Re: Kernel 3.17 (and later) no longer allows bonding ppp devices

On 16/11/15 11:47, Toby Corkindale via luv-main wrote: c) I patched the kernel myself, and thus have a working modern kernel again. Patch is attached to the bug report below. Nice work. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.a

Re: testing

On 16/11/15 10:42, Brian May via luv-main wrote: > I appear to be having problems sending to the LUV mailing lists - posts > bounce after a week; testing only. This post seems to have worked just fine. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list lu

Re: Email clients [Was: No networking and no MATE]

On 02/01/16 22:51, David Zuccaro via luv-main wrote: > Sorry about the bad formatting; I usually do better with that. I'm using > thunderbird and still trying to get my head around how it quotes. What > you see is not what you get. Evolution had a plain text option which I > find more straightforwa

Re: SSHD (and steam and windows and other stuff)

On 15/01/16 08:46, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > try my msygrep script. > > http://taz.net.au/~cas/msytools/ Very handy! Unfortunately fetch-MSY.sh uses bashisms but only calls for /bin/sh which isn't necessarily /bin/bash - including on my machine. Thanks, Andrew

Re: SSHD (and steam and windows and other stuff)

On 15/01/16 08:46, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > try my msygrep script. > http://taz.net.au/~cas/msytools/ Where do I find untable.pl ? Thanks, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main

Re: SSHD (and steam and windows and other stuff)

On 15/01/16 11:28, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: >> Where do I find untable.pl ? > > sorry, i forgot fetch-MSY.sh needed that. > > it's in the same web directory now. Thanks Craig! Works perfectly now. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing

Re: IPv6

On 15/01/16 20:51, Joel W. Shea via luv-main wrote: > Are there any minutes taken/published for committee meetings? Are they > even necessary? Other committee members feel free to chime in here. Yes, minutes are normally taken by the Secretary and published to the committee mailing list. Cheers,

Re: IPv6

On 16/01/16 21:01, Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote: > Members have a right to request to see such minutes but the committee has the > right to refuse or excise parts for various listed reasons. Thanks Chris, that's what I thought. Regards, Andrew

Re: IPv6

On 16/01/16 21:58, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > how is that different to any other site or individual who deliberately > (or incompetently) breaks the expected standards? are google and > facebook and yahoo etc allowed to redefine standards just by breaking > them and demanding that everyone

Re: When is a symlink not a symlink? :D

On 18/01/16 12:42, Lev Lafayette via luv-main wrote: Note that the two directories have the same inode. # ls -id /home/username/ 1081162059 /home/sanujig/ ]# ls -id /data/user2/username 1081162059 /data/user2/username So you're saying someone accidentally made a hardlink rather than a softli

Re: Mail Server Really Slow

On 19/01/16 12:59, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: One thing that can be done to improve performance on the MTA side is to use Dovecot's delivery agent instead of having the MTA deliver directly or use Procmail or similar. If Dovecot delivers directly it will index the mail while delivering i

Re: special beginners meeting

On 27/01/16 15:32, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: I've publicised the meeting on Saturday to LCA delegates, so we may get a larger attendance than usual. Also I've suggested meeting for dinner after the meeting, it's not something we usually do but will probably be of interest to people who h

Re: Lets Encrypt

On 28/01/16 00:18, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > I've just installed a new free SSL from letsencrypt. We have paid for a SSL > key but seem to have lost the private key. > > http://etbe.coker.com.au/2016/01/27/using-letsencrypt/ > > Above is a blog post I wrote about Lets Encrypt. > > No

Re: Lets Encrypt

On 28/01/16 00:18, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Now I have configured the luv server to redirect all web traffic to https > (let me > know if that breaks anything) and to use a valid key for SMTP TLS. Note that I currently get a warning on luv.asn.au because the SSL certificate does not p

Re: Lets Encrypt

On 28/01/16 00:34, Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote: > Note that I currently get a warning on luv.asn.au because the SSL > certificate does not provide identity information. You may want to > generate new certs that include the standard ownership information to > prevent these warnings.

