[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2013: Call For Proposals (closes July 6)

=== linux.conf.au Call For Proposals === We are pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for linux.conf.au 2013 is now open! The conference will showcase the best of open source and community-driven software and hardware. It will be held in Canberra at the Australian National University

[SLUG] Oceania Women of Open Tech launches

Oceania Women of Open Tech (OWOOT) is a new group for women in open technology in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It has recently formed from the local chapters of LinuxChix, but with a wider scope focussing on open technology generally. OWOOT welcomes all women interested in open

[SLUG] Re: linux.conf.au 2012: proposals due this Friday

According to Twitter, the deadline is extended to Sunday August 7. https://twitter.com/#!/linuxconfau/status/97120557824348160 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2012: proposals due this Friday

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[SLUG] linux.conf.au now accepting Papers and Presentation submissions for LCA2012

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[SLUG] 'Bridging the Gap' think tank: NGOs, government groups and the open source volunteer community

Saw this on Twitter, and thought that there might be some open source volunteers among the SLUG membership interested: 'Bridging the Gap' think tank Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM (GMT+1000) The aim of this event is to 'bridge the gap' between NGOs, government groups and the open

[SLUG] PyCon Australia (Sydney, 26–27 June) Call For Proposals

- Forwarded message from Richard Jones richardjo...@optushome.com.au - Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that on the 26th and 27th of June we are running PyCon Australia in Sydney! http://pycon-au.org/ We are looking for proposals for Talks on all aspects of Python programming from

Re: [SLUG] Beating the filter

sites like HULU .. I think it's meant mainly to access open wifi access points safely Mary On 06/04/2010, at 12:54 PM, Jeremy Visser wrote: On 06/04/10 07:25, Alan L Tyree wrote: I personally think it is something that everyone should know. At least according to the Herald article

[SLUG] International LCA speaker in Sydney for dinner Friday night

Hi all, Mark Smith, one of the founders of the dreamwidth.org project, who is giving a talk with co-founder Denise Paolucci at LCA[1], is in Sydney on Friday night and looking to meet up, just in case anyone's interested. He's got details at http://mark.dreamwidth.org/18446.html -Mary [1] http

[SLUG] Sending XOs to Wellington

they asked so nicely. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Internet Censorship forum in Sydney tomorrow night (8th Sept)

Saw this on the Electronic Frontiers Australia blog and thought a few people here might be interested: EFA Board Member Geordie Guy will be taking part in a forum on Internet Censorship entitled “Cyberhate? Censorship on the Internet” at NSW Parliament House tomorrow,

[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2010: extension of CFP deadline to 31 July

Hi everyone: The linux.conf.au deadline is now on the 31 July at 0500 UTC (1700 New Zealand time). Other times around the world can be found at http://tinyurl.com/lca10cfp --- Announcement from http://www.lca2010.org.nz/media/news/65 WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Friday 24 July 2009 – The

[SLUG] Re: White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

show it, finally, when I zoom in enough), rather than that some metadata is being misinterpreted. That would mean the problem is in the Open implementations of ALAC decoders. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

a burst of white noise at the end. So I am out of ideas: does anyone know what the white noise is, why Audacity can't see it and thus let me edit it off but still renders it, or any tools that will allow me to produce FLAC files without a very annoying burst of static at the end? -Mary [1] I have

[SLUG] Re: White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009, Mary Gardiner wrote: 3. Think oh well, I guess I can edit the white noise off with Audacity! Open WAV file in Audacity, discover that the white noise is not there in Audacity (not in the waveform, not present when I use Audacity itself to play it back) Ah

[SLUG] Reminder: linux.conf.au 2010 Call For Papers closing soon!

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[SLUG] NZ PyCon (Python conference) call for proposals now open

Kiwi PyCon 2009 http://nz.pycon.org/ is an independent, community-run, community-controlled and not-for-profit conference dedicated to the Python programming language, Python applications, toolkits and frameworks. It also features social events and a chance to meet fellow Python users. It is

[SLUG] linux.conf.au Call for Papers is now open!

