Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..
When you get to that screen, dont tick anything, just click forward. Grub is installed in the EFI partition on your pendrive, so you dont want to mess with it. Though the update has stopped gdm starting on boot! Anyone know where the config file for that is stored on 9.10? I was assuming init.d/ but it isnt there! On 21 April 2010 22:04, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 21 April 2010 21:31, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: snip installing the updates, it is now asking me which partitions to install grub on, with a choice of /dev/sda and /dev/mmcblk0 and I don't know which (or both) to select. Are those the two partitions on the stick or is one the internal flash in the joggler? /snip Hi Colin, /dev/mmcblk0 refers tonthe internal memory. I wouldn't stick grub there because it'll interfere with the default install. The internal mmc looks like this in fdisk Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/mmcblk0p1 * 1 1954 62520 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/mmcblk0p2 1955 9768 250048 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p3 9769 17582 250048 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p4 17583 31376 441408 83 Linux OK, thanks In fact I was stuck anyway, I had been moving my keyboard and mouse between the joggler and my pc as the joggler updated, and having got to the screen asking where it should install grub it would not recognise the keyboard again. Reading the latest stuff on the wiki I think I will just start again with the latest image there. At least that is no big deal. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sage Line 500 Client Wine
Rob Beard wrote: On 22/04/10 15:16, Jon Farmer wrote: Hi I have installed the Sage Line 500 client under Wine and it installs and starts up without a issue. However I have noticed that it does not refresh the current view correctly. For instance if I am viewing the transactions of a particular customer and I chose F6 to page forward the list does not refresh properly (it leaves the entries of the previous page visible). If you however move to a item and drill down into it goes to the item that should be at that location on that page. So it seems like it is a client issue with redrawing the screen. Anyone have any ideas? Being able to get this to work would be great as it is a must have application for my employer. Regards Jon All I can think of off the top of my head is making sure that things like Compiz are turned off and maybe try another version of Wine (if you install PlayOnLinux, it will allow you to install multiple copies of Wine which you can try). Rob last time i looked, wine had sage listed as not working at all. The wife uses it, and won't try linux because as i couldn't get it to work, so if there is a way to get it going that would be great. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Warning to all users of Samba
Just wanted to ask again, as this seems to have got lost, Does anybody have any information on how to use these firewalls (e.g. Ubuntu's ufw and Firestarter). I tried setting one up, and ended up shutting my pc off to everything, and had to get somebody to help open it up again. I gave up with the virus checker, as it thought a lot of things that were important to the pc were viruses, and as I dont know enough, had to leave that go. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Warning to all users of Samba
On 23 April 2010 11:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Just wanted to ask again, as this seems to have got lost, Does anybody have any information on how to use these firewalls (e.g. Ubuntu's ufw and Firestarter). I tried setting one up, and ended up shutting my pc off to everything, and had to get somebody to help open it up again. I gave up with the virus checker, as it thought a lot of things that were important to the pc were viruses, and as I dont know enough, had to leave that go. https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/firewall.html https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firestarter https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+
Hi David, On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:03:24PM +0100, David wrote: What does everybody think about these certifications? In late 2008, LPI-UK sent me what I considered at the time to be several pieces of uninteresting unsolicited email. After asking how they got my address it turned out that I had once expressed an interest in an LPI exam at a FOSDEM event and LPI shared my email address with all of their affiliates, which is allowed in the small print of their privacy policy (so not technically unsolicited). I attempted to unsubscribe from the marketing mail (which itself contained no unsubscribe link) but got an error from the LPI mailman instance. In all it took 7 weeks and several back and forth emails with Bill Quinn for me to be removed from this marketing list, during which time I received several more marketing emails, some of which were duplicates of the other. Some excuses given for the inability to unsubscribe me included: Due to Canadian Data Protection Law, I / LPI-UK can not view or alter the names on the mailing list. I can only make a formal request to LPI to remove you from the list. I was not the only person to experience this; see thread starting at: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2008-October/074599.html I received no apology for this at the time, and only later when someone brought up the incident again on a mailing list and I chipped in with my account of my experience did Bill apologise to me on behalf of LPI-UK. Unfortunately in that same email he called me a liar over my claim of receiving duplicates of the same marketing. My mail box disagreed with him: Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:19:01 -0500 From: Scott Lamberton slamber...@lpi.org Subject: Upcoming LPI Webcasts: December 17th Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:22:03 + From: Bill Quinn bill.qu...@lpi-uk.org Subject: [lpi-alumni-uk] Free LPI Webcasts As a result of this I personally will never have dealings with LPI-UK or Linux-IT. I have not experienced anything bad from any other LPI affiliate but since taking an LPI exam requires giving LPI your email, and LPI's privacy policy says they will share your details with their affiliates, I can't recommend that either. I hope that Linux-IT's understanding of customer service and the UK Data Protection Act has improved in the last ~16 months. As it happens I do hold several Linux and IT-related certifications, all of which are associated with more enterprisey corporations than LPI, and none of them aggressively market to me in this manner. Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/2010 11:47, John Matthews wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? John. In the past, I've used the Shields Up Scanner at www.grc.com/into.htm to test for open ports, how accurate it I couldn't say though. Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? nmap can do this. http://nmap.org/bennieston-tutorial/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 11:47, John Matthews wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. If you think about it, a great deal of the world's business and network infrastructure runs on Unix and Linux systems. There are fundamental differences between these platforms and Windows which make writing viruses hard and make virus proliferation *very* hard to do. Obviously we can never say never, but to get a virus to propagate on Unix based systems really requires them to be just badly set up or for you to be running as root. For the uber-paranoid, one way to virtually emilinate the risk of virus propagation is to have 2 accounts on your system and only ever use the one with non-admin rights to surf and retrieve emails etc. This way, even if you are tricked into running something that needs sudo, you won't be able to run it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+port+checker Top search result. Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+
