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It lists the Basic and Main presentation topics that have been given at SLUUG general meetings. We will be adding links as we collect materials.

Table of Contents

• 2007 Presentation Archives
• 2006 Presentation Archives
• 2005 Presentation Archives
• 2004 Presentation Archives
• 2003 Presentation Archives
• 2002 Presentation Archives
• 2001 Presentation Archives
• 2000 Presentation Archives
• 1999 Presentation Archives
• 1998 Presentation Archives
• 1997 Presentation Archives
• 1996 Presentation Archives
• 1995 Presentation Archives

2007 Presentation Archives

• September Basic: Introduction to bud.sluug.org SLUUG's new mail server by Those That Did
  Main: Rsyncing System Files with Root Permissions by Carl Fitch
• August Basic: SFTP - Secure File Transfer Program by Carl Fitch
  Main: History of Tech Since 1968 by Scott Granneman
• July Basic: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge
  Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler
• June Basic: Public Key Authentication in SSH by Barry Morrison
  Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell
• May Basic: None given due to extended main topic
  Main: How To Create a UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD) by Carl Fitch
• Apr Basic: Handcrafting Weekly Events with VIM by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Basics of ZFS (a file system) by Jeff Muse
• Mar Basic: General Discussion by Various Members
  Main: Zimbra - An Exchange Replacement by Matthew Porter, Contegix
• Feb Basic: Lightning Talks by Various Speakers
  Main: More Lightning Talks by Other Various Speakers
• Jan Basic: Coping with Spam Using Filters by Carl Fitch
  Main: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge

2006 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: Demo of OpenOffice.org Impress - Building Presentation Slides by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch
• Nov Basic: Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch
  Main: Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Linux by Jeff Muse
• Oct Basic: Firebug (Firefox plugin - JavaScript debugger) by Ed Howland
  Main: AppArmor by Matt Skiption of Novell
• Sep Basic: Bugzilla by Craig Buchek
  Main: Internet Videos by Various Authors
• Aug Basic: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd
  Main: We're All Doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman
• Jul Basic: Graylisting with Postgray (Making Spammers Wait) by Carl Fitch
  Main: SUSE Linux 10.1 for the Enterprise by Matt Skipton of Novell
• Jun Basic: Master Boot Records by Carl Fitch
  Main: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives by Creg Buchek
• May Basic: Sudo and not su by Stanford Baldwin
  Main: Attacking Web Applications (Site Penetration Testing) by Mark Murdock and Scott Winter of Lantern Secure Solutions
• Apr Basic: Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch
• Mar Basic: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch
  Main: Faster VNC Sessions with FreeNX by Jim Roe
• Feb Basic: Lightning Talks by Various Speakers
  Main: More Lightning Talks by Other Various Speakers
• Jan Basic: About System Processes by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Boot Mangers by Carl Fitch

2005 Presentation Archives

• Dec Demo: Making Brochures with Scribus by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Multiple Topics Discussed - Highlite: Responding to a System Crack by Ed Holland
• Nov Basic: Regular Expressions by Prof. Sanjiv Bhatia, UMSL
  Main: Daylight Savings Date Change by Ed Howland
• Oct Basic: Ruby for Nubys by Ed Holland
  Main: Don't Click on the Blue E! by Scott Granneman
• Sep Basic: Reading Log Files by Christine Wanta
  Main: Eclipse by Alan Shutko
• Aug Basic: PF Basics (an OpenBSD Firewall) by Barry Morrison
  Main: Continuation of Solaris 10 Demonstration by Jeff Muse
• Jul Basic: The Truth about Mail Headers by L.V. (Lee) Lammert, and others
  Main: Linux-NT Interoperability by Bryan J. Smith
• Jun Basic: DHCP and Dynamic DNS for Small Networks by Carl Fitch
  Main: Solaris 10 Demonstration by Jeff Muse
• May Basic: Setting up a Network by Carl Fitch
  Main: Implementing CIDR on the Network by John House
• Apr Basic: Using tcpdump by Jeff Muse
  Main: Transferring Data - Cloning a Hard Drive by Carl Fitch
• Mar Basic: XML by Craig Buchek
  Main: Qmail by Matthew Porter
• Feb Basic: Lightning Talks by Various Speakers
  Main: More Lightning Talks by Other Various Speakers
• Jan Basic: Remote Desktop by Carl Fitch
  Main: Securing Apache with chroot Jails by L. V. (Lee) Lammert

