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Useful blogs/websites
by Daniel Lawson 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hey guys Thought I'd point out a couple of useful websites that have been collecting in my rss reader http://www.debian-administration.org/ often has some useful posts on it. Yes, it's Debian focussed, which also means it mostly applies to Ubuntu as well, but a lot of the stuff that comes up applies to all distros just as readily. For example, the author is currently trying to run a daily series of "Commands you might have missed", covering off simple utilities like pstree and watch that a lot of people don't know about. http://debaday.debian.net/ tries to cover off a Debian Package of the Day, however the author struggle for content to keep it going at that rate. Still comes up with some useful entries at least twice a week. http://www.debuntu.org/ is a Debian and Ubuntu tips and tricks page. The OpenSource Toolbox at http://ostoolbox.blogspot.com/ covers a wider range of projects and platforms than the above http://www.linuxdevices.com/ is a site dedicated to embedded devices and platforms that interoperate or run linux (and other free or open platforms I think) If you're interested in following kernel developments, then www.kerneltrap.org and www.kernelplanet.org might be interesting to you. The former is a meta-discussion of what's going on in the linux kernel mailing list, and the latter is an aggregation of various kernel developers blogs, so quite often has a lot of other random stuff in it. And of course, there's the WLUG wiki at http://www.wlug.org.nz and Planet WLUG at http://planet.wlug.org.nz/, if you didn't know about them already :) Daniel

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Laptop Query
by James Pluck 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hi all! Does anyone know if the below laptop will work ok under Linux (I'm thinking Ubuntu Hardy) I am looking for a lappy to use as a general portable workhorse for checking mail and a LAMP/AJAX/Ruby etc coding platform. I'm keeping the desktop as a games machine but want something I can take with me to the library, etc for quiet time coding or whatever. J -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."

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Big Buck Bunny builds a better Blender
by Bruce Kingsbury 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Thought this might be of interest to the list, particularly after covering the Blender software and BBB movie at John's presentation. *Big Buck Bunny* is the colorful product of the Peach<http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/>open movie project: an animated short released online and on DVD. But in addition to the 'toon itself, Peach has produced an altogether different yield: improvements to the Blender <http://www.blender.org/> 3-D modeling application. Like its predecessor Project Orange<http://orange.blender.org/>, Peach pushed the open source tool forward with the demands of a real-world media production, in a way that hobbyist usage cannot. http://www.linux.com/feature/139454 -- This email is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient you must burn your computer, while standing on one foot and chanting the entire jabberwocky. The opinions expressed here are not necessarily the opinions of the person who expressed them.

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Open-source laptop tracking system for laptops
by Michael McDonald 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Interested to see this open source solution being promoted ... New service tracks missing laptops for free Researchers have developed a free open-source laptop tracking system for laptops By Robert McMillan San Francisco | Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/EC980DF9A9B079E6CC257486006F02AC Michael

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waikato imap
by Justin Hyde 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

I had similar problems and only got it to work after changing the password. AFAIK this is only possible from off-campus, blocked ports on-campus and can't go through proxy server. Cheers > hey, it works ;) the problem was the synchronisation of password. I > changed it, went to the UnlockChapta Link. And that's it! > Big Thanx to everyone for your support. > > Colin Palmer wrote: > >* On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 11:53 +1200, Ivo Senner wrote: > *>* > *>>* So this is my first question: I've tried to setup an imap account for > *>>* my university address at thunderbird. But everytime I trying to > *>>* connect to imap.gmail.com i get the message "Invalid credentials > *>>* (Failure)". While searching in google for a solution I can only find > *>>* the notice to activate IMAP at webmail. That was the first thing i've > *>>* done. Does anyone know something about this behaviour? or how to setup > *>>* the imap-account correctly? > *>>* > *>* > *>* The ITS service desk are the best people to ask about this, since some > *>* of the details are UoW specific. However most of what you need to know > *>* is here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662 > *>* > *>* Things to note: > *>* > *>* - SSL/port 993 is compulsory, standard IMAP won't work. > *>* - Your IMAP username is <user>@students.waikato.ac.nz > *>* - Your password should be the same as your UoW one, but may not be > *>* sychronised, especially if you've never used > *>* https://tools.its.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/changepw so go there and set a > *>* new password. > *>* - It's easy to lock yourself out by entering the wrong password too many > *>* times, so you may need to visit > *>* https://www.google.com/a/students.waikato.ac.nz/UnlockCaptcha before > *>* trying again. This will confirm the new password you just set works. > *>* > *>* > * > >

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waikato imap
by Ivo Senner 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

hey guys, I'm new at the UoW and also at this mailinglist ;) If someone is interested in this: I'm from Germany, 22 years old, using archlinux and (at my workstation at home) gentoo. So this is my first question: I've tried to setup an imap account for my university address at thunderbird. But everytime I trying to connect to imap.gmail.com i get the message "Invalid credentials (Failure)". While searching in google for a solution I can only find the notice to activate IMAP at webmail. That was the first thing i've done. Does anyone know something about this behaviour? or how to setup the imap-account correctly? Thanx and greatz, Ivo

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SA govt to rig buses for free internet
by Michael McDonald 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Interesting plans for buses in South Australia ... SA govt to rig buses for free internet The South Australian Government is planning to offer free internet on the state's public transport system to make it more appealing to use — but it needs to find a hardware vendor and ISP willing to install the technology first. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/SA-govt-to-rig-buses-for-free-int… Michael

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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

As per the WLUG charter, please note that there is a WLUG executive committee meeting one week from today. If you wish to get an item on the agenda for this meeting, please email it to secretary(a)wlug.org.nz. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Previous Minutes # Treasurers report # Correspondence # Matters # Server status # General business