Re: Ndis wrapper

On 18/02/16 22:37, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > So in the back of my mind I heard a quiet memory echo, ndis wrapper. > Is that still a viable process? And is it complex? How would I get it > to work with the scanner? NDIS wrappers only work with Windows networking drivers, so it won't help y

Re: Ndis wrapper

On 18/02/16 22:37, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I had no idea this would be necessary, but this morning I purchased an > Epson MFP, an XP 432. I made this choice because I expected that > Epson, which started strong with Linux would still be doing so. But > no drivers. You may be able

Re: meeting

On 29/02/16 13:54, Tim Connors via luv-main wrote: No meeting tomorrow? We've just had news that we'll have to change the venue. I will be making an announcement shortly. The meeting will be at Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond - the same location as the beginner meetings. Thanks,

Re: Default routing changing automatically

On 17/04/16 16:44, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > How is eth0 getting it's address? If it's by DHCP then that would be the > cause of it. The router involved is probably to blame. > > To keep your maching usable you could write a script that looks for such a > route and if it exists remov

Re: greylisting

On 19/04/16 12:13, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: https://rimuhosting.com/knowledgebase/linux/mail/greylisting%20with%20postgrey I have followed the instructions at the above URL to configure greylisting for non-list mail to the LUV server (that is for the direct address of the president etc)

Re: greylisting

On 19/04/16 21:23, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > I might get Andrew Pam to help with anti-spam measures. I think he gets more > spam through the LUV server than anyone else. ;) I certainly hope nobody else is getting as much! :) Cheers, Andrew ___

Re: greylisting

On 19/04/16 21:54, Daniel Jitnah wrote: > How many in number/day on average? Hmm, I'll have to count. I think about a dozen per day just on luv-president. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cg

Re: Hardware library

On 27/04/16 10:29, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: At the moment we could really do with some donations of DDR3 RAM to the Hardware Library. In particular we need 4G DDR3 DIMMs for the systems that are used for running training sessions. We have some plans for training sessions at the Beginne

Re: Internode + Nodephone + Asterisk (+FreePBX?)

On 28/05/16 16:59, Michael Schams via luv-main wrote: > I came across a few forum posts and discussions about the Internode > settings, but I wonder if anyone from the LUV community runs such a > setup or has some experience with Asterisk and Internode (especially > their Nodephone product)? I've

Re: Ubuntu Kernel upgrade on a non-pae processor

On 30/05/16 16:56, Michele Bert via luv-main wrote: > By the way do anyone have suggestion about a nice distribution I could install on that laptop? I believe Ubuntu has stopped supporting non-PAE processors, which is why I switched to Debian on one of my older laptops. Debian supports LXDE

Re: thanks

On 07/06/16 21:32, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Thanks to the talented and generous people who volunteered to give talks at > short notice. We ended up not having enough time for all the talks that were > offered. This is a tribute to the skill and generosity of the general LUV > member

Re: August meeting?

On 01/08/16 12:06, Brian May via luv-main wrote: > Do we have a meeting tomorrow? > > AFAIK nothing announced; the website says we are having a talk by TBD, > but doesn't say what TBD will be discussing. > > https://luv.asn.au/2016/08/02 Unfortunately I have a nasty cold or flu and haven't been

Re: puppet, chef, etc

On 03/08/16 13:27, Stewart Smith via luv-main wrote: > I've heard that ansible does similar things but is agentless, it just uses > ssh to run commands. Yes, I've been happy using Ansible. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.a

Re: old SATA disks

On 16/08/16 13:33, Colin Fee via luv-main wrote: Does stuff ever come back? Is it a library in the lending sense? Occasionally it does, but more commonly it's a renewable resource. More stuff arrives to replace the things that people have found a use for. Cheers, Andrew

Re: old SATA disks

On 19/08/16 12:25, Vaughan Lapsley via luv-main wrote: > I've got two disks I am happy to donate. > > 1 x Seagate Barracuda 320GB ST3320620AS 3.5in > 1 x Seagate Momentus XT 500GB ST95005620AS 2.5in Thanks! > Unfortunately, I don't see myself getting to a LUV meeting anytime soon. > Anyone passi

Re: Hardware for kids

On 23/08/16 11:01, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: slightly off-target, you might be interested in Infinity One - from the same team who worked on the one laptop per child program... https://www.one-education.org/ Shame it's Windows 10. Is it at least possible to install Linux? Che

Re: Hardware for kids

On 23/08/16 11:12, Paul van den Bergen wrote: target OS's are Win 10, linux and chromium. Thanks Paul! Good to know. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main

Happy 25th birthday Linux!

