[SLUG] Windows XP Pro OEM EULA and VirtualBox
Hi SLUG, Had an interesting day today, our IT department found out I was running Ubuntu instead of Windows XP My setup currently is: New Dell lappy, it came with Vista and a XP Pro downgrade License. I still have a 40 gig partition with that original install on it, on the other partition I have Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit with XP Pro running in Sun's VirtualBox. It works a treat. Unfortunatly the software I train people on only runs in Windows and the company will not make it for any other platformanyway my setup currently works fantastically. Well the issue that IT have with my setup is that the Windows XP Pro Key I took off an old Toshiba Laptop that they threw in the dumpster, is violating the OEM EULA. After doing a quick search online and filtering out the crap, I found that I actually am! According to the OEM Windows XP EULA, it can only ever be installed on the original COMPUTER and that's it. The licence basically dies with the hardwarethanks microsoft (I guess that's why Billy's so rich) So in order to comply, I need a retail version of XP Pro which can be installed on multiple PCs (not running at the same time). My Boss who would have to approve the expense of either XP or 7 retail version is very anti anything not microsoft. I will offer to personally pay for the copy of 7 so I can keep my Ubuntu setup, but would like to find a loophole. So my question to you folks is: Is there a way around buying either a XP open license or Windows 7 Pro Retail? Thanks Scott -- 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] Windows XP Pro OEM EULA and VirtualBox
Hi Mark, I know what your saying, in fact I personally have 3 copies of OEM XP Pro that I got when buying PCs on eBay etc. The problem seems to be in the OEM EULA specifically. I need something concrete to show these very nervous Windows only IT guys. I might check out the Windows 7 OEM EULA, maybe it will let me install it on VirtualBox. Scott Mark Walkom wrote: You can usually find a vendor will to part with OEM if you buy something small like a mouse. Otherwise try seeing if someone has a copy they no longer need, there should be a few with Win7 out. 2009/11/12 Scott Waller sc...@wallers.com.au mailto:sc...@wallers.com.au Hi SLUG, Had an interesting day today, our IT department found out I was running Ubuntu instead of Windows XP My setup currently is: New Dell lappy, it came with Vista and a XP Pro downgrade License. I still have a 40 gig partition with that original install on it, on the other partition I have Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit with XP Pro running in Sun's VirtualBox. It works a treat. Unfortunatly the software I train people on only runs in Windows and the company will not make it for any other platformanyway my setup currently works fantastically. Well the issue that IT have with my setup is that the Windows XP Pro Key I took off an old Toshiba Laptop that they threw in the dumpster, is violating the OEM EULA. After doing a quick search online and filtering out the crap, I found that I actually am! According to the OEM Windows XP EULA, it can only ever be installed on the original COMPUTER and that's it. The licence basically dies with the hardwarethanks microsoft (I guess that's why Billy's so rich) So in order to comply, I need a retail version of XP Pro which can be installed on multiple PCs (not running at the same time). My Boss who would have to approve the expense of either XP or 7 retail version is very anti anything not microsoft. I will offer to personally pay for the copy of 7 so I can keep my Ubuntu setup, but would like to find a loophole. So my question to you folks is: Is there a way around buying either a XP open license or Windows 7 Pro Retail? Thanks Scott -- 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] Windows XP Pro OEM EULA and VirtualBox
The bastards at Dell tie the key into the bios, so the downgrade Vista key needs to directly access the bios to check it's OK. So when in a VM there is no connection back. Why hasn't the ACCC nailed the people yet?? db wrote: Why don't you just use the xp license as per the downgrade from windows vista? .(which you said came with the dell laptop). -- 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] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Hi Jake, Thanks for the quick response. I went through the syslog file and couldn't find anything weird. Upon searching through other forums I found that in the /etc/fstab file a tag had been added: UUID=147ae6d1-e380-42cd-9471-66882c374580 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-rw 0 1 So I just took out the errors=remount-rw and it works a treat. Thanks again Scott Jake Anderson wrote: Scott Waller wrote: Hi Fellow Slugger, Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I am currently in the US. I really need someone expert help. I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now with no problems. This morning I went to boot up my machine and got a weird gdm message Could not start the X serverdue to some internal error The only way I can boot into X is to do the following... sudo mount -o remount, rw / then I can run sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart I get a message that there is already a session of X running blah blah, I say yes to start a new one and then I am in. I have to kill whiptail once I start as the CPU is going nuts... I am in the US working, i have a big next 4 days of training and would like to have my machine working. I am currently doing a backup of my home directory and seriously thinking about doing an online upgrade to 9.10 Your help is really appreciated. Scott your file system is being mounted read only, you need to solve that problem first. edit the kernel command in grub and delete the bits about silent and graphical then look at whats going on. if nothing jumps out there look through syslog -- 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] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Hi Erik, .I think your right. I have looked through the syslog and couldn't find any issues, but now you've got me worried. Anyway I did a backup last night. Seems to be quite stable at the moment. I wonder if when I passed the: sudo mount -o remount, rw / Then it wrote that to the /etc/fstab file?? and in my panic just missed it. What other things would cause a EXT3 file system to go into read only? Scott Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Scott Waller wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I went through the syslog file and couldn't find anything weird. Upon searching through other forums I found that in the /etc/fstab file a tag had been added: UUID=147ae6d1-e380-42cd-9471-66882c374580 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-rw 0 1 So I just took out the errors=remount-rw and it works a treat. I think it should have been errors=remount-ro. If it was in fact the right value then your filesystems was having errors and unless you're ok with loosing data, you should probably figure whats wrong and get it fixed. Erik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..
