From russell at coker.com.au Fri Sep 16 20:57:23 2022 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:57:23 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Flounder Hack Day - tomorrow 1PM Melbourne time, 03:00 UTC Message-ID: <3835813.tdWV9SEqCh@xev> https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-september-2022-hack-day/ Tomorrow we are having a hack day event. Nothing serious, just turn up, chat, work on some free software, write some free documentation, etc. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From quozl at laptop.org Wed Sep 21 18:19:35 2022 From: quozl at laptop.org (James Cameron) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:19:35 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] What to buy? Message-ID: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> An old faithful home system died. Power supply. Lab DNS, DHCP, firewall, and a DVB-T recorder. So sad, but hey, 11 years was good. What is a reasonable replacement these days? Requirements; - will run Linux, customer installed, - quiet; on a remote farm there's no traffic noise to mask fans, - two ethernet ports, - a PCI slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x kernel module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver. Thanks! From paulway at mabula.net Wed Sep 21 18:46:41 2022 From: paulway at mabula.net (Paul Wayper) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:46:41 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] What to buy? In-Reply-To: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> References: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> Message-ID: <6d7ed361-b9a2-3486-3d1f-5a3b9dfdf6a2@mabula.net> On 21/9/22 6:19 pm, James Cameron via linux-aus wrote: > An old faithful home system died. Power supply. Lab DNS, DHCP, > firewall, and a DVB-T recorder. So sad, but hey, 11 years was good. > > What is a reasonable replacement these days? A reasonable power supply?? You can find good, quiet ATX power supplies relatively easily... > Requirements; > > - will run Linux, customer installed, > > - quiet; on a remote farm there's no traffic noise to mask fans, > > - two ethernet ports, > > - a PCI slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x > kernel module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver. I went with a USB twin-channel DVB-T receiver (a Hauppauge Nova-T) for my MythTV machine ages ago and that works very well. Loads with existing kernel drivers. HTH, Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob.hepple at gmail.com Wed Sep 21 18:59:41 2022 From: bob.hepple at gmail.com (Bob Hepple) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:59:41 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] What to buy? In-Reply-To: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> References: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> Message-ID: > replacement four-channel receiver I use a reconditioned Silicon Dust HD HomeRun HDHR5-4DT tuner - it's external to the MythTV server, sitting on the ethernet and available to every device in the house. Works just fine. US$174 from https://silicondust.com or https://shop.silicondust.com/shop/?_ga=2.173968547.1060963532.1663750576-968786414.1663750576 As for the server itself, I generally buy a reconditioned desktop from https://www.australiancomputertraders.com.au/ - the Dells and HPs are pretty quiet. I usually get 3+ years life out of them for less than A$200 Good luck! On Wed, 21 Sept 2022 at 18:20, James Cameron via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > An old faithful home system died. Power supply. Lab DNS, DHCP, > firewall, and a DVB-T recorder. So sad, but hey, 11 years was good. > > What is a reasonable replacement these days? Requirements; > > - will run Linux, customer installed, > > - quiet; on a remote farm there's no traffic noise to mask fans, > > - two ethernet ports, > > - a PCI slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x > kernel module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From russell at coker.com.au Thu Sep 22 15:40:10 2022 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:40:10 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] What to buy? In-Reply-To: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> References: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> Message-ID: <3768789.3VsfAaAtOV@xev> On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:19:35 AEST James Cameron via linux-aus wrote: > An old faithful home system died. Power supply. Lab DNS, DHCP, > firewall, and a DVB-T recorder. So sad, but hey, 11 years was good. > > What is a reasonable replacement these days? Requirements; > > - will run Linux, customer installed, Problemmatic hardware with Linux is generally only new video cards, cheap USB devices, and generally other new/cheap things. Any modern AMD64 system will run Linux and if it has PCI slots will take the existing hardware. > - quiet; on a remote farm there's no traffic noise to mask fans, Does the previous system have hard drives or SSDs? If you replace a system with hard drives with a system that has SSDs then making it suitably quiet shouldn't be difficult. > - two ethernet ports, Everything has one Ethernet port on the motherboard and PCI and PCIe Ethernet devices are cheap. > - a PCI slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x > kernel module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver. I suggest not replacing that card, that would just add more work for yourself. Get an older system with both PCI and PCIe slots and it will be fine. A system that has PCI slots will probably be about 11 years old, so you will probably have about the same speed of system as you previously had if the previous was bought new. