[SLUG] Why do we have to come up with something new?
Oh well looks like there is change in the air! http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=12Art_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 -- 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] ADSL modem recommendations?
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 - Chris -- 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] accessing MS desktops from Linux
Sonia Hamilton wrote: One of my clients is planning to upgrade their network, and I'm pricing MS (Terminal services + a whole n/w of new desktops + licenses - ouch). What I want to do is put Linux on all the old desktops, and have graphical access to 1 windows machine - what can I run on Linux that will do this? I know I can use VNC, but it's a bit clunky, especially since the 1 Windows app that the users need to access is their main app (which they use all day). Anyone had experience with the Citrix ICA Client running on Linux? It looks promising. Any other hints as to what I could use? -- Sonia Hamilton . The spec said Windows 2000 or better...so I installed Linux If you are going to run Terminal Services you could use rdesktop which is just a TS client, WOrks great for what I want to do with it not sure how it fits into what you want to do with it. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] For those who haven't seen it! Open source group fires off at SCO
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=10Art_ID=18409 Open source group fires off at SCO Industry cluster Open Source Victoria (OSV) has filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) against the SCO Group, in response to the vendors ongoing requests for licence fees from Linux users. David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PGP questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just have a quick question about PGP and what slug members use/do. Just out of intrest what Keyservers do people use? I generally use www.keyserver.net and over recent time have been watching some of the PGP signed emails comming in through SLUG list and other list's but from the looks of it most people don't have their keys up on that set of servers and some don't even have keys up anywere I could find to verifiy the Signiture. If people use PGP, why would people sign emails without having their key uploaded to a keyserver for other people to check their sig's if they want? What do people generally use PGP for? At this point it is fairly challanging to get Customers to use it for secure emails. Some customers ~ don't even care and just send things like CC number through email without a care. Internally in our company we use it to secure all our emails with server passwords and Doc's that you would not want to get out in anyway shape or form. David -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFANGdnPB/nkLvEvNARAp18AKCSWtXbSyvR8hiS9OgXNdiMD90FYACdEJZN 9O1pNghb4NW3qyvxZtSS9jo= =8jLS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Graphics Question
I have a Line drawing JPG file. What I want to do is trace it. Somwthing like what coreldraw can do were it can trace the drawing so you are left with a vector drawing and you can do just about anything with it. I have looked through gimp and it does not appear to be able to do it so I thought someone might have an idea what will. The end result I want to end up with is either a Vector Drawing that I could directly put on a doc or a Graphic that has a transparent background so that it can be setup as a background in OpenOffice so that it just becomes a light line drawing on the background. Thanks Guys David -- 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] OT Voice of IP via ADSL
Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, Now that xDSL connections are as low $40 /mth, is it possible to run VoIP? Possible YES Reliable Not really. Not on a Residential DSL service. You would want something on a Reliable network that has SLA's, or you are likley to be chatting to blank space a lot of the time :( :( What are the problems and can you call a 'normal' phone? The Lagg or the time it takes VIA the Internet to get from the other IP phone or the VoIP Gateway. It can work and I have seen it done. Once they get the VoIP packet size down or they QoS the Res DSL products so that VoIP gets priority you will suffer from dropouts or blank spots durring the conversation. It does work well on a Business grade DSL that has SLA's and can work very sucessfully. Before it becomes mainstream outside of the local LAN enviroment there needs to be inprovement in our Internet Delivery Networks and maybe even some improvement on the Codecs to reduce their size and make it more reliable to get through. It is a Fun product and I am sure that this year and next there will be some really fun and inavative things come onto the market to make it avaliable to more and more consumers. Just have to wait and see. David Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - Australia UK 2/713 Pacific Hwy Gordon Australia 2072 Ph +(61-2) 9418 4545 Fax +(61-2) 9418 4348 Mob +(61) 0414 618 425 www.nada.com.au --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus Database: 366 - Release Date: 3/02/2004 -- 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] No modem connection with Red Hat 9
