Re: [SLUG] Sky2 module errors
On 09/01/2007, at 2:41 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: sky2: :01:00:0: cannot assign irq 233 sky2: probe of :01:00:0 failed with error -38 Ok, tracing the include path from /usr/include/errno.h through to /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h shows that an error of -38 means : #define ENOSYS 38 /* Function not implemented */ lsmod shows sky2 is loaded, but then I run out of skills/knowledge. Anything more in /var/log/messages? Will check next reboot - need to record tonight and that means OS X. I have tried noacpi at the boot prompt to no avail. Any clues as to what else I could try? I have fixed things like this by adding more debug output to the driver source code and recompiling but its a slow and painful process. Er - good idea, but given the number of light years behind you I am in this regard, that's even more slow and painful - time I don't have... The kernel is a realtime patched 2.6.17. Interestingly, the install kernel worked fine with sky2, and another realtime patched kernel from another distribution (musix running 2.6.15) also worked. Any reason you don't just use the working musix kernel with stdio64? It's on a live CD and the FAQs and Knoppix discussion about installing to disk don't sound good. Increasingly sounding like I should be patient and wait for the next release - I really don't need the network while actually doing any editing/recording/composing anyway I suppose... Thanks Erik, Denis The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. -- Hunter S. Thompson Well said Hunter - vale Hunter I believe? Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2109, Australia +61 2 9850 6787 http://www.motekulo.net http://www.melanesianmusic.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [coders] making a single kernel module (fwd)
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, O Plameras wrote: Grant Parnell ELX wrote: Thanks Oscar but it's changed a lot since Red Hat 9, there's 6 releases of Fedora and I'm not even sure off the top of my head whether RH9 was even a 2.4 kernel. The process is same for Fedora or Red Hat. The whole idea is when running #menuconfig ( or xconfig ) we use only y to select (not m or y) and n to deselect a module. Then, we run #make #make install instead of #make modules #make modules_install #make #make install Hope this helps. You're sortof correct. The bit about chosing which modules are enabled is still exactly as you describe, however, with 2.6 kernels you don't need the whole kernel source to be there to build and install a module and hence you don't need to build a kernel (or have one built) during the process. It's MUCH quicker to a) obtain the dependencies and also b) just build the particular module you're interested in. You can in fact follow your procedure exactly and build the kernel and selected modules but it takes longer. IE on fedora core 6 you only need install these:- kernel-headers (701K) and kernel-devel (4.6M) compared with the kernel source RPM ~ (13M) Then you grab some 3rd party (or updated/patched module) like this mISDN.tar.gz cd mISDN-1_0_4 make install modprobe mISDN ... Some of you may be familiar with dkms which has similar aspects but is way cool because it will rebuild and install your modules on system startup if you run a new kernel. Hmm... I might be able to script that myself for this PABX. -- ---GRiP--- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.