Hi Fellow Slugger, Sorry for kinda dissapearing this year, just had some stuff on, and I am currently in the US. I really need someone expert help. I have a new setup on a laptop. It's a very nice Dell Precision M4400. I have been running Ubuntu 9.04 for 3 weeks now with no problems. This morning I went to boot up my machine and got a weird gdm message Could not start the X serverdue to some internal error The only way I can boot into X is to do the following... sudo mount -o remount, rw / then I can run sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart I get a message that there is already a session of X running blah blah, I say yes to start a new one and then I am in. I have to kill whiptail once I start as the CPU is going nuts... I am in the US working, i have a big next 4 days of training and would like to have my machine working. I am currently doing a backup of my home directory and seriously thinking about doing an online upgrade to 9.10 Your help is really appreciated. Scott -- 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] Ubuntu upgrade stalls
Unplug the network cable. Scott Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have come across a problem and am not sure how to continue. I have been running an upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 on my daughter's machine. All was running well until it reached the point where it says: upgrading locales - --en_AU.utf-8... It stops at this point and has been stopped there for about two hours. Any ideas Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIhqFQybPcBAs9CE8RAnO0AJ4q7k4FPcNjdXsanqlWN8Q84AxumACeN/sR cs3XgYX7e3uLNY2CMsnX9d8= =EZU9 -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
Re: [SLUG] Evolution and Telstra
Mark Although I don't use Telstra, I do have that problem sometimes. I don't believe it is ISP specific. My work around is; as soon as I get that message I simply close Evolution and then reopen. If you try and fix it when you have received that message then you just start chasing your tail. Scott On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:45 +1000, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi all, Is anybody else having Evolution mailbox synchronisation problems with Telstra ADSL. It seems to be almost continuous . Mark Phillips Snarky comments WILL be ignored :-) Scott Waller E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. 0439 168 103 F.02 9838 1782 W. www.wallers.com.au -- 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 linux firewall, PPTP, opening ports
Peter, Tried your suggestion and it worked. Thank you so much. Make sure you introduce yourself to me at the next SLUG meeting, I should be the guy behind the video. Scott On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 14:55 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: Hey hey. On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:58 +1000, Scott Waller wrote: *snip* The Acacia program uses iptables as it's back bone I guess, it also uses ULOGD to log the traffic. EG log file fw acacia E violation: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=(null) SRC=66.124.120.195 DST=220.245.83.141 LEN=163 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=23307 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=1369 SEQ=1872663048 ACK=2546150166 WINDOW=65463 ACK PSH FIN URGP=0 This is an example of an External violation, ie someone scanning my firewall. acacia IE violation: IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0 MAC=00:a0:cc:3e:22:44:00:16:6f:6c:3d:48:08:00 SRC=10.0.0.52 DST=203.63.234.178 LEN=52 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=9213 This is an example of the log when I try and connect to my work VPN When I try to connect (laptop) it seems to talk to work but once it comes to the user name and password to times out. If I have the wrong password it will tell me, as I said before, I can connect through a Telstra Hot Spot of McDonalds for example, I can use the hotel internet when I am away to connect.. I have added in these lines into my acacia.conf file iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -s 0.0.0.0/0 --source-port 1723 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -d 0.0.0.0/0 --destination-port 1723 -j ACCEPT The important thing to remember about iptables' built-in chains: The INPUT chain only applies to packets coming in an interface destined for the local machine. The OUTPUT chain only applies to packets leaving an interface that are originating from the local machine. For packets that are originating from your laptop that are going through the firewall, the FORWARD chain is the only one that's checked. So I'd start by adding rules like these: iptables -A FORWARD -p 47 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -p TCP -d 0.0.0.0/0 --destination-port 1723 -j ACCEPT If you'd like to do some more reading on how iptables works, you'll find some great documentation included under /usr/share/doc/iptables (at least it is in debian, redhat may use a different location). Hope that helps. -- Pete Scott Waller E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. 0439 168 103 F.02 9838 1782 W. www.wallers.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Problems with linux firewall, PPTP, opening ports
