Collect Your Pre-Ordered Tees At HackerspaceKL
October 15, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
HITB Security Conference KL is now over. Expect a write up on the Hard Hack Village at HITB2010KUL in a couple of days if you missed out on it.
Pre-ordered t-shirts can be collected at hackerspacekl or delivery by request. Please send your delivery details to mel at hackerspace dot my to arrange for delivery and payments.
[NOTE: Any shipping charges will be borne by those who ordered the t-shirts]
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UNIX g33ks
September 30, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
HackerspaceKL is proud to present the UNIX g33ks (that’s geeks for non-leetspeek fluent readers) for those who are interested to learn more about UNIX (and ultimately mastering FreeBSD) starting with UNIX essentials.
The sessions will be handled by sureshdr assisted by HackerspaceKL members.
Date : Every Sunday (follow @hackerspacekl or visit the site to view Events calender)
Time : After lunch 1pm till 3/4pm
Venue: HackerspaceKL
Fees : RM 10 (non-members) per session / FREE (for paid hackerspacekl members*)
* paid hackerspacekl members – individuals who paid to maintain the space. see FAQ below.
UPDATE: The current form is for the first session in the series and will be closed on the 15th of June 2010.
Unix Essentials
Session 1 – Getting Started with UNIX, covering the introduction about the UNIX operating systems
Session 2 – Using your UNIX account – looking at basic linux usage and file system/structure
Session 3 – File Management & manipulation
Session 4 – Console I/O
Session 5 – Process Management
Session 6 – Application Configuration and Installation
Session 7 – Introduction to Shell Programming
Bonus Session – How to become l33t geek – mastering VI
FAQs
Q: Who should attend?
A: Anyone interested in learning UNIX and how to effectively use it on a personal or enterprise level.
Q: I don't know anything about UNIX, will the sessions be hard for me to understand?
A: No, no prior experience in UNIX is required.This series of sessions aims to teach the masses on basic day to day Unix survival skills bringing you up to speed for our Part 2 Series. You will be using FreeBSD as a base platform to be comfortable with UNIX.
Q: Who will be presenting the sessions?
A:Our resident practitioner of FreeBSD kungfu, Suresh Ramasamy or better known as sureshdr is a seasoned technologist in Malaysia. Currently attached to a leading telecommunications company in Malaysia, responsible for advising senior management on future proofing and long term strategy on technology. He has been in the industry for more than 15 years. Started off as a hobby, Suresh began using FreeBSD to host a global network IRC server. This started more than 10 years ago, and from there it spawned into a passion after he discovered the potential of this wonderful technology. Suresh is a graduate from Campbell University, North Carolina, USA.
Q: Will there be free food/drinks?
A: Sadly, no. But you're welcome to bring snacks to share around.
Q: When will it start?
A: In a soon to be determined date. UPDATE: The first session of the UNIX g33ks will commence on the 27th June 2010. Reserve your seats here.
Q: Where will it be held?
A: Duh, HackerspaceKL. Location map is available here.
Q: What will the fees collected from non-members be used for?
A: All funds collected from the sessions are treated as donations to maintain the space. The speaker has graciously proposed that he will not accept any payments and has donated his portion to the space as well. For more info please refer to this link here and here.
Q: How do I get to HackerspaceKL via public transport?
A: Information in getting to HackerspaceKL is available here
Q: What do I get after attending these sessions?
A: The course road map will look something like this. Unix Essentials --> FreeBSD Internals --> Unix Web & Apps --> FreeBSD Intermediate --> FreeBSD Advanced
Q: I am interested to come and see what is it all about. Where do I sign up?
A: Fill up this simple form here and you will be notified.
Q: I'm interested in joining / contributing to HackerspaceKL. How / what can do I have to do?
A: To join / contribute to HackerspaceKL, please view all the details here.
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FAQ: UNIX-g33ks series
September 30, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
Frequently Asked Questions about the UNIX-g33ks series, answered.
Q: Who should attend?
A: Anyone interested in learning UNIX and how to effectively use it on a personal or enterprise level.
Q: I don’t know anything about UNIX, will the sessions be hard for me to understand?
A: No, no prior experience in UNIX is required.This series of sessions aims to teach the masses on basic
day to day Unix survival skills. You will be using FreeBSD as a base platform to be comfortable with UNIX.
Q: Who will be presenting the sessions?
A: Our resident practitioner of FreeBSD kungfu, Suresh Ramasamy or better known as sureshdr is a seasoned
technologist in Malaysia.
Currently attached to a leading telecommunications company in Malaysia, responsible for advising senior
management on future proofing and long term strategy on technology. He has been in the industry for more
than 15 years. Started off as a hobby, Suresh began using FreeBSD to host a global network IRC server.
This started more than 10 years ago, and from there it spawned into a passion after he discovered the
potential of this wonderful technology. Suresh is a graduate from Campbell University, North Carolina, USA.
Q: Will there be free food/drinks?
A: Sadly, no. But you’re welcome to bring snacks to share around.
