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Kiwi PyCon 2010 Call for Participation
by Tim Knapp 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, We have another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be as good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21 November. Find a link below to the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging everybody to come and to participate. Do not feel intimidated, this is a community conference, and we are hosting talks and sessions for all knowledge levels. Be it a tiny demo or show and tell (by doing a 5 minute Lightning Talk), or up to running an hour long tutorial. Or are you interested in the dynamic evolution of a session? Then the unconference like Open Spaces will give you just the platform for interaction. Also ... make sure to spread the word. Tell everybody else about it. Blog about it, post it on Twitter/Identi.ca, etc. http://nz.pycon.org/2010/talks-cfp/call-for-papers/ ... Code and enjoy, The Kiwi PyCon Committee

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New DVD drive unusable in Lucid...
by Chakat Sandwalker 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

I got hold of an old computer, and managed to put Lucid on it. At the time, it had an old CD-RW drive in it. Now it's got a brand new DVD +/- RW drive, and Lucid can show me that it exists, but it can't mount any discs. In XFCE, it shows the error 'Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist'. The problem is pretty much as described on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509538. I would have installed Windows, but I didn't have any working Windows XP discs (or a valid key), and even installing Lucid was rather hit and miss. I can't reinstall Lucid to see if that fixes the problem as I'm not at home, and I didn't bring my Lucid disc (or if I did, it's corrupt). If anyone has idea of how to fix this problem (the computer's for my parents, aren't they're not exactly computer savvy, even with Windows XP), I would very much appreciate a solution. If worst comes to worst, would a complete reinstall work (even if I have to download the ISO again, although I'm not sure I have access to a spare CD). I have until Saturday, which is when I have to go home. Sandy (rather desperate)

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HP dx2355 MT (KM421 AV)
by Glenn Morrissey 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hey all does anyone know if I can run the latest incarnation of Ubuntu on my desktop machine? Do I need to get drivers for the motherboard or is that included in the distribution? The motherboard is a HP dx2355 MT. Cheers Glenn Morrissey.

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computer bits
by John 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi All, I have been asked to build-up a couple of secondhand computers (for free) by my work colleagues. I have a couple of boxes and other peripherals but am in need of a main-board with processor and an optical drive (at least dvd read) If anyone is able to donate towards these projects please contact me. Secondary question in case I am overwhelmed with gear. Is there an E-Day in NZ this year?

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Xubuntu disc...
by Chakat Sandwalker 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Would anyone here have an Xubuntu disc I could borrow? Preferably a text-mode install, I think. I've just got hold of an old Dell Latitude with a 600MHz Celeron and 128MB RAM (4MB given to video), and I can't put anything on it except Puppy Linux (which I don't much like) and Damn Small Linux (which can't properly deal with the USB flash drives I tried with it). Sandy

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rpm build errors - checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
by Gregory Machin 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

Hi I have a 32 build build environment on fedora 12 64bit. The build environment is a complete system (unless the provider has missed something) .. I chroot into the build environment. When I run rpmbuild on any of the provided sources / spec files they exit with " checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables " Or similar. eg : bash-3.00# rpmbuild -ba -v ./SPECS/expat.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf expat-1.95.7 + /bin/gzip -dc /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/expat-1.95.7.tar.gz + tar -xf - + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd expat-1.95.7 + echo 'Patch #0 (expat-1.95.7-xmlcall.patch):' Patch #0 (expat-1.95.7-xmlcall.patch): + patch -p1 -b --suffix .xmlcall -s + echo 'Patch #1 (expat-malloc-failure.diff):' Patch #1 (expat-malloc-failure.diff): + patch -p0 -b --suffix .malloc -s + exit 0 Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 + umask 022 + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd expat-1.95.7 + export 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fPIC' + CFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fPIC' + CFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fPIC' + export CFLAGS + CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' + export CXXFLAGS + FFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' + export FFLAGS + ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i386-pc-linux --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info configure: loading cache /dev/null /dev/null: line 1: ./configure:: No such file or directory checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76344 (%build) bash-3.00# Any suggestions ? Greg Regards Gregory Machin Phone: +64 78 525 380 a/h Mobile: +64 211 844 347 Chat Google Talk: clubbing80s(a)gmail.com Skype: clubbing80s MSN: clubbing80s(a)hotmail.com Y! messenger: clubbing80s(a)ymail.com Contact Me [image: Linkedin]<http://za.linkedin.com/pub/gregory-machin/8/310/8ab>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/clubbing80s>

