On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, at 5:22am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Little easier than mucking with iptables and less parts to break.
Another interesting hack is the "dynamic port forwarding" feature of
OpenSSH's ssh(1) program (the "-D" switch). For example:
ssh -D 1080 server.example.com
Tha
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, at 6:11pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ben Scott said "me too" and then proceeded to tell us details far beyond
> the scope of the question in a language that uses only English words, but
> which isn't English.
Heh. :) Seriously, if anyone has questions about what a particu
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, at 10:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for a "good" domain registrar who can
> handle international registrations.
Technically speaking, each country is responsible for operating or
appointing their own registry for their ccTLD. You can find
Coming into this a bit late, but knowledge seems to a bit scarce around
this thread, so:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, at 12:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040914141417417
Ho-hum. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that agreement (the referenced
document in the
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, at 4:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But I'm looking for tips, war stories, and warnings as to what to say to
> W98 install to minimize the likelihood of having to restore the Linux
> partitions.
As others have noted, this is not really that big a problem. Most
versions an
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, at 1:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Verizon will be cheaper for the speed, but their TOS specifically forbade
>> running servers last time I checked.
>
> Yes, they do. And they do not plan on issuing static IP's. EVER.
That is not correct. You can purchase a static IP op
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, at 1:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The only problem I've had was the initial install. Verizon came out to
> the house and ran two new lines (don't ask me why)
*Two* new lines is rather odd. Typically, Covad DSL (which is what
Speakeasy is using) brings in DSL on a dedica
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, at 10:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What's the latency like on that? I'm assuming with a 48K mile round-trip
> minimum for every packet, latency must be rather high?
It's closer to 100K mile. Geostationary orbit is about 25K miles up.
For a round-trip, that means 25K f
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, at 2:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> HB495 didn't get passed .. but it basically said that if somebody has
> their access point open that they did it like that on purpose.
Uhh... if it didn't get passed then it does not matter *what* the bill
said. A bill has precisely zero
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, at 7:50am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wish I could get it, but not in my part of Merrimack, I would need
> Adelphia and I will not use them.
I'd rather have Adelphia then dial-up. Yah, Adelphia sucks, but when it
comes to ISPs, Sturgeon's Law is overly optimistic.
--
Ben
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, at 9:03am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But now it seems that the hardware is getting its own firmware and that
> needs updating.
Indeed.
Some (rather esoteric) explanation, for those interested:
The IBM-PC BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), strictly speaking, is the
part
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, at 10:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/53311
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980609
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980610
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980611
;-)
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| The
I encountered a couple of weird problems booting my primary home computer
today, and I wanted to share.
Possibly relevant details:
- Red Hat Linux 7.3
- GRUB 0.91-4
- Epox EP-8K7A+ motherboard (w/ latest BIOS)
- AHA-2940UW SCSI host adapter (BIOS 2.20)
- IDE hard disk
- Multiple SCSI CD/DVD
As a counter-point...
I've had nothing but positive experiences with Amazon's customer service,
both email and voice. They respond quickly and are interested in helping.
Likewise, they provide near-real-time information on availability and
shipping status. All very impersonal, of course,
Some additional commentary to add to this thread:
* People have drawn the analogy to leaving your house unlocked and having
stuff stolen. It's worth pointing out that, in the state of NH, if your
property is not clearly posted as being private, people who wander on to it
(or claim to have do
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, at 8:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From a big brother perspective I'd be unhappy about the enhanced privacy
> ...
The VoIP providers have already been told by The Powers That Be that they
must make their services "available for monitoring" for legal reasons.
Ironic tha
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, at 10:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Question: What happens, and what are the dangers, when you check "Keep
> Password"? How is the password stored and could this later be used as a
> hole by some malware?
From reading the page you linked to, I surmise that the kdesud da
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, at 11:18pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I know that pccard is the same is pcmcia (easier for consumers). What is
>> cardbus?
>
> PCMCIA the next version (well, next in 1997)
In particular, PCMCIA cards are 16-bit and use 5 volts. CardBus cards (or
at least, can be) are 32-
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, at 7:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> I've been waffling (heh, sorry) on whether or not I'm willing to trust to
>>> Gmail, but I'll never know unless I try (for my least sensitive mail, at
>>> least).
> >
>> If you're sending sensitive email unencrpted, you're already in tro
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, at 2:39pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Exactly. But... Why would it work fine over one interface but time out on
> the other? xinetd is not bound to any specific interface.
