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Using a Raspberry Pi in Education (Teaching)
by Said, Joseph J 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear List Is anybody using a Raspberry Pi for teaching coding, hardware or any other application in a school? I have been asked to investigate the possibility. Thanks in advance. Joe Joe Said VCE IT / Mathematics / Science Teacher Assistant Daily Organiser Rosehill Secondary College IMPORTANT - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Training.

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Security OS
by Rory Geoghegan 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Hey everybody, I have a friend who's having done security issues. I'm looking for an OS which is both super secure and didn't require high level skills to use. I was thinking qubez at first but after trying it out it requires quite a high level of skill to use. The main applications required are email and word. Thanks in advance Sincerely Rory Geoghegan

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Fwd: [Linux-aus] Fwd: [LACTTE] Linux Journal Community Advisory Board
by Russell Coker 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Linux-aus] Fwd: [LACTTE] Linux Journal Community Advisory Board Date: Thursday, 15 February 2018, 1:11:20 PM AEDT From: Linux Australia President via linux-aus <linux-aus(a)lists.linux.org.au> To: linux-aus(a)lists.linux.org.au FYI - if anyone from a LUG would like to be involved, please let me know. Best, K. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [LACTTE] Linux Journal Community Advisory Board Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:36:53 -0600 From: Mark Irgang <mark(a)linuxjournal.com> To: council(a)linux.org.au I’m writing on behalf of Linux Journal. We want your help. We have formed a Community Advisory Board and would be very interested in having one representative from your LUG sit on our board. We want to make sure the community’s voice is strong within the pages of Linux Journal. What would be required of you? Nothing formal. Our editors will communicate with the board on a monthly basis to ask for editorial suggestions and guidance. More importantly, you’ll have the ear of our editors-- the issues you discuss at your LUG meetings can be brought to the editors whenever you see fit (e.g. hot topics, news, big ideas, technical concerns, you name it). What we need from you to get started: If you’re up for this, we’d love the name and email address of one member representative from your group, as well as your group’s name and URL. We’d like permission to publish these names within the pages of our magazine and on our web site (email address naturally will stay private). We’re looking to have this board set up by the end of February. Please let me know if you’d be interested in participating. Thanks much, Mark C. Irgang Associate Publisher Linux Journal -- The Original Magazine of the Linux Community www.linuxjournal.com <http://www.linuxjournal.com> PO Box 170127 Austin, TX 78717 Phone: 713-344-1956 X111 <tel:%28713%29%20344-1956> ----------------------------------------- -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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GMail + Email Client
by Piers Rowan 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi there! We have moved to GMail from our own servers. For good reasons I have 4 mailboxes that I use. (At least one of which receives 200 messages per hour with a rule in place to move some of the content into folders). I am using Thunderbird right now and the performance of GMail vs our Dovecot (Linux IMAP server) is sluggish. In addition mail takes longer to arrive and polling seems to cache old message lists. Given that we cannot move away from GMail is it a client issue? Is there a better client? Any feedback welcomed. Have a great day. P

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suspend resume macbook pro
by Brian May 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Hello, I have installed Debian/stretch on a MacBook Pro, and it all seems OK, except suspend/resume is now suspend/crash instead. Sometimes I get a black screen, most times the screen gets restored and then it crashes. Furthermore, I was accidentally pressing the power button and shutting down the system, so changed this action to suspend. Now instead of a clean shutdown, I get a dirty crash whenever I accidentally press the power button :-| Maybe should change that to ignore for now... How do I go about debugging suspend/resume problems? Online reports seem to indicate that there should be no problems with suspend/resume and a recent kernel. Regards

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iview and flv files
by Russell Coker 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

Files produced by python-iview give errors like the following when I try to play them with mplayer. Anyone have suggestions for how to deal with it? The files produced last year were ok but it seems that something changed at the ABC so files downloaded this year don't work. $ mplayer IN1501H016S00MA1D1_20171216030611_650000.flv MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-7 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team do_connect: could not connect to socket connect: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing IN1501H016S00MA1D1_20171216030611_650000.flv. libavformat version 57.83.100 (external) libavformat file format detected. LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed LAVF: no audio or video headers found - broken file? libavformat file format detected. LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed LAVF: no audio or video headers found - broken file? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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iView challenges
by Mark Trickett 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

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Printing issues
by Mark Trickett 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

Hello All, I am having mixed results printing on a Debian Stretch 64 bit system with a HP LJ4+. I can print postscript from the command line, I can get the test page to print, but nothing from LibreOffice 5 nor a text editor such as leafpad. There is some data sent to the printer, but it just sits there and taking off line and pressing the form feed does not produce a page, even a partial page of something. Adding to the insult, I cannot set it up as a second printer, but non-postscript. I am far from impressed, it is now an unduly complicated mix of bits and pieces that is difficult to follow and sort and read to see the configuration and understand to debug. Regards, Mark Trickett

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Network Security Device
by Robert Brown 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Does this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akita/akita-instant-privacy-for-smart-… do anything special that is not already available in linux software? Apart from a neat packaging exercise of course? The description includes: "Connected to a LAN port on your router, Akita scans your network for any unusual activity and immediately shuts it down. All-the-while letting you know an attempt was made to invade your privacy. Akita uses military-grade security protection that’s been retrofitted for the home. Then, if you run into any issues, we can remotely preserve and restore your privacy with the help of our always on-call privacy experts at Axi.us. Akita uses threat intelligence, behavioral analysis, machine learning and doesn't slow your connection at all. Importantly, it doesn't use deep packet inspection."

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Debian/stretch screen corruption/hangs
by Brian May 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hello, I seem to be having an increasing problem on my Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015, where: * The screen will lose sync. Like it is an older analogue monitor. Sometimes it will come good after 1 second. Other times a suspend/resume will solve this. Some videos showing the problems: https://photos.app.goo.gl/g71psLYXEfcNK1Vx1 - the black screen with dots is uncommon, the scrolling display is more common. This is with *one* emacs window shown at full screen. * The screen will flash bright for a second, go back to normal, and then the computer will completely freeze. * These above symptoms typically happen in response to a keypress at a terminal window (gnome terminal and xterm both affected). Especially the down button or escape key, but these aren't the only ones. Happens with no external devices plugged in. * wayland/xorg gnome/kde/awesome/etc all have the same problem. Have latest Debian/stretch with latest security updates. It is possible that a regression in a security update has caused increased problems, but I am doubtful. At first I thought this was a hardware problem. Which means I should try to get it fixed under warranty. But: * Built in tests all pass. * The problem is not reproducible under Windows. * I installed Debian/stretch (brand new install) on a very different computer - a MacBook Pro, and encounter - what appears to be - exactly the same symptoms. Although the "lost sync" affect doesn't last as long. The only thing in common is both have high resolution displays. I reduced the resolution on the Thinkpad, just in case, but still get similar problems. This MacBook Pro works fine with OSX. Any ideas? This is making Linux on these computers unusable, I never know when it is going to crash. In practice, times are often very short, or worst time (e.g. 2nd time entering this email... This time under OSX). Regards

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