"Gnome 3.6 is out. The announcement reads: 'The GNOME Project is proud
to present GNOME 3.6, the third update to the 3.x series. This latest
version of GNOME 3 includes a number of new features and enhancements,
as well as many bug fixes and minor improvements. Together, they
represent a significant upgrade to the GNOME 3 user experience.
Andreas Nilsson, President of the GNOME Foundation, said: “The GNOME
Foundation is proud to present this latest GNOME release, and I would
like to congratulate the GNOME community on its achievement.” He
described the release as “an important milestone in our mission to
bring a free and open computing environment to everyone.”' New
applications include Clocks and Boxes. Clocks is a world time clock,
which allows you to keep an eye on what the local time is around the
world. Boxes allows you to connect to other machines, either virtual
or remote. For developers there's the new GtkLevelBar widget in GTK+,
and GtkEntry can now use Pango attributes."
-- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/26/2228204/gnome-36-released
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday:
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Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 7:30pm onwards
Topics
* TBA
Hi All,
Does anyone have anything they would like to present at the next
Monday meeting, or any requests for presentations that some of our
members may be able to fill?
I see from the committee meeting minutes suggestions include android
and btrfs. I would be happy to collaborate with someone on an Android
presentation as I think being such a diverse platform a presentation
could benefit from multiple points of view - maybe we could have an
android show and tell? Does anyone have a decent quality webcam or
video camera that could be used to show Android demos on the big
screen? Or a rooted android device with a VNC server or similar?
Cheers,
Rene
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>From Rene Bartosh (Gmail account) <kirjava(a)gmail.com>
Personal: http://kirjava.net.nz/
The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today:
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Meet up at the university: MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
Time: 7:30pm onwards
Topics
* TBA
Just wondering if anyone found themselves with a spare microsd cable after
Saturday, Verne is short of one and would like it back if it turns up,
thanks ..
Institute of IT Professionals National Series: Real World IT Security
20 September 2012: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Wintec City Campus
Events Room 2
Gallagher Hub
Gate 3, Tristram Street
Hamilton
National Series: Real World IT Security
As professionals we're trying our best to protect our customer's
information, store it securely, on secure websites, behind layers of
firewalls, authentication and encryption. All the while our customers are
trying their best to share every personal detail with the world, use the
simplest passwords possible, and then run everything from their own device
which they refuse to lock-down or patch! No wonder there's a security
breach in the news every week!
In this session we'll review what attacks are actually happening in the
real world, show how they're being put together and see what's the biggest
risk - technology or people?
About The Speaker
Andy Prow is Managing Director of security specialists Aura Information
Security, is an ITCP Certified Professional and holds a BSc(Hons) in
Computer Science and Software Engineering.
With over 19 years of IT experience Andy has designed and written software
for companies including IBM, Telecom, Vodafone, Ericsson and Microsoft.
Andy launched the Aura group of companies in 2001 and Aura InfoSec has
developed into one of NZ's leading IT Security Consulting practices with
many significant clients including the NZ Government, Xero, TradeMe and
Banking and Corporate companies in New Zealand and overseas.
Note: Light lunch provided. Free for IITP members, inexpensive for others.
Registration required at the following URL:
http://www.iitp.org.nz/events/waikato_bop/633-Real_World_IT_Security
Regards,
David Hallett, BSc, MIITP ITCP
P.O. Box 15-516
Hamilton, New Zealand
Mobile: +64-21-802 256
Hi everyone
Just a friendly reminder (since the bot didn't seem to send out
anything), that we'll be celebrating Software Freedom Day 2012
tomorrow!
For more information visit this URL:
http://wlug.org.nz/sfd
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"A team of computational engineers over at the University of
Southampton led by Professor Simon Cox have built a supercomputer
using Raspberry Pi and Lego. The supercomputer is comprised of 64
processors, 1TB of storage (16GB SD cards in each of the Raspberry
Pis) and can be powered on using just a single 13-amp mains socket.
MPI is used for communications between the nodes through the ethernet
port. The team managed to build the core of the supercomputer for
under £2500. Named 'Iridis-Pi' after University of Southampton's
supercomputer Iridis, the supercomputer runs software that was built
using Python and Scratch. Professor Cox used the free plug-in 'Python
Tools for Visual Studio' to develop code for the Raspberry Pi."
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/09/12/145256/university-team-builds-l…
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
