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Debian Jessie due for release on 24th April 2015
by Chris Samuel 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

No, it's not an April Fools day joke.. ;-) https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00016.html > We now have a target release date of Saturday the 25th of April. We > have checked with core teams, and this seems to be acceptable for > everyone. This means we are able to begin the final preparations for > a release of Debian 8 - "Jessie". All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

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DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
by Andrew McGlashan 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

And so it continues to consume Linux as we knew it, it most definitely is becoming "Lennart Linux" .. through and through, just read the story. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community NB: The story doesn't really give much of an opinion, it just shows what is going on. A.

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CoderDojo
by Andrew Pam 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Martin Harris, who spoke at our meeting earlier this month, wanted me to pass on to the members that he heard someone from LUV travelled to Wooranna Park on Sunday the 15th only to discover that CoderDojo was not being held that weekend. He asked me to pass on his apologies. The next CoderDojo meeting will be Sunday 12 April. Cheers, Andrew

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Re: X login problemOn
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:44:27 Craig Sanders said, >i was kind of hoping that someone would know something really obvious >and stupid about X / lightdm / x sessions / xfce / whatever that i >didn't. no such luck. Do not know if this will help but............ The Xserver requires a child process under control of the user in order to stay up, this process is usually the window manager. If this process exits for any reason the Xserver shuts down. Try another window manager with something like, In the file ~/.Xsession a line like "/usr/bin/fvwm2", Note no ampersand, this is required. Note the Xserver config may have the exicuting of this line disabled. This is enabled in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc with the line "$HOME/.Xsession". I run fvwm window manager this way no problems. Lindsay

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Fwd: [luv-ctte] Work for the Dole at Computerbank
by Andrew Pam 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Forwarded in case anyone knows someone who would be interested in this work, or somewhere they could pass on the information. Regards, Andrew -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Work for the Dole at Computerbank From: Computerbank Victoria <info(a)computerbank.org.au> Computerbank can now offer eligible people an option to do a work for the dole activity with us. Our project runs on Wed and Thur between 9.30-5pm. We are trying to sign on people who have both Linux and hardware experience. To date we have been unable to find anyone that fits this criteria. Working at Computerbank involves testing Linux imaged computers along with loads of other equipment (printers, LCD screens, hard drives, input peripherals, interface cards, networking devices and more). It involves recycling e-waste, undertaking user support, possibly writing documentation and helping out with advanced projects (eg our customised distro, our inhouse database and/or our new to be released word press website). People are able to participate in a work for the dole project if they are aged 18 to under 30 years and are registered with a Job Services Australia (JSA) provider in selected areas and have a Work Experience Activity Requirement. Many thanks, Kylie -- Computerbank Victoria http://www.computerbank.org.au

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Re: Regular event calendar
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

Erik Christiansen said, >On Debian 7.8.0 it's there without overt action on my part, so >bsdmainutils is either a default install, or was pulled in by some of >all the other stuff I have to download after every distro change. (It's >always been there on SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Redhat, Ubuntu, and Debian, >when I've needed it.) In debian testing bsdmainutils is depended on by man-db, lsb-core, xorg and x11-apps so its pulled in ___very___ early in the piece, so its very likely on all linux systems. Linux since kernel 0.96d, when the entire linux distro ___plus____ source fitted on a single CD, Lindsay

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Can Ubuntu 14.04 not install on a new HD?
by Erik Christiansen 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

Downloaded ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso, and burnt a CD. To install on a new hard-drive, selected "Something Else" at the first "Installation type" dialogue. At the subsequent "Installation type" dialogue, the new drive was detected, and came up first on the menu of drives, already highlighted. Clicking "Install Now" gave: "No root filesystem is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu" Clicking "New Partition Table ..." gave: "Create new empty partition table on this device?", with options of "Go Back" or "Continue". The latter took a few moments, but did not progress to another dialogue. That left no option but to again click "Install Now", which promptly reiterated the "No root filesystem" gripe. Lacking any other buttons to click on that dialogue, I find myself in an endless loop. Is there any GUI way forward, or is it necessary to hack at the disk with parted and mkfs before an install attempt now? I recall partitioning drives during GUI installation on prior occasions (Ubuntu 5.10, 7.10, 10.04), so what can I have missed this time? It's too late in the day to try coffee. I'll have yet another go after posting - that sometimes works. Erik -- My folks came to the US as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien. (Leonard Nimoy)

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Re: Regular event calendar
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Many thanks to those who replied with all the helpfull sugestions, particularly Erik Christiansen "calendar" being the program I was thinking about. I knew a program like that existed unfortunately it is hidden in the bsdmainutils package and interestingly a google search did not bring it up. Linux since kernel 0.96d (aprox mid 1992) and at the time Linus never thought it would get beyond Intel 386 and higher cpu's. Lindsay

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Re: Sending a 2-byte file to my local USB printer
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

>Bad printers have USB or something. I don't know about them. When using USB printers on Debian the particular kernel creates a device file which one can use to directly communicate with the printer. I have an Epson R1800 on one of my machines. The device file for it is /dev/usb/lp0, Note: the kernel only creates this when the printer is connected,this is used so I can read the ink levels as there appears to be no other way. Try sending the file this way. Lindsay

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Sending a 2-byte file to my local USB printer
by Carl Turney 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Hi, I work at home. One computer (Linux Mint Qiana), one printer (Lexmark E230), connected by USB cable. Ever since installing Mint, I've had to cold-cycle my printer between every print job. Otherwise, subsequent print outs are not the intended document, but rather a string of random characters and form-feeds, starting with "PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCLXL) HP-PCL XL;1;1" Have asked in the past for fixes here at LUV, on Mint & Ubuntu forums and on CUPS & Linux printer forums. Nothing effective as a response. So... I think that just shooting Esc E (27 69 in decimal, or 1b 45 in hex) at the printer between each job =might= kludge a fix. (Unfortunately, I can't make CUPS use a 2-byte binary file as the entirety of a header or footer banner. So that approach won't work.) Creating the 2-byte file would be easy enough: Some hex editor. And I vaguely recall how I'd do it in MSDOS: Create a batch file that contains the line... copy resetprn.txt lpt1: But I'm not sure how to ... 1. - identify my printer (as a target) within the Linux filesystem 2. - make a similar shell script into an executable icon on my desktop Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Carl Bayswater, Vic

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