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Better power management for Radeon driver in Linux
by Peter Reutemann 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

That might finally fix the overheating problems of my laptop... "An AMD developer has published a patch series that significantly improves support for the runtime power management features in the Linux kernel's Radeon driver. The patches also include support for new GPUs." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1897996 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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New KDE screen management tool ready for widespread use
by Peter Reutemann 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

"Blue Systems developer Àlex Fiestas has announced that the open source KScreen management tool has seen its first stable release. With version 1.0, the screen management utility is now considered by its developers to be ready for general use and planning for the features of KScreen 1.1 is already under way, according to Fiestas. KScreen is designed to bring next generation screen management to the KDE desktop." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1895373 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD
by Peter Reutemann 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

"This discovery comes nicely alongside the celebration of FreeBSD's 20th birthday, for all the UNIX nerds. The operating system powering the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a Sony spin of FreeBSD 9.0. It's not a huge surprise FreeBSD is being used over Linux, in part due to the more liberal licensing. The PlayStation 4 is x86-64 based now rather than Cell-based, which makes it easier to use FreeBSD. BSDs in general currently lack manufacturer supported full-feature AMD graphics driver, which leads to the conclusion that Sony and AMD have likely co-developed a discrete driver for the PS4. Some pictures of the development kit boot loader (GRUB) have been published too." -- source: http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/24/000250 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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wlug meeting tonight
by Peter Reutemann 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Hi there We have a WLUG meeting tonight! We will be mainly working on the WLUG website (archived wiki, elgg upgrade, CiviCRM). To make this interesting to other members, work will be done on via projector. You might learn a thing or two. :-) When? tonight, 7.30pm Where? University of Waikato, MS4.G.02 http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map/?MS4 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Call for Papers for linux.conf.au 2014 Perth Australia
by Paul Del 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hey Free Software, Open Source Community We would like to invite you and your members to submit a talk at linux.conf.au Australasia's premier Linux, Open Source & Free Software conference and the biggest. Thanking you Paul Del. LCA2014 Core Team To Free Software & Open Source & Linux community, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers(proposals) for linux.conf.au2014 in Perth. Call for proposals closes: 6 July 2013 Do you have something to say about Free Software Passionate about Open Source? Linux on the forefront and frontier? Perhaps something else that you are passionate about in Free & Open Source? Got something to say? We are now asking interested people to submit proposals for talks. This year we are focusing on deep technical content, and the things that you think are going to really matter in our future. Check out our website for more information http://linux.conf.au/cfp Great Conference, Great Community. The linux.conf.au 2014 Team Email: papers-chair at lca2014.linux.org.au website: http://linux.conf.au twitter: https://twitter.com/linuxconfau Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lca2014 identi.ca: http://identi.ca/linuxconfau google+ https://plus.google.com/communities/100789999660988673438 Meetup http://www.meetup.com/linuxconfau

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MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL
by Peter Reutemann 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

"The MariaDB blog is reporting a small change to the license covering the man pages to MySQL. Until recently, the governing license was GPLv2. Now the license reads, 'This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by law for interoperability, is prohibited.'" -- source: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/06/18/2223247 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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WLUG meeting next week
by Peter Reutemann 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi there Unfortunately, CiviCRM couldn't be persuaded to send out automated emails for registered events, hence a manual email again... We will be mainly working on the WLUG website (archived wiki, elgg upgrade, CiviCRM). To make this interesting to other members, work will be done on via projector. You might learn a thing or two. :-) When? Monday, June 24, 7.30pm Where? University of Waikato, MS4.G.02 http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map/?MS4 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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MediaGoblin 0.4.0 adds document support
by Peter Reutemann 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Sounds like an interesting project... "MediaGoblin, the free software decentralised alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud and other media sharing platforms, has been updated to version 0.4.0 and is now able to share documents. The new document support leverages Andreas Gal's pdf.js to display documents within the browser, surrounded by MediaGoblin's document metadata and controls and comment area. Servers with LibreOffice installed can also convert a wide variety of formats into displayable PDF content and offer readers both the original document and the PDF conversion for download." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1892116 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Red Hat says no MariaDB/MySQL decision made
by Peter Reutemann 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

