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OLPC laptop to give away
by Geoff Crompton 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

At the Brisbane linux conf I one an OLPC laptop in the photo competition. I haven't really done anything with it, and now that I'm moving house, I'd like to pass it on to someone who can make better use of it. Any takers? Cheers, Geoff Crompton

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Notes from "LaTeX and typesetting" talk
by Jason White 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

The notes and references from my talk at yesterday's Luv meeting are available at http://jasonjgw.net/latex-presentation/ and you will find a list of references at http://jasonjgw.net/latex-presentation/latex-references.html A few people asked about these after the talk, thus I am posting details here. As an additional note, if you want word-by-word diffs of revisions of a TeX document in Git, use the --word-diff option of git diff, after adding the following line to your .gitattributes file (creating that file in the top-level repository directory if required). *.tex diff=tex See the gitattributes(5) manual page and the git-diff(1) manual page for details of word diffs, including colour highlighting support.

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Re: Any USB 3G broadband usable under Linux?
by Tony Langdon 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

At 11:41 AM 7/16/2012, Brian May wrote: >On 15 July 2012 21:16, James Harper <james.harper(a)bendigoit.com.au> wrote: > > I'm all for Microsoft bashing, but if you are implying that > Windows doesn't support IPv6 then you are very wrong. In fact > you'll have trouble with some of their server software if you disable IPv6. > >Lots of people still use Windows XP, which doesn't have built in IPv6 >support. I believe there is an add-on that provides IPv6 support, >however this was the first attempt Microsoft made, and as a result not >recommended for serious use. Or so I have read. You can run IPv6 on XP by issuing the command: ipv6 install However, as you say, it's not a production quality stack, though it does work fine for everyday end user purposes (I've used it extensively). Configuration is not done by the control panel, you need to use special commands and/or registry tweaks. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com

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Re: Any USB 3G broadband usable under Linux?
by Tony Langdon 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

At 11:46 AM 7/16/2012, Brian May wrote: >On 16 July 2012 08:55, hannah commodore <hannah(a)tinfoilhat.net> wrote: > > Sorry. I stand corrected. > > Is it just Telstra consumer plans that use internal ip addresses > on 3G then? > >I think Three also does that too. Yes, Three is still a separate >network to Vodofone, at least last time I checked, even if now owned >by the same company. I would assume Vodofone also uses internal IP >addresses, but can't confirm/deny. Three was issuing public IPs on their broadband only plans, but private IPs on voice/data plans last time I used them (a couple years ago - it was too expensive to use once I left Melbourne and I dropped it as soon as the contract expired). 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com

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RE: Any USB 3G broadband usable under Linux?
by Tony Langdon 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

At 05:49 PM 7/15/2012, you wrote: >Rumour also has it that Telstra has pinched some 3G spectrum for use >on its 4G network. We have some customers in Bendigo CBD where >Telstra 3G is effectively useless since 4G trials started (Optus >works fine), so the rumour would be one explanation for that... The performance observations are true, I have no idea on the rumour, but it sounds plausible. Telstra has been pretty crap up here for the last year or so. Prior to that, they were quite good. Optus has been steadily improving in Bendigo, and are quite good now. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com

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Re: Change default program
by Jeremy Visser 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

On 12/07/12 12:11, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Also I presume you can put .desktop files in a per-user directory, > probably something like ~/.applications, but I don't know exactly > where. ~/.local/share/applications > PS: all of the above applies to GNOME 2. I have no experience with > GNOME 3 but I would be suprised if they haven't thrown all of the > above out to replace it with something differently bad. Hasn't changed at all to my knowledge.

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Linux powered drone @ 5pm folllowed by pre-meeting dinner @ Korean
by Chris Samuel 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hi folks, I've got a Linux powered quadcopter (an ARDrone 2.0) which I'm going to take over to the north end of University Square (between Barry St and Leicester St, and south of Grattan St in Carlton) at 5pm this evening if anyone is interested in seeing it fly (weather permitting). The battery doesn't last that long (about 10 minutes) so if you're interested don't be late. :-) After that I'll head down to Big Mama's Korean Restaurant on Swanston St for dinner before the LUV meeting (I live too far out to go to the after-meeting meal at Marias). cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

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system not halting
by Russell Coker 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

When you have a system which logs the following but doesn't halt, what should you investigate? Will now halt. [ 123.456789] System halted. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Change default program
by Colin Fee 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

I've been going around in circles in various forums and on google chasing this. I'm running Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) Update 4 with Cinnamon. I've installed MS Office 2010 via PlayOnLinux and now want to alter the behaviour of the desktop, nautilus and the like such that if I dbl-click a .pptx file it open will open in PowerPoint 2010. The prescribed method is right-click on a file of this type in Nautlius, then go Properties -> Open With -> Show Other Applications and then choose the one you want. But Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 is not an option present (nor for that matter are the other Office apps). So, how do I either get them in that list or what can I edit directly to make it so? -- Colin Fee tfeccles(a)gmail.com

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autofs timeout >15 not working
by James Harper 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

I'm using autofs to handle automatically unmounting USB disks used for backup. If I set the autofs timeout to 15 or less it works fine, but 16 seems to not automatically unmount in the desired amount of time. It might happen after quite a while but definitely not in 16 seconds. So I'm thinking that there is some process running that somehow touches the mounted volume every 15 seconds causing autofs to think that the mount is in use... can anyone suggest what that might be? 15 seconds is okay, but the volumes are ext3 and Linux gets unhappy when these are mounted and unmounted too many times so I want a longer time to keep the volumes mounted during idle periods of the backup job to avoid excessive mount/unmount cycles. Thanks James

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