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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!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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The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
by Peter Reutemann 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

An interesting twist for the SheevaPlug: use it as a testing tool for networks... http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/pwnie/?intcid=story_ribbon Here is the link to the modified SheevaPlug: http://www.pwnieexpress.com/eliteplug.html One drawback: it's more expensive than the blank SheevaPlug. 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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Raspberry Pi, activist tool
by Peter Reutemann 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Interesting article on what the Linux-based Raspberry Pi can be used for: secure communication (in combination with cryptocat). http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/03/raspberry-pi-activist-tool.… Anybody on the list already ordered a Raspberry PI or is planning to order one? 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 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!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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What are the best practices for Linux partitioning & Mount points for Production systems
by nk oorda 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

What are the best practices for Linux partitioning & Mount points for Production systems Hi i need some suggestion for defining the partition size for my production systems. we are going to use CentOS 6.2 (64 bit) - Partition size - Mount points What i am able to get from the google search is: / Root File System (/bin , /sbin , /dev , /root /usr program and source code /var variable data /boot boot kernels /tmp temp file locations /work to do your work here "you can name it anything" Swap - */home* - Set option nosuid, and nodev with diskquota option - */usr* - Set option nodev - */tmp* - Set option nodev, nosuid, noexec option must be enabled - /var local,nodev,nosuid Most of the server will be running - Apache -Tomcat -SOLR and few of them would be running MySQL as data base. what is concern is that one of the developer accidentally deleted the /usr files with sudo access. if somehow i can protect the core system from the developers mistake that would be really good. Thanks in advance for help.

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CentOS for Production (CentOS 6.0 Vs 6.1 Vs 6.2)
by nk oorda 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi We are currently using CentOS 5.3 for production systems. The application/software/package we are using mainly: - Apache - Tomcat - SOLR - Mysql We are in process to upgrade the CentOS. What would be the best CentOS candidate for upgrade (CentOS 6.0 Vs 6.1 Vs 6.2) We are using both physical and virtual system. Best Regards NK

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Re: [wlug] ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 12th March 2012
by Sam Lin 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Time really flies! It's almost one year since the last AGM... Too bad I am not in Hamilton... (but good to see the user group is still going). Cheers, Sam On 20 February 2012 10:16, <wlug-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:57:50 +1300 > From: "Chris O'Halloran" <cmoman(a)gmail.com> > To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Subject: [wlug] ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 12th March 2012 > > ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 12th March > > In accordance with Rule 6 of the charter, I would like to announce to > all members that the Waikato Linux Users Group (Incorporated) will be > holding its Annual General Meeting on Monday, 12 March, 2012, at > 7pm, at the regular meeting location of Room MS4.G.02 > > Several officers and committee members will be stepping down this > year. Society membership has also gone down recently. Present and past > members interested in seeing WLUG continue as an IncorporatedSociety > are encouraged to attend this years AGM to meet quorum requirements > and stand for election. > >

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Pyqt, Matplotlib and Python
by Chris O'Halloran 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Hi all, http://elgg.wlug.org.nz/pg/blog/read/7980/pyqt-matplotlib-and-python I've written a little blog post here. It might be of interest to those that like developing small applications in python. Cheers, Chris

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 12th March 2012
by Chris O'Halloran 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 12th March In accordance with Rule 6 of the charter, I would like to announce to all members that the Waikato Linux Users Group (Incorporated) will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Monday, 12 March, 2012, at 7pm, at the regular meeting location of Room MS4.G.02 Several officers and committee members will be stepping down this year. Society membership has also gone down recently. Present and past members interested in seeing WLUG continue as an IncorporatedSociety are encouraged to attend this years AGM to meet quorum requirements and stand for election. Note: To be eligible to vote at the meeting you must have previously been a financial member (although not necessarily for the 2010 year) and pay your membership for 2012 at or before the AGM. To be eligible to vote or stand for office at the AGM members must have paid a subscription for the 2010 year before the AGM. If you'd like to stand for committee and have not paid for membership this year, please do this prior to the meeting An amendment about who can vote at the meeting was passed in 2008. "That the WLUG charter be amended to allow former paid members of the WLUG of good standing, whose membership has lapsed, to vote at an AGM of the WLUG with the proviso that they rejoin the WLUG and pay a new subscription at or before the AGM."

