Re: [Scottish] All Stock must go (says SWMBO)
On Saturday 21 February 2009 09:37:14 pm David Miller wrote: Hey Colin, I would like the USB wifi adapters if that's okay? I have a cunning plan for them... Happy to pay postage - you can contact me off list at dmil...@sofi.org.uk Hi David, I can certainly post them. Is paypal OK for payment? (where I'm colin.mckin...@gmail.com). ATM I have no idea what the postage will be. Can you give me an address and how much you're happy to pay? C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Amazon albums?
Hi all, Does anybody know if there's anything other than amazonMP3 which will open .amz files. Despite what it says in the Amazon MP3 faq: What does DRM-free mean? Digital Rights Management or DRM commonly refers to software that is designed to control or limit how a file can be played, copied, downloaded, shared, or accessed. DRM-free means that the MP3 files you purchase from Amazon.com do not contain any software that will restrict your use of the file. They don't seem to publish any details of the file format - and the only way to buy albums is by using their binary only program. Since they have at least gone to the trouble of porting the program to Linux (and producing a Fedora9 package - I'm currently running Fedora 9) I was **even** prepared to use it, but trying to install it turned up lots of missing dependencies - it seems I'd at least need to install a large part of Gnome to get it working. C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Amazon albums?
On Sunday 26 April 2009 01:54:25 am Matt Causey wrote: My understanding is that those files are not audio files. They are used by the downloader to get the mp3s from the Amazon mp3 store. I don't know of any way to get at the mp3 files other than using the Amazon client to pull them. -- Matt On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Colin McKinnon colin.mckin...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know if there's anything other than amazonMP3 which will open .amz files. Your description of the files is certainly correct. I found a project called clamz (http://code.google.com/p/clamz/) which claims to be able to process the .amz files and download the music; when I have a couple of hours to kill at my own PC I'll get it built and give it a try-out (and of course let you all know how I get on). C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Cloudscan headers anyone?
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 09:36:57 pm Colin McKinnon wrote: I'm not sure that I want my my service provider to decide whether I get mail or not! Its certainly giving a few false negatives already. Indeed, a bit of digging, and yes, Virgin has been deleting my mail without telling me - still, at least they let me disable this. C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] wanted: wireless router
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 01:39:33 pm Kenny Duffus wrote: Hiya don't suppose anyone thats coming along to the meeting tomorrow has a spare wireless router (or possibly access point) they don't use/need anymore? the one at the electronclub (http://www.electronclub.org) is becoming very unreliable If it's for a good cause - I've got a Netgear WGR614 that's never been unwrapped. C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] book tidy out
On Saturday 24 July 2010 05:34:42 pm Kenny Duffus wrote: Been having a bit of a tidy out of my bookshelves the result is that i have a pile looking for new homes: http://selkie.fankled.net/~kd/books/ OMG - now we know what happenned to the rainforest! Can I have the XML and XSLT books? Can pick up at Scotlug on Thursday, TIA C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Possible job openings - System Security Analyst
Hi all, Just a wee heads up that both the security analysts at [where I work] are moving on to pastures new. Given the current climate in the public sector noone's actually admitted that they might be replaced - and the posts were last filled when they had only advertised externally via agencies (don't get me started). But if you're interested then drop me an email at colin.mckin...@gmail.com and I'll see if I can find out how you go about applying. I may even meet up and shaer some horror stories. What's my angle here? Well, if you mention my name (but please talk to me first) and subsequently get the job then I get a wee tip in my pay, but the best reason is that (hopefully) if they manage to recruit someone with a bit of technical savvy then they won't keep having to come to me with their problems. If you know a teardrop from a christmas tree then you're probably over-qualified, but if you want to work for peanuts (but the non-pay benefits are reasonable). C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 01:48:38 pm Jason Irwin wrote: Looking at Virign Media just now, any good? On the whole yes - the infrastructure is **very** good - fibre to the wall of your house means you get the bandwidth they advertise, and on the whole service is very reliable. They were never very good at services (NTP, email, and the bundled hosting package is rubbish) and since the Virgin takeover they seem to be trying to land grab by running transparent proxying for all port 80 stuff and adding value by pre-filtering email. There's only been about 2 or 3 significant outages I've noticed in the time I've been using them (12 yrs now) all due to problems with their DNS services (switching to a seperate server solved the problems for me). As for support? Well its a call centre in Asia somewhere who work from a set of about 4 scripts for diagnosing internet problems - they don't even acknowledge the existence of Apple Macs, let alone Linux. And you can expect to spend 30 minutes in a queue for the privilege - but I've been involved in some very serious and expensive support contracts with detailled SLAs which have been about as much use. Good luck, C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice
On Friday 07 January 2011 03:14:48 pm Georgia Thomson wrote: On 05/01/2011 23:03, Colin McKinnon wrote: As for support? Well its a call centre in Asia somewhere who work from a set of about 4 scripts for diagnosing internet problems Virgin media have their issues, but their support is not all offshore. I know this, as I work for them providing broadband support, Now I know who to call ;) Thanks Georgia! ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Checked your proxy lately?
