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ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards
by Peter Reutemann 12 Oct '14

12 Oct '14

"Chrome OS is based on the Linux kernel and designed by Google to work with web applications and installed applications. Chromebook is one of the best selling laptops on Amazon. However, devs decided to drop support for ext2/3/4 on external drivers and SD card. It seems that ChromiumOS developers can't implement a script or feature to relabel EXT volumes in the left nav that is insertable and has RW privileges using Files.app. Given that this is the main filesystem in Linux, and is thereby automatically well supported by anything that leverages Linux, this choice makes absolutely no sense. Google may want to drop support for external storage and push the cloud storage on everyone. Overall Linux users and community members are not happy at all." -- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/10/12/1321207 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Fwd: [NZOSS-Openchat] [Crosspost] LCA2015 Earlybird registrations are now open!
by Peter Reutemann 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Foster Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:57 PM Subject: [NZOSS-Openchat] [Crosspost] LCA2015 Earlybird registrations are now open! (With apologies for the crosspost - but this is big news! :-)) PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LCA2015 Earlybird registrations are now open! The moment that you have been waiting for has finally arrived! It is with many hugs of sincere gratitude to the team that we can announce that Earlybird Registration for LCA2015 is now open. Now is the time to chose - are you a Professional, a Hobbyist or a Student attending LCA2015? Will you be one of our fantastic army of volunteers? Go to lca2015.linux.org.au <http://lca2015.org.au> to register and buy your Earlybird ticket. You can also register as a volunteer right now, and begin to get involved with our wonderful conference. All of the information that you need is there - what you receive for your ticket price, accommodation options, THE Penguin Dinner, as well as Partners Program and creche options for those of you who are bringing your family with you. There have been months of anticipation, and several sleepless nights, but we are now at a truly exciting stage of the conference organising process - registration! We look forward to seeing you all in January 2015 in Auckland. The LCA2015 team END -- Mark Foster For the LCA2015 Org Team _______________________________________________ Openchat mailing list Openchat(a)lists.nzoss.org.nz http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/openchat -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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next meeting
by Peter Reutemann 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hi everyone So far, we haven't got anything lined up for our next meeting in October. Anyone feeling like presenting something? For instance Ubuntu 14.10 has its release 23/10 - just before our meeting. Maybe giving the release candidate a spin and share your experience? Or cool Raspberry Pi projects? Thanks! Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Google Deliberately Weakens Open Source Android As It Hopes To Dominate With Android One
by Peter Reutemann 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

"When you are the underdog in the smartphone world, you look for every advantage possible to get market share. That was the case when Google was looking to establish Android as an alternative to Symbian OS and Windows Mobile. It’s free, here’s the code, knock yourself out, was the implication from Mountain View. Now that market share is clearly with Google (IDC estimates it at 85% for Q2 2014) the question is no longer how to get the OS established as the mass market mobile platform of choice, but about maximizing the revenue generating possibilities for Google. So how does Google deal with the legacy of the first ‘free as in speech’ strategy, namely the Android Open Source Project? Its answer is Android One, and it hopes that the new for 2014 off-the-shelf package will stem the flow of handset manufacturers in China and India rolling their own flavors of Android from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)." -- source: http://onforb.es/1nOiR0k Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Assorted Fun Linux Command Line Hacks
by Peter Reutemann 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

"Today's fun command line festivities are inspired by Command Line Magic (https://twitter.com/climagic), who hangs out on Twitter sharing excellent Linux command line incantations for all occasions. Today's assortment includes shell rainbows, Is the Internet on Fire?, Star Wars Traceroute, and creating annoying sounds from the console." -- source: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/790121 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Other Projects Participating In This Winter's Women Outreach Program
by Peter Reutemann 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

"The other projects participating in this December to March cycle are Debian, Evergreen, FFmpeg, Foreman, GNOME, the Linux kernel, Mesos / Aurora / Pants, the Open-Source Robotics Foundation, OpenStack, OpenStreetMap, oVirt, Perl, Wikimedia, and the Xen Project. The contributions don't need to be necessarily code related but could be those wishing to help with marketing, documentation, or other tasks needed to keep a healthy open-source project. Participating women are paid $5,500 USD for their three months of work. " -- source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMjg Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Shellshock Vulnerability Spreads to NAS Devices
by Peter Reutemann 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

"Shellshock, the vulnerability in the Bourne Again Shell (Bash), is taking a new twist and is now being actively exploited in network-attached storage (NAS) devices, according to a new report from FireEye." - source: http://bit.ly/1pJCII3 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Hacking USB Firmware
by Peter Reutemann 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

'Now the NSA isn't the only one who can hack your USB firmware: "In a talk at the Derbycon hacker conference in Louisville, Kentucky last week, researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson showed that they've reverse engineered the same USB firmware as Nohl's SR Labs, reproducing some of Nohl's BadUSB tricks. And unlike Nohl, the hacker pair has also published the code for those attacks on Github, raising the stakes for USB makers to either fix the problem or leave hundreds of millions of users vulnerable." Personally, I always thought it was insane that USB drives don't come with physical write-protect switches to keep them from being infected by malware.' -- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/10/02/2154204 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Arducorder, Next Open Source Science Tricorder-like Device, Nears Completion
by Peter Reutemann 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

"The Arducorder Mini, an Arduino-compatible pocket-sized handheld sensing tool and the next in line of open source science tricorder-like devices designed by Dr. Peter Jansen, is nearing completion. Where the previous models have included about a dozen sensors spanning atmospheric, electromagnetic, and spatial readings, an exciting video of the new prototype shows this model includes sensors for spectroscopy, low-resolution thermal imaging, and radiation sensing. The development is open with the project build logs and most recent source schematics, board layouts, and firmware available on github. This project is an entry in the Hack a Day Prize for a trip to space." -- source: http://build.slashdot.org/story/14/09/30/2227221 Packs an amazing amount of sensors in such a small form factor! Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Security bug in Xen may have exposed Amazon, other cloud services
by Peter Reutemann 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

"The Xen Project has published a security advisory that could affect millions of virtualized servers running in Amazon’s cloud and other public hosting services. A flaw in the Xen hypervisor could allow a malicious fully virtualized server to read data about other virtualized systems running on the same physical hardware or the hypervisor hosting the virtual machine. The malicious system could also potentially crash the server hosting the virtual machines. A patch, which was privately disclosed last week under embargo, has been issued to correct the issue." -- source: http://bit.ly/1sNg89a Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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