Re: [Scottish] Linux Laptop
john seago wrote: This afternoon we went into Inverness to have a look at what was available and all I could see in the big chains were wireless routers. However on asking in Maplins, (where I've one gets better answers than in PC World, they did have a Netgear non-wirless router, I've used a Netgear router for several years now without it being any trouble so that may be what we get. -- On the other hand, if you get a wireless/wired router you can always fully secure the wireless bit and just not use it. My ISP (Force9) recently donated me a BT '2wire' modem/router (after some peculiar problems with my line) and it works a treat. I've found that all these routers work seamlessly, regardless of the operating system(s) on the PCs. After all they're just talking across an ethernet i/f. If you're getting in a new line anyway, why not see what free router your new ISP offers (most seem to be offering free wireless routers like the BT one I've got) and if it'll work for you? Could save some money that way. Cheers, Colin Fraser ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] (no subject)
John, Can't say anything about opera but there are a number of preferences settings for firefox (and I presume similar for mozilla) at: http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/4.html and http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8007.htm Should you consider going the firefox route (I'd recommend it) there's an extension called Fasterfox I found recently and I get very fast responses. Cheers, Colin John Gordon Ollason wrote: Greetings, I have just undertaken a big upgrade of my PC: new motherboard, more RAM, and decided to upgrade the operating system from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora Core 4. Everything seems to have worked except for one oddity. Both Mozilla and Opera load pages very erratically, sometimes quickly, but mostly very slowly, slowly compared with the Iyonix I have on the same network. Both computers are connected by ethernet cables to a D-Link router ultimately to my account on plus.net. In case the problem with Opera was an inappropriate version I downloaded and installed the version for Fedora 4 today. That made no difference. Has anybody any bright ideas about what could be going wrong? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. John O. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes
Hi all, Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began! I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released. Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go. Has anyone any idea how I might get around this one? Might it be BIOS settings that are causing the problem? If ned be I'll dust off the wallet and spring for 9.2. Any suggestions gratefully received and a happy Christmas to all, Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] ALSA filling up my disk
Folks, On listening to streaming audio (BBC radio) with realplayer I'm finding that .xsession_errors is filling up my disk with lots and lots of: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy Any ideas how to avoid this? TIA, Colin (the real one - all the others are imposters!) ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] ALSA filling up my disk
Philip, Many thanks for that. It's so obvious when you tell me! Colin On Tuesday 28 September 2004 18:58, Philip Ward wrote: You'll probably get a proper answer, but a quick and dirty solution is to make .xsesion_errors a symbolic link to /dev/null. From your home directory type: rm .xsession_errors ln -s /dev/null .xsession_errors It will still send those messages, but they won't get written to the disk. Phil. Colin Fraser wrote: Folks, On listening to streaming audio (BBC radio) with realplayer I'm finding that .xsession_errors is filling up my disk with lots and lots of: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy Any ideas how to avoid this? TIA, Colin (the real one - all the others are imposters!) ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- -- Riverfern Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.riverfern.co.uk This message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose it to anyone else. Notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message and then delete it from your system. Unauthorised use or disclosure of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Recommendations on ISDN service/provider?
BT have finally got the lead out and are enabling our exchange this week! Should have sorted this out ages ago but there's nothing like the eleventh hour to sharpen the mind. So I want an ADSL connection (scrapping my expensive ISDN line). Can anyone help with recommendations on modem to use, best provider, etc? Both BT and Tiscali offer free modems, but can these be used with Linux? I've seen the recommendations for Force9, but what gear should I get to be able to use them? Any help gratefully received - if I wasn't working in Ireland there'd be pints at the next meeting as an extra inducement but I suppose I'll just have to rely on your goodwill! TIA, Colin -- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] The yellow peril?
Hi, Just found the following in /var/log/messages: Jul 24 13:23:44 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=288 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=28413 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=268 Jul 24 13:23:45 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=108 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=28699 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=88 Jul 24 13:23:46 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=108 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=29034 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=88 Jul 24 13:23:48 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=108 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=29679 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=88 Jul 24 13:23:52 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=108 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=31031 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=88 Jul 24 13:24:00 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=108 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=33632 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=88 Jul 24 13:24:16 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=116 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=38734 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=96 A whois shows that the source IP is registered to someone in the People's Republic of China. Before I go off half-cocked on this one, Has anyone any idea what it might be about? I've done a google and spotted a virus alert about HLLP.4288 but can't find a description, other than that it affects .COM and .EXE (another good reason for avoiding microdog!). Of course, our friend in China might be a victim (if he's got the virus and it's trying to contact other instances through the net). Anyone got any idea of what's going on or suggestions on my next step? Cheers, Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] The yellow peril?
