Re: [SLUG] Reuse or Recycle Your Old Computer

2014-02-03 Thread Glen Turner
, Aspitech are Linux-friendly if you ask). -glen -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] making fgets fail during testing

2013-09-21 Thread Glen Turner
The usual technique is to interpose your own library call above the usual call. See LD_PRELOAD and dlsym(). For an interpreted language like PHP use strace and friends to see which library calls the PHP fgets() uses (it need not be fgets(), it could be read()). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-04 Thread Glen Turner
David Lyon wrote: It's interesting that I2C is a actually a multi-master master/slave system. So there doesn't appear any theoretical reason as to why it wouldn't work. The lack of two I2C ports on the RPi would be a practical reason. The sense of master and slave carries electrical

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Glen Turner
On 02/06/2013, at 9:31 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: yeah. come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have to be able to switch from slave to master to be able to send broadcasts like arp

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-02 Thread Glen Turner
On 03/06/2013, at 10:15 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: Wow thanks for that Glen. Stacks of useful info. Given me a bit more to think about. Personally, if I were building a cluster of RPis I'd use the serial console for remote management. The main reason for that is that crash information gets

Re: [SLUG] DNS server getting hammered.

2013-04-07 Thread Glen Turner
On 07/04/2013, at 10:28 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: Presumably the requests are generally coming from a limited subset of addresses. I suggest grepping your logs, and pulling out all the requests matching those patterns. then pull out the distinct addresses. then just putting a firewall

Re: [SLUG] date sorting on second last string

2012-08-10 Thread Glen Turner
On 2012-08-06 Jobst Schmalenbach trolled: Dear I say it ... Excel does a good job at this. Export as csv, import into Excel, select the column and sort. That won't give the result you want, due the varying number of columns in each record. If you fix that then the sort command can trivially

Re: [SLUG] Editing a text file (to preserve line-endings) - how to do it ?

2012-08-10 Thread Glen Turner
this, as it treats the CRs as data. If it auto-detects DOS format then just turn off DOS mode. In the worst case it has a hex editting mode. vim has a binary mode that looks the goods too. Again you might need to disable DOS mode before editing and saving. -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt

Re: [SLUG] disabling ipv6 on centos? telnet localhost fails

2012-06-21 Thread Glen Turner
. -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Apache limits on number of files in a directory

2012-04-07 Thread Glen Turner
In all seriousness, it's simple enough to run up Apache with the workload you think you want (even if the filenames are nonsense and the file contents all identical). So do that. Then you can do your capacity planning with numbers rather than assumptions. The point of a CMS isn't to quickly

Re: [SLUG] Force mounting usb storage read only

2012-04-06 Thread Glen Turner
rather than using udisks. Let us know how you go, Glen -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] Australian distributor product page for Raspberry Pi (Model B)

2012-03-01 Thread Glen Turner
http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-b/dp/2081185 Hi Jeff, Do you know if there is actual stocked product behind that page? Cheers, Glen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] mkdir

2012-02-15 Thread Glen Turner
on directory. Even that might not give the group access, it depends on the user's umask. If they create the directory through Samba then there's no shortage of hooks to force directory ownerships and permissions. man smb.conf -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-09 Thread Glen Turner
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 11:55 +1100, simran wrote: . is there truly nothing obvious that is a good replacement for mac users to move back to linux. Just a heads-up that installing any distribution of Linux on the current Mac hardware is a nightmare. If you are buying a computer to run Linux,

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-09 Thread Glen Turner
I found it to be utterly easy: Boot Favourite CD/DVD Install as usual With respect James, that has not been my experience with a 2011 MacBook Pro at all. Distribution DVDs don't even boot, standard boot loaders don't support Apple's UEFI, the kernel dies. And sure, I've got Fedora working now.

