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Spring clean of office (Junk free to new home)
by Michael Campbell 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

G'Day all, It's that time again when I can barely move in my office and need to offload some incredibly expensive computer history that is now completely worthless to anyone but the most avid collector of antique computer parts. Send me an email if your interested in any of the following or they will be organised into a magical weekly emptying storage receptacle. Compaq Deskpro series PS2018 Pentium II 350MHz 2 x 64MB 72pin SIMM Seagate Barracuda 320GB drive (HUGE!) ATI 3D Rage Pro TURBO (AGP) built in SMC 1211TX 10/100 NIC US Robotics Courier V. Everything internal hardware modem (ISA bus) 1x CD-ROM Drive 3.5" Floppy Drive Beautifully engineered and quality manufactured case that still brings joy to the heart to pull apart now after all these years. Makes you realise what junk modern business PC's are. Still powers up but don't have PS/2 keyboard to get past the keyboard not detected, press F1 to continue error. Comes with Samsung Syncmaster 172x 17" monitor, still in box. email me if you want these pieces of history. More items to come, but will finish this email off here. Regards, Michael Campbell

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Humble Bundle: 17 days: Wiley: Project Management MBA
by Rodney Brown 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/project-management-by-wiley-books Humble Book Bundle: Project Management MBA by Wiley 17 days AU$1.31 to greater Executive's Guide to Project Management: Organizational Processes and Practices for Supporting Complex Projects Execution Excellence: Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard Your Project Management Coach: Best Practices for Managing Projects in the Real World Managing Project Stakeholders: Building a Foundation to Achieve Project Goals The Project Success Method: A Proven Approach for Achieving Superior Project Performance in as Little as 5 Days AU$10.51 or greater Smarter Data Science: Succeeding with Enterprise-Grade Data and AI Projects Project Management JumpStart 4th ed. The Complete Software Project Manager: Mastering Technology from Planning to Launch and Beyond Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies The Project Book: The Complete Guide to Consistently Delivering Great Projects The Agile Pocket Guide: A Quick Start to Making Your Business Agile Using Scrum and Beyond AU$19.70 or greater Projects Without Boundaries: Successfully Leading Teams and Managing Projects in a Virtual World Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Hybrid 8th ed. Leading Complex Projects: A Data-Driven Approach to Mastering the Human Side of Project Management Visual Collaboration: A Powerful Toolkit for Improving Meetings, Projects, and Processes Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust The New One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper 2nd ed. The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management 5th ed.

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ADOBE Flash EOL start of 2021
by Wen Lin 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Recently a friend of mine asked me a question: "I just got a message that ADOBE Flash is no longer available free of charge in 2021. Does the Ubuntu system have any equivalent Flash Player so that I can continue to watch videos on Facebook etc?" In order to answer the question my friend just raised, I did a bit of research and digging around, and found that the ADOBE Flash contents and flash player issues are bigger than I initially thought ... It's really a BIG DEAL!!! I myself have a little bit of a deja vu feeling - bringing back some Y2K memories ... 8-) Well, when the Year 2021 starts, it's not so much that we can't use Adobe Flash Player free of charge, but that Flash Player will no longer be able to play ANY Flash contents, PERIOD!!! In technical terms, Flash Player (in ALL OS's) is officially entering "End-of-Life" (EOL). Below is a FAQ from Adobe Official website about this matter: https://www.adobe.com/sea/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html If you google the web, there are no doubt tons of materials explaining & discussing this hot topic! I came across this site, which I find providing a clear enough explanation, and in an easy to understand approach to this issue. Sharing it here: https://turbofuture.com/computers/The-End-of-Flash-in-2020-Converting-From-… In a nutshell, contents created with this Adobe Flash technology, and the Flash Player that is used to play them - are no longer suitable in a Mobile-centric world of ours today. In fact, with so many security issues & vulnerabilities popping up over the years, and with one after another mainstream web browsers, device makers as well as content creators abandoning Flash in droves, most could see the writing on the wall long ago ... For people who are relying heavily on social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Youtube, etc, with substantial amounts of contents already in Flash - not to fear! The big players in this field have started making all the necessary changes to transition towards replacing technologies like HTML5, etc, long ago. Below is one such FAQ's from FB: https://www.facebook.com/fbgaminghome/blog/flash-end-of-life-approaching-op… However, no doubt there will be individuals or small-time content creators out there who may find such efforts to migrate from Flash to HTML5 daunting. If you have content like online courses, apps and other learning assets built in or published in Flash, as of 2021, any flash content (either built in or published as Flash) may no longer work. Not to fear too! There are plenty of resources out there (especially on the Web), to make such transition less stressful. Feel free to share your opinions on this issue here ... Would very much like to hear comments about this (like, any implication to FOSS, etc) - from the FOSS Community's perspective. Regards, Wen

