Presentations

A look into video games and how they portray artificial intelligence

Learn about the history of analog audio and why cassettes are still cool! We will also have a live demo of cassette recording and listening

Ever wonder how audio is stored on your computer? And what are all these words like "lossless" and "sampling rate"?

Ever wanted to learn about and experience audiophile-grade audio gear? Join us for exactly this!

Welcome back to LUG! Here's what's new + an intro to Linux.

In this talk, we will discuss how to process visual media like images and video, using Linux command-line utilities like ImageMagick and FFmpeg.

How to write programs on calculators, using both on-calculator languages, and other languages like C or C++.

The history of multiplayer games, and the technology behind connecting multiple users in a single application.

What software licenses are, which ones exist, and what they mean to users and developers.

The history of security measures built into video games and video game consoles, from the NES to the PS5.

Cool features of the popular text editor, EMACS!

All about this Linux distribution that takes an unique approach to package management.

A brief overview of what this popular version control system does.

Making your Linux setup look cool, with customization options far beyond dark mode vs. light mode.

A brief history of UNIX, Linux, and Free Software

A presentation about the tmux terminal multiplexer

These computers built in the '70s and '80s for efficiently running LISP are very unusual in some ways and ahead of their time in others.

Ever wanted to know what goes into creating a window manager for X? Ever wanted to know why Haskell could be a good choice for doing it?

An intro and quick guide to the popular text editor Vim

Before computers had monitors, people used line printers to see what they were doing. Ed is a text editor meant for use with a line printer.

regarding the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor and its legendary ecosystems of extensions

Running games on Linux has come a long way recently.

What all those directories like /bin, /lib, /dev, and /tmp are for.

A quick intro to the Linux distro CentOS, a popular but slow-moving distro commonly used on servers.

a presentation on the fun, highly-flexible Linux distribution

A (very) brief history of Linux and free software.

How to use GNU Make, a well-respected tool for compiling projects containing multiple files.

How to SSH to/from a computer, SSH keys, and some config file things.

systemd, the software suite providing fundamental building blocks for a Linux operating system.

How to use GDB and Valgrind to debug your code.

mu{,4e} is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format, on Unix-like systems. mu’s main purpose is to help you to find the messages you need, quickly

A presentation about the Mutt terminal email client for LUG.

How to send and receive emails using Telnet.

LaTeX Presentation for LUG by Joseph and Sumner.

How to stop using Javascript, for fun and profit!

Sumner's and Robby's presentation on universal package formats. We cover AppImage, Snaps, and Flatpak.

Sumner's and Sam's presentation on filesystems. We talk about everything from NTFS (bleh) to ext4 to zfs to sshfs.

Every day, our lives continue to exist because of Email. Imagine the news if Email suddenly stopped working! Some people even use Email [to get ahold of emergency services](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ). This talk goes over how Email functions as a non-centralized system (conceptually), as well as how to setup an Email system on Linux using Postfix and Dovecot.

scikit-learn is an open source, commercially usable Python library for machine learning that is built on top of NumPy and SciPy. scikit-learn provides many tools for data mining and analysis. This presentation covers the basics of how to use scikit-learn for common machine learning tasks including supervised classification, model evaluation/selection, and the idea of pipelines in scikit-learn.

How to install Debian 8 on PowerPC

Bottle is a micro-framework for HTTP written in Python. Bottle allows you to develop simple web applications and REST APIs in Python without the overhead of a larger framework like Django or TurboGears. This presentation covers the basics of how to use Bottle, when you should use Bottle, and how to deploy your Bottle application.

Doing math in bulk!

The awesomeness of i3wm

How Linux boots, everything from the Power On Self Test to your desktop

The glories of Secure Shell

From triangles into pixels!

How to Python inside and outside

A Crash Course on JavaScript by Sumner and Sam

A short introduction to the LaTeX language.

Describing the basics of using Beamer for presentations

A presentation covering a bunch of Git

Some of the more awesome (maybe obscure) parts of VIM.

A very command-heavy overview of VIM.

Intro presentation and overview of Linux distros

A presentation on some of the cooler features of zsh, and a how to on setting up your .zshrc

A presentation on some of the more obsecure, yet awesome, features of the Readline and GNU History libraries. Also includes a how-to on programming in C/C++ with Readline.

A tutorial on how to master the arts of debugging your C/C++ programs with GDB.

A presentation on how PGP works, how to create a key using GPG, and how to sign others keys. Also includes tips on setting up your email client to use PGP.

A presentation on the history of alternative keyboard layouts, the keyboard layouts I have used and made, and my reccomendations for switching layouts.

A tutorial (and selling point) on using LaTeX.

A presentation to sell you on Arch Linux