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-13 Thread Glen Turner
Andrew wrote: What I find annoying about these conversations is that if you had gone and bought an Apple with Mac OS X you would be perfectly reasonably working through learning how to use a new Desktop and not complaining about it at all. But here we are admonishing the GNOME hackers had

Re: [SLUG] Affordable wireless AP hardware to support 30+ connections

2011-11-03 Thread Glen Turner
Got to say I'm a bit surprised you're maxing out so early. I do wonder if you aren't maxing out the CPU by running WPA2/802.1x since those APs don't do AES in hardware, but the CPU was sized for crypto to be done in hardware (unfortunately all of the crypto supported in the WRT54G hardware is now

Re: [SLUG] ssh key-based auth not working Ubuntu without GUI (X) login??

2011-08-22 Thread Glen Turner
are output in ssh -v and in the system log. Maybe command line ssh and gnome-keyring-agent are simply offering differing keys, only one of which works. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Federal Gov Open Source Policy

2011-02-08 Thread Glen Turner
in the information assurance field that aren't interested in what you do best (installation, configuration, support and so on) so you might look towards a partnership for those more specialised tenders. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Suggestions for a monochrome printer.

2010-05-24 Thread Glen Turner
well for over five years. Consumables are about $110. The printer shipped with half-full consumables and no USB cable, which was pretty obnoxious. So although it works well, I expect you can do better. -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Error in Time() command

2010-05-23 Thread Glen Turner
the argument and program above into an appendix and cross-reference it as you would any other minor experiment or incidental proof. In general, these intermediate results don't contribute to word count, but do check the local policy. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Error in Time() command

2010-05-23 Thread Glen Turner
research hassle that determining the error of an experiment is usually more work than determining the result. Best of luck with your studies, Glen -- Glen Turner Australia's Academic Research Network (AARNet) www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Re: Time Pedantry

2010-04-07 Thread Glen Turner
. As for the specific point, there's nothing to stop difftime() applying leap second adjustments. -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Beating the filter

2010-04-07 Thread Glen Turner
legislation won't have any effects :-) -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu network manager dns

2010-04-07 Thread Glen Turner
Mangler doesn't like editing an empty /etc/resolv.conf -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF

2010-03-21 Thread Glen Turner
From: Barrett-Bowen, Neil To: Glen Turner Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:47:47 + Subject: RE: SILK IP License Request Message-ID: 7e09d250a0d81f4bb9c5206d9ac6a156018c8c2...@dub-mexms-002.corp.ebay.com In-Reply-To: 1268956113.2084.30.ca...@ilion Glen, We have recently made some big change

Re: [SLUG] IPv6 DDNS and DHCP3

2010-03-21 Thread Glen Turner
list for fine info. In general though, I'd recommend against DHCPv6 outside of a residential ISP scenario (and even there the hosts will autoconf, it's the router which takes it's address from DHCPv6). Autoconf + stateles DHCPv6 seem to have much less difficulties. -- Glen Turner http

Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF

2010-03-21 Thread Glen Turner
standards track. Then we will see if Royalty Free terms are offered with their patent license. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF

2010-03-18 Thread Glen Turner
Let's see how this goes: Subject: SILK IP License Request From: Glen Turner To: SILK Support Message-ID: 1268956113.2084.30.ca...@ilion Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:18:35 +1030 Name: Glen Turner Title: N/A Company: N/A Address: XX XX XX, X XX , Australia E-mail: x...@xxx.xx.xx Phone

Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF

2010-03-18 Thread Glen Turner
. In practice, RFCs containing non-RF RAND patents have had a great deal of difficulty progressing down the IETF standards track in recent years (eg, Microsoft's terms for its patents in SenderID doomed the progress of that draft RFC). -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] one serial port multiple readers

2010-01-12 Thread Glen Turner
the question is about sharing messages, not about sharing serial ports. Best wishes, Glen -- Glen Turner www.gdt.id.au/~gdt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-17 Thread Glen Turner
to the same standard. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-30 Thread Glen Turner
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:46 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: ATAoE is l2 protocol so no its not routable, but ATAoE is a published standard and the drivers are in the kernel since 2.6.11. A published specification, not a published standard. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] open office and .xlsx files

2009-09-24 Thread Glen Turner
.xlsx. To check this I just exported a spreadsheet from Office 2007 on Windows Xp and OpenOffice 3.1.1 on Fedora 11 opened it just fine, modulo substitution of fonts. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Chinese intruder yesterday

2009-08-14 Thread Glen Turner
On 14/08/09 05:32, Jim Donovan wrote: He was evidently working from a list I really wish distributors would add a sshin group by default, drop the first user's account in it, and let the sysadmin add any further users that might need remote access. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt

Re: [SLUG] Chinese intruder yesterday

2009-08-14 Thread Glen Turner
On 14/08/09 21:28, Rick Welykochy wrote: Dare I ask why the distro should drop the first user's account in sshin? Headless installs. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

2009-07-19 Thread Glen Turner
. The system relies upon the combined capacitance of the system being small, so use Cat6 and keep all cables short. It's too dodgy for enterprise use, as any component failure (perhaps even powering off one of the nodes) would pull down the monitored link. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

2009-06-25 Thread Glen Turner
an epoch--a well-defined point of time. On GNU and POSIX systems, the epoch is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, so `...@0' represents this time, `...@1' represents 1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC, and so forth... -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

2009-06-25 Thread Glen Turner
Whoops, must turn on threading so the response from others are seen. Bad Glen -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Proprietary colour names (was GIMP was...)

2009-05-21 Thread Glen Turner
, nor name-to-CMYK mappings. In fact, such software wouldn't be specific to the PANTONE CMS at all. Which, it seems, would serve PANTONE right. Cheers, Glen -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Proprietary colour names (was GIMP was...)

2009-05-21 Thread Glen Turner
. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Lenovo wins $150m NSW schools deal or April Fools joke?

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Turner
movement that this long-outstanding bug in its premier graphics package continues, and of course that bug should stand against free software in an evaluation of software alternatives. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Turner
also true of Dell's support for Linux on their desktops -- corporate line has certification and support, consumer line doesn't. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] GIMP (Was: Lenovo wins $150m NSW schools deal or April Fools joke?)

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Turner
, but this didn't flatten into a hole in the gray spot, leading to Tasmania being dropped. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Calendar Server

2009-05-01 Thread Glen Turner
Bedework is popular at universities, mainly because it easily deals with multiple calendars per user and talks to everything but Exchange clients (which is squarely in their plans). It may be a bit over-the-top for a small company's needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-07 Thread Glen Turner
to an experiment but are needed for the real world. Accessibility and internationalisation spring to mind for software, packaging and parts availability for electronics. And dare I say documentation? -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-03 Thread Glen Turner
it was fine that I needed to be an expert in graphics to connect a projector. That's a fail for me, since my expertise is in networking. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Re: Computers software for schools]

2009-04-02 Thread Glen Turner
, then the financial will take care of itself. I doubt the education department really enjoys $m of funding being top-sliced to pay for software when there are so many other uses for $m within the education system. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Installing 8.04 on a Dell Optiplex GX260 - woe is me

2009-03-26 Thread Glen Turner
elliott-brennan wrote: What the hell has this been created for? For installing Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 on machines with more the 2GB of RAM. For Linux you can leave Dell's OS Install Mode off. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Defining automount points for USB and SD devices in Ubuntu

2009-03-12 Thread Glen Turner
name into a variable. I imagine /media is coded into the desktop mount utility. I wouldn't fight it myself. Simply because it's nice and it works and stuff like SELinux is going to try and enforce the standard location. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?

2009-03-12 Thread Glen Turner
. For example: http://www.veritysystems.com/degaussers/degausser.asp?id=1240 They'll easily wipe a big box of tapes in a day's rental. They're designed to wipe traditional 1/2 reel tapes, so they'll certainly work for MiniDV. Cheers, Glen -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Downloading files with .asc extention.

