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First beta of Ubuntu 12.10 released
by Peter Reutemann 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

"The first beta version of Ubuntu 12.10, code-named "Quantal Quetzal", has been released for testing ahead of its October final release. The new version brings together a range of enhancements the developers have been working on, from reducing the number of install images, to making 3D accelerated desktops run on non-3D hardware, and switching to Python 3.0." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1702021 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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slight problem with disk publisher
by Bruce Kingsbury 08 Sep '12

08 Sep '12

slight problem with disk publisher, after about the first ten disks, the labels are printing very faint and getting worse with every disk. black and white cartridge not printing at all, and colour one is a bit sketchy. If anyone has a pair of lexmark cartridges I could borrow to test 53335 and 53336 that would be good, otherwise we'll just use the machine for burning the disks (which works well, it's very fast) and have to sort out something else for labelling them.

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Comparing against a repository
by mailinglist 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Hello All, Again, I'm trying to get this vmware server going that has preconfigured wiki set running on it. However, I'm adding some extensions. For that I need to install some additional programs off the debian repositories. I'm finding I cannot install 1) ocaml 2) nscd because of dependency conflicts. Now, I don't know what software the original person who configured this machine did but it there anyway of running a comparison of the installed software to what is on the repositories. And/or similary is there way get around the following error. How do you resolve this one? wikiserver:~# apt-get install nscd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: default-jre-headless : Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b14) but it is not going to be installed nscd : Depends: libc6 (> 2.11) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libc6 (< 2.12) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages wikiserver:~# dpkg-query -l libc6 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=============================================-=============================================-========================================================================================================== ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries wikiserver:~#

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Domain Name Resolution and LDAP
by mailinglist 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Hello all, I've got a query for the networking types. I'm currently trying to get a wiki to LDAP authentication. Despite my best attempts it keeps failing. I can't understand the following. Some commands can resolve the ip address of internal servers when using there FQDN while others cannot. This is all within a Windows network. The server I'm trying to configure is Debian Squeeze. I am wondering if this might be why the LDAP authentication is not working. Any thoughts? Cheers, Chris ############## Find the ip address of thesun.tesla.local ############## wikiserver:~# dig thesun.tesla.local ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> thesun.tesla.local ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45615 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;thesun.tesla.local. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: thesun.tesla.local. 3600 IN A 10.0.0.10 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.10#53(10.0.0.10) ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 5 15:36:29 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 52 ############### Then check if port 389 is open. It fails to resolve the IP address. ############### wikiserver:~# nmap -p 389 thesun.tesla.local Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-09-05 15:37 NZST Failed to resolve given hostname/IP: thesun.tesla.local. Note that you can't use '/mask' AND '1-4,7,100-' style IP ranges WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned. Nmap done: 0 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 5.15 seconds wikiserver:~# ############## Try again using the IP address Promptly returns an answer ############## wikiserver:~# nmap -p 389 10.0.0.10 Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-09-05 15:37 NZST Interesting ports on thesun.tesla.local (10.0.0.10): PORT STATE SERVICE 389/tcp open ldap MAC Address: 00:50:56:93:76:FB (VMWare) Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.44 seconds wikiserver:~#

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Hybrid graphics support in NVIDIA's Linux driver
by Peter Reutemann 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

"NVIDIA is working on a new version of its proprietary Linux graphics driver that will add support for its Optimus switching technology, which is usually found used in laptops. The company's plans were revealed in an email from NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner, in which he asks open source developers for advice on some implementation details." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1697756 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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No software patents (again)
by Ronnie Collinson 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

So if you haven't heard some members of the government have recently met with reps of some big international software giants, such as IBM and Microsoft. Which has resulted is some possible changes to patent law here. The exclusion for software that many members of the NZ software communities (both commercial and open source), a couple years back, which was accepted, is looking to have a new clause 10A, which would exclude embedded systems (which for things like home routers and cellphones, are an absolute mine field of patents) from the software exclusion. The other unusual aspect for a democratic country, is that this clause is being added without going to select committee and therefore is unlikely to receive public submissions. If you haven't all ready, please sign this. http://no.softwarepatents.org.nz Ronnie

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Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0
by Peter Reutemann 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

"Joanna Rutkowska, CEO of Invisible Things Lab, today released version 1.0 of Qubes, a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS. It is the most secure option among the existing desktop operating systems — even more secure than Apple's iOS, which puts each application into its own sandbox and does not count on the user to make security decisions. Qubes will offer users the option of using disposable virtual machines for executing tasks they believe could harm their computer. These VMs will be lightweight, easily and extremely speedily created and booted, and would be just as easy to discard." --source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/03/2147217/xen-based-secure-os-qubes-h… 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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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!WLUG Workshop Meet up at the university, usual meeting room for Monday meetings: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4) Time: 10am to 4pm Agenda: Apart from the usual workshop (e.g., if you have a Linux problem or question) we will also prepare material (posters, flyers, etc) for SoftwareFreedomDay. We'll have internet access (48Mbit/s). Entry is free for visitors and club members. However, if you, as a visitor, wish to connect your computer to the internet for more than a few minutes, a fee of $4 dollars to cover internet costs would be appreciated. We will accept membership applications on the day ($20). There are no kitchen facilities within the room. Toilets will be available around the campus, a couple of bakeries not far from campus.

