Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: photo/graphics processing SIG anyone?

2007-06-05 Thread Sharon Doig
Hi David, I am a photography student at ANU in Canberra. My husband absolutely refuses to buy any microsoft products. He is a DBA and web administrator and works with their products everyday and sees all the problems. He didn't want these problems at home. I can understand that we don't have

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-05 Thread Zhasper
On 05/06/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Zhasper You could take it a step further by not allowing passwords at all, and relying on the SSH key you carry on your USB stick to authenticate you. Of course, that again makes things inconvenient for you - if you left the USB

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-05 Thread Zhasper
On 05/06/07, Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 12:02 +1000, Zhasper wrote: It probably makes these types of automated scans, which are relying on you having common usernames with obvious passwords, less likely to do bad things to your machine. On the other hand,

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-05 Thread Adam Kent
On 05/06/07 11:45, Voytek Eymont wrote: my logs are littered with the usual failed login crap; Another idea might be to try denyhosts... automatically scans your auth.log and adds annoying dictionary attackers to hosts.deny... http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-05 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, June 5, 2007 5:04 pm, Zhasper wrote: On 05/06/07, Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 12:02 +1000, Zhasper wrote: 10% of users will choose a poor password. Better to get ssh to insist on a public key, and then call login so it can ask for their password too.

[SLUG] Helpdesk software

2007-06-05 Thread Max Wright
Hello slugs - Can anyone suggest a good opensource helpdesk app? Something with a web interface, problem tracking, knowledge-base would be good. Max -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Firefox and 64 bit java plug in

2007-06-05 Thread Sharon Doig
Hi, I want to find a 64 bit java plug in for my firefox browser. As far as I can make out there isn't one made by Sun. Can people suggest if blackdown java is any good? I have an AMD 64 bit architecture laptop running Suse 10.2. I need the java plug in to access a chat room for my nutrition

Re: Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: photo/graphics processing SIG anyone?

2007-06-05 Thread Simon Pascal Klein
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 16:00 +1000, Sharon Doig wrote: Hi David, I am a photography student at ANU in Canberra. My husband absolutely refuses to buy any microsoft products. He is a DBA and web administrator and works with their products everyday and sees all the problems. He didn't want these

Re: [SLUG] Firefox and 64 bit java plug in

2007-06-05 Thread David P
Sun makes Linux amd64 java, but unfortunately they don't provide a amd64 firefox plugin. Konqueror however doesn't use a plugin for its java support, but uses the JVM binaries directly to display applets (which i've heard does work under amd64). So assuming you've installed the amd64 JRE,

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:24:07PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Tue, June 5, 2007 5:04 pm, Zhasper wrote: On 05/06/07, Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 12:02 +1000, Zhasper wrote: 10% of users will choose a poor password. Better to get ssh to insist on a

[SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Here's a question for the Drupal experts on the list... I've got an existing Drupal site I've developed (www.example.com, say). I want to add an online store to it using os-commerce [1], under www.example.com/store. How do I get Drupal to ignore URLs under www.example.com/store and pass them

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread david
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 23:20 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Here's a question for the Drupal experts on the list... I've got an existing Drupal site I've developed (www.example.com, say). I want to add an online store to it using os-commerce [1], under www.example.com/store. How do I get

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread Simon Males
Sonia Hamilton wrote: Here's a question for the Drupal experts on the list... I've got an existing Drupal site I've developed (www.example.com, say). I want to add an online store to it using os-commerce [1], under www.example.com/store. How do I get Drupal to ignore URLs under

Re: [SLUG] Helpdesk software

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Kempe
Max Wright wrote: Hello slugs - Can anyone suggest a good opensource helpdesk app? Something with a web interface, problem tracking, knowledge-base would be good. Max we like the new version of RT. RTFM adds knowledge base stuff. http://bestpractical.com/rt email integration is RT's

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread justin randell
hi, On 6/5/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a question for the Drupal experts on the list... I've got an existing Drupal site I've developed (www.example.com, say). I want to add an online store to it using os-commerce [1], under www.example.com/store. How do I get Drupal to

[SLUG] subversion: best way to handle one local file different?

2007-06-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm using subversion for development on a website. On my laptop, the file that points to my local mysql database is different from the production version; apart from that I want my laptop and production version of all other files to be the same (except of course when I'm doing dev work locally).

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:36:17PM +1000, david wrote: Doesn't Drupal have modules for oscommerce? As far as I can find on the oscommerce website, there's no oscommerce drupal module. * On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:51:50PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: I believe you need to put some sort of omit

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:20:54AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: I would suggest zencart as a better alternative. I don't think oscommerce has been maintained for a while; last I saw it was not friendly with PHP5. Thanks for that. I had a look at the ZenCart site - it looked commercial

Re: [SLUG] subversion: best way to handle one local file different?

2007-06-05 Thread Michael Lake
Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm using subversion for development on a website. On my laptop, the file that points to my local mysql database is different from the production version; apart from that I want my laptop and production version of all other files to be the same (except of course when I'm

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

2007-06-05 Thread Rich Buggy
ZenCart was a fork from osCommerce. I think osCommRes is another fork (http://www.oscommres.com/). For as long as I can remember they've been struggling to release osCommerce 2.2. A while ago I read somewhere they were now working on 3.0. Drupal has an ecommerce module available that might do

[SLUG] Reminder: SyPy Meetup tomorrow Thursday June 7, 2007

2007-06-05 Thread Mark Rees
A reminder that tomorrow, Thursday, June 7 2007 from 6:30PM, there will be a social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group and any individuals interested in discussing Python, Web, Ruby, Perl etc. Laptops, code review, show and tell etc allowed and encouraged. We meet in the ground floor area

Re: [SLUG] samba wierdness

2007-06-05 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:05:17AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi If anyone can see the light ... I have a samba share on two machines, suse 10.2 and feisty [video] comment = video inherit acls = Yes path = /home/store read only