2009-03-09 Thread Glen Turner
... /IfModule IfModule mod_autoindex.c AddDescription Text document .txt .asc ... /IfModule -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] More on the USB modem.

2009-01-26 Thread Glen Turner
). But the often-microwave link from the basestation to the exchange? That strikes me as the point where your data can most likely be collected off the air (even if that link is encrypted, that link will have the worst key management, probably unchanged from the day it was installed). -- Glen Turner http

Re: [SLUG] AU Online Bookstores

2008-12-24 Thread Glen Turner
Being from out of the country, I'm not familiar with the best AU-based places to buy (hopefully used) IT books. Besides shipping books from Amazon, does anybody have any place (online or brick) they would recommend? Many people are happy with www.abebooks.com. Not Australian, but a fine

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netbook experiences?

2008-12-17 Thread Glen Turner
a lot of fat which could come out of the udev system. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Linux training course for experienced Windows admin

2008-12-17 Thread Glen Turner
Hi folks, Looking for a good Linux training course for someone with a deep background in PC hardware and Windows. Pref held in Sydney. Thank you, Glen -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] HUAWEI E169 USB Modem on Fedora 10

2008-12-16 Thread Glen Turner
might want to compare the FDI files /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-modem.fdi or simply look through that file paying attention to USB IDs. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu, Network Manager, USB 3G, ZTE Support, How to Help?

2008-12-02 Thread Glen Turner
not to bring this device to the user's immediate attention (ie, create desktop icon, but don't open the file manager). -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Keeping wife on linux

2008-10-31 Thread Glen Turner
be checked by looking for output from egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo Otherwise Qemu is nice but slow. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Where to buy cheap Cisco routers?

2008-10-31 Thread Glen Turner
reliability comes from hardware design, but the space you'll be buying in has precious few reliability features in the hardware (such as redundant, hot-swappable power and CPU, hot-swappable interfaces, passive backplane, hitless software upgrade, etc). -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

2008-10-20 Thread Glen Turner
the huge amount of hidden traffic carrying phone calls, building global scientific instruments, and so on. Even from the perspective of the Interweb the proposal is stupid. Cheers, Glen -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] bind non chroot setup

2008-09-30 Thread Glen Turner
/named.rfc1912.zones It's all pretty easy. You just need to keep everything in /var/named/chroot and then strip that prefix from the file names when you refer to them. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

2008-09-27 Thread Glen Turner
around that. The $2K courses have their role, but a disciplined person willing to do a few months of evenings of self-study doesn't need them. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

2008-09-26 Thread Glen Turner
and videoconferencing to users of my House Area Network. But it's a lot more complex to set up than configuring port forwarding (since you've also got to set up the server to do DHCP and NAT). -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] TFTP server problems.

2008-09-25 Thread Glen Turner
in.tftpd: ALL On my distro a firewall also exists and a iptables rule had to be added for the TFTP protocol (which runs over UDP). That requires the tftp connection tracking module nf_conntrack_tftp to be installed so that RELATED rules can be matched. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt

Re: [SLUG] Best WINE Front end ..?

2008-09-25 Thread Glen Turner
What I find useful is winetricks, which makes downloading prerequisite software from various web sites very simple. Having said that, I still haven't got Outlook to work. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] X authorization

2008-09-07 Thread Glen Turner
will still work, which might be confusing when someone cleans the keyboard. Anyway, your problem is almost certainly that X isn't running TCP. That's controlled by the GDM settings. Don't forget to modify the firewall too. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Performance Tuning

2008-09-07 Thread Glen Turner
with the diskpacks. Also some backup software needs a full scan of all diskpacks if it the software is asked to do a disaster recovery and this can take a long time. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden

2008-08-25 Thread Glen Turner
to their arm. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Full / partition

2008-08-16 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 17:33 -0400, Geoffrey Cowling wrote: I've just built a new machine for myself, and have put Ubuntu on it (I've usually used Debian), and there seem to be quite a few Ubuntu experts around here. I have a 400G disk, and I partitioned /sdb2 as / and gave it 1G. This was

Re: [SLUG] Email Domains --- handling of invalid email addresses

2008-08-13 Thread Glen Turner
can be given. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] bind attacks

2008-06-25 Thread Glen Turner
Alex Samad wrote: Jun 25 15:20:28 hufpuf named[3574]: client 59.151.50.247#9753: query (cache) './A/IN' denied can somebody shed some light on what they think they can gain ? Perhaps it's a DDoS attack seeking to hide it's originating IP address. Probably best to blackhole responses for

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-24 Thread Glen Turner
Jonathan Lange wrote: Recent events have reminded us that randomness is just as important in SSH key generation. I'd save my dice (and my time) for things that actually guard my data. The entire strength of WPA2-PSK depends on the shared key being unguessable; that is, random. So the WPA2-PSK

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-24 Thread Glen Turner
Voytek Eymont wrote: I want to setup a 'data logger' for rain water tanks and hot water storage tanks, for this I'll need at leats 3 RS232 ports USB hub, three USB-Serial converters. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread Glen Turner
Jonathan Lange wrote: Of course, the more interesting question is WHY!?!?! Apologies, I had thought it was obvious. Keys are often given in a hexadecimal representation. Each 4 bits is a hex digit, written using 0...9A...F. So a d16 will generate a hex digit of randomness. Two d16s will

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-22 Thread Glen Turner
You really can go too far, and wireless security is a prime example of pointless defence in depth. All that not using a ESSID broadcast, no DHCP, MAC address filtering do is the raise the time and hassle it takes to get on the network. Which means that there is (or soon will be) a script

Re: [SLUG] Opinions on Sender Policy Framework and Domain Keys

2008-06-15 Thread Glen Turner
mail addressed from my domain works well in reducing spam (mail from my domain should use SMTP-Submission). -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] allowing controlled access from dynamic IP

2008-06-12 Thread Glen Turner
Voytek Eymont wrote: so what's the best way to have controlled access from dynamic IP ? Perhaps is it better not to bother with access control but to use authentication and authorisation. If you persist with access control you just end up with some VPN/tunnelling insanity as opposed to

Re: [SLUG] : Increasing filesystem reliability (was : Filesystem which allows online fsck?)

2008-06-12 Thread Glen Turner
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Does anyone have anything else to suggest? mount ext3 with options: journal=data,barrier=1,noatime,user_xattr Create the fs with a bigger journal than usual, this will improve performance with journal=data. Our scientists often forgo filesystems entirely if the

Re: [SLUG] : Increasing filesystem reliability (was : Filesystem which allows online fsck?)

2008-06-12 Thread Glen Turner
James Gray wrote: mount ext3 with options: journal=data,barrier=1,noatime,user_xattr Do you actually mean data=journal? Yes I do, my apologies. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-09 Thread Glen Turner
Peter Miller wrote: As a profession, we have two choices: 1. start licensing and accrediting ourselves, with a structure we can live with, OR 2. wait for Some Really Bad Shit to happen, with a software defect as the root cause, and have the politicians force something upon us... something

Re: [SLUG] Minimum username length?

2008-05-18 Thread Glen Turner
Anyone know if there is a default minimum username length for some (or all) current Linux distros? One character. My employer allows people to choose their username and a lot of people use initials (of 2-5 letters). If you are setting up a new policy, I'd suggest something not based on name

Re: [SLUG] Debian SSH vulnerability: act now!

2008-05-16 Thread Glen Turner
to date and to prevent vulnerabilities and intrusions. But there's a lot of ADSL modems out there which are never updated. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

2008-05-13 Thread Glen Turner
mechanism you use for authentication. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?

2008-05-10 Thread Glen Turner
Geez, I have been spoilt. I've been doing Debian net installs for what must be close to a decade. Give it a break. Distributions have their strengths and weaknesses, otherwise we'd all use the One Distro to Rule Them All. Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a

Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?