Q: Where will it be held?
A: The sessions will be held at HackerspaceKL. Location map is available here.
Q: What will the fees collected from non-members be used for?
A: All funds collected from the sessions are treated as donations to maintain the space. The speaker has graciously proposed that he will not accept any payments and has donated his portion to the space as well. More information on what HackerspaceKL does is available.
Q: How do I get to HackerspaceKL via public transport?
A: Information in getting to HackerspaceKL is available here.
Q: What do I get after attending these sessions?
A: The course road map will look something like this.
Unix Essentials –> FreeBSD Internals –> Unix Web & Apps –> FreeBSD Intermediate –> FreeBSD Advanced
Q: I’m interested in joining / contributing to HackerspaceKL. What do I have to do?
A: To join as a member / contribute to HackerspaceKL, please view the details here.
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HITB – Hard Hack Village
September 24, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
Overview
In our daily life we are connected with electronics and micro-controllers. You find them in (mobile)phones, remote controls, computers but also in less visible items like public transport access cards, mood-lamps and much more.
In the HITB Hard-Hack Village you will be able to play-around with electronics. Set up and run by the folks from Hackerspace Kuala Lumpur and Randomdata (Utrecht/Netherlands), the Hard Hack Village will help you to setup your own electronics and demonstrate how easy things work. One of the main electronic components which will be used is the Arduino micro-controller platform. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Various electronic kits will be available for sale like Arduino, TV-Bgone, spokepov’s and sim-card readers. You will have the chance to put your kit together in the hard-hack village. In addition, there will also be a “Jumpstart Arduino” lab session which will give you a quick start on how to get working with Arduino.
HITB LAB: Jumpstart Arduino (see HITB Conference Agenda for finalized timing)
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. This 2 hour lab session will give you an introduction to Arduino, what the hardware platform and extensions do, how you can work with the hardware and the interface.
Finally we will show you step by step, how we made one (may-be more) of our projects like Blinky (our LED board), the Garduino (for Garden automation) or our Hackerspace automation system. There will also be lots of hands on stuff to work on at the Hard-Hack Village.
The HITB Hard-Hack Village and Jumpstart Arduino Lab session will be assisted by a team of Tinkers who are able to guide you thru the Arduino GUI installation and hardware setup.
Barry ‘Fish_’ van Kampen’
Barry aka Fish_ is an enthusiast thinker and uses Arduino for his projects. He’s not the guru but he show’s how “easy to use” the platform is with results like the Garduino and Blinky. During his technologic journeys, he made a lot of international friends in the hacker(space) community. He’s also the chairman and one of the founders of Randomdata, a hackerspace in Utrecht. As a professional, he’s an IT security consultant working for ITQ with a great passion for technology. He deals with all kinds of interesting (security) situations. This year he was co-organizing the first-time-ever Hack in the Box Amsterdam event.
Kakeman (Hackerspace KL)
Kok Ming aka Kakeman is a typical hardware guy, getting excited with toys. He is also a member of Hackerspace Kuala Lumpur, having fun learning from his fellow peers. In weekdays he deals with home alarm and home automation system.
Marcus (Hackerspace KL / HiTB CTF Crew 2.0)
Marcus is a member of HackerspaceKL with profound interest in information security, RCE and is also part of the HiTB CTF Crew v2.0. He
is also an avid electronics hobbyist building one of the first Arduino S3V3 in HackerspaceKL.
Taken from http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2010kul/?page_id=956
Please note that HITB – Hard Hack Village area is FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC so feel free to drop in say hello to HackerspaceKL and Randomdata and share on your Arduino experiences or just come and learn something new.
Hope to see you fellow Arduino enthusiasts there.
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Electronic Friday: Electronics Sweatshop
September 18, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
Preparation for HITBSecCof2010KUL Hard-Hack Village
Heat your soldering irons, prep your circuit boards and start soldering. HITB Hard Hack Village is coming up so we gotta start crackin’ on the demos & prototypes.
This event is open to the members of the public. Come and visit and see the stuff that we are making for Hard Hack Village on 13th to 14th October 2010.
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UNIX-g33ks Part Deux + Software Freedom Day KL, HITB Hard Hack Village.
September 13, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
New updates on events happening at HackerspaceKL Sept-Oct
First, on behalf of HackerspaceKL, I would like to wish all our readers, friends & supporters Selamat Hari Raya Eid Fitr.
After a long silence, it’s time to bring news on what’s going down with HackerspaceKL in the months to come. I humbly apologize for the lack of updates as it has been a hectic and tiring amount of days for myself personally as well a majority of the HackerspaceKL crew.
UNIX-g33ks Part Deux begins 09/19/2010
The UNIX-g33ks series continues with the Part Deux of the series, FreeBSD Essentials. The sessions are scheduled to start on the coming 19th of September 2010 at HackerspaceKL with our resident FreeBSD guru, Suresh Ramasamy, beginning at 1.30 pm till 3.30 pm.
