Hello All,
I have been told that I appear briefly in Bespoke on ABC TV, in
particular seen on last Sunday the 19th. I have gone to the ABC TV
website and gone for iView, or via the program guide, and tried to
watch, only to have it stall complaining about flash being required.
This is with ESR Firefox on 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.86-1
i686 GNU/Linux/Wheezy.
I know some others do manage to use iView running Linux, comments
about how appreciated, as would be someone grabbing and saving as a
less unfriendly format, the latter even more appreciated.
I will also look for a way to let the appropriate people at the ABC
know that flash is inappropriate for many reasons, particularly the
security vulnerabilities.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
I could just give you a dual-core 64bit PC, at least 4G of RAM, and a pair of
decent SATA disks in a RAID-1 configuration with the latest version of Debian
installed if you can arrange transport for it.
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This looks like something that will interest some LUV members. It seems to be aimed at beginners.
Check out Let's learn about Computer Science http://meetu.ps/c/2SSpm/8BKq/d on Meetup
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Can anyone recommend a very simple web proxy that works reliably with apt-get
(unlike Squid)? What I want is to just allow access to apt repositories and
nothing else. Caching isn't really required as the bandwidth available has
been steadily increasing rapidly while Debian package size has been increasing
very slowly.
I would consider any sort of proxy, if there's a socks proxy that supports
white-listing acceptable domains and apt works well with socks then that would
do. Just as long as it's easy to setup and likely to be secure.
I have some virtual servers that don't need Internet access for any purpose
other than updating Debian packages and which run some PHP code and other
things that tends to call out to the Internet if permitted.
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After a conversation at the beginners meeting I think it would be good to have
a talk about hyper-threading and other features of modern CPUs.
Would anyone like to give such a talk? It doesn't require detailed knowledge,
just a good general knowledge about PC architecture and a little bit of
research. It would be a beginner to intermediate talk.
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We've had a request for a beginners talk about programming with
node.js. Are there any members who have used node and would be willing
to talk about it?
Please keep sending in suggestions for talks and other things you would
like to do at our meetings!
Thanks,
Andrew
I use Google Chrome, which supports letting websites send notifications as
brief pop-ups on your screen.
This works fine, except they always appear in the bottom-right corner of my
right-hand monitor. I have two monitors, and the one on the right is kind
of secondary, and the far right of it is out of my field of vision.
Does anyone know how to control where notification pop-ups appear?
I'm running KDE on Ubuntu 16.04.
Cheers
Toby
Hi There,
Thank you very much for all your comments and help with “rsync with
multiple threads”. It was very helpful. I have found out that in my case,
rsync with multiple threads did speed up a bit of file transfer process.
This is the command I was using (run it with while loop, and define TARGET
and THREADS in the script):
find dir-name -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -n1 -0
-P$THREADS -I% rsync -a %/ $TARGET/%
I now have another issue. Some of the files/directories I transferred from
source storage server (Red Hat) are Windows files/directories (Those
Windows files were backed up using a backup software). rsync didn’t
preserve Windows permissions/ACLs when those files were transferred onto
the target storage server (FreeBSD). Is there any way to instruct rsync to
preserve Windows permissions/ACLs? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks and Cheers,
Bill
Sometimes, I have to use OpenConnect to connect into some VPNs (so much
less nasty than the Cisco AnyConnect client for linux which insists on
running a daemon in the background). Ubuntu 16.10 has it as a package I
installed, and it connects fine.
What goes screwy is DNS resolution...
Sometimes, for no obvious reason, I can resolve internal hostnames that
resolve to destinations reached by the host using things like the "host"
command...
... but if I try to reach that same host via SSH using its hostname, it
will say it can't resolve the host.
I don't understand how the host command could behave differently to a
program requesting DNS resolution?
It had been a long time since I'd needed to fiddle with my resolv.conf, so
I went to have a look, and was presented with some abhorrent mashup of
dnsmasq, network managd and/or systemd and other things seemingly
dynamically configuring stuff, but with no obvious way to figure out what
the current settings were or how to influence them (insert rant here about
the increasingly opaque way services are being configured in linux, with a
decline in obvious CLI tools in lieu of monolith services that speak in
tongues between themselves).
OpenConnect uses the vpnc-scripts package to configure routing and name
services. The routing seems to work ok, but I can't for the life of me
figure out why DNS resolution would randomly not work across all apps...
particularly the fact that within the same connection I can have DNS work
and then not work again.
Is dhclient perhaps overriding things when lease is up? Though that
wouldn't explain why sometimes it fails off the bat.
Anyone else use OpenConnect? Have you had it behave weirdly? I mean, I
could just go through I guess and strip back a lot of the "magic" that
happens... but as with systemd, I feel as much as I'm not a fan of some of
it, I'd be fighting the tide and therefore not keeping up my knowledge of
frequently used system components..
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:22:53PM +1100, luv-announce wrote:
> *PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION*
>
> Tuesday, March 7, 2017
> 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
> Level 29, 570 Bourke St. Melbourne
>
> Speakers:
>
> ??? Lev Lafayette, MultiCore World 2017 Wellington
> ??? Russell Coker, Patching with quilt
>
>
> Lev Lafayette, Multicore World 2017 Wellington
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Lev Lafayette is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of
> Melbourne. Prior to that he worked at the Victorian Partnership for
> Advanced Computing (VPAC) in a similar role for several years. Since
> 2006 he has done a few things for LUV as well.
>
>
> Russell Coker, Patching with quilt
> ----------------------------------
>
> Russell Coker has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly
> involved with Debian.
>
>
> 570 Bourke St. Melbourne, between King and William streets
>
> Late arrivals needing access to the building and the twenty-ninth floor
> please call 0490 627 326 or 0421 775 358.
>
> 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.
>
> LUV would like to acknowledge Dell for their help in obtaining the venue.
>
[SNIP]
According to the PTV web site, it's a 20 min walk to Maria's or 10 mins by
(free) 55 tram (every 20 mins: we just get one if we happen to leave the
building by 2030)
Sounds fine to me,
Cheers ... Duncan.