[Very, very much my personal opinion, not that of my employer in any way shape or form.] Ben Donohue wrote: 1. I thought that numbers were supposed to be portable by law. They are. But the telcos wrote the rules :-( Your typical home number is a geographical number and is assigned to a region. This gives the telcos the capability to 'cold potato' route a call: to transport it to the region and then hand it off to the other carrier. This keeps carrier interconnection links small (below the magic 30 calls handled on a E1 trunk) and the multiplicity of local connections adds a lot of robustness to the phone network. Note that I said the ability. In actuality in these days of fully-computerised phone switches there are huge phone trunks in a few capitals interconnecting the carriers. So the technical requirement for a geographic number has passed. But the business requirement -- stopping people migrating to VoIP or carrying their old landline number on their mobile phone) means that the carriers are very, very keen to keep registering the average landline as a geographical number. And, government being what it is, they don't see what's happening and that it's time to rethink geographic numbers in the interest of consumers. And in any case if someone working in the depths of ACMA were to decide to do the right thing, to protect the consumer's interest (causing the telcos to spend $m on systems reengineering now and cost them $b of voice revenue in the future) you'd see the Telstra and Optus political and legal machines crush the poor sod. 2. My number USED to be an Optus number originally but I changed over to Telstra as a provider ages ago and kept the same (Optus) number. It was not hard for Telstra to take ownership of the number from Optus back then. Sure, you can move a geographical number to another carrier in the same geographical area. But Exetel are only in one area, since they're a minor VoIP packet-mover -- which is why they are cheap. And if they got enough presence in enough geographical areas to allow them to participate in number portability of geographical numbers then they'd no longer be cheap :-( This is a typical big telco anti-competition tactic, by the way. But they get away with it every time. Just a general question for the list for any ideas/options on how I tackle this? Buy a beer for the person most likely to be the Minister for Communications in the next Labor federal government, whenever that may be. Be warned that Communications Ministers, especially shadow ones, change portfolio very often and so you may be up for more beers than you expect. Also you say communications to a politician and they think media. The minutae of telecommunications (an industry much, much larger than the media but without the same effect on citizens' votes) makes their eyes glaze over. You may as well bitch to the TIO and ACMA, just so the telco's can't roll out the no one ever complains line. Do write the letter to ACMA's Numbering people. You'd be surprised at the length of time a genuine letter is remembered within the modern bureaucracy. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sky2 module errors
Denis Crowdy wrote: Well said Hunter - vale Hunter I believe? Yeah, a year of two ago from memory. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ I call C++ a curse on programmers everywhere; the language that has enabled and encouraged more stupidity and bad software design than any other programming language ever. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream
Hi, I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance (maybe even an infra-red option), that perform well on a 256Kbps upstream, with a bit of room for audio too... I guess 33Kbps for G729 VoIP should be ok, unless there's a better way to send audio with a stream. Any good Ubuntu 6.10 friendly models out there? Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam again
On 2007.01.10 06:19 Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped at the CONNECT stage. http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html Has anyone else noticed similar? Yes, there has been a massive increase in spam in recent days but last night it went off the richter scale. Particularly nasty has been the bogus postmaster messages sent as bounces from random four or five alpha character group at my domain. There also appears to be another ugly one that contains random lines of text picked up by a search engine (searching the victim sender's HDD?). For several months now I have been sending my incoming spam to ACMA, for which I had to allow spam through (and then filter it). But I am about to abandon this and just stop the spam altogether -- at least, as best I can. Robert Thorsby -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam again
yes as well. I have IPCop with Copfilter and I'm not sure that it's doing too much to stop it as it still ends up in the inbox. I'm having to train thunderbird to treat it as spam. Any copfilter users here who are *not* getting any spam? Ben Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped at the CONNECT stage. http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html Has anyone else noticed similar? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [LINK] NSW steers clear of Vista
No. More likely they didn't want to go through the sheer hell it is to upgrade thousands of workstations, take thousands of support calls and deal with hardware and other upgrades, just to install a $80 piece of software. I know I wouldn't. At 06:39 AM 9/01/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote: hfl Governments getting it right...??? /hfl http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21024831%5E15306,00.html THE NSW government has shied away from Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating systems after executives in charge of the state's $1 billion computing budget agreed they saw little value in upgrading to the software. [...] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Will governments grasp the nettle on spam
