Convened at 2017-04-12 18:30:32.230825 by chesedo
in #ubuntu-za on freenode
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<chesedo>
Maaz: start meeting about Ubuntu Mini Meeting - 12 April 2017
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* Maaz
gets out his memo-pad and cracks his knuckles
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<theblazehen>
Yup
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<chesedo>
Hi all and welcome to the mini meeting
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<nsnzero>
i will try it out theblazehen - time permitting
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<chesedo>
feel free to introduce yourself to maaz using 'Maaz: I am <first, last name>'
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<nsnzero>
pardon me - hi chesedo
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<theblazehen>
Maaz I am Jeandre Le Roux
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<Maaz>
theblazehen: Righto
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<nsnzero>
Maaz: i am nasan zero
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<Maaz>
nsnzero: Done
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<chesedo>
the topics are "News", "Local job openings" and "Education Project"
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<chesedo>
Maaz: topic News
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<Maaz>
Current Topic: News
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<chesedo>
theblazehen: off to you...
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<theblazehen>
Alright
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<theblazehen>
A bit of humor to start off, http://blog.plover.com/Unix/dev-null.html - Restoring /dev/null from backup
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<theblazehen>
A great case of the 500 mile email, https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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<theblazehen>
and IP over Avian Carriers, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
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<chesedo>
lol
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<chesedo>
"restore /dev/null from the tape backups"
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<theblazehen>
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html Great story about a guy recovering from a rm -rf /, as well as some extra disaster stories at http://www.yak.net/carmen/unix_horror_stories
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<theblazehen>
www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ /dev/random isn't really needed, despite what the man page suggests
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<theblazehen>
https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle - When you don't have a proper vpn access, just an ssh jump box, and you don't want to manually forward ports for eg services not ssh, this works great, and ty andrewlsd for linking me to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sshoot/1.2.5 as well
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<theblazehen>
https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f - Never really managed to get into JavaScript myself
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<theblazehen>
http://anbox.io/ - run android apps on normal Linux
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<theblazehen>
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa08/papers/stack_smashing.pdf Nice intro to some basic buffer overflow exploits kinda, (@nsnzero)
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<theblazehen>
An if anyone's interested in security stuff, http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ is a great basic intro to normal linux stuff
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<theblazehen>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjtyifWTqmc - Smashing the mainframe for fun and prison time
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<theblazehen>
And if anyone's interested in security stuff, I'd really like to see our ranking increase on https://www.wechall.net/country_ranking/
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<theblazehen>
Some old style stuff, http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ - Improving ET for the atari 2600 and http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-tutorial-andrew-davie-01.html - Atari 2600 Programming for Newbies
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<theblazehen>
Then for actual news,
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<theblazehen>
RHEL 5 is EOL as of 31 March 2017
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<theblazehen>
Ubuntu 17.04 to be released tomorrow
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<theblazehen>
and Canonical to be dropping Unity 8 and Mir
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<theblazehen>
Not news, but I have all reddit comments since 2005 loaded up into elasticsearch, so if anyone has ideas for some interesting data mining stuff I can do, let me know
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<theblazehen>
That's pretty much it from my end
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<chesedo>
wow
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<chesedo>
ty theblazehen
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<chesedo>
Maaz: topic Local Openings and Help
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<Maaz>
Current Topic: Local Openings and Help
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<nsnzero>
good stuff theblazehen
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<theblazehen>
ty nsnzero
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<chesedo>
theblazehen: do you know how current the LSD jobs are that you shared last time?
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<chesedo>
for now here is the previous list:
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<chesedo>
Senior Linux Administrator / Linux Architect (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-linux-administrator--linux-archi
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<chesedo>
Senior JAVA Developer with Middleware Experience (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/senior-java-developer-with-middleware-ex
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<chesedo>
Java Middleware Magician (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/java-middleware-magician
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<chesedo>
DBA Guru (Jhb) -> http://www.lsd.co.za/dba-guru
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<theblazehen>
We got 2 new guys, so dba position is filled
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<chesedo>
ah ty
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<theblazehen>
@andrewlsd?
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<chesedo>
Maaz: topic Ubuntu Education
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<Maaz>
Current Topic: Ubuntu Education
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<chesedo>
william is on leave this week afaik...
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<nsnzero>
thats correct chesedo
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<chesedo>
but i got a pubsweet test up -> pubsweet.chesedo.me
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<chesedo>
and it seems that it is more for blogging...
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<nsnzero>
we were planning to meet this week - but things dont go has planned
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<chesedo>
although Editorial (https://gitlab.coko.foundation/yannisbarlas/editoria) which uses pubsweet might be better
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<chesedo>
but its setup is failing currently
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<chesedo>
oh ok nsnzero...
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<chesedo>
guess you are also refering to the pcs you have nsnzero
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<nsnzero>
yes - delayed unfortunately
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<chesedo>
that is it for this week then
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<chesedo>
ty you for the jokes and news theblazehen
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<chesedo>
Maaz: end meeting