On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 02:32:23PM +1100, Andrew Pam wrote:
> SGM BUSINESS
>
> The only matter of business to be considered at this meeting is:
>
> *That Linux Users of Victoria apply to become a subcommittee of
> Linux Australia and conditional upon acceptance, wind up the present
> Victorian association as per rule 76 and section 133 of the Act and
> transfer all members and assets to the newly formed subcommittee of
> Linux Australia.*
Are there any details (or at least a reasonable summary) of this
proposal available anywhere? and a rationale for why it has been
proposed?
what are the arguments for and against?
At the moment, I have no strong opinion one way or the other (but with a
slight leaning towards "why? what's the point?"), but would like to know
if there's any reason why I should have such an opinion.
if the LUV lists and meetings continue as before and there's no risk of
losing autonomy, just easing of the administrative overhead then I can't
see any reason to object.
craig
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Hello,
in May 2015 Berlin's Linux user group (BeLUG) has started a new type of event
which has spread quickly all over Europe: the Linux Presentation Day (LPD)
2015.1: Berlin only
2015.2: 72 cities in three countries
2016.1: 110 cities in 10 countries
2016.2: 150+ cities in 14 countries (on October, 22nd)
I contact you because we intend to expand the LPD beyond Europe next year.
The aim of the LPD towards the general public is to provide biannual and
comprehensive information events about Linux for private users who would like
to get a first impression of Linux.
The aim towards the media is to make the event so big (both nationally and
internationally) that the nationwide non-IT media cover it regularly.
The aim towards the Linux community is that an LPD event can be so small and
easy to organize (even without costs) that really everyone can try to organize
an event with good chances of success. The local organizers decide on their
own what their event shall be like; we just make suggestions and offer
support.
You can find a longer description of the concept here:
http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/idea/
Are you as an organization interested in participating in the LPD? If not: Are
any of your members interested in helping us bring the LPD to Australia?
This event is very useful for finding new LUG members.
Best regards,
(Mr.) Hauke Laging
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http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/
International phone contact for the Linux Presentation Day:
tel:+49-30-55579620 (13:00–23:00, German and English)
XMPP (Chat with OTR): linux-presentation-day(a)jabber.ccc.de
OTR: 91626899 1C06F2BD 75EC2441 35C696CE 38F75997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBoxhttps://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox
Has anyone used Virtualbox? What's it like?
It seems popular, osboxes.org seems to only have VMWare and Virtualbox image
files. Apparently Qemu (and presumably KVM) support both those image types,
is there any benefit of one over the other?
My main aim at the moment is to get a Fedora VM going to see if they solved a
bug I encountered in Debian/Unstable and if so copy their fix. One of the
significant benefits of free software.
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Is there a good FOSS system for monitoring web performance? I've just seen a demo of Dynatrace which is impressive and it would be good if there was a free alternative.
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Exhuming this thread:
> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:08:45 +1000
> From: Chris Samuel <chris(a)csamuel.org>
> To: luv-main(a)luv.asn.au
> Subject: Re: SP Ausnet and ZigBee devices
> Message-ID: <3111371.ZgvKCBQGVi@quad>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> On Saturday, 9 April 2016 9:41:05 PM AEST Allan Duncan via luv-main wrote:
>
> > Richard Keech gave a talk in August 2014 and I thought he had a kludge
> > to access the data.
>
> I'm pretty sure Richard was on a different supply network who offered a
> service so you could provide your ZigBee devices HW address & they'd
> program
> the smart meter to permit it to bind.
>
My RAVEn arrived the other day (from Fastnetworks) and it's now hooked up
to a Raspberry Pi.
Interestingly, the Rainforest Automation site no longer references the
RAVEn at all, but I think Gordon at Fastnetworks will still have a few.
I'm in a Powercor area. I was able to log in via the portal and once I'd
registered the meter via the ID on a power bill, I was able to enter the
Raven's MAC and another key from the device, at which point the meter and
the RAVEn were paired and data began to flow.
