I'm looking at setting up a machine as a video conferencing PC. I want to
deploy it to end users as an indestructable PC, where if they start it up,
it presents them with a menu that allows them to run exactly 3 programs
(web browser, another video conferencing program, and pavucontrol to set
sound settings).
I was thinking of using XFCE or another lightweight window manager to do
this, but was wondering if anyone knows of a kiosk PC style distro where
you can lock everything down, and possibly allow immutable config, so the
end user can change settings while the PC is on, but as soon as you
restart, it goes back to a precoded set of configs.
Sean
Not 100% related to Linux but pretty close...
The open standards selected for sharing and viewing government documents
have been announced by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude.
The standards set out the document file formats that are expected to be
used across all government bodies. Government will begin using open
formats that will ensure that citizens and people working in government
can use the applications that best meet their needs when they are viewing
or working on documents together.
...
The selected standards, which are compatible with commonly used document
applications, are:
* PDF/A or HTML for viewing government documents
* Open Document Format (ODF) for sharing or collaborating on government
documents
More at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-u…
Arguments for decision here:
http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-docu…
--
Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech
Mngmnt) (Chifley)
mobile: 0432 255 208
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Hello folks,
have been happily using a Sammy N150NPlus with Ubuntu for the past 3
years but it is getting a bit old and tired. I like the small size
for travelling and am not happy with tablets. Have been looking at
the HP Pavilion touchsmart 11-e102sa with an AMD A6, 4GB memory and
500GB HDD.
Has anybody been using this with any distro? Any pros or cons?
Any issues with installing Linux? Either as a standalone or as dual-boot?
cheers
Hi LUVers,
Recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite C50PSCJEA-01N011 Celeron-N2820 4G
500GB 15.6" Windows8.1 Notebook PSCJEA-01N011
Sad reality is because a certain piece of medical equipment requires 'doze
(no it doesn't work with Wine etc) said machine had to be bought with said
OS.
Obviously don't want to do much in the MS-Windows world and have sought to
navigate my way around the madness that is MS-Windows 8; have resized the
disk, turned off secure boot (necessary for installation apparently),
began installation with a nice Debian Mint 201403 disk, grub comes up
and...
I get a black screen. The DVD drive happily whirls around obviously
wanting to entertain the possibility of another Linux install, but alas
with no screen display not much else can be done.
I have attempted a standard GRUB modification used on other Toshiba
systems (https://coderwall.com/p/ydbldg) but to no avail.
Any ideas?
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Mngmnt) (Chifley)
mobile: 0432 255 208
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When I run an aptitude full-upgrade, I am prompted to remove sysvinit-core and
replace it with systemd-sysv.
does this mean that Debian Sid is making the transition now, or is it the
result of the specific combination of packages that I happen to have
installed?
To be clear, I want to make the change to Systemd, while minimizing the risk
of an unbootable system in the transition, and I'm considering whether now is
the time to go ahead with it or not.
Hi all,
it looks as my company wants to buy a product requiring Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and Oracle DB.
We also plan to buy 2 new servers with 2 Xeon CPUs each.
Red Hat seems to have "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters"
for $US 1999 per year (https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html)
I guess two licenses are the right solution if you want to install Red Hat
on bare metal and VMs and containers on it (in short, not being restricted
by licensing)
Then comes Oracle licensing..
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf
"Standard Edition One" $US 5800 per processor. Makes it $US 11 600 per
machine (or $US 5800 in case I restrict it to a VM with one CPU - is it
actually possible?)
Is it possible to setup in any meaningful way a second DB server as a
stand-by server without paying an additional Oracle license?
I guess not..
And then there is $US 1276 "software update license & support". Without
that no updates?
If it all gets too expensive I may need to look at MS SQL server. I am not
very keen to go back to this again but it is the second available option
and it seems to be much cheaper.. but I have to work it out in detail too
(in defense to MS: SQL Server was performing well and reliable wherever
used)
In short, my boss would not like to pay more than needed but we need to be
sure to have a working setup at the end.
Regards
Peter
Hi all
We're looking for presenters to talk at the upcoming Open Source
Developers' Conference (4-7 November 2014, Griffith University Gold
Coast Campus, QLD). Register on the http://2014.osdc.com.au/ site, and
propose a presentation. You can submit as many proposals as you wish,
and come back to edit them later, so why not get started today?
We have space for sessions, tutorials, hands-on workshops with keyboard
or soldering iron (or both!) and yes, Miniconfs.
