email

We now have something more than 4000 unread messages in the president mailbox. Would anyone like to do it? Most of them are spam and could be cleared out in an hour or so. Also I've configured the list server to block mail from comcast.net because someone at comcast is reporting it's mail as

Re: How could we get society to adequately fund free software developers

On Sunday, 31 March 2024 09:40:59 AEDT Brian May via luv-main wrote: > This requires the new users trust the new maintainer. But I imagine in > many cases users aren't even aware that there is a new maintainer. Brian makes some great points about the broader issues of trust in the integrity and

FOSS phone development in Melbourne

Yifei and I sometimes meet up in Melbourne to work on phone stuff and other FOSS things. If anyone is interested in joining us then please let me know off-list. I have a selection of phone hardware running Debian that can be used to test phone apps, so if you want to try stuff out but don't

Re: fediverse-enabled platforms

On Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:11:44 AEDT Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Mon, 2024-03-04 20:46:07 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Are you on Matrix? I mostly communicate with people on Matrix about such > > things. > > Is that https://matrix.org/ ? Matrix.org is the main site about Matrix

Re: Ubuntu - Logs out or Crashes - Critical Warning: 0x04 - Am I in the market for a new SSD????

On Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:37:48 AEDT Piers via luv-main wrote: > On 9/3/24 13:19, Russell Coker wrote: > > If that's the case you averaged 2.16*10/4/365/3600=410MB/s 24*7 > > over the lifetime! How did you do that? > > I would like to say I'm a workaholic but we both know the truth on

Re: Ubuntu - Logs out or Crashes - Critical Warning: 0x04 - Am I in the market for a new SSD????

On Saturday, 9 March 2024 08:56:43 AEDT Piers via luv-main wrote: > Redit tells me: > > Critical Warning: 0x04 > > > Turns out, that according to Page 122 of the NVMe Document , Byte 00, > bit 4 (0x04) of the Critical Warning means: > > If set to ‘1’, then the volatile memory backup device

Re: Ubuntu - Logs out or Crashes

On Monday, 4 March 2024 08:18:12 AEDT Piers Rowan wrote: > This is the only part that looks fishy (it logged me out again at that time) > > ░░ The job identifier is 476. > Mar 04 07:10:24 webgen-01 systemd[30530]: > app-gnome-ubuntu\x2dreport\x2don\x2dupgrade-30919.scope: Couldn't move > process

Re: Ubuntu - Logs out or Crashes

On Monday, 4 March 2024 10:20:31 AEDT Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote: > grub-update shows me this: > > Memtest86+ needs a 16-bit boot, that is not available on EFI, exiting https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy-backports/amd64/memtest86+/filelist What version of Ubuntu is this? Jammy backports has

Re: Ubuntu - Logs out or Crashes

On Sunday, 3 March 2024 10:01:09 AEDT Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote: > 1) I return to my computer log in and all of the applications / mounts / > etc have been closed > > 2) While using the computer an error comes up (Virtualbox I think) and > the computer restarts Desktop or laptop? Have you

Re: Lenovo Ideapad (2Gb RAM) - What is the best modern OS for this unit

On Monday, 26 February 2024 13:20:58 AEDT Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I am intending to lend a friend this device for his travels in Europe > mainly to get photos off his camera SD card and into a suitably sized > ext, HDD, > > When I turned it on I found it had a Mageia OS (RPM) I have

Flounder Feb 17th ML Hack day

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/feb-2024-ml-hack/ February ML Hack Day. A day of learning about Machine Learning by trying stuff out. We may have some ML experts attending who may be able to give some sort of lecture but probably it will be just people learning by doing. I have a

Interested in FOSS phone development?