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:41:34AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: hfl I commented the other day about governments having to get more involved in fighting spam. It looks like I am not the only one with that thought. /hfl i don't have any objection to better anti-spam laws, but i also don't think they'll do much (if any) good - although it was nice to see the perth spammers get some of what they deserve last year. spammers are breaking many existing laws - some of them with far higher penalties than any anti-spam penalties. most of the things advertised by spam are already illegal (e.g. pump and dump stock scams, nigerian 419 scams), or advertised/sold in a way prohibited by regulations (e.g. pill spams). if the governments of the world wanted to go after spammers, they've already got the laws to do so. porn spam could be targetted on the basis that it's impossible for spammers to restrict their spam to adults (18+ or 21+ depending on jurisdiction) so they are distributing pornography to children. and the bulk of spam comes via spamware viruses which are in themselves illegal. about the only common spam that isn't for an illegal product or service are mortgage spams, and they're fairly easy to block. so yeah, good anti-spam laws would be an OK thingbut laws are never going to replace the need for good anti-spam filters. http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36823 [...] CTO of SoftScan Diego d'Ambra said in a press release that if spam distribution levels continue to rise at the rate we have seen over the last few months, then I believe that by the end of 2007 governments worldwide will be obliged to enforce international anti-spam laws. why? spam is already causing massive problems to the email infrastructure around the world, and governments are doing little or nothing. why should they suddenly decide to do something? wishful thinking. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] (part time cyborg) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Will governments grasp the nettle on spam
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:23:34AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:41:34AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36823 [...] CTO of SoftScan Diego d'Ambra said in a press release that if spam distribution levels continue to rise at the rate we have seen over the last few months, then I believe that by the end of 2007 governments worldwide will be obliged to enforce international anti-spam laws. why? spam is already causing massive problems to the email infrastructure around the world, and governments are doing little or nothing. why should they suddenly decide to do something? wishful thinking. Because soon they are going to wake up to the fact that it is also inconveniencing them and not just the unwashed masses. but it doesn't inconvenience them. it incoveniences their staffersand they must have been ignoring their complaints about the spam they have to wade through for years. also, governments are pretty much all infected by the meme that ANY economic activity is good economic activity, and spam results in economic activity. while they can't actively support it, they can and will ignore it. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] (part time cyborg) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Will governments grasp the nettle on spam
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:51:07AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: also, governments are pretty much all infected by the meme that ANY economic activity is good economic activity, and spam results in economic activity. while they can't actively support it, they can and will ignore it. Do you mean that it's good for the economy for me to go around knocking old ladies on the head and pinching their bank books then cleaning out the accounts and spending up big time... yep. you'd be doing a service to the nation. pretty small scale, though. you'd get a lot more appreciation if you plundered the few remaining forests and/or spewed out megatons of greenhouse gases. craig -- craig sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] (part time cyborg) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam again
Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2007.01.10 06:19 Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped at the CONNECT stage. http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html Has anyone else noticed similar? Yes, there has been a massive increase in spam in recent days but last night it went off the richter scale. Just a reminder to folks that if anyone would like to help me with the development of the new pooled real-time behaviour-based spam system I'd love to get an event feed of your spam. More information at http://ali.as/threatnet/ or #threatnet in freenode. Adam K -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] It's not too late to volunteer for linux.conf.au
Hi all, It's not too late to volunteer for linux.conf.au! We are currently looking for a few more people to help out as runners, front-of-house and theatre managers. If you are interested please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible. As a volunteer you get free entry into the conference and attendance at the dinner. Cheers, Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam again
