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LUV Main June 2013 Meeting: GNU Screen and DRM in HTML5
by Lev Lafayette 28 May '13

28 May '13

Start: Jun 4 2013 19:00 End: Jun 4 2013 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map * Malcolm Herbert, Introduction to GNU Screen Malcolm has been hacking and playing with a range of Unix systems of different flavours since 1991 in a variety of environments. Over time he's encountered tools that manage to get the job done with a minimum of fuss and have incorporated these into the set that he use on a daily basis; screen is one such tool and is sometimes referred to as the Swiss Army chainsaw of the Unix world. In a nutshell, screen is a terminal multiplexing tool. Rather than run multiple individual terminals on your local host (ie, PuTTY windows, Konsole tabs) for various tasks, screen allows a single local window to manage multiple instances of shells on the remote host. Configuration options allow maintenance of remote session state despite network interruption; multiple active heads; session logging; cut and paste; plus many others. * Adam Bolte, DRM in HTML5 I thought I'd post a few links that I've found useful while looking into this topic, in case anyone else wants to do some light reading before the meet-up. Slashdot: W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML http://slashdot.org/story/13/02/12/014257/w3c-declares-drm-in-scope-for-html W3C: Encrypted Media Extensions Working Draft https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-me… EEF: Defend the Open Web - Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/defend-open-web-keep-drm-out-w3c-stan… Slashdot: Netflix Using HTML5 Video For ARM Chromebook http://slashdot.org/story/13/03/11/2155219/netflix-using-html5-video-for-ar… "Recently Google enabled the much controversial DRM support for HTML5 in Chrome OS to bring services like Netflix to Chromebooks using HTML5." The technology is already in use and is being heavily pushed by Google and Netflix (obviously) as well as apparently Apple and Microsoft. We need to ensure Mozilla does not cave (as they did with H.264). Slashdot: Netflix wants to go HTML5 but not without DRM http://slashdot.org/story/13/04/16/1228245/netflix-wants-to-go-html5-but-no… W3C: Bugzilla - #20960 EME is not limited to video, reported by Fred Andrews https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20960 This is particularly interesting (and scary) - definitely worth a look. Defective by Design: No DRM in HTML5 http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5 W3C wiki: Digital Rights Management (also maintained by Fred Andrews) http://www.w3.org/community/pua/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management Hacker News: Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5422890 See pyalot2's post near the top for more insight on why this is a bad idea. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 61 432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Library of LUV - new and interesting!
by Lev Lafayette 21 May '13

21 May '13

Library of LUV is a collection of books available for loan to members. The canonical list of library books is now at our LibraryThing, including the current location of the book (if blank, it's with the committee). http://www.librarything.com/catalog/luv.asn.au/ Please note that some of this list hasn't been updated for quite a while. If there is an incorrect entry please let us know. If you've had a book borrowed for "a while", please consider returning it at the next meeting. Really, a year is too long. Share the luv. The LUV Wiki page LoLbooks provides a queue of people who want to borrow a book. http://wiki.luv.asn.au/LoLbooks You need to login to the wiki before you can edit pages. Your wiki login is identical to the main LUV website login. If you don't have an account on the main website you can create one. If there isn't a queue, start one and message the person who has the book - which may be the librarian. Use the "E-mail this user" facility on their user page to message them. If that doesn't work, you could contact the luv-ctte. Books loaned out for a month at a time, but can be renewed at the end of month if there's nobody in the queue. There is a hard limit of a year however. After that you should have read it! If you have some reasonably useful Linux-related books that you wish to donate to the library please do so. We'd luv to have them. Thanks! -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 61 432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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May 2013 -- Beginners' Workshop, Supercomputers
by Les Kitchen 04 May '13

04 May '13

Start: May 18 2013 12:30 End: May 18 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Lev Lafayette, A Beginner's Introduction to Supercomputers General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginner's workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main May Meeting: Open-Stack and Ubuntu phones
by Les Kitchen 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Start: May 7 2013 19:00 End: May 7 2013 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map * Martin Paulo: An Open-Stack Tutorial * Aryan Ameri: Ubuntu Phones The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners' Meeting, 20 April
by Les Kitchen 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Start: Apr 20 2013 12:30 End: Apr 20 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Alex Garber, New Features and Current Developments in OpenShot OpenShot is a free video editor for Linux, http://www.openshot.org/ General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginner's workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main April Meeting, R and Networking, 2 April, 7pm
by Les Kitchen 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

[Also at https://luv.asn.au/2013/04/02.] Start: Apr 2 2013 19:00 End: Apr 2 2013 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map * Andrew Robinson, R: A Statistical Package on Linux * Julien Goodwin, Networking things all Systems Administrators should know Andrew Robinson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, and on the Management Executive Committee of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis. He is the co-author of the books, Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, and Forest Analytics with R: An Introduction. Julien Goodwin is a Network Engineer at Google Sydney, working day-to-day maintaining one of the worlds largest IP networks. In the past he has worked as a (primarily Linux) Sys Admin on educational networks, and in small businesses. He has a long history working with the Australian FOSS community and was former LUV committee member and a member of the LCA2008 team. His talk covers the basics and "gotchas" of seven small aspects of networking, from weird things that can happen with traceroute, how broadband access networks work, how large scale Internet services use tools like anycast and DNS to share load, why NAT is not a security measure, and why IPv6 is so simple to deploy you're probably already running it. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners' Workshop, 16 March, Open Content Creation Tools
by Les Kitchen 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

[Also on LUV website at: http://luv.asn.au/2013/03/16] March 2013 -- Beginners' Workshop Start: Mar 16 2013 12:30 End: Mar 16 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Andrew Pam: Open Content Creation Tools General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginners' workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners' Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main March Meeting: Linux in 'Omics and LCA
by Les Kitchen 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

[Also at http://luv.asn.au/2013/03/05] Start: Mar 5 2013 19:00 End: Mar 5 2013 21:00 Location: * David Perkins, VPAC/Bio21, The Critical Importance of Linux in 'Omics (Proteonomics, Genomics, Variomics) * A Summary of Speeches from LCA (Linux Conference Australia) The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main March Meeting: Linux in 'Omics and LCA
by Lev Lafayette 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Start: Mar 5 2013 19:00 End: Mar 5 2013 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map * David Perkins, VPAC/Bio21 The Critical Importance of Linux in 'Omics (Proteonomics, Genomics, Variomics) * The Best of LCA 2013 - a Video Compilation The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 61 432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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This Saturday: LUV Beginner's Workshop - A wrap up of Open Source Systems conference 2012 and LinuxCon Europe 2012.
by Lev Lafayette 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

February 2013 -- Beginners' Workshop Start: Feb 16 2013 12:30 End: Feb 16 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Kathy Reid: A wrap up of Open Source Systems conference 2012 and LinuxCon Europe 2012. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginner's workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne Central train station. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 61 432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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