Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:56:23 +1100
Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> HI all,
> 
> I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I
> have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the
> one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems
> with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives.
> 
> Anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks for all the replies people. Interesting thing is that I 
heard from two people who had the NB1300, upgraded the firmware
and had no problems form there on.

I think I'll probably just get the NB1300.

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Re: [SLUG] making a bootable RH9 disk

[James Gregory]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:01, James Gregory wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:22, Perry, David wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to burn a set of Redhat 9 disks.  I have downloaded the three shrike  
> > iso files onto the hard disk of a RH8 PC.  I have checked the MD5 checksums and 
> > they are all good.
> > 
> > Problem 1:
> > 
> > I am using CDRoast and selected shrike-i386-disc1.iso and added it as the master 
> > source.  In the boot options I select El Torito and am using bootdisk.img as the 
> > boot image.  (I extracted bootdisk.img from the iso file and saved it to a tmp 
> > directory).  I left the boot catalog as the default boot.catalog  .
> 
> The el-torito stuff is included in the iso image as far as I know. At
> any rate, I burn these with:
> 
> cdrecord speed=12 dev=0,0,0 -data [ISO NAME]

And I should have mentioned where I got that 0,0,0 from. It's a SCSI
device ID. To get a list of all of the IDs and the ID string from the
device, run

cdrecord -scanbus

The CDR drive will be labelled as such.

HTH (again),

James.

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Re: [SLUG] making a bootable RH9 disk

[James Gregory]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:22, Perry, David wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to burn a set of Redhat 9 disks.  I have downloaded the three shrike  iso 
> files onto the hard disk of a RH8 PC.  I have checked the MD5 checksums and they are 
> all good.
> 
> Problem 1:
> 
> I am using CDRoast and selected shrike-i386-disc1.iso and added it as the master 
> source.  In the boot options I select El Torito and am using bootdisk.img as the 
> boot image.  (I extracted bootdisk.img from the iso file and saved it to a tmp 
> directory).  I left the boot catalog as the default boot.catalog  .

The el-torito stuff is included in the iso image as far as I know. At
any rate, I burn these with:

cdrecord speed=12 dev=0,0,0 -data [ISO NAME]

and I've never had a problem. I don't know cdroast, but it should be a
case of just burning the iso directly to the disk. This should solve
your other problem also.

HTH,

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Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

[David Uzzell]

Chris Deigan wrote:
quote("Erik de Castro Lopo");

I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I
have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the
one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems
with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives.
Anyone have any recommendations?


I have a D-Link DSL-300+ which works fairly well (besides bad internal security
which is easily fixed with iptables)
I've also heard good things about Billion (which are on the cheaper side)



I am using the Single port Netgear router which can operate as a Modem 
or a router. I also have several of the larger Router's in use at 
customers house's and they are working very well.

I have them running in several diferent ways from Modem on a E-Smith.org 
server to running in router mode.

They are fairly easy to configure and in 7 months and running an Office 
of a Res-DSL Connection through Comindico have not had any problems at all.

David

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[SLUG] making a bootable RH9 disk

[Perry, David]

Hi,

I'm trying to burn a set of Redhat 9 disks.  I have downloaded the three shrike  iso 
files onto the hard disk of a RH8 PC.  I have checked the MD5 checksums and they are 
all good.

Problem 1:

I am using CDRoast and selected shrike-i386-disc1.iso and added it as the master 
source.  In the boot options I select El Torito and am using bootdisk.img as the boot 
image.  (I extracted bootdisk.img from the iso file and saved it to a tmp directory).  
I left the boot catalog as the default boot.catalog  .

When I try and create the session image I get a message  " Uh oh, I can't find the 
boot catalog directory".  

Problem 2:
I have burnt a copy of iso disk 3 which doesn't have to be bootable.  When I read it 
it shows a single file "shrike-i386-disc3.iso"  rather than the hundreds of files 
contained in the iso image.  What did I do wrong when I burnt the CD?
Does anyone have any idea of what is wrong?  I need some specific instructions, I have 
spent a couple of hours on google and there is plenty of advice but it's fairly 
general.
Thanks in advance
David





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RE: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

[Michael F.]

> I have a D-Link DSL-300+ which works fairly well (besides bad 
> internal security which is easily fixed with iptables)
> 
> I've also heard good things about Billion (which are on the 
> cheaper side)

I have a Billion and I must say it works great, as compared to the last
2 modems I had in the past.

If I had to buy another modem, I would be buying a billion again. It all
comes down to what you want, work out how you want to setup your network
with the modem and then buy a modem that suits you.

If wanted my linux machine to do all the routing and nat, then I'd
probably buy a traverse pci adsl modem :)

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Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

[Chris Deigan]

quote("Erik de Castro Lopo");
>I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I
>have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the
>one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems
>with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives.
>
>Anyone have any recommendations?

I have a D-Link DSL-300+ which works fairly well (besides bad internal security
which is easily fixed with iptables)

I've also heard good things about Billion (which are on the cheaper side)

 - Chris
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Re: [SLUG] Why do we have to come up with something new?

