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With it's stellar line up, linux.conf.au 2012 should be on your horizon!
by Kathy Reid 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Ballarat, 19 November 2011 With nine Miniconferences accepted, and three keynote speakers already announced, preparations are in full swing for linux.conf.au 2012, to be held in Ballarat, Victoria 16-20th January. Conference Director Josh Stewart was particularly pleased at progress to date. "We've got some huge names lined up to keynote, including Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation, Bruce Perens - the creator of the Open Source Definition, and the community's own favourite Mad Scientist Paul Fenwick. We still have one keynote up our sleeve, but it's a very closely guarded secret!". The conference schedule boasts a number of perennial favourites, including Jon Oxer, Andrew Tridgell of Samba, Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner of The Ada Initiative, Bdale Garbee and Jonathan Corbet. A number of new speakers are also on board for the first time, including software freedom advocate Ben Sturmfels. The number of accepted talks by female presenters was the highest on record, at just shy of 25%, speaking volumes about the ever-increasing diversity of the Linux and free and open source software community. Registrations for the conference are filling up fast. Early Bird registration for the conference sold out just before the early bird close of end of October. Stewart was enthusiastic at the response. "There was of course the usual rush just before Early Bird closed, and the whole team was sitting there with anticipation watching as we sold out! It's a great indication of the interest in the conference." For those interested in the conference, but for whom professional registration is out of reach, there are a number of alternative options, including Hobbyist and Student registration. Volunteer nominations are also welcome. Volunteers are given a free ticket to the conference in exchange for four days' volunteer work undertaking tasks such as audio visual, ushering and administration duties. * Registration pricing options: http://linux.conf.au/register/prices * Volunteer nomination: http://linux.conf.au/register/volunteer linux.conf.au will be held 16th-20th January 2012 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. http://lcaunderthestars.org.au and @linuxconfau on Twitter and Identica. Registrations are now open and a tentative schedule is at: http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule <http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule%22> Media enquiries are warmly welcomed to media(a)lcaunderthestars.org.au

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don't run x on console
by James Harper 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

I'm testing zentyal in a xen VM (HVM) and everything I open on the console just crashes (opens/closes repeatedly). Apparently this is a known but with zentyal (openbox) but I don't really want a console X session anyway. Is there any easy way to turn it off? I think Ubuntu does things a little bit different to the debian that I'm used to. Thanks James

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See you at Beginner's workshop tomorrow
by James Sinnamon 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hi, I will see you tommorow at the November Beginner's workshop @ The Hub @ Docklands, cnr Bourke St and Harbour Esplanade, Docklands @ 12.00PM (http://luv.asn.au/2011/11/19) I will be driving Sheila's Ford Falcon.[1] Sheila can't come because she has to work tomorrow. Thanks. Best regards, James ph 0412 319669 FOOTNOTES 1. The Falcon is overdue for a service so I would prefer not to drive and get a lift from somene going past Frankston, but if I do have to drive I will be able to offer lifts to others.

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NNTP client recommendations
by Trent W. Buck 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

What is the newsreader equivalent of mutt? Rationale: I use NNTP for gwene, gmane and asr. I'm sick of Gnus. I'm not sick of NNTP -- (esp. not interested in RSS clients). Years ago, happily migrated mail from gnus to mutt. So, something like mutt for NNTP is what I want. PS: I notice mutt's debian/patches/ contains some NNTP patches that just need rebasing, maybe that's less icky than learning foorn...

