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Media Statement - Kiwi PyCon 2010
by Tim Knapp 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hello, Please find below the Media Statement for Kiwi PyCon 2010. Kind regards, Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Python User Group Incorporated Media Statement For immediate release 24 September 2010 Major IT players support Python Conference 2010 Over 150 computer programming enthusiasts are set to meet at the Kiwi PyCon 2010 conference on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 November at the Copthorne Hotel & Resort Bay of Islands in Waitangi. Python, a programming language used throughout the world, has a massive following and Python conferences are held around the globe. Kiwi PyCon is New Zealand's Python community coming together and will cover the use of Python in the scientific, web, mobile, gaming, and animation fields. The event has garnered notable support, with Catalyst IT and Microsoft as major sponsors and many other well known companies and organisations including the Python Software Foundation, Plone Foundation, Atlassian, Enthought, Tait Radio Communications, Apress, Packt Publishing, O'Reilly, ThinkGeek, Amazon Web Services, Wingware, ANZTB, Mozilla and ActiveState all backing the conference. Organised by the New Zealand Python User Group Inc.(NZPUG), it promises to bring together developers, designers and business people who will listen to industry speakers. US-based Jacob Kaplan-Moss, creator of "Django", a successful and widely used web application framework along with Anthony Baxter, long-time release manager of Python from Melbourne are keynote speakers for the event. Kiwi PyCon 2010 topics will include: • “How Python is influencing neuroscience research" • Microsoft (Australia) showing how they support Python on their "Azure" platform • Amazon web service • Gmail gadgets • "Going Global : Using Best Effort Translation To Create Multilingual Web Apps" • Python and Java • Python in Astronomy Another guest speaker for the conference is Matt Provost, Systems Manager at Weta Digital, five-time Academy award winning visual effects facility located in Wellington. Matt will speak about "Python in the Datacentre", as he manages all Weta Digital servers, storage and networking which occupies five positions on the Top 500 Supercomputer list. Danny Adair, NZPUG's founding president said “Python is used everywhere, and for anyone interested in or using the language, our annual conference is the place to be.” Kiwi PyCon 2010 registrations are now open. To make your booking for the conference or for more information visit http://nz.pycon.org ---------------Ends--------------------- For media or conference enquiries please contact: Danny Adair, NZPUG President Phone: (09) 9555 101 Email: kiwipycon(a)nzpug.org Website: http://nz.pycon.org

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EDAY November 6th - volunteers wanted
by Bruce Kingsbury 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Still looking for volunteers for EDAY on Nov 6th, if anyone wants to come along contact me (offlist) with name, phone and email and I'll add you to the list and then Vanessa will contact you will all the details you need to know. Drop off point will be the same as last year, Habitat for Humanity 29 Bryant Rd More information about eday is at http://www.eday.org.nz/ -- 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: Advanced Robotics - The Future of Aged Care Services
by David Hallett 20 Oct '10

20 Oct '10

NZ Computer Society National Series: Advanced Robotics - The Future of Aged Care Services 18 November 2010: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Events Room 2 Gallagher Hub Gate 5, Tristam Street Hamilton National Series: Advanced Robotics - The Future of Aged Care Services The statistics around the aging population in New Zealand are worrying whichever way we look at it. Currently over 500,000 people are aged 65+, projected to double by 2028. By 2051, greater than 25% of our population is expected to be over 70. This increase will bring about major logistical issues in how we, as a country, care for our elderly. More people will require support, and already the ratio of nurses and care-givers to elderly clients is low. Can technology help bridge this gap? In this presentation Gillian Reid FNZCS ITCP, Deputy Chair of the Selwyn Foundation, will outline how technologies such as Charlie are innovating aged-care healthcare, how and why Charlie was designed, and the impact early prototypes are making in trials at Selwyn Village in Auckland. 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/228-Advanced_Robotics 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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4 wire modems
by Craig Bates 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Does anybody have some old school 4 wire leased line modems (9k6 vintage) lying in the junk pile that they may want to part with? ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================