2004 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: Using Floppy Diskettes by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Social Software by Scott Granneman
• Nov Basic: Quick Tips for OpenOffice Presentations by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Securing SSH Against the "Bye Bye" Probe by Carl Fitch
• Oct Basic: Introduction to WIKIs by Craig Buchek
  Main: Accessibility Issues on the Internet by David Arnold
• Sep Basic: Configuring Devil Linux by Carl Fitch
  Main: Common Linux File Systems by Todd Schiller
• Aug Basic: Building Presentations with OpenOffice by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Collaborative Application Design (Managing Volunteer Projects) Moderated by John House
• Jul Basic: Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) by Clarence Johnson
  Main: SpamAssassin by Craig Buchek
• Jun Basic: Firewalls by Clarence Johnson
  Main: Running Linux in A Windows World by Scott Granneman
• May Basic: File Permissions by Craig Buchek
  Main: Security Appliances by Clarence Johnson
• Apr Basic: Practical Cryptography (From A Newbie's View Point) by James (Jim) Roe
  Main: OSI Model by John House
• Mar Basic: Might Have Been Something Useful by Somebody Interesting
  Main: Call Tracking System by Dale Nagle, Greybar
• Feb Basic: Lightning Talks by Various Members
  Main: More Lightning Talks by Various Members
• Jan Basic: Automated Testing of Large Projects with Perl by Andy Lester
  Main: Running UNIX Applications on Microsoft Operating Systems by Dave Scott, Microsoft

2003 Presentation Archives

• Dec Demo: Compiling Applications from Source by Ed Howland
  Main: Rolling Your Own Radio: UNIX and Open Source in St. Louis community radio By Ben Oberkfell
• Nov Basic: RPMs: What They Do and Where To Get Them by Todd Schiller
  Main: Digital Ham Radio Communication by Colin R. Wright
• Oct Basic: IPv4 and CIDER by John House
  Main: IPv6 by Rick Dudeck of Cisco
• Sep Basic: Bash by James Roe
  Main: Linux Clusters by Tom Anstoetter and Lloyd Bruce, IBM
• Aug Basic: Files by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Cyber-Liberties by Matt LeMieux
• Jul Basic: RT (Request Tracker) (re-scheduled from March) ??? by Mike King ???
  Main: To Be Determined by Someone Special
• Jun Basic: Basic Security Concepts (Part Two) by Christine Wanta
  Main: Agile Software Development by Brian Button
• May Basic: Basic Security Concepts (Part One) by Christine Wanta
  Main: Using LDAP by Scott Granneman
• Apr Basic: Basic Security Concepts (Part One) (not given re-scheduled) ??? by Christine Wanta ???
  Main: Marketing Open Source by Jerry Bryan
• Mar Basic: RT (Request Tracker) (not given re-scheduled) ??? by Mike King ???
  Main: Mac OS X: Putting Beauty on the BSD by Brian Button
• Feb Basic: Lightning Talks by Various Members
  Main: More Lightning Talks by Various Members
• Jan Basic: Tour of Graybar Facilities by Graybar Staff
  Main: Digital Rights Management by Scott Granneman

