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PyCon AU 2017 - Starts in just under three weeks!
by Tennessee Leeuwenburg 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

PyCon Australia 2017 - https://pycon-au.org/ - the national conference for users and developers of the Python programming language, will start in just under three weeks! Tickets to the conference are still available, but selling fast. This year the conference will take place in Melbourne, from 3 - 8 August, with a jam-packed schedule. Thursday 3rd August: Long-Form Tutorials Friday 4th August: Specialist Tracks – Internet of Things, Science and Data, Python in Education and DjangoCon AU Saturday 5th August: Main Conference Day One - four streams of talks. Also, DjangoGirls Workshop and PyLadies Breakfast Sunday 6th August: Main Conference Day Two - four streams of talks Monday 7th August: Sprints Day One (sold out) Tuesday 8th August: Sprints Day Two (limited tickets still available) This year includes two exciting new features: long-form tutorials and child care. Each paid tutorial will run for 3.5 hours, including a 30 minute break. Tickets are still available to three of the tutorials: Python 101, Build Tooling Workshop and Practical Testing with Pytest. For more information, please visit: https://pycon-au.org/program/tutorials/ On-site child care, run by qualified child care workers, will be offered on the specialist track and the main conference days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Child care registration closes on Thursday 20th July. For more information, please visit: https://pycon-au.org/about/child-care/ For more information about conference ticket prices and inclusions, please see: https://pycon-au.org/attend/ === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The eighth PyCon Australia will be held on August 3-8 2017 in Melbourne, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for programming in Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s developers with presentations by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact(a)pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, WSP Digital and IRESS, and other sponsors. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.

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radio ethernet link
by zlinew9＠virginbroadband.com.au 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

I am looking at a radio connection on my small local network, just to the other end of the house and wondering what is the best way to go and what hardware,linux compatible of course is required. A pointer to any docs would be helpfull. I am asking here as I am not sure what I am looking for. Lindsay

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Office suite functionality without an office suite?
by Dede Lamb 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Hi all! I'm working towards a setup that is lightweight as possible. I've used Open and Libre offices before, I'm wondering can I do away with the suite entirely? I could use md + pandoc to produce text documents which takes care of my main use case for office. The only other thing I use office for is the occasional spreadsheet manipulation (auto-filling and basic math functions, tinkering with sums etc). I'm not sure of a suitable stand-in for this. Thoughts? No idea too crazy, bonus points if it works in a console, minus points for cloud services ;) Best Dede Lamb

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Linux compatible USB wifi
by Brian May 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hello, What is a good USB wifi adaptor - preferably dual band although not 100% required that will work out of the box with recent Linux kernels on Raspberry Pi 2? I currently have an adaptor based on the RTL8188CUS, but ever since upgrading from Debian Jessie (not Raspbian) to Debian Stretch, I get high packet loss. Especially ARP packets - which are somewhat important. Curiously this means IPv6 is more reliable than IPv4, although even IPv6 was its ups and downs. It is possible to access the box via IPv6 or from IPV4 that still has the MAC address cached while IPv4 ping requests fail from another box (I think this rules out wifi signal issues). Doing Google research I found that: (a) I should disable power management mode (I have), and (b) use an alternate kernel driver. However, for (b) I am still trying to find the kernel headers, which are apparently installed by default by my imaging tool https://github.com/drtyhlpr/rpi23-gen-image, but not correctly referenced by the symlinks under /lib/modules/4.9.33-v7+/ https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2259143 https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes So wondering if picking another wifi adapter might be a better choice? Regards

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loudness of mp4 etc files
by Russell Coker 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Is there a way of balancing loudness of different mp4 files? While it's impossible to do this perfectly (there is no general agreement on how to measure it) it is possible to give a good approximation. My music video collection that I downloaded from youtube has videos of significantly different loudness, so when I watch a selection of videos that suit my mood with mplayer I have to change the system volume every few videos because I get to one that's either too loud or too quiet for the current settings. I'd like to run a script across my video collection to get the average loudness of each video so the mplayer softvol setting can be adjusted to compensate. Then of course I'd do some manual adjustment like increasing the volume of The Divinyls and The Angels. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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kmail with PGP issue
by Andrew McGlashan 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Hi, Just a heads up if you use kmail with GPG.... https://ctrl.blog/entry/kmail-cve-2017-9604-openpgp Cheers AndrewM

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Event: OSIA - Open Source Industry Aus. Meetup: Monday June 26.
by Daniel Jitnah 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Invitation to an OSIA Meetup event ** OSIA would particularly like to meet new business, IT Professionals and Startups actively using open source software. ** When: Monday 26 June, 6.30pm Where: Loop Bar, 23 Meyer Place Melbourne RSVP: Meetup Site: https://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Industry-Australia-OSIA/ or reply to events(a)osia.com.au Please join OSIA for a meetup on Monday 26 June. * A chance to (re-)connect with all those with an interest in open source software. * Find out more about OSIA and what we are doing. * OSIA is also supporting GovHack in 2017. Find out more. OSIA Board (OSIA is the national industry body representing business offering IT solutions based on open source software). ** ** Amplifying the voice of the Australian Open Source Software Industry **

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Free to good home: SGI Indy and other oddities
by Paul Dwerryhouse 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

I'm doing a clean-out of old computers in my house, and - I imagine this is a long shot - I have an SGI Indy workstation to get rid of, if anyone is interested in saving it from the hard-rubbish collection. It's still working, and boots Irix. It has an original SGI monitor (CRT), keyboard, mouse and webcam. The keyboard doesn't work, but it did not long ago, and I suspect it's just due to a bent pin on the plug. At the very least, the workstation works fine with generic PS/2 keyboards. Also I have two Cabletron 24x100Mbps Smart Switch 2200s and a Sun SCSI cdrom drive (haven't tested, but should work with the Indy) to get rid of. Contact me off list if you're interested; pick up is in Brunswick. Cheers, Paul

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server migration
by Russell Coker 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

New hardware has been purchased for the system that hosts the LUV VM. The old server is a i7-920, 8G of RAM, and 2*750G SATA disks. The "new" server is a i7-930, 48G of RAM, 2*250G SATA SSD, and 2*2TB SATA disks. I put new in quotes because it's not new hardware, it's hardware someone else rented first. For most hosting providers getting hardware someone else used first is standard practice. But the Hetzner business model is that the default is to buy new systems that haven't been used before. Systems that have been used are sold by a reverse-auction system where the price on each system goes down steadily until someone buys it. I am not sure exactly when I will migrate the LUV VM, but it will probably be late at night. I will coordinate with the committee because there will be a time when we have 2 separate instances of Drupal and I don't want anyone to make changes to the old one that get lost. The advantage of doing it this way is that for the people viewing the web site there will be no outage. Before starting the changes I will stop Postfix (which will only be noticed as delayed list mail) and configure Apache to fail any requests to the list server configuration web pages. The main aim is to have the minimum of surprises for people who don't read my announcement messages. Delayed mail is not noteworthy. A list server web page being down for a while usually isn't a big deal. The main web site with information on future meetings etc is the important thing that needs to remain up. The current LUV VM has 2G of RAM and 512M of swap of which 450M is used. The new VM will have at least 4G and maybe 6G of RAM. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Forcing samba to give users a disk quota
by Toby Corkindale 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

Hi, I bought some new IP cameras, that have built-in motion detection and can record to a remote CIFS/Samba share. Sounds good, but they're buggy -- more than 512Mbyte on the remote CIFS share and they crash out. Known issue for a while, it turns out, and the manufacturer (Hikvision) doesn't seem to care to fix it. So, I need to make the samba shares report a disk quota rather than the full free space on the server. HOWEVER -- I have tried both the classic 'quota' tools, and btrfs' quota tools, and neither results in the desired effect. Classic 'quota' tools report "No filesystems with quota detected". btrfs' qgroup stuff works to limit writes beyond the quota, but samba doesn't see or report the quota. Any ideas? (Last resort would be to mount a fixed-size FS image via the loopback driver, but.. ugh.. there has to be a better way!) -T

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