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Spontaneous suspend
by Glenn Ramsey 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, I have a laptop running Kubuntu 8.04 and it has begun spontaneously going to sleep a short time after I log in. After resuming everything appears to work fine. If I don't log in then it will sit on the greeter screen without suspending. I suspect there is something in my .kde/ that is doing this. Anyone know what I should be looking for? Cheers Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey<glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 09 9735603 http://www.componic.co.nz

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- StephenHeywood will be giving a presentation on Inkscape. Be there or be <rect width="100" height="100" style="fill:#000000;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1px" />. http://www.wlug.org.nz/ http://blog.runecolony.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/i_iz_serius_admnim_th… October 18th 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 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labour Weekend, meeting moved to previous week.

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sudo command not found
by Gregory Machin 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi Sudo has me boggled ..... I'm trying to configure a group %linuxadmins .. My account is a member of linuxadmins , when I sudo iptables -h I get "sudo: iptables: command not found". If I sudo /sbin/iptables -h it works fine. My config is at follows (standard config) Cmnd_Alias NETWORKING = /sbin/route, /sbin/ifconfig, /bin/ping, /sbin/dhclient, /usr/bin/net, /sbin/iptables, /usr/bin/rfcomm, /usr/bin/wvdial, /sbin/iwconfig, /sbin/mii-tool Cmnd_Alias SOFTWARE = /bin/rpm, /usr/bin/up2date, /usr/bin/yum Cmnd_Alias SERVICES = /sbin/service, /sbin/chkconfig Cmnd_Alias LOCATE = /usr/bin/updatedb Cmnd_Alias STORAGE = /sbin/fdisk, /sbin/sfdisk, /sbin/parted, /sbin/partprobe, /bin/mount, /bin/umount Cmnd_Alias DELEGATING = /usr/sbin/visudo, /bin/chown, /bin/chmod, /bin/chgrp Cmnd_Alias PROCESSES = /bin/nice, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/kill, /usr/bin/killall Cmnd_Alias DRIVERS = /sbin/modprobe Defaults requiretty Defaults env_reset Defaults env_keep = "COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC KDEDIR \ LS_COLORS MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME \ LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION \ LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC \ LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS \ _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY" %linuxadmins ALL=(ALL) ALL I have also tried %linuxadmins ALL = NETWORKING, SOFTWARE, SERVICES, STORAGE, DELEGATING, PROCESSES, LOCATE, DRIVERS with the same results. Thanks Greg -- - TLA - three letter acronym ... - We are loosing the art of communication through progress.. Proverbs 27:17 (New International Version) 17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

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Re: [wlug] Maverick Upgrade complete... - i have a strange bug
by Liz Quilty 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Let me know if you have had problem playing flash videos at all, I've had a fair few problems with it logging up. I have tried kde, gnome, kdm, gdm, straight X windows without anything, Brand new login with fresh profile etc and still getting the bug. Chrome has its own flash plugin which still has the problem, firefox with standard plugin also has the same bug. basically after about 2 mins it locks up, the active window is still usable (ie a konsole) , and mouse moves but can't click. I can use the keyboard to type but not to navigate alt+tab to other windows etc. I can get to tty1 and back no problems but again not change windows in the window manager. If anyone has got a similar problem, or a fix, let me know. Liz On 15 October 2010 17:14, Sandwalker <sandwalker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > As far as I can tell, the clean install worked flawlessly, and I can still > switch between Windows and Maverick. Now I'm just trying to figure out how > to get my HDD temp applet back into my panel. > > Sandy > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Upgrading to Maverick...
by Sandwalker 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

As far as I can tell, Maverick seems to work just fine. However, I haven't installed it yet. Has anyone here got a dual-boot system with Windows 7? I've read about this bug where grub2's bootloader is overwritten after running Windows, and I don't know if it applies to this distribution as well -- I'm rather wary of upgrading (a clean install in this case, as I'm skipping Lucid) as a result. I would like to upgrade, as it finally fixes the inability of my laptop to mute the internal speakers when headphones are plugged in (that's really the major reason why I want to upgrade; the other one is that Karmic's running rather slowly after a year). Sandy

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