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From stephen.hocking at gmail.com Thu Sep 22 17:13:10 2022 From: stephen.hocking at gmail.com (Stephen Hocking) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:13:10 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] What to buy? In-Reply-To: <3768789.3VsfAaAtOV@xev> References: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> <3768789.3VsfAaAtOV@xev> Message-ID: If you'd like something with a NUC form factor, and are willing to think of a networked TV tuner, this tv tuner will record up to 4 streams at once. https://shop.silicondust.com/shop/product/hdhomerun-connect-quatro-hdhr5-4dt-au/ On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 15:40, Russell Coker via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:19:35 AEST James Cameron via linux-aus > wrote: > > An old faithful home system died. Power supply. Lab DNS, DHCP, > > firewall, and a DVB-T recorder. So sad, but hey, 11 years was good. > > > > What is a reasonable replacement these days? Requirements; > > > > - will run Linux, customer installed, > > Problemmatic hardware with Linux is generally only new video cards, cheap > USB > devices, and generally other new/cheap things. Any modern AMD64 system > will > run Linux and if it has PCI slots will take the existing hardware. > > > - quiet; on a remote farm there's no traffic noise to mask fans, > > Does the previous system have hard drives or SSDs? If you replace a > system > with hard drives with a system that has SSDs then making it suitably quiet > shouldn't be difficult. > > > - two ethernet ports, > > Everything has one Ethernet port on the motherboard and PCI and PCIe > Ethernet > devices are cheap. > > > - a PCI slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x > > kernel module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver. > > I suggest not replacing that card, that would just add more work for > yourself. > Get an older system with both PCI and PCIe slots and it will be fine. > > A system that has PCI slots will probably be about 11 years old, so you > will > probably have about the same speed of system as you previously had if the > previous was bought new. > > -- > My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ > My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au > -- "I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return" W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From russell-linuxaus at stuart.id.au Thu Sep 22 22:20:37 2022 From: russell-linuxaus at stuart.id.au (Russell Stuart) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:20:37 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] What to buy? In-Reply-To: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> References: <20220921081935.GA1267067@laptop.org> Message-ID: On 21/9/22 18:19, James Cameron via linux-aus wrote: > What is a reasonable replacement these days? Requirements; > > - will run Linux, customer installed, - quiet; on a remote farm > there's no traffic noise to mask fans, - two ethernet ports, - a PCI > slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x kernel > module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver. I've used Compulab boxes before. The boxes I've used are EOL now (but still working). The brand new fitlet3 fits your requirements if you use external DVT-T receiver: https://fit-pc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fitlet3 It's a (very small) industrial PC - 5 year warranty, so will probably last you another 10 years. Comes with 2 RJ45's, 2 x USB3, 4 x USB2. No PCI, but you can add WiFi, RS232, RS485, more RJ45's, internal SSD's. It's fanless. Can come pre-loaded with Ubuntu. The Atom x6425E has a higher PassMark than the CPU I use with Plex now, and it does transcoding. It will draw less than 25W peak, and probably around 5W idle. You will have to import it from: https://fit-iot.com/web/product/fitlet3-build-to-order/ You configure it on that page. Be sure to read the doco closely before configuring it, and be sure to allow plenty of airflow around it. Pricing is comparable to a NUC. Do the figures on the cost of powering it. Something that draws 100W will costs you around $200/yr for electricity. This will likely cost 1/10 of that. From russell at coker.com.au Wed Sep 28 02:46:29 2022 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 02:46:29 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Flounder Oct meeting - DKIM etc Message-ID: <5833925.72vocr9iq0@xev> 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 Postfix and BIND and will cover setting up and testing DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. Meeting officially opens at 1PM Melbourne time (03:00UTC). New Zealand has started daylight savings, but I don't think we need to change the time for the meeting, it will still end by about 7PM NZ time which is not particularly late. Daylight savings in Australia starts just after this meeting, so unless anyone has good reasons to do otherwise the November meeting will start an hour earlier in UTC. