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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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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Mar '12

18 Mar '12

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Raspberry Pi group
by Peter Reutemann 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi everyone Since there seemed to be a fair amount of interest on the Raspberry Pi device, I've started a group on our elgg instance: http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/pg/groups/8002/raspberry-pi/ Feel free to join and contribute! :-) 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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A golden age of open source innovation?
by Peter Reutemann 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

"Open source's ability to innovate has been challenged many times. But Glyn Moody argues that open source innovation is actually going from strength to strength, creating new opportunities to deliver cheap computing to people corporations would not normally consider." http://h-online.com/-1470831 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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