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WLUG Fixit Meeting is today!
by Meeting Reminder bot 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday July 3rd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday July 3rd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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OO.o 10th year anniversary on Oct 13 this year!
by Sam Lin 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Dear WLUG fellows, OO.o is planning to celebrate its 10th year anniversary on Oct 13 this year, and asking for some idea on how the community should celebrate it: http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=30242 http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/10YearsOOo Will there be any celebration/event for the anniversary from WLUG or in NZ? Regards, Sam

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Saturday Workshop this Saturday...
by Bruce Kingsbury 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

As John has pointed out to me, the Saturday workshop is in fact the Saturday coming up. (the 3rd of July) I have no idea why I thought it was still another week away!! http://wlug.org.nz/SaturdayWorkshop.2010-07-03 Sorry about any confusion. Hope to see you there. -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to any of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message.

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NZ Computer Society National Series: The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime
by David Hallett 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

NZ Computer Society National Series: The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime 22 July 2010: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Events Room 1, Gallagher Hub Wintec City Campus, Gate 5 Tristram Street, Hamilton In the latest National Series event, NZCS is proud to bring the head of the NZ Police's National eCrime Group to Hamilton to present the latest in digital forensics and eCrime. This is not one to be missed! The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime Digital Forensics and e-Crime is a rapidly developing and cutting edge discipline of ICT, contributing more and more significantly to crime investigations in New Zealand and globally every year. The NZ Police e-Crime Group is responsible for managing the digital forensics for the NZ Police via three e-Crime Labs throughout the country. In this presentation Maarten Kleintjes, head of the NZ Police National Electronic Crime Group, will give an update on the latest local and international work in digital forensics and e-Crime including recent examples of high profile cases where digital forensics played a key part in cracking the case. As the devices on which people process and store information have become more sophisticated, more widespread and more interconnected, the role of the E-Crime Lab has grown considerably. These days there are very few crimes committed that don’t have an electronic component to evidence and the number of exhibits have increased from around 40 a year in 1985 to over 16,000 in recent years. This ranges from people using their computer to research how to commit a crime (or ironically how to get away with it!), or emails or text messages which often unknowingly give the game away, through to more complicated analysis. Maarten will also outline EVE, the Environment for Virtualised Evidence, the world-leading system created by the NZ e-Crime Group and launched last year to revolutionalise the efficient and timely collection, indexing and analysis of electronic evidence. This system dramatically changed the turnaround of a Detective submitting a computer for analysis and access to files and information from many months or years to several days. The NZ Police e-Crime Group is leading the world in the area of digital forensics, and this presentation will provide significant insight into this fascinating area. Note: Light lunch provided. Free for NZCS members, inexpensive for others. Registration required at the following URL: http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/waikato_bop/171-Digital-Forensics Regards, David Hallett, BSc, MNZCS ITCP P.O. Box 15-516 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone: +64-7-210 5520 Mobile: +64-21-802 256

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting things to do with OpenOffice Basic Ian Stewart has been doing some fun and interesting things with the built in Basic in OpenOffice, and has offered to do a presentation on this and talk about some of the things he's discovered along the way. June 28th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting things to do with OpenOffice Basic Ian Stewart has been doing some fun and interesting things with the built in Basic in OpenOffice, and has offered to do a presentation on this and talk about some of the things he's discovered along the way. June 28th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting things to do with OpenOffice Basic Ian Stewart has been doing some fun and interesting things with the built in Basic in OpenOffice, and has offered to do a presentation on this and talk about some of the things he's discovered along the way. June 28th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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WLUG Fixit Meeting is today!
by Meeting Reminder bot 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday June 5th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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Fix it meeting tomorrow.
by Ron Dean 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Is the Fixit meeting being held tomorrow . I would like to come if it is -- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904

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WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday June 5th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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job vacancy - Software Developer (Linux)
by John McPherson 31 May '10

