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Re: [luv-talk] what's a good GUI MUA?.....digression
by Rohan McLeod 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Chris Samuel wrote: > Given that "innovation" in this field has led me to also look to > migrate away from Kontact & Kmail2 after many years of happy use I'm > considering moving to Thunderbird at home too. I've been using TB at > work for ages (because I can use it with Lightning and Davmail to > access the Uni exchange calendar system). All the best, Chris Given the quality of innovation in many fields these days ; I often request the Luddite option (any down-grades available ?) ..... secretly hoping many of the more mediocre 'innovators', might contract to a point and drop out of the continuum; whilst any remaining .......... .....fall away :- ) regards Rohan McLeod

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Windows work
by Russell Coker 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Is anyone here interested in doing paid Windows desktop support for a home user? It will probably involve some use of audio programs for recording a guitar in addition to general desktop stuff. Contact me off-list if you are interested. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Transcription - mechanical Turk?
by Tim Josling 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

I would like to get various youtube channels transcribed so I can access the content without the tedium of slowly listening to the words one by one. So it occurred to me that I could get them transcribed for a reasonably price using Amazon's mechanical turk. Alternatives: * Youtube does give a transcript but it is very rough * With html5 you can speed up the youtube videos but this does not work on my tablet (Android) Has anyone used mechanical turk? Do they have any suggestions of hints? Alternatives? Specific issues: How do I ensure quality work? I am happy to pay for this but not for shoddy work. My task would be something like: Provide a transcript for X videos, cleaning up text into proper sentences and correct words.. You can can the youtube transcripts but they need to be fixed up. Tim Josling

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Android e-mail client, multiple from addresses
by Petros 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hi all, over the weekend I was searching for a good e-mail client which gives you the opportunity to change the "from" address. So I would like to change "me@domain" to "it@here" or "accounting@somewhere" before I send a mail. I wasn't successful to find this option using the Android standard client, as well as K-9 which is open source. Do you know a MUA that has this feature? Thanks Peter

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http://TrainsNotTollroads.com.au - public campaign needed to put fire under the arse of politicians failing Melbourne
by Petros 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hi all, as Kenneth Davidson pointed out repeatedly, last in yesterday's The Age: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/why-tunnel-vision-will-cost-all-victorians… the building of the East West tunnel for an overall price of 15+ billion dollars will cripple Victoria's ability to tackle transport woes for a decade or more. Just recently Terry Mulder, minister for transport, abandoned his former support of the Metro Rail in favour of the toll tunnel. It just adds another episode to the decade of procrastination and favouritism of private interests by both sides of politics. As Kenneth Davidson pointed out: "The only defence against bad government now is outraged public opinion." Here is a recently launched campaign to support rails not toll roads: http://TrainsNotTollroads.com.au Personally, I see the need for the Metro rail tunnel every day, as a commuter on the Northern lines coming through North Melbourne and Southern Cross. More often than not the train stops before North Melbourne and then before Southern Cross, making a two stop journey from Macaulay or Kensington a 20 minute ride. The most common announcement: congestion by the combined traffic, including V/Line trains, coming into North Melbourne and then to the city. An airport train? Forget it as long as you don't have the North Melbourne corridor cleared. The same happens for trains coming from the South East frequently standing in the Federation Square area. Politicians have failed Melbourne for the last dozen years at least (the time I am living here), it is time to build public pressure. Please stand up, don't be quiet sheep that vote every few years according to colour preferences, start to make a difference, start to make _your_ representatives work! Any ideas to build pressure is welcome. We are gambling away Melbourne's future if not. Regards Peter

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Re: [luv-talk] Android e-mail client, multiple from addresses
by Petros 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Quoting "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck(a)gmail.com> > Petros wrote: >> over the weekend I was searching for a good e-mail client which >> gives you the opportunity to change the "from" address. >> >> So I would like to change "me@domain" to "it@here" or >> "accounting@somewhere" before I send a mail. >> >> I wasn't successful to find this option using the Android standard >> client, as well as K-9 which is open source. >> >> Do you know a MUA that has this feature? > > You want to run this from android? Or a GUI, or a tty? Oops, wasn't specific enough, it seems. I am looking for a "native" Android app - it's not me using it, so I don't want to make it too geeky. Regards Peter

