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MATE Desktop 1.2 Released
by Peter Reutemann 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

GNOME 2 is alive and kicking... "For those of you who still feel GNOME 2 is the best desktop environment, but don't want stick to old distros, MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, with all the names changed to avoid clashes with GNOME 3. Version 1.2 brings fixes, but also new features such as undo/redo in the file manager." -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/16/1517236/mate-desktop-12-released 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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How to Create a Wallpaper Slideshow in Ubuntu
by Peter Reutemann 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

The following HOWTO describes the creation of wallpaper slideshows (as opposed to having a single, static wallpaper): http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/25549/how-to-create-a-wallpaper-slideshow-in… This feature can be handy, if you have a Linux box on display. While people can see the slideshow, they can still explore the system and never accidentally close the application running the slideshow. 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 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLUG LanParty Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 10am to 4pm http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 Come along and bring your favourite free/ open source games or games that run on free operating systems. Suggestions include: * Bzflag * World of Padman * urban terror * Sauerbraten ( thank goodness autocorrect spelt that for me) 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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KOffice Descendent Calligra Office and Creativity Suite Hits Release
by Peter Reutemann 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

"The Calligra team has announced the first release of the Calligra suite of office and creativity applications. Calligra is a continuation of the old KOffice project." -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/12/1748208/koffice-descendent-calligra… Downloads (including Ubuntu repos): http://userbase.kde.org/Calligra/Download 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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Kubuntu To Be Sponsored By Blue Systems, Rather Than Canonical
by Peter Reutemann 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Good news for Kubuntu users: "Kubuntu, the KDE flavour from Ubuntu, has found a new sponsor in Blue Systems. They will be providing more resources than were available by previous sponsor Canonical. The project will remain much the same: community led, KDE focused, Ubuntu flavour. With the new independence it can branch out into new markets such as a Kubuntu Active flavour for tablets." http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/04/10/1639252/kubuntu-to-be-sponsored-by… 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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Re: [wlug] WLUG Secretary Stuff
by mailing_list 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

Hi Wayne, Thanks for the reply. I can meet you in town. We can make other arrangements off list. Cheers, Chris From: Wayne Grimsey [mailto:WGrimsey(a)linz.govt.nz] Sent: Friday, 13 April 2012 9:43 a.m. To: mailing_list; 'Waikato Linux Users Group' Subject: RE: WLUG Secretary Stuff Hi Chris. I'm coming into Hamilton to work overtime, tomorrow. I'm thinking the best way forward would be for me to bring the box to work, ... and arrange to meet one of you guys in the Hamilton CBD. As things work out, the only time I seem to be in Hamilton at the moment, is when I'm working. If i wasn't working, I could have got a ride into Hamilton to attend the LAN session. Sorry for this hassle. Wayne Wayne Grimsey Quality Control Co-ordinator Survey and Titles Operations E wgrimsey(a)linz.govt.nz | Cnr Victoria and Rostrevor Streets Private Bag 3028, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand W <http://www.linz.govt.nz/> www.linz.govt.nz | www.landonline.govt.nz <http://www.landonline.govt.nz/> | <http://www.linz.govt.nz/> data.linz.govt.nz _____ From: mailing_list [mailto:mailinglist(a)blahdeblah.co.nz] Sent: Friday, 13 April 2012 9:39 a.m. To: 'Waikato Linux Users Group' Cc: Wayne Grimsey Subject: WLUG Secretary Stuff To Wayne, Rene and Ronnie, Are you guys going to be at the LAN party tomorrow? It might be a good opportunity to hand over all the secretary and treasurers stuff. Wayne, If you cannot make it please let me know. Cheers, Chris _____ This message contains information, which is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately (Phone 0800 665 463 or info(a)linz.govt.nz) and destroy the original message. LINZ accepts no responsibility for changes to this email, or for any attachments, after its transmission from LINZ. Thank you. _____

