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25th July 2022 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | | | | 27th June 2022 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Setting up a Network Video Recorder (MotionEYE) | Michael Pope | | | Miscellaneous insights from upgrading Slackware | Duncan Roe | mlug0622.pdf | 30th May 2022 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | NSA ION stack | Sam Dunkley | slides | 25th April 2022 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | GDB errlog | Duncan | | | Deskreen demo | Michael Pope | https://deskreen.com/ | 28th March 2022 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | PXE booting over the internet | Michael Pope | slides | | | | | 28th February 2022 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Encoding AV1 video with ffmpeg | Cameron | slides | | Passbolt | Michael Pope |slides | 31st January 2022 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Porting sagemath debian binary to Slackware + sage | Duncan Roe | http://www.sagemath.org | | Installing LineageOS on a Samsung | Michael Pope | slides| 29th November 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | MeshCentral2 large setup | Michael Pope | slides | 25th October 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | More on script kiddy hacking tools | Sam Dunkley | | 27th September 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | CRDT Collaboration editing in all editors | Michael Pope | slides | 30th August 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Sweet Home 3D | Cameron | slides | | introduction to script kiddy hacking tools | Sam Dunkley | | | Intro to gdb | Duncan Roe | | 26th July 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | flashing ASUS routers with Open Source firmware 'ASUSWRT-Merlin' | Michael Pope |asuswrt_merlin_slides| | Comskip: Skip commercials on your TV (lightning) | Michael Pope | comskip_slides | | initial experiments with an RTL2832U (USB software defined radio) | Danny Robson | slides | | my efforts to reverse engineer a WiFi enabled solar inverter | Danny Robson | slides | 28th June 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | DVD subtitle OCR toolchain | Malcolm Herbert | | process timing: quick update | Duncan Roe | | weak attribute skullduggery (short talk) | Duncan Roe | 31st May 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Adventures in process timing | Duncan Roe | | Ventoy USB multiboot | Michael Pope |slides| 26th April 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | J text editor| AJ| |emacs as a webserver (lightning talk) (live demo) | Michael Pope |slides slides amended| |Using mutt with Gmail (short talk)|Duncan Roe| Emacs related files emacs_org-ehtml_config.tar.gz 29th March 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | wireless remote webcam with environmental sensor installation running on a rpi zero w | Rick Miles |slides| | Quick live demo of PiKVM (last month's talk) | Michael Pope | | Getting Doxygen to play ball with GNU autotools | Duncan Roe | 22nd February 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | PiKVM | Michael Pope |slides | |Q editor updates | Duncan Roe | | 25th January 2021 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Open Source NAS | Michael Pope | slides| | VDSL data logging adventures | Danny Robson | | 30th November 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Best of 2020. Most anticipated 2021 | Discussion | | 26th October 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | MeshCentral 2 | Michael Pope |slides | | Poorly Planned Filesystem Adventures | Danny Robson | slides | 28th September 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Group Discussions | | 31st August 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | iSpindel Homebrew | Danny Robson | slides | 27th July 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Group Discussions | | | | Git GUI comparisons | Michael Pope |slides | 29th June 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Group Discussions | | | 25th May 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Utility software discussions | Group | | 27th April 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Adventures in self-hosting | Danny Robson | | | 'Paperwork' document management system | Michael Pope | slides | 30th March 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | lizard-fs | Darren Wurf | | | Remote collaboration discussions | Discussion | | | Adventures in self-hosting (TBC) | Danny Robson | | 24th February 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | iio sensors on single-board systems | Rick Miles | slides | | UrBackup | Michael Pope | slides | 27th January 2020 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Project Updates | Group | | | Discussions | Group | | 25th November 2019 Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqkn6zoOA7g ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | OpenSSH certificate authentication | Timothy Rice | | | doku2wiki to mkdocs | Danny Robson | | | USB foot pedal for RSI | Michael Pope | slides | 28th October 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | nfq progress update | Duncan Roe | https://youtu.be/44XOV7-giyM?t=1403 | | VirtualBox and physical disks | Malcolm Herbert | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ova_mf7EU | 30th September 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | YouTube streaming with a Raspberry Pi | Michael Pope | https://youtu.be/phyvUJgznSg slides | | DNS mangling with libnetfiler_queue | Duncan Roe | https://youtu.be/tVtUcXWmC18 | 26th August 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | bcache