I've got a PinePhonePro (thanks to Linux Australia), a Librem5, and a bunch of touch screen laptops for testing FOSS phone technology. Is anyone in Melbourne or Canberra interested in meeting up to work on this? If you don't have hardware for such things and just want to test how your

Strange ALSA problem

I have just moved the storage from my Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 to a Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen3 (comparable to a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 - 2018 laptop vs previously 2017 laptop). So no changes to OS configuration, Debian/Unstable that was working mostly OK on the old system. mpv -ao alsa

Re: Chrome is suddenly slow : systemd-resolved

On Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:38:43 AEDT Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote: > ..of course systemd-resolved wrote over all my changes and I have no > idea what went "right" .It has been re-booted over the last couple of > days to I better check the logs next time it happens. You can use

Re: non-profit community OSS hosting in the inner north of Melbourne

On Monday, 30 October 2023 13:42:12 AEDT Jade Ambrose wrote: > As for what we're planning technology wise, I'm genuinely not sure. Current > technologies used include terraform and ansible. I don't have any idea yet > for how we manage hardware lifecycle, or virtual machines (presuming we use >

Re: non-profit community OSS hosting in the inner north of Melbourne

On Thursday, 26 October 2023 20:28:10 AEDT Jade Ambrose via luv-main wrote: > I'm setting up a non-profit community web hosting organisation in Merri-bek > (the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne). The intent is to setup a few > local sever racks, ideally powered by renewables, at a couple of

LUV list server

As LUV is a LA subcommittee it doesn't provide much benefit to have a LUV list server running separately from the LA list server. The LUV list server is essentially unmaintained. I run the LUV VM and keep all the software up to date with security fixes etc but have no interest in doing

president email

The LUV president email has not been read at all for 11 months and there is still unread email from 2021. Is there anyone who has the time to go through it? Most of it is spam that can be easily identified and discarded and there's probably some important email in the rest. -- My Main Blog

Re: Video Streaming and Linux

On Friday, 1 September 2023 15:02:42 AEST Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: > On 1/9/23 14:35, Brian May via luv-main wrote: > > Apparently Netflix is unique, it supports 4K on Windows from Edge or > > from OSX with Safari . > > It looks like the required HEVC

Re: Re QRCode reader - no app required

On Thursday, 8 June 2023 01:55:40 AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > On 8/6/23 12:13 am, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > > Please disregard my post on this as Google has built a QR Code reader into > > the camera function. Nothing to do. > Except it is "***GOOGLE*** camera" and

LUV server upgrade

I've just finished the upgrade of the LUV server to Debian/Testing which will become Bookworm in the near future. I had to do it now because there's an urgent update to Wordpress that's just been released and updating all the libraries was required before updating that. It seems to be all

server upgrade

I started the upgrade process of the LUV server to the next version of Debian which is Bookworm, it is currently in the freeze process and will be released in the near future. I haven't upgraded everything, just the base OS, Postfix, and Mailman. I wasn't planning to upgrade Mailman in the

Re: Windows on a Linux kernal ?

Firstly the idea of Windows running as a GUI layer over a Linux kernel is an obvious one that many people have independently had. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) WINE first came out in 1993. It seemed like a curiosity at first but it's capabilities have steadily increased. Also

Flounder April 1st 2023 meeting

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-apr-2023-pc-hardware/ April event, PC hardware, a mini lecture about lessons learned from corporate IT work and a general discussion about where hardware is at. Also lots of general random discussion about free software stuff. Meeting will be at

Re: Life After CentOS

On Monday, 19 December 2022 08:59:36 AEDT Brian May via luv-main wrote: > It really depends on your use case... For servers I prefer a stable that > I don't have to keep updating. For desktops, more likely to need newer > stuff. Especially for drivers, etc. which may not always work correctly >

Re: Mount android from linux via wifi

On Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:46:19 AEDT Tim Hamilton via luv-main wrote: > > It is possible to replace the USB connector, any of the little phone > > repair > > stores can give you a quote on that. You should tell them that you don't > > want > > to lose photos, but probably none of the ways

Re: Mount android from linux via wifi

On Saturday, 17 December 2022 10:13:28 AEDT Tim Hamilton via luv-main wrote: > I've got an Android (LineageOS) phone that's suddenly stopped > charging/connecting via usb. I've done the usual troubleshooting (lint > removal, etc) and it looks like a hardware fault. > > Anyway, there's a few

chargers

https://www.kogan.com/au/c/black-friday-sale-22-tech/shop/category/phones-accessories-smartphones-accessories-44025/?facet-features-furniture-filterable=GaN+Technology This is interesting, tiny USB-C chargers that can work with laptops. A 15" Dell laptop will charge from a 45W USB-C charger

