Re: [free-software-melb] LUV talk of interest (schools)

2015-02-24 Thread Andrew Pam
On 25/02/15 00:12, Scott Junner wrote: Think I'll go. Excellent! I look forward to seeing you there. For anyone not on the LUV-announce mailing list, details are here: http://luv.asn.au/2015/03/03 Thanks, Andrew LUV President ___

Re: [free-software-melb] Gnews notes recent discussion topics

2015-03-05 Thread Andrew Pam
On 06/03/15 11:23, Ben Sturmfels wrote: I'm really glad that you're keen Scott. This is something I've always wanted to do too. The two things we need first are a venue and a date. Regarding a venue: Somewhere with plenty of tables, power, good light and internet access. A university or

[free-software-melb] 'There Is No Human Right To Patent Protection' -- UN Special Rapporteur

2015-10-15 Thread Andrew Pam
"There is no human right to patent protection. The right to protection of moral and material interests cannot be used to defend patent laws that inadequately respect the right to participate in cultural life, to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, to scientific freedoms

Re: [free-software-melb] Gnews

2015-11-24 Thread Andrew Pam
On 25/11/15 02:57, Ben M wrote: >Our content management system didn't like the ".odp" extension, so I had > to tack ".rm" on the end... which unix fans will recognize as "remove" ;) It's been years since I've thought about the old RealMedia format! Here's a sample file:

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew Pam
On 05/07/16 01:18, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > And does everything work perfectly on CM 11 ? Yes, and has done for a long time. The only issue is that sometimes the UI restarts immediately after unlocking the phone and I have to unlock a second time. Otherwise everything works perfectly. Cheers,

Re: [free-software-melb] Fairphone: The smartphone with social, values

2016-07-04 Thread Andrew Pam
On 05/07/16 00:04, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting > updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move > on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit more life. I'm still using my S3 with CM 11 and

Re: [free-software-melb] Fwd: Re: Activities/CompulsoryRouters - FSFE Wiki

2018-07-03 Thread Andrew Pam
On 04/07/18 13:23, Jookia wrote: I haven't got the NBN yet, but we currently have a Telstra technicolor modem. What interests me about it is that it does firmware updating automatically and I can't find any firmware for it online. Short of cracking it open and reading flash chips or doing

Re: [free-software-melb] Fwd: Re: Activities/CompulsoryRouters - FSFE Wiki

2018-07-04 Thread Andrew Pam
On 05/07/18 01:31, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Yes, I think it is best to always put the ISPs modem in bridge mode if > you can -- but VoIP /may/ be one thing that stops people from doing so. I have a Sipura 3000 VoIP adapter behind the Technicolor modem, because the built-in VoIP doesn't work in

Re: [free-software-melb] Games Night

2012-10-14 Thread Andrew Pam
-for-linux/ You may also find my site useful: http://games.sericyb.com.au/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Pam and...@sericyb.com.au Serious Cybernetics ___ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http

Re: [free-software-melb] Games Night

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Pam
On 14/10/12 23:14, Andrew Pam wrote: You may also find my site useful: http://games.sericyb.com.au/ And here's another list of FOSS games I just added to my site: http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/community-docs/SourceForge%20Games/ Share and enjoy, Andrew -- Andrew Pam

Re: [free-software-melb] GNU FDL and software freedom

2013-07-21 Thread Andrew Pam
are instructions to a font renderer, and therefore definitely are a software program in a defined font language. Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Pam and...@sericyb.com.au Manager, Serious Cybernetics http://sericyb.com.au/ ___ Free-software-melb mailing

Re: [free-software-melb] MS Windows alternative

2014-04-08 Thread Andrew Pam
On 08/04/14 21:35, Lev Lafayette wrote: http://www.reactos.org/ Goodness, I remember someone trying to tell me over ten years ago that this was going to be bigger than Linux. I must ask if they still think that's the case... Well they're still going after all these years, so that's