RE: [SLUG] Martians

2003-11-03 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Ethernet II defines this as:- |--dest--|src--|-typ-| 00:00:e2:14:a6:b6:00:90:1a:40:6c:d9:08:00 Type 0x0800 is IP Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Technology Infrastructure - Consulting Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde,

[SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Quick Survey

2003-11-03 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
If you haven't heard the news, Red Hat will no longer provider errata updates for RHL after April 30 next year. (See http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml ). (You'll have go to RH Enterprise Linux for support from them) So a quick survey among Red Hat SLUGgers. I'm a long time

RE: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - QuickSurvey

2003-11-03 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
I have to admit the Fedora project very much seems to be akin to the Mozilla spin-off from Netscape. Of course this seems to have gone very well, and even resulted in further user-driven developments such as Firebird and Thunderbird. It will be interesting to see if the Linux community becomes

RE: [SLUG] delete crashes ...

2003-10-30 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Haven't done much hard core C programming for a while, however you didn't mention whether you have made use of core files and gdb. Assuming you have core files enabled (using ulimit) then following your segv you should be able to tell you where it was last executing by reading in with gdb. As

RE: [SLUG] cygwin install problem

2003-10-28 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Not sure exactly what you problem is. I have Cygwin on XP and this works for me. 1. Grap the latest setup.exe and setup.ini and put it in a download directory (for me ...My Documents\Kits\Cygwin) 2. Choose the option to download to a local directory (the same as above) 3. Download the files as

RE: [SLUG] appliance box; 80mm CDrom

2003-10-09 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Sounds like a job for a Dremel tool :-) Martin Visser ,CISSP Network and Security Consultant Technology Infrastructure - Consulting Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7:

RE: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-07 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
The Australian yesterday had a column from David Frith on just this subject http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7457276%5E15423%5E%5Enbv %5E15309,00.html A quote: No-one, not even an administrator, is permitted to tinker with the Mac's core system software, so a Mac OS X virus - and

RE: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
The dd blocksize argument is basically the a buffer allocation size when reading and writing. A large block size simply makes the kernel and system calls more efficient (less of them). It has no bearing on the actual disc structure. (to dd, everything is a file,it knows nothing of disks) Martin

RE: [SLUG] POS Software for a Record Chain

2003-08-29 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Just stumbled across http://l-ane.sourceforge.net/ (I am sure I have seen screen shots very similar to those displayed in a few retail stores, but I guess it might be a lookalike of other software.) Regards, Martin From: Kevin Fitzgerald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 29 August 2003

RE: [SLUG] reloading deamons after altering conf: sighup ?

2003-08-06 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Fundamentally it is worthwhile knowing how linux (and most *nixes actual start). ( This nutshell description is for Redhat ) Once the kernel has finished loading, the kernel drivers and modules having the hardware ready to roll, it starts the process init. As you might expect it has the process

RE: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy

2003-08-04 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
The bigger picture here is requiring the employee to use a computer *at all* to check payslips. I would assume that by only providing payslips electronically, UWS must assume that all employees have access to a suitable computer at their workplace (after all, in my experience, payslips don't get

RE: [SLUG] Marking packets at the user level

2003-07-28 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
As the actual client application are going to be running on the same server, I think you will be hard pressed to get packet marking to work at that level. I have done packet marking, classify and policing, but only using hardware routers and marking either by host addresses or TCP/UDP port. (The

RE: [SLUG] Re: Problem (external firewire drive)

2003-06-19 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
I've just returned a New Motion brand USB2/FW box for exchange under warranty. I have had it with a WD80 drive for about 3 months, and it is just gradually got worse. Often when spinning up it would try to start up 3 or 4 times, but then not actually mount. The retailer indicated it was likely to

RE: [SLUG] VPN security issue

2003-05-29 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Split-tunnelling always has a risk. Consider this secure scenario:- 1. You ensure that IP packets from the Internet *cannot* be forwarded to the Office network (and vice versa). 2. You deny all traffic except a. You allow application A to connect to (say) port 80 on the Internet b. You

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] Code information

2003-02-04 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
This document looks really useful http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~chiuk/programming_mechanics.pdf (And yes objdump seems the go) Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology Infrastructure - Consulting Integration HP Services 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *:

Per-desktop Linux v. X-Terminals was RE: [SLUG] dishing up star office

2002-11-12 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
That reminds me... X-Windows of course was design to have the client application running on a central server(s), with the X-server (the display terminal) doing the actual display of the application's windows and interfacing with keyboard/mouse. (Similar to the say Windows Terminal Services /

[SLUG] Portability of (Kernel/Xfree86) drivers?

2002-11-10 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
I just bought an Acecad Flair USB Graphics tablet. Works very nicely under Windows (ME/2K/XP), with the drivers supplied. Acecad don't directly support Linux but they do link to http://perso.wanadoo.fr/edouard.tisserant/acecad/ Now I assume this driver actually works however getting there will

RE: [SLUG] Maintenance tool

2002-10-29 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
http://www.memtest86.com/ is the new site for MemTest86. I have found it to be very efficient at proving that the cheapo DIMMs that my father bought (that passed the standard BIOS mem check) weren't much much chop. Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology Infrastructure - Consulting

RE: [SLUG] A security question

2002-10-27 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
I have had that pop-up as well, and yes it is just scaremongering. Certainly broadcasting your IP address is an exaggeration beyond belief. The only broadcasts an average IP host will send are to it's own LAN (for ARPing, name resolution under Windows, etc) and certainly not to the Internet on a

RE: [SLUG] updating RH7.3 from a errata CD, how ??

