Re: Another old SCSI request
Could you tell us about the scanner please? On 3 June 2010 17:53, Maurice Butler likema...@quicksilver.net.nz wrote: Hi, I have got a couple of compaq/hp dlts that's are se, may even be able to find a couple of tapes for them. Also got a scanner that's about 8 years old - never been out of the box in garage if you are interested. Maurice -Original Message- From: Andre Renaud [mailto:an...@bluewatersys.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2010 1:12 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Another old SCSI request Hello, A few months ago I asked on this list if anyone had any older SCSI gear. I received some responses and am now sorted on that front. However now I am on the look-out for some older SCSI differential (HVD) equipment. Either a hard disk or a tape drive would be perfect, but failing that I'd accept any HVD device at all. Does anyone have any of these floating around? Please contact me off-list if you do. I hope this isn't too far off topic - it peripherally relates to Linux via the Linux-based SCSI device we are developing. Regards, Andre -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Is there such a distro?
On Thu 03 Jun 2010 16:03:38 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: physical access means root access! Only if you can boot from CD/USB stick (which any lab admin has disabled), or if you manage to disassemble the computer while the lab admin looks at you holding his baseball bat. Good luck. On the list of reasons why you couldn't possibly afford a root password on a lab computer is pretty darn silly, which haven't been mentioned: * The admin might have a very good reason to need or want it. * If your root password can be brute-forced during a lab class, you sure didn't deserve any better anyway. * It's a research institution, so playing with the security system where the potential damage is marginal is part of the game. I know admins who just shrug their shoulders for this very reason, as long as no actual damage takes place. * Did someone go there to get a degree, or to be kicked off campus by the acceptable use policy? But the most annoying thing about sudo is the crowd of Buntunistas(TM) who think everyone absolutely has to use it everytime everywhere just because it's the default for their favourite distro, when benefits are at best arguable and at worst a security problem. It's a tool. It gets used when and if it gives a useful return. Just like with any other tool. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: Is there such a distro?
On Thu 03 Jun 2010 10:04:25 NZST +1200, aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote: By the way, it's only five extra keystrokes to prefix a command with sudo . And exactly why do you think commands are called mv, rm, and ls? ;-) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
RE: Another old SCSI request
i will dig it out tomorrow and post the details -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:csawt...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 5:58 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Another old SCSI request Could you tell us about the scanner please? On 3 June 2010 17:53, Maurice Butler likema...@quicksilver.net.nz wrote: Hi, I have got a couple of compaq/hp dlts that's are se, may even be able to find a couple of tapes for them. Also got a scanner that's about 8 years old - never been out of the box in garage if you are interested. Maurice -Original Message- From: Andre Renaud [mailto:an...@bluewatersys.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2010 1:12 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Another old SCSI request Hello, A few months ago I asked on this list if anyone had any older SCSI gear. I received some responses and am now sorted on that front. However now I am on the look-out for some older SCSI differential (HVD) equipment. Either a hard disk or a tape drive would be perfect, but failing that I'd accept any HVD device at all. Does anyone have any of these floating around? Please contact me off-list if you do. I hope this isn't too far off topic - it peripherally relates to Linux via the Linux-based SCSI device we are developing. Regards, Andre -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Is there such a distro?
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Solor Vox solor...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 June 2010 10:31, Jim Cheetham j...@gonzul.net wrote: If you are the owner of the computer in question and you are competant, there is no reason at all not to use root all the time. Just set your uid to 0 and be done with it. I'm as serious with that comment as I am with writing passwords down, i.e. very serious. This is both horrible and dangerous advice. First, we are human and I Not really. It's an extreme position and I put the word competent in quotes. Personally, I don't run as UID 0 (although on my main workstation only I do permit sudo with no password for my user). I'm not going to bother with a point-by-point discussion of your comments, they're all sufficiently correct. I just don't agree that they are situations you need to guard against too strongly on a workstation where you should be able to rebuild from an ISO with minimal impact at short notice. That sounds a little bit like moving the goalposts for the discussion, but it's part of the definition of competent ... :-) However, if you are *not* the owner (i.e. in any business context) then sudo provides a very valuable audit log experience. You have 5 Sure, sudo helps with logs if the admins use it. Well, don't give them the choice. I'm talking about production systems in a professional services model (ITIL etc), not just a bunch of guys logging on to a webserver somewhere to hack on their blogs. In these environments, audit is far more important than giving the admin a pleasant work environment .. -jim
Re: Bluetooth dongles
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Eliot Blennerhassett li...@blennerhassett.gen.nz wrote: Howdy Craig, did you order these? have they arrived OK, and do they work OK. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote: I'm going to buy a couple dozen for our new office cell phones. I have ordered these devices in the past and they work find with Ubuntu Karmic and Lucid. Stephen Irons -- Stephen Irons Senior Designer Tait Radio Communications 175 Roydvale Ave, Christchurch, New Zealand DDI: +64 - 3 - 357-0713 www.taitworld.com stephen.ir...@taitradio.com TAIT: THE RIGHT FIT
RE: Another old SCSI request
-Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:csawt...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 5:58 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Another old SCSI request Could you tell us about the scanner please? It is a Mustek Paragon 1200 III SP Plus with PCI scsi card Scan speed 1.5ms/line Scan Area 21.6x29.2 Scan mode colour 36bit internal gray mode 12bit Internal Scan method single pass Resolution 600 X1200 dpi Maurice