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Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project"
by Peter Reutemann 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

"Decentralised social network startup Diaspora* announced on their blog today that they will become a 'community project' with the intention of making it an entirely community-driven, community-run project. Whether this is a sign of the project losing impetus, or whether this will provide the push needed to challenge commercially run social networks, remains to be seen." -- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/28/0117226/diaspora-announces-it-is-no… 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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GNOMEbuntu Set To Arrive In October
by Peter Reutemann 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

"Good News Everyone! Thanks to the Ubuntu Gnome Community and Jeremy Bicha, it seems that the popular distribution will ship a flavor with a relatively pure GNOME experience in the next release cycle, on October 18. At this point the effort is community based, but hopefully GNOMEbuntu will make it as an official Canonical spin, similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, et cetera, in the 13.04 release. This is the story: At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, some discussions took place on the need for a Gnome spin. On August 13, Jeremy Bicha posted on Gnome mailing lists about looking a name for the new Ubuntu derivative. After that, I had no news till Stinger gave us a thread in Ubuntu Forums. On there, Jeremy talks about working on an Alpha version! So I contacted him and he verified that GNOMEbuntu will be released together with Ubuntu 12.10." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/08/30/175221/gnomebuntu-set-to-arrive-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 to drop alternate installer
by Peter Reutemann 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Bummer... "The alternate installer, required when users want to configure cryptsetup, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) or software-based RAID arrays during installation, may disappear from Ubuntu as early as version 12.10." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1676906 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 4.10 KWin To Properly Support AMD Catalyst
by Peter Reutemann 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

"KWin, KDE's compositing window manager, will better play with the AMD Catalyst binary blob in the KDE 4.10 release by enabling direct rendering and the OpenGL 2.x back-end for those using the latest Catalyst driver. " -- source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE2OTI 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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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4) Time: 7:30pm onwards Topics * ReneBartosh will give a short demo of the Raspberry Pi running the RaspBMC and Raspian distributions and will include a chance to get hands on and have a tinker with the Pi

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4) Time: 7:30pm onwards Topics * ReneBartosh will give a short demo of the Raspberry Pi running the RaspBMC and Raspian distributions and will include a chance to get hands on and have a tinker with the Pi

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Fwd: [Marketing] Promote SFD 2012
by Bruce Kingsbury 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

How's our SFD planning going? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pockey Lam <pockey(a)softwarefreedomday.org> Date: 21 August 2012 16:39 Subject: [Marketing] Promote SFD 2012 To: The SFD marketing committee list <marketing(a)sf-day.org> Dear marketing committee, We are about 24 days to the big day, SFD 2012, so far we have 220 teams registered. It's time to boost registration and have more teams for 2012! There are some ways to promote SFD, e.g.: 1) email local communities in your country 2) Blogging 3) Social Networks [1] 4) SFD Banner (link to SFD site) [2] 5) SFD countdown (link to SFD site) [3] 6) Join local conferences / events to talk about SFD 7) others We need your help to promote SFD in your country! If you think of any other ways to promote SFD, please share with us! [1] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SocialNetworks [2] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Promote [3] http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CountDown Regards, Pockey _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing(a)sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/marketing

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 19 Aug '12

19 Aug '12

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4) Time: 7:30pm onwards Topics * ReneBartosh will give a short demo of the Raspberry Pi running the RaspBMC and Raspian distributions and will include a chance to get hands on and have a tinker with the Pi

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MATE and gnome-keyring
by Peter Reutemann 19 Aug '12

19 Aug '12

Hi there Running a MATE session, you might encounter warning messages like this in your terminal when, for instance, updating via subversion: WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-*****/pkcs11 Apparently, gnome-keyring is only started if a session manager is started that supports this. E.g., running the MATE session manager on my Linux Mint Cinnamon install generates this error message, since "MATE" is not listed in the "OnlyShowIn" key of the "/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop" config file. Just add "MATE" to the value of the "OnlyShowIn" key, e.g.: OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE Original source: http://laslow.net/2012/05/06/gnome-keyring-issues-in-ubuntu-12-04/ 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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Discovering and Monitoring Hardware in Linux
by Peter Reutemann 19 Aug '12

