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Hi Russell
by Victor C.K. Mong 12 Apr '26

12 Apr '26

I am interested in the laptop, if I take the unit and the SSD as well how much will it be ?

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free laptops
by Russell Coker 12 Apr '26

12 Apr '26

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/pascoe-vale-south/laptops/thinkpad-e531-16g… This is a nice laptop, some cracks in the bottom of the case but nothing stopping it working correctly, screen seems good. I'll take out the SSD before giving it away or you can buy the SSD from me. It takes a 2.5" SATA storage device and I could probably find a 2.5" HDD you could have for free if you want cheap. https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/pascoe-vale-south/laptops/macbook-pro-core-… This isn't a great laptop, battery and CD-ROM drive are dead and it works fine on mains power. That's annoying but it's a Macbook so still might get some use. The screen is very nice so could be good as a portable ssh client system. Neither of these systems look like they will sell for enough to be worth the hassle of selling. I could sell them for a few dollars to someone who wants the scrap metal but I'd rather give them to someone who has a use for them. If you want to buy a laptop there are some nice Thinkpads on Facebook Marketplace, $300 or less for a Thinkpad X1 Carbon that's recent enough with FullHD screen and 16G of RAM. Thinkpads with 8G soldered on to the motherboard are really cheap, $200 or less. I've also got some desktop PCs that have DDR2 or DDR3 RAM in a cupboard that I should get rid of, if anyone wants them I can arrange it and fit them with enough RAM etc to be useful. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Flounder April 2026
by Phil'll Fix IT Mobile Computer Services 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

Flounder: Apr 2026 Fail2Ban and other fun things Date/Time Date(s) - April 11, 2026 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-apr-2026-fail2ban/ Fail2ban – A guide to setting up and running it. This talk will cover installing and configuring F2B but only on Debian but other distributions are much the same. All the common topics including Ban times and Find Times will be covered and the various jails that apply to a basic LAMP stack. Also some basic custom jails which will dive into a little regexp. Like a lot of things now it’s hosted on GitHub https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban After the fail2ban lecture there will be general discussion of FOSS stuff. As usual lightning talks are welcome! Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to register just click on the link on the day. Meeting officially opens at 1PM Melbourne time (02:00UTC), 11th of Apr. -- Regards, Phil Steel-Wilson

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Flounder meeting Apr 11th Fail2ban
by Russell Coker 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-apr-2026-fail2ban/ The main talk is: Fail2ban – A guide to setting up and running it. This talk will cover installing and configuring F2B but only on Debian but other distributions are much the same. All the common topics including Ban times and Find Times will be covered and the various jails that apply to a basic LAMP stack. Also some basic custom jails which will dive into a little regexp. Like a lot of things now it’s hosted on GitHub https://github.com/fail2ban/ fail2ban After the fail2ban lecture there will be general discussion of FOSS stuff. As usual lightning talks are welcome! Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to register just click on the link on the day. Meeting officially opens at 1PM Melbourne time (02:00UTC), 11th of Apr. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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After the cull
by Phil'll Fix IT Mobile Computer Services 21 Mar '26

21 Mar '26

Hi All, If you are reading this you are on a mail list that is still running. All other lists have been discontinued. The archives are still available for these discontinued lists. Please feel free to post and use these lists as pre covid. If there is any problems or questions regarding this please feel free to email me at this address. Cheers Phil on behalf of LUV Linux Victoria -- "My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours." Regards, Phil Steel-Wilson Phil'll Fix IT Mobile Computer Services [+61](0)447 64 55 34 https://philfixit.com.au Linux user no: #564977 SHOP MAGIK | APRA No: #867466 Over 25 years experience in the IT industry. If you are happy with my service and rates, please recommend me to your family and friends. Boring stuff follows . . . Treat all email communication as confidential. It is for the intended recipient only. If you have received this email and, you are not the intended recipient please contact, abuse(a)philfixit.com.au

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looking for help with some linux installs for newbies
by Jade Ambrose 19 Mar '26

19 Mar '26

Hi Friends, The Naarm Solarpunk Meetup has a really big attendance in Feb, about 70 people came, and we got something like 200 people joining our meetup group online. The crowd was very mixed, some folks really experienced with FOSS, and a fair few non technical people really frustrated at big tech. We advertised our March meetup as being less talky, and more "computers out" to help each other get off big tech. We also have a group of volunteers who will be there going through our process to setup a Raspberry Pi web using serving a wikipedia mirror. We've got a smaller crowd coming to that, it's 22 registered at present, I expect that to rise until the event next Wednesday, but of course not everyone will turn up. So, I guess the reach out to my fellow linux enthusiasts is, if there were one or two people in this group who wanted to come along and help people install linux, I think that'd be valuable. There are obviously a bunch of us there who can help with that, but there will be a bit going on and someone focused just on that would probably have more impact. If you think that might be you, feel free to drop me a line. The event in next Wednesday 18th, at a makerspace in Brunswick, details here <https://www.meetup.com/merri-bek-tech/events/313348997/>. For context, people who need help are likely to new to the journey, so it might be a case of helping someone dual boot with Windows if they are a newcomer, or I have at least one person who has been doing that a couple of years and now would like to re-partition to remove windows. If these folks are not super technical, I'd prefer if we offer them ubuntu so they have overlap to help each other. Jade

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This Month's (March) Linux Town Hall
by Sae Ra Germaine 11 Mar '26

11 Mar '26

Hi Folx, I thought I would do the right thing and try to join a Linux Town Hall ( https://luma.com/v0loskqm?tk=haWr5A) to see what is happening in the Linux Victorioa world, unfortunately I couldn't make the face to face meeting but found that there was a handy Online option ( https://linuxvictoria.org/events/2026-03-10_town-hall-march-2026/) I've been sitting here for a while now and looks like someone has forgotten to start the online portion of the meeting. Do we know if this town hall has happened? And is there a reliable way to get some questions answered? Thanks, Sae Ra

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obsolete mailing lists
by Russell Coker 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

luv-shepparton(a)luv.asn.au luv-latrobe(a)luv.asn.au luv-tech(a)luv.asn.au luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au luv-jobs(a)luv.asn.au luv-geelong(a)luv.asn.au luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au luv-ballarat(a)luv.asn.au Are any of the above lists needed? In the past all of the above apart from luv-talk had been low traffic, now even the luv-main list is low traffic. I don't think we need to have separate luv-talk and luv-main lists nowadays given the low traffic on luv-main. I also think that if people from regional areas want to discuss their stuff on luv-main it wouldn't be a problem given the overall lack of traffic and the fact that people from the Melbourne area do visit regional areas on occasion. The jobs list is also a corner case, in the past there hadn't been many people on it as there was a chicken and egg problem of a lack of subscribers and a lack of jobs. I don't think we will be overwhealmed by job ads any time soon. So job ads on luv-main should be fine as long as they are actually specific to the Linux community (like small businesses or companies specialising in Linux) not just the typical stuff you see on Seek or LinkedIn. So any reason for not closing the lists at the top of the message? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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David zuccaro's Linux problem.
by David Zuccaro 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

David Zuccaro BSc (Chemistry, University Of Melbourne), GradDipCompSci (Monash), GradDipEd (Melbourne)

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MM3 is now working
by Phil Steel-Wilson 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

I am please to announce that the mailing lists for linux victoria are up and running. If anybody has any problems with it please email me at phil(a)philfixit.com.au cheers Phil

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