fedora Core 4 by Russell Coker June 2005
• Managing source code with Subversion by Johnathon Oxer May 2005
• GFS by Richard Keech March 2005
• CVS by Jenn Vesperman August 2004
• UML by Matthew Parslow March 2004
• Zope, plone by Anthony Baxter February 2004
• Mysql by Arjen Lentz December 2003
• Debian by Martin MichlmayerNovember 2003
• Building a Bigger Beowulf by Robin Humble October 2003
• SAN, NAS and High Performance Shared File systems by Ken McDonell and Mike Gigante July 2003
• Introduction to NSA Security Enhanced Linux by Russell Coker June 2003
• Linux and Windows Interoperability by Mike MacCana May 2003
• The Acacia Firewall (pdf) by Richard Keech See the movie! (42M) April 2003.
• MySQL Arjen Lentz,March 2003 html version or OpenOffice version
• ipchains Matt Wallis ,February 2003
• linux on the ipaq Huw Davies December 2002
• KDE Internals Daniel Stone, September 2002
• Linux at IBM Hugh Blemmings October 2002
• Linux Load Average - Not your average average Neil Gunther September 2002
• KDE Tim Norman August 2002
• lm_sensors Richard Keech July 2002
• Undeleting under linux John Quirk, June 2002
• The Internet Radio Linking Project (openoffice 1.0 file) Tony Langdon, March 2002
• Emulation Gaming in Linux Tim Norman, February 2002
• Shell Programming Alec Clews, November 2001
• Linux Hardware Compatibility and Recommendations, Leigh Dyer, August 2001
• Playing DVDs, Mike MacCana, June 2001
• Postfix Mail Transport Basics, Jeremy Lunn, May 2001
• Software Configuration Management, Alec Clews, May 2001
• Linux on Laptops, Tony Collins, April 2001
• PHP + MySQL Tristan Bennet, February 2001
• Network Security 101, Matthew Wallis, November 2000
• Introduction to Helix Gnome, Robin M. Stephens, November 2000
• Linux on the ia64 Architecture, Keith Owens, November 2000
• A Whirlwind Tour of Python (Programmers SIG), Graeme Cross, June 2000
• Linux for the PowerPC Architecture, Daryl Moulder, June 2000
• GTK+ Intro (Programmers SIG), Jason King, May 2000
• Kernel Modules, Keith Owens, Apr. 2000
• GNU Parted, Andrew Clausen, Mar. 2000
• VMware, Mike MacCana, Feb. 2000
• An Introduction to CVS, Warwick Harvey, Dec. 1999
• A Closer Look at the Open Sound System, Michael Glickman, Dec. 1999
• Zope: I'm Never Writing A CGI Ever Again, Anthony Baxter, Oct. 1999
• SCWM: The Scheme Constraints Window Manager, Greg Badros, May 1999
• A Perl Whirlwind Tour, Kirrily Robert, Apr. 1999
• An Introduction to Linux/Unix programming, Graeme Cross, Mar. 1999
• Netboot and diskless workstations, Philip Costigan, Nov. 1998
• Lex and Yacc, George Hansper, Aug. 1998
• Netscape Suitespot, John Mann & Nathan Bailey, Jun. 1998
• Window Managers, Various Artists, May 1998
• Web Caching and Proxying, Andrew Humphrey, Apr. 1998
• Linux Security 101, Graeme Cross, Feb. 1998
• The Red Hat Support Program, Robert Hart, Dec. 1997
• Home networks, Brian Williams, Oct. 1997
• Firewalls, Phil Costigan, Sep. 1997
• KDE: The K Desktop Environment, Sirtaj S. Kang, Aug. 1997
• IPv6, Keith Owens, Jul. 1997
• Version Control, Warwick Harvey, Jun. 1997
• Using Linux in the Real World, Graeme Cross, May 1997
• Csh One Liners, George Hansper, Mar. 1997
• Procmail, Andrew Bulhak, Mar. 1997
• A Demonstration of MIDI, George Hansper, Feb. 1997
• An Introduction to MIDI, George Hansper, Feb. 1997
• Practical Performance Prediction, Neil Gunther, Nov. 1996
• Netatalk, Malcolm Herbert, Oct. 1996
• PPP and SLiRP, Daryl Moulder, Sep. 1996
• Backing Up Linux Systems, Peter Warren, Jun. 1996
• kerneld, Andrew Cosgriff, May. 1996
• Java, Andrew Bulhak, Apr. 1996
• Linux Labs at Monash Uni, Kerberos, and associated software, Keith Lewis, Feb. 1996
• Perl, Graeme Cross, Dec. 1995
• NIS, Mike Battersby, Nov. 1995
• UUCP, Andrew Cosgriff, Oct. 1995
• Programming in Tcl and Tk, Andrew Humphrey, Sep. 1995
• HTML and CGI Scripts, Scott Penrose, Aug. 1995
• The Domain Name System (DNS), Mike Battersby
• The Postscript Language, Andrew Bulhak
• Window Managers, Andrew Cosgriff
• The Different Shells Available, Andrew Cosgriff
• Using XEmacs to Create a WWW Page, Andrew Cosgriff
• Writing a Character Device Driver, Mike Battersby

Other Sites

• SLUG presentations.
• HUMBUG talks.

What's new presentations

Each month someone tries to show a summary of what has been going on in the Linux world for the past month.

• July 2003 - Mike MacCana
• May 2003 - Mike MacCana
• November 2002 - Mike MacCana
• February 2002 - Mike MacCana
• October 2002 - Mike MacCana
• August 2001 - Mike MacCana