Re: [Speechcontrolteam] UBT
2011/1/22 Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com: Hiyas, I know I constantly go on about Ubuntu Beginners Team, that is because I firmly believe in its ethos of helping those who wish to help others. This little quote from their revised section has really made me smile. Mentors The second type is an UBT Mentor. Mentors will have one or more specific areas of expertise. They will mentor people who wish to become members of other Ubuntu teams such as bug-control, accessibility or lubuntu. Mentors must have received recommendations from other Ubuntu teams related to their area(s) of expertise. This is done to ensure a level of quality.[1] The acceptance of both Lubuntu and accessibilty (who we already share people with) into the UBT project is what I have been aiming for and speaks volumes for the teams to be recognised for the work that they do and our collective ability to secondment and train a padawan into our teams (which we already do). We also share documentaion / wiki people and admin people. As Manuela put into words in her poem[2], we are a family. I am so, so pleased for all of our teams, together we are stronger. Regards, Phill. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam [2] http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/12/06/why-it-matters/ -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~speechcontrolteam Post to : speechcontrolt...@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~speechcontrolteam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp Thanks Phill, You know I fully support the mentoring program, next to that I really like the inter-team cooperation, it brings a whole jar of other people that could not or would not help the other teams otherwise. Their reasons may vary and is all good, this solves such and that is great. :) -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong (UndiFineD) -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
first Speech Control Team meeting
Hello everyone, I ant to announce that tonight at 23.00 UTC we will have our first meeting, For accessibility this may well be a turning point as we have a lot of good people from the known programs together! Our meeting is to be held in our temporary channel irc:// freenode.net/##speechcontrol http://webchat.freenode.net/ channel ##speechcontrol pre-meeting notes: http://openetherpad.org/tGnASiT5le meeting time: http://tinyurl.com/2bccy5s For more information about our team: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpeechControl https://launchpad.net/~speechcontrolteam If you would like to join us in our efforts, feel free to drop in. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong (UndiFineD) -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
introduction
Hello everyone, I thought I had done this already, introducing myself. I am Keimpe de Jong, online knows as UndiFineD, I am 33 years old. Peope visiting the IRC channel #ubuntu-accessibility have already met me. I have no real disabilities, sight is getting slightly worse but that is normal. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UndiFineD https://launchpad.net/~k.dejong -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Statistically speaking: server line makes desktop line more likely to be Linux Friendly?
2010/11/18 Jeff Lane jeffrey.l...@ubuntu.com: On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:53 -0800, kdemarest wrote: Just wanted to do a brief survey against a hypothesis to see if I'm crazy or not. Given mainstream computer manufacturers, is the probability that their desktop and notebook systems will be Linux friendly positively correlated to whether or not they have a Server line? I can't speak for Dell or Compaq/HP/whatever, but having worked at IBM as part of the Linux group within System X, there is very little similarity between IBM System X servers and what few desktops they produce, if any. In general, server hardware at the enterprise level is very simple... the only things that MAY trickle down to desktop systems would be things like multi-core processors, memory systems and networking. The other more common subsystems generally aren't really pushed into desktops (back end management systems, hardware RAID device (not that silly HostRAID garbage), high end drives (SAS), peripherals for SAN, Infiniband, etc). There IS some trickle down as mentioned above, but beyond those things, not much in the way of linux friendliness comes from servers. In fact, those things that server systems have in common with desktop systems are actually generic enough as to be in the Just Works category. Consider the two biggest points of failure for Linux on desktop systems: Audio and Video. Enterprise and even SMB server systems do not usually come with audio at all, not even integrated chipsets, and their video systems are usually very stable, old and reliable chipsets. On Desktops, the converse is true... desktops constantly use newer audio systems and pull from a variety of low to high end video devices to provide graphics far beyond what anyone would want in a server system. Just my $0.02... jeff -- ubuntu-beginners mailing list ubuntu-beginn...@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-beginners Well that is funny Jeff, I use a x226 as my desktop -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend
a simple serch pointed me here: http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html 2010/10/22 Will Bickerstaff will.bickerst...@gmail.com A colleague of mine has come to me this morning with a laptop on which his windows install has been bricked by his AV. I sort of, politely explained my stance on not wanting to waste time messing with problem windows installs any more. But I've agreed to look and get it working again for him, provided he allows me to install and dual boot Ubuntu, with a recommendation that he use it and see whether it works for him or not. Luckily I have my own laptop with me this morning that has 10.10, so was able to quickly demo Ubuntu with him, and explain one or two key differences. He uses sage a lot, and, not being an accounting type I was wondering what is the most similar package to use. I know what's available in the repo's but not their capability / compatibility with sage. Will he be able to get his sage info into whatever I end up recommending? If there's some leg work involved with converting, exporting and importing, that's fine as long as we can get it all in. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISO Testing - Getting Started