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:16, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> 
> > Oh well looks like there is change in the air!
> 
> > Microsoft is suggesting a new tactic in the fight against spam. Execs have
> > proposed a broad industry plan to publish technical details about big
> > companies' email servers, in an attempt to block fake email.
> 
> The funny thing is, it's essentially SPF with added XML overhead! Gar.

...with the XML being a subject of a M$ patent.

> 
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[SLUG] clamav-milter whitelist?

[Peter Hardy]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> BitDefender found an infected object in a message addressed to you

Gah.  Added a sender filter for bitdefender.  I really wish there were
some sort of standard for the "You've got a virus" mails these scanners
send.  (My preference is for DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT SENDING ONE, but
meh)

Anyway, my mail server uses spamassassin (run from a sendmail milter)
and clamav-milter to scan mail. I've got spamassassin set up to
whitelist anything from slug mailing lists.  Is there any way to tell
clamav-milter to do the same?

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[SLUG] Spamassassin Article

[Graham Smith]

This article appears to be quite a good introduction to Spamassassin

http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200402/200402.htm

There are a number of other articles which may prove useful. The index can be 
found here:-
http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/archive.htm

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[SLUG] BitDefender found an infected object

[bitdefender]

BitDefender found an infected object in a message addressed to you

From: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ [SLUG] You really love me? he he]
Object: ecc.zip
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Re: [SLUG] Why do we have to come up with something new?

[Jeff Waugh]

> Oh well looks like there is change in the air!

> Microsoft is suggesting a new tactic in the fight against spam. Execs have
> proposed a broad industry plan to publish technical details about big
> companies' email servers, in an attempt to block fake email.

The funny thing is, it's essentially SPF with added XML overhead! Gar.

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[SLUG] Why do we have to come up with something new?

[David Uzzell]

Oh well looks like there is change in the air!

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=12&Art_ID=18530

Microsoft pushes anti-spam scheme using authentication

By Aaron Ricadela, InformationWeek
Monday, March 01, 2004
advertisement
Microsoft is suggesting a new tactic in the fight against spam. Execs 
have proposed a broad industry plan to publish technical details about 
big companies' email servers, in an attempt to block fake email.

David Uzzell
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[SLUG] sendmail (rule) question

[Jobst Schmalenbach]

all,

i am trying to get my head aroound a rule.
I want to make sure that users can only send to a certain
email address when the email address is specified in the BCC
field, if put anywhere else the sending of the email fails.

This is to make sure that users dont send emails to
their friends AND to some of internal based email aliases
if its NOT specified in the BCC field.



Any ideas?


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[SLUG] BitDefender found an infected object

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BitDefender found an infected object in a message addressed to you

From: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[SLUG] USA government abolishes the capital punishment

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[SLUG] Arkeia Performance

[Terry Collins]

Hello sluggers

Does anyone have any tips on getting maximum performance from Arkeia?

(http://www.arkeia.com).

Yes, I know there is a few that says don't use it, but for a SOHO, the
light (free) version is quite useful (Novell, NT, etc suck).

Whilst it would be ideal if it could spit out tapes like it did at 3am
(1 DDS3 < 1hr) last night, it tends to want to compete with the old
North West mail train  and takes longer than 12 hours.


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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: President

[Jan Schmidt]

> Jan Schmidt
> 
> You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt.

Thanks, Craige. Acccepted.

I'm keen to remain on SLUG committee and ensure that SLUG retains the
friendly atmosphere it has grown up with, and that it continues to foster
and support the Open Source community within Sydney.

I'm looking forward to furthering the policy we've started in the last 6
months to open up the committee discussions and make it easier for
interested members to contribute without having to be on the committee
itself.

Cheers,
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Re: [SLUG] talk proposal & request for help with lftp

[Brett Fenton]

Try escaping out the spaces.

So for example 'pass word here' would become pass\ word\ here

M.da Cruz wrote:
Hi All,

I have recently switched to Linux and now have it running on my Targa
Traveller laptop including the winmodem :-)
I bought the Openskills/SLUG Debian CD, also tried Fedora on loan, but 
ended up installing knoppix. If this stuff is of interest I could share 
my experiences in a talk.

My current challenge is to successfully conect to my webhosting service
using lftp. It's an Apache server with one time passwords. These
are a set of ten words with spaces... The debug 4 to turn on error 
messages was a step forward and I have tried replacing the spaces 
between the words with %20 - but still get an incorrect login message. 
Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

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[SLUG] talk proposal & request for help with lftp

[M.da Cruz]

Hi All,

I have recently switched to Linux and now have it running on my Targa
Traveller laptop including the winmodem :-)
I bought the Openskills/SLUG Debian CD, also tried Fedora on loan, but 
ended up installing knoppix. If this stuff is of interest I could share 
my experiences in a talk.

My current challenge is to successfully conect to my webhosting service
using lftp. It's an Apache server with one time passwords. These
are a set of ten words with spaces... The debug 4 to turn on error 
messages was a step forward and I have tried replacing the spaces 
between the words with %20 - but still get an incorrect login message. 
Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 08:54, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Myself
> 
> The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of
> work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee
> again.