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[SLUG] Reminder: OSDC 2009 (Brisbane, November) Call for Papers (closing Tue 30)

- Forwarded message from Stephen Thorne step...@thorne.id.au - From: Stephen Thorne step...@thorne.id.au Subject: OSDC 2009 Call for Papers G'day, I'm please to announce that the call for papers for OSDC 2009 is officially opened. I would like to invite you to submit a paper and do a

[SLUG] Australian Internet filtering talk at CSIRO (Macquarie campus)

Hi all, I thought this might potentially be of interest to SLUG members. Bjorn Landfeldt, the speaker, was part of the team that conducted the feasibility study into Internet filtering for the Howard government. It will be streamed on the web. - Forwarded message from Andrew Lampert

[SLUG] Web hosting recommendations

: say ballpark AU$40 a year at most. -Mary -- 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: Web hosting recommendations

stability, or stability for my stated price? -Mary -- 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: Web hosting recommendations

On 2009-05-12, Mary Gardiner m...@puzzling.org wrote: For a price: say ballpark AU$40 a year at most. Thinko alert: should be per MONTH. Hopefully that will improve the recommendations, and apologies for the confusion. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] OSDC 2009 (Brisbane, November) Call for Papers

- Forwarded message from Stephen Thorne step...@thorne.id.au - From: Stephen Thorne step...@thorne.id.au Subject: OSDC 2009 Call for Papers G'day, I'm please to announce that the call for papers for OSDC 2009 is officially opened. I would like to invite you to submit a paper and do a

[SLUG] Re: Suppress unable to enumerate USB device messages?

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009, Mary Gardiner wrote: Is it possible to suppress this message? Because of the fsck thing, such supression would ideally happen early in the boot process, ie before I have a prompt. Or at the very least, is it possible to either: - configure syslog to only write

[SLUG] Suppress unable to enumerate USB device messages?

appears on the console several times a second. Is it possible to suppress this message? Because of the fsck thing, such supression would ideally happen early in the boot process, ie before I have a prompt. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Re: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

-older-than) they'll disappear. As a one-off you could run --remove-older-than with a really short time period to get rid of them quickly (b) if you really want those files gone from your backups, empty the drive and backup from scratch again, excluding them this time -Mary

[SLUG] Re: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

don't actually do it very often. -Mary -- 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: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

On 2008-11-29, Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep reading the notes and the talk that its aim isn't so much here is sb Keep in mind when reading the notes... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

Hi all, As promised here are the backup notes from my talk at SLUG on 28 Nov. Materials related to this talk are at http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/Presentations/SLUG2008/ (including a version of these notes). A note about style: this is a set of recommendations purely based on the fact

[SLUG] Re: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

://www.rsnapshot.org/ is the one I've heard of most, http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/related.html under rsync-based scripts has others. For me I've generally found that I pretty much always want the most recent or next-to-most-recent backup, so I haven't needed this feature. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] BarCamp Sydney: Saturday November 15

Hello all barcamper’s The BCS unorganisers are really excited to inform you that BarCampSydney v4 is currently being (un)organised. Quick details: Date: 15 November 2008 Venue: UNSW Roundhouse (http://www.unswroundhouse.com/) Time: 9am - 5pm (8:30 registrations) Register yourself on the

Re: [SLUG] Search engine traffic dominates

engine robots. Of hits on my own website over the five days, the figures are: - Googlebot: 9% of total traffic - MSNBot: 4% of total traffic - Yahoo! Slurp: 19% of total traffic They aren't the only crawlers either. Pretty outrageous. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Search engine traffic dominates

content changes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps It doesn't seem to come with any guarentees that the robots will respect that as a refresh frequency though. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

/October/14/internet-filtering -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2009: programme announced and registrations open

