Re: [SLUG] login-less logins
Now that made me laugh out loud. Re: [SLUG] login-less logins Bernie Pannell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:38:59 +1000 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:33 AM, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an 86 year old Mother in law who has never used a computer. I want to give her an old laptop to play solitaire etc on while she is in an extended hospital stay. She has no idea how to anything and has trouble with mobile phones, much less Ubuntu, so I'm trying to remove as many impediments as possible. A pack of cards draws much less power... :) -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] get out those old 8 bit micro tapes...
In a bizzare sequence of events I found this stuff... http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/ I was listening to some music from my collection and came accross a track called The Bullfrog by GTO from a techno mix (Reactivate Volume 10 CD). In any case there's some audio in the track that sounds remarkably like a Commodore 64 cassette data stream. There's a long stream at the end or the track that's fairly clean (ie no other 'music'). I've always wondered what it decodes to so I set about looking for stuff and essentially I bumped into pages about packet radio and soundcards and found the above driver. Windows/Sparc/Linux versions available. The binary's for Fedora 4 so I'll have a go at compiling from source tomorrow.. it's too late for me tonight. Sounds like I could be up for a historical talk at SLUG ;-) -- ---GRiP--- Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG President, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, Tenpin Bowler, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Some people actually read these things it seems. -- 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] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
why not have a little fun instead of locking everything down immediately :) http://ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html and anyway, setting up a proxy server, forcing them through it and logging all requests may give you an insight into what they are doing on your network, and maybe who they are.. much more interesting than securing your network On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: A new icon I have never seen before for a PC connection to my wireless LAN has alerted me that someone the area is attempting to connect. The icon only indicates that it is a PC. No IP or any info like that. What I am after is intrusion detection software for a wireless LAN. * how can I get the IPs of the connected or trying to connect? * can I snort out those trying to break in with WEP cracks? Lots of replies to this - mac filtering, WPA2, limited ip range, etc. Whilst mac filtering and a limited ip range are passable, security is usually a layered approach, so use them in combination. Also, keep in mind that upgrading the firmware on your wireless router may give you new features (like ips of those trying to connect, or showing the DHCP lease table). In addition some products eg WRT54G have open source replacement firmware that give you tonnes of additional features that may help you here. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
Tony Sceats wrote: why not have a little fun instead of locking everything down immediately :) http://ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html and anyway, setting up a proxy server, forcing them through it and logging all requests may give you an insight into what they are doing on your network, and maybe who they are.. much more interesting than securing your network Excellent! kittennet and blurnet. Ain't technology wonderful. I like the guy's domain name. Spam comes from Monty Python. So do ex-parrots. thanks rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving Instructor ... wanted me to be a Win2K admin with emphasis on security. That's like a job as a SCUBA diver with an emphasis on keeping things dry. -- Anthony de Boer -- 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] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
Looks like it is going to be a boring day on slug from now on cos this one was really great... does kindof makes you think about all sorts of bizzarre possibilities... I've been working with regexes and search and replace... mixing that in with the http streaming (changing words in web pages on the fly) you could play some funny tricks on the wife when she is using the computer alone or on the teenage boys if they try to misuse the internet with their friends.. damn funny. damn damn funny (is it time for a prize system? - this post has my vote) Quoting Tony Sceats [EMAIL PROTECTED]: why not have a little fun instead of locking everything down immediately :) http://ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html and anyway, setting up a proxy server, forcing them through it and logging all requests may give you an insight into what they are doing on your network, and maybe who they are.. much more interesting than securing your network -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
