Re: GNHLUG LBS logo
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 7:57pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just thought that I would point out that I discovered the GNHLUG Linux > Business Show logo as part of a presentation out there. ... It's from a > Linux-conversion presentation from a Albany-based cardiology practice. Quick! Get ahold of SCO's lawyers! I'm sure we can sue them for... for... I dunno... something! Copyright infringement. Misrepresentation. Communism. Jaywalking. Who cares? Just sue 'em! We demand a license and royalty payments on all past, present, and future profits, for them, their family members, their descendants, and their ancestors! We demand compensation for all the lack of unfair competition! We demand that we have something to demand! We--(erk) [The persons responsible for this message have been sacked. We apologize for the inconvenience.] -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: 1U Personal colo
On 14 Jun 2004, at 2:43pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (Sorry if this is off-topic or ill-received). I, personally, find it very much on-topic, since I've been (half-heartedly) looking for just such a service. I know others here have as well, too. Perhaps we could get a GNHLUG group discount? :) > I am setting up a new program at my work ... Which is who and where? :) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
GNHLUG LBS logo
Just thought that I would point out that I discovered the GNHLUG Linux Business Show logo as part of a presentation out there. Slides http://www.desktoplinux.com/files/article004/sld070.html and http://www.desktoplinux.com/files/article004/sld090.html from the article at http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7753498575.html. I thought a few people might get a chuckle out of it. It's from a Linux-conversion presentation from a Albany-based cardiology practice. Yes, the 1-and-0-filled NH is still in the background. -- Bob Bell ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
SLUG meeting Monday, 6/14 7pm UNH Morse 301 Topic: The GIMP 2.0
Just forwarding Greg's great announcement to the announce list. -Forwarded Message- From: Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: GNHLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SLUG meeting Monday, June 14th 7pm @ UNH ::: The GIMP 2.0 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:14:48 -0400 I wanted to have Rob look this over before sending it out, but in the interest of getting the word out with sufficient advance notice, I decided to compose the message myself. Monday June 14th, Greg Rundlett will be our guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Seacoast Linux User Group chapter of GNHLUG. As usual, the meeting is scheduled for the second Monday of the month at 7PM in Morse Hall of the University of New Hampshire. Go up to the 3rd floor, meeting is held in Conference Room 301. See http://slug.gnhlug.org/morse/ for directions and http://www.gradschool.unh.edu/home/Map/UNHCampusMap.html for a campus map. Morse Hall is in the northwest quadrant of that map...click it for a zoomed-in view. A printable map is at http://slug.gnhlug.org/morse/map.gif Greg will present the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (The "it's too good to be true, GIMP version 2"). *Program Schedule* * *Pre- Presentation* - slideshow of GIMP graphics, Linux wallpapers (available on the GIMP compilation that will be handed out) * *Introduction* - what we'll cover, brief history of the GIMP * *The Free Software graphics toolbox:* GIMP, Scribus, SodiPodi, Blender * *GIMP 2.0 - *features and capabilities * *Live Demonstrations* - "Getting the red out" and other demonstrations * *Getting and Installing GIMP 2.0 - *Linux (Fedora Core, Debian) - Windows * *"Free Rewards" *Free Software comes with free rewards. We'll be giving away some free software at the meeting. * *Recommended Resources * *"FREE REWARDS"* to be given away at the presentation 10 GIMP discs (source and binaries of the software, and libraries for various platforms and distributions) 20 sets (discs 1-3) of Fedora Core 1 to hand out (Thanks to PogoLinux) Master copies of the following discs which you are free to copy during the presentation Business-card Debian unstable (Sarge) Mandrake 10 (discs 1-3) *Guest Speaker *Greg Rundlett Sr. Systems Architect and CTO of the Knowledge Institute in E. Kingston, NH for more info see http://bdki.com/about_gsr.php founder of FREePHILE, a free software consulting company that includes a GNU/Linux community at freephile.com/tiki for more info see http://freephile.com/company/gregRundlett.php Note: I will be bringing a miniDV video camera to record the presentation with the hopes of making it available to others who can't attend. Anyone interested in capturing the video feed for broadcasting or conversion to DVD is encouraged to speak up. -- -- Robert E. Anderson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489 UNH Research Computing Centerfax: (603) 862-1761 -- ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
1U Personal colo
(Sorry if this is off-topic or ill-received). I am setting up a new program at my work for people who want to do personal server colocation. The basic idea is that we will do a 1U colo with power and bandwidth for $65/mo. Install is $50. You bring a rackmountable pre-configured 1U machine (or just ship it to us for installation). There are no bandwidth guarantees, and I won't really pay much attention to aggregate usage unless something gets out of hand. The offer is limited to linux machines, as the only tech support offered is that we will plug in a modem to a console port during normal business hours (8A-5P EST). This is for personal server collocation, no business machines (although again this is hard to monitor and would not really be enforced unless a problem arises). You will receive 1 static IP address, but can purchase a larger subnet for additional costs. Basically, I want to try to make server colocation affordable to people who want to host their own mail/web servers for personal geek use, testing, learning, etc. The AUP is pretty simple as well: don't cause me any grief. I (or actually, my company) will reserve the right to cancel service at any time and the policy will pretty much be zero tolerance for spam or malicious activity. I don't really want to get into the business aspects of "how can you afford to do this, etc" here, this offer is being done more as a friendly extension to the hacker (hacker being the good traditional kind of hacker, not the Hollyweird version) community because I can... -- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
