RE: [SLUG] pdf problems with IE and Linux Apache
quote who=Glen Turner On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 15:02, Voytek wrote: *if* I put the files OFF the Linux server on a non-Linux server, the problem goes away, I'm not really sure Does this work? http://yoyo.adelaide.aarnet.edu.au/gdt/DIFFSERV.PDF It's Whitebox (RHEL3) and Apache. Glen, yes, it does, on all the computers that had problem -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] print on netgeart ps101 print server
any one have luck setting up a netgear ps101 using cups. I'm running fedora 1 The server runs under windows but no luck setting up under linux. Manual has instructions for IBM AIX that do not help at all. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Slides for my O'Caml talk
Hi all, The slides are available here: http://www.mega-nerd.com/tmp/firstimp-ocaml.pdf Anyone who wants the Latex sources can have them in they ask nicely. Of the O'Caml resources I listed, I would strongly recommend Learning OCaml, for C, C++, Perl and Java programmers: http://www.merjis.com/developers/ocaml_tutorial/ Finally, there was a question on the operation of the list intersect function that I had on one of the slides. I've added a little instrumentation to the example like this: let rec intersect lst = function [] - [] |head :: tail - Printf.printf head: %stail: %slst: %s\n head (String.concat , tail) (String.concat , lst) ; if List.mem head lst then head :: intersect lst tail else intersect lst tail ;; let list_a = [ a ; c ; b ; d ] ;; let list_b = [ c ; f ; d ; e ] ;; let inter = intersect list_a list_b ;; Printf.printf \nIntersect : %s\n (String.concat , inter) ;; which when saved to a file and run as a script with ocaml filename the output looks like this: head: ctail: f,d,elst: a,c,b,d head: ftail: d,elst: a,c,b,d head: dtail: elst: a,c,b,d head: etail: lst: a,c,b,d Intersect : c, d Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology, threatens an entire industry's economic vitality and future security. -- Jack Valenti (MPAA president) on the video cassette recorder, 1982. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] installing Debian on laptop hard drive
Dear list, I have a laptop without either a floppy or CD. To install Debian I removed the hard drive and placed it in a external USB casing and have formated the disk as ext3. 1. What image(s) do I need to copy to install Debian? eg BF24.bin, root.bin etc. 2. Do I need to dd the images? 3. Can I dd the minimum iso images straight to the hard disk? After I return the hard disk to the lap top. Is it just a normal installation? -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing 2/713 Pacific Hwy Gordon Australia 2072 Phone:+(61-2) 9418 4545 Fax:+(61-2) 9418 4348 Mob:+(61) 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] stopping automated scripts signing guestbooks
hi is there a way I can stop my guestbook from being hit by automated scripts I like having the feature on my site and I don't want to have to remove it due to stupidity. -- A fool must now and then be right by chance. Shaun Oliver http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Additional groff Fonts in RedHat 9
I am using groff via a bash script to typset some documents and have need of the Waldi symbol fonts (wasysym) as used by LyX. The seven wasysym pfb files are located in: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/hoekwater/wasy/ and the standard groff fonts are in: /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devps/ and the groff Makefile is in: ./generate/ I have also grabbed off the Net the afm and pfm files for each of the seven wasy*.pfb files. Googling results are either too esoteric for my understanding or do not take advantage of Make. Can someone walk me though the installation of these additional fonts into groff, please? Robert Thorsby -- 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] pdf problems with IE and Linux Apache
quote who=Jamie Wilkinson This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: IE offers to download the file, then returns an error 'cannot download, host not found' What's the apache server think its hostname is? (The ServerName and UseCanonicalName directives) # grep UseCanonicalName httpd.conf UseCanonicalName On # grep ServerName httpd.conf ServerName koala.sbt.net.au Jamie, I've now changed to 'UseCanonicalName Off' (which is what it should've been, I think,) but, it didn't solve the problem. -- Voytek -- 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] pdf problems with IE and Linux Apache
IE has problems with content displayed using activex when you are using cache control headers and/or SSL. Check out: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297822Product=ie http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812935Product=ie http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316431Product=ie http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;231296Product=ie For debugging HTTP problems I recommend ethereal (http://www.ethereal.com) or IE watch (http://www.iewatch.com/ commercial 30 day trial). -- Nick Wilcox. -- 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] stopping automated scripts signing guestbooks