://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/ Registration: http://linux.conf.au/register/prices_ticket_types -Mary -- 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] ssh certificate logins

for each) There is one potential disadvantage of non-standard ports: there are a few networks with a default-deny outgoing connection policy who open port 22, but do not open most ports. (I find 443 the most useful alternative port to run SSH on, outgoing to 443/HTTPS is very often open!) -Mary

Re: [SLUG] Requesting IPv6 address space

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_tunnel_brokers -Mary -- 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] Comp TIA+ / CLP

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008, Ken Wilson wrote: http://www.gonzo.edu.au/moodle/ has information. That website is a full year out of date (it's about the 2007 courses). Anyone know what's up in 2008 and 2009? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Resetting Ubuntu Gnome to default

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: Can anyone point me to the magic button to just get back to the default as it comes out of the box? It should be a question of System - Preferences - Appearances - Theme tab and select Human. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Alternative outgoing mail relays

25, I believe Bigpond blocks 25 outgoing. -Mary -- 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] A newbie/ish question about portage

Hi sister0, You addressed your question to the Sydney Linux User Group's programming list. SLUG is a good place to ask questions about Linux in Australia even if you don't happen to live in Sydney, but you want to send questions about Linux to the main list, slug@slug.org.au, rather than [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Mail server to mail server authentication (postfix)

/postfix/tls/key.pem smtp_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/tls/cert.pem smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/tls/cacert.pem -Mary -- 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] Mail server to mail server authentication (postfix)

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: I use TLS rather than SASL That said, if you want the config for doing this with SASL, I have set this up for some users, and can send it. Also, you don't need to use Postfix on the clients as well (as one would hope!), but since I currently do

Re: [SLUG] Mail server to mail server authentication (postfix)

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes Posting this for the benefit of search engines rather than the benefit of Erik, since I just ran into this making some changes to my own mail server... If you have a server enforcing TLS, Postfix as a client is normally

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

. -Mary -- 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] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

#r8724589 I use pppoeconf (the Ubuntu package) to configure authentication and such from there, and it hasn't gone wrong on ADSL 1 or 2. -Mary -- 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] Choosing a sensible host

with uptime, but most people seem quite happy. http://www.dreamhost.com/ If you'd actually prefer something more server-like, then http://www.linode.com/ has US-based virtual servers for US$20/month. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Web Interface for slug mail?

Finally there are of course the archives: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/ -Mary -- 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] dns test tools ?

be on the www subdomain. -Mary -- 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] Email Domains --- handling of invalid email addresses

(ie not to accept them, go check with the list of valid users, and then generate a bounce and send it out separately). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] linux.conf.au CFP closes tomorrow

You know the drill, or you soon will: Australia's biggest and brightest Free Source technical conference. More information at http://linux.conf.au/programme/presenter_faq and submissions close tomorrow. http://linux.conf.au/media/news/6 Linux.conf.au - Hobart Conference

Re: [SLUG] individual sender email verification on inbound

to match the IP on subsequent requests) but greylisting is doing the heavy delaying in both this and its usual scenario. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

All messages being moderated (Re: [SLUG] inbound email checking)

with message moderation, or SLUG. If you're talking about this list being moderated (and I'm guessing you are, there's not a lot of context in your mail) then: 1. different issue; and 2. not sure what's up with that, maybe the moderators can fill us in? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Non Acceptance

they needed to be approved in the first place, best to contact the list moderators directly (I am not one of them, by the way) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which will get through even if you are moderated on the main list). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] One and a half weeks left for linux.conf.au 2009 CFP

Hi all, I know the originally CFP didn't clearly specify a closing date, the organisers have since provided more CFP information at: http://linux.conf.au/programme/presenter_faq and the closing date is Friday 8th August. One and a half weeks left...

Re: [SLUG] disk partitioning for lamp: tmp on it's own?

