June 2017 - luv-main

Office suite functionality without an office suite?
by Dede Lamb 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hi all! I'm working towards a setup that is lightweight as possible. I've used Open and Libre offices before, I'm wondering can I do away with the suite entirely? I could use md + pandoc to produce text documents which takes care of my main use case for office. The only other thing I use office for is the occasional spreadsheet manipulation (auto-filling and basic math functions, tinkering with sums etc). I'm not sure of a suitable stand-in for this. Thoughts? No idea too crazy, bonus points if it works in a console, minus points for cloud services ;) Best Dede Lamb

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Linux compatible USB wifi
by Brian May 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hello, What is a good USB wifi adaptor - preferably dual band although not 100% required that will work out of the box with recent Linux kernels on Raspberry Pi 2? I currently have an adaptor based on the RTL8188CUS, but ever since upgrading from Debian Jessie (not Raspbian) to Debian Stretch, I get high packet loss. Especially ARP packets - which are somewhat important. Curiously this means IPv6 is more reliable than IPv4, although even IPv6 was its ups and downs. It is possible to access the box via IPv6 or from IPV4 that still has the MAC address cached while IPv4 ping requests fail from another box (I think this rules out wifi signal issues). Doing Google research I found that: (a) I should disable power management mode (I have), and (b) use an alternate kernel driver. However, for (b) I am still trying to find the kernel headers, which are apparently installed by default by my imaging tool https://github.com/drtyhlpr/rpi23-gen-image, but not correctly referenced by the symlinks under /lib/modules/4.9.33-v7+/ https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259143 https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes So wondering if picking another wifi adapter might be a better choice? Regards

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loudness of mp4 etc files
by Russell Coker 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Is there a way of balancing loudness of different mp4 files? While it's impossible to do this perfectly (there is no general agreement on how to measure it) it is possible to give a good approximation. My music video collection that I downloaded from youtube has videos of significantly different loudness, so when I watch a selection of videos that suit my mood with mplayer I have to change the system volume every few videos because I get to one that's either too loud or too quiet for the current settings. I'd like to run a script across my video collection to get the average loudness of each video so the mplayer softvol setting can be adjusted to compensate. Then of course I'd do some manual adjustment like increasing the volume of The Divinyls and The Angels. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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kmail with PGP issue
by Andrew McGlashan 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Hi, Just a heads up if you use kmail with GPG.... https://ctrl.blog/entry/kmail-cve-2017-9604-openpgp Cheers AndrewM

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Event: OSIA - Open Source Industry Aus. Meetup: Monday June 26.
by Daniel Jitnah 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Invitation to an OSIA Meetup event ** OSIA would particularly like to meet new business, IT Professionals and Startups actively using open source software. ** When: Monday 26 June, 6.30pm Where: Loop Bar, 23 Meyer Place Melbourne RSVP: Meetup Site: https://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Industry-Australia-OSIA/ or reply to events(a)osia.com.au Please join OSIA for a meetup on Monday 26 June. * A chance to (re-)connect with all those with an interest in open source software. * Find out more about OSIA and what we are doing. * OSIA is also supporting GovHack in 2017. Find out more. OSIA Board (OSIA is the national industry body representing business offering IT solutions based on open source software). ** ** Amplifying the voice of the Australian Open Source Software Industry **

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Free to good home: SGI Indy and other oddities
by Paul Dwerryhouse 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

I'm doing a clean-out of old computers in my house, and - I imagine this is a long shot - I have an SGI Indy workstation to get rid of, if anyone is interested in saving it from the hard-rubbish collection. It's still working, and boots Irix. It has an original SGI monitor (CRT), keyboard, mouse and webcam. The keyboard doesn't work, but it did not long ago, and I suspect it's just due to a bent pin on the plug. At the very least, the workstation works fine with generic PS/2 keyboards. Also I have two Cabletron 24x100Mbps Smart Switch 2200s and a Sun SCSI cdrom drive (haven't tested, but should work with the Indy) to get rid of. Contact me off list if you're interested; pick up is in Brunswick. Cheers, Paul

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server migration
by Russell Coker 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

New hardware has been purchased for the system that hosts the LUV VM. The old server is a i7-920, 8G of RAM, and 2*750G SATA disks. The "new" server is a i7-930, 48G of RAM, 2*250G SATA SSD, and 2*2TB SATA disks. I put new in quotes because it's not new hardware, it's hardware someone else rented first. For most hosting providers getting hardware someone else used first is standard practice. But the Hetzner business model is that the default is to buy new systems that haven't been used before. Systems that have been used are sold by a reverse-auction system where the price on each system goes down steadily until someone buys it. I am not sure exactly when I will migrate the LUV VM, but it will probably be late at night. I will coordinate with the committee because there will be a time when we have 2 separate instances of Drupal and I don't want anyone to make changes to the old one that get lost. The advantage of doing it this way is that for the people viewing the web site there will be no outage. Before starting the changes I will stop Postfix (which will only be noticed as delayed list mail) and configure Apache to fail any requests to the list server configuration web pages. The main aim is to have the minimum of surprises for people who don't read my announcement messages. Delayed mail is not noteworthy. A list server web page being down for a while usually isn't a big deal. The main web site with information on future meetings etc is the important thing that needs to remain up. The current LUV VM has 2G of RAM and 512M of swap of which 450M is used. The new VM will have at least 4G and maybe 6G of RAM. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Forcing samba to give users a disk quota
by Toby Corkindale 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

Hi, I bought some new IP cameras, that have built-in motion detection and can record to a remote CIFS/Samba share. Sounds good, but they're buggy -- more than 512Mbyte on the remote CIFS share and they crash out. Known issue for a while, it turns out, and the manufacturer (Hikvision) doesn't seem to care to fix it. So, I need to make the samba shares report a disk quota rather than the full free space on the server. HOWEVER -- I have tried both the classic 'quota' tools, and btrfs' quota tools, and neither results in the desired effect. Classic 'quota' tools report "No filesystems with quota detected". btrfs' qgroup stuff works to limit writes beyond the quota, but samba doesn't see or report the quota. Any ideas? (Last resort would be to mount a fixed-size FS image via the loopback driver, but.. ugh.. there has to be a better way!) -T

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older ubuntu on newer hardware
by cory seligman 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

hi List, does anyone have experience putting older linux distros (specifically Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) on newer hardware? I have a VM running 10.04 that has a large amount of installed packages and tweaked installation details and I need it to be running natively on hardware. I'd just install it on an older laptop, but I want a hardware platform that has some kind of warranty and the ability to be replaced by just re-imaging. Ideally, I'd like to go out and buy a cheap netbook and image my VM onto it. What are the chances of this actually Just Working (TM)? All I need is basic video and USB. Don't even actually need networking. thanks, etc. Cory

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[Announce] GnuPG Funding Campaign Launched
by Andrew McGlashan 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2017q2/000407.html

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