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Sourcefabric introduces Booktype for writing and publishing books
by Peter Reutemann 19 Feb '12

19 Feb '12

Any writers among you guys and gals (or one of your friends)? This might be of interest to you: "A partnership between Sourcefabric and FLOSS Manuals has resulted in the release of the Booktype book creation, collaboration and publishing platform:" http://h-online.com/-1434771 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 Bruce Kingsbury 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

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Yubikey
by Chris O'Halloran 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hello all, Has anyone on the list had experience with the yubikey and linux? http://www.yubico.com/yubikey Just curious to know since it seems like a nifty means of 2 factor authentication. Cheers, Chris

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Shuttle PC free to good home
by Daniel Lawson 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi all I have an old shuttle PC here that I no longer need. Celeron 2.6Ghz, 512 MB of ram, PCI graphics and NIC (+ onboard NIC / sound etc). Still goes fine, but I've upgraded to an HP N40L and no longer need this. Will poke a SATA 3.5" disk into it. Pickup from Hillcrest area evenings/weeknights, or from the KPMG Building weekdays. Let me know if you're interested.

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unsuscribe me please
by Blessing Moyo 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

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Canonical ending support for Kubuntu, reassigning lead developer
by Peter Reutemann 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

ars technica reports: The lead developer of Kubuntu says that Canonical will no longer be funding his work on the KDE-based Linux distribution after the upcoming release of Kubuntu 12.04. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/canonical-ending-support-for-k… 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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downloading flash videos
by Peter Reutemann 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi there Though I love youtube_dl [1] for grabbing youtube videos, I needed to download a video from blip.tv (interview with Jon "maddog" Hall). This morning, I came across "get-flash-videos", which can download videos from blib.tv, among all these other webpages, too: YouTube, eHow, Brightcove (used by many sites like Channel 4, Daily Telegraph ...), BBC (news, etc), Metacafe, 5min, Google, fliqz, nicovideo, vimeo, Blip, Break, Collegehumor, Muzu, Sevenload, Megavideo, Wat.tv Here's the project's homepage: http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/ Installation instructions -- it's written in perl, so should run on most platforms: http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/wiki/Installation Cheers, Peter References [1] fixing youtube_dl, http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/update-youtube-dl-to-get-it-working.html -- 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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New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source
by Peter Reutemann 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Just came across the book "Open Advice" on Slashdot, which should be of interest to any wanting to start contributing to open source: "This new book Open Advice is the answer to: 'What would you have liked to know when you started contributing?' 42 prominent free and open source software contributors give insights into the many different talents it takes to make a successful software project; coding, of course, but also design, translation, marketing and other skills. They are here to give you a head start if you are new. And if you have been contributing for a while already, they are here to give you some insight into other areas and projects." http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/1723259/new-book-helps-you-start-co… http://open-advice.org/ 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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New KDE tablet to liberate Linux enthusiasts from walled garden
by Peter Reutemann 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Just came across this article on ars technica: "KDE developer Aaron Seigo has announced a new upcoming tablet computer, called the Spark, that will ship with KDE's Plasma environment. The device, which has a seven-inch display and a 1GHz ARM CPU, will sell for €200 ($262). Underneath the shiny KDE surface, the Spark reportedly runs Mer, a community-driven fork of the Linux-based MeeGo platform. Seigo says that the device will be open and that users will be able to install custom firmware." http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/new-kde-tablet-to-liberate-linu… 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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Garage Cleanout Redux
by Daniel Lawson 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi all I still have some bits and pieces that may be of interest to WLUG members. 2x HP Jetdirect EX Plus Printserver (10Mbit RJ45 + BNC). No PSU, 13VDC, looks like it may be HP proprietary. 1x Axis 550 printserver (10MBit RJ45 + BNC), with psu i think. 1x Axis 83 Device Server. RISC based embedded system, lots of hackability. http://www.lilax.net/textfiles/2003-04-19/axis_82_82_lowres.pdf. 32bit RISC ETRAX 100LX MCM2+8 CPU, 6MB Flash, 16MB ram, dual ethernet, dual rs232 serial, single rs485 serial, USB1.1 port. Lots of support for building custom linux builds to go on here, eg ddwrt. (I've definitely built custom images to go on this system, although I can't find current links to any docs) 2x External modems. Two PSUs that probably go with these, but I'm not sure. 1x 3com Homeconnect DSL Modem. DSL1 only, runs with pppoe back to your host, so it terminates the IP on your machine. No wifi. Dates back to when DSL was first introduced in NZ. Industrial patch cables. 7 x 2m, RJ45 (8P8C) to XP85, and 2x2m XP85 to XP85. XP85 is basically a secure screw fitting around an RJ45/8P8C jack. It looks like this: http://www.alternetivo.cz/industrial-patch-cord-utp-xp85-to-mc5-1-5m-yellow… <http://www.alternetivo.cz/industrial-patch-cord-utp-xp85-to-mc5-1-5m-yellow…> Some old Fibrechannel gear. One Emulex LP8000, which had current driver support (lpfc.ko) in debian lenny at least, and two Compaq Tachyon adapters, which show up on the bus, but don't seem to have active drivers since around 2.6.8. There's still 2.4 kernel support for them however. There's also a pair of Compaq Fibrechannel Hubs. Everything has optical modules, and there's a few fibre patches as well. 2x ISDN cards. Single basic-rate ports I think, I can't recall the name, if you're interested I'll dig them out. 1x 17" CRT monitor, in good condition, works well. All the above is free to whoever wants them, you must pickup from Hillcrest area, or from the CBD during business hours. No guarantee that any of it works. If it doesn't go here, it's going to the new HCC e-waste facility ( http://hamilton.co.nz/page/pageid/2145835076) on or around the 18th. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Re: [wlug] LibreCAD
by GJB 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

