Welcome to the new OSU LUG website!
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channel on irc.freenode.net. For more info on IRC, check out our IRC
guide.
LUG meets every week on Tuesday at 6:00pm in the Dearborn EECS Library. To get to the Library, go up the stairs near the elevator, take a right, and then take another right. It is straight ahead. Keep an eye out for helpful information and upcoming events posted here.
Featured Blog
What is SOPA?
The Wild West of the clouds, the group of rampant pirates known as the Internet, has thrown their gloves to the ground against bills proposed in the House and the Senate in an effort to preserve its very own existence. The land where people are free to share pictures of their cats and seed virtual farms is being overrun by dinosaurs. The dinosaur leading the charge is a stegosaur representing Texas that some know as Lamar Smith.
In late October, Smith proposed a bill named the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that would:
- allow government and the entertainment industry to seek court orders against websites merely accused of "enabling" or "facilitating" copyright infringement"
- bar advertising networks and payment facilitators (Paypal) from doing business with alledgely infringing sites
- criminalize unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content with max penalty of five years in the cell
- gives immunity to those who support these actions and make liable for damages the infringer
- require network providers to implement IP blocking and deep packet inspection
Proponents say it would:
- protect intellectual property along with the corresponding industry's jobs and revenue
- bolster enforcement of copyright laws ...
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Upcoming Events
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Newbie Help Session
Dearborn 212 - Jan 31, 2012
Need help with anything from installing Linux, learning Django, fixing microwaves? Come!
Recent Blogs
Ian Milligan, a math graduate student, gave the LUG an introduction to Haskell. Haskell is a functional programming language that is quite different from the usual imperative programming languages. We did calculated Fib numbers and generators (infinite lists on the fly) Haskell-style. It was an intense experience that left several of us dazed, but it was interesting to see something different. At the end, here was our demo ...
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Beaver Bar Camp 8 was a large success. For those who don't know, Barcamp is ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. This year, Mozilla signed on to generously sponsor BBC8 and gave a focused, hands-on workshop on Web Security. Along with ...
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Ben Kero, former OSU student and current Mozilla employee, came down to Corvallis to give a talk on GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) encryption and key-signing. A crowd of one PSU student visited as well to help create this web of trust. After Ben's presentation, which entailed a Bradley Manning example and spamming Ben's IRC nick, everyone went around ...
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In what many refer to as "the golden days", the OSU LUG was highly active in promoting Mozilla, namely celebrating the 50th, 100th, and 200th downloads of Firefox in creative ways: a lot of sidewalk chalk, high-altitude weather balloons, and for the finale...a crop circle. Led by the current founders of Cloudkick, they were able to pull off some cool displays. OSU LUG takes inspiration from its predecessors to do the same. Below is their ...
moreHello [your name here]! If you haven't already been told by someone, at OSU, you have helpful resources offered by OSU at your disposal. This guide will show some cool things you can do with these resources.
First, it is assumed that you know how to ssh into other boxes, use a command line text editor, use bash, or any other Unix-like command line utilities. If you don't yet know these things, go ahead and read these guides and ...
moreSSH is a secure client-server network protocol that allows you to connect with another box (computer). With this, you can transfer files between your local computer and the remote host. Even better, you can even edit files or execute commands on the remote host. This guide will explain how to effectively use SSH to communicate with another box and how to set up an SSH server so you can SSH into your box.
Basic SSH
If ...
moreIRC is a real-time relay based chat protocol with no archiving. This means that when you send a message from your client to the server, the server just forwards the message to all of the other clients in the channel. At no point is that message stored, hence the name "relay chat". A downside to this is that you do not receive any messages if you aren't connected to the server.
What makes IRC so special is that is has been around for ...
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