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Humble Bundles: 6 days: O'Reilly: Infrastruct. & Ops; NoStarch: Hacking 101; 13 days: Wiley: Cybersec. & Crypto; 20 days: Apress: Linux
by Rodney Brown 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

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Re: [luv-talk] Choosing an NBN RSP
by Rohan Mcleod 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

Brian May via luv-main wrote: > Tim Hamilton via luv-main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> writes: > >> Looking for recommendations for an NBN RSP. We're in one of the last areas >> to be built out, and it's finally time to switch from ADSL to FTTN. We're >> only ~100M or so from the cabinet so I'm expecting a reasonable connection >> (as far as FTTN is 'reasonable'). > If FTTN is not acceptable, you can now get an instant/free quote to > upgrade to FTTP. > > https://www.nbnco.com.au/learn/technology-choice-program/online-quote > > But for me the quote was $41K... Ouch! perhaps I should contact my old land lord and enquire just how grateful he is that I added $41K to the value of his property ?:-) On the subject of money I notice Tim didn't seem particularly fussed by payment options; whereas for me post-paid bills, non direct debit options and quality of support were much more important aspects; but then I am an eccentric ! Even though fibre-to-the-foyer was available in this block of flats mid way through 2019; I didn't change from ADSL to NBN50 till midway through 2020. Actually I really only switched to my current "Retail Service Provider" RSP, Optus from the old one iPrimus, because iPrimus refused to host the domain on which my old email address was located. Support from both is not brilliant and seems to be in the Philippines; regards Rohan Mcleod

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CRT monitors
by Russell Coker 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Does anyone have a good CRT monitor that they don't need that can be collected from the Melbourne area? Ideally 17"+ and Trinitron, but main criteria being 1280*1024 and working well. Asking for someone who wants to test a theory about CRT being better than TFT for games. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Humble ebook bundle: 20 days: O'Reilly: Java Programming & More
by Rodney Brown 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/java-programming-more-oreilly-books Humble Book Bundle: Java Programming & More by O'Reilly 20 days AU$1.39 or greater Java 8 Lambdas Java Threads, 3rd ed. Technology Strategy Patterns Continuous Delivery in Java Java in a Nutshell, 7th ed. AU$11.18 or greater Semantic Software Design Kotlin Cookbook Real-World Software Development Think Java, 2nd ed. 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know AU$20.97 or greater gRPC: Up and Running Quarkus Cookbook Java Performance, 2nd ed. Java Cookbook, 4th ed. Learning Java, 5th ed.

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Re: [luv-talk] SSL on LUV server
by Rohan McLeod 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > I've been doing some work on the LUV server and noticed that it was supporting > old SSL protocols. I disabled TLS 1.1 as ssllabs will no longer give a rating > higher than B to a site that uses it, with that change we get an A+! I think > this is no big deal as this only prevents access from Android below version > 5.0 (NB Chrome on Android 4.x works fine, it's the Android internal browser > that no-one would ever want to use on our site that fails), and some > particularly ancient versions of Safari and IE. > > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html? > d=www.luv.asn.au&s=46.4.124.163&latest > > The above URL gives the test results. > > I disabled all the weaker ciphers that aren't being used. > > The cipher TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA is weak but is required to > support IE11 on Windows versions before 10 and Safari versions before 9. Is > it worth keeping? > So are you asking the practical question : "How many people are likely to want to use IE11 W<10 and Safari <9 ?"; or are you asking the more philosophical question: "Just how far back does backward compatibility need to be maintained " regards Rohan McLeod

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Re: [luv-talk] trouble with debian mirrors
by Rohan McLeod 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote: > Hello Craig and all, > > That's a super post of yours for me and my issues. I believe I can work through all of them with the information you've provided. I am very grateful. > > The "Pollock" hosts file which I mentioned is a hosts file from: > > http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Reading through Dan Pollock's introduction in the above I am reminded of Balk’s Third Law: “If you think The Internet is terrible now, just wait a while.” :-) see https://www.wired.com/story/is-the-internet-conscious-if-it-were-how-would-… regards Rohan McLeod >

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Re: [luv-talk] rain radar w/o 2GB of GUI browser [was: Interesting times, where is the beareu of meterology gone]
by Tim Connors 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, Tim Connors wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, Tim Connors wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > > > > Thanks for reminding me to finish my proof-of-concept script to undo > > > some of BOM's recent monetization changes; I just did so. > > > > Can you chuck a sort around that glob? I'd do it myself, but it's not > > perl and I'm an old fart. > > That was easy. Turns out I do still learn stuff: > > - *tempdir_path.glob('*.T.*.4.png'), > + *sorted(tempdir_path.glob('*.T.*.4.png')), > And finally, the BoM has just transitioned to a 5 minute scan strategy, so this seems to be the current schedule: if (then.minute+1) % 5 == 0], # was 6, should now be 5 -- Tim Connors

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