Re: Thunderbird export and import 11.3GB is a problem

On Saturday, 2 August 2025 12:15:38 AEST Mike O'Connor via luv-main wrote: > This is the way of handling large email stores, run it on a mail server > and access via IMAP. For large mail stores you don't necessarily want to run it on a real server (IE a VM or server hosted in a DC) because you ty

Re: Thunderbird export and import 11.3GB is a problem

On Friday, 1 August 2025 23:47:04 AEST Nic Baxter via luv-main wrote: > Archive your emails to a local folder One advantage of Linux is that there are no restrictions on running server software on a workstation. For archiving old mail I have Dovecot running locally and just move mail from my re

Matrix breakage

When I initially upgraded the Matrix server I forgot to copy the PostgreSQL configuration. So the server created a sqlite database and then things got weird. If you weren't connected to a luv.asn.au account at that time then everything will be fine. If you were using a room hosted there like

server upgrade

I've upgraded the web server to Debian/Trixie, it all seems to be working well, this email is the final test. https://wiki.luv.asn.au/ The wiki hasn't been updated since 2015. Is anyone interested in editing it? The presid...@luv.asn.au email hasn't been checked since May, is anyone willing t

Re: How to access the Archives for Jan-Mar 2020

On Friday, 27 June 2025 09:05:30 AEST Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I have replaced the SSD in my system, but I don't have an easy > connection to my Pair of RAID disks. I was last resolving this issue in > early 2020, and I would like to access the email archives for that time. > Could someon

Re: Dovecot IMAP and SMTP submission authentication in 2025?

On Friday, 18 April 2025 05:18:06 AEST Jason J.G. White via luv-main wrote: > On 31/3/25 18:15, Jason J.G. White via luv-main wrote: > > What is the current recommended practice for IMAP and SMTP submission > > authentication? > > Generating random passwords presumably helps to increase security.

Flounder meeting April 19th

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-apr-2025-hack-day/ A day of hacking on various things using the new (to us) HP z840 server with 44 cores and 256G of RAM. Some ML stuff will be involved, probably other interesting things too. Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to reg

Re: Issues with Canon Pixma Pro-10S

On Saturday, 22 February 2025 22:23:43 AEDT Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > and ended up with >flashing as if still working > How long would the process take to discover and isolate bad blocks on a > 2Tb drive? If a drive has 2TB of capacity then it has remapping of bad blocks built in. If s

FOSS Linux (NOT Android, mostly Debian) phone development

Anyone in Melbourne interested in getting involved in FOSS phone development? I've just bought a couple of OnePlus 6 phones that might not ever do what I hoped to do with them (which involves VoLTE calls) but which work really well as small tablet computers and test beds for phone development.

Flounder meeting Jan 4th - exploring web browsers

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-jan-2025-browser-exploration/ A day of exploring options for FOSS browsers to find ones that are good for various purposes. There's ongoing issues of browser compatibility, features, and privacy. We will explore some of the options and find good so

Re: Voice over LTE

On Friday, 4 October 2024 14:51:37 AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > I'm not trusting any SMS of 3 to 3498 as I don't think the returned results > are going to be useful or even accurate because as it seems from other > experiences here, it is using a lookup that has faulty or missing dat

Re: Voice over LTE

On Friday, 4 October 2024 10:41:34 AEST Les Kitchen via luv-main wrote: > [If people think this thread is not enough Linux-specific, maybe > we can move it to luv-talk. For now, I'm going with the flow, > because I think it's an issue of importance to Linux (and FOSS) > users generally.] All the

Re: Voice over LTE

On Thursday, 3 October 2024 09:09:20 AEST Duncan Roe via luv-main wrote: > ** You can text 3 to 3498 on either Telstra or Optus networks for a text > response as to whether you'll be OK The text response will tell you if it records VoLTE as working a couple of weeks ago (change phones and it will

Re: Voice over LTE

On Monday, 30 September 2024 13:10:04 AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote: > My vague understanding is that hang up calls to 000 in Australia do not > require followup. I couldn't guarantee the accuracy though. I have heard > that we tend to get a lot of false calls to 000 from things like > misconfi

Re: Voice over LTE

On Sunday, 29 September 2024 18:24:33 AEST Nic Baxter via luv-main wrote: > I suspect this is a beat up. I have a 5 year old Samsung 4G phone bought > internationally. I use Aldimobile on the Telstra network and turned on > voice over LTE and it passes the Aldi tests. Have you tried calling 000?

Re: Completed post (was Re: suspend/resume buffer IO/Error on root filesystem)

On Saturday, 21 September 2024 16:41:22 AEST Brian May wrote: > > https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004982734351.html > > > > Looks like the ports are on the motherboard so with only a single USB-C > > port your only option for getting it going is to use the proprietary dock > > that apparently

Re: Completed post (was Re: suspend/resume buffer IO/Error on root filesystem)

On Thursday, 19 September 2024 19:51:21 AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote: > I have a T480s and unfortunately, one of the USB-C ports become > damaged. It looks like one of the internal pins has become dislodged or > something, and preventing the plug going in. > > I did try to get Lenovo to fix t

Re: Completed post (was Re: suspend/resume buffer IO/Error on root filesystem)

On Wednesday, 18 September 2024 17:05:24 AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote: > * Maybe something weird about the power adaptor I was using. This > adaptor eems to be fine now though, even through entire suspend/resume > cycle while battery is charging. That model of Thinkpad has a USB-C charger

Re: Completed post (was Re: suspend/resume buffer IO/Error on root filesystem)

On Tuesday, 17 September 2024 22:01:48 AEST Les Kitchen via luv-main wrote: > pack without the battery in place. The Pine64 Pinebook Pro is > one such. To run it without the battery in place, you have to > connect up a special by-pass cable. Most laptops will run fine Pine64 seems to have a his

Flounder

Are you interested in attending any of the Flounder meetings? Are there any topics that would interest you? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Bloghttp://doc.coker.com.au/ ___ luv-main mailing list -- luv-main@luv.as

Re: suspend/resume buffer IO/Error on root filesystem

On Sunday, 15 September 2024 09:11:56 AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote: > nvme nvme0: Device not ready: aborting the reset, CSTS=0x9 > nvme nvme0: Disabling device after reset failure: -19 If it gives these sorts of error on the same software configuration that previously worked then it might be

cheap Debian phones

I'm looking into the possibility of getting some cheap phones that can run Debian for the purpose of development. The aim is to pay less than $20 per phone, hopefully less than $15. They almost certainly won't support VoLTE so probably won't be useful for regular phone tasks. But for taking not

Flounder 7th Sep 2024 Debian Hack Day

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-sep-2024-debian-hack-day/ September Debian hack day. Hacking on Debian packages, documentation, blog posts, etc. Suitable for beginners, no coding experience needed (lots of Debian development involves documentation and bug reporting). Meeting will

Re: Removing GoogleChrome to install new version

Regarding the dmesg output. On Tuesday, 3 September 2024 19:49:12 AEST Andrew Greig wrote: > [2.671616] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in > /build/linux-3d8Wab/linux-5.15.0/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c:5281:31 > [2.671623] shift exponent -1 is negative Are you using SCSI disks on an A

Re: Removing GoogleChrome to install new version

People aren't going to complain about excess. But if you want to minimise list traffic send it to me off-list and I'll send my analysis to the list. My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Bloghttp://doc.coker.com.au/ ___

Re: Removing GoogleChrome to install new version

On Tuesday, 3 September 2024 13:36:32 AEST Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I searched for a way to uninstall Google Chrome as an update is needed. > I came across this: > > alg@xxx :~$ sudo dpkg -r google-chrome-stable > [sudo] password for alg: To update it you would normally run: sudo

Flounder meeting 13th July

https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-jul-2024-random-hack/ July Random hack day. People will be working in a variety of FOSS projects including crash debugging, Linux security, VMs, RISC-V, and probably some phone stuff. Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to register jus

Re: DNS and president email

On Sunday, 7 July 2024 01:26:26 AEST Lucas Symons wrote: > I'm happy to go through it and filter the spam and flag stuff for action. > But I have little knowledge on how to actually answer the legit emails. When I was doing this most of the non-spam messages were requests for help with Linux prob

DNS and president email

The luv.asn.au domain wasn't paid for and expired in the morning of the 2nd of July, it came back on the afternoon of the 5th of July. There would have been email sent to the LUV president email address about this, if someone had read that then this problem would not have happened. Is there any

Re: Deleting email accounts from Thunderbird in Ubuntu

On Sunday, 30 June 2024 14:41:42 AEST Andrew Greig wrote: > The reason is that I was switching my 8 email accounts to Melbourne IT. My > previous provider had changed things which left me without email for weeks. > The new email settings needed a clean slate. Up and running now. Learning > curve w

LUV lists

This morning at about 9AM I ran a routine upgrade to the latest Debian bookworm packages on the LUV VM. As usual I followed the defaults for the Mailman settings, but that resulted in changes making all list mail rejected. I noticed this about 20 minutes ago and restored the config files from b

Re: Deleting email accounts from Thunderbird in Ubuntu

On Saturday, 29 June 2024 19:41:38 AEST Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > I have decided to bring all of my services into Melbourne IT. I have > created the accounts I want to use, but I have been advised to delete > the existing domain dependent emails, rather than just changing server > names an

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 c

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 ow

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 an

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 has

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 3

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 r

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 the

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 LicheePi

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 software

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 YouSpinMeRou

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 "resolve

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 > the

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 diff

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 Mailman

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 what

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 work

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 fir

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 htt

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 > oth

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 o

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 photos

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 (wit

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 mess

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 s

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. That

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 RAID

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 Flo

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 Po

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 end)

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 Bloghttp://doc

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 f

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 installa

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 im

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 meeti

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 ar

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 means

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 the

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, for

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 org

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 some

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 b

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 avoi

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 A

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 som

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 &g

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 study

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 s

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 based

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 behaviou

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 o

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 Linux

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 wh

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 above)

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