Seconded.

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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

[Mary Gardiner]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Myself

Added you to http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html
> 
> The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of
> work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee
> again.
> 
> Check out http://debian.slug.org.au/

If that wasn't your spiel, please let me know.

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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

[Mary Gardiner]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Peter Hardy
> 
> The vice has never been so good.

Added Pete to http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html

Pete, if you want to make a spiel, reply to this.

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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: President

[Mary Gardiner]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> Jan Schmidt
> 
> You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt.

Added Jan to http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html

Jan, if you want to make a spiel, reply to this.

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Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

[Darren Williams]

Dlink 504/604 firewall, 4 port hub, NAT, DHCP + more

Depending on wireless or not.

Just plug the cables in and off you go.

Has web/telnet/serial connections for
setup if needed and config.

I have been using mine for about 8mths with no
problems.

If I have one complaint it has a noisy transformer.

Darren

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> HI all,
> 
> I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I
> have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the
> one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems
> with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives.
> 
> Anyone have any recommendations?
> 
> TIA,
> Erik
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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

[Benno]

On Mon Mar 01, 2004 at 08:54:39 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
>Myself
>
>The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of
>work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee
>again.
>
>Check out http://debian.slug.org.au/

I think Craige has done more work than actual committee members over the
last six months anyway, so he might as well get the glory ;)

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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

[Benno]

On Mon Mar 01, 2004 at 08:51:43 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
>Peter Hardy
>
>The vice has never been so good.

Seconded.

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Re: [SLUG] Nomination: President

[Benno]

On Mon Mar 01, 2004 at 08:50:29 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
>Jan Schmidt
>
>You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt.

Seconded.

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[SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

HI all,

I'm about to move from cable broadband to ADSL and the ISP I
have chosen allows me to choose my own modem instead of the
one the supply (Netcomm NB1300). I've heard of some problems
with the NB1300 so I'm looking at alternatives.

Anyone have any recommendations?

TIA,
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[SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Commitee Member

[Craige McWhirter]

Myself

The next twelve months is going to be quite vibrant, with the volume of
work we're doing with the Debian SIG I may as well be on the committee
again.

Check out http://debian.slug.org.au/

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[SLUG] Nomination: Vice President

[Craige McWhirter]

Peter Hardy

The vice has never been so good.


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[SLUG] Nomination: President

[Craige McWhirter]

Jan Schmidt

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[SLUG] Committee nominations to date

[Mary Gardiner]

Nominate -- you know you want to! :)

See http://www.slug.org.au/2004/election.html for details of the SLUG
committee, the election, and the statements by the nominees.

-Mary

Nominees:

President

None

Vice President

Robert Collins (nominated by Robert Collins, seconded by Jeff Waugh, Bruce Badger)

Secretary

None

Treasurer

None.

Ordinary committee member (3 positions)

Robert Collins (nominated by Robert Collins, seconded by Jeff Waugh, Bruce Badger).

Michael Kortvelyesy (nominated by Michael Kortvelyesy, no second so far)

Honourary committee member

Chris Deigan (nominated by Jeff Waugh, seconded by Robert Collins)
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Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

[Jeff Waugh]

> Why not install a smc based PCI wireless card in your linux box, I think
> they are around $170 and they work with hostap in b/g mode.

That's like, ultra-boring, zero-hackery potential, dude. :-)

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Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

[Ken Foskey]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 22:41, Alexander Samad wrote:
> Why not install a smc based PCI wireless card in your linux box, I think
> they are around $170 and they work with hostap in b/g mode.

If you want a separate firewall from your computer (a very good idea)...

power consumption.  Having a small box rather than a larger one with
fans.

noise,  no fans.

footprint, small box


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Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

[Alexander Samad]

Why not install a smc based PCI wireless card in your linux box, I think
they are around $170 and they work with hostap in b/g mode.

A


On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:13:34PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> 
> > There was a recent Slashdot article about these routers with custom
> > firmware which made them a lot more configurable and useful (however may
> > risk your warranty).
> 
> Yeah, there are a few around. The wifi-box and sveasoft.com ones are the
> most talked about. I installed the sveasoft.com one the other night, and
> have been looking into making my own (not entirely derived from the linksys
> source).
> 
> > The only bad side about these I've seen is their proprietry antenna
> > connector, has anybody worked these out yet?
> 
> No idea about this one. ;-)
> 
> - Jeff
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Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G

[Jeff Waugh]

> There was a recent Slashdot article about these routers with custom
> firmware which made them a lot more configurable and useful (however may
> risk your warranty).

Yeah, there are a few around. The wifi-box and sveasoft.com ones are the
most talked about. I installed the sveasoft.com one the other night, and
have been looking into making my own (not entirely derived from the linksys
source).

> The only bad side about these I've seen is their proprietry antenna
> connector, has anybody worked these out yet?

No idea about this one. ;-)

- Jeff

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