Re: [SLUG] ADSL jungle

2003-02-09 Thread Matthias Oertli
Thanks for all the comments, much appreciated. I'm currently checking out all the plans on offer Regards, Matthias wm wrote: i have also recently joined the adsl throngs i am using the Billion modem which is much raved about at http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ and only costs $190 plus pp

[SLUG] For that guy that asked about firewall products on Linux

2003-02-09 Thread Kevin Saenz
Here is a easy to read doco on firewalls. http://www.firewall-software.com/firewall_faqs/what_is_a_firewall.html -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] For that guy that asked about firewall products on Linux

2003-02-09 Thread Jon Biddell
Also take a look at www.shorewall.net - and the config file comments... Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Saenz Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 22:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] For that guy that asked about

[SLUG] Is Linux the next innovation? suggestions please

2003-02-09 Thread will gomez
Dear Linux peoples, I'm a Sydney researcher investigating what software firms/organisations do to innovate.I would appreciate your help with the following 2 questions: (1) Do you consider 'Linux' or similar 'libre' software an innovation of the software industry? Why? (2) Is there an Australian

Re: [SLUG] Is Linux the next innovation? suggestions please

2003-02-09 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:24, will gomez wrote: (1) Do you consider 'Linux' or similar 'libre' software an innovation of the software industry? Why? Yes because people are free to try things, therefore innovation follows. http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html (2) Is there an

[SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread James Gregory
Hi all, I was just asked for recommendations of a good linux distro to run as a router/firewall. The user in question wants a gui type thing to configure it with. He has been using IPCop, and says it has some shortcomings. I was a little surprised that the shortcomings he cited, so I suspect it's

Re: [SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Tom Massey
* James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-02-10 00:39]: Annnyway, I'm looking for something I can suggest to him which will setup a good iptables firewall and is clicky. Can be a firewall app that runs on another distro or a complete distro, I don't really mind. Perhaps

Re: [SLUG] Is Linux the next innovation? suggestions please

2003-02-09 Thread umug
Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (2) Is there an Australian 'coordinator' or representative company working in linux environment? If yes, please indicate contact details. I don't think you understand your subject matter. I think its rather confusing. Please read up on www.gnu.org on

[SLUG] need a hand with iptables

2003-02-09 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi, I'm looking for someone willing to give me a hand with iptables. I am writing a piece of software which will make use of iptables but i have very little idea about iptables and not a great deal of time to learn right now and need to have the software ready fairly soon. I can give details

RE: [SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Jon Biddell
Take a look at shorewall (www.shorewall.net) - distro-independent, has a VERY simple configuration system, and the latest webmin (1.060) has a module for configuring it. Jon Hi all, I was just asked for recommendations of a good linux distro to run as a router/firewall. The user in

[SLUG] Proxying firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, I'm still using Linux 2.2 with the TIS firewall toolkit. I'm looking to get into IPv6, so want to upgrade the kernel to something more recent; but would like to have a similar level of security as is given me by the FWTK (no packets passing through the firewall without passing though

Re: [SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Graeme Robinson
On 9 Feb 2003, James Gregory wrote: Annnyway, I'm looking for something I can suggest to him which will setup a good iptables firewall and is clicky. SME server is a great firewall (uses iptables) but it's not 'clicky' in the sense that anyone who can click a mouse can change it's

[SLUG] what can you do on 8mb that isn't a firewall

2003-02-09 Thread James Gregory
Hi all, I'm taking up masochism so I just got this old Apple LC575 to boot the debian (2.2) installer from floppy disks (which is another story entirely, but ask if you're having trouble with one of these things, I now consider myself an expert :)). I want it to run X, but it occurs to me that

Re: [SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 08:39, Graeme Robinson wrote: On 9 Feb 2003, James Gregory wrote: Annnyway, I'm looking for something I can suggest to him which will setup a good iptables firewall and is clicky. SME server is a great firewall (uses iptables) but it's not 'clicky' in the sense

Re: [SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=James Gregory I suppose what I'm really looking for is something like Raptor Firewall. I stumbled upon fwbuilder, which looks promising. How about: - Red Hat's simple firewall admin tool - Firestarter (or a KDE equivalent) - Jeff --

Re: [SLUG] Proxying firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread mlh
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:35:57AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, I'm still using Linux 2.2 with the TIS firewall toolkit. I'm looking to get into IPv6, so want to upgrade the kernel to something more recent; but would like to have a similar level of security as is given me by the FWTK

