From blinken at gmail.com Tue Jun 6 20:44:17 2017 From: blinken at gmail.com (Patrick Coleman) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:44:17 +0100 Subject: [tech] Fwd: Re: BBC LV-ROM player In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: I can probably transport it for free to some combination of the UK or San Francisco if it's packed into something <= suitcase sized. Unsure when I'll be in Australia next, but hopefully in the next 3-4 months or so. -Patrick On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > hiya, > > hm, has anyone contacted the computer history museum here in the bay area? > > (I have a BBC master somewhere, but hm, doesn't it require some other > interface thing?) > > > -adrian > > On 25 February 2017 at 05:26, Andrew Williams > wrote: > > On 2017-02-25 7:51 PM, Frames wrote: > > > >>> However, we have not attempted to connect it to any kind of output > >>> device. > >>> Because we do not have any compatible displays on hand. > >>> > >>> We also do not possess a remote for it, nor any media. > > > > For what it's worth, I have a couple of SCART adaptors (to composite > > video yellow/red/white RCA leads) if anyone has any media and wants to > > get it going. I suspect finding a BBC Master to drive it would be the > > hardest job... > > > > Have you contacted the Australian Computer Museum (WA, or any other > > branch?) to see if they want it? Please don't throw it away, I'll pick > > it up and stick it in my shed if that's the only alternative to a > dumpster. > > > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > > List Archives: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech > > > > Unsubscribe here: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/tech/ > adrian%40ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au > _______________________________________________ > List Archives: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech > > Unsubscribe here: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/tech/ > blinken%40gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20170606/1b229ec0/attachment.htm From nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jun 20 02:03:04 2017 From: nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Bannon) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 02:03:04 +0800 Subject: [tech] Fwd: Re: BBC LV-ROM player In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <20170619180304.GG28071@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:44:17PM +0100, Patrick Coleman wrote: > I can probably transport it for free to some combination of the UK or San > Francisco if it's packed into something <= suitcase sized. Unsure when I'll > be in Australia next, but hopefully in the next 3-4 months or so. > -Patrick > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > hm, has anyone contacted the computer history museum here in the bay area? > > (I have a BBC master somewhere, but hm, doesn't it require some other > > interface thing?) Good to know! For reference, it's a Philips VP415/05, like this: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/Domesday.html http://archive.is/ViqK2 http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43817/Philips%20VP415/05%20LV-ROM%20Laserdisc%20Player/ It would have been connected by 50-pin SCSI and genlocked video to a BBC Master Turbo, with a video filing system ROM. It's still here, stored on the west side of the clubroom. (opposite the door) Nick. -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because nick-sig at rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Jun 21 14:49:26 2017 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:49:26 +0800 (AWST) Subject: [tech] Upgraded SOGo on mussel Message-ID: Not that anyone else cares, because it's obviously been broken for months and nobody noticed, but SOGo ate its config a while ago, as it is wont to do, and after putting it back I was getting an odd error so I decided to upgrade it to the Debian version in jessie-backports. After removing the various conflicting packages and rebuilding the config plist it still didn't work with random errors, but once I removed and reinstalled the packages it started working. Well, CalDAV is working, the web interface doesn't have any CSS or JS, probably due to some obscure header that needs to be sent in the apache config. Anyway, mussel has a 64bit kernel installed but it doesn't boot into it by default. The only interactive users are matt, zarquin, bob and zanchey, I propose to reboot it sometime into the 64bit kernel and remove the 32bit one. This is relevant because the upstream packages for jessie are 64bit only. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Jun 21 15:29:52 2017 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:29:52 +0800 (AWST) Subject: [tech] Upgraded SOGo on mussel In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, James Andrewartha wrote: > Not that anyone else cares, because it's obviously been broken for months > and nobody noticed, but SOGo ate its config a while ago, as it is wont to > do, and after putting it back I was getting an odd error so I decided to > upgrade it to the Debian version in jessie-backports. After removing the > various conflicting packages and rebuilding the config plist it still > didn't work with random errors, but once I removed and reinstalled the > packages it started working. Well, CalDAV is working, the web interface > doesn't have any CSS or JS, probably due to some obscure header that needs > to be sent in the apache config. > > Anyway, mussel has a 64bit kernel installed but it doesn't boot into it by > default. The only interactive users are matt, zarquin, bob and zanchey, I > propose to reboot it sometime into the 64bit kernel and remove the 32bit > one. This is relevant because the upstream packages for jessie are 64bit > only. OK by me - do you want to go to a 64-bit userland at the same time, or stick with mostly 32-bit for now? slapd and apache would be the obvious winner and loser respectively, I think. [DAA] From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Jun 27 11:16:10 2017 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:16:10 +0800 (AWST) Subject: [tech] Moving Wheel group away from GID 0 Message-ID: Occasionally, I hear people say "everyone I ask about this problem tells me the same thing!" Usually there is a reason for that. For the last few years, we've been fighting with various bits of software that don't like the idea that our wheel members have their primary group set to the root GID of 0. In our tests of Active Directory/Samba, getting users to belong to a group with a GID of 0 is proving to be Very Hard. Perhaps there is a reason for this. I think it's time to face facts. Being part of a group called "wheel" is no longer required for technical reasons, and even if it was there is no need for it to have GID 0. My plan is to: * add all Wheel members to the LDAP group "wheel" (done) * create a new LDAP group "wheelnew" with GID 512 (matches the RID for Windows' default Adminstrator group) * add all Wheel members to this group * wait for the next reboot of Mussel/Motsugo * change the default group of all wheel members to GID 512 instead of 0 * change all the files in /home and /away with GID 0 to GID 512 * remove the wheel LDAP group * fix stuff that breaks * remove the suexec hacks we have in place Unless there are any objections or fixes for this plan, I am going ahead in the next week or so. David Adam UCC Wheel Group Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au From adrian.chadd at gmail.com Tue Jun 20 04:44:21 2017 From: adrian.chadd at gmail.com (Adrian Chadd) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:44:21 -0000 Subject: [tech] Fwd: Re: BBC LV-ROM player In-Reply-To: <20170619180304.GG28071@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References:

<20170619180304.GG28071@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: If someone can transport it to SF then I can find a permanent home for it here? -a On 19 June 2017 at 11:03, Nick Bannon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:44:17PM +0100, Patrick Coleman wrote: >> I can probably transport it for free to some combination of the UK or San >> Francisco if it's packed into something <= suitcase sized. Unsure when I'll >> be in Australia next, but hopefully in the next 3-4 months or so. >> -Patrick > >> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> > hm, has anyone contacted the computer history museum here in the bay area? >> > (I have a BBC master somewhere, but hm, doesn't it require some other >> > interface thing?) > > Good to know! > > For reference, it's a Philips VP415/05, like this: > http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/Domesday.html > http://archive.is/ViqK2 > http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/43817/Philips%20VP415/05%20LV-ROM%20Laserdisc%20Player/ > > It would have been connected by 50-pin SCSI and genlocked video to a > BBC Master Turbo, with a video filing system ROM. > > It's still here, stored on the west side of the clubroom. (opposite > the door) > > Nick. > > -- > Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because > nick-sig at rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal > _______________________________________________ > List Archives: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech > > Unsubscribe here: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/tech/adrian%40ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au