February 2019 - luv-announce

LUV March 2019 Main Meeting: ZeroTier / Ethics in the computer realm
by Andrew Pam 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Adrian Close: ZeroTier * Enno Davids: Ethics - Weasel words, weasel words, weasel words, bad thing ZeroTier -------- Please note that as Adrian was not able to present this talk in February he will be giving it this month instead. Adrian is going to talk about using ZeroTier as the basis for a resilient WAN. Also for access to and between boxes that have no direct inbound connectivity. And for VPN purposes. And for doing interesting stuff with traffic redirection and inspection. He has worked in the local Internet industry for the last 25 years or so, doing *nix sysadmin, security and networking, and generally just trying to make stuff work. Ethics - Weasel words, weasel words, weasel words, bad thing ------------------------------------------------------------ A discussion of ethical considerations inherent in using and writing software, highlighting that there are few if any hard and fast lines and that while your ethics and mine may coincide, our ethics and that other guy's may not. WARNING: copious real world examples and audience participation may be involved. Enno is a 35+ year veteran of the UNIX and Open Source fields. Having both contributed to and made use of the technologies the community has created he has a good relationship with the creators of commercial and free (in its various interpretations) software. Of late Enno has been involved in data collection both the typical OS and app based as well as remotely probed embedded (Arduino and wemos/lolin), and other monitoring and big data. Splunk has been a speciality for some time now as have some of the newer tools that appear at regular intervals. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or Trotters Bistro in Lygon St. Please let us know if you'd like to join us! Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.

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LUV February 2019 Workshop
by Andrew Pam 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Start: Feb 23 2019 12:30 End: Feb 23 2019 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Topic to be announced There will also be the usual casual hands-on workshop, Linux installation, configuration and assistance and advice. Bring your laptop if you need help with a particular issue. This will now occur BEFORE the talks from 12:30 to 14:00. The talks will commence at 14:00 (2pm) so there is time for people to have lunch nearby. The meeting will be held at Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond 3121. Late arrivals please call (0421) 775 358 for access to the venue. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange for the venue. Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.

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Fwd: Update on tonight's speakers.
by Andrew Pam 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: achalmers(a)westnet.com.au Date: 5 Feb. 2019 14:08 Subject: Update on tonight's speakers. Hi everyone, I am saddened to report that Adrian Close has fallen ill and will not be speaking tonight as planned. We do have Lilly Ryan speaking on social media platforms and what happens to user accounts and data post mortem. In addition we will have Andrew Pam giving us all a run down of LCA 2019 ... especially valuable for those of us that were unable to attend this year. Hope to see you all tonight! Kind regards, ALC

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Fwd: Old 3.5" floppy drives
by Andrew Pam 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul(a)servalproject.org> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 08:53:03 +1030 Subject: Old 3.5" floppy drives To: Linux SA <linuxsa(a)linuxsa.org.au> Hello all, We are looking to collect 3.5" floppy drives for use in prototypes and pre-production units of the MEGA65 retro computer (the one I used for my presentation at LCA2019 last week). However, it seems that in the last couple of years the supply of new floppy drives has finally dried up. Thus we are looking under our proverbial couch cushions to find as many as we can. If any of you have a stash of old drives, or even single units, we'd love to hear from you! Paul.

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Fwd: PCP.CONF 2019 - Melbourne
by Andrew Pam 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Nathan Scott <nathans(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 21:24:20 +1100 I'm one of the organisers of the open source Performance Co-Pilot (pcp.io) annual conference, which will be held in Melbourne this year. The conference includes various talks on PCP as well as other open source software used in conjunction with PCP for analysis - e.g. Grafana (grafana.com) Vector (getvector.io) and Redis (redis.io). The planned schedule is: https://pcp.io/conference/2019/schedule.html It's a free (as in beer and speech), single day event on March 1st. We'd like people to register so we can ensure sufficient seats, tea and coffee - https://pcp.io/conference/2019/home.html I imagine there may be a few LUV members who might be interested in attending - if you could share this message with them it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks! cheers. -- Nathan

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LUV February 2018 Main Meeting: All users will eventually die / ZeroTier
by Andrew Pam 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Lilly Ryan: Why is software still so bad at acknowledging that all users will eventually die? * Adrian: ZeroTier Why is software still so bad at acknowledging that all users will eventually die? Lilly Ryan is a pen tester, Python wrangler, and recovering historian from Melbourne. She writes and speaks internationally about ethical software, social identities after death, teamwork, and the telegraph. More recently she has researched the domestic use of arsenic in Victorian England, attempted urban camouflage, reverse engineered APIs, wielded the Oxford comma, and baked a really good lemon and coconut cake. ZeroTier Adrian is going to talk about using ZeroTier as the basis for a resilient WAN. Also for access to and between boxes that have no direct inbound connectivity. And for VPN purposes. And for doing interesting stuff with traffic redirection and inspection. He has worked in the local Internet industry for the last 25 years or so, doing *nix sysadmin, security and networking, and generally just trying to make stuff work. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or Trotters Bistro in Lygon St. Please let us know if you'd like to join us! Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.

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