Shaun Oliver wrote: hi is there a way I can stop my guestbook from being hit by automated scripts I like having the feature on my site and I don't want to have to remove it due to stupidity. I had a similar problem with the anonymous comments on my (unmoderated) website. The only way I could work around it was to enforce log in's. In other words, if you're not logged in, you can't comment, send in stories/links etc. It's a PITA but that's life. I didn't want my family website being polluted with porn links just so these filth-peddling low-life's could elevate their google rank!! If user identification isn't an option, you might get some mileage from restricting unknown/unwanted user agentsbut these are easily spoofed too. Good luck with it :) -- James -- 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] installing Debian on laptop hard drive
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:19 am, Lester Cheung wrote: Dear Lester, I just read the instructions and do not understand them. How do I install debootrap and grub on a clean disk? I would use debootstrap and install grub on the drive. :) On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:09:46 +1000, Richard Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop without either a floppy or CD. To install Debian I removed the hard drive and placed it in a external USB casing and have formated the disk as ext3. 1. What image(s) do I need to copy to install Debian? eg BF24.bin, root.bin etc. 2. Do I need to dd the images? 3. Can I dd the minimum iso images straight to the hard disk? After I return the hard disk to the lap top. Is it just a normal installation? -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing 2/713 Pacific Hwy Gordon Australia 2072 Phone:+(61-2) 9418 4545 Fax:+(61-2) 9418 4348 Mob:+(61) 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- 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] pdf problems with IE and Linux Apache
quote who=Nick Wilcox IE has problems with content displayed using activex when you are using cache control headers and/or SSL. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297822Product=ie http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812935Product=ie http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316431Product=ie http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;231296Product=ie For debugging HTTP problems I recommend ethereal (http://www.ethereal.com) IE watch (http://www.iewatch.com/ commercial 30 day trial). thanks, Nick. it's very similat, though, no ssl, and, there are no html headers, as the actual pdf is specified as a fullyQ url (though it's likely to be same bug, as yet to be documented...) though, there is possibly some Apache config i have wrong, as well; the user can open a 'fullyq url mail link PDF' on another server -- Voytek -- 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] mrtg + exim
This probably is close to what you want - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/12/mailgraph.html (As a hint for googling, RRD is generally now the engine of choice, having been written by the author of MRTG) Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Hamstead Sent: Sunday, 29 August 2004 1:18 AM To: SLUG Subject: [SLUG] mrtg + exim if anyone has some nice mrtg config and scripts for monitoring exim i would be really appreciative if you linked or sent them ive googled away my evening without much love. would asking for graphs with rejections or even spam oriented stuff be too much? well anything that would stop me having to start from scratch. thanks Dean -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] installing Debian on laptop hard drive
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:50:21AM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:19 am, Lester Cheung wrote: Dear Lester, I just read the instructions and do not understand them. How do I install debootrap and grub on a clean disk? Mount the USB HDD somewhere useful, run debootstrap on the mount point, then use whatever grub's equivalent to LILO's -r option is to write the boot sector. Have you considered trying to get a bootable USB stick to store a basic rescue system or netinst image and installing off that? It'll need to be a newish laptop and a reasonably-sized USB stick, but it's a cute option for when you don't have the traditional media options available. - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday 27th August
People, Any docs available for this? Thanks, Phil. General Talk This month Matthew Palmer will be discussing network and host security on the modern Internet. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:0411-185-652 Fax: +61:2:8923-5363 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday 27th August
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:19:22AM +, Philip Rhoades wrote: Any docs available for this? If the camera worked, there should be a recorded version of the talk available $SOMEWHERE $SOMETIME. I can put my slides up, but they aren't exactly long on information usable on their own. I'm planning on doing either a write-up or separate talk on one aspect of my talk that appeared of interest to people, on transparent firewalling, but that's not necessarily what you wanted. Let me know what particular information you wanted and I'll try and help. - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] pdf problems with IE and Linux Apache