I doubt it has anything to do with the interfaces involved, but rather,
the networks (and firewalls an
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, at 3:20am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My system is redhat9. It cannot receive broadcast packages, I am sure the
> broadcast server send packages.
I assume you mean "packets" and not "packages".
What is happening (or not happening) that tells you your computer is not
recei
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, at 9:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You want to disable the identd service.
That isn't going to help at all. The OP's system is *sending* AUTH
requests; identd only *responds* to ident requests. Turning off his identd
isn't going to stop his box from sending requests (a
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, at 12:43am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm beginning to wonder if the identd service is somehow sending the
> request to the client to identify itself to 10.x.x.x.
AFAIK, identd doesn't initiate requests, it only responds to them. I
expect either xinetd or the POP3 serv
On 23 Aug 2004, at 9:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yet another thing that the Linux community needs to fix.
s/Linux community/IT world/
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On 22 Aug 2004, at 8:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> (Yes, I have the appropriate .jar files in my ClassPath under the OO
>> Security setting).
>
> I had a semi-colon instead of a colon in the classpath. Sigh.
One of the laws in one of those "Laws of Public Forums" lists is that you
will only
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, at 2:11am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wish I could put more time into this announcement to explain the hows
> whats whys etc.
FWIW: One thing trying to help GNHLUG has taught me is that the that the
organization and administration is the critical part, and the hard part,
a
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, at 7:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been waffling (heh, sorry) on whether or not I'm willing to trust to
> Gmail, but I'll never know unless I try (for my least sensitive mail, at
> least).
If you're sending sensitive email unencrpted, you're already in trouble
And yo
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, at 11:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:58:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Most important of all, in order to make use of data in a filesystem
>> journal, you basically need to assume the attacker has achieved full root
>> compromise of your
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, at 12:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
>>
>> In my experience, that does not work right. Use
>
> Interesting. I've used exactly that approach a number of times recently,
> and had no troubles. Perhaps the difference is bad sector
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 10:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The file i downloaded was FC2-i386-disc1.iso and then I sucked it back out
> of the cd using
>
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
In my experience, that does not work right. Use
readcd dev=/dev/sgcdrom f=cdimage.iso
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 1:03am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And one more link that seems to be the most comprehensive, most up-to-date
> on the subject
>
> http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/groupware.html
Hm. Some of that stuff appears *very* interesting. I also see why I
never found some
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Unfortunately, this only works if both drives are in the system. If
> there's only the built-in drive, it boot to greet me with "GRUB " and a
> blinking cursor. I had expected that I still would have seen the menu, but
> only the Windows o
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:24am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Nothing exciting - just a backup program. In a given week, I accumulate
> about 10-15 CD's worth of data that needs to be backed up and the company
> is too cheap to go with tape.
Penny wise, pound foolish. But I'm sure I'm preaching t
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:38pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can't really go portscanning/pinging the crap out of the network ... We
> had a couple customers say that they would leave if we did it again, even
> if it was a planned event and announced.
IWF detected.
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WARNING: This message deals with Information Assurance (IA) topics. IA is
a harsh field. There is no room for hurt feelings here. If you prefer not
to have personal opinions challenged, stop reading now.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> All joking aside, the *actual
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Alas, human-friendly HTML is becoming rarer and rarer everyday. These
>> days, it almost seems like HTML is seen more like program output (like
>> object code) then something you can actually design and write yourself.
>
> Tell that to m
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 8:20am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Do either support MAPI? That is, do they provide seamless Microsoft
>> Outlook integration?
>
> What does MAPI give an end-user ...
MAPI stands for "Messaging Application Programming Interface". In typical
Microsoft fashion, it can m
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 9:18pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently did an investigation for a client of Linux based alternatives
> to Exchange. I found two that were very good at providing full blown
> Exchange capabilities and compatibility.
Do either support MAPI? That is, do they provide
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 10:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> It's unclear from your message how far it gets before it "stops dead".
>> Does it display any messages at all?
>
> Absolutely zip. The screen stops dead black as soon as I hit return.
Wow. That's really weird. At that point, every
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 8:33pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> The US DoD says that "Secret" and higher level classified data cannot be
>> sanitized off of a hard disk by software alone ...
>
> That is simply not true. DoD does allow for software only sanitization of
> hard disks for data classified
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, at 3:54pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A) If a given cdrom drive is open or closed?
I think this will be drive, and maybe bus, dependent. Some drives don't
even have a tray, come to think of it. I've got a slot-load, SCSI bus,
CD/DVD reader on my PC here at home.