2008-05-09 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:09 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Can fedora do a net install via a proxy? No. It's supposedly going to be half-there in Fedora 8 (proxying will work from stage 2 of the install onwards). You can bodgy it. Set up a transparent proxy and re-write the URLs the use the

Re: [SLUG] Convert Document with ascii Text to Html

2008-05-07 Thread Glen Turner
, and Save As... HTML. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-28 Thread Glen Turner
of the 150GB partition.) Now you've copied only 15GB to get your 150GB filesystem. Either way, I'd drive the build from packages. That is one of the big lessons of the OpenWrt project -- packages have benefits for embedded software too (configuration control, etc). -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

2008-04-21 Thread Glen Turner
into a spam blacklist. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] ppp0: error fetching interface information device not found

2008-03-21 Thread Glen Turner
such a file on our CentOS 5 systems and couldn't find an equivalent insmod anywhere in the init scripts. Maybe you can just force an insmod in the pppd configs or init script as a work around until you find the right way. Ugly. Probably sinful too. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)

2008-03-06 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 17:43 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: Pete, who measures his traffic in gross nybbles to reduce confusion. Is that 4-bit IBM nybbles or 6-bit DEC nybbles? he he he -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)

2008-03-05 Thread Glen Turner
if the adminstrative functions were still accessible when it is in bridging mode. I have a D-Link DSL-502T, which is a couple of years old by now. I use one of those, in bridging mode. Happy apart from no Annex M support (for increased uplink speeds). -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ 0416

Re: [SLUG] Printer problem

2008-02-21 Thread Glen Turner
has a vulnerability (and a lot of then do). The CUPS server is acting as an application-specific firewall for the printers. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ 0416 295 857 or +61 416 295 857 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Thanks - Re: How do I relocate /home

2008-02-17 Thread Glen Turner
I actually managed to get it right, and /home was relocated from /hda1 to /hda3, though the increase in storage space thus gained on /hda1 was only mb's, despite the transfer process stating that data moved was in the vicinity of 2.2 gb. Are you sure the data was moved, or was it just

Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

2008-02-13 Thread Glen Turner
create /home on /hda3 Not quite. /dev/hda3 should contain user1/ user2/ user3/ which are the directories which are on /dev/hda1 as /home/user1 /home/user2 /home/user3 You then mount /dev/hda3 /home The UUID and volume label can be used as alternative ways to identify /dev/hda3. This is

Re: [SLUG] tool for displaying time in different timezones?

2008-01-10 Thread Glen Turner
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Re: [SLUG] Macs/Linux comaptibility

2008-01-03 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:12 +1100, Chris Allen wrote: I notice when when I look at boxes for new hardware ( some software) it often says it will run a PC or MAC with rarely a mention of Linux. I presume that means under M$ systems for the PC. For the MAC, I understand the standard

Re: [SLUG] USB to serial

2007-12-18 Thread Glen Turner
in the USA for US$40 and have never seen its like again. I'd love to know if something similar can be sourced locally so that other staff members can stop stealing mine. Cheers, Glen -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ Tel: 0416 295 857 or +61 416 295 857 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Anyone have access to machines with IPv6?

2007-11-30 Thread Glen Turner
What I'm after is someone who has a proper IPv6 network and is willing to capture some IPv6 DNS traffic. You are welcome to bring up a tunnel to AARNet's IPv6 tunnel broker and create and capture your own IPv6 DNS traffic. I'm afraid I can't provide you with traffic captures of our customer's

Re: [SLUG] Quick and dirty mail/spam server

2007-11-25 Thread Glen Turner
OP: Scalable and professional mail server ? Sendmail. JW: Ha ha ha ha. OP: Please explain. Yes please Jeff. Of the 40-odd Australian universities about a third use sendmail. So unless you are running something like hotmail, what are the demonstrated scalability issues with sendmail for sites of

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