Re: moving the LUV VM

On Sunday, 16 October 2022 22:55:53 AEDT Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: > On 16/10/22 22:40, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > Anyway I've moved it to the new system and given it a basic test. It > > seems to work OK and the Wordpress login is very quick. If this message &

Re: moving the LUV VM

On Monday, 17 October 2022 01:06:52 AEDT Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > On 15/10/22 10:48 pm, Lucas Symons via luv-main wrote: > > I know Cloudflare has a not for profit and community resources free plan > > on their platform. Maybe we could look at that to make up any difference > > with

Re: moving the LUV VM

On Saturday, 15 October 2022 22:48:29 AEDT Lucas Symons via luv-main wrote: > I know Cloudflare has a not for profit and community resources free plan on > their platform. Maybe we could look at that to make up any difference with > speed in relation to ram caching? Also helps save bandwidth.

moving the LUV VM

I've set all the LUV DNS entries to have a 120 second timeout. Sometime in the next 24 hours I'm going to move the VM to a new server. The current server has 2*2TB disks in a RAID-1 array which turns out to not have the write bandwidth for all the VMs. The new server has 2*512G SSDs in a

Re: Flounder Oct meeting - DKIM etc

The meeting is on the 1st of October, this Saturday. Sorry for the short notice and sorry for missing it in the first email. On Wednesday, 28 September 2022 02:46:29 AEST Russell Coker wrote: > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-oct-2022-dkim/ > > Above is the URL for the October

Flounder Oct meeting - DKIM etc

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-oct-2022-dkim/ Above is the URL for the October Flounder meeting. DKIM and DMARC hands-on tutorial. Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to register just click on the link on the day. Meeting will start with providing a VM running

Re: Spamassassin rules

On Friday, 23 September 2022 13:26:55 AEST Lucas Symons via luv-main wrote: > You will want to tweak your spam assassin's scoring for SPF rule violations > and ensure your SPF rules are up to date :) A better option IMHO is to configure your DNS with SPF in enforcing mode (with "-all" at the

SA DKIM rule

I've attached a SpamAssassing config snippet for reducing the SA score for DKIM signed mail from good domains. You could use a larger negative number according to taste. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Bloghttp://doc.coker.com.au/ header AUTH_GOOD

Flounder Hack Day - tomorrow 1PM Melbourne time, 03:00 UTC

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-september-2022-hack-day/ Tomorrow we are having a hack day event. Nothing serious, just turn up, chat, work on some free software, write some free documentation, etc. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog

Sep 3rd Flounder Meeting PC Hardware

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-sep-2022-hardware-pc/ Sep event, PC hardware. Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to register just click on the link on the day. Meeting will cover many aspects of PC/Laptop hardware. How systems work, how to get them cheaply, how to

Re: linux laptop

On Friday, 26 August 2022 09:28:18 AEST Keech, Richard via luv-main wrote: > on-gen-10-(14-inch-intel)/21cb0002au>laptop (Lenovo X1 Carbon)? Any known > issues running Linux on it? I've used ThinkPads before with Linux

Live Journal and Buster

https://planet.luv.asn.au/ I run Planet Linux Australia because the previous operators gave up on it (see the above URL). Since 9PM last night it has been getting errors on Julien Goodwin's blog (the only Live Journal blog used). In a test the Debian/Buster chroot used for the Planet

Flounder meeting tomorrow

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-august-2022-hack-day/ August Hack Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. Starting 1PM Melbourne time that’s 03:00 UTC. Find some interesting FOSS stuff to work on, doesn’t have to be coding, can be editing documentation, filing bug reports, or

Re: Flounder Meeting Saturday 6th August 01:00UTC

On Thursday, 4 August 2022 06:44:59 AEST Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > Bonus link: Known anglophone LUGs holding regular videoconferenced > meetings/events: balug.org/covid (If FLOSS Down Under holds these > events on a continuing basis, I will certainly add an entry.) We have a regular

Re: Flounder Meeting Saturday 6th August 03:00UTC

On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 18:34:42 AEST Russell Coker wrote: > Main topic of the meeting will be SE Linux, but there will be lots of > discussion about other FOSS things and a teaser for some future security > related meetings. > > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-aug-2022-selinux/

