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Re: [luv-talk] email tampering
by Brian May 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 at 16:36 David Tulloh <david(a)tulloh.id.au> wrote: > As an immediate solution I suggest switching to an online email system > such as GMail. This can be done easily by redirecting the account or using > gmail fetcher to check the external server, outgoing emails can be sent > with the existing from address so there is visible change. > How does BigPond work? I assumed it would be an web based online system, maybe that is a bad assumption my part. In which case, if it is something like outlook on his computer talking SMTP/POP/IMAP need to make sure it is secure, like other people have mentioned. It is is a desktop computer, would be surprised if it is using WIFI, but something I should check. Are compromised routers common? There a number of possibilities here. I don't like to suggest random changes unless I can get some proof that the change addresses the actual attack vector. e.g. changing to a gmail account would not help if there is some sort of hidden keyboard logger on the computer. Apparently it is a bluetooth keyboad, how secure are bluetooth keyboards? Or if my relative changed an obvious password to another easy to guess password.

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Causes of anomalous difference in execution time same application, same OS, different boxes ?
by Rohan McLeod 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Assembled cognoscenti; just idle curiosity really. I am wondering about , causes of anomalous difference in execution time, same application (FreeDVDDecrypter), same OS (XP x64), different boxes ? Box 1: Asus M4A79XTD_EVO; 16GB RAM;CPU AMD Phenom II x4 (4 core) 965 3.4GHz takes about 30min for 6GB DVD, with 1 core obviously flat-chat ~100% Box 2: Asus_P6T-intel-i7; 20GB RAM; CPU Intel i7 (4 core) 940 2.93 GHz takes about 10min for same 6GB DVD, with no core seemingly particularly active regards Rohan McLeod

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Get the hell off Apache OpenOffice
by Lev Lafayette 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

An old friend of mine posted an well-referenced rant on why people should leave OpenOffice. "... actively dangerous to use" http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/596490.html Security bug is as follows: http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-1774.html -- 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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Fwd: Symposium Invitation: Opportunities for Australia in the Global Energy Transition
by Russell Coker 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

This looks interesting, and it's free. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Fwd: The FML Arduino meetup has a new home: 210 Whitehall Street, Footscray
by spyder.king＠yahoo.com.au 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

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How to talk to liberals
by Russell Coker 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

http://www.howtotalktoyourliberalmate.com.au/#budget2015 -- Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with K-9 Mail.

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Re: [luv-talk] The 30th anniversary of a long wait for some ...
by David E Payne 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

-------------------------------------------- On Sun, 16/8/15, spyder.king(a)yahoo.com.au <spyder.king(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: Subject: The 30th anniversary of a long wait for some ... To: luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au Received: Sunday, 16 August, 2015, 4:47 AM SNIP I've read a lot of places that even in the USA, Amigas weren't available until September 1985, the same month as the MsDOS application (not OS!) Microsoft Windows (undeserved ™). ("Microsoft Blind" or "Microsoft Curtain" would have described it more truthfully since it was in some ways covering over the O.S. ) SNIP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Actually, MAUG http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAUG/ will have the 30th anniversary meeting, (and AGM I think), tonight and some kind of sale ( mostly Amiga stuff) next month, unless they don't. In other words, check the website b4 going, you don't need to be a member of the Yahoo group to read their discussions, but you will need a recent common graphical web-browser.) Not long after the first Amiga and first Microsoft Windows releases in September, 1985, the Free Software Foundation was born. https://fsf.org/fsf30/celebration I think there is no clear ranking between the significance of these three occurrences since we can only speculate what would have happened if one, two or all of them hadn't happened. For example, I can well imagine that a GNU-like licence would likely not have been widely adopted for some time if ever, so if Linus had still written his kernel he would have used a compiler with a different licence, perhaps a totally unfree one. Perhaps he would have used an MIT licence for his software, or maybe something quite else. Maybe GEM or Geoworks would have come to be on most IBM compatibles' presumably at a slower pace without Microsoft's involvement. Maybe X86 P,ieces of C.rudity would not have so dominated for so long. As for the Amiga, while anything above a "watch" or *duino works more like an Amiga than an IBM PC or Macintosh from 1985, it's innovations' (for that price point), like eg. those of Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, Ivan Sutherland, Doug Engelbart, Charles F. Moore etc were often less influential than they were pioneering. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dav-id " .... We hand over the most cordial congratulations by the Soviet government on the occasion of splendid success of German Wehrmacht. Guderian's tanks broke through to the sea near Abbeville, powered by Soviet fuel, the German bombs, that razed Rotterdam to the ground, were filled with Soviet pyroxylin, and bullet cases, which hit the British soldiers retreating from Dunkirk, were cast of Soviet cupronickel alloy..." Vyacheslav Molotov, then Foreign Policy Minister of the supposedly opposite USSR. 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Interview with Lennart Poettring
by Peter Ross 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/#comment-281265 Two quotes: "So that’s a misconception that I’m always bemused about, and I’m pretty sure that most people who claim that have never actually played around with Unix at all." [others like Debian had very intense debates and resignations] "Then if you look at Gentoo, for example, they still haven’t done Systemd as default.They used to be like Arch Linux is now – they used to be the young people who adopted things quickly. But the Gentoo people aged, and they became more conservative. And Debian is probably an even more conservative bunch." Hmmh.. one moment the people with arguments have no clue what Unix is about, and later the people who argue are just too old and conservative (and still don't know what Unix is about, I guess) His statements are full of personal attacks - and very light on technical arguments. Well, obviously Linux development works like politics.. Regards Peter

