[SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?

[Sonia Hamilton]

(totally off topic)

I'm doing lots of video stuff at the moment, and I'm wondering how to 
wipe/format mini DV video tapes. My camera doesn't have such a function, 
and at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the lense cap on and just 
leaving the video camera to record over the whole tape. Any ideas?


Reason I ask - not for any "secret squirrel stuff" - it's just that at 
sports comps I tend to record lots of short scenes (3-5 mins), and 
sometimes review them immediately with my team mates, then record again, 
then  Old and new stuff gets mixed up easily, and it gets kind of 
messy...


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[SLUG] Open Source Software Gurus, Canberra, April 2009

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Though not in Sydney,
5 days in Canberra and the subject matter,
might appeal to some on SLUG.

Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell and Bob "The Builder" Edwards are running 
the course "Free and Open Source Software Development" (COMP8440) at 
the ANU in Canberra, starting 14 April 2009 
. Both are known for hacking 
the TiVo . This course 
will not be easy and not your usual Powerpoint corporate training, 
but you have to climb the mountain to sit at the feet of the Gurus. ;-)


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ANU College of ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
Free & Open Source Software (FOSS)

The ANU Department of Computer Science is offering a Masters of 
Computing (five day intensive) course scheduled for Autumn 2009 (April).


Lecturers: Dr. Andrew Tridgell & Mr. Bob Edwards

Want to learn how FOSS development works? Are you interested in the 
technical, legal and social aspects of the free software community? 
If so, then this could be the course for you...


About the course

This course aims to teach students about FOSS in a very practical 
manner. Students will learn about FOSS by studying and participating 
in real projects, with practical tutorial sessions making up most of 
the course time. The course will be run over five intensive days at 
the ANU in Canberra, and will be led by a lecturer with 20 years
of experience in developing FOSS software. Interspersed with the 
practical sessions will be a series of lectures explaining important 
aspects of FOSS development, including topics such as:


 * The history of FOSS
 * How FOSS communities are organised and governed
 * How the development cycle works
 * How FOSS licenses work
 * legal issues faced by FOSS projects
 * Source code control systems
 * Bug tracking and quality control

Program Information
http://cs.anu.edu.au/students/comp8440



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Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

2009/3/11 david :
> number: *99#
> username: a
> password: a
> APN: 3netaccess
> network: 
> PIN: 
> PUK: 

Try leaving the username and password blank (only fill in the number
and APN). I'm with Exetel (Optus network) and that's how it works for
me.


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Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

[Daniel Pittman]

Ken Foskey  writes:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 11:23 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
>> The biggest thing, though, is for you to identify what you actually want
>> to achieve with this.  Without knowing that there are some very
>> different options available, and probably only some will help you.
>
> Multiple clients, different applications and projects per client.  The
> different clients should not even know that the others exist. Right
> now it is about bug tracking but a full management process would be
> nice in the future.

Well, from my experience you have two options in the free space:

1. Set up a separate bug tracking system (eg trac, bugzilla) for each
   client and/or project.

2. Use RT, and configure it with appropriate security.

You are not going to get project planning, etc, out of RT though, since
it is just a ticket management system.  Sadly, you won't get the
multi-client security out of anything else, though, so you are kind of
stuck.

Um, unless you pay big $$$ to someone commercial, which I don't
recommend; it usually doesn't pay for itself.

> I was going to set up a wiki as well so if this was integrated it
> would be nice. Ability to store email for traceability would be good.

RT handles the later, but not the wiki integration as such.  It does
have stable, predictable URL support, the ability to extend the UI and a
good scripting API, though, so it is possible to integrate it to
whatever external tools you wish.

> Ability to totally remove projects from the online once closed.

RT doesn't delete things, but you can mark them "deleted" and they never
show up unless you specifically search them.  This is a feature. :)

For others ... I don't know.  We wouldn't use such a feature.

> There are some potentially huge files in these projects.

You would want to store those in your VCS, not the ticketing system, if
at all possible.  Which VCS is best is a whole different discussion.

> Ability to restore projects, to main server or a backup server, to
> locate information on a closed project.