31 May '10

Global-Pix.com runs several websites, including the Marathon-Photos.com site. In 2009 we photographed more than 400 events through 30 countries - taking more than 4 million images and recording over a thousand hours' worth of video footage. We are looking for another Programmer to join our small development team based at our offices in Hamilton. We want someone with a minimum of 3 years' programming experience, particularly with the Python programming language. In this position you would help maintain and program both customer-facing and internal/back-end systems, reporting to the team lead. You will be responsible for implementing feature and change requests as well as developing new projects. Most of our projects are written in python, but you have some latitude to use other technologies where appropriate. Any expertise in the following areas would be an advantage: * HTML, CSS and jQuery * Cheetah templating system * SQL databases * SMTP, IMAP Experience in system administration would also be a distinct advantage, especially: * Server internals (eg RAID, SATA, UPSes) * Debian GNU/Linux administration experience * LAN management (configuration, DNS/bind, diagnostics, etc) * Centralised account management - LDAP, SMB, SSH Salary is negotiable based on skillset and experience. Our office has a small and friendly atmosphere near the middle of the Hamilton CBD. Please send email to vacancies(a)global-pix.com to apply or request further information. (If you reply to this email, please ensure that your reply stays off-list) -- John McPherson

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Shared authentication, 2010 style
by Craig Box 27 May '10

27 May '10

Back in the day (a Wednesday, for those who remember it) us WLUG/NZLUG folks were pretty clued up when it came to things like connecting Linux machines to Active Directory using SAMBA [1]. However, kids these days just don't know what kind of crap we had to go through back then, and while I haven't done the testing myself, I'm pretty sure that today you just type 'apt-get install likewise-open', and you don't have to know any magic incantations at all. How about if you want to run a central directory on Linux, not on Windows? You could look at the Ubuntu guide [2]. Or "LDAP for the Lazy Sysadmin" [3]. Do go check that last one out - you don't have to read it all. Just scroll through it for a second. I'll wait. <<taps toes>> That isn't lazy at all! Lazy is paying Microsoft for Active Directory. Unfortunately, due to one complexity or another, it seemed AD often won out for a situation where you had to have some Windows machines as well as your Linux hosts. I remember thinking it strange back when Windows was supposed to be all about the desktop and Linux was supposed to be all about the server, that you got a better client experience on Linux and server experience on Windows. It's 2010 now. Flying cars, etc. I want central authentication across a small network of Ubuntu machines - no Windows machines are expected. Ultimately I'd like multi-master (I believe 389, formerly Fedora DS/Netscape Directory Server does this; and OpenLDAP does not?) so I don't have to think too much about failover/redundancy. Please, someone, tell me there is a better solution? Is there a turn-key method for this? Craig [1] http://www.wlug.org.nz/SambaAsPDC?action=PageHistory and http://www.wlug.org.nz/LDAPAuthentication?action=PageHistory for some examples. Look at the dates. [2] https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html [3] http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/LDAP/LazySysadmin

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Re: [wlug] [nzlug] Shared authentication, 2010 style
by Craig Box 25 May '10

25 May '10

> You'll want an LDAP server, a Kerberos server, NTP server, pam_ldap and pam_krb5. You can auth against ldap if you don't want kerberos, but I think krb is a much better solution. > > Setting up ldap will be the most pain, Active Directory and Open Directory come with schemas set up, but you'll have to figure out what you want yourself. I believe there are some gui tools for this these days, but last I checked it wasn't much better than 2002. See, that's the point. I /don't/ want any of that. I want to apt-get install --jfdi ubuntu-directory-server. Then I want to apt-get install ubuntu-managed-client. If I have to figure out what I need, the problem isn't solved. (Personally, I hate LDAP, but it is what it is.) Interestingly, there are blueprints and specs for almost every Ubuntu release in the last 2 years suggesting they should implement this, but there doesn't seem to be any movement. There is a guy working on a bunch of Puppet recipes, and should I end up using LDAP and automating deployment, I will probably end up contributing to this. </rant> Good news though, I did have another look at the eBox website today [1], and it seems they have a potential turn-key-esque answer. (Dagan, Apache Directory Studio looks quite good - I will check it out. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the "which schema do I choose" problem any.) Craig [1] http://www.ebox-platform.com/