Hi all, While I'm sure you've all got your systems setup securely, I've noticed that recently there is more noise in my logs from HTTP proxy requests than I get for ssh attacks. AFAIK, I'm not running an open proxy. The origin of these requests are primarily China. Do I nned to spell out the risks here? It may be worth having a wee check of your logs/configs? 92.240.68.153 - - [07/Jan/2011:12:58:09 +] GET http://japanese.engadget.com/media/2007/10/apple_sony_cybershot_t2.jpg HTTP/1.1 404 325 http://www.altavista.com/image/randomlink; webcollage/1.135a - 1155 kermit.southwold.net text/html 58.218.204.110 - - [07/Jan/2011:16:16:02 +] GET http://www.foodnese.com/indux.php HTTP/1.1 404 288 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - 763 kermit.southwold.net text/html 58.218.199.147 - - [07/Jan/2011:20:00:23 +] GET http://173.201.161.57/ HTTP/1.1 200 26 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - 14391 kermit.southwold.net text/html 58.218.199.147 - - [07/Jan/2011:22:25:08 +] GET http://98.126.15.13/proxyheader.php HTTP/1.1 404 290 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) - 1120 kermit.southwold.net text/html ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Cost of M$ in councils.
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 04:45:19 pm Marcel Hecko wrote: I was actually expecting this number to be much higher. Is this only software license costs which are accounted into the amount, or is this including support and mainetnance fees? It that a flat rate, or monthly/yearly cost? I would love to see other inputs/outcomes of the project you are mentioning. Marcel Because it makes it difficult to read. Please don't top post. I would have expected it to be higher too - based on an estimate for the OEM licence of £50 - getting a full set of supported commercial software, and client licences for print/file/email/webfiltering for £60 looks like a very good deal. I suspect there's some creative accounting going on here. C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Security breach
On Monday 04 July 2011 10:14:55 am John Gordon Ollason wrote: Greetings, I received e-mail from the ISP that hosts my websites that my shell account had been used in a security breach. I have had a superificial check of my files, and can't find anything altered. What checks ought I to do to insure the integrity of my files? And what harm could my websites do if something nasty has been left behind? Hi John O. Scary. When a security breach happens you'll generally get the same advice anywhere. Format your harddisk, reinstall from source media then deploy your bespoke code / data from backups. Meanwhile try to identify how the system was compromised and plug the holes. However if you're using a shared host (i.e. don't have root access) that's far from trivial. In an ideal world you'd get an image of the system to analyse offline to investigate what happenned - one of the reasons for needing root access. Are you using off-the-shelf third party code on your site (e.g. a CMS). If so, which one? Have you checked for known vulnerabilities? Are we talking about the website matching your email address? what harm could my websites do if something nasty has been left behind? It could just be sending out some spam - or you might be hosting a phishing site which costs e victims thousands of pounds every time someone visits it. Or it could be getting used as a proxy for controlling a bot army. So anything between very little and quite a lot - you might consider pointing your DNS elsewhere till you've got some confidence in identifying what's happenned here (you did ensure that you bought your DNS registraton seperate from your hosting?). Your ISPs assertion that the shell was compromised suggests that the attackers probably did not gain access via vulnerabilities in your website (which is how most attacks start). Can your ISP show that the access was via ssh? If not can they say with confidence that it was not via ssh? Were other accounts on the system compromised? An important question you'll have to visit very soon is how much is your website worth to you? And how much are you willing to spend to get it back on line? Do you want to continue using the same hosting company? Thre's going to be a lot of work involved in getting your site back - this reply barely scratches the surface. There are lots of very capable IT people here on the list - depending on what you use you website for / whether you think it worth paying someone to get the service restored, they may be able to provide more specific support. HTH C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] BBS / mini social network network software
Hi, As the computer guy, I've become responsible for the Scottish Rat Club's website (my daughter breeds and shows fancy rats). The current online provision is not great - some static HTML pages and a freebie invision BBS. Increasingly online activity is moving onto facebook :( I think we could do a lot better with the SRC website - and hence looking for suggestions as to software to run it. I'd want a basic CMS, a BBS, support for blogs, user pages - public and member only splits. User admin is essential, other nice things would be: - mobile client (HTML5 app / responsive design / native app) - configurable archiving - payment processing (but this is down the list a bit) Since I spend my working day untangling Java mess and this will be running on a cheap virtual host, it'll need to be LAMP. And since, when I'm not untangling Java, I'm fixing performance problems and fighting phishing, I'm not particularly keen on Wordpress nor Joomla. Googling for open source CMS turns up *lots* of different packages - but wading through their websites to find out how well they meet my needs is rather tedious. TIA Colin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] UK Hosting? was BBS / mini social network network software
Hi all, Currently the software evaluation list looks like pligg / anahita / openoutreach. ...but I'm also looking for any recommendation on cheap UK-based hosting. While I can find lots of very cheap hosting companies claiming to operate in the UK - nearly all of them have their datacentres in the US/Canada. It's not that I've got anything against the former colonies - but I already have a site hosted in Florida, and although packets go back and forth at around half the speed of light (I measured it - how sad) the latency is a killer. Uk2.net do have at least one datacentre here - but for the basic package they don't tell you where it's hosted / don't give you any choice in the matter. Easyspace seem happy to wave the flag. I've used 123-reg for DNS before, but not for web hosting - but they don't explicitly say their datacentres are in the UK. Anybody used any of them? Aiming for something under £5/mo Any other suggestions? On 19/04/13 23:50, Colin McKinnon wrote: On 19/04/13 19:06, Ronald MacDonald wrote: I've had a good bit of success with Symphony. Drupal's great too and tends to be what I use if I need a site up real quick. It is, however, overkill in most instances. Thanks Ronald, Lisha, Kenny. I'm rather being pulled in 2 directions here. On the one hand, the programmer in me wants something simple to tinker with and extend, but I keep reminding myself that I just don't have the time to do that and need a turn-key solution. TIA Colin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Window manager for tablet?
