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PyCon AU, Tutorial-only tickets available today and tomorrow!
by Tennessee Leeuwenburg 29 Jul '17

29 Jul '17

PyCon AU 2017 starts this Thursday. The main conference days are now sold out! However, you can now buy tickets just for a tutorial and/or the Specialist Tracks. But hurry, as ticket sales close on Monday 31 July. Tickets are still available to two of the tutorials: "Python 101" and "Build Tooling Workshop". Tutorial tickets cost $150.00 each. Tutorial tickets can be purchased on their own, or in conjunction with a Specialist Tracks ticket. If you wish to attend the Specialist Tracks, Friday-only tickets are also available. These also cost $150.00. In order to secure your spot, all bookings must be completed by Monday 31 July. For more information, check out our website: https://pycon-au.org/ === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The eighth PyCon Australia will be held on August 3-8 2017 in Melbourne, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for programming in Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s developers with presentations by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact(a)pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, WSP Digital and IRESS, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.

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Arjen in MEL (26-29 Jul)
by Arjen Lentz 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Hi all So I'm in MEL for an education conference (DigiCon at ACU in Fitzroy). Still free for dinner/evening on Wednesday, and after 6pm on Friday until Saturday early arvo. I don't yet have a couch to crash on for Friday night. Proposals for catch-ups and couches welcome! If you know me you probably already have my mobile#. Cheers, Arjen.

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Perl related query
by Mark Trickett 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Hello All, I am making another start at learning Perl, and I am looking at installing the -doc module. I do have cpan to do the install, but trying to sort out exactly what the -doc package should be called for the install with cpan. Having the correct argument for cpan would help, but I am also wanting to understand what I need to look for in sorting out the naming conventions for the modules, and how to look up such. Regards Mark Trickett

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Playback/audio failure on firefox 52.2.0 on debian 9.0.0
by Erik Christiansen 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

Trying firefox on a fresh install of debian 9.0.0, it plays youtube video fine - sans audio. To figure out whether the silence is due to me having to do something more than hook up the hdmi cable and check that the monitor's speakers are unmuted and set to 50%¹, I thought I'd try www.abc.net.au/news and click on the link to the 24 hr news tv channel. But that evinces an "Error loading player: No playable sources found." OK, I did an apt-get install mplayer, with the same result. Then I added: deb http://mirror.optus.net/deb-multimedia/ stable main to /etc/apt/sources.list, and after that an apt-get update: # apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring gave "E: Unable to locate package deb-multimedia-keyring" In contrast, this older debian wheezy host plays both sites fine. It would be especially nice to get the audio working, as this new Udoo X86 was bought for its claimed ability to stream to three 4K screens simultaneously. ¹ I also tried an hdmi to vga adaptor, with stereo audio cable plugged into the monitor's audio jack (and the monitor menu-switched to vga mode), but that also gave only silent movies. Erik

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Debian meetup and key signing, Melbourne Thu 20 July
by David 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Hi luv-main readers Some Debian folks are having an informal and friendly meet-up in Melbourne! On Thursday 20 July from 6:30 pm at Riverland Bar http://www.riverlandbar.com/ Bring your public gpg key, if you want to have it signed by Paul Wise (Debian Developer). Everyone welcome! More information about key signing is on the Debian website: https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning https://www.debian.org/events/keysigning

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Error when Installing Debian 8
by zlinew9＠virginbroadband.com.au 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

I have (finally) decided to give Debian 8 a try, after some mucking around I installed. THe install medium was an Debian 8.3 i386 DVD, and was upgraded from the net. The install of the kernel produces the following error..... -----------------cut here------------------------ Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae mkinitramfs: failed to determine device for / mkinitramfs: workaround is MODULES=most, check: grep -r MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/ Error please report bug on initramfs-tools Include the output of 'mount' and 'cat /proc/mounts' update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae with 1. dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u10) ... Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae initramfs-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -----------------cut here---------------------- Now it actually works OK, the ramdisk image was installed correctly. What it has done though it prevents the kernel from being upgraded. I have sort of got around this by compiling my own kernel (I do this as a matter of course anyway), this of course required me to dump systemd as it WILL NOT work with a standard kernel from kernel.org. Lindsay

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Command line tools
by Andrew Pam 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

More ways to do things with your keyboard! https://github.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets/blob/master/README.md Via Sam McLeod at Infoxchange. Share and enjoy, Andrew

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PyCon AU 2017 - Starts in just under three weeks!
by Tennessee Leeuwenburg 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

PyCon Australia 2017 - https://pycon-au.org/ - the national conference for users and developers of the Python programming language, will start in just under three weeks! Tickets to the conference are still available, but selling fast. This year the conference will take place in Melbourne, from 3 - 8 August, with a jam-packed schedule. Thursday 3rd August: Long-Form Tutorials Friday 4th August: Specialist Tracks – Internet of Things, Science and Data, Python in Education and DjangoCon AU Saturday 5th August: Main Conference Day One - four streams of talks. Also, DjangoGirls Workshop and PyLadies Breakfast Sunday 6th August: Main Conference Day Two - four streams of talks Monday 7th August: Sprints Day One (sold out) Tuesday 8th August: Sprints Day Two (limited tickets still available) This year includes two exciting new features: long-form tutorials and child care. Each paid tutorial will run for 3.5 hours, including a 30 minute break. Tickets are still available to three of the tutorials: Python 101, Build Tooling Workshop and Practical Testing with Pytest. For more information, please visit: https://pycon-au.org/program/tutorials/ On-site child care, run by qualified child care workers, will be offered on the specialist track and the main conference days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Child care registration closes on Thursday 20th July. For more information, please visit: https://pycon-au.org/about/child-care/ For more information about conference ticket prices and inclusions, please see: https://pycon-au.org/attend/ === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The eighth PyCon Australia will be held on August 3-8 2017 in Melbourne, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for programming in Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s developers with presentations by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact(a)pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, WSP Digital and IRESS, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.

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radio ethernet link
by zlinew9＠virginbroadband.com.au 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

I am looking at a radio connection on my small local network, just to the other end of the house and wondering what is the best way to go and what hardware,linux compatible of course is required. A pointer to any docs would be helpfull. I am asking here as I am not sure what I am looking for. Lindsay

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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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