Flounder Meeting Saturday 6th August 01:00UTC

Main topic of the meeting will be SE Linux, but there will be lots of discussion about other FOSS things and a teaser for some future security related meetings. https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-aug-2022-selinux/ -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog

Re: For a USB data key Dolphin uses Darktable to open it

On Wednesday, 27 July 2022 22:48:29 AEST Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > Have the current version of Ubuntu in my laptop, recently upgraded. I > have an MP4 movie file on a USB key and Dolphin wants to use Darktable > to open it. How do I change that default behaviour to one where the > files

Re: First attempt at (follow along) bash script, critical assessment please

# the following should not be line wrapped MP3S:=$(shell for n in *.ogg ; do echo $$n | sed -e s/^/mp3\\// -e s/ogg$$/ mp3/ ; done) all: $(MP3S) mp3/%.mp3: %.ogg avconv -i $< -map 0:a -c:a copy $@ ffmpeg -i $< $(OPTS) $@ You could do that in a Makefile like the above, that

Re: [Linux-aus] Nomination to fill the causal vacancy - President for LUV

On Sunday, 10 July 2022 15:37:54 AEST Luke Attard via linux-aus wrote: > I have been on boards, and committees many times in the past, one thing > I have learned, is to always read the constitution and by-laws before > sending out anything. LUV is a subcommittee of Linux Australia, > therefore

Re: [Linux-aus] Nomination to fill the causal vacancy - President for LUV

On Sunday, 10 July 2022 13:18:05 AEST Brian May wrote: > Russell Coker via linux-aus writes: > > To get a new president we need to have an AGM, which we haven't had for > > some years. Such a meeting needs to have advance notice of at least a > > month. So we could plan an AGM for September,

Re: [Linux-aus] Nomination to fill the causal vacancy - President for LUV

On Sunday, 10 July 2022 13:10:58 AEST Rohan McLeod wrote: > Presumably covid-19 was partially responsible for no elections; Yes. > could we be reminded who the current office holders in LUV are ? Not sure exactly who is on committee. Currently Alexar is vice president. > My experience with

Re: [Linux-aus] Nomination to fill the causal vacancy - President for LUV

On Sunday, 10 July 2022 01:44:42 AEST Luke Attard via linux-aus wrote: > I formally nominate myself to fill the causal Vacancy position of > President for LUV, and therefore take on the responsibility for the > president's mailbox, and the responsibility for completing/delegating > out the other

Re: [Linux-aus] LUV needs volunteers

On Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:21:55 AEST Sonam Dorji wrote: > Hi, I am happy to volunteer. Let me know how can I help. I am based in > Canberra and I have just basic knowledge in Linux. However, I would like to > learn more. https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux The Canberra's LUG has

Re: [Linux-aus] LUV needs volunteers

On Friday, 8 July 2022 16:42:02 AEST hd via linux-aus wrote: > How many emails go into the presidents mailbox? (ie ham) > If all that is required is basic sorting and forwarding I could make > some time every couple of days to do this. > I have little knowledge of the workings of LUV, so will not

Re: [Linux-aus] LUV needs volunteers

On Thursday, 7 July 2022 11:50:56 AEST Paul Foxworthy wrote: > Just get mailmanlists (mailmanlists.net) to do it. Sydney based and when I > have needed support they have been very responsive. Thanks for the suggestion. While $13/month isn't an impossible amount of money I think it's best to

Re: LUV needs volunteers

On Friday, 8 July 2022 19:07:25 AEST Melissa Star wrote: > I’m happy to help, and if you need money to renew the domain, I’ll take on > the cost (assuming it’s the typical $10-$20ish cost of a .au domain > renewal). Thanks for the offer, but LUV has plenty of money being a subcommittee of Linux

Re: LUV needs volunteers

On Saturday, 2 July 2022 17:50:07 AEST Tony Langdon via luv-main wrote: > On 2/7/22 2:04 pm, Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: > > > On 2/7/22 13:09, Yuchen Pei via luv-main wrote: > > > >> Silly question: is the president email supposed to be read by the > >> president? If so is this a call for

