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Kindle DX
by Brian May 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hello, Anybody interested in a Kindle DX? - I think it is 2nd generation. It doesn't appear to power on - is stuck on the one image of Ralph Ellison. Have tried replacing the battery, but this hasn't helped. So I have two batteries for it now - probably both are good. Inside it also has a removable 3G card (AnyData DTP-600W) and a mini sim card. Can't help thing this might still be of value despite not turning on, however not sure what to do with it. I think I saw somebody a while back asking for 2nd hand Kindle devices, but I can't remember who that was now. I can't erase the memory - don't think this matters - I didn't read anything confidential, however have disconnected it from my Amazon account. Regards -- Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/

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This looks like a story for Sam
by Geoff D'Arcy 06 Mar '16

06 Mar '16

BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public License https://t.co/pqDsi2up8V https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/705494972787662848

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Re: [luv-talk] [luv-announce] LUV Main March 2016 Meeting: Encryption and authentication / best of linux.conf.au 2016
by Tim Connors 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Ironically despite the recent bolloxing of the LUV email list servers From: addresses, this and several other recent luv-talk emails have started ending up in my google spam folder, despite it being claimed that the changes were because of google spam categorisation. On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Andrew Pam wrote: > Apologies for the very late notice! We've had some difficulties with > the regular venue. > > LUV Main March 2016 Meeting > Start: Mar 1 2015 18:30 > End: Mar 1 2015 20:30 > Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond > Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map > > PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE > > Speakers: > > • Russell Coker, encryption and authentication with LetsEncrypt and TOR > • Andrew Pam, the best talks of the LCA2016 conference > > > Russell Coker, encryption and authentication with LetsEncrypt and TOR > > Russell will be talking about and demonstrating the latest options for > encryption and authentication of the web with LetsEncrypt and TOR hidden > services. Learn how to get a free certificate for your domain! > > Russell has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly > involved with Debian. > > > Andrew Pam, the best talks of the LCA2016 conference > > LUV members who attended this year's conference in Geelong will discuss > our favourite talks and probably show some video. > > Andrew Pam first discovered an interest in boolean logic when his mother > carried him in her arms at just the right height to reach light switches > as they passed through doorways. He was lucky enough to go to a school > with an obsolete PDP/8e: switches, lights, core memory, paper tape, > punched cards and all. He first started programming on a TRS-80 model 1 > level I and the first computer he owned was a Commodore VIC-20. He has > run the gaming Miniconference at linux.conf.au in the past and enjoys > playing computer games on Linux systems. He is the current president of > Linux Users of Victoria. > > > 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond 3121 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) > > Late arrivals, please call (0490) 049 589 for access to the venue. > > Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to > join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good > place to eat near our venue. There are many great restaurants on > Victoria St. Richmond. > > LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange for the meeting venue. > > Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, > registration number A0040056C. > > _______________________________________________ > luv-announce mailing list > luv-announce(a)luv.asn.au > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-announce > -- Tim Connors

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Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device makers to create a "backdoor" for the Government to access citizens data | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
by Andrew McGlashan 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

For anyone in America or your friends.... this petition needs to get plenty more sigs: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/apple-privacy-petition Cheers A.

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Malware, Microsoft and virtualization-based security
by Jason White 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

[Moving this to luv-talk as I'm taking it off-topic for luv-main] Craig Sanders via luv-main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> wrote: > many are still "happily" using XP (i.e. they don't know any better) - > as the recent virus fiasco at RMH shows. workstations across the entire > hospital, from pharmacy to the wards taken out by really ancient XP > viruses. I know, i've been stuck in here for much of it. some sections > (fortunately, the transplant clinic was one) had upgraded to win7 but > many were still running XP. Just wondering what is currently considered best practice for protecting a modern Microsoft Windows machine against malware and exploitation? I read an interesting article over the weekend: http://www.malwaretech.com/2015/09/device-guard-beginning-of-end-for.html according to which MS have implemented new security measures based on the virtualization instructions of the CPU. If I understand correctly, parts of the kernel responsible for verifying signed executables are compartmentalized using virtualization. Malware can compromise the remainder of the kernel without compromising the hardware-protected code. Only signed executables can be run, and UEFI "secure boot" is used. Thus they reduce the size of the Trusted Computing Base considerably. Apparently, under Microsoft NT-derived systems, the windowing and graphics code all runs in kernel mode - surely providing plenty of opportunity for attackers.

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Re: [luv-talk] torrent software
by Rohan McLeod 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/04/2015 12:08 AM, Russell Coker wrote: >> At the meeting there was a mention of the fact that we now have a legal >> precedent for film companies to force ISPs to divulge the names of customers >> who might have torrented movies. > This was bound to catch up with iiNet [and other] users.... > >> Is there any good anonymous peer to peer software? Something that uses tor >> hidden services for all communications? > Much better to just keep to legal and proper downloads, don't you think? Well of course that goes without saying ! the very idea of owning movies which I haven't paid for; or even converting DVD's so they are playable outside of brain-dead DVD players, (which mostly also seem incapable of playing them); is abhorrent to my higher moral self.! I even believe there are some who have copies of that other OS what was it called .....; anyway they have not paid for it apparently. There seems to exist a whole category of software ..shareware ? where such behaviour is rife. This software philosophy, what's it called 'open-source' ?; why it's just encourages such an attitude ! Oh Andrew; how I concur with you regarding the wickedness of the world ! regards Rohan McLeod

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Current Humble Bundle books: Make: 3D Printing & Drones
by rdbrown＠pacific.net.au 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/maker_3dprintinganddrones_bookbundle

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Article about making use of old PCs had this clunker as an example.
by Keith Bainbridge 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

https://maketecheasier-holisticmedia.netdna-ssl.com/assets/uploads/2016/01/… Keith Bainbridge 0447 667 468 Keithrbau(a)gmail.com Sent from my APad

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Re: [luv-talk] Open hardware (Was: Castrated netbook)
by Rohan McLeod 23 Jan '16

23 Jan '16

Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > ...............snip > > "price point" has a very specific meaning in economics, and it's not > synonym for "price". Well thanks Craig; I hadn't even realised that "price point" meant anything; but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_point suggests otherwise, seems like someone trying to make sense of the vagaries, of market surveys, wonder how they cope when demand goes up with increasing price ?:-) regards Rohan McLeod

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Re: [luv-talk] Cobalt Qube 3 to give away
by Douglas Ray 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

On 20/01/16 6:34 AM, Sam Varghese via luv-talk wrote: > I have a Cobalt Qube 3 [1] which I have no use for. It is in working condition > and has Debian installed on it. > > I have used it as my home server in the past. > > It cannot be updated any further due to the specialised kernel; that is, > unless someone hacks something that is usable, something which is beyond > me. On this forum: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/install-bsd-on-a-qube-3.23363/ I see mention that "the BIOS source is available under GPL", here: ftp://open.cobaltqube.org/pub/oss/1.4/CobaltQube3_OSS_1.4.tar.gz Looks like a hassle for BSD, otherwise I'd have loved it with a two or three NIC PCI. > But for experimentation, it is fine. > > If anyone is interested in taking it, please contact me off-list. > > Thanks, > > Sam > (Sam Varghese) > > [1] http://www.gnubies.com/linux/cobalt_qube3.html > _______________________________________________ > luv-talk mailing list > luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk >

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