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008, Voytek Eymont wrote: how do I make it non executable ? Mount it with the 'noexec' option. It goes in the same column of /etc/fstab as other options like 'auto' and 'noauto'. man mount has the details of various filesystem mount options, under the -o flag section. -Mary

Re: OT climate change and cars ....Re: [SLUG] submissions to National Innovation System Review

/slug-chat There are a couple of discussions on SLUG the last few days that really should (at the very least) move to the chat list. As should any replies to this mail... -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] mutt procmail and mailing lists

the folder list on startup. (Also try and avoid actually copying his From address wholesale, as someone once accidently did by lifting the configs without editing... :) ) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2009 Call for presentations

Feel free to forward, please delete my email info Linux.conf.au - Hobart Conference 2009 Opens Call for Papers Linux.conf.au has announced the opening of the call for papers on Friday 4th July 2008, giving the open source software community the chance to present at one

Re: [SLUG] Recent SPAM on SLUG

from to the automatically discard filter. I'll send details to the list moderators in a sec. (If people have further or future requests of the moderators, best to copy [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well.) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Recent SPAM on SLUG

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: (If people have further or future requests of the moderators, best to copy [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well.) I posted this without seeing Lindsay's mail. What he said goes, so [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the right address. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] {Spam?} Anti spam software?

.) -Mary [1] Automatically trained and dynamic rules, rather than fixed rules. Has the downside that you need to fairly regularly show it current examples of good and bad mail so it can continue to learn to discriminate between them. The Bayesian machine learning techniques are not exactly cutting edge

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 3.0 Download Day

, home automation systems, or any other consumer electronics devices or mobile/cable/satellite/television or closed system based service. You may not sell, rent, lease or sublicense the Software, without the explicit written consent of Opera Software ASA. -Mary [1] Obviously review the full text

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 3.0 Download Day

Software and redistribute, but you're not always granted the right to use the same name for it). An article from the time: http://www.linux.com/feature/57675 Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranding -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] : Increasing filesystem reliability (was : Filesystem which allows online fsck?)

%). The LWN article at http://lwn.net/Articles/283161/ (which is where my knowledge of the subject comes from) does not link to real use-cases where this has corrupted file systems but apparently not having them has been shown to cause corruption fairly regularly in torture tests. -Mary -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] allowing controlled access from dynamic IP

to opening the site to the world but restricting access with HTTP Auth: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth.html SSL may then be a good idea too. -Mary -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] MX problem ?

it generates a bounce. Anyway, there's not a lot you can do about it as neither the spamming server nor the recipient server are under your control, except subject bounce messages to spam filtering. -Mary [1] By default, this is totally acceptable in SMTP, any server can send mail claiming to be from

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

here: if the world was likely to demand that kind of quality assurance from the industry, I suspect it would have already done so in a manner impossible to ignore. I suppose a demonstration that that kind of quality is achievable for a suitable price would change things. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs

... -Mary -- 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] Spider a website

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008, Ycros wrote: It's not always perfect however, as it can sometimes mess the URLs up, but it's worth a try anyway. The -k option to convert any absolute paths to relative ones can be helpful with this (depending on what you meant by mess the URLs up). -Mary -- SLUG

Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

set of best practices for packaging and updating them (upstream tends to aims their instructions at people who might not even have shell access, let alone root access, and there's the whole plugin universe too). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Partitions

that should be in / have been copied to or installed in /home. David, can you provide the output (including any errors) of the following commands? ls /boot ls /home/boot cat /etc/lsb-release cat /home/etc/lsb-release -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Partitions

On Wed, May 28, 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: Or mounted what was intended to be the root partition under /home. His / looked similar though, so they both have an install on them. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Partitions

on it. -Mary -- 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] Problem with an upgrade to Hardy.