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NZ Computer Society National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone
by David Hallett 24 May '10

24 May '10

NZ Computer Society National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone 9 June 2010: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Events Room 1, Gallagher Hub City Campus, Gate 5 Tristram Street, Hamilton NZCS is proud to bring you the next of the National ICT Series, this month focusing on ICT in a disaster zone and the role technology plays in saving lives. National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone As we know, ICT has transformed everyday life and changed the way we do things. As well as this, technology now plays a pivotal role in the global humanitarian and rescue response when disaster strikes around the world. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have established a number of IT & Telecommunications Emergency Response Units (ERUs) to help in the response to disasters and emergencies around the world. New Zealand's ERU was the 5th such unit and consists of a team of 20 with diverse backgrounds in telecommunications and ICT. The Emergency Response Units are charged with putting in place emergency telecommunications infrastructure to support the rescue effort. Ongoing power and internet outages as well as IT system software and hardware failures within the country create significant difficulties for Red Cross to maintain ongoing contact with key partners, field staff and external contacts, making this role essential. As an active member of the NZ Red Cross IT&T ERU, Steve Davis will outline the impact greater use of telecommunications and IT infrastructure has had on the rescue efforts in disaster-hit areas such as Haiti, Tonga and the Solomon Islands, the challenges faced, as well as some of the background to the Red Cross IT&T team. About The Speaker Steve Davis has a background in Radio Communications and IT spanning more than 25 years and has been putting this to use in the fields of Emergency Management and Disaster Response through a number of agencies over the past 18 years. Through an early interest in electronics and radio Steve obtained his amateur radio license in 1980, soon after becoming a member of the New Zealand Association of Amateur Radio Transmitters (NZART) and later joining the Amateur Radio Emergency Communications group (AREC). Steve has served as a member of the National Council for NZART, various offices for the local NZART branch and as Section Leader for the local AREC Section. Through AREC Steve became involved in Land Search and Rescue in New Zealand and has responded to many searches to provide communications and IT support at the Incident Control Point. Steve has also participated in local, regional and national roles of the Land SAR organisation over many years. In more recent times Steve has become a member of NZ Red Cross’s first International Emergency Response Unit, providing IT & Telecommunications support to International and Local Red Cross in times of a major disaster. Steve is currently self employed providing training, consulting and contracting services in a range of fields in the ICT and Emergency Management sectors, and is active in NZCS, Scouts NZ, and the Mountain Safety Council. Note: Light lunch provided. Free for NZCS members, inexpensive for others. Registration required at the following URL: http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/waikato_bop/152-National_Series_ICT_in_a_Disa… <http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/waikato_bop/139-National_Series_Transformatio…> Regards, David Hallett, BSc, MNZCS ITCP P.O. Box 15-516 Hamilton, New Zealand Phone: +64-7-210 5520 Mobile: +64-21-802 256

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 23 May '10

23 May '10

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Freedom Day 2010 A presentation and summary of previous SFD events that WLUG has run, and our plans for http://www.wlug.org.nz/SoftwareFreedomDay2010 May 24th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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Update problem
by john 23 May '10

23 May '10

I have a very strange problem. I had Ubuntu 9.10 working well on my desktop - after updating to 10.04, it would not recognise my mouse or keyboard - they are not usb, they are the older plug in types (?ps2). When I plugged in a usb mouse, and rebooted, both the usb and old devices worked intermittently. I then plugged in a usb wireless keyboard and mouse and all was well for a while but now both have ceased to function - I just get a stationary arrow and no way of accessing anything. They all work perfectly if I boot into windows as this is a dual boot computer. Any ideas?

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Fixit Day Next month
by Ron Dean 23 May '10

23 May '10

Is it being held on the 5th of June as it's Queens Birthday Weekend. -- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Nawton Hamilton Ph 8493904

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 20 May '10

20 May '10

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Freedom Day 2010 A presentation and summary of previous SFD events that WLUG has run, and our plans for http://www.wlug.org.nz/SoftwareFreedomDay2010 May 24th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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