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bind configuration error
by James Harper 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

In light of the recent bind9 zero-day, I logged into my secondary ns to make sure there was nothing slipping passed the monitoring. There is no evidence of trouble, but I can see a heap of these messages: Nov 17 05:34:19 ns2 named[1088]: client 111.252.1.88#55544: query (cache) 'cluster8a.us.messagelabs.com/A/IN' denied Nov 17 05:35:21 ns2 named[1088]: client 95.89.214.87#3311: query (cache) 'cluster8a.us.messagelabs.com/A/IN' denied Nov 17 05:35:23 ns2 named[1088]: client 95.89.214.87#3345: query (cache) 'cluster8.us.messagelabs.com/A/IN' denied Nov 17 05:35:57 ns2 named[1088]: client 79.167.143.122#1148: query (cache) 'cluster8.us.messagelabs.com/A/IN' denied Nov 17 05:35:59 ns2 named[1088]: client 79.167.143.122#1175: query (cache) 'cluster8a.us.messagelabs.com/A/IN' denied Nov 17 05:37:13 ns2 named[1088]: client 190.213.41.176#2408: query (cache) 'cluster8.us.messagelabs.com/A/IN' denied Nov 17 05:37:15 ns2 named[1088]: client 190.213.41.176#2569: query (cache) 'cluster8a.us.messagelabs.com/A/IN' denied None of those IP addresses are ours, or our customers, but at least one zone on this server has MX records that point to the messagelabs.com addresses. Could I have configured something wrong that might be causing those IP addresses to try and resolve the messagelabs.com names via my server? Or could they be running a buggy resolver? Thanks James

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Re: [luv-main] Debian OEM mode install without preseeding ?
by Marcus Furlong 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 13:01, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > PS: your stupid MUA appears to be replacing every SECOND space in > multi-space sequences to a non-breaking space, which is fucking > stupid. You're (implicitly) using format=fixed (ref. RFC2646), so the > shitty workarounds to get preformatted text in format=flowed are > neither necessary nor desirable. Rant, rage, grumble, bitch, moan. Hmm, I'm using the gmail web interface. Do you see the same problem with email sent by other people using the gmail web interface? (wondering if it's a setting or lab setting I can play with). Marcus. -- Marcus Furlong

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non breaking spaces in emails
by Brian May 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

On 16 November 2011 13:01, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > PS: your stupid MUA appears to be replacing every SECOND space in > multi-space sequences to a non-breaking space, which is fucking > stupid. You're (implicitly) using format=fixed (ref. RFC2646), so the > shitty workarounds to get preformatted text in format=flowed are > neither necessary nor desirable. Rant, rage, grumble, bitch, moan. Why is this a problem? This line has extra spaces in it to see if I can reproduce this issue myself, or if it just happens inside quotes. (also sent from gmail) -- Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au>

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Debian OEM mode install without preseeding ?
by Chris Samuel 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi folks, I've got a couple of machines I want to give away and I'm hoping to do that with a PXE'd Debian install done using its OEM mode (in other words it'll ask them some questions from the recipient on first boot to set up their account). However, everything I can find about oem mode (which isn't a lot) talks about using the preseed file and as there's just 2 of these I was rather hoping that it would be a boot option to make it use OEM mode. If I do need to use OEM mode I've no idea how I'd do that with a PXE netboot'ed install.. Ideas ? cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP

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iptables
by Roger 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Need help understanding iptables. tcp dpt:ssh state NEW recent: SET name: SSH side: source tcp dpt:ssh state NEW recent: UPDATE seconds: 90 hit_count: 4 TTL-Match name: SSH side: source should reduce brute force attack to 4 hits in 90 seconds but last -d reports hundreds of hits per ip all within a second, it then changes ip and starts again. I've not played with iptables until a week ago. I've read up on the ubuntu, centos and fedora iptables info but still the problem. Can someone please point me in a direction to stop attacks from ip addresses after a couple of attempts. Many thanks Roger

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bash script
by David Zuccaro 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Anyone like to critique this script for grammatical efficiency and correctness? In particular the line indicated. I'm guessing I can do command substitution better than this. title="test" ls -1 *.mp3 > mp3.txt while read filename do echo $filename song=$title${filename:5:4} echo $song id3ed -isq "`echo $filename`" id3ed -q -s "`echo $song`" "`echo $filename`" <---- id3ed -isq "`echo $filename`" done < mp3.txt

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