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crunchbang trayicon: cpu frequency
by Peter Reutemann 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi crunchbangers One thing that I've been missing in crunchbang is an applet/trayicon for changing the cpu speed (why laptop likes to overheat when under load for longer periods of time, like compiling large projects). I came across trayfreq, a little GPLv3 licensed application that fills that gap: https://sourceforge.net/projects/trayfreq/ Just download it, untar it, compile it (see README). On my laptop trayfreq seemed to get automatically started when logging in. If that shouldn't happen, then follow these steps: In order to have trayfreq start with your desktop session, add it to Openbox's autostart: - main menu - Settings - Openbox - Edit autostart - append the following lines ## Run trayfreq /usr/local/bin/trayfreq & 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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Debian 7.1 coughs up first Wheezy fixes
by Peter Reutemann 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

'The Debian project has released Debian 7.1, an update to May's release of the latest stable branch of the Linux distribution, Debian 7 "Wheezy". The update focuses mainly on security fixes, with coverage for 33 Debian Security Advisories and their associated corrections; users who regularly update from security.debian.org will already have received these fixes. There are also various "important corrections" for around 60 packages such as alsa-base, apt, cyrus-imapd, empathy, isc-dhcp, Keystone, LibreOffice, libvirt, openvpn, php5, readline, tzdata and xorg.' -- source: http://h-online.com/-1890684 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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Call for Papers for linux.conf.au 2014
by Paul Del 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hey To whom this may concern. A few of your members attend our annual linux.conf.au Linux & Free Open Source event. We would like to invite you and your members to submit a talk at linux.conf.au Also we would love for your group to attend linux.conf.au in Perth next year. Could you please drop this on your mailing list? Thanking you Paul Del LCA2014 Core Team Dear Linux & Free Open Source community, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers(proposals) for linux.conf.au2014 at UWA Call for proposals closes: 6 July 2013 Do you have something to say about Free Software Passionate about Open Source? Linux on the forefront and frontier? Perhaps something else that you are passionate about in Free & Open Source? Got something to say? We are now asking interested people to submit proposals for talks. This year we are focusing on deep technical content, and the things that you think are going to really matter in our future. Check out our website for more information http://linux.conf.au/cfp Great Conference, Great Community. The linux.conf.au 2014 Team Email: papers-chair at lca2014.linux.org.au website: http://linux.conf.au twitter: https://twitter.com/linuxconfau Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lca2014 identi.ca: http://identi.ca/linuxconfau google+ https://plus.google.com/communities/100789999660988673438 Meetup http://www.meetup.com/linuxconfau

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Linux migration proposal for Berlin rejected
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

'A petition to use more open source tools in the Berlin city administration that was proposed in the federal state parliament of the State of Berlin by the German Green Party has failed. The petition was rejected with the votes of the governing SPD/CDU coalition in the "digital administration" committee tasked with its evaluation. The Green Party's plan had included a migration to free and open source software on 25 per cent of the city administration's workstations and a comprehensive switch of all servers to Linux in a similar fashion to Munich's LiMux project.' -- source: http://h-online.com/-1888130 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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32bit support of 64bit crunchbang
by Peter Reutemann 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

For the crunchbangers among you... Getting 32-bit support going on a 64-bit crunchbang is a bit more fiddly than on an Ubuntu install (ia32-libs is labeled as "broken"). The following post explains how to be able to install ia32-libs after all: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=277918#p277918 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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Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources
by Peter Reutemann 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Debian warns on its blog: "The unofficial third party repository Debian Multimedia stopped using the domain debian-multimedia.org some months ago. The domain expired and it is now registered again by someone unknown to Debian. (If we're wrong on this point, please sent us an email so we can take over the domain! This means that the repository is no longer safe to use, and you should remove the related entries from your source.list file." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/0219213 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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KDE Plasma Can Now Run On Wayland
by Peter Reutemann 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

"With the upcoming KDE 4.11, there's an initial Wayland backend through the KWin manager. The author notes on his blog: 'Once the system is fully started you can just use it. If everything works fine, you should not even notice any difference, though there are still limitations, like only the three mouse buttons of my touchpad are supported ;-)'" -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/12/1427239/kde-plasma-can-now-run-on-w… 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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Raspberry Pi and Lego Mindstorms to be united by BrickPi
by Peter Reutemann 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

"The Raspberry Pi will be able to talk to Lego Mindstorms sensors and motors thanks to BrickPI and its closing-soon Kickstarter campaign. The open hardware and software designs are already available for makers to work with." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1887149 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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First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS
by Peter Reutemann 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

"The first developer preview of Ubuntu Touch – aka 'Ubuntu for Phones and Tablets' – was unveiled just a few short months ago. And, just a few weeks back, it was announced that the team was shooting for having a fully functional (aka "can use it as your actual phone, on a daily basis") version by the end of May. May is now over, so Bryan Lunduke published some screenshots and analysis of the core features of the Ubuntu OS for smartphones and tablets." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/11/1455219/first-look-at-ubuntu-touch… 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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gnome/mate panel with two monitors
by Mark H. Jones 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Another way I have found to move panels between monitors is to disable the monitor on which the panel is displayed, thus forcing the panel to be displayed on the other (primary) monitor. After this you can re-enable the secondary monitor and the panel stays on the primary. I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not but thought I should share. Regards, Mark

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