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Totem couldn't handle H.264; mplayer2 did.
by Erik Christiansen 11 Oct '15

11 Oct '15

I have totem 3.0.1 and libgstreamer0.10-0 installed, and youtube & other videos play fine, but an emailed apple-flavoured clip: $ file Desktop/IMG_8015.MOV Desktop/IMG_8015.MOV: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie shows only as grey/green/white diagonal bands, although the audio replays fine. Totem shows the properties of the clip as: Dimensions: 568 x 320 Codec: H.264 / AVC Framerate: 30 frames per second Bitrate: 701 kbps Installing mplayer2 was the first fix which worked. Is totem not up to playing Apple clips, or does it just need a config tweak / plugin ? The totem version might not be the latest - I'm on Debian 7.8.0. Erik

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Non ISP mail servers.... metadata
by Andrew McGlashan 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

With the metadata laws.... does anyone here have a good understanding on how we stand running our own mail servers onsite for ourselves and/or for our clients (domains owned by us and also by clients) ? http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/04/09/fastmail-is-not-required-to-implement-t… Kind Regards AndrewM

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Networking Presentation @ Main Meeting
by Fraser McGlinn 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Hi Guys, So i've approached the committee to run a networking presentation of some form. However before I begin planning for this, i'd like understand what knowledge is lacking out there in the group. As i'm sure you can imagine, there are a lot of parts to networking. My background so you can see if anything here interests you - I have a good ISP background, in which I have worked on networks both small and large. Through this I have a good knowledge of DSL based services and GPON (This is what NBN runs on). Broadband and PPP Services inc PPPoE and PPPoL2TP I also have a good knowledge of routing protocols such as IS-IS and BGP, and MPLS. Obviously throughout this I have general networking knowledge such as, subnetting, network design, troubleshooting, Quality of Service etc. Now the point of this email is that I want to understand what you want. Below are some ideas that I have for topics, but feel free to comment or add any that you would like. - Networking 101 - Fundamentals including subnetting, OSI Model, packet analysis and troubleshooting - Networking in the home. Internal networking, ADSL networking - Quality of Service - Packet marking, shaping and queuing Let me know your thoughts, Cheers, Fraser

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SPF
by Russell Coker 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

I've just enabled SPF checks on the LUV mail server. There is no good reason for anyone to use a forwarding service to send mail to the LUV lists. Therefore there is no reason for valid mail to fail SPF checks. We have had problems of spammers sending mail to list servers that impersonate the from field of a prominent member of the Linux community who uses SPF. Such spam won't go to the LUV lists. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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tonight's meeting starts 18:30
by Russell Coker 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

Tonight's meeting starts 18:30 as usual. The calendar on my phone incorrectly says that it starts at 19:30 due to a bug related to daylight savings time (not sure if the bug is in the web site, Android, or Google Calendar). I presume that other people have phones with the same issue. I'm sure that the problem will be fixed before next month's meeting. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: Android connection
by Wayne Moulden 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

On 30/09/2015 10:45 PM, "Lev Lafayette" <lev(a)levlafayette.com> wrote: > > On Wed, September 30, 2015 10:58 pm, Lev Lafayette wrote: > > > > I have created the file ~/.android/adb_usb.ini with the following: > > > > > > 0x<2207> > > I mean of course > > 0x2207 > > .. just in case there's any confusion. :) > > > -- > Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech > Mngmnt) (Chifley) > mobile: 0432 255 208 > RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > luv-main(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main It _should_ be a permissions problem, I had the same issue sometime ago and I had to add my user to the plugdev group then restart adb Wayne

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Android connection
by Lev Lafayette 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Hi LUVers, I'm trying do a wee bit of Android work (hey, it has a Linux kernel) and have an Aldi Bauhn AT101-014 [1] and have the latest SDK installed and updated (./android update sdk --no-ui). I have the device connected via USB with developer mode, USB debugging mode on, and a MTP connection [2] and have mtpfs installed. I am using Debian Mint as the development system. I understand that I have to modify /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules and possibly ~/.android/adb_usb.ini to include the vendor ID. This can be determined from running lsusb as follows: lev@owl ~/src/android-sdk-linux/tools $ lsusb Bus 004 Device 079: ID 2207:0011 (snip. The above is the relevant device; informative isn't it?) I have created the file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules with the following: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="2207", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev" I have created the file ~/.android/adb_usb.ini with the following: 0x<2207> All of which I believe is in accord to what should be done. However when I run owl tools # adb start-server owl tools # adb devices List of devices attached owl tools # I would expecting some connectivity at this point. [1] http://www.bauhn.com.au/_literature_140385/AT101-014_-_Instruction_Manual [2] http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html Thanks in advance, -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Upgrading an OpenWRT router
by Jason White 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

I have a Linksys WRT1900AC router (the version 1 hardware), currently running OpenWRT 15.05-rc3. Now that the final release has been made, I'm contemplating an upgrade. According to the OpenWRT wiki, I'm supposed to download an image with a file name ending in "sysupgrade.img" rather than "factory.img". However, I can't find such a file on their download site. The best I can find (again via the wiki) is https://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/mvebu/generic/openwrt-15.0… Suggestions on how to perform a safe upgrade would be welcome. As with any piece of networking hardware, the desire is to minimize risk.

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Job opening @ Open Query Pty Ltd (for AU/NZ based sysadmin/db engineer)
by Arjen Lentz 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

Hi all Job opportunity! Are you based in AU/NZ, ace at sysadmin & good with MySQL/MariaDB ? We'd like to talk with you! http://openquery.com.au/company/jobs/mariadb-engineer Regards, Arjen. -- Arjen Lentz, Exec.Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com.au) Your databases and online infrastructure. Managed. Follow us http://openquery.com.au/blog/ & http://twitter.com/openquery

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ALSA auto-muting digital output
by Toby Corkindale 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

On my (headless) Linux box at home, I have a soundcard with digital out (optical), going straight to my amp. I can use various music-playing servers to let me select the music to play remotely, with the output emitting from the server. However for reasons that completely elude me, the ALSA system auto-mutes the output at the end of every song. It's infuriating. ALSA does indeed have an "auto-mute" setting, but I have ensured it is set to off. I wondered if the issue was with PulseAudio for a long time, but the problem still occurs after reconfiguring things to go direct to ALSA. As a work-around, I could modify the open-source software I'm using, to get it to run an unmute command after starting to play a track, but that's ridiculous. Surely there's a way to just stop it auto-muting on close? I don't suppose anyone else has ever encountered this, or found a solution? Toby

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