Speakers attend the conference for free; travel and accommodation is
still your own gig, although we may be able to make arrangements in some
special cases.
Initial CfP period closes soon, but you only have to get your abstract
in at this stage, after that you've got quite a bit of time to prep your
talk or workshop!
Topics
======
While we're looking for presentations related to creation or use of open
source, naturally, there are many aspects that you could address:
- Cultivating an open source community – What tools, processes, or
skills are required to ensure the human aspect of a project are supported?
- Show casing a successful, or unsuccessful open source
implemenntations – What did you do well? What did you learn? What would
you do differently next time?
- Open source in the physical world – How does open source software or
hardware help the Internet of Things? Arduino, Raspberry Pi, 3D
printing, EEG sensors, ...
- Open source in education - Do you have awesome resources, or perhaps
you're a teacher or facilitator? We want to hear from you!
- Open source in the business world – How do you run your open source
business? What revenue model do you employ? What benefits and drawbacks
have you experienced?
- Closed source in an open source world – Closed- and open source have
not just coexisted, they have collaborated. How have you come to
successfully use both?
- Open Standards and Open Data - for documents, audio, video,
telephony, etc. Again, we'd love to hear about tools and use cases!
These, and many more topics that are relevant to today's open source
developers are desirable to help provide a diverse range of subjects at
this years conference.
Contribute!
===========
Remember, we have ample space for sessions, tutorials, hands-on
workshops with keyboard or soldering iron (or both!) and Miniconfs.
Go on, put in your cool ideas today! http://2014.osdc.com.au/
Cheers, Arjen.
(on behalf of the OSDC 2014 organising committee)
My post to this list:
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:11:51 +1000
Subject: Re: Android/PC editing
Message-ID: <20140708121151.GA1928@ratatosk>
came back from the listserver as:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 <=== !!!! ****
Sender: luv-main-bounces(a)luv.asn.au
But my local copy of what went out confirms that it was:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
and sure enough, the body is plain text, rather than the ghastly base64
lump which came back from the list.
Given that internode flagged the list echo as:
X-SpamDetect: : -7.000000 IronPort SPAM scanned=-10.0, Whole message is
base64 encoded=1.0, Message text disguised using base-64 encoding=2.0
it seems reasonable to infer that the luv-main listserver did the
munging. The message has only been seen by internode servers and
tainted.luv.asn.au, according to the headers.
The other posts on the thread have not been similarly abused, including
my earlier post. It was only turned into:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
What can be happening? Did others receive it munged?
(Or did their spam filters dump it?)
Erik
--
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with
a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I
really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!"
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen!"
- Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
I've been using Google Keep for editing small documents on a PC (web
interface) and Android (native app). It works well for shopping lists and for
notes for a LUV lecture.
But I'd like to find something suitable for editing longer documents, blog
posts and magazine articles. As an aside the Wordpress Android app is
terrible if you are writing anything significant.
What would be ideal would be something like Google Keep but with sections
(maybe a folding editor) and spelling checking. I can survive without grammar
suggestions etc but I'd probably use them if they were available.
Note that I'm willing to consider a free as in beer system for this. As the
documents in question will be public on the Internet in a small amount of time
so I don't have to trust the secrecy of longevity of a free service (both of
which have been lacking in many instances).
If there is no good option for editing on Android/web then what's the best
Linux GUI option that supports easy conversion to/from plain text?
LibreOffice writer?
--
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My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
Hi Russel
Have you seen wikieditor?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ondrejchrastina.wikieditor
Cheers
Nic
On 07/07/2014 10:49 pm, Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:26:00 Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > There
was an issue with an adjacent fold opening when inserting text, > > but a couple of lines in .vimrc fixed that. > > > > Enabling spell checking in Vim is pretty easy, and I have Danish and > > English spell checking turning on via ^D and ^E respectively. From Vim > > 7.3 there's a built-in spellchecker, you don't need the plugin anymore. > > The way vi handles lines is good for source code but not good for documents. > The up/down commands should go to the previous/next line of ~80 characters not > the previous/next paragraph. > > http://etbe.coker.com.au/2014/07/06/desktop-publishing-wrong/ > > I wrote the above blog post on this topic. After reading comments it seems > that a fairly ideal option for me would be to have an Android app that allows > offline editing of MediaWiki documents. That would get desktop/phone use as > well as version control. There doesn't seem to be such an app though. > > -- > My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ > My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > luv-main(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >
