[luau] PDF print spool under CUPS

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Chee
As promised to someone quite a while ago...someone asked how to create a PDF writer for linux that can be setup somewhat like the "PDFWriter" under the windows environment. Here is the answerbut the for life of me...I can't remember who asked for this Oh yeahyou MUST upgrade to at leas

[luau] Any PERL experts out there?

2003-07-07 Thread Matthew John Darnell
Aloha, Are there any PERL experts out there? I need some routines written that I could crack out in VB in fairly short order, but it would take me a lot longer in PERL. If you have some spare time and looking to make some money please contact me off list. Working at night is perfectly OK. Aloh

Re: [luau] dirty cookie trick(?)

2003-07-07 Thread Virgil
A cookie is a cookie and whether or not its embedded in ssl it should still be recognized by the browser as such; as a cookie. I would be very surprised if they have cookies embedded into an ssl site which is able to get around the cookie acceptance process. But with the new concepts that they are

[luau] HOSEF Organizational Meeting

2003-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Saturday July 12, 2003 we will be holding our Organizational Meeting at the McKinley Community School for adults. In the interest of openness and transparency, we invite any and all to attend and contribute to our vision. Please note that the usual Saturday Workshop at Pricebusters will be

[luau] HOSEF Workshop Times

2003-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
For the last month we have held our weekday workshop on Tuesdays. Beginning this week we will be back to our "regular" schedule of Mondays and Saturdays. I will, however, be around Tuesday in case this short notice deprives anyone the opportunity to attend. details about the workshop and dire

Re: [luau] Shorewall and draksec issues

2003-07-07 Thread Mike Sonstegard
Brian, I have encountered this problem with a few installs of Mandrake 9.0 & 9.1 and found that the lockup/lockout situation was due to the fact that I was using KDE as my desktop manager at the time. I got around problem by logging in as root with ICEWM and then set the security in Mandrake Contr

Re: [luau] dirty cookie trick(?)

2003-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
Virgil wrote: Scott, You can have you browser set to not accept cookies or have it notify you when its asking for a cookie. You can even clear your browser of all cookies if you want it to. Cookies doesn't have to and cannot permanently reside on your harddrive. I should be a smidgeon more cle

[luau] Shorewall and draksec issues

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Chee
I'm trying to use shorewall (aka draksec) on a mandrake 9.0 workstation. I've upped the security rating too high (can't get to some stuff) so am trying to bring it down now. The program gives me a dialog box saying "please wait...setting security level" but never comes backit also seems to be s

Re: [luau] dirty cookie trick(?)

2003-07-07 Thread Virgil
Scott, You can have you browser set to not accept cookies or have it notify you when its asking for a cookie. You can even clear your browser of all cookies if you want it to. Cookies doesn't have to and cannot permanently reside on your harddrive. As for those ssl tactics you mentioned my guess

[luau] djb on HTML E-mail

2003-07-07 Thread Vince Hoang
-Vince - Forwarded message from "D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Email marketing company gives out questionable security advice To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: 4 Jul 2003 23:17:20 - Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [luau] dirty cookie trick(?)

2003-07-07 Thread Vince Hoang
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:35:21AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > I have noticed that on a few web sites, Delta Air Lines in > particular, I am prompted to accept the ssl certificate from > ads.doubleclick.net. I presume that this is a sneaky way to > get me to accept a very permanent cookie, but

[luau] dirty cookie trick(?)

2003-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have noticed that on a few web sites, Delta Air Lines in particular, I am prompted to accept the ssl certificate from ads.doubleclick.net. I presume that this is a sneaky way to get me to accept a very permanent cookie, but perhaps it is a benign request. I just don't see why an ad would re