"On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix Usenet newsgroup saying that he was working on a free operating system as a project to learn about the x86 architecture. He cannot possibly have known that he was launching a p

Re: outage

On 09/09/16 22:25, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Now I think that everything is fine. Email me off-list if you notice any > problems. Thanks for the post-incident report Russell, that's much appreciated. Regards, Andrew ___ luv-main mail

Re: Postfix + Dovecot (+MySQL)

On 21/09/16 22:51, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > For my clients the number of vacation requests has been small enough that > it's > easier to just have them email or SMS me when they want it set up. Yeah, that's what I do also. Cheers, Andrew __

Re: another outage

On 23/09/16 16:48, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: Also I'm going to move the Jabber server to the Dom0 so that if the DomUs die then I can still get alerts. Very sensible. Thanks for the report. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list lu

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

On 29/09/16 16:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: ftp://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/ed-is-the-standard-text-editor I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-b

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

On 29/09/16 17:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: On 29/09/16 16:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: But what does your _name_ do in TECO? ;-> It makes me glad emacs and vi were created! :P Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv

Re: Virtualbox

On 29/11/16 11:37, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox Has anyone used Virtualbox? What's it like? Yes, while I used to use VMware a few years ago I switched to VirtualBox and have used it happily for several years now

Re: [luv-announce] Notice of resumption of adjourned Special General Meeting, Tuesday 6 Dec 2016

On 30/11/16 16:03, Brian May via luv-main wrote: A bigger issue I see concerning LUV is that the November Special General Meeting was adjourned due to lack of quorum. I couldn't go myself because I was sick. That's standard practice for all LUV AGMs and SGMs. We never have quorum, because qu

Re: web pages

On 22/01/17 20:03, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/password-hashing.html > > As part of routine maintenance I upgraded MySQL to a more recent version on > the LUV server. Unfortunately I didn't test the system properly and didn't > notice that Drupal w

Re: What can I do now............

On 27/01/17 14:26, Ray via luv-main wrote: > Last thing I tried is I purchased an Netcomm NF4V route but I cannot > login in to configure it. Its status lights indicate ping packets reach > the router but it does not respond. It uses an IP address of > 192.168,20.1, I suppose this does not work as

Re: meetings

On 22/02/17 21:20, Russell Coker wrote: > If you know of a meeting room that's available at 6:30 on the 6th of March Tuesday the 7th of March. Thanks, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: meetings

On 24/02/17 15:23, Michael Pope via luv-main wrote: > I recommend The Dan O'Connell down the road from Melbourne University. > It's free early in the week and I would be happy to introduce you to the > functions room manager. We run the MLUG meetings there on the last > Monday of the month so it co

Re: meetings

On 24/02/17 16:52, Allan Duncan via luv-main wrote: > And maybe a little later start time? Currently some attendees go for dinner after the meetings, but I guess we could reverse that and have dinner first and then meetings. Are there any members who currently attend LUV main meetings and would b

Re: DNS resolution weirdness whilst using OpenConnect

On 06/03/17 13:23, Anthony via luv-main wrote: > Anyone else use OpenConnect? Have you had it behave weirdly? I mean, I > could just go through I guess and strip back a lot of the "magic" that > happens... but as with systemd, I feel as much as I'm not a fan of > some of it, I'd be fighting the tid

Re: Chrome notification pop-up location

On 06/03/17 14:42, Toby Corkindale via luv-main wrote: > No one else here using dual-screen setups and KDE? Actually Katherine does, but I don't think she pays any attention to the notifications. :) Sorry, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@

node.js

We've had a request for a beginners talk about programming with node.js. Are there any members who have used node and would be willing to talk about it? Please keep sending in suggestions for talks and other things you would like to do at our meetings! Thanks, Andrew ___

Re: simple web proxy

On 23/03/17 07:15, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > have you tried apt-cacher-ng? > if you don't need much cache, just set the cache limit low. Yes, I use that myself. Works fine. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au http

Beginner's meeting topic

Thanks to David Turk for suggesting node.js as our meeting topic for March. We're still looking for a presenter or a topic for the beginners meeting on Saturday 15 April, so please feel free to suggest something! I was tempted to send out an email on the 1st offering a talk on "upgrading your Linu

April beginners meeting rescheduling proposal

Given that the third Saturday this month is actually Easter Saturday when many members will not be able to attend, the committee is considering rescheduling the beginners meeting for the following Saturday, 22 April. If this is a problem for anyone, please let us know! Once again, please do sugge