WANTED: a few 9-track tapes transcribed
Talk about timing! Just three weeks ago I tossed a 9 track drive into a dumpster. -Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 10:13am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Public-key crypto in SNMP would probably be unweildy, especially since > SNMP is supposed to have a light footprint to make it easy to put into > small embedded systems. That's not the point I was making. > A lot of customers just want to flip the power on in these things and have > things work Convenience is generally inversely proportional to security. > Besides, in my experience, SNMPv3 is merely a "checkoff item" in the > vast majority of deals. I find *most* things fall into that category. When was the last time you saw anyone use more then 10% of the features in MS-Word? MS-Excel? > I haven't seen much else that approaches SNMP's usefulness. I also never said SNMP was not useful. Just that it does not concern itself much with security. (One could make the argument that security is the job of the network layer (i.e., IPsec). Consider it made.) :-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> ... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ... >> > >> > Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it.. >> >> That's hardly an endorsement. SNMP's approach to security issues has >> generally been to ignore them. (SNMP = Security? Not my problem!) The >> fact that SNMPv3 has any security at all is a huge advance. Now you want it >> to be modern, too? Public-key crypto in SNMP would probably be unweildy, especially since SNMP is supposed to have a light footprint to make it easy to put into small embedded systems. A lot of customers just want to flip the power on in these things and have things work Besides, in my experience, SNMPv3 is merely a "checkoff item" in the vast majority of deals. I've seen many shops insist on SNMPv3 support and after they've bought the gear never even try to deploy it. > Yep, I totally agree, also SNMP is anything but simple, and why no-one > has come out with something a lot more user friendly, I don't know, > However, it keeps me employed, so I shouldn't complain too much. :) SNMP isn't very simple anymore. OTOH, SNMP is flexible, powerful, and extensible. I haven't seen much else that approaches SNMP's usefulness. Regards, --kevin -- "Well, who says that I have to adhere to what the MIB says?" -- Bob, after I confronted him about his MIB implementation. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 9:32am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > He dropped one line that really annoyed me. He stated that Windows Server > 2003 performed a new authentication protocol that would break most Samba > network share setups. It's not new. There has long been a feature in NT that supports "signing" of Server Message Blocks. Samba doesn't support it. You could also set a system to require signing. With Win2K3, that is on by default. You can make it optional again with a registry tweak. You also need to do this if you have Win9X/ME boxes in your network. Ho-hum. > I may be miss-remembering this because he was also describing the new > Windows XP SP2 release which he described as "a total re-write". Yah, they totally rewrote the "1" to a "2". ;-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances?
- Original Message - From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Recommendations for VPN end point appliances? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> ... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ... > > > > > > Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it.. > > > > That's hardly an endorsement. SNMP's approach to security issues has > > generally been to ignore them. (SNMP = Security? Not my problem!) The > > fact that SNMPv3 has any security at all is a huge advance. Now you want it > > to be modern, too? > > > > Yep, I totally agree, also SNMP is anything but simple, and why no-one > has come out with something a lot more user friendly, I don't know, > However, it keeps me employed, so I shouldn't complain too much. :) > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > As usual, the technical discussion and recommendations have been really useful. This has to be GNHLUG's value to it's members (aside from the commaraderie and kidding ;^)). Unfortunately for me, most of my clients are Windows centric but I'm always looking for opportunities to have them diversify into Open Source. Whenever they have security problems (which is very common), I point out to them that if they had a less homogenous environment they would have less exposure to these exploits. Also, you don't necessarily need a Windows server to host Windows applications. Some of my customers can't avoid it because their software vendors will only provide support if they use Windows products but still Open Source solutions can be quite cost effective under the right circumstances. -Alex P.S. I just attended a Microsoft Security seminar (an all day affair) where the presenter concentrated almost entirely on Windows 2003 server as the core solution to all security problems. He dropped one line that really annoyed me. He stated that Windows Server 2003 performed a new authentication protocol that would break most Samba network share setups. I may be miss-remembering this because he was also describing the new Windows XP SP2 release which he described as "a total re-write". ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