...as noted, we wouldn't use such a feature, since we want to refer to
historical projects if the issue comes up.[1]

Regards,
Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  I suppose that after seven or ten years of project completion, when
 it isn't going to be refered to ever again we might consider it,
 but why bother?  Storage is stupidly inexpensive...

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[SLUG] Free Wireless

[Darryl Barlow]

I am told that in many  U.S. cities free Wi-Fi access is everywhere.  It is
getting a little better here with McDonalds now having free wi-fi at most of
their establishments.  I gave up on it here some time ago and use a mobile
broadband modem on my EEE when out of the office.  However, all is not lost
in Sydney.  The following links may be of interest.

http://www.freesydneywireless.com/

http://www.sydneywireless.com/

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Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network

[Grant Parnell]

david wrote:



Grant Parnell wrote:

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

Grant Parnell wrote:

 
Well I didn't find where to look at the logs but I did find out some 
very useful things.


1) After you setup with network manager you can just manually run 
wvdial from a terminal and it works and you get to see everything I 
was talking about.


2) It *IS* possible to insert the SIM into the device incorrectly. 
This results in every attempt to DIAL returning "ERROR" in a 
terminal program such as minicom using device /dev/ttyUSB0 for 
example. IE ATDT*99# = ERROR.


3) The Windows software gives you more explanation of ERROR - in our 
case something to the effect of "Error reading USIM card". Oh yeah 
an to spite claims to the contrary, the one we got we had to use the 
Install CDROM. This is because Windows XP wouldn't see the emulated 
CDROM - Ubuntu does but then the software on it's useless ;-)


4) Even before the software has been told to connect you see blue 
LED flashes indicating network availability (Windows & Linux), ONLY 
when the SIM is inserted correctly.



Does that mean you got the E180 working?

Erik
  

... And there's the videos of just how easy it is to setup!
http://www2.muli.com.au/Videos/



That's great.. just a shame that my E160G doesn't work :(
Does it make a difference that it's pre-paid? I read somewhere that it 
does. Does it make a difference that it was set up originally on OS X? 
(on which it worked perfectly)


When I plug in and select it in the networkmanager drop down menu, it 
asks for a password (what is that??).


The configuration tool has the following settings:

number: *99#
username: a
password: a
APN: 3netaccess
network: 
PIN: 
PUK: 

If anyone can enlighten me I would appreciate it.

thanks

David.


Oh the password thing is for sudo so it can run with root privileges, 
it's just the password you use to login to your desktop session.


It says in the little quick start guide thingy that if you're on 
pre-paid you have to Ring Three and get them to activate your service. 
It also says to change the APN to 3services. This can be done from 
Network Manager by right clicking and going into the setup or just 
editing /etc/wvdial.conf directly (not sure if NM will overwrite).



How's things?.. long time no see.

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Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

[Ken Foskey]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 11:23 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> The biggest thing, though, is for you to identify what you actually want
> to achieve with this.  Without knowing that there are some very
> different options available, and probably only some will help you.

Multiple clients,   different applications and projects per client.
The different clients should not even know that the others exist. Right
now it is about bug tracking but a full management process would be nice
in the future.  I was going to set up a wiki as well so if this was
integrated it would be nice. Ability to store email for traceability
would be good.

Ability to totally remove projects from the online once closed.  There
are some potentially huge files in these projects.   Ability to restore
projects, to main server or a backup server, to locate information on a
closed project.

Ta
Ken

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Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

[Ken Foskey]

I got bugzilla working OK.For the record I had to create a link,
this was missing

/usr/share/bugzilla3/web/ /var/www/bugzilla3

I then had to hack out security from the scripts to configure it then
reinstate it.  Not sure what I did wrong in the set up.

 
I got this error "attempt to invoke directory as
script: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/" I had scriptalias in my apache
setup.  This line had scriptalias and it stopped index.cgi being used.

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default
Alias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

Finally I got a couple of skins from
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Addons

I went to /var/www/bugzilla3/skins and linked contrib/BrownCurvy/ to
custom and it looks pretty nice now.