> B) If th
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, at 1:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was developing a CD-ROM product which contains multiple Microsoft
> PowerPointless (tm) presentations.
You might as well give up on any hope of doing anything
standards-compliant right there. :-/
Pedantic clarification: This isn't
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, at 12:10pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> *The cast of attackers*
> Saudi Arabia - the cracker who defaced my site was
> from Saudi Arabia (e.g. cache3-2.jed.isu.net.sa). As soon as he put up a
> new homepage for me, he obviously told a friend (cache7-4.ruh.isu.net.sa),
> who visi
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, at 11:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> These factors combine to ensure that political topics will be discussed on
> Linux-related mailing lists.
While true, we also hope to keep the noise level sufficiently low that it
doesn't overwhelm the signal. GNHLUG's primary focus is
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, at 11:30pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> People are often looking for Linux work-alikes for MS Exchange Server.
> Novell just announced that they are making SUSE OpenExchange GPL.
Last I looked (which was admittedly some time ago), OpenExchange was
nothing more then an IMAP
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, at 12:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I keep my /tmp partition as ext2 for that sole reason. Anything sensitive
> goes there, and I can shred it afterwards.
Just to tweak the paranoid a bit further: The US DoD says that "Secret"
and higher level classified data cannot be
I saw that you already decided to go ahead with the restore from tape
(often the best call in that kind of situation), but I figured this might be
useful to know anyway, so:
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, at 9:38am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My situation: I have an HP server with two hot-swap SCSI drive
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, at 12:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please take the time to trim quoted material from your posts.
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, at 12:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please take the time to trim quoted material from your posts.
Please take the time to trim duplicated list-postin
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, at 1:09am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> AND the two tables will cost $200 + $10. for electricity.a lot more
> expensive than Hoss Traders. (sigh)
This concerns me more then the morning. Not that I'm a morning person by
any stretch of the imagination, but I can do it if I
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 4:46pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea how I can debug this problem? I can boot from
> other CDs, but FC2 just stops dead.
It's unclear from your message how far it gets before it "stops dead".
Does it display any messages at all?
--
Ben Scott <[
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 3:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've used APC SMART-UPS 1400 at a few installations with NUT and it's
> worked properly. I haven't specified them, they just seem to be popular -
> I think it's the biggest 120V unit they make in that model range.
FYI: The Smart-UPS 140
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 11:11am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is anyone willing to comment on their experiences with specific UPSes with
> Linux?
In my opinion, you can't go wrong with APC's Smart-UPS, Matrix, and
Symmetra lines. They may not be the cheapest, but they always work, and
well. Any
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, at 12:46pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I search for Kazza Lite Download, for non-illeageal reasons, of
> course, I get this at the bottom of the page ... [DMCA stuff removed]
Yah, Google has been doing this for awhile. The DMCA says they have to,
and Google's not about
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 10:48pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Gentoo - an awesome file manager.
I thought Gentoo was a distribution?
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 9:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The most likely thing is you don't have the proper cable running from the
> back of the CD-ROM drive to the sound card. If you built the machine
> yourself, one should have come with the CD-ROM drive, if not, I'm not sure
> if anyone sells
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 2:25am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I didn't get what I asked for ...
Well, you were rather vague in what you asked for. What are you looking
for, other than a magic-wand or a big-foam-clue-bat?
The following procmail recipe will route everything claiming to be from
th
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 11:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ... This requires more computrons ...
>>
>
> So that's the most fundmental element of computing physics, it explains so
> much. ;-)
Absolutely!
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/computron.html
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PRO
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, at 5:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Only as the argument to the 'f' flag...
>
> $ cat intro |tar cf plah.tar -
> tar: -: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> The intended result in this case can be acheived by just
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, at 11:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I put in a music CD, it brings up the CD player just fine, that goes
> out and finds disk info to display, the CD plays, and I can hear it
> through the headphone jack on the front of the drive, but no sound comes
> out of the speaker
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, at 5:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the logs say that Samba is started but I can not get it to show up on my
> windows network.
Issue all of the following commands at the shell prompt on your
Linux/Samba computer.
Try:
ps ax | grep smbd
If you do not see at le
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, at 5:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ( I now it is old but it is what I have)
You know that Linux is free, right? You can go and download the latest
Red Hat Linux (now called Fedora Linux) for free:
http://fedora.redhat.com
If you don't have the bandwidth, you
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, at 2:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So, anyone have any good procmail recipies for this bogosity?