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Re: [luv-talk] Anyone in need of any older computer gear?
by David E Payne 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

On Thu, 27/8/15, Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au> wrote: Get thee behind me Satan ! :-) regards Rohan Mcleod _______________________________________________ Rohan, that's a commendably brief summary of the feelings me, and probably many of us. Problem is, I feel rendering these works of craft back to dumb lumps of metals is a greater evil! Fortunately I know some collectors who will take almost anything. Unfortunately, not the ones who were interested in a public museum, which I think ought to have an example of some of these;- I'm thinking the (already claimed anyway) BBC with tube co-processor and the Labtam X-terminal (possibly the first company to sell them, based in Braeside, Melbourne, Oz < imagine a Norman Gunston style jingoistic hawk & spit>!). (Except the bloke planning a museum of anything that plays games might like the BBC(s). Actually, looking at the wicked pedia to confirm my impression that "The Tube" was the buss to connect another CPU, not a peripheral CPU unit as such, I see that Julian Barson's company in Abbottsford, Melb, Oz adapted the Econet filing system from Acorn's System 2 so another hawk & spit! (Sorry about the sound, but I have acute rhinitus, possibly related to my deviated septum.) Most people, as distinct from the weirdos who read LUV lists, might be surprised at how common collecting old IT has become in the last few years. Most of them are interested in what they had, or wished to have, when they were a kid/teenager. Many of them aren't interested in things they never heard of. Then you have those after the obscure, including the completists that mostly already have the common stuff they want. Some of them are the ones who've driven the prices of rarer stuff way up. Yes, you can get serious money for some items, if you are prepared to wait. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dav-id " .... We are just consumers to the huge corporations of the computer and telecommunications industry. They want to sell to us all right, but they won t sell us everything we need; that is, they won't make us powerful, unless we insist." Ward Cunningham http://c2.com/doc/forewords/beck2.html

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1-4pm Sat, Kids creation Challenge #1 for ~8~14 yr olds
by David E Payne 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

http://www.meetup.com/footscraymakerlab/events/223013038/ Vague plans for future challenges include building vehicles from bike etc. parts. If future challenges happen, FML may by then be in a different locale as the factory buildings will be replaced by accommodation. Pity the showbiz prop makers probably won't be in the same building as FML then. Crocodiles, giant bed bugs and aliens in powered walking spacesuit/vehicles etc. add a lot of charm to the place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dav-id " .... We are just consumers to the huge corporations of the computer and telecommunications industry. They want to sell to us all right, but they won t sell us everything we need; that is, they won't make us powerful, unless we insist." Ward Cunningham http://c2.com/doc/forewords/beck2.html

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