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MLUG tomorrow! (in-person & online)
by Alexar Pendashteh 28 Jun '26

28 Jun '26

MUG's June meeting is tomorrow night, 7:30pm. Carlton North & Online on jitsi. Talks: *Amazon Linux on AWS* by Jerrome *Porting Debian 13 to loongarch* by Wencey Wang Location: 644 Rathdowne St (corner of Pigdon St), Carlton North VIC 3054 Online: https://meet.jit.si/mlug-au Starting at 7:30pm More details on MLUGs website: https://mlug-au.org/ + Alexar

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The luv.asn.au domain
by Russell Coker 28 Jun '26

28 Jun '26

The luv.asn.au domain is registered with webcentral. I'm listed as the technical contact in the whois but Webcentral denies me access regardless. The registrant contact is president(a)linuxvictoria.org and Alexar has done nothing about this for 3 months despite repeated reminders. The registrant is "LINUX AUSTRALIA INC." with ABN 56987117479. What can be done here? We have about 4 days before the domain expires. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Greetings from Gippsland; and looking for remote work
by luv＠tr.id.au 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

Hey everyone, Some of you already know me, and I hope you're doing well! As I'm currently between roles, Rodney suggested the LUV jobs service to me. However, it looks like the jobs mailing list was recently closed, so hopefully it's okay for me to put out some feelers on main instead :) I'm based in Loch Sport. I moved here last year under the impression I'd have 100% remote work forever after. Unfortunately, that was a bit premature and the remote work prospects seem to be drying up lately :P Oops. I do really love it here though, so any more remote work I can find soon would be awesome. Needing to sell up and relocate again would absolutely break my heart. I will even consider part time or junior work right now. Low-bureaucracy roles preferred, so I can keep using my custom workstations without worrying about ISO-27001 or IRAP style compliance checkboxing. Well, enough of the sob story. The real question on your mind is why should someone hire me? I'll send a CV on request, but in the meantime here are the elevator pitches: * Nearly ten years operating Ubuntu Server fleets for OpenStack and HPC. Most recently in so-called neo-clouds, I've got strong experience with most OpenStack services and their supporting infrastructure such as VLANs, Ceph, OVS, Mariadb/MySQL, Bind9, Prometheus, Grafana, NetBox, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Gerrit and GitHub Actions. I've dealt with a wide variety of hardware including Dell, SuperMicro, Asus, HPE and OctoMiner, with Mellanox cards and up to 8x NVIDIA cards at once, with NVLinks and SR-IOV. I've done plenty of deployments with MAAS and orchestrated the warranties of so much faulty hardware you just wouldn't believe. I can script IPMITool and Redfish. * I've been devoted to Linux since 2008, and have built up a deep knowledge of all the sysadmin "primitives" such as shell scripting, namespaces, OpenSSH, device manager, filesystems, IPtables, dnsmasq, iproute2, kernel memory management, Git, C programming, jq, LMod and the GNU ecosystem. I'm great at applying my knowledge of these primitives to engineer minimalistic, robust and reproducible systems and pipelines. I'm also an official GNU maintainer and, as an extra flex, everything in my SOHO (including my custom router) runs Gentoo BTW. * I'm a STEM/HASS jack-of-all-trades with a background in Mathematics & Statistics and a wide variety of side interests. I bust silos and learn fast. If you're wondering whether I can do something you have in mind, the real question is "when can I start?" * Awesome remote work setup: two redundant workstations so I can keep working in event of hardware failure, and business-tier 1000/400 fttp. Lots of experience with remote collaboration including Slack, Teams and Zoom. I never suffer the audio or video issues that plague basically everyone else in online calls. I also cultivate strong remote work cultures based on kind, clear and regular communication, and engineering discipline. * I've got an ABN so could do contract gigs if that's preferred. I hope you'll reach out if you want someone who will hit the ground running and start getting things done without any BS as soon as you add my ssh keys to your servers. If you added my ssh keys yesterday, I could have been deploying solutions to production today ;) I'm also open to meeting up with anyone around the Morwell/Traralgon/Sale/Bairnsdale area if you just feel like a coffee. I have daily fresh hot takes on AI as well as all your old time favorite holy wars! So ping me if you're around :) And feel free to connect on LinkedIn if that's how you roll: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-rice-45641329b/ Thanks for your patience with this email, hopefully it's not too much noise for this list! Kind regards, Tim Rice

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Re: Linux Town Hall at Kathleen Syme Library with special speaker Duncan from MLUG
by Duncan Roe 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

Hi everyone, small correction to Sophie's email: Tonight I'll be talking about bash *cd* history, a new thing (AFAIK) that I invented. bash history has been around forever. mluggers: see https://linuxvictoria.org/ and look for "Linux Town Hall". This is an improved version of the talk I gave at MLUG. Cheers ... Duncan. On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 10:58:03PM +1000, Linux Victoria wrote: > > A familiar face to many of us, Duncan Roe, who organises MLUG (Melbourne > Linux User Group) these days, will be talking about bash history.