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 17:54, Voytek wrote: quote who=Glen Turner On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 15:02, Voytek wrote: *if* I put the files OFF the Linux server on a non-Linux server, the problem goes away, I'm not really sure Does this work? http://yoyo.adelaide.aarnet.edu.au/gdt/DIFFSERV.PDF It's Whitebox (RHEL3) and Apache. Glen, yes, it does, on all the computers that had problem Then I suggest you use a packet sniffer like Ethereal to see what is the difference between files served from my box and files served from yours. Feel free to copy the DIFFSERV.PDF onto your box to reduce the number of extraneous differences. Best of luck, Glen -- Glen Turner Tel: (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936 Australia's Academic Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- 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] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday 27th August
Hi Matt, That would be cool - perhaps put up the slides then we can work out which bits we'd want more info on. Was hoping to make it to this months meeting, particularly for your talk so the chance to still get the info after missing it would be great. Cheers, Paul Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:19:22AM +, Philip Rhoades wrote: Any docs available for this? If the camera worked, there should be a recorded version of the talk available $SOMEWHERE $SOMETIME. I can put my slides up, but they aren't exactly long on information usable on their own. I'm planning on doing either a write-up or separate talk on one aspect of my talk that appeared of interest to people, on transparent firewalling, but that's not necessarily what you wanted. Let me know what particular information you wanted and I'll try and help. - Matt -- 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] Mozilla / linux solution for StGeorge ibank madness
I logon using this useragent: Mozilla/5.0 [en] (Windows NT 5.1; U) And I use this URL: https://ibank.stgeorge.com.au/html/redirect.asp?bhjs=1bhsw=1024bhsh=768bhswi=954bhshi=589bhflver=2bhdir=0bhje=1bhcold=24bhrl=-1bhqt=-1bhmp=-1bhab=-1bhcp=1 Mark M wrote: Funny, using Moz 1 Win 98, I can get to login screen and login, but then I get a small X in top left corner and APPLET NOTINITED at bottom of screen. Maybe it is my java / mozilla combination or something. Cheers,Mark. --- Rod Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was discussed here a week ago... solution that works for me with Firefox (which is essentially Mozilla) is to install http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ and then identify Mozilla as Moz 1 Win 98. (Thanks to Linley Caetan for this info). cheers Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com -- 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] Slides for my O'Caml talk
Thanks for the talk Erik; good stuff. On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:52:57PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: [ .. ] let inter = intersect list_a list_b ;; Printf.printf \nIntersect : %s\n (String.concat , inter) ;; Remembering Erik's remark that an Ocaml function only really takes one arg, I was playing around and found that you can replace: let inter = intersect list_a list_b with let inter_acbd = intersect list_a ;; let inter = inter_acbd list_b ;; and get the same results, which also helped me understand what that function is doing. -- Matt PS. if you're running fedora2 you can get ocaml, ocaml-docs and camlp4 and other caml stuff from the main stable repo. -- 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] stopping automated scripts signing guestbooks
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:59:04PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: hi is there a way I can stop my guestbook from being hit by automated scripts I like having the feature on my site and I don't want to have to remove it due to stupidity. A typical way this is done is to ask the user to type in a code which is there displayed in front of them on the same page in some slightly obfuscated manner. e.g. Submit code: [ ] [Submit] (todays submit code is the current year plus two hundred minus three) (Adjust to your users level of maturity) Others use a grainy picture of a number, but that's not going to help you! Yahoo use a similar thing to try and stop spammers doing automatic account sign-up. When the rate stayed pretty high, they concluded that spammers could afford to pay people to sit there all day registering accounts! Matt -- 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] Re: [chat] Unwired