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More on spying
by Tim Josling 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Basically this article is saying that given the comprehensive access that the NSA has to the communications of the powerful and the weak alike, no-one can stand up to them for fear of blackmail. J Edgar Hoover of the FBI used to employ similar tactics. I have read a couple of reports from a fund-raising dinner in which Obama was asked why he had not done much of what he promised to do before his election? His answer was "Remember what happened to Dr King". NSA Whistleblower: NSA Spying On – and Blackmailing – Top Government Officials and Military Officers | Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-20/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spyin… I retroespect it is obvious that computers would enable this kind of thing, even though in the early days there was a lot of hope that by bypassing gatekeepers using the Internet we would have a lot more freedom. Tim

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Re: [luv-talk] Fwd: [luv-ctte] [general inquiry] Connect with developer
by Chris Bouwmeester 21 Jun '13

21 Jun '13

Thanks for this. I didn't go into too much detail because I wasn't really looking to solve the problems via the forum, more to get in touch with someone with appropriate expertise who we can contract to help. Lock-down is really only to keep children in their area and disabling some keyboard shortcuts - not BIOS, hardware, etc. Main question is about running AIR apps - we have 80 flash games built already, so if flash is no longer the way to go, too late. I was looking in the direction of Linux (to move away from Windows) because I'm keen to: 1. simplify the whole setup 2. boot faster 3. make the disk footprint smaller and therefore faster to re-image 4. stick with one OS version - at the moment we have XP and W7 and variants of that. 5. have something more stable. For example, we are experiencing a lot of cases where XP just reboots over and over. When we reimage the disk, it is fine. Other thing I forgot to mention is that these are touch screen computers. Don't know if that is something linux allows for. Not sure if my email address appears - bouwmeester.chris(a)gmail.com Happy to make contact with anyone who might be able to assist us further. Chris Bouwmeester wrote: > Hi. We have an application which at the moment runs on Adobe > AIR/flash under windows. I'd like to explore the suitability of > running it under Linux instead. The application is for preschoolers > and we also need to make changes to the operating system to lock it > down and prevent them getting out of the application, etc. Are you > able to point me towards someone who can do/assist us with that sort > of thing? Thanks, Chris. The lockdown part can be achieved mostly by running the app full-screened in X, enabling DontZap (on by default these days), and disabling the gettys (or disabling Ctrl+Alt+Fn). Unless the app itself offers e.g. a shell, you should be fine. Preventing users from hijacking the boot sequence is harder -- you have to worry about getting access to the BIOS, the bootloader, the initrd (esp. recovery shell), plus anything you leave enabled in init. This is not particularly onerous iff you can get a custom BIOS compiled by your hardware vendor (if you have homogeneous hardware). Also you will need to worry about physical security, esp. access to jumpers and cables to disk &c off the mainboard. If you're just worried about a preschooler dropping to a shell by accident and rm -rf'ing the disk, you can probably forego my 2nd and 3rd paras -- it's more concerned with deliberate malice. I won't even bother to comment on the flash part -- I'm sure plenty of other people here will have articulate rants about that. Though, perhaps I should have started by asking: why do you want to switch from Windows? _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing listluv-talk@lists.luv.asn.auhttp://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk

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Fwd: [luv-ctte] [general inquiry] Connect with developer
by Daniel Jitnah 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hello Luvers The following message was received by the Committee and is being forwarded to Luv talk list as is. No endorsement of content is to be implied. Please respond directly to sender if interested. Cheers Daniel. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [luv-ctte] [general inquiry] Connect with developer Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:42:03 +1000 (EST) From: bouwmeester.chris(a)gmail.com Reply-To: LUV Committee private mailing list. <luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au> To: luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au Chris Bouwmeester sent a message using the contact form at http://luv.asn.au/contact. Hi. We have an application which at the moment runs on Adobe AIR/flash under windows. I'd like to explore the suitability of running it under Linux instead. The application is for preschoolers and we also need to make changes to the operating system to lock it down and prevent them getting out of the application, etc. Are you able to point me towards someone who can do/assist us with that sort of thing? Thanks, Chris. _______________________________________________ luv-ctte mailing list luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-ctte

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Re: [luv-talk] Just a warning if you're writing shell scripts...
by Tim Connors 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > Maybe it would be best if the SOE they're trying to push out to all govt > > agencies removes our right to execve() /bin/bash. > > In 3.9 you can turn of shebang support... Nah, we just need to remove all support for execve() and related system calls. Security risk, you see. -- Tim Connors

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