Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET
by Peter Reutemann
"This week at Mobile World Congress both Firefox OS and Ubuntu have
been wooing the audience with their mobile offerings. CNET reviewed
both and felt that Ubuntu was 'the clear winner.' From the article,
'The team thought that Ubuntu Touch, the tablet version of which we
got our hands-on for the first time at MWC, feels more like the
complete package at this point. We liked its slick, elegant interface
that makes use of every side of the screen and puts your content and
contacts front and center, minimizing the time spent hopping back to a
home screen.'"
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/02/28/2120252/
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 3 months
ipv6 webcam
by Bruce Kingsbury
I've got a machine running apache2/php5/mysql and motion at
pi.fairfield.org.nz (ipv6 only outside our lan)
In theory it should work, but it seems motion is ipv6 only.
is there some way eg php script that I can have apache connect to
localhost:8081 and just forward the raw data through to the browser? I
set up two scripts webcam.php and webcam2.php that are supposed to do
this, but neither seem to work (as far as I can test them; I won't
have ipv6 at home until tomorrow).
webcam.php is this;
<?php
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_connect($socket, '127.0.0.1', 8081);
$reply = "";
do {
$recv = "";
$recv = socket_read($socket, '1400');
if($recv != "") {
$reply .= $recv;
}
} while($recv != "");
echo($reply);
?>
webcam2.php is this;
<?php
system(nc 127.0.0.1 8081);
?>
7 years, 3 months
Special General Meeting 25th March 2013 - Change of Charter
by Rene Bartosh
Notice is hereby given of a special general meeting to take place at 7:30pm
on Monday 25th March 2013 at MS4.G.02.
A draft of the revised charter will be tabled, this will reduce the quorum
to the smaller of 5 members or 50% of the general membership, and reduce
the size of the committee to 4.
Regards,
Rene Bartosh
WLUG Secretary
--
>From Rene Bartosh (Gmail account) <kirjava(a)gmail.com>
Personal: http://kirjava.net.nz/
7 years, 3 months
SPAM filtering.
by Colin Palmer
On 22 February 2013 16:21, mailinglist <mailinglist(a)blahdeblah.co.nz> wrote:
> he he, finally got the link through that I wanted to share. Any one at
> the Uni realise how agressive the present spam filters are?
>
Yes, we do.
The list server uses Postini to do spam detection, but leaves it up to
Mailman to make discard and moderate decisions, so you can make it a bit
less aggressive by tweaking the header rules in each list's spam filters
section.
--
Colin Palmer <colinp(a)waikato.ac.nz>
Linux Architect, Systems and Development Team
7 years, 3 months
(no subject)
by Ronnie Collinson
Sounds good. Just some small typos corrected and I booked the room for 25/2:
Regrettably, I must inform you all, that we failed to attain quorum at
the AGM last night, with only 7 members arriving. As by the charter,
we will hold a second AGM on February 25th (after Christmas and summer
festivities).
If we fail to obtain quorum or a new committee, we may have no choice
but to file for dissolution with the registrar (could be re-registered
for a fee of $204.45). If this is needed we will endeavour to leave as
much of the online presence running as possible. The club does however
remain in good financial standing.
If any member is unable to attend the AGM, we will be happy for you to
attend via IRC, we will attempt to stream the meeting too (perhaps
audio-only via mumble).
On behalf of committee
7 years, 3 months
Ubuntu For Tablets Announced
by Peter Reutemann
"Keeping its promise from yesterday Ubuntu has announced an operating
system for tablets dubbed 'Ubuntu for Tablets' that it says will work
on tablets of any size. Advertised to work on both entry level tablets
as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the
operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of
applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching
between applications among other features."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/02/19/1655233/ubuntu-for-tablets-annou...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 3 months
Samsung Laptop Bug Is Not Linux Specific
by Peter Reutemann
"Matthew Garrett, a Linux kernel developer who was investigating the
recent Linux-on-Samsung-in-UEFI-mode problem, has bricked a Samsung
laptopusing a test userspace program in Windows. The most fascinating
part of the story is on what is actually causing the firmware boot
failure: 'Unfortunately, it turns out that some Samsung laptops will
fail to boot if too much of the [UEFI] variable storage space is used.
We don't know what "too much" is yet, but writing a bunch of variables
from Windows is enough to trigger it. I put some sample code here — it
writes out 36 variables each containing a kilobyte of random data. I
ran this as an administrator under Windows and then rebooted the
system. It never came back.'"
-- source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/02/09/2146207/samsung-laptop-bug-is...
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
7 years, 3 months