A friend just got unwired... he got a ethernet connected device.. the same one shown in the ads. The funny box with the flip up antenna. It will work with linux... why? well to put it simply... the box connects to your PC via ethernet cable, at which point you tell your PC to use DHCP. When you turn on your PC it gets a DHCP ip from the box with the flip up antenna in the 10.x.x.x range. And then it just works... So my guess is unwired do nat translation somewhere on the end of the link in the datacentre they have. Linux connected to this box would work just the same, as long as you setup dclient etc to grab dhcp ip address/lease from the device on your ethernet interface. Routing it and/or sharing it to the other machines on your lan via this Linux box might be tricky or not. I don't believe you can do double NAT, however I am not exactly sure. So don't quote me on that. Cheers On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:09:42 +1000, Phil Mnuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exetel are going to start reselling Unwired's service at a lot less than Unwired in September. From what I've seen on the web sites there is two forms of the modem, one for USB connection the other with an Ethernet port. In theory there shouldn't be a problem using the ethernet one with Linux. Phil. On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:38 am, James Gray wrote: Shaun Oliver wrote: Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:49AM +1000, spake thus. Does anyone have any experience of unwired.. .good, bad or ugly? My daughter is getting 12Kb on her dial up because of crappy phone lines and I'm wondering how good an alternative this is. She has a Macintosh which the web site says are supported. Sadly, linux isn't mentioned - does anyone have any clues about linux connectivity? or does it just connect to an ethernet port like anything else? As I understand it dave, unwired uses a nonstandard proprietory implementation of wireless. I doubt you'll be able to connect it easily to a linux machine as it doesn't conform to the 802.11b standard I think it is. someone can correct me on that standard number at any rate. hth I use a wireless ISP here in Wollongong (Fish Internet - Etherwave http://www.fishinternet.com.au/broadband_intro.php). As I have a business connection plan, they provided me with a Cisco Aironet350 Workgroup Bridge (shweet). I simply plug it into my (Debian) firewall via a cross-over cable and that's it. Assign IP's to my network (I have a /27 subnet) and I'm done. Their consumer product uses a less flashy box, which AFIAK has both USB and Ethernet connection options. Then, like most broadband modems, hands out an IP via DHCP etc. The guys at Fish Internet don't officially support Linux, but their tech guys use it extensively and can unofficially provide $CLUE ;) Bandwidth? I see up to about 2Mbps synchronous when things aren't too busy, but when all the script kiddies get on between about 3pm-6pm it drops off to about 256kbps. The ISP is clueful though, and will be de-prioritising P2P traffic in the near future as this is what sucks up the bandwidth during those busy hours. Even with the drawbacks of a multi-homed network, for $110/mth, 32 IP's, and 5Gb of data (their consumer product has a more consumer price)...it's not bad. Especially when you consider we can't get cable, *DSL etc. in our area. So that's my experience with wireless broadband. Cheers, James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] stopping automated scripts signing guestbooks
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:23:03PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A typical way this is done is to ask the user to type in a code which is there displayed in front of them on the same page in some slightly obfuscated manner. Unfortunately, he is a blind linux user, and blind/vision impaired people visit his site. Having a graphic with numbers might be more trouble than it is worth, and are quite inconvenient. I know it is possible to scramble email addresses in the source using JavaScript but am not sure whether that would work with other URLs, such as form submission URLs. If it is possible, this might be of some help. Luke -- 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] stopping automated scripts signing guestbooks
Luke Yelavich wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:23:03PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A typical way this is done is to ask the user to type in a code which is there displayed in front of them on the same page in some slightly obfuscated manner. Unfortunately, he is a blind linux user, and blind/vision impaired people visit his site. Having a graphic with numbers might be more trouble than it is worth, and are quite inconvenient. I know it is possible to scramble email addresses in the source using JavaScript but am not sure whether that would work with other URLs, such as form submission URLs. If it is possible, this might be of some help. On my page here http://www.speleonics.com.au/mikes/mysoftware.php I have a Spam Obfuscator that inserts a random word into a plain text sentense like an email address. It does not use an image and it changes everytime. It's easy to configure for web forms. The user can be presented with plain text that asks them to insert in the form an anser like this: Please enter the mineral name goethite. __ I have a cat. Please enter the animal. __ Positrons are particles. What was the name of the particle? _ Mike -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