Laptop free to good home

I'm trying to cut down on the number of computers in my house. Here's the first one I'm offering free to anyone who wants it: Compaq Evo N410c laptop with docking bay and a D-Link DWL-G630 PC-card WiFi adapter 1.2GHz Pentium III-M, 1GB RAM, 63GB HDD, 1024x768 LCD with ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY c

Re: Reworking filenames

On 05/05/17 20:16, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: > I was very familiar with the old IBM keyboards, the > ones with a wedge connector and that could have a cable with an AT or > PS/2 connector, but I have yet to find an adaptor from AT/PS/2 to USB > that I can rely on. I have seen a USB mouse wi

Re: Installing a non-free deb package into Ubuntu 16.04

On 09/05/17 19:46, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > 17 years of RPM has not equipped me for this. So I would appreciate > hearing where I have gone wrong and how I could get it right. It's possible the default system package manager isn't set to run when you click on a deb package. If all else

Re: Installing a non-free deb package into Ubuntu 16.04

On 09/05/17 21:04, Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: > # apt-get update > # apt-get --install package-name > > where package-name may be elicited by an: > > $ apt-cache search | more None of that wll help in this case, where the original request was to install a downloaded commercial third-

Re: LUV server

On 23/05/17 22:21, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Some time recently an update to Dovecot had caused it to stop working > correctly. I didn't notice as I don't have an IMAP account on the LUV > server. > To prevent that sort of thing happening again I have written a monitoring > script f

Re: loudness of mp4 etc files

On 28/06/17 01:11, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Is there a way of balancing loudness of different mp4 files? While it's > impossible to do this perfectly (there is no general agreement on how to > measure it) it is possible to give a good approximation. There is is a "normalize" tool for

Re: Office suite functionality without an office suite?

On 02/07/17 13:21, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > if i was less lazy, or needed to write complex documents more often, I'd make > the effort to learn TeXI can do simple things in it easily enough, but > real mastery of it requires more effort and time than i'm willing to put in. I recomme

Command line tools

More ways to do things with your keyboard! https://github.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets/blob/master/README.md Via Sam McLeod at Infoxchange. Share and enjoy, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.a

Re: Perl related query

On 22/07/17 22:04, Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: > I am still interested in some feedback about the modules on cpan and > how to search and look up what is there. I shall dig around, but some > pointers will help me get started. See http://www.cpan.org/modules/index.html "How to find modules"

Re: cat 5 patch panel

On 21/08/17 10:14, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: > hard rubbish season here - in my cull, I noticed I still had an old 24 > port cat 5 19" 1RU patch panel - anyone want it? > > It probably works Is it in good condition? Could you bring it to a LUV meeting? Thanks, Andrew __

Re: server crash

On 03/09/17 12:47, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > The luv server was down this morning because of a KVM error. Also > another KVM VM on the same system crashed. Sorry for sleeping in. > Thanks for dealing with it on a Sunday! Regards, Andrew

Re: server crash

On 03/09/17 21:23, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > It turned out to be BTRFS mis-managing free space, deciding there was > none left, and going into read-only mode. The QEMU/KVM server blocked > on disk IO and paused the virtual machines, which meant that they > couldn't even respond to pings.

Re: Ethernet port setup part2

On 06/09/17 14:52, Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: > Now eth0 is eth0, and wlan0 is wlan0, a la established *nix usage, > free of > any crappy /dev/urandom-inspired Poetterwank, like > enx0c5b8f279a64. (Or whatever it comes up as next week) On the other hand, you now revert to the problem th

Re: Ethernet port setup part2

On 06/09/17 19:20, Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: > OK, I could buy that for a hotplug dongle, but enp5s0 looks awfully > short for a MAC? (Mine came out as enp2s0, before I gave it the flick.) Hope that

Melbourne linux.conf.au in 2020?

Melbourne started what is now the annual linux.conf.au with CALU in 1999, then held it again in 2008. We haven't hosted one since then, though there was Ballarat in 2012 and Geelong in 2016. Megan Cockroft from the Melbourne Convention Bureau has been put in touch with us to check if there is any

Re: Intel CPUs

On 03/01/18 16:11, Arjen Lentz via luv-main wrote: > This raises the interesting question: will distros start to provide > > separate kernel packages for Intel and AMD CPUs. I'd guess they will, > as the performance hit of the KPTI workaround is significant. They won't need to, as the mitigation i

Re: Intel CPUs

On 04/01/18 09:48, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: > from the tail end of the theregister article... > > /*PS:* It appears 64-bit ARM Linux kernels will also get >  a set of KAISER patches, completely > splitting the kernel and user spaces, to block attempt

Re: Intel CPUs

On 04/01/18 11:46, Stewart Smith via luv-main wrote: > Exactly. The only thing you may notice is the associated performance hit. This might help with the performance issues: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Soares.pdf Cheers,         Andrew ___

Re: Intel CPUs

On 04/01/18 12:12, Arjen Lentz via luv-main wrote: > Reportedly up to 30%, which has consequences for online capacity and thus > will incur extra cost to mitigate. Postgres benchmarks with KPTI: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2018010354.qikjmf7dvnjgb...@alap3.anarazel.de Cheers,      

Re: Debian/stretch screen corruption/hangs

On 11/01/18 08:15, Brian May via luv-main wrote: > No problems since upgrading to the Linux kernel in the Debian > backports. > 4.13.0. 4.14.0 seems fine also. Good to know!  Thanks Brian. Cheers,     Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.a

Re: Looking at RAID

On 05/03/18 22:15, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > Can I keep sda as my boot disk and just run sdb and sdc for data storage? Yes, I've been doing that for years. I started with a HDD for the boot drive and 2x 2TB drives for my data, but eventually upgraded to a 1TB SSD for my boot drive and 2x

Re: Looking at RAID

On 05/03/18 22:46, Andrew Greig wrote: > Do I need to rebuild my installation or can I add a software RAID at any > time by downloading the correct packages?  Are there any documents that > are particularly helpful on set up and partitioning? I imagined a single > partition and call it /data. My e

March 2018 Workshop: Comparing window managers

Thanks to an excellent suggestion at yesterday's very successful March main meeting, this month's workshop on Saturday week (17 March) will be a comparison of Linux window managers. We're still looking for more people who can talk about the window manager they are using, what they like and dislike

Re: Kde volume control

On 29/03/18 16:34, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > I've done a fresh install of Debian/Testing on a new laptop and the volume > control buttons aren't working. They make no apparent difference to the > volume and no change to the volume settings according to alsamixer. If you can still chang

Re: basic git use

On 15/05/18 12:53, Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: Ah, I had at one stage thought of modernising from CVS to > Subversion, but after decades of using CVS to automatically merge > concurrent edits from multiple sources, I'm disappointed to hear that > Subversion is a regression in capabili

Re: basic git use

On 16/05/18 13:09, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Well I can't create a repository, check files in, and then pull and push to > it from other systems. You certainly can. > I need to create an empty repository, push to it from somewhere, and then I > can pull and push from anywhere. That's

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

On 20/05/18 00:04, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > What should I do about partitioning? Should I use hard partitions say, > 20Gb for the /root, should I use a /boot partition or just use the MBR? You don't really need a separate /boot partition any more unless you have an older BIOS that can on

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

On 20/05/18 10:05, Andrew Greig wrote: > Drives are in and Ubuntu 18.04 is installing, I am offered an LVM option > will that mess with RAID? No. Typically you would use both, LVM on top of mdadm. (LVM does offer its own mirroring, but it's really just meant for cloning volumes.) > One other th

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

On 20/05/18 10:40, Andrew Greig wrote: > I have a more fundamental issue now, the installer has named my former > sda (in a one hdd system) to sdc. > > My sda should be my 1Tb former OpenSuse , and the two new drives should > be sdb and sdc. > > Is this just a case of correcting where it is plugg

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

On 20/05/18 11:39, Andrew Greig wrote: > Now I am thinking that I should unplug the 2 x 2Tb disks and install the > system on sda1 with a 1Gb /boot and lvm selected. Note that if you do this the drive names can still change when you plug the other two disks back in. That's why you should use UUID

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

On 20/05/18 12:10, Andrew Greig wrote: > Since I am installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I have no mdadm to use in the > install process, Yes, you would have to use the "server" image to have mdadm available at install time. But since you're not installing the base system to the RAID drives, that doesn't

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

On 20/05/18 12:25, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > _Or_ don't change what mass storage devices are plugged in at boot time, > and be prepared to occasionally update /etc/fstab if major kernel > upgrades change the enumeration order. > > (Some us consider the cure of UUIDs to be in a spirited compe

Re: Biting the bullet - RAID

On 20/05/18 12:29, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > _Or_, setting up mdadm for Linux software RAID, but then declining to > also set up LVM volume management, would be a second choice. > > LVM adds significant complexity to a system in the form of an > abstraction layer for addressing covered mass

Re: Removing old printer drivers installed as a deb

On 11/06/18 17:29, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I found sudo apt-get purge packagename.  I know what I installed so here > goes. In recent versions of Debian (and Ubuntu) there is now an "apt" command that acts as a front-end to the entire family of apt commands and provides pretty output (i

Kindness and open-source projects

"An open-source community comes about once there is an outside contribution to a project; one-person projects aren't really a community. Once you have that, one question is what the purpose of that community is. Collaborating on the maintenance of the project is clearly part of it, but that needs t

Fwd: Pass along this special subscription offer to your fellow LUG members.

Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 06:06:16 +1000 From: Linux Journal Subscription Reply-To: s...@linuxjournal.com Special rate for fellow LUG members Subscribe Now   To our Linux User Group Panel,  We'd like to provide a special introduct

Fwd: [Linux-aus] Linux Humble Bundle today

Last chance to get a bundle of Linux books: Forwarded Message Subject:[Linux-aus] Linux Humble Bundle today Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:34:13 +1000 From: Kathy Reid via linux-aus Reply-To: Kathy Reid To: linux-...@lists.linux.org.au https://www.humblebun

Happy 25th birthday Debian!

https://bits.debian.org/2018/08/debian-is-25.html Share and enjoy, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main

Re: Scanning, challenging

On 10/2/19 6:39 pm, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > FFS! If systemd confined itself to just doing init and didn't assimilate or > infect everything else withing reach, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But > this shit really makes me hate it. The Tragedy of systemd https://www.youtube.com/w

Re: Scanning, challenging

On 10/2/19 8:24 pm, Mark Trickett wrote: > For your interest, I have a PDP8A, but not been running for about > three decades. I enjoyed using a PDP-8/A with ASR-33 and KSR-33 teletypes at high school! We also had an LSI-11. Cheers, Andrew ___ l

Re: upgrade

On 22/2/19 12:33 am, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > Tonight I have just upgraded the LUV server to Debian/Testing (we are in the > freeze process for the next release of Debian). In the process of upgrading > the LUV server and other servers I run to Debian/Testing I've fixed many > issues

Re: Request for floppy drives.

On 8/4/19 11:38 am, Keith Salter via luv-main wrote: Some time ago,  Andrew Pam expressed a need for floppy drives for a particular project he was considering. My collection of at least 12  drives, mostly of the " no facia  " version , would be immediately available, should the need remain.

Re: outlook.office365.com "invalid parameter supplied"

On 4/6/19 6:26 pm, Brian May via luv-main wrote: > I then tried (not actually expecting it to work) the following config: > > smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = plain, login > > But it did work. So my guess is postfix is somehow getting confused by > the XOAUTH2 SASL mechanism. No idea why. > > Ok, so

Re: linux books on gumtree

On 18/7/19 8:15 am, Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote: Some older linux books free: https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/mount-dandenong/nonfiction-books/linux-books/1223702170 Note: it's take all or nothing, and pick-up only. Would any of our members be able to travel to Mt. Dandenong and pick th

Re: linux books on gumtree

On 18/7/19 12:55 pm, Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote: I'm happy to donate them to the LUV library ... You would need to let me know where to drop them off and when. Best would be to one of our meetings, either on the third Saturday of the month at Infoxchange in North Richmond right by the r

Re: linux books on gumtree

On 18/7/19 1:33 pm, Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote: No need for the time ... I'll get the announcement of the meeting and come over for that. Thanks Ben, much appreciated!  Generally the meetings start at 7pm, and it's best to arrive slightly earlier as the library doors are closed at 7pm

Fwd: IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC.

Forwarded Message Subject:IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC. Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 11:43:55 +1000 From: Linux Journal Reply-To: s...@linuxjournal.com The Awkward Goodbye Subscribe Now *IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM LINUX JOURNAL, LLC:* *On August 7, 2019

Linux.conf.au 2020

I've just booked my early bird tickets and flights to LCA2020 on the Gold Coast. Flights are cheap right now, get 'em while they last! Accommodation on the other hand is expensive as this year's conference is being held at the Gold Coast Convention Centre and not at a University, so there is no st

Re: Linux.conf.au 2020

On 11/10/19 6:52 pm, Mike O'Connor wrote: > I'd be interested in shared accommodation, I would be looking for > something close to the convention centre. Likewise. > I would probably fly in Saturday/Sunday and leave Saturday. I've booked flights arriving Sunday and leaving late Friday night (10p

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