Re: LUV needs volunteers

On Saturday, 2 July 2022 20:12:25 AEST Yuchen Pei wrote: > On Sat 2022-07-02 11:54:50 +1000, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > Finally one thing that should be considered is moving the LUV mailing > > lists to the Linux Australia server. The latest version of Mailman is a

LUV needs volunteers

Currently no-one is reading the LUV president email. Email about the expiry of luv.asn.au have been going to the president mailbox since April and now the domain is suspended. I'm CCing this email to the Linux Australia list because probably a lot of LUV members won't get this message through

Flounder FOSS phones meeting in 11.5 hours

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-july-2022/ The July meeting will be 1PM Melbourne time (03:00 UTC) on the 2nd of July. The above URL has the details. It will be about FOSS phones and what has to be done to make regular Linux software work on them with the Librem 5 as a case

Flounder Terraform on Saturday

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-june-2022/ On Saturday at 1PM Melbourne time we have the June meeting which is about Terraform. The training will be done on GCP but Terraform works on most clouds (I plan to use it on AWS). Free entry and no need to sign up. -- My Main Blog

Federation

https://nzoss.nz/online-services The New Zealand Open Source society runs some online services for Open Source type people, they specify New Zealanders but they gave me a Mastodon account and I think all LUV members would be welcome. I won't rule out the possibility of running a LUV Mastodon

Re: Librem5

On Monday, 21 March 2022 23:20:10 AEDT Rohan McLeod via luv-main wrote: > Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/03/15/librem-5-first-impression/ > > https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/03/19/more-librem5/ > > Thanks Russell ; hopefully by the time

Librem5

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/03/15/librem-5-first-impression/ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/03/19/more-librem5/ Just after the previous discussion of phones my Librem5 (which I paid for years ago) arrived. Above are the first blog posts I've written about it. It's a fairly stock Debian

Re: What happens when ‘protestware’ sabotages open source in response to current events? | SC Media

On Friday, 18 March 2022 18:04:00 AEDT Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > Hi, > > https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/application-security/what-happens-when-p > rotestware-sabotages-open-source-in-response-to-current-events > > - need script off for the main site :( That is criminal

Re: phones

On Friday, 11 March 2022 10:43:28 AEDT Les Kitchen via luv-main wrote: > While it has much more modest specs, the (non-Pro) Pinephone is > a very usable phone (especially the "convergence" edition with > 3GB RAM, 32GB flash memory), so long as you're not reliant on > Android apps. Scrolling (and

latest Linux major kernel issue

https://dirtypipe.cm4all.com/ This one is interesting and gives a lot of information on how the bug was tracked down. It's fixed in the latest release of linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64 in Debian and I rebooted my server 2 days ago so the LUV VM has the fix. It's a very serious issue and SE

phones

I wrote the following in response to a private message and decided to send it here too. https://download.lineageos.org/ Android is a Linux OS, so most phones are running Linux. But most Android phones are locked down and under the control of big tech. There is the Lineage build of Android

Re: Mastodon etc

On Monday, 7 March 2022 19:39:29 AEDT Davor Balder via luv-main wrote: > On 7/3/22 19:21, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > https://flounder.linux.org.au/2022/03/06/march-2022-meeting/ > > > > We had the March Flounder meeting on Saturday, it went reasonably well, > &g

Mastodon etc

https://flounder.linux.org.au/2022/03/06/march-2022-meeting/ We had the March Flounder meeting on Saturday, it went reasonably well, see the report above. At the meeting federated free software social networking was discussed and I signed up to the NZOSS instance (details in the web page

Flounder Meeting tomorrow (Saturday) 1PM Melbourne time

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/march-2022-mailservers/ Mailservers, hands-on tutorial setting up Postfix, etc. Above is the link for the event. Maybe some discussion of Matrix. https://flounder.linux.org.au/events.ics Above is the link for the iCal file which I encourage people to use

Fwd: Flounder startup 5th Feb 1PM Melbourne time

https://flounder.coker.com.au/2022/01/30/flounder-overview/ The FLOSS Down Under group (Flounder) group is starting next Saturday 1PM Melbourne time (the above page summarises it). https://b.coker.com.au/ The above URL will redirect to the meeting URL, it's deliberately short so if your