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Fwd: FW: Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington]
by Chris O'Halloran 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

-----Original Message----- From: Roger Sinel [mailto:roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.com] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 6:54 a.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] Richard Stallman has already offered to come to Waikato University during his August visit to NZ and do a talk, I talked to him in the 26th of febuary this year in Stockholm Sweden about it. http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/?p=109 I'd like to know if the arrangements where ever finalized? I posted this offer from Richard on this list. Does anyone know if Richard Stallman will actually talk in Hamilton? /Roger -----Original Message----- From: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Reply-To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: [wlug] Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:23:27 +1200 Please see below - hopefully someone will pick this up from the committee. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <iam4(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:21 AM Subject: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Stallman visiting Wellington From: "Steve Reeves" <stever(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 12:29 pm To: cs-lecturers(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz cs-grads(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wonder if he's got time to come up here again? Would someone in WLUG be able to get something arranged? Steve Begin forwarded message: > From: Green Party <greenparty(a)greens.org.nz> > Date: 9 July 2008 12:10:46 GMT+12:00 > To: "dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz" <dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz>, IT Commitee <IT(a)lists.greens.org.nz > >, nandor(a)greens.org.nz > Subject: [IT] [Fwd: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington] > Reply-To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz, Information Technology <it(a)lists.greens.org.nz > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:09:24 +1200 > From: Peter Lambrechtsen <plambrechtsen(a)gmail.com> > To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz > CC: don(a)catalyst.net.nz > > Hello > > As per our conversation, Richard Stallman who is the founder of GNU > (www.gnu.org) and the GPL License, and is the authority on Free > Software and is a passionate speaker on such topics. He will be in > Wellington from the 13th until the 17th of August. > > A brief bio of Richard Stallman: > > Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system > (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the > freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes > either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU > operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of > computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a > MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's > Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic > Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. > > > I know Nandor Tanczos had an interest about Linux and Free Software > and was interested in contacting him directly. > > I will be organising his itinerary and main point of contact during > his visit to Wellington and was interested in if the Greens were > interested in a meeting / presentation or some media event with him. > > Please either e-mail me back, or call me on 04 470 5540 or 0272 905 > 735 and we can talk further. > > Kind regards. > > Peter Lambrechtsen > > -- > Michael Pringle > National Administrator > Green Party > PO Box 11 652 > Wellington > Phone 04 801 5102 > Fax 04 801 5104 > Mobile 021 119 6714 > greenparty(a)greens.org.nz > www.greens.org.nz > > _______________________________________________ > IT mailing list > IT(a)lists.greens.org.nz > http://tui.greens.org.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/it ******************************************************** Professor Steve Reeves Department of Computer Science The University of Waikato Hamilton 3240 New Zealand Tel: +64 7 838 4398 Fax: +64 7 858 5095 Email: stever(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz Web: www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~stever -- ?Mvh Roger Sinel roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.com www.nordickiwi.com + gpg key -- http://www.nordickiwi.com/rsinel.asc + fingerprint -- F0EF 2C17 99CA DC06 132A 967F B642 D0BA 6503 87C7

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Fwd: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington]
by Ian McDonald 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Please see below - hopefully someone will pick this up from the committee. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <iam4(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:21 AM Subject: [Fwd: Stallman visiting Wellington] To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Stallman visiting Wellington From: "Steve Reeves" <stever(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Wed, July 9, 2008 12:29 pm To: cs-lecturers(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz cs-grads(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wonder if he's got time to come up here again? Would someone in WLUG be able to get something arranged? Steve Begin forwarded message: > From: Green Party <greenparty(a)greens.org.nz> > Date: 9 July 2008 12:10:46 GMT+12:00 > To: "dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz" <dd(a)lists.greens.org.nz>, IT Commitee <IT(a)lists.greens.org.nz > >, nandor(a)greens.org.nz > Subject: [IT] [Fwd: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington] > Reply-To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz, Information Technology <it(a)lists.greens.org.nz > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Richard Stallman visiting Wellington > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:09:24 +1200 > From: Peter Lambrechtsen <plambrechtsen(a)gmail.com> > To: greenparty(a)greens.org.nz > CC: don(a)catalyst.net.nz > > Hello > > As per our conversation, Richard Stallman who is the founder of GNU > (www.gnu.org) and the GPL License, and is the authority on Free > Software and is a passionate speaker on such topics. He will be in > Wellington from the 13th until the 17th of August. > > A brief bio of Richard Stallman: > > Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system > (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the > freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes > either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU > operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of > computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a > MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's > Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic > Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. > > > I know Nandor Tanczos had an interest about Linux and Free Software > and was interested in contacting him directly. > > I will be organising his itinerary and main point of contact during > his visit to Wellington and was interested in if the Greens were > interested in a meeting / presentation or some media event with him. > > Please either e-mail me back, or call me on 04 470 5540 or 0272 905 > 735 and we can talk further. > > Kind regards. > > Peter Lambrechtsen > > -- > Michael Pringle > National Administrator > Green Party > PO Box 11 652 > Wellington > Phone 04 801 5102 > Fax 04 801 5104 > Mobile 021 119 6714 > greenparty(a)greens.org.nz > www.greens.org.nz > > _______________________________________________ > IT mailing list > IT(a)lists.greens.org.nz > http://tui.greens.org.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/it ******************************************************** Professor Steve Reeves Department of Computer Science The University of Waikato Hamilton 3240 New Zealand Tel: +64 7 838 4398 Fax: +64 7 858 5095 Email: stever(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz Web: www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~stever -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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