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Jitsi
by Russell Coker 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

https://j.luv.asn.au/ Above is the URL for the LUV Jitsi instance. I'll name the room "a". Keep things short so you can type it quickly if you get disconnected. 6PM tomorrow we will start. You will notice that the server is based in Melbourne and has no IPv6 addresses, currently the only IPv6 address space I have access to is tunneled from Germany which isn't good for latency. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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BBC radio program, saving the audio
by Mark Trickett 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Hello All, I heard a BBC documentary on ABC Radio National, in the World Docos segment. I want the audio to pass on to others, and I would strongly recommend it to all here. I can get it to play, but not to save, yet. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jtmv There are five episodes, and the last is the kicker. I do have youtube-dl installed,and command runner firefox extension, but not yet sure how to go about. I would also appreciate examples to be able to use them to download from ABC iView, I want "saving Planet A". Regards, Mark Trickett

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Re: Jitsi
by Rick Moen 15 Aug '20

15 Aug '20

Quoting Andrew Pam (andrew(a)sericyb.com.au) > Hmm. It mostly fails with Firefox and mostly succeeds with Chrome, so > maybe that was the problem. Even with Chrome the "Reflexive > connectivity" and "Video bandwidth" tests fail. Are there any ports I > have to open on my firewall for Jitsi? Checking my rushed notes for server setup of jitsi.conzealand.nz : 80/tcp for Web UI HTTP to redirect 443/tcp for Web UI HTTPS 4443/tcp for RTP media over TCP (transport for WebRTC A/V) 10000/udp for RTP media over UDP optional: 20000-20050/udp for jigasi (SIP access) (That's for a fairly generic setup, which ended up not including SIP.) ISTR that the two you say fail don't necesarily matter much. -- Cheers, "My hot flight attendant asked how I like my coffee. Rick Moen And that's when she told me: 'That's cute, honey, but rick(a)linuxmafia.com the coffee's free. You don't have to pay for it, here." McQ! (4x80) (seen on Twitter)

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Jitsi installation
by Russell Coker 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/08/14/jitsi-on-debian/ I just wrote a blog post about Installing Jitsi -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: [luv-talk] LUV status
by Russell Coker 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

On Sunday, 9 August 2020 4:35:42 PM AEST Robin Stephens via luv-talk wrote: > Been busy with life last few years so have not had time to engage with many > of the communities I used to be involved with. > > Hope you are all safe and well. > > Just curious about the status of LUV lately. Mailing list seems semi active > but the web site is severely broken. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll look into it. I have monitoring for the basic connectivity but good or bad Drupal content looks the same to my monitoring system. > Is luv-main still the primary place for discussion of all things Linux in > Victoria? Yes. Thanks Rick for pointing out other video meetups. Rick if there's any interesting Linux video meetup you plan to join please send the link to luv- main. 2020 is a dumpster fire. I'm more depressed than usual and finding it difficult to arrange things. I've setup a LUV Jitsi VM with low ping times in Melbourne (less than 5ms ping time to www.theage.com.au) we just need to arrange some stuff. I think we need to get some more committee members who are in a good mental state to do stuff. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: [luv-talk] LUV status
by Andrew Mather 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

> On Tuesday, 11 August 2020 10:53:46 AM AEST Jonathan Oxer wrote: > > So when the first isolation period started, I began a weekly 10am Sunday > > morning livestream where I spend 2 hours interacting with viewers and > > talking about mostly tech stuff. Obviously there's a strong home > automation > > orientation to it, but I also talk about software, UI paradigms, > > satellites, networking, security, robots, hardware design, Arduino, and > > stupid tricks with a Raspberry Pi and party poppers. > > You had me at "stupid tricks with a Raspberry Pi and party poppers" :) :) -- - https://picasaweb.google.com/107747436224613508618 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." *-Ralph Waldo Emerson, * "Unless you're a train....that's not good advice for trains" *-Andrew Mather*