Re: Kernel upgrade needed

s, it's a Linux 5.1 issue. > > 21/01/2022 18:01、Russell Coker via luv-main のメール: > > > > TLDR: For a typical user the only thing to do to maintain a secure system > > with normal functionality is to install the latest kernel update. > > > > >

Kernel upgrade needed

TLDR: For a typical user the only thing to do to maintain a secure system with normal functionality is to install the latest kernel update. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0185 This explanation of the bug with kernel namespaces is inadequate. If you disable user namespaces

Re: identifying futex problem

On Thursday, 23 December 2021 20:27:23 AEDT Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote: > I think you need to use *strace -f*. This will show system calls from all > threads. > > FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE can only wait for another thread in your process, so > 'strace -f' should show the other thread's wait on the

identifying futex problem

Below is part of the strace of gwenview (the KDE image viewer program) which hangs for 50 seconds on startup while waiting for a futex. How can I discover what this futex is about? This started just after I rebooted my workstation to the 5.10.0-10-amd64 kernel from the recent Debian/Bullseye

Re: systemctl restart in script

On Wednesday, 22 December 2021 18:53:57 AEDT Andrew Pam wrote: > On 22/12/21 6:48 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > When pppd starts I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that among other > > things restarts the wide dhcpv6 client. That hangs with the above in the > > p

systemctl restart in script

root2006 0.0 0.0 2432 1772 ?S18:30 0:00 /bin/sh / etc/init.d/wide-dhcpv6-client restart root2012 0.0 0.0 7096 1308 ?S18:30 0:00 systemctl --no-pager restart wide-dhcpv6-client.service When pppd starts I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that

server upgrades

I've just updated the LUV server. Some interesting notes, mailman3 daemon startup will abort if the mysql server isn't running, but that's not a dependency in systemd, so every reboot it fails. I only just got around to noticing this as it's not rebooted often. The mediawiki package in

Re: wifi won't start at boot

On Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:54:57 AEDT Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2021, at 4:19 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Saturday, 27 November 2021 00:39:04 AEDT Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote: > >> allow-hotplug wlan0 > >> > >> iface wlan0 inet dhcp > >> > >> ssid

Re: wifi won't start at boot

On Saturday, 27 November 2021 00:39:04 AEDT Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote: > allow-hotplug wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > ssid="Telstraxxx" > psk= Have you tried adding the following line to the interfaces file: pre-up rfkill unblock wifi > > I can get the wifi up online with

Re: Install Fedora 35 WS - understanding disk partitions and not loosing existing data

On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 07:22:17 AEDT hd via luv-main wrote: > > > I had trouble changing my \home from the default under the BTFS / > > > partition. Do you have some guidelines on how to move /home (I > > > tried putting the XFS disk as /home in fstab and borked the system BTRFS is no

Re: Install Fedora 35 WS - understanding disk partitions and not loosing existing data

On Monday, 22 November 2021 16:44:07 AEDT hd via luv-main wrote: > I have been a Linux hobbyist for a while (?10 years?), and have been > using Mandriva and Open Suse. > Due to software availability and support I am looking to move to Fedora. I think Debian has more software. > I have the

home server going cheap in Clyde

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/185151765792? hash=item2b1be7bd20:g:Qn0AAOSwfQ1hiFoP=true If you want a home server and live near Clyde then this is a really good deal. It can be expended to 96G of RAM if you add more 16G DDR3 ECC DIMMs, it comes with 2 SAS disks but can take up to 8 SAS/SATA

Re: webcams

On Friday, 5 November 2021 01:20:57 AEDT Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: > On 4/11/21 10:23 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > Is there anything obviously wrong with the 1080p one from Kogan for$19? > > At that price, I'd be surprised if it actually has a 1920x1080 senso

Re: webcams

On Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:58:04 AEDT Yuchen Pei via luv-main wrote: > Perhaps take a look at . Thanks, that's a good resource. On Thursday, 4 November 2021 18:00:42 AEDT Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: > Recently purchased a webcam and had

webcams

https://www.sades.com.au/shop/p/ktdgxmmjrp86f7sn5vcu4yrtzfv8as I've just ordered myself a Sades gaming headset that connects via USB 2.0. As an aside don't buy it from that site, it's significantly cheaper on ebay. https://www.kogan.com/au/shop/?q=webcam Now I need a webcam. Can I expect