Trevor wrote: We have installed Red Hat 9 on an Compaq Armada. All seem to work well except for the modem. The installer could not recognize the internal modem so used the generic modem settings. When we try to connect to a dial up ISP nothing happens. There are no dialing tones. I can not seem to find any way to dial manually as I would be able to do with Remote Access ( I am a Mac convert) Any suggestions http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/linux/description.html Thats what I used to get the modem working on my E500 Hope that helps! David Uzzell Thanks Rovert -- 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] Kernel upgrade question
Slug wrote: I'm looking at upgrading a kernel from 2.4.20 to 2.4.24. I'm running a mandrake 9.2 system with lots of stuff server and client related. Since this is a new thing for me (I generally stick within Kernel releases that come with a MDK distro) I was wondering if someone knew the general gotchas that might bite me (as it where). I need to do this as a certain dvb package insists I need at least 2.4.23 to run. If it sounds too hard to resolve possible dependency issues, I'll change tack and try the back releases of the DVB s/w. You would hope with the exploit in the Kernel that Mandrake would release a kernel updated to the latest! I would be inclined to see if there is a Security Update MDK rpm which would solve all your issues. Slackware has and their upgrades go very easy with this in mind without the need of compile anything unless you generally make your own kernel's in the first place. David TIA Stu -- 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] Virus scanning bounce strategy
Mary Gardiner wrote: I've set up amavis with clamav on my machine (Debian, MTA = Postfix) and it certainly seems to be finding viruses. However, I'm wondering whether I keep be the default setup, or tell amavis not to warn the sender that they have a virus. Its config file claims that it knows which viruses forge senders, but it looks like I have to update this by hand (practically every new virus forges senders, it seems). And of course, I don't want to contribute to the growing you have a virus! warning message problem which is growing as fast as the viruses themselves. What are people doing with their virus scanners? Not warning senders? Warning only senders of non-forging viruses? How do you keep your forging list up to date? -Mary At this point Personally I have turned out warnings to senders completly as of the last 5 or 6 Major virus to hit my customers that have all been spoofing the from address. I have it setup so that it sends me an email for every virus so I can run them through a scanner and see if they are comming from any of my customers IP's then I can notify them manually. And I have it so that it sends an email to the customers so they know that it is stopping email. I have been complained to by whinning customers who say that I am charging them for AV scanning but they don't get any virus! I mean you can't please some people. Thats what I am doing at this point! Have not sorted out what I exactly want to do with SPAM that goes along with this yet still working through that one! David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] TV cards people experiances?
I am after finding out what peoples experiances have been in the past and current with running TV cards and what types of cards you have found best. I have a requirement to setup a LAN video classroom though streaming video. I have found info on software and alike to do it but all the info I have so far is on software and setups very little for the TV cards! Thanks for you help David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Little OT but about MS only shop WAS Re: [SLUG] Who has spoken to Commonwealth bank Tech support?
Grant Parnell wrote: Trust me on this, call back and bluff your way through saying you're running Windows 98. Might take several calls and you'll need to try to hold off identifying yourself. Also, for the sake of the thread, StGeorge also use Java.. at least I think they're slightly more receptive saying they just need Java1.4 or something like that. I also use ANZ, javascript/http/https, works real nice. Someone should tell some of these companies there is an EVER growing user who are no longer using MS products! The worst I have seen is this one! http://www.waterways.com.au/netscape.asp which comes up when you enter http://www.waterways.com.au You were redirected to this page because you are not using Internet Explorer 5 or later. In order to view the proper site, you'll have to use at least IE5 (IE6 is recommended). You can download IE6 from here. Hmm Well they must not want any one other than MS customers using their services! One wonders if their product quality is similar in nature! My 2c on the lack of Open Standards Support! David On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Kevin Saenz wrote: Well this is my little story. I logged on to netbanking to check my accounts java popped up with a verisign issue. So I decided to call commonwealth bank. This is what I get. [Support person] So you are using Windows XP? [me] No, I'm using Linux [Support person] Can you open up My Computer? [me] I am not using windows I am using Linux. [Support person] Can you spell the operating system you are using? [me] Linux, l-i-n-u-x, can you tell me where you want me to go? [Support person] can you go to add remove programs [me]??? add remove programs, what program would you like me to find? [Support person] the version of java [me] Ok that is simple j2re1.4.blah [Support person] Can you hold? 5 mins later [Support person] We don't support that operating system and the version of java you are using needs to be updated. [me] thanks that helped me a lot bye. Sadly I had no resolve. Are most commonwealth bank support people this brain dead? :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: fedora WAS:(a kernel pickle: qt xlibs dependencies)