2002 Presentation Archives

• Dec Demo: What Open Source Means by Craig Buchek
  Main: Open Source Software for Windows by Robert Citek, et. al.
• Nov Basic: How the "vi" Editor Works by Tom Chapin
  Main: Advanced Zope by Jason Burke
• Oct Basic: Where Are The Instructions (In Linux) by Carl Fitch
  Main: Webmin by Richard Teachout
• Sep Basic: SAMBA Demonstration by Ed Wehner and Rich Seibel
  Main: TIBET - JavaScript by William Edley
• Aug Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Intro to Wireless by Mark Balbes
• Jul Basic: Linux HOWTOs by Robert Citek
  Main: Zope by Scott Granneman and Robert Citek
• Jun Basic: Security Notions by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Ruby by Kyle Cordes
• May Basic: zForth for Linux by Bill Zimmerly
  Main: REG SED AWK by Robert Citek, Rich Seibel and Mike Kriz
• Apr Basic: SQL in Ksh by Tom Chapin
  Main: Monolith: Parallel Scientific Computing with A Linux Cluster by Michael Ogilvie, Ph.D, et. al., Washington Univirsity
• Mar Basic: Open Source Licensing by Scott Granneman, Ed Howland, and Bob Wooldridge
  Main: Intellectual Property Issues by Kevin Klug
• Feb Basic: Lightning Talks by Mike King
  Main: More Lightning Talks by Mike King
• Jan Basic: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol by Tony Zafiropoulos
  Main: Bioinformatics ( Genome followup ) by Robert Citek, Washington University

2001 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: .NET Rebuttal by Scott Granneman
  Main: Storage Area Networks by Leo Jones
• Nov Basic: Network Security by ???
  Main: Microsoft .NET by Steve Loethen, Microsoft Developer Evangelist
• Oct Basic: Sendmail by Tony Zafiropoulos
  Main: Wireless Networking by Allen Rueter
• Sep Basic: Passwords (Part Two) by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Open Source Middleware by Rich Seibel and Steve Totten
• Aug Basic: Passwords (Part One) by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Open Source Software: Ready for Prime Time? by Dr. Myles Bogner
• Jul Basic: Startup Scripts by Christine Wanta
  Main: Genomic Research by Robert Citek
• Jun Basic: Cron by Matthew Porter
  Main: Open Source Alternatives to Commercial Software by Tony Zafiropoulos and Ed Wehner
• May Basic: Cut and Paste Bourne Shell by Mike Knight
  Main: System Monitoring with HP OpenView/VantagePoint by Ramin Pasha
• Apr Basic: PM Firewall by Ed Wehner
  Main: Had to Reschedule by Someone Special
• Mar Basic: File Permissions by Craig Buchek
  Main: OpenBSD, a nice secure little OS by Buck Pyland
• Feb Basic: Redirection With Pipes by Christine Wanta
  Main: Introduction to the World of XML by Andrew Jeramia
• Jan Basic: Sendmail 8.11.1 by Tony Zafiropoulos
  Main: Lightning Talks Moderated by Mike King

2000 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: Meeting Was Canceled Due to Severe Weather As a matter of public safety
  Main: Meeting Was Canceled Due to Severe Weather As a matter of public safety
• Nov Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) by David Ulevitch
• Oct Basic: 15 minutes with CVS by Dr. Ing. Roland Krause
  Main: Signals with Sanjiv K. Bhatia, Ph.D.
• Sep Basic: Dynamic DNS with Chad A. Bersche
  Main: Citrix server by "InfoLan" with Russ Smith
• Aug Basic: PING with Robert Citek
  Main: Python: Life is Better Without Braces by Michael Easter
• Jul Basic: Virtual Web Hosting in Apache by Ed Wehner
  Main: Bringing the Database to the Web Using Java and XML by Mark Volkmann of Object Computing, Inc.
• Jun Basic: Rebooting by Robert Citek
  Main: Domain Name Registration and Use by Craig Bucheck, Ed Wehner and Mike King
• May Basic: EMACS by Stan Baldwin
  Main: DVD Technology by Matthew Cowan from HEURIS
• Apr Contest: Best Local Y2K Story with Gary Meyer
  Main: Can Unix Return to the Desktop? with F. David Sacerdoti & Dr. Ing. Roland Krause
• Mar Basic: Introduction to TCP Wrappers by Tom Parsons
  Main: Unauthorized Access - A Case History by Bryan Campbell
• Feb Basic: Using MAKE by Mike Kriz
  Main: POSIX threads Programming by Rich Seibel
• Jan Game: Name That Command by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Secure Shell by Dr. Stephen Blythe