'Red Hat has stated that no decisions have been made in a choice between MySQL and MariaDB as the "default database" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7). In various media reports over the weekend, it was claimed that Red Hat had decided to "ditch MySQL" and move to MariaDB. The reports were based on a presentation at the Red Hat Summit last week where Senior Engineering Manager Radek Vokál, in charge of Developer Experience, said: "we are replacing MySQL with MariaDB" when discussing things the company is planning for RHEL 7. Vokál cited the ability to participate upstream with MariaDB's more open developers as a reason for the change and said: "MariaDB will be the main thing for us".' -- source: http://h-online.com/-1891543 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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crunchbang trayicon: cpu frequency
by Peter Reutemann 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi crunchbangers One thing that I've been missing in crunchbang is an applet/trayicon for changing the cpu speed (why laptop likes to overheat when under load for longer periods of time, like compiling large projects). I came across trayfreq, a little GPLv3 licensed application that fills that gap: https://sourceforge.net/projects/trayfreq/ Just download it, untar it, compile it (see README). On my laptop trayfreq seemed to get automatically started when logging in. If that shouldn't happen, then follow these steps: In order to have trayfreq start with your desktop session, add it to Openbox's autostart: - main menu - Settings - Openbox - Edit autostart - append the following lines ## Run trayfreq /usr/local/bin/trayfreq & Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Debian 7.1 coughs up first Wheezy fixes
by Peter Reutemann 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

'The Debian project has released Debian 7.1, an update to May's release of the latest stable branch of the Linux distribution, Debian 7 "Wheezy". The update focuses mainly on security fixes, with coverage for 33 Debian Security Advisories and their associated corrections; users who regularly update from security.debian.org will already have received these fixes. There are also various "important corrections" for around 60 packages such as alsa-base, apt, cyrus-imapd, empathy, isc-dhcp, Keystone, LibreOffice, libvirt, openvpn, php5, readline, tzdata and xorg.' -- source: http://h-online.com/-1890684 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Call for Papers for linux.conf.au 2014
by Paul Del 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hey To whom this may concern. A few of your members attend our annual linux.conf.au Linux & Free Open Source event. We would like to invite you and your members to submit a talk at linux.conf.au Also we would love for your group to attend linux.conf.au in Perth next year. Could you please drop this on your mailing list? Thanking you Paul Del LCA2014 Core Team Dear Linux & Free Open Source community, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers(proposals) for linux.conf.au2014 at UWA Call for proposals closes: 6 July 2013 Do you have something to say about Free Software Passionate about Open Source? Linux on the forefront and frontier? Perhaps something else that you are passionate about in Free & Open Source? Got something to say? We are now asking interested people to submit proposals for talks. This year we are focusing on deep technical content, and the things that you think are going to really matter in our future. Check out our website for more information http://linux.conf.au/cfp Great Conference, Great Community. The linux.conf.au 2014 Team Email: papers-chair at lca2014.linux.org.au website: http://linux.conf.au twitter: https://twitter.com/linuxconfau Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lca2014 identi.ca: http://identi.ca/linuxconfau google+ https://plus.google.com/communities/100789999660988673438 Meetup http://www.meetup.com/linuxconfau

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Linux migration proposal for Berlin rejected
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

'A petition to use more open source tools in the Berlin city administration that was proposed in the federal state parliament of the State of Berlin by the German Green Party has failed. The petition was rejected with the votes of the governing SPD/CDU coalition in the "digital administration" committee tasked with its evaluation. The Green Party's plan had included a migration to free and open source software on 25 per cent of the city administration's workstations and a comprehensive switch of all servers to Linux in a similar fashion to Munich's LiMux project.' -- source: http://h-online.com/-1888130 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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32bit support of 64bit crunchbang
by Peter Reutemann 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

