CPOSC, the Central PA Open Source Conference, is a one-day, multi-track, low-cost conference about all things open source: software, programming, operating systems, community and more. It will take place on Sunday, October 19th at the ITT Tech campus in Harrisburg, PA.

We have a date and a venue, so now we are currently looking for interesting speakers. I’d personally like to line up some more cool Python related talks (especially Django/Pylons related ones). If you would be interested in speaking, or know someone else who might be, please contact us.

More information is available in the announcement post and the Call for Participation page. The deadline for proposals is July 11, 2008.

Thanks!

How awesome would it be to launch a Linux powered balloon with a digital camera on board?!

Come on, admit it. That’s cool.

Earlier in the month, I did a talk at CPLUG on Instant Messaging with Jabber/XMPP.

The slides were done in Keynote, so the images leave out some of the screenshots of the Openfire admin interface, but you’ll get the idea.

Enjoy!

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Tonight’s CPLUG topics were DenyHosts and Inkscape.

I did the DenyHosts one, and you can check out the slides online. Seemed to go pretty well, with lots of questions and discussion after my talk. Definitely an interesting app for being so simple.

For reference:

europa /var/log $ wc -l /etc/hosts.deny 1360 /etc/hosts.deny

Nice.

Here’s another simple TODO list manager called iKog. It’s text-only and uses Python. The interactive prompt part of it looks interesting.

Patrick solves his urlview problem with a bit of Python. Not a bad solution, and his script is a decent example of using the Python Curses bindings. Pretty cool.

Earlier tonight I loaded DimDim on my home server and did a quick test. Looks pretty good.

I was able to connect to it from my desktop and stream a presentation (audio, slides, desktop sharing, etc.) to my laptop on the LAN as well as to Nate over the net. According to IPCop it was using about 70Kbps each way on average, bursting up to about 300Kbps each way at times.

After I do some more testing, I’ll try to post some instructions on how to get it set up. It wasn’t hard, but I did have to switch my Java VM from Blackdown to Sun’s Java VM.

More later…

Did the IPCop 1.4.14 and 1.4.15 updates tonight and rebooted the box. Everything appears to be working and no problems were encountered… contrary to what others claimed.

If you check the built-in help screens in Pine, it says that you can use the H key to view full headers for email. But if you try it, it says that command isn’t available. For some reason, you need to enable that command in the setup screens before it will work.

Press Main Menu, Setup, Config, and then scroll down to the following and select it (X):

[ Advanced Command Preferences ] ... [X] enable-full-header-cmd

Exit the setup screen (saving changes) and you should be set.

After emerging MythMusic on my brother’s (soon to be finished) MythTV rig, I got the following error at the end of the run:

* Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 127 info files; 1 errors install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/share/info/bashref.info.gz

After a little hunting, I was able to find the solution on the Gentoo forums (thread). Basically, it’s just an old symbolic link that is not needed. The solution is to simply unlink it:

# unlink /usr/share/info/bashref.info.gz

Seems to have worked.