I'm using a script based on the one Ashley mentioned (
https://github.com/frankp/python-raven/blob/master/raven_script.py)
I'm just getting my head around what data is produced, but it's all there
and all available. Having solar panels on the roof causes out
Instantaneous Demand figure to get really thrown out of whack, so I still
have some hacking to do before I get a set of figures I'm happy enough to
rely on. Good for exercising the very rusty Python skills !
I'll also happily receive pointers to any existing wheels so I am not
re-inventing them !
Ultimately I plan to feed figures into RRDtool or similar to produce graphs.
It is interesting how sensitive the readings are. I had it running and
tailing the log file last night and it was quite easy to see the effects of
turning lights, the TV and electric kettle on and off.
Andrew
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Hi all,
I have a question about merging default configurations with own changes.
As an example, take an apache configuration.
The default configuration may change, according to best practice(e.g.
which encryption protocols are safe to use etc). so you are happy to
use whatever the package provides (if it is well-maintained)
However, some things you may not like, say: the "PermitRootLogin yes" line.
[Okay, the example has a bit of a "design fault" because Apache
configs have include statements etc. - but there are examples without,
as ntp.conf, and some do not like to have two lines of the same key
which are conflicting - so you really have to replace the default with
yours. I just wanted to give this as an example you may familiar with]
So, for the sake of this example, assume all is written in one
httpd.conf (no includes) and you are not allowed to have two lines as
PermitRootLogin yes
PermitRootLogin no
How do you keep track of the "latest changes" in default configuration
while making the changes you really want?
I wonder especially in the context of automation where you may run it
on many instances without manual invervention.
My solution at the moment is:
1st install:
- backup default (copies etc/htttpd.conf to httpd.conf.defaults)
- update_config (e.g. parses the defaults with awk and replaces
PermitRootLogin "yes by "no"[simplified]:
awk '{if $1=="PermitRootLogin") print $1" no"; else print}'
Update:
- backup $version (just in case..)
- restore default (copies etc/htttpd.conf.default to httpd.conf so the
upgrade finds a pristine config)
- package upgrade
- update_config (as before)
The advantage of this: update_config can do a lot of things, including
using system-specific variables (e.g. getting an IP address from the
system so you tell the system to listen on this IP only - no
localhost: "Listen IPAddress:80").
A "diff" can be used to monitor unexpected changes afterwards (the
diff should oonly show the xpected lines) , to alarm me if things are
not right.
I wonder whether there is any better support from configuration
management tools you are using.
Thank you
Peter
Hi all,
I want to reanimate an old HP netbook (my other laptop died) but the
wireless does not seem to work.
(I will try again tonight after FreeBSD upgrade from 10 to 11, but I
failed with 10 a while ago. Some firmware issue I could not figure
out. In theory it should work but..It seems to be tricky with Linux
too, according to some forum questions I found on the Web)
Anyway, the Ethernet is working but it does not help me when
travelling. Usually I am using my phone as a hotspot so I need a
USB-powered Ethernet to Wireless adapter.
(I do not want straight USB to Wireless because then I have the
problem of supported/unsupported etc. again).
Browsing yesterday I found a few devices (e.g. TL-WR802N,
http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WR802N.html)
Do you use this or other devices and can recommend it? Local
availability would be a bonus, so I can just walk into a shop, e.g.
JayCar, and pick it up today.
Thanks
Peter
Hi all,
Could anybody point me in the right direction re a regular expression I
try to implement as a <FilesMatch> directive in Apache 2.4 please?
I would like to deny access to any files in a specific directory which
file extension is not "whitelisted". The rule should be case
insensitive.
<Directory ... >
<FilesMatch [WHITELIST] >
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
</Directory>
I tried the following as [WHITELIST], but to no avail:
"(?<!\.png|\.gif|\.jp?g)$" -> works, but is case insensitive
"(?i:<!\.(png|gif|jp?g))$" -> does not match anything
!"(?i:\.(png|gif|jp?g))$" -> does not match anything
"(?i:<!\.png|\.gif|\.jp?g)$" -> does exactly the opposite (not negated)
...plus 100 combination, which all result in parsing errors :-)
My understanding is, that ?i: means case insensitive and <! negates the
expression. Any idea what am I doing wrong or how to achieve what I
outlined above?
Many thanks
Michael