2014-05-14 General Meeting at Graybar

VENUE Graybar Electric Co., Inc.

 MAIN TOPIC Heartbleed Exposed
            You will learn the secrets behind Heartbleed, the bug in OpenSSL that has left millions of servers vulnerable to attack.    We will have a live coding session to demonstrate how you can exploit the vulnerability to read your server's memory.    We will conclude with a discussion of how you can protect your own servers and your data on other people's servers.   The talk and demo will be by Shane Carr, the president of the Washington University ACM (Association of Computing Machinery).   https://acm.wustl.edu/officers

BASIC TOPIC VIM: A Quick Look at Quickfix
That will be the main presentation @ 7:30 until 9.   <b/>At 6:30, we will have a basic/tutorial  by Bill Odom.   Specifically, it will be "A Quick Look at QuickFix" in VIM.</b>   Abstract: If you only ever see Vim's QuickFix list after using the built-in `make` or `grep` commands, you're missing a lot of the story.   As with most every other Vim feature, there's a lot of usefulness hidden just beneath the surface — you just need a little knowledge and a few tricks to uncover it.   This short talk will give an overview of QuickFix (and its cousin, the location list) and cover how to use it effectively.    

When coding in C one often has a edit-compile-edit cycle. Typically you would edit C file, save the file, compile the code and go to the error(s) and start editing again.   VIM helps save the cycle time slightly using a mode called quickfix.   Basically, one has to save the compiler errors in a file and open the file with VIM using the command

$ vim -q compiler_error_file
      
VIM automatically opens the file containing the error and positions the cursor at the location of the first error.    

BIO for  Bill Odom:
Bill has far too many years of experience as a systems architect and software
developer, working on everything from wiki software for Internet startups to
global identity management solutions for Fortune 500 companies.    He's an active
member of the Open Source community, and even served as president of the Perl
Foundation for a couple of years (but try not to hold that against him).    He's
also a long-time user and advocate of Vim, and has given many well-received
classes and presentations on Vim to several organizations throughout the US.

          There will be announcements, general Q&A, and a few minutes to socialize in between.

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We start the general meeting with a basic session, which may include either simple tutorials,  displays of newly discovered web sites, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications,  amazing graphical packages, major resolution of long standing anomalies, blinking lights, or quantum shifts in both time and space. Then we will have our usually quick welcome, introduction, administrative announcements, and a Call For Help - Questions and Answers Period. After all that, we take a short break before our main event...