Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs

2008-06-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
denyhosts keeps track of failures and locks ips out. petter chubb mentioned a three strikes and youre out policy. denyhosts you can choose this threshold, you can also choose for how long the ip is 'out' (which helps to keep the list size down). Using keys myself, and very occasionally

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 7

2008-06-03 Thread Darryl Barlow
Hi Daniel, In my case I don't think I experienced the problem that David refers to. When I subsequently reviewed the logs the brute force attack was quite apparent. It was my own fault as an amateur and not too experienced part-time administrator. I too have never heard of embedded malware in

[SLUG] editing a wav or mp3

2008-06-03 Thread david
I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other programs (banshee for instance) will now

[SLUG] Answer Found - RE:Ubuntu drive designations (Re: update to Hardy)

2008-06-03 Thread bill
It seems that the problem that I have regarding SATA and IDE HD's and Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy are related more to a known Grub bug than anything else. Booting my Hardy install using the LiveCD to boot from 1st HD allows the system to see the SATA hd, though it does shuffle the IDE drive

Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3

2008-06-03 Thread James Purser
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:02 +1000, david wrote: I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to

Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3

2008-06-03 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
david wrote: I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. Thats probably MP3 audio data inside a WAV container (much like you can have vorbis, speex or flac data inside an Ogg conatiner). I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but Audacity and Sweep don't

Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3

2008-06-03 Thread david
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:50 +1000, James Purser wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:02 +1000, david wrote: I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it.

Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3

2008-06-03 Thread david
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:57 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: david wrote: I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. Thats probably MP3 audio data inside a WAV container (much like you can have vorbis, speex or flac data inside an Ogg conatiner). I can play it in

[SLUG] turning off blog comments

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 02/06/2008, at 2:10 PM, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Yet people regularly ask me why there's no comments on my blog. This and the fact I couldn't be bothered keeping it up-to-date with the latest comment spam blocking hacks. A blog without comments is like posting to a list and not reading

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 02/06/2008, at 9:36 PM, Darryl Barlow wrote: The compromise occurred over the Christmas/New Year period when I was interstate. The server had ssh access enabled via password entry and fell victim to a brute force password attack. Fortunately I had software installed which alerted me to

[SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments

2008-06-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Michael Chesterton wrote: A blog without comments is like posting to a list and not reading the followups. Who says I want your comments? I have a link to my contact form on my blog posts. If people want to talk to me, they can. Your conception of a blog is

Re: [SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 04/06/2008, at 10:12 AM, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Who says I want your comments? I have a link to my contact form on my blog posts. If people want to talk to me, they can. I don't know, who did say you want my comments? Wasn't me. Your conception of a blog is different to mine,