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There is an MLUG meeting tomorrow Monday 25th
by Duncan Roe 24 May '26

24 May '26

Hi LUV people, The Melbourne Linux Users Group (MLUG) is having its monthly meeting tomorrow evening. Pre-meeting starts at 6PM, talks start at 7:30. 2 talks this month: 1. Danny Robson: Using HomeAssistant, mosquitto & Tasmota to automate mushroom growing 2. Jerrome: Amazon Linux on AWS This is a hybrid meeting, in-person and online. The online meeting is at <https://meet.jit.si/mlug-au>. We meet in-person at the Great Northern Hotel, 644 Rathdowne St, Carlton North, VIC, 3054, in the dining function room. The MLUG website is https://mlug-au.org. Hope to see some of you tomorrow, Cheers ... Duncan.

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Humble Bundle: O'Reilly (13 d) Shells and Scripting for Seasoned Admins
by Rodney Brown 03 May '26

03 May '26

This would have been luv-talk fare in the past. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/shells-and-scripting-for-seasoned-admins… O'Reilly: Shells and Scripting: 13 days Humble Tech Book Bundle: Shells and Scripting for Seasoned Admins Pay at least AU$38.98 for these 17 items Linux Pocket Guide 4th ed. Learning Modern Linux 1st ed. bash Idioms: Write Powerful, Flexible, Readable Shell Scripts Efficient Linux at the Command Line: Boost Your Command-Line Skills Powershell Cookbook: Your Complete Guide to Scripting the Ubiquitous Object-Based Shell 4th ed. PowerShell Pocket Ref.: Portable Help for PowerShell Scripters 3rd ed. Python for DevOps Cybersecurity Ops with Bash bash Cookbook, 2nd ed. Bash Pocket Ref.: Help for Power Users and Sys Admins 2nd ed. grep Pocket Ref DNS and Bind: Help for System Administrators 5th ed. Learning the Bash Shell 3rd ed. Managing Projects with GNU Make: The Power of GNU Make for Building Anything 3rd ed. Introducing Regular Expressions 1st ed. sed and awk Pocket Ref.: Text Processing with Regular Expressions 2nd ed. Windows PowerShell for Developers: Enhance Your Productivity and Enable Rapid Application Development This may interest some https://www.humblebundle.com/books/no-kings-library-berrettkoehler-books The No Kings Library: 18 days: Pay at least AU$27.67 for these 21 items

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There is an MLUG meeting tomorrow Monday 27th
by Duncan Roe 26 Apr '26

26 Apr '26

Hi LUV people, The Melbourne Linux Users Group (MLUG) is having its monthly meeting tomorrow evening. Pre-meeting starts at 6PM, talks start at 7:30. This is a hybrid meeting, in-person and online. The online meeting is at <https://meet.jit.si/mlug-au>. We meet in-person at the Great Northern Hotel, 644 Rathdowne St, Carlton North, VIC, 3054, and will be in the SNUG this month. The MLUG website is https://mlug-au.org/doku.php but it may be offline because the hoster is moving house. Hope to see some of you tomorrow, Cheers ... Duncan.

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Facebook
by Russell Coker 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

Firstly a disclaimer, I dislike Facebook for many reasons and would prefer it if the company went bankrupt and shut down. But as that's not going to happen and there's an estimated 17.7 million Facebook users in Australia (almost 2/3 of the population) we have to deal with that. Currently a Facebook search for "Linux" and "Australia" will (for me at least) return the Linux Australia organisation and not much else. The Linux Australia organisation hasn't posted since 2024. I think it would be nice to post at least once a year but that's not the main point of this message. Currently a Facebook search for "free", "software", and "Australia" returns as the only appropriate result the group "100% free software" which is more about "free as in beer" software. I think that what we need is to have a number of Facebook groups for beginners in free software and Linux which can answer basic questions, help people get started, and then point them to more open communities (Lemmy, mailing lists, Matrix rooms, etC). I'd be happy to join any such groups and answer questions, but I've got enough going on that I don't want to be any sort of moderator or anything. Is anyone interested in running such a group? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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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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