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Re: [SLUG] [ot] Free city wide wireless lan

[Kyle]

There's actually a group in Dublin have been doing this for years. Bunch 
of friends got together and simply put up antennae and bridges across 
the entire city. Dublin is obviously a much smaller town than Sydders, 
but the concept is the same.


Can't remember the name of them, but don't doubt a little googlage would 
bring it to the surface.



Kind Regards

Kyle


Andrew Bennetts wrote:

Richard Hayes wrote:

Dear list,

I am thinking about the chance of building an ad hoc wireless than would  
cover a lot of Sydney.



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Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network

[david]

Grant Parnell wrote:

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

Grant Parnell wrote:

 
Well I didn't find where to look at the logs but I did find out some 
very useful things.


1) After you setup with network manager you can just manually run 
wvdial from a terminal and it works and you get to see everything I 
was talking about.


2) It *IS* possible to insert the SIM into the device incorrectly. 
This results in every attempt to DIAL returning "ERROR" in a terminal 
program such as minicom using device /dev/ttyUSB0 for example. IE 
ATDT*99# = ERROR.


3) The Windows software gives you more explanation of ERROR - in our 
case something to the effect of "Error reading USIM card". Oh yeah an 
to spite claims to the contrary, the one we got we had to use the 
Install CDROM. This is because Windows XP wouldn't see the emulated 
CDROM - Ubuntu does but then the software on it's useless ;-)


4) Even before the software has been told to connect you see blue LED 
flashes indicating network availability (Windows & Linux), ONLY when 
the SIM is inserted correctly.



Does that mean you got the E180 working?

Erik
  

... And there's the videos of just how easy it is to setup!
http://www2.muli.com.au/Videos/



That's great.. just a shame that my E160G doesn't work :(
Does it make a difference that it's pre-paid? I read somewhere that it does. 
Does it make a difference that it was set up originally on OS X? (on which it 
worked perfectly)


When I plug in and select it in the networkmanager drop down menu, it asks for a 
password (what is that??).


The configuration tool has the following settings:

number: *99#
username: a
password: a
APN: 3netaccess
network: 
PIN: 
PUK: 

If anyone can enlighten me I would appreciate it.

thanks

David.
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[SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network

[Grant Parnell]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

Grant Parnell wrote:

  
Well I didn't find where to look at the logs but I did find out some 
very useful things.


1) After you setup with network manager you can just manually run wvdial 
from a terminal and it works and you get to see everything I was talking 
about.


2) It *IS* possible to insert the SIM into the device incorrectly. This 
results in every attempt to DIAL returning "ERROR" in a terminal program 
such as minicom using device /dev/ttyUSB0 for example. IE ATDT*99# = ERROR.


3) The Windows software gives you more explanation of ERROR - in our 
case something to the effect of "Error reading USIM card". Oh yeah an to 
spite claims to the contrary, the one we got we had to use the Install 
CDROM. This is because Windows XP wouldn't see the emulated CDROM - 
Ubuntu does but then the software on it's useless ;-)


4) Even before the software has been told to connect you see blue LED 
flashes indicating network availability (Windows & Linux), ONLY when the 
SIM is inserted correctly.



Does that mean you got the E180 working?

Erik
  

... And there's the videos of just how easy it is to setup!
http://www2.muli.com.au/Videos/

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Re: [SLUG] Re: network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network

[Peter Miller]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:14 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote:
> > Does that mean you got the E180 working?

> Oh yes. I forgot to say that.

Can you teach Network Manager how to do it?

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Re: [SLUG] [ot] Free city wide wireless lan

[Andrew Bennetts]

Richard Hayes wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am thinking about the chance of building an ad hoc wireless than would  
> cover a lot of Sydney.
>
> I know I am crazy but if there was 2-3 cheap DSL links out of the  
> network with say 50 nodes using 'homebrew' antenna. The real goal is to  
> provide 'free / low cost' Internet  connections to people.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas that might help (apart from forget it)

http://www.freesydneywireless.com/

http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/about/

-Andrew.

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