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From russell at coker.com.au Wed Sep 28 02:50:13 2022 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 02:50:13 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Flounder Oct meeting - DKIM etc In-Reply-To: <5833925.72vocr9iq0@xev> References: <5833925.72vocr9iq0@xev> Message-ID: <5627686.PIDvDuAF1L@xev> The meeting is on the 1st of October, this Saturday. Sorry for the short notice and sorry for missing it in the first email. On Wednesday, 28 September 2022 02:46:29 AEST Russell Coker wrote: > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-oct-2022-dkim/ > > Above is the URL for the October Flounder 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 Postfix and BIND and will > cover setting up and testing DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. > > Meeting officially opens at 1PM Melbourne time (03:00UTC). > > New Zealand has started daylight savings, but I don't think we need to > change the time for the meeting, it will still end by about 7PM NZ time > which is not particularly late. > > Daylight savings in Australia starts just after this meeting, so unless > anyone has good reasons to do otherwise the November meeting will start an > hour earlier in UTC. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From contact at everythingopen.au Thu Sep 29 21:07:34 2022 From: contact at everythingopen.au (contact at everythingopen.au) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:07:34 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Announcing Everything Open - Conference 2023 Message-ID: Australasia's grassroots Free and Open Source technologies conference, Everything Open, will be held in Melbourne, Australia from March 14-16 2023. Linux Australia is proud to announce Everything Open, a new conference that will be running in March 2023. This three day conference will have presentations on a range of open technologies topics from community members and project leaders. There will be a key focus on Linux, open source software and open hardware, as well as the communities that surround them. Following two years of online conferences, we know there is an appetite from many people in our communities to come together in person again. Everything Open will run in Naarm (Melbourne) across three days, 14-16 March, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. We realise that some people will need to access the conference from other locations, and we are working hard to maximise access for all. Everything Open is a grassroots conference with a focus on open technologies, the community that has built up around this movement and the values that it represents. The presentations will cover a broad range of subject areas including Linux, open source software, open hardware, open data, open government, and open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), to name a few. As we have come to expect, there will be technical deep-dives into specific topics from project contributors, as well as tutorials on building hardware or using a piece of software, not to mention talks covering the inner workings of our communities. ## Call for Sessions Our Call for Sessions will open in a couple of weeks. We encourage you to start thinking about talks to present at the conference, ready to submit a proposal once the dashboard opens. ## Sponsorship opportunities We have a wide range of sponsorship opportunities available. In addition to sponsoring the conference overall, there are a number of opportunities to contribute towards specific parts of the event. If you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring Everything Open, please get in touch via sponsorship at everythingopen.au ## Stay in the know Subscribe to our announcement mailing list and follow our social channels to be the first to know about ticket sales, speaker lineups and conference highlights. * Mailing list - https://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/eo-announce * Twitter - https://twitter.com/_everythingopen * LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/everythingopen/ * Conference website - https://2023.everythingopen.au/ ---- Read this online at https://2023.everythingopen.au/news/announcing-everything-open/ From simon at darkmere.gen.nz Fri Sep 30 09:50:30 2022 From: simon at darkmere.gen.nz (Simon Lyall) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:50:30 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: [Linux-aus] RIP LCA (or should I say "Vale LCA"?) and thanks. Message-ID: <74a204a-531e-d42b-173c-973c4182724a@darkmere.gen.nz> So it looks like the new Everything Open conference is a replacement for LCA and the old conference will be no more. I want to thank everybody who has attended, organised and helped run Linux.conf.au conferences over the last 20 years. It was a great conference and I learnt a lot, meet some great people and had some good times. Hope to see many of you in the future, possibly at the new conference. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar From steven.ellis at gmail.com Fri Sep 30 11:20:33 2022 From: steven.ellis at gmail.com (Steven Ellis) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:20:33 +1300 Subject: [Linux-aus] RIP LCA (or should I say "Vale LCA"?) and thanks. In-Reply-To: <74a204a-531e-d42b-173c-973c4182724a@darkmere.gen.nz> References: <74a204a-531e-d42b-173c-973c4182724a@darkmere.gen.nz> Message-ID: Personally I'm hoping this becomes an addition rather than a replacement. LCA has such a strong level of brand recognition, and it would be a shame to lose that. On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:51 PM Simon Lyall via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > > So it looks like the new Everything Open conference is a replacement for > LCA and the old conference will be no more. > > I want to thank everybody who has attended, organised and helped run > Linux.conf.au conferences over the last 20 years. It was a great > conference and I learnt a lot, meet some great people and had some good > times. > > Hope to see many of you in the future, possibly at the new conference. > > -- > Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ > "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjh at svana.org Fri Sep 30 12:20:06 2022 From: sjh at svana.org (Steven Hanley) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:20:06 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] RIP LCA (or should I say "Vale LCA"?) and thanks. In-Reply-To: References: <74a204a-531e-d42b-173c-973c4182724a@darkmere.gen.nz> Message-ID: <20220930022005.GN26829@svana.org> Indeed, maybe the lack of linux.conf.au will inspire a group of motivated people to get together and make it happen again. Linux Australia is a conference incubator and can priovide the experience/guidance and funding to make it happen if a group of people somewhere put together a bid to make it happen. Who knows with Australia and New Zealand opening up again if some collective of Linux enthuusiasts who love the conference miss it enough it may be back in 2024, just need a motivated group of enthusiasts to put in the work. Steve ... not volunteering to make it happen again at the moment On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:20:33PM +1300, Steven Ellis via linux-aus wrote: > Personally I'm hoping this becomes an addition rather than a replacement. > > LCA has such a strong level of brand recognition, and it would be a shame > to lose that. > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:51 PM Simon Lyall via linux-aus < > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > > > > > So it looks like the new Everything Open conference is a replacement for > > LCA and the old conference will be no more. > > > > I want to thank everybody who has attended, organised and helped run > > Linux.conf.au conferences over the last 20 years. It was a great > > conference and I learnt a lot, meet some great people and had some good > > times. > > > > Hope to see many of you in the future, possibly at the new conference. > > > > -- > > Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ > > "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-aus mailing list > > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > > linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au -- Steven Hanley sjh at svana.org http://svana.org/sjh/diary i dress my face in stone, because i can't go back She Says - Not So Soft - Ani From mike.carden at gmail.com Fri Sep 30 17:50:23 2022 From: mike.carden at gmail.com (Mike Carden) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:50:23 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] RIP LCA (or should I say "Vale LCA"?) and thanks. In-Reply-To: References: <74a204a-531e-d42b-173c-973c4182724a@darkmere.gen.nz> Message-ID: On Fri, 30 Sept 2022 at 11:21, Steven Ellis via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > Personally I'm hoping this becomes an addition rather than a replacement. > > LCA has such a strong level of brand recognition, and it would be a shame > to lose that. > It has been a decade or so since I was a member of the Linux Australia Council, but way back then we had a robust debate about the fact that our community was no longer just about Linux. Much discussion about how to frame the organisation and its support of conferences spawned huge argume... er.. discussions. I am no longer privy to the inner workings of Linux Australia, but if you follow the published link to the nascent conference web site, I think you will see that the EO conf supplants LCA. -- MC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: