From tom.karpiniec at outlook.com Fri Sep 13 06:45:48 2024 From: tom.karpiniec at outlook.com (Thomas Karpiniec) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:45:48 +1000 Subject: [TasLUG] Peter Billam Message-ID: Dear TasLUG, I must share the sad news that Peter Billam has passed away. He had been fighting ill health at Royal Hobart Hospital for the last two months when on Wednesday his condition deteriorated suddenly. He died peacefully in the company of a friend on Thursday afternoon. The TasLUG community was dear to Peter. Although it was difficult for him to access Matrix from the hospital bed he frequently asked for news, wanting to know what everyone was doing and talking about. Members may recall his presentations back when we were meeting in person, and he leaves behind one of the finest examples of a hand-made personal website[1], which he loved working on. I will not attempt to summarise his many and varied projects - I invite you to have a browse. Kind regards, Tom [1] http://peterbillam.fastmail.com.user.fm/ From josh at hesketh.net.au Thu Sep 19 12:34:55 2024 From: josh at hesketh.net.au (Joshua Hesketh) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:34:55 +1000 Subject: [TasLUG] Everything Open 2025 CFP closes this weekend Message-ID: <0a4adbae-22c4-48a2-a309-359294eba80a@hesketh.net.au> >From the LA mailing list: --- Submit your session proposals today - the Everything Open 2025 Call for Sessions is now open Everything Open is coming to Tarntanya (Adelaide) at the Adelaide Convention Centre from Mon 20 - Wed 22 January 2025. We are putting everything in place to welcome everyone to the conference. We are ready to open up our Call for Sessions and we would love for you to speak at our conference! ## Call for Sessions We invite you to submit a session proposal on a topic you are familiar with via our proposals portal at https://2025.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/. The Call for Sessions will remain open until 11:59pm on 22nd September 2024 anywhere on earth (AoE). There will be multiple streams catering for a wide range of interest areas across the many facets of open methodology and technology, including Linux, open source software, open hardware, standards, data, GLAM, formats and documentation, and our communities. In keeping with the conference?s aim to be inclusive to all community members, presentations can be aimed at any level, ranging from technical deep-dives through to beginner and intermediate level presentations for those who are newer to the subject. There will be two types of sessions at Everything Open: talks and tutorials. Talks will be 45 minutes long on a single topic presented in lecture format. Tutorials are interactive and hands-on in nature, presented in classroom format. Each accepted session will receive one Professional level ticket to attend the conference. 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URL: From craige at mcwhirter.com.au Thu Sep 19 18:31:31 2024 From: craige at mcwhirter.com.au (Craige McWhirter) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:31:31 +1000 Subject: [TasLUG] Peter Billam In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you for sharing this sad news TK, PJB will be sorely missed. On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 06:45:48 +1000, Thomas Karpiniec wrote: > Dear TasLUG, > > I must share the sad news that Peter Billam has passed away. He had been > fighting ill health at Royal Hobart Hospital for the last two months when on > Wednesday his condition deteriorated suddenly. He died peacefully in the > company of a friend on Thursday afternoon. > > The TasLUG community was dear to Peter. Although it was difficult for him to > access Matrix from the hospital bed he frequently asked for news, wanting to > know what everyone was doing and talking about. Members may recall his > presentations back when we were meeting in person, and he leaves behind one > of the finest examples of a hand-made personal website[1], which he loved > working on. I will not attempt to summarise his many and varied projects - I > invite you to have a browse. > > Kind regards, Tom -- Craige McWhirter Signal: +61 4685 91819 Matrix: @craige:mcwhirter.io Mastodon: @craige at mcwhirter.io -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: From christinaread at iinet.net.au Thu Sep 26 20:17:16 2024 From: christinaread at iinet.net.au (user) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:17:16 +1000 Subject: [TasLUG] Ubuntu 2024 upgrade Message-ID: Help!!! I?ve just downloaded and installed the latestUbuntu upgrade, and when I did as instructed and restarted my computer I was presented with a command line interface prompt for user (which I remembered) and password (also remembered that one). So now having installed the upgrade I?m back to a 1980?s style command line operating system, and I seem to have lost my beautiful 2020?s desktop. Does anybody have any ideas abput what to do now? Fortunately I also have a Apple laptop which is working fine, and has connected up to all my mail accounts. This has to be the worst upgrade I?ve ever experienced, and I started in IT in 1978! Tina 0419 131303 18 Pattison Court Romaine 7320