For the crunchbangers among you... Getting 32-bit support going on a 64-bit crunchbang is a bit more fiddly than on an Ubuntu install (ia32-libs is labeled as "broken"). The following post explains how to be able to install ia32-libs after all: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=277918#p277918 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources
by Peter Reutemann 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Debian warns on its blog: "The unofficial third party repository Debian Multimedia stopped using the domain debian-multimedia.org some months ago. The domain expired and it is now registered again by someone unknown to Debian. (If we're wrong on this point, please sent us an email so we can take over the domain! This means that the repository is no longer safe to use, and you should remove the related entries from your source.list file." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/0219213 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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KDE Plasma Can Now Run On Wayland
by Peter Reutemann 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

"With the upcoming KDE 4.11, there's an initial Wayland backend through the KWin manager. The author notes on his blog: 'Once the system is fully started you can just use it. If everything works fine, you should not even notice any difference, though there are still limitations, like only the three mouse buttons of my touchpad are supported ;-)'" -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/12/1427239/kde-plasma-can-now-run-on-w… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Raspberry Pi and Lego Mindstorms to be united by BrickPi
by Peter Reutemann 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

"The Raspberry Pi will be able to talk to Lego Mindstorms sensors and motors thanks to BrickPI and its closing-soon Kickstarter campaign. The open hardware and software designs are already available for makers to work with." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1887149 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS
by Peter Reutemann 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

"The first developer preview of Ubuntu Touch – aka 'Ubuntu for Phones and Tablets' – was unveiled just a few short months ago. And, just a few weeks back, it was announced that the team was shooting for having a fully functional (aka "can use it as your actual phone, on a daily basis") version by the end of May. May is now over, so Bryan Lunduke published some screenshots and analysis of the core features of the Ubuntu OS for smartphones and tablets." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/11/1455219/first-look-at-ubuntu-touch… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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gnome/mate panel with two monitors
by Mark H. Jones 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Another way I have found to move panels between monitors is to disable the monitor on which the panel is displayed, thus forcing the panel to be displayed on the other (primary) monitor. After this you can re-enable the secondary monitor and the panel stays on the primary. I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not but thought I should share. Regards, Mark

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gnome/mate panel with two monitors
by Peter Reutemann 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

Hi there One thing that annoyed me in Gnome/Mate and multi-monitor setup was that I seemed to end up with the panels on the wrong monitor. I still had that issue with Linux Mint 14 and there didn't seem to be an obvious option in the monitor setup like "make this screen the primary one". However, today I came across a little tip of how you can move the panel between monitors manually: - uncheck the "expand" option in the panel's properties - grab one of the handles at the end and move the panel to the other screen - check "expand" again source: http://chrisjean.com/2009/11/03/move-gnome-panels-to-a-different-monitor-in… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Ubuntu Tweak ready for Ubuntu 13.04
by Peter Reutemann 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

"Version 0.8.5 fixes a number of bugs under Ubuntu 13.04. The developers recommend that users of the latest Ubuntu version should upgrade their version of Ubuntu Tweak as soon as possible." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1884492 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Calibre ebook manager converts DOCX documents
by Peter Reutemann 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

"The latest version, 0.9.34, of the open source cross-platform ebook manager Calibre can convert the DOCX format that is used in Microsoft Word. It also includes a new driver and an improved ebook viewer." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1884766 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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IPv6 and facebook.com, health.govt.nz
by Bruce Kingsbury 08 Jun '13

08 Jun '13

I'm using IPv6 through a SixXS tunnel and apart from two sites it works well. The two problem sites are as mentioned above, Facebook is just insanely slow for the first connection and I'm not sure why, health.govt.nzis completely unreachable for me because they filter icmpv6. I've discussed this with various people and I'm fairly confident that the problem is not at my end. So, any thoughts on how I might configure my system (debian 6) to prefer IPV4 for just those two sites but use ipv6 for everything else?

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NSA spies on you through Google, Facebook, Skype, and soon--Dropbox
by Bryan Baldwin 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data

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Raspberry Pi gets new installation system
by Peter Reutemann 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

"To make the first-time experience with Raspberry Pi better, the foundation has helped create NOOBS to make it simple to get up and running with a selection of Linux distributions and to easily restore a system." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1883638 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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