2002-10-03 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
RH7.3 from a errata CD, how ?? ** Reply to note from Visser, Martin (Sydney) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:07:29 +1000 Whoops, a bit trigger happy RH7.3 was actually released in May. You can simply do rpm --upgrade *.rpm on the directory on your CD to see if there are any valid

RE: [SLUG] Network Monitoring - TOP Talkers - Open Source?

2002-09-18 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Ethereal can be used for this however it really is a packet sniffer. The best solutions, and a very good one, is NTOP http://www.ntop.org Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology Infrastructure - Consulting Integration COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW

RE: [SLUG] Cheap network cards?

2002-09-17 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
CPU Hog is probably relative, and dependent on the application. An embedded controller (I was brought up at BHP on PLCs,etc so I know what these are) tend to usually only have low bandwidth requirements. So I imagine that a simple protocol stack pumping say 100 packets per second is not going to

RE: [SLUG] OT: where can I get 650 MB CDR media

2002-09-05 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
I always find ARC good value. Their price list still mentions 74min media http://www.arcco.com.au/parts/harddrive.htm#media Martin Visser Network Consultant - Global Services COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670Mobile

RE: [SLUG] Vim help-file tags not found

2002-08-14 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
What does :help do. If that doesn't bring up the help text either, I suspect you have a path/ environment issue. BTW Most vim experts probably never see such errors, I certainly haven't and have been using vi / vim for over 10 years. Dump out :set and :version that might help us -Original

RE: [SLUG] Looping Through File Lists

2002-08-12 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
find has the built in ability to execute commands on each found file, avoiding any shell globbing or scaling issue. find ./ -type -maxdepth 1 -exec convertfile {} \; The {} matches the file name, and \; delineates the command to be executed Martin Visser Network Consultant - Global Services

RE: [SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 26th July, 2002

2002-07-25 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
The meeting location URL, http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml , seems to be broken??? I expect it ought to be http://slug.org.au/events/uts.html Martin Visser Network Consultant - Global Services COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *:

RE: [SLUG] Filesystems....

2002-07-23 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
A disk can only have 4 primary partitions. ( I think this is a DOS legacy) If you want more you need to create an extended partition. The first part of the ext. partition contains an extended partition table that allows you add more partitions. Your /dev/hda4 is not mountable , it is an ext.

RE: [SLUG] [OT] PCMCIA card woes

2002-07-11 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
No real experience apart from the fact that I have not had a problem with various Compaq, 3Com, Xircom, or Kouwell cards in my Compaq Armada ;-) (They don't even supply a rubber mallet with them) Funnily enough it also seems that http://www.pcmcia.org/pccard.htm doesn't have enough detailed

RE: [SLUG] finding libraries to link (no subject)

2002-07-11 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Melinda, I haven't seen a reply for this yet, so I thought I'd give it a go. Not having my linux box up at the mo' but I think you will find that the .so files are just the runtime libraries dynamically linked. You need to have the development versions of both X11 and pgplot libraries which

RE: [SLUG] OT if you stretch the point somewhat.

2002-07-11 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
I have fixed a kids musically keyboard and a computer keyboard like this. I also had problems with the flexible printed circuit they use. A soft graphite pencil does work, but is fairly short term but eventually the graphite seems to wear and migrates away. I have had much better luck using

RE: [SLUG] Source IP address

2002-06-28 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Hu? In fact most routers don't check the source, nor do they care, which is why certain DoS attacks that spoof source IP addresses work. IP routing today is nearly always based only on the destination address. In normal IP packet forwarding, the source and destination IP address of a

RE: Re[2]: [SLUG] Source IP address

2002-06-28 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: evilbunny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 28 June 2002 4:28 PM To: Visser, Martin (Sydney) Cc: slug Subject: Re[2]: [SLUG] Source IP address Hello Martin, Routers can check the source

RE: [SLUG] Run levels....

2002-06-27 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
A flexible way is from your bootloader From lilo the prompt you can type: linux 3 to initiate with runlevel 3 (default) linux 5 to initiate runlevel 5 (X) (I assume that an `append 3' command to lilo.conf makes this permanent I'm sure you can do something similar in grub Martin Visser

RE: [SLUG] can't establish network connect

2002-06-26 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Michael/Grant, The gateway doesn't get used if the two hosts are on the same network. Assuming Grant has set the network mask to 255.255.255.0, the sending host does an logical AND of his interface with the mask (192.168.1.10 AND 255.255.255.0 which gives 192.168.1.0 ) and the recipient

RE: [SLUG] minimised apps

2002-06-06 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
Yes, I have found often (in the past) that judicious use of rm -rf ~/.kde or rm -rf ~/.gnome seems to fix a myriad of things that my fiddling around with look-and-feel seems to break (as well buggy sawfish code, etc). Thankfully, things along this front though seem to becoming much more