Re: [SLUG] Linksys WRT54G
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Ken Foskey reminded me that I was going to post the model number of the > Linksys wireless access point / router / switch I showed off the other > night. It's the WRT54G, and is available for around $180: > > http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508&scid=35 (My apologies if any of the below is repeats of earlier discussion -- but I missed it :p) 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). The only bad side about these I've seen is their proprietry antenna connector, has anybody worked these out yet? Also - the pricing of these is now around $140, crazy price wars going on. Andypoo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Press request: Legitimate uses of P2P
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: > SLUG committee has had a reporter request the contact details of people > who are making legitimate (by which I presume he means legal) use of P2P > technologies. He's looking for 'experts' to comment, but the article is > for laypeople. > > If you are willing to comment on your use of P2P technology, please > contact the SLUG committee, and we'll pass your details on. I can't really think of legitimate or good uses (that are actually current) that could legitimise KaZaa and similar programs. However, BitTorrent really stands out as a great means for distribution of a single item, and has been used by a few distributions now I believe for distribution of their ISOs. Whilst I'm not sure if I could put anything together that would be useful for an article, it would be a great topic to focus on. For those who haven't used BitTorrent, it's basically a P2P application whereby you download a .torrent file, which contains references to a "tracking" server. Once there, you are given a few peers to download bits of the file from (peers being either seeds - people who have the entire file already, or other people who are still downloading the file aswell). This way, everybody helps add to the distribution of a file. This method works extremely well on new releases of files that are likely to cause a great rush of high capacity downloading (such as ISO releases of distributions), because instant of the server being instantly overcome by the load of billions of people downloading a file, the rush of people downloading actually causes there to be so many more peers that the actual drain on the original seed is minimal (or at least, in a relative context -- there would be a bit of load at first, but as soon as a few downloaders picked up and started peering, the initial downloads for new people would be handled by various people already downloading). This is very different to what the public have come to know as P2P, which is that you go in a search for something (usually illegal) to download, and get it straight away. Search-based P2P applications made for the distribution of (random) data to me are not really a good idea in a world where copyright infringement is such a hot issue, and where the public don't feel that the original content has the value that the price placed upon it represents. Hmm, I really didn't mean to write that much -- bye now! Andypoo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] stgeorge ibank busted?
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Jan Schmidt wrote: > > > I haven't being able to log onto stgeorge ibank today at all. I was able > > to last night. I use j2re1.4.2_03, I could dump the java console error > > if so requested. > > Jaime mentioned something about it being offline for maintenance this > weekend, although it's silly that they don't have a page to say so. Hmm -- I'm still having problems after the so-called maintenance on all my Linux machines today (Monday - 11am). I was doing an upgrade of Mozilla/Java on the main banking machine too, which caused me great uncertainty when I couldn't use the banking on Saturday, but then discovered on my own desktop (which I hadn't performed any Java/Mozilla changes on), that banking wasn't working either. I get an Applet IBANK notinited error with a lovely red cross, and then Java applet failed, or some similar error message. Is this what others are getting? Would be nice to know it's not just me :-) Tried to speak to St George to find out the extent of changes over the weekend, spoke to Julia (I believe) but as soon as I mentioned Linux she pulled out the "We don't support Linux" drawcard, however, she was a little helpful after that, saying that the changes were not major. Some features were added, but not to the front-end (apparently). I even reverted the office PC to what I had working before (j2re1.4.1 + Mozilla Firebird 0.7), but the same problem occurs :-( .. On a side note, this morning we were having random issues with a Windows 2000 machine with their internet banking, whilst able to login, it randomly got an "unable to contact bank server" error and logged out again. Seemed to be okay when I was on the phone to them though unfortunately. But this seems to be a different problem to the Linux notinited problem. Andypoo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] kernel: Call Trace - What happened?
I'm in the process of building a new server which is a Dual Xeon 2.4GHz with 1Gb of ECC/Registered memory. The CPUs are hyperthreading, meaning they each show up as 2 CPUs in Linux, making there a total of 4 CPUs visible. It had been up and running well for a week whilst I moved things from other servers to it, then I couldn't ssh to it the other day. Upon further investigation (the box was still usable from console), I found the below in /var/log/messages: Mar 26 12:14:30 meepmeep kernel: init S F7EFDF2C 4696 1 0 10312 (NOTLB) Mar 26 12:14:30 meepmeep kernel: Call Trace:[schedule_timeout+122/156] [process_timeout+0/96] [do_select+458/516] [sys_select+810/1132] [system_call+51/56] Mar 26 12:14:30 meepmeep kernel: keventd S F7EEE664 5984 2 1 3 (L-TLB) Mar 26 12:14:30 meepmeep kernel: Call Trace:[context_thread+277/464] [kernel_thread+40/56] Mar 26 12:14:30 meepmeep kernel: ksoftirqd_CPU S F7EEA000 5880 3 1 4 2 (L-TLB) Mar 26 12:14:30 meepmeep kernel: Call Trace:[do_softirq+111/204] [ksoftirqd+147/200] [kernel_thread+40/56] etc. Full log: http://www3.secret.com.au:83/users/andypoo/more/wtf.1214.txt It seems every process on the system seems to have faulted in some way, but I'm not familiar with this style of kernel failure. If anybody could point me into the direction of what this all means, or possible symptoms, I'd be greatly appreciated. The box was due for colocation in a week aswell, looks like I'll have to run it in for another month. Thanks, Andypoo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] whois in .au namespace
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, David wrote: > can anyone give me the command to give registration details in the .au > namespace. The command that used to work seems to no longer do so. > > eg: whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should just be able to whois foo.com.au, it'll redirect your referral to the appropriate root whois server for .au. Alternatively, you can whois -h aunic.net foo.com.au. I'm not sure of this [EMAIL PROTECTED] formatting, or which version of whois that is from.. Andypoo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Apache - bind addresses and ports
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, pworboys wrote: > I have an apache server based on RH7.3. A single network adaptor is > bound to 2 addresses, i.e. 192.168.1.1 (eth0) and 192.168.1.2 (eth0:1) > > As expected, apache will bind the http process to both network addresses > on port 80. > > What I need to determine is how to stop httpd from binding to the second > address 192.168.1.2 on eth0:1, so I can port forward the second address > port 80 to a different system, using some port redirection software. > > I have a kludge work around, but feel there maybe a better way to > facilitate this configuration. > > What I have done is: bind apache to listen on a random port > 1023 which > will never be used. By using the 'Listen' directive tell apache to > listen to the single IP address, ie: Listen 192.168.1.1:80. You might want to have a look here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/bind.html The command you're looking for specifically is BindAddress as opposed to Listen. BindAddress defines the default IP to listen on (by default * / all addresses). If you setup 192.168.1.1 as your bind address, then you can do whatever you wish with 192.168.1.2 and port 80. If you need to bind to more addresses than just 192.168.1.1, throw in some extra Listen statements. Enjoy! Andypoo. .. It would seem I'm back :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