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Fwd: [luv-talk] LUV status (& online meeting possibilities)
by Russell Coker 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [luv-talk] LUV status (& online meeting possibilities) Date: Monday, 10 August 2020, 2:55:53 PM AEST From: Rick Moen via luv-talk <luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au> To: luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au Robin Stephens asked: > Is luv-main still the primary place for discussion of all things Linux > in Victoria? It kind of is (to my knowledge). As you perhaps observed, it's reasonably active, with over a dozen postings over the course of July. I'm going to return to your point via a seeming digression, so please bear with me: Point 1. My friend Michael Paoli has been doing fine work collecting a list on Bay Area Linux User Group's (San Francisco) wiki of all known recurring virtual LUG meetings, during the pandemic era. It's here: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19 You will note there's nothing (yet) from Oz: not Vic, not NSW, nothing. This is perhaps accurate, perhaps not. Truth to tell, I was just now double-checking all of LUV's public mailing lists and Web site to see if there were mention of a LUV online meeting. (There is not - yet.) As I find time, I intend to check other Australian Linux sites to see if any ought to be added to the page. Please, if you (plural) have a chance, kindly do likewise. That was the _initial_ point I wanted to make. Point 2: Hmm, one silver lining of the slow trend of rolling out online meetings (on Zoom, Jitsi Meet, or others) is that suddenly physicality is less important. I have lately been attending a number of organisations' Zoom or Jitsi meetings that are thousands of kilometres away from me. (Yr. humble servant is 60 km south of San Francisco, and his time zone during this season is UTC-7: Locals call it PDT = Pacific Daylight Time.) Recently, for five days at the end of July, I helped run the annual World Science Fiction Convention ('Worldcon'), a volunteer-owned/run literary and fandom event, held this year in Wellington, Enn-Zed. But, of course, 2020 being the dumpster fire that it is, few of the ~2000 attendees could be in Wellington, so this was the first-ever virtual Worldcon, held using a mix of Zoom, Discord, WordPress, Jitsi Meet, and some other technologies. (I did the buildout & administration of Jitsi Meet for the Worldcon.) Starting during staff planning and running through the event, I kept a browser tab open to https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ , to keep an eye on the two timezones: I came to think of NZ, being on NZST = UTC+12, as five hours behind me plus a day ahead. (It seemed humourously fitting for the Worldcon to be held in the future. ;-> ) LUV / Melbourne / Vic, being on AEST = UTC+10 during these winter months, I would naturally think of as seven hours behind me plus a day ahead. As a mnemonic, you see. (I also switched to 24hr clock notation, as it makes the maths easier.) To sum: The jiggering of time differences is irksome but one quickly finds heuristics & tools to cut the annoyance value, and reduce error. The conclusion: How about other LUV people joining me in showing up at select virtual LUG events with little regard to distance or national borders? (I _am_ a longtime LUV person, even if I am Yet Another Bloody Yank.) Point 3: Also, please consider looking into occasional and perhaps regular LUV meetings on Jitsi Meet (like: meet.jit.si/luv) or on Zoom. Then, you (or I) can add them to Michael Paoli's list, and (for better or worse) gain international attendees with peculiar accents. I would be glad to give a virtual lecture on the construction, care, and feeding of Jitsi Meet for LUV. (I could be LUV's first monthly speaker to ever give a presentation to LUV's audience from 12,600 km away.) (If Russell or another LUV officer considers this posting appropriate for luv-main, great. I didn't want to presume.) _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-talk ----------------------------------------- -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Fwd: Ockomothon CTF Begins Tonight!
by Russell Coker 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Anyone interested in doing this? It's a free CTF event, tonight 8PM. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Additional info, Gnome 3.30.2
by Mark Trickett 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

Hello All, I forgot to mention the display manager, which is also where significant issues about the UI arise for me. The old Windows 3.x interface was limited, but functional. Gnome, and others, did add and improve, but the latest iterations have forgotten usability as much as the much reviled Windows 10 "tiles" interface. Some of my query does address issues with Gnome, and I am open to discussion of alternative window/display managers that might be more like what I am used to. Regards, Mark Trickett

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32 bit CAPT printer driver under 64 bit Debian Buster
by Mark Trickett 18 Jul '20

18 Jul '20

I have had this Canon LBP5050N printer quite a while, and it saw some use with a visitor running Windows on a laptop. I did try to get it up and running in the past, but the printer driver is something of a nightmare to install even on a 32 bit system. Why persist, because it is a photo quality colour laser printer, it will connect USB, but as the N at the end of the designation indicates, it has a network connection. Any help would be appreciated. Apart from that printer, I will be sorting out a HP LJ4+ with a network card, not genuine HP, and may need to alter the IP address it currently has, along with another obsolete colour laser, but I gather that the support for Brother is much easier. Regards, Mark Trickett

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