Re: Covid19

On Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:51:13 AEDT Brian May via luv-main wrote: > Russell Coker via luv-main writes: > > https://blog.koipond.org.uk/archives/310 > > > > Some background information for when it comes time to consider restarting > > in- person meetings. I am hap

Covid19

https://blog.koipond.org.uk/archives/310 Some background information for when it comes time to consider restarting in- person meetings. I am happy with my decision to shut down LUV in-person meetings before most other meetings were shut down. I think we should not be in any hurry to restart

Re: Meeting 30th Sep 6pm to 8pm.

On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:10:37 AEST Yuchen Pei wrote: > > These are long videos. I am hoping we can find a shorter video > > with quality. > > > > If anyone is on a relevant IRC or Matrix channel, it would be > > good to ask > > if they can point at a good explainer video on SE-Linux. >

Re: Meeting 30th Sep 6pm to 8pm.

On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 11:44:22 AEST Alexar Pendashteh via luv-main wrote: > There is no event scheduled for Thursday but nothing stops us from having > one! Unless of course someone contacts me at that time with details of a meeting that's already happening. > We can get online at 6pm

Meeting 30th Sep 6pm to 8pm.

Is there a Linux meeting on Thursday 6pm to 8pm? I've got an entry in my calendar titled "SE Linux lecture" for that time and I can't remember what it's about. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Bloghttp://doc.coker.com.au/

5k displays

When I first got a 4k display I had some trouble getting it going properly. Among other things CPU power was an issue in scaling video display. Since then I've got a more powerful video card and a faster PC with DDR4 RAM so driving a 5K monitor shouldn't be a problem. Also 4K monitors have

Re: Bash 4 vs Bash 5

On Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:25:48 AEST Alexar Pendashteh via luv-main wrote: > I noticed the server is running *GNU bash, version 4.2.46(2)-release* > Whereas I have always been on version 5. > > I don't have the access to upgrade the version. So, the questions are: > > 1. Is there a way to

Re: system & network monitoring

On Friday, 17 September 2021 14:46:28 AEST Colin Fee via luv-main wrote: > What do you use for monitoring your local systems and network devices e.g. > router/modem etc? https://doc.coker.com.au/projects/etbe-mon/ I use my etbemon program to monitor all aspects of network connectivity and

LCA 2023

https://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2021-April/023729.html Does anyone here think that they are capable of running an online conference? I believe that they are still looking for bids for LCA 2023. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog

Re: how to mount a home server [ not hot to mount.... ]

On Friday, 10 September 2021 23:18:49 AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > On 10/9/21 7:01 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/pkvzt0/ > > took_some_inspiration_from_a_post_i_saw_earlier/ > > > > Looks nice.

Fwd: [Linux-aus] Community Update: a small reminder. linux.conf.au 2022 Call for Sessions open + Extended

LCA is a great conference to speak at. Getting a talk accepted means that your skills are recognised internationally by the Linux community. But don't be scared, it's not that difficult to do. LCA organisers are good at selecting the good talks, so make an offer and see how it goes. If you

Re: free Linux servers

On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 08:56:41 AEST David Zhan via luv-main wrote: > From docs: > https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-> > hosted-runners#supported-runners-and-hardware-resources > > Hardware specification for Windows and Linux virtual machines: > >

Re: Is Linux an OS?

On Monday, 6 September 2021 14:52:26 AEST Edward Savage via luv-main wrote: > Thinking about my own domain of distributed containerised computing, from > this perspective, it’s odd to me that Kubernetes, Operators[1], and all of > the Custom Resources[2] we manage with them are run entirely in

Re: free Linux servers

On Monday, 6 September 2021 19:35:19 AEST David Zhan wrote: > Google also offers similar free-tire service on GCP, I think that's in > their US region. https://cloud.google.com/free It seems that they just offer $300 of credit and no more.

free Linux servers

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm The Oracle Cloud free tier allows you to have 1G of RAM on AMD64 (which isn't very useful) or 24G of RAM for ARM64 which is a useful amount. By default when you create an ARM VM it gives 1/4 of the

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