March 2012 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

Bit coin links and Greg's presentation notes.
by Chris O'Halloran 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hello All, Here is some more information from Greg's note at last Friday's presentation. I'd also like to thank Greg for volunteering to talk and for such a well presented and technical topic. Seeing the data miner in action was also a bonus. Attached is the email that Greg sent to Bruce and myself earlier this week. It seems as though there is plenty more reading on the topic. I've also loaded Greg's presentation to google docs so that those that weren't at the meeting can appreciate the presentation. <quote> Hi Chris, Bruce, as discussed here's the slideshow and talk-notes from last night I promised I'd send to you to forward on to relevant people, (group-wide bounced me on the email size limit). Also here's a list of relevant links as requested; Project home page http://www.bitcoin.org/ Wiki Main_Page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page Network status live feed http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ Forum https://forum.bitcoin.org/ Layman promo video site http://www.weusecoins.com/ Instawallet (web wallet) https://www.instawallet.org API -reference pages https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list Monetary theory - Austrian economics http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/18/the-economics-of-bitcoin-how-bitc… http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/05/the-best-of-modern-aus… http://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae9_4_5.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School http://mises.org/ Szabo bitgold post http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html Namecoin, distributed DNS Dot-bit project homepage http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page Feel free to email me for further links or information. Cheers, Greg B. Link to Greg's Bit Coin presentation<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1ggO7B5SX…> Link to Gregs' presentation notes<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1SqdoXYL8…> </quote>

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Re: [wlug] Raspberry Pi, activist tool
by GJB 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Every child with a pocket linux in their school bag ... :) > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [wlug] Raspberry Pi, activist tool > From: Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> > Date: Mon, March 05, 2012 8:53 am > To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > > > It even made it on the NZ Herald: > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10789863 > > As usual, it takes a bit longer to get here: > "will be coming to New Zealand on the next run." > > Cheers, Peter > -- > Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ > http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Adobe Releases Last Linux Version of Flash Player
by Peter Reutemann 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

Slashdot article: "Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features. This is the final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now onward there will be only security and bug fix updates. Last month Adobe announced that it is withdrawing Flash Player support for Linux platform. All the future newer Flash releases will be bundled with Google Chrome using its Pepper API and for everything else, 11.2 will be the last release." -- http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/31/1417245/adobe-releases-last-linux-… HTML5 to the rescue if you aren't using Chrome? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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LiMux: Cheaper and more robust than Windows
by Peter Reutemann 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Funny thing, talking about the Linux migration project in Munich on Monday night's meeting and bam! it's in the news: "Current figures released by Munich city council after a question by the council's CSU party indicate that Munich has saved four to five million euros by switching from Windows to Linux" -- source: http://h-online.com/-1485895 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Tracks: Doings things properly
by Peter Reutemann 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Hi there Just came across this article on "Tracks" on linux.com: "Feeling a bit disorganized? Looking to take control of your projects? Take a look at Tracks, an open source Web-based application built with Ruby on Rails. Tracks can help you get organized and Get Things Done (GTD) in no time." -- https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/557895-disorganized-get-tracks-on-lin… Well, I use a whiteboard with post-its for the stuff that needs to be done. :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Fwd: [NZOSS-Openchat] Govt IT systems too expensive & obslete... FOSS opportunity
by Peter Reutemann 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Sorry for cross-posting, but since we talked about how HCC could save money with OSS, I thought this would be relevant (giving us some "ammunition"). If more than one rate-payer makes a submission, maybe HCC finally listens. Cheers, Peter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:49 Subject: [NZOSS-Openchat] Govt IT systems too expensive & obslete... FOSS opportunity To: NZOSS Open Discussion List <openchat(a)lists.nzoss.org.nz> Worth a read, & perhaps sending some "official NZOSS" replies to appropriate contacts. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/prime-minister-shocked-by-govt-it Like send this report (& others) to Govt information architects http://www.oss-institute.org/OTD2011/OTD-lessons-learned-military-FinalV1.p… Brent Wood _______________________________________________ Openchat mailing list Openchat(a)lists.nzoss.org.nz http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/openchat -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Scratch or programming for kids
by Peter Reutemann 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi everyone Was just reading the following blog post on how to teach 4,500 students to program: http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/teaching-4500-students-to-progr… And I came across MIT's "Scratch", a really cool platform (Linux, OSX, Windows) for teaching kids and students to program: http://scratch.mit.edu/ I heard about it a few years ago, when they first presented. It looks pretty cool! http://vimeo.com/4077929 Maybe the Raspberry Pi could be a device with Scratch pre-installed? Power up and program away? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WlugCommitte will meet at 7pm before the main meeting starts Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 7:30pm onwards http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 A social meet up to catch up with other members and talk shop.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WlugCommitte will meet at 7pm before the main meeting starts Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 7:30pm onwards http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 A social meet up to catch up with other members and talk shop.

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Sierra Wireless USB 308
by Bruce Kingsbury 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Sierra's website says this device is compatible with Linux. I did an install of Ubuntu 10.04 recently, and initially the Sierra USB thingy was working fine, but then it stopped. Fiddled around a little and I eventually got it to work again (I'm not sure that anything I did was actually responsible for this) but apparently it stopped working again shortly after I left. A few weeks later I upgraded all the packages, something I hadn't done during the install, and the device started working again. I rebooted the machine several times and each time the connection came up reliably soon after I connected the device. Now it's not working again. It's not working on my Debian machine either. But it works perfectly in any windows machine every single time, and I've carefully checked the APN, authentication and compression settings and made them the same under Linux (PAP only, no compression anywhere) but still no worky. Any suggestions?

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