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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006SFD/NM updates
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006My NetworkManager PPTP plugin package for Ubuntu is sitting in the REVU queue. If all goes well it will be approved and end up in Universe for Edgy.
SFD preparations are coming along. We have people hard at work preparing 150 copies of the Kia Ora CD, a fantastic open source software CD for Windows, collated by zcat from WLUG, and of course we have 300 Ubuntu CDs to give away.
Oh, and MythTV 0.20 is out. Make sure you get 0.20a, as a big MythWeb bug slipped in at the last minute. All going well, it'll make Edgy, if a simple sync from Debian Multimedia is possible.
Trade Me replies...
Friday, September 8th, 2006Got a reply from Trade Me on my pulled listing:
Dear Craig,
Thanks for contacting us.
It is assumed that members of the same household, workplace or close friends would purchase goods off each other outside of the Trade Me auction process. Hence bidding by family members, flatmates or friends is considered "shill bidding" and is in breach of our terms and conditions.
Re: section 4.2 of the Trade Me terms and conditions "You shall not manipulate prices through ghost-bidding or assuming multiple roles in a single transaction."It appears that members that you are linked to were bidding on your auction #69170303 and this is considered shill bidding.
You are welcome to list this on the site again, permitted that no further shill bidding occurs. Unfortunately you will need to do this manually as we are unable to restore the listing.
If you have any further questions or if I can be of any further help please do not hesitate to contact me.
Regards,
Amy
I managed to get a copy of the original text out of Trade Me, via a friend IMing someone who worked there. (Ironically, it was the same friend who was trying to buy the laptop!) However, I paid promotion fees which I have not been refunded. I'll get back in touch (there is no 'reply' facility, I'll have to just use their contact form again).
My problem is that their initial assumption is wrong. People do not always conduct their sales outside of Trade Me, for reasons previously stated.
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Software Freedom Day 2006: Donated SFI goodies
Thursday, September 7th, 2006After our Canonical goodies arrived, we received our parcel from SFI:
We got two T-shirts free and bought another four (thanks to Pia for arranging them when the web site got frazzled), both to wear, and to support the cause.
We're making progress with everything and hope to see as many people at Centreplace in Hamilton on Saturday 16 September as we can.
Not technomarketplace
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006A couple of days ago, I listed some Thinkpads on Trade Me on behalf of my employer, who has accumulated too many of them. He specifically wanted them listed so they would fetch what they were worth, rather than us putting a dollar figure on it and selling it cheap to a friend.
Then, I told you all about them. My boss likes to sell things off cheap. You might get a bargain. Promotion is everything.
A friend of mine, who now lives in Australia, said "Oh, yes, I'd like one of those", and created a Trade Me account for the purpose. Someone posted on the auction saying "Beware of saidperson, they're a new user in Australia", and I responded along the lines of "thanks, but I went to Uni with this person, and they're genuinely interested in purchasing it because of the favourable AUD-NZD rate at the moment"
NO! shouted Trade Me:
Dear Craig,
Your listing for THINKPAD X41 TABLET WITH DOCKING STATION (S=R)
Listing no. 69170303 has been withdrawn.It has been brought to our
attention that shill bidding has occurred on your auction.Shill bidding occurs when members of the same household or friends bid on
each others auctions. We do not allow this on the site. This is because we
are unable to determine if this is with genuine intent to purchase the
item or is an attempt to increase the price on an auction.It is a breach of our terms and conditions. Please ensure that you do not
allow friends or family members to bid on your auctions in the future.Your co-operation in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
So, I try and take the path that leads to Trade Me making a successful sale, openly and honestly, and this is how I get rewarded.
Kyle very accurately observes "if it was happening to things you wanted to buy with sellers creating new accounts and bidding against their own items we'd be pissed off if they didnt stop it". Correct, but this happens all the time. My friends list auctions and say "Here is stuff I'm getting rid of", and if I'm interested, I bid. I only ever bid up to a point that I'm prepared to pay, should I win the auction. That's not shill bidding. Where's the beef?
Technomarketplace
Monday, September 4th, 2006Want to buy a Thinkpad?
Software Freedom Day 2006: Donated Ubuntu goodness
Monday, September 4th, 2006It's all starting to come together now! A box of goodies just arrived from Canonical:
Including 250 Dapper Drake PC CDs, and 60 Ubuntu stickers.
Where did he go?
Thursday, August 31st, 2006I've gone quiet! What have I been doing?
- migrating Cyrus 2.1 with hacked virtual domain support to 2.2 with real virtual domain support. This has been a nightmare and I intend to write a book on it when I get some time.
- helping install and configure the new WLUG blade server
- planning our Software Freedom Day advocacy event
- fixing my blog (thanks Juha)
- fixing Planet WLUG's RSS feed to keep my only reader happy
- hacked me up a sexy "Subscribe to my feed" button
The last three were done in the company of (and with thanks to) Cathy, who now has far less hair.
Slashback
Monday, August 21st, 2006- Regarding reading Windows passwords for future restoration: MVPs have weighed in to suggest it can't be done. Greig has also weighed in with a "why the hell not; obviously something reads the password to see if it matches the one you entered." So, Windows gurus, hack me something unsupported into LSASS.
- Regarding NetworkManager PPTP for Ubuntu Dapper: the previous package didn't work well because it didn't require pptp-linux, but a new package has fixed that, and some build issues, and is now working its way through REVU.
Windows Administrator Challenge: Temporary password changes
Monday, August 21st, 2006I've yet to post something so sensational (or trollworthy, or just "noticed by Digg") to build up a loyal readership of thousands. I'm sure it'll come eventually. I need to do a couple of things: pimp myself to various Planets, and decide exactly what it is I write about. Generally, it's "things related to what I'm working on", which may or may not be of interest.
My last plea for help didn't turn anyone up. Here's another one that hopefully Google will one day turn up for someone who is bored and has the knowledge and skill to do this, or I'll get bored myself, and acquire the knowledge and skill to do it. Perhaps when it's cricket season again..
I want a simple add-on for the Active Directory Users & Computers MMC utility that does the following things:
- Allows you to change a password for a user, and more importantly
- Saves the original password, so you can reset it later.
No more will you have to ask a user for a password to log into their machine and fix something wrong with their specific profile or operating environment, or change their password and tell them to change it back when you're finished. The script will copy the crypted password to an unused LDAP attribute on the account, and then copy it back when finished - without ever having to know what the password is. By standard means, it's not possible to read the password hash out of AD, so I'm currently seeking help from the newsgroups.
Daniel Petri's help pages have examples on how to extend AD to add options to the context menu for a user, to run VB scripts.
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