Well lets try that again! And for those that missed it I forwarded it to Mathew Sorry mate! To much Egg Nog :) not enough sleep and etc etc etc! Matthew Wlazlo wrote: In the end I decided that 7.2 was too old, and that I'd have a play with switching over to gentoo (compared with upgrading from 7.2 to 9.0, and then having to suffer exactly the same pain in a couple of years time). Or you could upgrade to fedora and use apt-get dist-upgrade :-) Ok well I am going to pipe in here with a question! fedora! :) I have servers which are PLAIN redhat 7.3 and I am not under any chances going to be upgrading them inside the Redhat line. The Question is! Can they be upgraded/crossgraded directly to fedora and then upgraded on fedora line? HAs anyone played with fedora to see how stable it is under load? I mean the server's I want to run it on are at the moment RH7.3 running about 1mil page hits a day on Apache and MySQL! Does fedora's stablilty compair with RH's? With the way things seem to be done like apt-get it looks almost like debian? Would I be correct in saying that? The other option I have for these servers would be to upgrade them into Slackware and go on from there but the customer is used to the look and feel of RH so was wondering how big a difference the look and feel of the layout and such is between fedora and RH? Thanks Guys! Hope you all Have a Happy and Safe New Years :) CYA's David Uzzell Matt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Spambot for indvidual Users?
I have some users who want to take 100% control of their inboxes. I have seen in the past a Bot that would take all the incomming mail and check it againts Blocklist, and whitelist, if it was not listed it would reply to the email automaticly requesting Confirmation that the Email Sender is a real person to which they would reply and would be auto added to the whitelist and if they did not reply in 23-48-72 hours(what ever was set) they would be added to the blocklist! Can someone point me in the direction of something that will do this for qmail please? Thanks Guys! David Uzzell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive on Slackware 9.1
Just a quick question for those that may have stumbled across this in the past :) I have a 2Gb PCMCIA Hard Disk Drive that I would like to be able access under Linux, I want to use it for Still Picture storage and sharring between Linux and windows! The challange is how to get it avaliable so that I can use it under slackware? Thanks David Uzzell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Internet training software
Terry Collins wrote:
Does anyone have any leads on open source, interactive, internet
training software, with security and results database?
Just thought I'd ask before trying various google searches. {:-).
Have you ever looked at this one?
http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/
Been using this since it's first comming into play a couple of years ago
and Has ONLY got better ever since.
Runs very well and is very easy for teachers/instructors to use without
great amounts of training.
David
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[SLUG] Slackware 9.1 Digital Camera's + Software
I am looking at buying a digital camera to replace my now 2+ year old sony Mavica. Intrested in finding out what peoples opion is regarding a camera that works OK with Linux Software? Something USB or similar as I don't realy want to have to worry about a PCMCIA Card reader. Not thinking to replace with a mavica, I want to get something that is a little smaller in size but I want to look at good quality graphics! Thanks David Uzzell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Software Package Search
I am looking for a replacement for MS Visio? I want to be able to do some box drawings and basic maps and designs similar to what visio can do! With my move for a linux desktop rather than what I was used to in the past for just servers, I am having to see if I can source some alternatives for some fairly handy software packages. Thanks for your help David Uzzell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Asterisk VoIP usage and technical questions for australian conditions!
I sent an email to the Asterisk mailling list and got few and varied responses. I would be intrested in finding out if there are SLUG members using or deploying asterisk in australia? Would also be intrested in sucess/failure stories on deployment of ISDN cards to run with asterisk? Just looking at setting up my small office phone system for WAN type use so VoIP is what best suits my needs! If there are people who I have not already spoken to who could help me with their info that would be great. Thanks in advance for any help. David Uzzell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Power supply for router
In Sydney http://www.wescomponents.com/ should be able to help you with what ever you need! They will ship as well David Uzzell Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: I have a D-Link router, and a US power supply. Does anyone know of a supplier of power supplies for Australia? It must plug into the wall (240v) and put out 5v at 2.5A (according to the label on the existing power supply. Alternatively a step down transformer for less than the $100 Dick Smith wants. Cheers, Bret -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
