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meeting next Monday
by Peter Reutemann 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hi everyone We have a WLUG meeting next week on Monday and Lawrence D'Oliveiro will talk about: - Using Android: UI conventions, vendor customization - Structure of Android: Linux kernel, use of processes and user IDs, Toolbox Shell - Programming Android: app (APK) structure, Java & Dalvik, Bionic runtime, privilege model, SDK, NDK (for C/C++ code), platform APIs, OpenGL-ES - Hacking Android: AOSP, alternative ROMs http://www.meetup.com/WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup/events/161631632/ 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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HamPUG: Hamilton Python User Group
by Peter Reutemann 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hi everyone For more local Python stuff in and around Hamilton (and the Waikato), we've set up a mailing list called "HamPUG": http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/hampug Scheduled meetings will appear on meetup.com and on this mailing list. Feel free to subscribe! :-) 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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CASE STUDY: NZ fruit distributor freshens up with Linux
by Peter Reutemann 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

"Turners&Growers made the move to Suse Linux and IBM's DB2, while converting to Unicode, inside a short timeframe, but have no regrets to date." -- source: http://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/540412 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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Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome
by Peter Reutemann 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

"Google's Chromium team is working on an alternative of Gtk+ for the browser, called Aura. Elliot Glaysher, a Google developer explains, 'We aim to launch the Aura graphics stack on Linux in M35. Aura is a cross-platform graphics system, and the Aura frontend will replace the current GTK+ frontend.' The Free Software community is debating: is Google trying to do Canonical? Couldn't Google just switch to Qt, which is becoming an industry standard?" -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/12/0147256 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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$2, 400 'Introduction To Linux' Course Will Be Free and Online This Summer
by Peter Reutemann 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

"Earlier this week, The Linux Foundation announced that it would be working with edX, a non-profit online learning site governed by Harvard and MIT, to make its "Introduction to Linux" course free and open to all. The Linux Foundation has long offered a wide variety of training courses through its website, but those can generally cost upwards of $2,000. This introductory class, which usually costs $2,400, will be the first from the Linux Foundation to run as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/03/08/2258208 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 Releases Calligra Suite 2.8
by Peter Reutemann 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

"The Calligra team is proud and pleased to announce the release of version 2.8 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine. Major new features in this release are comments support in Author and Words, improved Pivot tables in Sheets, improved stability and the ability to open hyperlinks in Kexi. Flow introduces SVG based stencils and as usual there are many new features in Krita including touch screens support and a wraparound painting mode for the creation of textures and tiles." -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/08/0454245 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 attack on HTTPS crypto might reveal if you're pregnant or have cancer
by Peter Reutemann 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

"As the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, HTTPS encryption has seen its share of attacks, most of which work by exploiting weaknesses that allow snoops to decode cryptographically scrambled traffic. Now there's a novel technique that can pluck out details as personal as someone's sexual orientation or a contemplation of suicide, even when the protection remains intact." -- source: http://bit.ly/1czsdHI 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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Computer History 6/6
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Some old classics there. But boy, have we come a long way since characters made out of spheres and cylinders...

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Computer History 4/6
by Lawrence D'Oliveiro 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

And if you want to see how far computer graphics has come, try this one:

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Canonical Ports Chromium To The Mir Display Server
by Peter Reutemann 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

"Months after Intel ported the Chromium open-source web browser to Wayland, Chromium is now running on Ubuntu's Mir. The Mir display server port ended up being based on Wayland's Chromium code for interfacing with Google's Ozone abstraction framework. The Ubuntu developer responsible for this work makes claims that they will be trying to better collaborate with Wayland developers over this code." -- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/03/05/1240226 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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