19 Aug '12

Handy overview in this article. "Nothing ever need be a mystery on Linux as it has a large number of excellent utilities for discovering hardware and monitoring hardware health. Here are a handful of good tools for spotting possible hard drive failure, displaying hardware information and monitoring temperatures, fans, voltages, email, music players and more." -- source: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/620416-discovering-and-monitoring-hard… 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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Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source?
by Peter Reutemann 18 Aug '12

18 Aug '12

"Sergei from MariaDB speculated on some changes within MySQL 5.5.27. It seems new testcases aren't included with MySQL any more, which leaves developers depending on it in the cold. 'Does this mean that test cases are no longer open source? Oracle did not reply to my question. But indeed, there is evidence that this guess is true. For example, this commit mail shows that new test cases, indeed, go in this "internal" directory, which is not included in the MySQL source distribution.' On a similar note, updates for the version history on Launchpad are not being updated anymore. What is Oracle's plan here? And is alienating the developer community just not seen as a problem at Oracle?" -- source: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/0152237/is-mysql-slowly-turni… 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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(no subject)
by Bruce Kingsbury 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

We're starting to prepare for software freedom day which will be held on Sept 15th at Te Whare o Te Ata, 60a Sare Cres. Progress so far; We have a venue (not huge but I think it'll do) wireless internet, a VOIP PABX, 8 reasonable machines running Linux. And I have two small volunteers who will take turns wearing the penguin suit and handing out CDs and chocolate fish to visitors. For the inside space, I'd like to have tables set up where people can show interesting things they're using Linux for. If anyone has something specific they'd like to demo, get back to me and I'll set a table aside. I'd also like to print off A4 or A3 posters about some of the more polished bits of free software such as OOo/LibOO, VLC, Gimp, etc and put those up around the room. We need an A5 flyer done as soon as possible, and I can arrange to have this delivered with the community newsletter to a couple of thousand houses around the area.

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Nokia Researcher Puts Firefox OS On Raspberry Pi
by Peter Reutemann 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

"Mozilla's mobile phone operating system only exists in an early beta form, but Oleg Romashin, a researcher at Nokia, has already got it working on the Raspberry Pi and posted video to prove it. We don't think this indicates any alternate strategy for Nokia if Windows Phone doesn't pan out, but it does show that Firefox OS is portable, and the Pi is capable, and both can be played with — which will please both Mozilla and the Raspberry Pi Foundation. And the Firefox OS work in progress is available for download." -- source: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/16/1237214/nokia-researcher-puts… 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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Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro
by Peter Reutemann 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

"It turns out that Linux doesn't work too well on the Apple Retina MacBook Pro. Among the problems are needing special boot parameters to simply boot the Linux kernel, graphics drivers not working, no hybrid graphics support, WiFi requiring special firmware, Thunderbolt troubles, GNOME/Unity/KDE not being optimized for retina displays, and other snafus, including 20% greater power consumption with Linux over OS X. According to Michael Larabel, it will likely not be until early next year when most of the problems are ironed out for a clean 'out of the box' Linux experience on the Retina MacBook Pro." -- source: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/08/16/1741235/linux-is-a-lemon-on-the-re… 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 celebrates its 19th birthday
by Peter Reutemann 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Only a day late, so happy belated birthday! "Today, Debian celebrates its 19th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, parties have been organised all around the globe and users traditionally bake cakes to bring to these events." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1668366 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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Mounting a USB drive without hotplugging or logging in
by mailinglist 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hello all, I've got a mythtv set up on a pc. It got a 40G drive which I'm finding a bit limiting. I figured I'd just plug in an external USB drive, have it mount on boot up, and configure mythtv to use a directory on it as part of its storage area. Well, its becoming a frustrating exercise. As a user logged in, I can hotplug it and read and write to but anything else either doesn't work or will only ever mount the drive read only. I've tried 1) editing fstab (result read only despite specifying rw) 2) pydsm (result read only despite specifying rw) 3) Some scripts using udev rules. (can't find the drive) The system used lightdm as the window manager and Thunar is available as a GUI file manager. Underlying system is Mythbuntu updated to Precise Penguin Any clues? Or scripts known to work? Cheers, Chris

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Calligra 2.5 released
by Peter Reutemann 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

"In the second stable release of the KDE-oriented office suite, Calligra has now been updated to version 2.5 with, among other changes, enhancements to the spreadsheet, word processor, database and painting components". -- source: http://h-online.com/-1666586 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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