Thanks Neil, and Paul. Much as I expected, 'tho it's interesting the number of scans I'm getting from Eastern Europe as well (I might follow up the one from Lerwick, just out of curiousity). Nice to see the firewall seems to be working! By the way, does anyone know any analysis tools I might use to analyse /var/log/messages to see what's going on? It's a pain trying to check the services and protocol files each time to work it out. Cheers all, Colin On Thursday 24 July 2003 2:38 pm, Neil McKillop wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 12:46, Colin Fraser wrote: Hi, Just found the following in /var/log/messages: Jul 24 13:23:44 elgin kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=ippp1 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.134.72.190 DST=213.122.60.116 LEN=288 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=114 ID=28413 PROTO=UDP SPT=4288 DPT=135 LEN=268 *SNIP* A whois shows that the source IP is registered to someone in the People's Republic of China. Before I go off half-cocked on this one, Has anyone any idea what it might be about? I've done a google and spotted a virus alert about HLLP.4288 but can't find a description, other than that it affects .COM and .EXE (another good reason for avoiding microdog!). Of course, our friend in China might be a victim (if he's got the virus and it's trying to contact other instances through the net). Anyone got any idea of what's going on or suggestions on my next step? Cheers, Colin I wouldn't worry about this Colin, my home system gets hundreds of these a day, from about 30-50 different IPs. Best guess: port 135 is one of the ports that some script kiddie is checking for vulnerabilities. Since this is showing up in your logs as a dropped packet, you've nothing to worry about, your firewall is doing its job. Regarding a next step, I wouldn't bother doing anything unless you're having regular or multiple problems from this address - it's generally a waste of time. I don't expect you'll see this IP again, most script kiddies obtain lists of the IPs allocated to residential broadband subscribers and concentrating on scanning these home machines, subnet by subnet. As you said, it is possible that this IP is a victim, who is being used to scan for additional vulnerable hosts however, I wouldn't bother trying to help here either - 'cause I'm just lazy and a cynic. You'll have to contact the ISP, voice your suspicions and ask them to get in touch with their subscriber. Forgoing any communication problems you might have with a Chinese ISP, they might opt to do absolutely nothing, and if you choose to do this for all the incoming scans you receive it will eat into quite a bit of your time. Neil. FYI, from iss.net: Port 135 loc-srv/epmap Microsoft DCE Locator service aka. end-point mapper. It works like Sun RPC portmapper, except that end-points can also be named pipes. Microsoft relies upon DCE RPC to remotely manage services. Some services that use port 135 of end-point mapping are: - DHCP server - DNS server - WINS server ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- -- NairnFusion Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose it to anyone else. Notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message and then delete it from your system. Unauthorised use or disclosure of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Any recommendations for a scanner?
Hi, Anyone any recommendations for a scanner that is supported by sane, preferably USB and --CHEAP-- (well, not too expensive). I've done the usual search of the SuSE hardware database and it's the usual story - plenty listed but I'm bu**$£ed if I can locate a retailer for those listed. The model ranges change so fast, they're unavailable before the get onto the H/W DB. Has anyone recently bought one that works? TIA, Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] OT : web design
Before spending any money I'd recommend a look at http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/ Tutorials on there cover HTML, style sheets, javscript, etc. with downloadable examples. Colin (Fraser) Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] OT : web design Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:38:19 + Depend on how au fait he is with actual webpage coding, then I would recommend Webmaster in a Nutshell (O'Reilly) as a great reference book covering HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL - it is a _reference_ book rather than a tutorial, but great if you know what you are doing, but forgot the specific command. Personally, I very rarely feel cheated out of my money when I buy O'Reilly. Ben Thorp Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: ns.co.uk Subject: [Scottish] OT : web design Sent by: scottish-admin@mailman .lug.org.uk 27/01/03 15:29 Please respond to scottish Hello, very OT, but does anyone have a good reference (book/software) for the design/creation of a web site ? A friend of mine wants to make a site for his band, but has no clue of how to go about it. He's computer literate, has a nice new Mac and a lot of time on his hands. Any ideas ? Thank you, Elise * ** This email and any accompanying files are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, copy or disclose the content. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender by return email and delete this message. Thankyou for your co-operation. * ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