Hi Fellow Sluggers, I have searched Hi and Lo and need help. I have a weird setup here but it works well and I would like to try and keep my setup. The Scene I have a FC6 machine running a firewalling prog called acacia, it was written by one of Red Hat's head guys, it has served me well for many years but my situation has changed slightly. I have a newish job, they are windows crazy (another story for another time), they have a MS VPN setup. The idea is that all the road warriors can connect via their NextG cards or from their homes though the VPN to the office, this allows them to connect to the Exchange server etc. I also have a laptop (WinXP) that connects through the VPN every where I have tried, but not at my place. It is good in some respects because I can't do work from home (YAY). Anyway, this week the wife has been sick and I now need to connect to work to get emails etc, but I just can't make it work. I am pulling what hair I have let out! The Acacia program uses iptables as it's back bone I guess, it also uses ULOGD to log the traffic. EG log file fw acacia E violation: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=(null) SRC=66.124.120.195 DST=220.245.83.141 LEN=163 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119 ID=23307 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=1369 SEQ=1872663048 ACK=2546150166 WINDOW=65463 ACK PSH FIN URGP=0 This is an example of an External violation, ie someone scanning my firewall. acacia IE violation: IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0 MAC=00:a0:cc:3e:22:44:00:16:6f:6c:3d:48:08:00 SRC=10.0.0.52 DST=203.63.234.178 LEN=52 TOS=00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=9213 This is an example of the log when I try and connect to my work VPN When I try to connect (laptop) it seems to talk to work but once it comes to the user name and password to times out. If I have the wrong password it will tell me, as I said before, I can connect through a Telstra Hot Spot of McDonalds for example, I can use the hotel internet when I am away to connect.. I have added in these lines into my acacia.conf file iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -s 0.0.0.0/0 --source-port 1723 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p TCP -d 0.0.0.0/0 --destination-port 1723 -j ACCEPT Thanks Scott Waller E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. 0439 168 103 F.02 9838 1782 W. www.wallers.com.au -- 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] video for websites.
David, I use Kino to capture and edit the SLUG videos, it is basic but honestly, it was the only one I could get to work/make sense. Kino also has a great exporting section and it allows you to choose what sort of video you want. Also, there is a great tut on the kino website. Hope this helps On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:08 +1000, david wrote: I'm going to have to do some short (30-60 second?) videos for websites soon. They will be edited versions of material shot on camcorders.. pretty standard stuff really. The last time I did it I used iMovie to create quicktime, but I would like to use FOSS this time. Does anyone have any thoughts about what's the best format/software? thanks.. David. Scott Waller E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. 0439 168 103 F.02 9838 1782 W. www.wallers.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] HDD, new motherboard
Hi SLUG, I have a strange question. Background: Last week my father in-law was having computer problems (as usual), anyway, through a course of different problems; PSU and graphics card. The computer guy offered to replace the MB? Very strange, for FREE! After that he got it home, plugged it in and pop! another PSU, fried the MB and apparently the MB. So he now has a new: MB PSU Graphics Card TV Tuner Card My Father in law has a lot of software and important files that he really can't afford to loose or go through re-installing programs. The guy told him a story that in windoze XP you can not just put an old HDD onto a new MB? I offered to call the guy, as I had done this many times when I was a sys admin at my last place of work. So, I called the guy, and we exchanged in professional dialogue and things didn't turn out too well. Anyway, I have since found out that he was right! (I am eating humble pie..large portion) and find this absolutely ridiculous. Somy question is. What ever flavour Linux whether Ubuntu or Redhat or Fedora, will this be the same? Could I take the HDD (80 gig about 2 years old) out of my wife's desktop and install it into a brand new computer and still boot up? Thanks Scott Waller E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M. F. W. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Dual monitor mode in Ubuntu 7.04
Hi I have recently upgraded from a windoze/Redhat world to a windoze/Ubuntu. So far things have been OK. There is one issue that I have, and that is my VGA output on my Dell Inspiron 5100 won't work. I had to add stuff into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to get different resolutions working. --- Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] Driver ati BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1400x10501152x8641024x768800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1400x10501152x8641024x768800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1400x10501152x8641024x768800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1400x10501152x8641024x768800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1400x10501152x8641024x768800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1400x10501152x8641024x768800x600 EndSubSection - It would be useful to get this working as I sometimes do presentations and would prefer not booting back into windoze. Is there also a way of having a different resolution on the output than what is on my main screen? Thanks in advance Scott Waller -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Brain Feeze - ADSL update......