Since you're dealing with a message that forged the sender as coming from
*your domain*, you might look into things such as SPF. If you can get away
with it, you could config
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, at 10:59am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Fantastic news: we're having an Installfest, hosted by Bruce Dawson at
>> Miles Smith Farm. Anyone is welcome to come - you can get your machine
>> installed with a high quality Free operating system...
>
> Hmm. Sounds like Libranet.
> Speaking of NAT issues, I've got one which is driving me nuts.
>
> Simple FTP downloads are failing to complete on my Linux box which is
> behind a firewall/NAT setup on a Linksys router.
>
> I have 6 or 7 computers behind the firewall, all sharing the same IP on
> the cable modem (Comcast).
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, at 8:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This isn't really a Linux question but with all the networking experts on
> the list, I figured this is as good a place to ask as any.
To understand what you are seeing, one will have to know how IP and
traceroute work.
Every IP packe
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, at 8:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I suggest that, when we secure a speaker, we make an immediate
> announcement.
Ooops, sorry, this was supposed to go to and not
. I must have removed the wrong header when I hit "Reply".
My mistake. Sorry for the noise.
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Ben Sco
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, at 5:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry about the late announcement, I had the speaker some time ago ...
I suggest that, when we secure a speaker, we make an immediate
announcement. Even if we don't know the exact *date*. This way, there is
nothing to remember -- get s
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, at 3:12pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Either way these last minute announcements make it difficult for those
> with busy lives to plan for and attend a distant meeting which is of
> interest as this one definitely is.
Me too!
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| The opinions
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, at 7:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've set up a SCSI tape drive on a system. The drive is a SONY AIT
> *mumble mumble* on a symbios based card.
Oh, that's easy. The answer is mumble mumble.
Seriously, to help, we need information. We're not psychic. Model of
tape
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, at 9:38am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> These will be the last Linksys VPN boxes I buy ... based on my experience
> trying to configure them.
Yah, like I said, LinkSys is pretty horrible for VPN stuff.
The thing that really worries me is: A VPN box that is doing things
inco
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 7:57pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just thought that I would point out that I discovered the GNHLUG Linux
> Business Show logo as part of a presentation out there. ... It's from a
> Linux-conversion presentation from a Albany-based cardiology practice.
Quick! Get ahold
On 14 Jun 2004, at 2:43pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (Sorry if this is off-topic or ill-received).
I, personally, find it very much on-topic, since I've been
(half-heartedly) looking for just such a service. I know others here have
as well, too. Perhaps we could get a GNHLUG group discount?
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 10:13am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Public-key crypto in SNMP would probably be unweildy, especially since
> SNMP is supposed to have a light footprint to make it easy to put into
> small embedded systems.
That's not the point I was making.
> A lot of customers just want
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 9:32am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> He dropped one line that really annoyed me. He stated that Windows Server
> 2003 performed a new authentication protocol that would break most Samba
> network share setups.
It's not new. There has long been a feature in NT that supports
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> ... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ...
>
> Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it..
That's hardly an endorsement. SNMP's approach to security issues has
generally been to ignore them. (SNMP = Security? Not my problem!) The
On 13 Jun 2004, at 1:32pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I've had someone recommend SnapGear to me ...
>
> If you're speaking of the ClearPath SNAP box...
No, I'm speaking of SnapGear. http://www.snapgear.com
Hmmm... they appear to have been bought by CyberGuard. Since I don't
really know any
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, at 10:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... does anyone have any recommendations for VPN end point appliances.
Of all the appliances I've used, my favorite is NetScreen. Outstanding
features and performance at a competitive price. Gotta love that SSH CLI.
SonicWall is ok
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, at 6:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's another gamble involved. At today's
> closing price the total market cap for SCOX is $70.49M.
Let's wait a few more weeks, and we'll buy it with the change I have left
over from lunch...
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL
Hello world!
Anyone here have any practical opinions on good Gigabit Ethernet interface
cards? Likewise, bad experiences, teaching things to avoid, are also
valuable.
I'm especially interested in how well the card works with Linux.
Performance, stability, and driver support. Ideally, I lik
On Thu, 20 May 2004, at 3:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Anyone got suggestions for an ISO repair kit? Or am I SOL?
If the MD5 checksum does not match, it means the CD image you have does
not match the one that Red Hat/Fedora released. This most likely means one
or more of the files on the C
On Mon, 17 May 2004, at 12:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been hacked ...