On Sat, May 24, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's gone wrong? I'd appreciate any advice. What is the output of xrandr when disconnected from the docking station, and when placed in the docking station? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Further to the deadly authentication.

to update packages that aren't available yet. Ubuntu advises mirrors to sync twice: first the packages and then second the package listing: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/mirror/3 -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Ubuntu drive designations (Re: update to Hardy)

UUID with the vol_id -u [partition] command, eg: $ sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda3 b6c863a3-f68c-4b7f-a7b7-07e19d671903 There is more info at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Women's meetup before SLUG, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri May 30, 5:30pm

in Sydney are organised by Sydney members of AussieChix, the Australian LinuxChix chapter. See http://au.linuxchix.org/ for more about AussieChix. -Mary -- 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] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

would fail when stderr was not available. This caused OpenVPN to fail to start when used with applications such as NetworkManager. So sounds like they're on top of at least some bugs now and you should upgrade: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2008-May/000710.html -Mary

Re: [SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

regular roundups of all distribution security updates too but I've generally updated by the time I see them. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Wiki software

Hi all, I am considering hosting a wiki for some folks, it is currently hosted on PBWiki. If anyone knows PBWiki at all, can you recommend Free wiki software that is closest in syntax and look-and-feel to the PBWiki software? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Deleting a mailman list

) - set all subscriptions to must be confirmed and approved (and then don't approve any) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Open Source Developers Conference (Sydney): Call for papers

*** Please forward to interested groups. Please strip my sending information if you do forward, I am not a contact person for the conference. *** Call for Papers Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 1st - 5th December 2008, Sydney, Australia The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a

[SLUG] SyPy meetup tonight

or two at the Grace Hotel from, say, 6pm? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Postfix, SASL, old-skool

, you will get messages like warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found Finally, make sure that /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd has the relay host and not the fascist.university.server:465 value: [127.0.0.1]:11125 USERNAME:PASSWORD -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

: blocking outgoing SMTP is getting pretty common. I feel bad users who just want to send their mail already and not carry around a SMTP setup cheatsheet for Outlook/Evo/something. -Mary [1] Don Marti also has a fun setup with an automatically created SSH tunnel firing up from inittab[2], I could also try

[SLUG] Re: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

since most of the time they will be bypassing their bootloader. Search paths from /etc/resolv.conf and wireless ESSIDs are the closest I've come to establishing definitive locations, and you put the scripts in your equivalent of the if-up.d directories. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

of at least two universities now who do this for their wireless networks. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

? -Mary -- 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: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

full MTA or not) when I am located at uni, and again when I leave. -Mary -- 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] Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

, so same envelope sender, and I send both personal and university mail from it whether at university or not.) -Mary -- 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: DVD slideshow creation

://en.dahnielson.com/2003/12/dvd-author-primer.html Once I fix all the woeful anti-aliasing in dvd-slideshow, it's probably OK for producing a MPEG file for each chapter, which can then be combined using a custom menu with dvdauthor. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Re: DVD slideshow creation

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Mary, Another app you can try is ManDVD http://www.getdeb.net/app/ManDVD Thanks. It unfortunately depends on dvd-slideshow as most other graphical apps do, and therefore is broken in Ubuntu hardy (and when not broken would produce the ugliest

[SLUG] DVD slideshow creation

of time to debugging it already, and now I'd just like to make a pretty looking DVD to give to some people. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Drupal Asia Pacific to be held in Sydney, May 2008

I only just found out about this and haven't seen any mention here: http://drupalapc.org/ May 18th - 22nd 2008. It seems to be a development and community conference for Drupal, held in conjunction with Open CeBIT. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Results of special motion vote on constitutional changes for SLUG

://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2007/05/index.html#00012 [6]http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2007/05/msg00028.html [7]http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2007/05/msg00023.html [8]http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2007/05/msg00045.html This motion FAILED. -Mary Gardiner

[SLUG] Wireless problems: what does RX too short data frame payload mean?

encrypted) with no apparent problems. -Mary -- 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: Wireless problems: what does RX too short data frame payload mean?

Looks like it might be their problem, right now. I'd still like to find out what causes the RX message, as my disk has to wake up all the time to write it out to the logs. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: Women's pre-SLUG meetup, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Feb 29, 5:30pm

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: Date: Friday 29th February 2007 2008 of course! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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