Re: [SLUG] WIreless MINI PCI-E

2008-06-23 Thread Steven Tucker
Potentially a very bad move! I use to have problems with the bc4311 in my compaq Presario V3020au but now with the b43 firmware it is all good. I dont know about Fedora, you may have to use fwcutter and get the firmware and extract it manually, but in Debian and Ubuntu just do apt-get install

[SLUG] Conflict between deb's cvs

2008-06-23 Thread Misia Bogacka
Hi, I had a conflict between current debs and their deprecated cvs versions. Advice from various sources was to delete the cvs versions so I deleted libavcodeccvs51 libavutilcvs49 libpostproccvs51 libswscalecvs0 After a bit of a search I located the latest non-cvs versions in the debian

[SLUG] Conflict between deb's cvs

2008-06-23 Thread Adam Bogacki
[Erm .. the previous email was sent from Misia's account, not mine.] Hi, I had a conflict between current debs and their deprecated cvs versions. Advice from various sources was to delete the cvs versions so I deleted libavcodeccvs51 libavutilcvs49 libpostproccvs51 libswscalecvs0 I located

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[SLUG] help with bind

2008-06-23 Thread Philip Kerkin
Hi I'm playing with bind attempting to set up a DNS server. Found a nice how- to that walks through step by step. Only problem is when I attempt to stop bind9, I get the following message: Stopping domain name service...: bindrndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread Glen Turner
Jonathan Lange wrote: Of course, the more interesting question is WHY!?!?! Apologies, I had thought it was obvious. Keys are often given in a hexadecimal representation. Each 4 bits is a hex digit, written using 0...9A...F. So a d16 will generate a hex digit of randomness. Two d16s will

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread Rick Welykochy
Glen Turner wrote: They avoid number at the extremes and avoid repeated digits (a 60 byte string would have a run of 6 repeated digits about one time in five). The result is very non-random. Yes indeed. I've read about complaints from consumers about seemingly non-random behaviour in the

Re: [SLUG] help with bind

2008-06-23 Thread Massimiliano Fantuzzi
Hi ! I do speak for my ubuntu dns, but i think isssue is closed to etch. i heard that now rndc (remote domain name server control utility) uses 953 as standard port, instead of old 53. so do a netstat -an | grep -i 53 , it should print both 53 (bind daemon) and 953 listening. by checking in

Re: [SLUG] help with bind

2008-06-23 Thread Massimiliano Fantuzzi
to hand-generate key do : rndc-confgen -a -b 128 -t /var/named/chroot -r keyboard if you are in a chroot env, or simply *rndc-confgen* *-a *to allow *rndc* to be used with no manual configuration. or even simpler, to print a sample *rndc.conf* file and corresponding *controls* and *key*

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread Cibby Pulikkaseril
I'd just like to add an anecdote on pseudo-random number generation: several years ago, a group of Canadian comp. sci. students were arrested for fraud. A casino made the charges, claiming the students 'hacked' into their computer which dealt the numbers for one of their random-draw games.

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Cibby Pulikkaseril [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd just like to add an anecdote on pseudo-random number generation: several years ago, a group of Canadian comp. sci. students were arrested for fraud. . ... Good story.. I can't seem to find a link to this story, though. Is it bogus?

[SLUG] installing Firefox ?

2008-06-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
ahem, dumb question, how do I install FF3 on Centos ? I've downloaded firefox3.tar.bz2, where do I extract to, what needs done ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox]# ./firefox-bin ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjemalloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

[SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
I want to setup a 'data logger' for rain water tanks and hot water storage tanks, for this I'll need at leats 3 RS232 ports luckily, the vinatge of computers found at rubish tips, oops, recycling places, generally has two RS232 ports, but, that still leaves me short of one port: I have several

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread Jonathan Lange
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Lange wrote: Of course, the more interesting question is WHY!?!?! Apologies, I had thought it was obvious. You've missed the spirit of my question, I think. I looked only at Kenneth's post and saw something that

Re: [SLUG] installing Firefox ?

2008-06-23 Thread david
I'm so glad I'm not the only dumb person :) On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:33 +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: ahem, dumb question, how do I install FF3 on Centos ? I've downloaded firefox3.tar.bz2, where do I extract to, what needs done ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] firefox]# ./firefox-bin ./firefox-bin:

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread Rick Welykochy
Jonathan Lange wrote: Recent events have reminded us that randomness is just as important in SSH key generation. I'd save my dice (and my time) for things that actually guard my data. An old favourite is to pick a song you know well and grab the first letters of a line or two in the song.

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread Craig Dibble
Quoting Jonathan Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED]: More broadly, generating your wireless key with a cryptographically secure RNG seems to me to be overkill for most people. Buying specialty dice for it seems plain silly.[1] Flipping a coin eight times doesn't take much longer than rolling 4d4, 2d16 or

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, June 24, 2008 11:36 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another option... an RS-232 - USB converter, that will give you another RS-232 port on an old clunker. Giving you three RS232 ports all up. actually, I bought one last week that has USB to TWO RS232s, runs fine on windoze, I presume,

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
I really like to utilize my hardware till it drops, and, utilize every interface till there is no holes left vacant, I still use 486SL (which I think is a 386 with math co-pro?) as a fax server/answering machine/file server You are thinking of a 386DX, 486SL is the powersaver/mobile version of

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-23 Thread jam
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 10:00:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to setup a 'data logger' for rain water tanks and hot water storage tanks, for this I'll need at leats 3 RS232 ports luckily, the vinatge of computers found at rubish tips, oops, recycling places, generally has two RS232 ports,

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, June 24, 2008 2:11 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote: I really like to utilize my hardware till it drops, and, utilize every interface till there is no holes left vacant, I still use 486SL (which I think is a 386 with math co-pro?) as a fax server/answering machine/file server You are

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
you know you can get a dualcore amd, ram, disk, all on board mboard and case for like $350? Dean Voytek Eymont wrote: On Tue, June 24, 2008 2:11 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote: I really like to utilize my hardware till it drops, and, utilize every interface till there is no holes left vacant, I

[SLUG] Gumstix - do they work ?

2008-06-23 Thread david . lyon
Are these things any good ? do they run python ? and have net access ? can somebody demo them at a meeting ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html