Hi, I'm looking for suggestions for WM which will be usable on a tablet (i.e. small screen) VNCing onto a Linux box. Really I want to run all my apps full screen without the expense of a menu bar. Although most tiling WMs allow this, it's rather difficult to do alt+tab with no keyboard! Hence I'd want something with a conventional task bar and a launcher would be nice too (not least so I can write an app to switch the 'mouse' buttons). Thus far the only taskbars/launchers I've seen for tiling WMs are very minimal (and very small to poke with my fat digits). I usually use KDE: my ideal solution would be to get rid of the window decorations / force stuff to run full screen. Anyone got any suggestions? TIA C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Window manager for tablet?
On 06/05/14 06:35, ray wrote: I haven't tried with a touch screen, but what about KDE-4 system Settings Workspace Behaviour Workspace Workspace Type : Netbook This opens applications full screen and has a sort of finger-friendly menu system. Ooh. Was rather surprised to find this in my system settings - didn't come across a netbook mode in my research and my desktop distro is currently a bit old. It seems to have some rough edges - this is a very early KDE4, but I'm inspired to do some more digging! Anyone know if window size can controlled via Xresources? (now if only I could get OpenOffice to respond to gestures). Also Openbox-KDE gives access to the KDE environment with a minimal window manager (no plasma). Don't you want to run these (choose as the desktop from e.g. kdm) on the host desktop rather than the tablet? Yes - thinking about accessing my desktop from the tablet but also as a way of doing BYOD at work (sorry, did I get it the wrong way around - that's the trouble with X Window / RDP / VNC which is the server again?). Has anyone tried a smallish bluetooth keyboard -- I am also experimenting with a tablet for remote access/administration/support. I did get a rather cheap and nasty bluetooth keyboard free with a case I bought for my son's Samsung (somewhat reminiscent of a Sinclair Spectrum) I found it difficult to type at speed with (I wouldn't go as far to describe what I do as touch-type) and the lag was significant. After much soul searching I'm thinking about buying a Microsoft branded product - PCWorld are currently selling compact wedge keyboards for £22, at least that's what the shelf-edge label said on Saturday at Braehead, currently the online price is £48 http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/ipad-tablets-and-ereaders/tablets/tablet-accessories/microsoft-wedge-mobile-keyboard-black-17291822-pdt.html Not tried it yet with a computer attached but it has a nice action - and the fold-out stand is sensible. C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Window manager for tablet?
On 07/05/14 08:43, ray wrote: Thanks for the keyboard info; I will investigate local price. Do you have an Intel chipped tablet? I have not had much luck running regular Linux desktops on Arm. Sorry offline for a bit there. Was back at PCWorld this weekend and price is now £48. I've not tried running a conventional distro on the tablet (arm) I'm using VNC viewer on the tablet to access my desktop. If nothing else it's an education in how to (not?) to design a UI for a tablet device. The Word Processor/Spreadsheet app (Kingston Office) which came with the tablet (Lenovo Yoga) actually copes quite well with the stuff I've thrown at it so far. However I was also hoping to map out tools which would be usable via a remote session for BYOD at work - i.e. allowing users similar access to what they have from their work desktop, but without any data being downloaded (or downloadable) to the device itself. And while I could just run virtual Windows machines with VNC, Linux/Unix seems a much nicer fit. Running a browser based application is looking like a better solution, but although there seem to be at least 2 projects underway porting OpenOffice to the web, there doesn't seem to be a sable release yet. C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