Thanks for all the suggestions yesterday. The issues that I experienced were both coincidence and multi pronged. 1. The internal network card in the Dell was unreliable so it got turned off. 2. There were issues with the other card in the machine 3. FC1 (as pointed out) 4. The crappy Dynalink modem that would not hold it's settings 5. My brain So I installed FC5 (was hoping for FC6 but needed my new fast net access to download it). I decided to give Network Manager a go after Jeff's talk on it..Tipif you want to use static IPs, don't use network manager. Jeff proberly said that but I was up the back - Sorry. Configured the modem Ran the network setup for a ADSL connection, put all my details in..and whamo nothing but net. Installed Acacia Firewall from Richard Keech @ Redhat and all was good. Ran a yum update for the kernel and downloaded my backlog of mail. So, it's all working, rebooted a few time to make sure I need no more intervention if the thing looses power. Shutdown and moved it all back into the garage, reconnected all the cables and crap. Then.the darn thing wouldn't connect. CRAP ! ! (it's now 2:30am), with the power cycle the modem has done a deep reset on itself and I gave up. I have bought a Linksys modem this morning so I will try that tonight. Thanks again for all your tips. :-) I'll let you know how I go with the Linksys -- Scott Waller Sales Account Manager Lots of Watts Pty Ltd 2 Bridge St, Rydalmere NSW 2116 Ph: (02) 9638 0302 Fx: (02) 9638 0331 Mb: 0421 038 526 www.lotsofwatts.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] NAT stuff
Hi everyone, Got a stupid question. If I have 2 NICs on one machine: eth0 192.168.0.1 and eth1 10.0.0.1 and I want to let all the computers on eth0 network to talk to an internet connection on the 10.0.0.1 network, how would I use iptables and/or NAT to make this happen? I have a theory but haven't tested it yet: iptables -A FORWARD -j MASQUERADE -o eth0 -t nat I think I am missing something.??? Thanks -- Scott Waller Sales Account Manager Lots of Watts Pty Ltd 2 Bridge St, Rydalmere NSW 2116 Ph: (02) 9638 0302 Fx: (02) 9638 0331 Mb: 0421 038 526 www.lotsofwatts.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] More spam stuff - Spamassassin and procmail
Hi everyone, I have been watching the posts over the past couple of days, and have decided to tackle this one again. Currently I have a firewall machine receiving mail on port 25 (sendmail), then it sends it onto the mail server port 25 (sendmail). Then procmail sends it out to the various users mail boxes. I have spent about 5 hours today trying to work out how procmail is working without the required .procmailrc file I am reading about in all the Spamassassin (SA) stuff. I can confirm that procmail is the MTA. Q Do I just create the /etc/procmailrc file? or is there a better/easier way? Thanks -- Scott Waller Sales Account Manager Lots of Watts Pty Ltd 2 Bridge St, Rydalmere NSW 2116 Ph: (02) 9638 0302 Fx: (02) 9638 0331 Mb: 0421 038 526 www.lotsofwatts.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PCI Wireless Card
Hi everyone, I am embarking on a project that requires the use of WiFi. My question is: What PCI WiFi cards work in linux? or what cards have people used successfully? Will most likely be using it with FC5.. Thanks -- Scott Waller Lots of Watts Pty Ltd 2 Bridge St, Rydalmere NSW 2116 Ph: (02) 9638 0302 Fx: (02) 9638 0331 Mb: 0421 038 526 www.lotsofwatts.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