1999 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: None This Month - Presentation Starts Early
  Main: High Speed Home Internet Access by a panel of five
• Nov Basic: Big Disks & Your Database by Mike Kriz
  Main: Foundation Suite - A Logical Volume Manager by Timothy Akin
• Oct Basic: What is an IP Address and Internet Addressing by Stan Reichardt
  Main: DNS/BIND release 8.2 - Why you need to upgrade by Dave Dickerson
• Sep Basic: Introduction to Perl by Don Ellis
  Main: Perl Highlights of the O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention by Sarah Burcham
• Aug Basic: Secure Use of DSL at Home by Chad Bersche
• Aug Plus: A Recent DSL Installation Experience by Tom Parsons
  Main: Single-line DSL Technology by Peter Roberts, Tim Natsch, et. al.
• Jul Basic: Learning VI Editing Commands by Stan Reichardt
  Main: The History of Editors by Rich Seible
• Jun Basic: Regular Expressions by Mike Kriz
  Main: The Micro$oft Anti-trust Case by Rich Seible and Rich McLennan
• May Basic: The Password File by Mike Kriz
  Main: NFS, NIS and Core UNIX Services by Dave Dickerson
• Apr Basic: Website Ecommerce with CGI/HTML/PERL by James Pattie
  Main: Open Source Telephony Project by Tony Zafiropoulos
• Mar Basic: Running the Satan Security Tool under Linux by Stan Reichardt
  Main: Resource Manager by Chad Bersche, Sun
• Feb Basic: Spong by James Chapman
  Main: Ethernet - the Rest of the Story by Gary Meyer and Rich Seibel
• Jan Basic: XML and e-commerce by G. Hussain Chinoy, Granularity Information Architecture Inc.
  Main: Future Technologies by Dr. Barry Flashbart, Union Pacific Technologies

1998 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: Programming a communication link by Rich Seibel
  Main: Network Communications by Gary Meyer and Rich Seibel
• Nov Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: A discussion of tape and SCSI by Jon Elson of Washington University
• Oct Basic: What to do when you've been hacked by James Chapman
  Main: Security by Lynn Barnes of MEMC
• Sep Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Web Application Development in Perl by Michael King
• Aug Basic: What does 64-bit computing mean to me? by Rich Seibel
  Main: 64-bit Computing by Vendor Panel - featuring representatives from DEC/Compaq, HP, IBM, SGI, and Sun
• Jul Basic: X Resource Files by Stan Balwin
  Main: Rapid Motif Development using Motif Tools (libXmt) by Scott Nesler, Daugherty Systems
• Jun Basic: Introduction to the Domino Server by Charlie Cler, IBM Corporation
  Main: Domino Server & Electronic Commerce by Charlie Cler, IBM Corporation
• May Basic: UNIX Networking Basics by Mike Kriz
  Main: Networking Baseline and Modeling by Jarrett Knoll, Management Communication Services
• Apr Demo: Data Replication System by Andrew Parsons et al., TRITEK
  Main: Fiber Channel Data Storage Systems by Andrew Parsons et al., TRITEK
• Mar Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Revision Control System (RCS) by Sanjiv Bhatia, Associate Professor, UMSL Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• Feb Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Sun in the HPC Market: Supercomputing Meets the Network Age by Dennis Brown, Sun Systems Engineer
• Jan Basic: Something Useful by Mike Kriz
  Main: Oracle 'SYSTEM' Administration Tuning Issues by Bob Reagan, Analysts International Corporation