These sessions are focused on FreeBSD content along with some tips and tricks on how to manage your FreeBSD setup efficiently. The breakdown of the sessions are as follows:-
- Understanding how the operating system internals work
- Installing FreeBSD
- System level configuration and customization
- Introduction to /usr/src tree
- Application management via PORTS
- Configuring custom freebsd kernel
- Linux compatibility stack
- FreeBSD System management and maintenance
Note: Some of these sessions maybe combined to run on the same date depending on the subject matter.
The cool part of FreeBSD essentials is that they can also be applied to managing your Mac OS X setups too. So if you’re a Mac OS X user
Software Freedom Day KL (SFD-KL) is on 09/19/2010
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere! The non-profit organization Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.
This year, for the first time, SFD is going to be held at HackerspaceKL, organized by our very own one-geek army Ng Swee Meng (@sweemeng on twitter). His efforts to make SFD-KL happen started from 2009 itself, but due to the nature of the clashing schedules, it didn’t happen last year.
SFD-KL will take place at HackerspaceKL on the same day as UNIX-g33ks Part Deux, 19th of September 2010. Check out the event page here.
More info about Software Freedom Day is available at http://softwarefreedomday.org/
HITB Hard Hack Village happening on 10/13 – 10/14/2010
A follow up from this post HackerspaceKL will be at the Hard Hack Village at HITBSecConf-Malaysia with Randomdata (Utrecht/Netherlands) help you to setup your own electronics and demonstrate how easy things work. One of the main electronic components which will be used is the Arduino micro-controller platform. rduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Various electronic kits will be available for sale like Arduino, TV-Bgone, spokepov’s and sim-card readers on those days, so don’t forget to bring your wallets. In addition, there will also be a “Jumpstart Arduino” lab session which will give you a quick start on how to get working with Arduino.
Hard Hack Village will be held at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara, KL on the 13th & 14th of October 2010.
Stay tuned for more surprises available at HITB Hard Hack Village brought to you by your one and only hackerspace community in Malaysia, HackerspaceKL.
More info on HITBSecConf2010-Malaysia is available here .
So if you are curious on what we do or want to participate in these or other upcoming activities, contact us via the mailing list or through our facebook page .
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Software Freedom Day – KL (SFD-KL)
September 13, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
Event Schedule
- 09:30 – Event Registration
- 10:00 – Welcoming + Lightning Talk**
- 11:00 – Screening of Revolution OS or Patent Absurdity
- 12:30 – lunch/social networking/gathering
- 13:30 – Unix Geeks
- 15:30 – FragFest/Lan Party
** To hackerspacekl members that going to participate in lightning talk, I expect more 1337 stuff from you guys, from open hardware to security to Programming
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UNIX-g33ks FreeBSD Essentials 1st Session
August 25, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
The 2nd Part of the UNIX g33ks series, focusing more on FreeBSD specific content.
This will be the 1st session for FreeBSD essentials, continuing from the Unix Essentials held previously. More details will be added soon. Got any questions? Read the UNIX-g33ks FAQ or looking for something more specific? ask the HSKL UNIX-g33ks mailing list.
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Getting to HackerspaceKL
August 8, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
FROM KL VIA PUTRA LRT
Board the Putra/Kelana Jaya Line LRT to Taman Bahagia LRT Station. Then take the T626 bus to Jalan 21/1. Your landmark would be York air conditioning offices. Disembark and the space is less than a minute walk from the bus stop. Entry staircase is next to a wood shop. Proceed to top floor.
Alternative method
Board the Putra/Kelana Jaya Line LRT to Kelana Jaya LRT station. Hop on a cab. Pretty much a straight line from there on.
WARNING this can be very costly. Someone mentioned that a one way trip costs RM15/=.
FROM KL SENTRAL VIA BUS
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Hacking the Grant System for Fun & Profit
August 6, 2010 by sniffit · Leave a Comment
Hacking the Grant System talk by Dinesh Nair (@alphaque) & Chris Leong from Cradle.
“Grants are funds disbursed by one party (Grant Makers), often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of “Grant Writing” often referred to as either a proposal or an application is usually required.”
Taken from wikipedia.org
A special session about the grant system in Malaysia & using it for profit as proposed by @alphaque and @spoonfork as a result from this tweet followed by this and other subsequent tweets after that.
Dinesh Nair a.k.a @alphaque from alpahque.com, will be speaking on just the general difference between grants, funding, preseed, mezzanine and others.
Chris Leong from Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd , will be speaking on pre-seed funding (up to RM150K) for early stage projects. Perfect for individuals who may want to commercialize their business ideas and requiring initial funding.
Cradle Investment Programme (CIP) is a fund provider managed by Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd, under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance (MOF). CIP funds groups of innovative individuals and researchers with technology-oriented ideas and transforms their raw ideas (pre-seed funding level) into commercially viable ventures. More details on CIP available here.
This event is Free and open to members of the public. Please fill the sign up form if you are interested to attend.
Directions to HackerspaceKL? See them here and for any inquiries drop us a line at our mailing list .