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.
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.
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
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
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/Keysigninghttps://www.debian.org/events/keysigning
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
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.
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
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