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped at the CONNECT stage. http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html Has anyone else noticed similar? Yes, there has been a massive increase in spam in recent days but last night it went off the richter scale. Particularly nasty has been the bogus postmaster messages sent as bounces from random four or five alpha character group at my domain. There also appears to be another ugly one that contains random lines of text picked up by a search engine (searching the victim sender's HDD?). For several months now I have been sending my incoming spam to ACMA, for which I had to allow spam through (and then filter it). But I am about to abandon this and just stop the spam altogether -- at least, as best I can. After John escaped the bottomless pit ... How do you just stop spam Everyone of my client or helo restrictions gets howls of anguish ..., broken mailers proliferate! James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sky2 module errors
Solved - they have just packaged a 2.6.19 kernel and the module works fine. Internal sound happening too. Denis On 09/01/2007, at 7:21 PM, Denis Crowdy wrote: On 09/01/2007, at 2:41 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: sky2: :01:00:0: cannot assign irq 233 sky2: probe of :01:00:0 failed with error -38 Ok, tracing the include path from /usr/include/errno.h through to /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h shows that an error of -38 means : #define ENOSYS 38 /* Function not implemented */ lsmod shows sky2 is loaded, but then I run out of skills/knowledge. Anything more in /var/log/messages? Will check next reboot - need to record tonight and that means OS X. I have tried noacpi at the boot prompt to no avail. Any clues as to what else I could try? I have fixed things like this by adding more debug output to the driver source code and recompiling but its a slow and painful process. Er - good idea, but given the number of light years behind you I am in this regard, that's even more slow and painful - time I don't have... The kernel is a realtime patched 2.6.17. Interestingly, the install kernel worked fine with sky2, and another realtime patched kernel from another distribution (musix running 2.6.15) also worked. Any reason you don't just use the working musix kernel with stdio64? It's on a live CD and the FAQs and Knoppix discussion about installing to disk don't sound good. Increasingly sounding like I should be patient and wait for the next release - I really don't need the network while actually doing any editing/recording/composing anyway I suppose... Thanks Erik, Denis The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. -- Hunter S. Thompson Well said Hunter - vale Hunter I believe? Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2109, Australia +61 2 9850 6787 http://www.motekulo.net http://www.melanesianmusic.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2109, Australia +61 2 9850 6787 http://www.motekulo.net http://www.melanesianmusic.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam again
I recently blocked .jpg and .gif attachments on our server here at bong.com.au (which also serves fragfest.com.au) fortunately we dont have many users so its not a huge drama. But its great that so much spam is image spam, because adding such a rule has dropped our spam *enormously* I also have HELO checks thanks to exim, i just block 'localhost' '127.0.0.1' and my domain name. scanning the logs it has had some impact on the amount of spam, but not as significant as feeding spamassassin regularly. im not sure if razor is making much difference, my logs dont really isolate things that well (razor being part of spamassassin in my case) We also block .exe .com .scr .doc .xls .ppt It annoys people sometimes, but the benefits of ziping annoying office documents outweigh not. (most doc files will go to at least 25%, and there is nothing more annoying than a powerpoint presentation of someones holiday snaps being slung at you) Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped at the CONNECT stage. http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html Has anyone else noticed similar? Yes, there has been a massive increase in spam in recent days but last night it went off the richter scale. Particularly nasty has been the bogus postmaster messages sent as bounces from random four or five alpha character group at my domain. There also appears to be another ugly one that contains random lines of text picked up by a search engine (searching the victim sender's HDD?). For several months now I have been sending my incoming spam to ACMA, for which I had to allow spam through (and then filter it). But I am about to abandon this and just stop the spam altogether -- at least, as best I can. After John escaped the bottomless pit ... How do you just stop spam Everyone of my client or helo restrictions gets howls of anguish ..., broken mailers proliferate! I have abandoned HELO checks because of, mostly, screwed M$ Exchange servers and now rely on CONNECT, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, and the usual DATA checks and I haven't noticed much change in the rejection rate but certainly an improvement (reduction) in the false positive hits, so it looks like the HELO checks aren't worth much other than grief from recipient users. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF
On 10/01/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, and because I am procrastinating about doing something else, I ran a quick analysis across my mail log file to see what the extent of the use of SPF is: pass29517 neutral 30354 softfail31082 none4783 unkown 31143 I remember seeing a mention of SPF and SenderID(?) a while ago concluding that actually spammers were the first to rush to get themselves the right records, virtually to the point that finding an SPF record could increase the probability that you are dealing with a spammer (not that I'd suggest anyone to use such a rule by itself, e.g. Gmail/Yahoo mail would fail such a rule, filtering Hotmail is probably a good idea anyway :). --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream
The 3Com Homeconnect camera is about the most awesome webcam you can get for low light, or at least it was until they were discontinued. You can still get them on eBay though. I have one you can have to test out, the CCD is a bit buggered on it after shining a laser into it. On 09/01/07, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance (maybe even an infra-red option), that perform well on a 256Kbps upstream, with a bit of room for audio too... I guess 33Kbps for G729 VoIP should be ok, unless there's a better way to send audio with a stream. Any good Ubuntu 6.10 friendly models out there? Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream
I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance (maybe even an infra-red option) I've selected a Philips ToUCam II, which I got on eBay for $93ea. including insured shipping, since they aren't available in Australia. Apparently it should work ok in Linux, so but I'll reply again when it arrives. They're used by astronmers, with loads of lenses, filters, etc. available for telescopes and low-light shooting and apparently they can even handle 1lux stock. There's also details on an IR conversion here: http://www.grynx.com/projects/use-your-webcam-in-the-dark/1/ Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream
On 1/10/07, Michael Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 3Com Homeconnect camera is about the most awesome webcam you can get for low light, or at least it was until they were discontinued. You can still get them on eBay though. I have one you can have to test out, the CCD is a bit buggered on it after shining a laser into it. Thanks. I read about those. My impatience got the better of me, but I'll take up your offer if I have any trouble with the Philips cam. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] LinuxChix miniconference @ linux.conf.au 2007: Final schedule announced
Dear all, The LinuxChix miniconf @ linux.conf.au will be held Tuesday January 16 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au, women AND men, are welcome to attend and to participate in discussion, but are asked to remember that the miniconf is women-oriented. All attendees, speakers and helpers at the LinuxChix miniconf MUST be registered attendees of linux.conf.au and be wearing their attendee badges. If you are coming along or helping out and have not registered, do so as soon as possible at http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Registration — registrations are close to sold out, and will NOT be available when the conference opens. Please feel free to forward this announcement. There are six sessions: - Session 1, from 11:00–11:40: Mary Gardiner's welcome Sulamita Garcia's talk on Is Free Software a Macho thing? Women and FOSS http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/Schedule/Talks/WomenAndFOSS - Session 2 from 11:50–12:30: Akkana Peck's talk on Bug Fixing for Non-Programmers http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/Schedule/Talks/BugFixing - Session 3 from 14:00–14:40: Kristen Carlson Accardi's talk on De-mystifying PCI http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/Schedule/Talks/PCI - Session 4 from 14:50–15:30: Lightning talks and demonstrations. This session will feature 5–10 minute talks and/or demonstrations by women, chaired by Stephanie Miller. - Session 5 from 16:00–16:40: Jacinta Richardson's talk on Social networking for fun and profit http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/Schedule/Talks/SocialNetworking Val Henson's talk on Closing the Gender Pay Gap One Salary at a Time http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/Schedule/Talks/Negotiation - Session 6 from 16:50–17:30: Small discussion groups on the subject of women and negotiation following on from Jacinta's and Val's talks. Participants will be divided into groups of approximately 8 people and invited to discuss issues arising from Jacinta's and Val's talks and similar experiences of their own. In addition, there will be a social day on Sunday January 21: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/BlueMountains About the miniconference The LinuxChix women's mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, as part of the annual linux.conf.au Free Software conference running from 15–20 January, 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au are welcome to attend the women's miniconference, which will highlight the technical achievements of women in Free Software. The mini-conference welcomes attendees and speakers from other women's advocacy and development groups including Systers, Fedora Women and Debian Women among others. Please see http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix for more information about the women's mini-conference. About linux.conf.au 2007 linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference for the Open Source and Free Software developer community. Now in its eighth year, linux.conf.au is regarded as one of the premier global FLOSS technical events and attracts many international open source software developers and users. Returning to Sydney from the 15th to 20th of January, linux.conf.au 2007 is supported by our Emperor sponsors, HP and IBM, and hosted at the University of New South Wales. For more information about linux.conf.au 2007 visit our website at: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ About Linux Australia Linux Australia exists to serve and promote the Australian Linux and Open Source community. The organisation aims to do this best by taking enthusiasms within the community, such as FOSS issues, projects, education, advocacy just to name a few, and help them flourish, to succeed. The lifeblood of this organisation is the people in the community, and Linux Australia strives to be both relevant and useful to the community. For more details about Linux Australia visit: http://www.linux.org.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Fwd: [SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream
I've also got a Kodak one I'd be willing to donate to anyone who wants to have a crack at writing drivers for it. Last I looked nobody had had any success with it, and it won't work with dual core systems or even systems with multithreading due to some stupidness in the closed source drivers, so it's pretty much useless to anyone unless they run windows 98 on a pentium 3 or something. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream
Ben wrote: I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance (maybe even an infra-red option) I've selected a Philips ToUCam II, which I got on eBay for $93ea. including insured shipping, since they aren't available in Australia. I have an older relative of the ToUCam, a PCVC-680 or something. They work well in Linux, and are indeed very very good in low light. Apparently it should work ok in Linux, so but I'll reply again when it arrives. The pwc driver has had a somewhat rocky history. It was originally written by a guy who signed an NDA with Philips to get access to the specs and wrote a binary-only driver. Then, after further consultation with Philips, he was able to split it in to two parts - a basic open source driver, and a secondary binary-only compression module needed for higher framerates / resolutions. The base driver was added and removed from the linux source tree a couple of times amid intense discussion about proprietary, binary-only modules. The fuss it caused was one of the driving factors causing the original author to abandon the project. It's since been picked up by another group, who've also reverse-engineered the binary-only parts, and now ship a single open source driver that does everything the older two-module setup did. I'm not sure if there's a module in the linux.org kernel or not at the moment, but if there is, it's most likely the original discontinued driver, and not the newer fork. You can get the new driver from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ , and it's also packaged for ubuntu (and probably debian) as pwc-source. Install that, and you should find some documentation in /usr/share/doc/pwc-source/ that will let you build a package and install it in a couple of steps. Good luck! -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream
Peter Hardy wrote: You can get the new driver from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ , and it's also packaged for ubuntu (and probably debian) as pwc-source. Install that, and you should find some documentation in /usr/share/doc/pwc-source/ that will let you build a package and install it in a couple of steps. Ooo. Checking the pwc wiki at http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/PWC/WorkingWebcamsWithPWC , it looks like the ToUCam II uses a different driver altogether. Um... disregard everything I wrote. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF
Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/01/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, and because I am procrastinating about doing something else, I ran a quick analysis across my mail log file to see what the extent of the use of SPF is: pass29517 neutral 30354 softfail31082 none4783 unkown 31143 I remember seeing a mention of SPF and SenderID(?) a while ago concluding that actually spammers were the first to rush to get themselves the right records, virtually to the point that finding an SPF record could increase the probability that you are dealing with a spammer (not that I'd suggest anyone to use such a rule by itself, e.g. Gmail/Yahoo mail would fail such a rule, filtering Hotmail is probably a good idea anyway :). That was entirely not the point of SPF though. Merely HAVING an SPF record doesn't make you less of a spammer. It does however remove mail server spoofing and provide a verified identity for the mail servers. You know the people sending you mail are who they say they are. And once you know for sure that they are who they say they are, you can them use that identity to work out if they are goodies or baddies properly based on who they are. So it provides a platform for identity-based filtering. The spammers having SPF records merely forced them to come out openly about who they were. Adam K -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF
On 10/01/07, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was entirely not the point of SPF though. (rest deleted for brevity). All true, but the bottom line was that at some stage you could highly correlate between finding an SPF/senderId record and figuring that you are dealing with a spamming domain. But anyway, it's almost a theoretical discussion - even with Hawards numbers not contradicting this, I'm pretty sure it's not practical to do much with this info beyond maybe being able to more tightly bind the negative reputation of a spammer to the domain/id he used to send the spam from. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF
Amos Shapira wrote: I'm pretty sure it's not practical to do much with this info beyond maybe being able to more tightly bind the negative reputation of a spammer to the domain/id he used to send the spam from. Correct. And it just so happens that the creator of SPF has a startup going called Karma for aggregating massive amounts of reputation data. :) Adam K -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