hi, thanks for that, had not heard of it. I have also used the package "qcad" http://www.qcad.org/ ... it is available as a package from the Ubunutu repositories at least that I know of. Regards. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [wlug] LibreCAD > From: Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> > Date: Fri, January 06, 2012 9:02 am > To: wlug <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > > > Hi there > > If you're looking for an open source 2D-CAD program, you might want to > check out LibreCAD: > http://librecad.org/ > > The current version 1.0 is still Qt3-based, but work on 2.0 which is > Qt4 is already underway. > > LibreCAD is licensed under GPLv2. > > 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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LibreCAD
by Peter Reutemann 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi there If you're looking for an open source 2D-CAD program, you might want to check out LibreCAD: http://librecad.org/ The current version 1.0 is still Qt3-based, but work on 2.0 which is Qt4 is already underway. LibreCAD is licensed under GPLv2. 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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hacking WiFi Protected Setup with Reaver
by Peter Reutemann 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

I'm gonna test, whether my WiFi access point is susceptible to the WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability as well: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/hands-on-hacking-wifi-protecte… The router that the author of the above article used: Cisco Linksys WRT54G2 Anybody else had some experience hacking their router with Reaver? More information on WPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup 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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Mint's Cinnamon hits 1.1.3
by Peter Reutemann 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Being now a Linux Mint convert (SuSE -> Ubuntu -> Kubuntu -> Mint), I'm looking forward to what the Mint community comes up with their Cinnamon fork of the Gnome shell. They are attempting to use Gnome 3 technology to give you a Gnome 2 layout: http://h-online.com/-1402913 Why did I change Linux distributions? - SuSE -> Ubuntu: back in the days, the SuSE distro that I had downloaded via dial-up was riddled with bugs including the update manager. Updating manually turned out to be way too tedious. An Ubuntu live CD came in handy there. - Ubuntu -> Kubuntu: Unity, nuff said. Also, originally long-time KDE user. - Kubuntu -> Mint: Kubuntu being a bit sluggish and the taskbar buggy (didn't like long sessions with opening/closing lots of windows). If you haven't tried Linux Mint, give it a go. It is a very polished Linux distro. Personally, I'm running version "Katya". http://linuxmint.com/ 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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slashdot: Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden
by Peter Reutemann 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Just came across the following post on slashdot: "Kopimism is now an official religion in Sweden. Kopimi beliefs originated with the Swedish group called Piratbyran who believed that everything should be shared freely online without restrictions from copyright. Leader Isak Gerson, has recently had some disagreements with the Swedish Pirate Party where many people disagree with all religions." http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/04/1817255/filesharing-now-an-official… 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] Nautilus slowing down...
by Sandy 27 Dec '11

27 Dec '11

I figured out the problem. I found out last night that one shouldn't temporarily store stuff in the Templates folder, because it Nautilus then thinks everything in it is a document template. I moved the contents to another folder, and now performance is back to normal. Sandy

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