Re: [SLUG] need a hand with iptables

2003-02-09 Thread mlh
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:50:40AM +1100, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, I'm looking for someone willing to give me a hand with iptables. I am writing a piece of software which will make use of iptables but i have very little idea about iptables and not a great deal of time to learn right now and

Re: [SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 10/02/2003 7:18 AM +1100 James Gregory wrote: Perhaps I should qualify this. I agree that you need to be very competent to build a good firewall. However, GUIs can work really well for assembling them. I suppose what I'm really looking for is something like Raptor Firewall. I stumbled upon

Re: [SLUG] Proxying firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Monday 10 Feb 2003 7:35 am, Peter Chubb wrote: I'm still using Linux 2.2 with the TIS firewall toolkit. Crumbs, are people still using that ? Where I used to work in the UK we used the FTP proxy from that. I'm looking to get into IPv6, so want to

[SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread xun
Dear list: I have a not-so-old alpha machine I can play with here at work. I'm just wondering if it is possible to build GNOME on tru64 OS. i.e. I don't want to make any changes to the existing software/OS already on the machine and build GNOME on the top of it so that I can remove GNOME if I

RE: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
This might be useful to you -- http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/affinity/portability.html Martin Visser Security and Network Consultant Technology Infrastructure - Consulting Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670Mobile *:

Re: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a not-so-old alpha machine I can play with here at work. I'm just wondering if it is possible to build GNOME on tru64 OS. i.e. I don't want to make any changes to the existing software/OS already on the machine and build GNOME on the top of it so that I

Re: [SLUG] clicky clicky firewalls

2003-02-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, James Gregory wrote: Annnyway, I'm looking for something I can suggest to him which will setup a good iptables firewall and is clicky. Can be a firewall app that runs on another distro or a complete distro, I don't really mind. fwbuilder is a clicky thingy, it sorta

Re: [SLUG] Is Linux the next innovation? suggestions please

2003-02-09 Thread Glen Turner
will gomez wrote: Dear Linux peoples, I'm a Sydney researcher investigating what software firms/organisations do to innovate. I would appreciate your help with the following 2 questions: (1) Do you consider 'Linux' or similar 'libre' software an innovation of the software industry? Why? Im

Re: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread xun
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a not-so-old alpha machine I can play with here at work. my build tool for testers, GARNOME. If you grab a copy and try it out, I'd be very happy to give you a hand with any issues. http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ Jeff: I had garnome in mind

[SLUG] report: PDA Palm Zire

2003-02-09 Thread Graeme Robinson
I posted last week re: this device and didn't get any comment. I've just got it working and thought I'd let people know in case they were interested. Support for the Zire device is provided by the visor usb module, but isn't built into that module before kernel 2.4.20. As I have been kicking

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:05:00AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems. Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points. TeX

Re: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I had garnome in mind when I posted my question. The problems I am facing are The machine don't have proper GNU tool chain. Is there a complete list of tools I need to have so that I can download/build them. Is there a set of GNU tools packages for Tru64? There are

Re: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread xun
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I had garnome in mind when I posted my question. The problems I am facing are The machine don't have proper GNU tool chain. Is there a complete list of tools I need to have so that I can download/build them. Is there a set of GNU tools packages for Tru64? There

Re: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread Michael Lake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff: I had garnome in mind when I posted my question. The problems I am facing are The machine don't have proper GNU tool chain. Is there a complete list of tools I need to have so that I can download/build them. Similarly, where can I get (and how do I build)

RE: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha

2003-02-09 Thread Ben de Luca
He is not running linux on his alpha Hence the thread, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael Lake Sent: Monday, 10 February 2003 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] [OT] build gnome on alpha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[SLUG] [OT] Creating userid and passwords for website

2003-02-09 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, Sorry for the off topic posting. Using a .htaccess file it is very easy to password protected areas of a website. Is there any painless way to drop in authentication for user with PHP or any other system? 1. What I would like is password based on email address. 2. Change

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ian Wienand wrote: Also I have put up Matt Chapman's pspresent at http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/pspresent/ Unfortunately I don't have permission to access pspresent-0.9.tar.gz on that server :( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] need a hand with iptables

2003-02-09 Thread Chris Barnes
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, that's an excellent description; I'm afraid I can't help you though. That's a big project and I don't have many spare cycles in the day .. (besides which I don't know php) You wont need to know PHP because I'll do all the