for SSD+HDD | Danny Robson | slides | | Using ZFS daily on your Linux laptop | Malcolm Herbert | slides | 29th July 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | A backup methodology (Lightning) | Michael Pope |slides | | Using ZFS daily on your Linux laptop | Malcolm Herbert | | | Modem and internet reliability and testing | Round table | | 24th June 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Shell access via injection| Damien Buttler | | | Kernel bug hunting with git bisect | Duncan Roe | | 27th May 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ | Bluetooth audio streaming to a Pi | Michael Pope |slides| | Problem solving roundtable, Show and tell | Discussion | | Website conversion progress | Discussion | 29th April 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ |bashrc fun|Danny Robson| slides | 25th March 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ Slides ^ |Multiboot USB|Michael Pope| slides | |Jitsi, Matrix, IRC|Open| slides | 25th February 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |PiTooth - Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth/​USB adapter|Danny Robson| |Kodi + Netflix, 3dprinters, etc|Michael Pope| slides| 28th January 2019 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Really complicated car clock|Michael Pope| slides| |LCA2019 report|Duncan Roe| 30th December 2018 No meeting as per usual for December. Enjoy your break! 26th November 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Show and tell|Open floor| For this month only we are in the 'snug' (still at The Great Northern) due to a booking clash. You are encouraged to bring along, or have someone else bring along, something you have found interesting to show off in an unstructured discussion. 24th September 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Danny Robson & Remote|Jitsi Conferencing Experiments| 27th August 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Michael Pope|Setting up a serial console|slides| |General|Open Floor Problem Solving Q&A| 30 July 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Timothy Rice|An introduction to filesystem ACLs| 25 June 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Darren Wurf|Blockchain Data Structures| |Malcolm Herbert|The jq JSON processor| 28th May 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |command line double entry accounting with ledger-cli|Michael Pope|slides| |A Raspbery Pi as an ethernet-wifi bridge|Danny Robson| 30th April 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Static Blogging with Pelican|Danny Robson| 28th March 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |NVMe|Duncan Roe| |Raspberry Pi air quality sensor|Michael Pope|| 26th February 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Gentoo Linux|Danny Robson| |nftables|Duncan Roe| 29th January 2018 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ |Spectre & Meltdown Discussion | All @ Dinner | |borg backup|Danny Robson| |csmanager for NextCloud management|Bob Parker| 27 November - Cancelled This months meeting is cancelled as most people cannot make it. 30 October 2017 ^ Talk ^ Speaker ^ | KRACK WPA vulnerability pre-meeting discussion | Everyone | | gnuplot | Rick Miles | | Low powered x86 board (lightning) | Michael Pope |slides| Feel free to volunteer for a talk on our mailing list. =====Future meetings ===== Dates for 2017 ^ Date ^ Talk #1 ^ Talk #2 ^ |29-Jan-2018| |26-Feb-2018| Please show your interest on our mailing list or email me directly ===== Talk Preparation ===== Normal talks go for 45minutes, lightning talks go for 15minutes. 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|Contact |Duncan Roe| |Email | duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au | ===== New to Linux ===== http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/help-make-year-linux-desktop/ ===== Notebooks with Linux pre-installed or no OS ===== https://linuxpreloaded.com/ Check compatibility before buying a notebook: http://www.linlap.com/ Hardware guide http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/ http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/7-providers-of-pre-installed-linux.html Support GNU/Linux/BSD Vendors MLUG is not connected to these companies in any way. These are just companies we have found that are selling notebooks/computers with the option of Linux pre-installed or no OS installed. Australia
http://www.linuxnow.com.au/ - Lots of options and lots of distros on offer (Melbourne based)
http://www.horize.com – Horize notebooks, better specs than some of the stores
http://www.logicalblueone.com.au - Offer Ubuntu or No OS, competitive prices (Horize only)
http://www.vgcomputing.com.au
http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/ - Good range, plenty of options.
http://www.elx.com.au/cat/systems - Sydney based but can deliver. Overseas
http://www.system76.com/ - They now deliver to Australia
http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
http://www.emperorlinux.com/ ===== MLUG workshop extras ===== The new extras that we talk/work on at meetings are: * Working on improving the MLUG group such as website, mailing list, services, venue selection, getting the word out about mlug. * Cool Things this month (everyone who comes gets a chance to tell us what's cool this month in the world of Linux and Open Source) * Too Hard Basket. Everyone has a task which is too hard to complete, this is a chance to get fresh input on your “too hard basket” item. ===== Other ===== Linux useful commands: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html http://www.computerbank.org.au
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