Quick answer: Copy any important data/files off to another computer, then
wipe the hard disk(s) and reinstall everything from scratch. It's the only
way to be sure the attacker hasn't subverted some part of the s
On Sun, 16 May 2004, at 5:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2. SPF. This seems to be promoted as something we should really want -
> tightening the loose SMTP rules which permit spammers to pretend to be
> sending from arbitrary addresses (including yours).
Background information (for the list)
On Sun, 16 May 2004, at 5:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OTOH, my honest answer is that only after I 'fessed up to myself that
> there's no free lunch have we been able to be in control of the spam mess.
Indeed. Spam-filtering is a great "one size does NOT fit all" case. One
person's spam is
On Fri, 14 May 2004, at 9:09pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking for recommendations for spam filtering.
As others have said, SpamAssassin is a very good foundation. Even in the
untrained "factory install" configuration, I find it does a very good job.
I just used the canned procmailrc
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 7:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think what the problem that people have is what they think the internet
> is..
Exactly. And regardless of what people *think* it is, the situation is as
I described it. You cannot connect to an intangible like the Internet.
You can
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 6:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I do predict that spammers will adapt to this new authenticated email
>> world rather quickly. Namely, they will modify their spam-cannon-laden
>> viruses ...
>
> That seems likely, but how much email is send from virus-attacked
> compu
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 2:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm basically on the side of individual freedoms and don't like that port
> 25 egress filtering is being implemented by broadband vendors.
Geeks (I include myself in this category) like to romanticize this idea of
the big, happy Internet
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 11:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Mail abuse. A great deal of spam and other mail abuse comes from
>> computers on consumer feeds that are incorrectly configured as a mail
>> relay (don't ask me how, but it happens more often then you would think),
>> or have been comp
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 11:04am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The solution is to add yet more and more entries into my mailertable file
> in sendmail.
Why don't you just relay everything through your ISP?
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 10:53am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Yah, that's what I'm going to have to do.. BLAH.. stupid comcast.
>>
>> Get used to it. More and more ISPs are adding this. And I cannot say I
>> entirely disagree with the policy.
>
> Why?
Mail abuse. A great deal of spam and
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 10:25am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yah, that's what I'm going to have to do.. BLAH.. stupid comcast.
Get used to it. More and more ISPs are adding this. And I cannot say I
entirely disagree with the policy.
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 6:47am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Recently my parents (that use Comcast) can no longer connect to port 25 of
> my server.. one that is legit, has correct reverse and MX records.
>
> Has anybody else seen this?
More and more ISPs are blocking port 25 outbound on consumer
On Mon, 3 May 2004, at 10:17am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That's what I was wondering. Not knowing much of anything about hardware,
> I didn't know if the linux distro's ability to see the whole drive would
> bypass the problem of the BIOS being able to see it.
Well, remember, "Linux distro" m
On Mon, 3 May 2004, at 10:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I dunno - what is LBA? How do I find out if my drive "is LBA" or not?
LBA = Logical Block Addressing.
The original IBM-PC BIOS (and MS-DOS) used C/H/S "physical block
addressing". Each block (AKA sector) on the disk was addressed
On Mon, 3 May 2004, at 9:08am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> With lilo, it seems to just hang. I get LI and then nothing.
That means LILO loaded what it though should be the second-stage boot
loader, but had a problem executing it (possibly because it loaded the wrong
thing). This might mean
On Sun, 2 May 2004, at 9:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I bought a motherboard, cpu and memory off a friend (P3 based). When I
> got the system put together, the BIOS (which I did flash to the latest
> version) only seems to recognize it as a 8.5 GB drive. However, even
> though the BIOS only s
On 28 Apr 2004, at 9:03am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think they mostly need volunteers (and more interest) at this point.
Where have I heard that before? ;-)
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, at 12:02pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That alone would make me say no thanks to buying it.
Most 1U systems tends to have some kind of funkiness to them. That's the
price you pay for stuffing hardware into such a small form-factor. In
particular, the CD/FDD are very often
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, at 3:11am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd be perfectly happy to expound on my cyrus-imapd / sieve / sendmail /
> mysql (or postgresql) / SMTP AUTH solution complete with virtual hosting
> if anyone's interested :-).
Well, I'm definitely interested. Would you be foolish^Wbra
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, at 7:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... the commands I type don't seem to work. The system accepts them, and
> appears to make changes to the routing tables, but the packets still end
> up going out the wrong interface.
Turns out that is not entirely true. I was testing
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