Does not boot for me I tried the amd64 and i386 on my demoted Xeon for an i686 currently i run amd64 binaries 2010/9/9 Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com: Hi All, The Beta of Maverick Meerkat (what will be Ubuntu 10.10) is now out, so it's a good time to test the ISOs and find as many bugs as possible before the final release. Popey wrote some details about what's involved, and I've included his mail below in case you've deleted it. P.S. Yes, I know it's a top-post. It was done intentionally this time :-) On 2 June 2010 14:58, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Hi All. (Note I have sent this to Ubuntu UK LoCo mailing list and bcc'ed all the people who volunteered to help, apologies if you get this twice, this was intentional, but won't happen again) I mentioned a while ago that it might be nice to kick off a UK LoCo Team for doing some essential testing of Ubuntu ISO images. I've taken the lead from the Italian LoCo who have been doing this for the last 6 months or so very successfully. I figured it was a great way to get people contributing to the project without much in the way of deep technical skills. [snip] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/TestingTeam - Main introduction page. Read this first. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/TestingTeam#Participate - Specifically this bit if you're interested in helping out with this activity. The idea being that people go through the 'Participate' section and get themselves familiar with the process, and fulfil all the pre-requisites therein. Most are easy and you may already have done such as 'Register on launchpad', others you might not have done. There's some reading material in there too. I've created a team on launchpad:- http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk-testing However, it's a moderated team and the policy for joining is that you've performed the steps outlined in the 'Participate' steps above. This enables us to ensure a level of quality control within the team. Join once you've gone through the participate steps. Note that the final step on the Participate is to actually download an ISO image and perform a QA test. So this ensures that anyone who joins the team has fulfilled all the necessary requirements. It might look onerous but it really isn't. Please join the team once you're ready. There is an IRC channel for testing which is #ubuntu-testing - NOTE: not the UK loco channel, but the testing team IRC channel. I checked with the testing team at UDS and they'd rather we had committed testers hang out in their channel (as well as ours) and testing related conversations happen there. So you're welcome to hang out in there, or join as and when you're doing testing. One thing we might want to consider in the future is sharing mobile phone numbers (for the willing) as the testing team sometimes need test performed in double-quick time. If they can get hold of people quickly they can expedite those tests. For now though, for non-urgent stuff we can use IRC and this mailing list. Maverick (10.10) Alpha 1 ISOs are (just about) ready and waiting to be tested! I'm just as new to this as many of you, so we're going on a bit of an adventure together. Questions / comments / suggestions very welcome! Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Titles
Actually in the trend of virtualisation and the demands for modern day IT It is not that unthinkable, to use tools that get the job done quickly. Of course for any web administration tool this requires some minding on security. but when the boss askes to have a service running within 5 minutes this seems good practise to me. 2010/9/2 Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com: PS - For someone with a Job title of Senior IT Specialist I am somewhat surprised you are using tools like webmin and swat which do not have the best reputations for security... Yea I can agree with you; however I do not always have the time or luxury of doing everything by hand and to some point I have to balance convenience with security and even though I try to follow good practise and even best practise on security I still sometimes prefer the GUI tools than to do stuff by hand + if you think about it if people do not use the GUI tools out there then they will never get better and then the home user population will not grow as the home user do not or can not mess with conf files and why would they as on Windows they do not have to Let me explain the title thing as I did get flak on it in the past as well and therefore please do not consider this as something directed to you but rather as a general comment; YET I stand by this title: it does not state Senior Linux/Windows IT Specialist or Senior IT Security Specialist and therefore I am continuously open to guidance and learning but I do know a large amount of IT stuff built up over many years in the field and therefore I do not consider myself as a Junior nor Mid-range, I also do not consider myself a generalist but a specialist and I specialise in IT so hence: Senior IT Specialist. Also If you think about it even if my title was Dr or Prof. xyz in IT then still it does not mean that I need to do everything by hand does it? :-) :-) thanx -- _ Cornelius Mostert Senior IT Specialist United Kingdom: 075 2233 4818 International: 0044 75 2233 4818 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt
If ssh is rarely used and you have a running webserver you could consider using ajaxterm you only listen to ssh on localhost and have website that allows access to ssh this is slower and does not work well with remote ssh auth keys but just another solution. and port knocking it opens access to a service when the right knocking is done on other unused ports -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