1997 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: Web Scripting -- CGI & Beyond by Don Ellis
  Main: Practical and Free Security Tools by Dave Dickerson, Maryville Data Systems, Inc.
• Nov Basic: String manipulation in vi (Or ...are you an old dog?) by Joe Bohnenstiehl
  Main: UNIX Storage Management by Charlie Cler, IBM
• Oct Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Continuously Available UNIX by Sue Ames, Stratus Computer, Inc.
• Sep Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Practical Uses of Expect by Don Bertier, Bridge Information Systems
• Aug Basic: Setting up PPP by Rich Seibel and Steve Pautz
  Main: High Availability UNIX by Scott Smallie, PMSI
• Jul Basic: Libraries, Include Files, and Shared Objects by Rich Seibel
  Main: CCNUMA architectures for Unix by Randy Isbell, Sequent Computer
• Jun Basic: Something Useful by Anybody Interesting
  Main: Performance Management on a Shoestring Budget by Jon Poland, Sun Microsystems
• May Basic: Something Useful "TBD" by Mike Kriz
  Main: The Future of Unix by Mike Sanford, SCO
• Apr Basic: Datbase Normalization by Mike Kriz
  Main: IP Networking for Mixed Unix and Microsoft Environments by John Crain of Maryville Data Systems
• Mar Basic: Something Good by Mike Kriz
  Main: Adding Value to the Data Warehouse by Jim O'Shea, Oracle Corporation
• Feb Basic: No Tutorial For This Month Because of Annual Elections
  Main: Network Security and Firewalls by Rick Hicks, Hussmann Corporation
• Jan Basic: "sed and awk," by Mike Kriz
  Main: The make Utility by Rich Seibel

1996 Presentation Archives

• Dec Basic: Advanced Applied SQL" by Mike Kriz
  Main: SCO Unix by Tom Parsons
• Nov Basic: Java for C/C++ Programmers by Don Griffing, Borland International
  Main: Creating, Deploying, and Managing Distributed Objects for the Enterprise by Don Griffing, Borland International
• Oct Basic: Suggestions for Effective Monitoring - a Practical Approach by Mike Kriz
  Panel: Network and Systems Management with SNMP and CMIP With Mark Freiberger, Edward Jones (SNMP) and Brian Bearden, Southwestern Bell (CMIP)
• Sep Basic: Introduction to Object Oriented Technology by Malcolm Spence, Digital Equipment Corp. and the Object Management Group
  Main: Frameworks - Business Driven Systems Integration by Malcolm Spence, Digital Equipment Corp. and the Object Management Group
• Aug Basic: Basics of HTML by Mike Kriz
  Main: Standards for Information Management by Donna Hanlon, Mosby-Year Book
• Jul Basic: Booting Linux by Rich Seibel
  Main: The Linux Operating System by Matthew Feld
• Jun Basic: Data Normalization by Mike Kriz
  Main: High Availability Storage Systems by Andrew Parsons, Tri-Tek Information Systems
• May Basic: Standard Query Language (SQL)" by Mike Kriz
  Main: Computer Telephony by Tony Zafiropoulos, President, iTEK, Inc.
• Apr Basic: Stream EDitor "sed" by Mike Kriz
  Panel: UNIX Editors With
  • VIM, Jeff McDaniel
  • EMACS, TBD
  • GUI Widget-based Editors, Steve Totten
• Mar Basic: Basic LINUX Installation by a PC User by Jeff Heaton, Earthgrains, Inc.
  Main: Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Maturity Levels by Mike Kriz
• Feb Basic: Using make by Mike Kriz
  Main: ISO 9000 by Karen L. Wagener, Wagener & Associates, Inc.
• Jan Basic: Using the shell to customize your UNIX environment by Mike Kriz.
  Main: MPEG (and JPEG) by Brian Quandt HEURIS/Pulitzer

1995 Presentation Archives

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