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Kvm
by Russell Coker 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

Is there interest in a kvm tutorial at the beginners sig? The idea would be to have most people running it on their laptops but it's theoretically possible to run kvm within qemu so we might be able to get it running in VMs. -- Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with K-9 Mail.

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SP Ausnet and ZigBee devices
by Brian May 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hello, Has anybody had any recent experience talking to smart power meters via ZigBee, preferably on Linux? e.g. what hardware? what software? The only thing I can find is this post from several years ago: https://lists.luv.asn.au/pipermail/luv-main/2014-August/006620.html Regards -- Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/

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Re: 6to4 reverse DNS
by Russell Coker 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:10:35 AM John Mann via luv-main wrote: > The problem is that Anycast 6to4 is an _unmanaged_ tunnel system, > dependent upon the generosity and technical ability of strangers (often > with no means of identifying or contacting them). The Internet is entirely dependent on the technical ability of strangers. Usually the random unpaid strangers are more skillfull and diligent than the people employed by ISPs. With this sort of thing there are risks of hostile parties running tunnels, but all unencrypted data on the Internet is at risk of interception so I don't think that changes much. Thanks to 6to4 when I get my home Internode connection working with IPv6 I will have every system that matters to me on IPv6. It will be some time before everything works well on IPv6, now would be a good time to get it all tested. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: 6to4 reverse DNS
by Tony Langdon 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

On 13/04/2016 11:10 AM, John Mann via luv-main wrote: > If you _need_ IPv6, then nag/change your ISP, Internode definitely works. Who else offers native IPv6? > or use a _managed_ tunnel system e.g. > https://tunnelbroker.net/ or > http://www.gogo6.com/freenet6 or > http://www.ipv6now.com.au/tunnels.php or > https://www.sixxs.net/main/ ... Sixxs are not processing new users or tunnel requests. They are in the early phases of a phase out. Their rationale is that it's time ISPs pulled their finger out and provided IPv6 for their customers, rather than leaving it up to the major tunnel providers to take up the slack. There has been quite a bit of discussion on the Fidonet IPv6 echo (Yes, Fidonet is still around, and yes, I have access!). -- 73 de Tony VK3JED/VK3IRL http://vkradio.com

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6to4 reverse DNS
by Russell Coker 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

https://6to4.nro.net/ I'm trying to setup reverse DNS for a 6to4 address using the above web site. IPv4: 220.245.31.42 IPv4 (hex): dc.f5.1f.2a IPv6: 2002:dcf5:1f2a::/48 Reverse: a.2.f.1.5.f.c.d.2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa Above is the web site's details about my system. Before anyone mentions it I know it's common practice to obscure details of addresses before posting to lists, but I'm not publishing anything that couldn't be discovered by reading headers of mail sent out from my system. Name server 1: ns.sws.net.au.______ Error Either you have entered an invalid nameserver description or the nameserver you refer to has no zone for this reverse delegation. When I try to submit the form I get the above errors from all of my DNS servers. zone "a.2.f.1.5.f.c.d.2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/data/a.2.f.1.5.f.c.d.2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa"; allow-transfer { REDACTED }; }; Above is the named.conf.local configuration for BIND. $TTL 604800 @ IN SOA ns.sws.net.au. root.sws.net.au. ( 2016041204 ; Serial 3600 ; Refresh 60 ; Retry 604800 ; Expire 3600 ) ; Default TTL IN NS ns.sws.net.au. IN NS othello.dycom.com.au. IN NS xkcd.gw90.de. 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 IN PTR smtp.sws.net.au. Above is the complete zone file for a.2.f.1.5.f.c.d.2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. Can anyone see anything I've done wrong? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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PyCon Australia 2016 Call for Proposals now open
by Brianna Laugher 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

*PyCon Australia 2016 is pleased to announce that its Call for Proposals is now open! See** https://2016.pycon-au.org/cfp* <https://2016.pycon-au.org/cfp>* for all the details, or read on.* Proposals are being accepted for the main conference weekend, and for the preceding specialist tracks: DjangoCon AU; the Python in Education seminar; the Science & Data miniconf; and the Internet-of-Things miniconf. The conference this year will be held from Friday 12th August to Tuesday 16th August. Miniconfs and special events are on Friday followed by the main conference on Saturday and Sunday. The final two days are developer sprints. Important Dates Proposal submission deadline: Sunday, 8th May Proposal acceptance: Sunday, 29th May PyCon Australia attracts professional developers from all walks of life, including industry, government, and science, as well as enthusiast and student developers. We’re looking for proposals for presentations and tutorials on any aspect of Python programming, at all skill levels from novice to advanced. Presentation subjects may range from reports on open source, academic or commercial projects; or even tutorials and case studies. If a presentation is interesting and useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program. We're especially interested in short presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application? For more information, please visit https://2016.pycon-au.org/cfp. Thanks very much to all prospective speakers from the program committee -- we really appreciate it! === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The seventh PyCon Australia will be held on August 12-16 2016 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 2016, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau <https://twitter.com/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, DevDemand.co and IRESS; and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia and Optiver. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.

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Apple osx hdutils
by Keith Bainbridge 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

G'day all I have found a couple of projects that assist run osx utilities in linux, however they seem to have died. All I need is to convert a .iso to .dmg, so that when the result is dd 'd to usb it wil boot my MacBook. The result is an efiboot partition is written to the USB as well as the .iso installation file. I can't boot into osx using a usb but it takes forever, and ages to run the conversion. Slow enough to seek a better way Tanks in advance Keith Bainbridge 0447 667 468 Keithrbaugroups(a)gmail.com Sent from my APad

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spam with bad From: field
by Russell Coker 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

From: "postmaster(a)coker.com.au" <ich(a)trimas.com.au> Above is the From field of a spam that recently arrived in my inbox, the Return-Path and Message-ID refer to trimas.com.au so it didn't hit any SPF checks. Is there a good way of stopping such spam with Postfix and SpamAssassin? I wrote some milter code to stop this for a client, the code was a little hacky and even if I had approval to reuse it the amount of work involved would vastly exceed the amount of time it takes to just delete such mail. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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An email problem
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

I currently use an mcmedia email address, recently mcmedia changed hands and it is now part of a Bendigo based group. I ___appear___ to be one of the few using an email address based on there dial up servers and would definitely seem to be running on borrowed time. I am at the moment trying for various reasons to get a new ISP. What options have i got for an email service. I at the moment use a home based mail system but if there is no viable option a web based set up would be OK. Although I have now been running Linux for 24 years and have a network at home I actually know little about such things, it has always just worked and my interest has always been much more into the Kernel and X and general linux PC configuration. Lindsay

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Mobile broadband service that works with Linux
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 20 Mar '16

20 Mar '16

I am looking for a Mobile broadband service provider whose service works with Linux, I would really prefer a Prepaid plan. I am currently with Virgin who uses the Optus network. I have tried the service offered be Bendigo Telco, which in fact does use Optus but strangely it I could not get it to work well. I did get it to work but it was dead slow. Telstra has a prepaid that appears to be better than Virgin, anyone tried it on Linux. Lindsay

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