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WLUG Secretary Stuff
by mailing_list 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

To Wayne, Rene and Ronnie, Are you guys going to be at the LAN party tomorrow? It might be a good opportunity to hand over all the secretary and treasurers stuff. Wayne, If you cannot make it please let me know. Cheers, Chris

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is tomorrow!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 12 Apr '12

12 Apr '12

There is a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting tomorrow: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLUG LanParty Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 10am to 4pm http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 Come along and bring your favourite free/ open source games or games that run on free operating systems. Suggestions include: * Bzflag * World of Padman * urban terror * Sauerbraten ( thank goodness autocorrect spelt that for me) 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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Re: [wlug] Into the Mosh Pit: A Mobile Shell Replacement for SSH
by GJB 11 Apr '12

11 Apr '12

Nice find Peter. Interesting that it is over UDP ... like OpenVPN. OpenVPN is also worth looking into for similar persistent secure connectivity applications. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [wlug] Into the Mosh Pit: A Mobile Shell Replacement for SSH > From: Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> > Date: Wed, April 11, 2012 12:45 pm > To: wlug <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > > > "Mosh" (http://mosh.mit.edu/) sounds very useful: > > "SSH is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't deal very well with today's > mobile workers. When dealing with iffy Wi-Fi connections, moving > around from coffeeshop to home office, or just putting your laptop to > sleep for a few minutes, you lose your SSH connection. If you need a > persistent connection, take a look at Mosh." > > -- source: https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/562553-into-the-mosh-pit-a-mobile-she… > > Not just available for the latest Ubuntu (and other Linux distros), > but also for versions starting with 10.04, via a separate ppa: > http://mosh.mit.edu/#getting > > 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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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLUG LanParty Meet up at the university - usual meeting room for Monday meetings. Time: 10am to 4pm http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4 Come along and bring your favourite free/ open source games or games that run on free operating systems. Suggestions include: * Bzflag * World of Padman * urban terror * Sauerbraten ( thank goodness autocorrect spelt that for me) 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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Webconverger
by Peter Reutemann 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Hi everyone Just came across WebConverger, a browser-only OS for web kiosks [1]: http://h-online.com/-1492681 I wonder whether this could be something for libraries etc here in Hamilton, etc, to provide internet-only access on public terminals? Cheers, Peter References: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk_software -- 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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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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WLUG AGM
by Chris O'Halloran 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hello All, 10 members turned up for the AGM last night and we have a new committee! Thanks to the past committee members who were not able to be present. John Billings, Sam Lin and Wayne Grimsey The new committee is President: Bruce Kingbury Vice President: Peter Reutemann Treasurer: Ronnie Collinson Secretary: Rene Bartosh Committee: Rod Aldridge Committee: Ian Stewart Committee: Chris O'Halloran The minutes will be posted shortly. In the meantime, would those on this list seeking to retain a membership with the club please consider renewing their membership financially. Online banking is obviously convenient 12-3122-0223054-00 See the following for additional details. The membership fee remains at $20. https://secure.wlug.org.nz/join.html Monies got towards room hireage, server costs, refreshments, printing, Coatsville Mansions etc. I would also like to acknowledge the continued support from the University and Rimu Hosting during last year. It was much appreciated. Chris O'Halloran 2011 WLUG President

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!2011 AGM Agenda Approval of 2010 AGM minutes President's Report Treasurer's Report Election of Officers (Don't forget to do CommitteeHandover this year) General Business

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WLUG on twitter
by Peter Reutemann 10 Mar '12

10 Mar '12

Hi everyone First of all, WLUG now has a twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/WaikatoLUG Secondly, I've enabled twitter support within WLUG's elgg instance (found at http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/) This means, you can - if you want to - publish your wire posts automatically on the WLUG twitter account. Here is a short description on how to enable this: http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/pg/blog/read/7993/twitter-support Happy tweeting! :-) 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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