Hi there, I have an LPIC 1 certification which I can say has been a help in job searches and also applications to emigrate. Also in having the LPIC 1 I was awarded 2 further awards from Novell, as they deemed it that the course covered the knowledge needed for those exams... On 23 April 2010 11:51, Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net wrote: Hi David, On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:03:24PM +0100, David wrote: What does everybody think about these certifications? In late 2008, LPI-UK sent me what I considered at the time to be several pieces of uninteresting unsolicited email. After asking how they got my address it turned out that I had once expressed an interest in an LPI exam at a FOSDEM event and LPI shared my email address with all of their affiliates, which is allowed in the small print of their privacy policy (so not technically unsolicited). I attempted to unsubscribe from the marketing mail (which itself contained no unsubscribe link) but got an error from the LPI mailman instance. In all it took 7 weeks and several back and forth emails with Bill Quinn for me to be removed from this marketing list, during which time I received several more marketing emails, some of which were duplicates of the other. Some excuses given for the inability to unsubscribe me included: Due to Canadian Data Protection Law, I / LPI-UK can not view or alter the names on the mailing list. I can only make a formal request to LPI to remove you from the list. I was not the only person to experience this; see thread starting at: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2008-October/074599.html I received no apology for this at the time, and only later when someone brought up the incident again on a mailing list and I chipped in with my account of my experience did Bill apologise to me on behalf of LPI-UK. Unfortunately in that same email he called me a liar over my claim of receiving duplicates of the same marketing. My mail box disagreed with him: Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:19:01 -0500 From: Scott Lamberton slamber...@lpi.org Subject: Upcoming LPI Webcasts: December 17th Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:22:03 + From: Bill Quinn bill.qu...@lpi-uk.org Subject: [lpi-alumni-uk] Free LPI Webcasts As a result of this I personally will never have dealings with LPI-UK or Linux-IT. I have not experienced anything bad from any other LPI affiliate but since taking an LPI exam requires giving LPI your email, and LPI's privacy policy says they will share your details with their affiliates, I can't recommend that either. I hope that Linux-IT's understanding of customer service and the UK Data Protection Act has improved in the last ~16 months. As it happens I do hold several Linux and IT-related certifications, all of which are associated with more enterprisey corporations than LPI, and none of them aggressively market to me in this manner. Cheers, Andy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkvRe6sACgkQIJm2TL8VSQs+gwCfUVCJtQjP8gemVujHEnA2z/fk cp4AnRp3xaFsZ2M3HLL5nGuC9dJGU1yE =qrUk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? nmap can do this. http://nmap.org/bennieston-tutorial/ netstat -l is another option that will give you an initial idea of what's open and listening. Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 11:47, John Matthews wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? John. There is Shield's Up from the Gibson Research Corporation... https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 What it does is check against your internet side IP address (the IP address that your ISP will give you) and it will scan for open ports (basically whatever your router might be forwarding to your internal PC IP addresss). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 11:51, Alan Pope wrote: On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? nmap can do this. http://nmap.org/bennieston-tutorial/ Cheers, Al. Thanks everybody, I appreciate the help. I will try see if I can understand it now. @Alan Lord..that is very clever I'm impressedalso very patronisingand you wonder why it is I react the way I do on here and IRC ubuntu-uk. I want to say more. If I understood how it worked, I wouldnt have needed to ask. The way I see it, you didnt have to talk, just do what Alan Pope did, just give some urls, that didnt hurt. Or better still, say nothing. Because it didnt help, apart from the wind me up even more. If it means anything, I did a google search, prior to e-mailing, and couldnt work out if they were talking about Linux or Windows, or what they would work on. In that search it didnt seem to mention Linux at all, so I dont know if it will work on Linux or not, hence the question. @Alan LordIn that search you just performed for me, it mentions nothing about Linux, so how do I know if it will work. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 12:22, Bruno Girin wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? nmap can do this. http://nmap.org/bennieston-tutorial/ netstat -l is another option that will give you an initial idea of what's open and listening. Bruno @Bruno..thank you for that.Now that is interesting, I just entered that into the Terminal, it seems that there is line upon line of listening, but nothing saying open. What does it all mean? John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Digital Economy Act - the OFCOM code
Hi, I originally posted this email to my users' list as I have some customers who are concerned about the Digital Economy Act. I was asked to repost it here as it may be of interest, so I'm editing it a little and doing so. I attended the UK Network Operators' Forum meeting yesterday and saw a presentation on the DEA by Andrew Cormack, a legal type person at JANET. The slides are here: http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof16/Cormack-DEA.pdf and hopefully the video will be available soon. The following is not legal advice, it is simply my interpretation of someone else's analysis, which is also not legal advice. It's also not my work, it's Andrew Cormack's. I might have misunderstood something. To summarise what we know so far: - The Act was only passed a short time ago and we're about to get a new government so it's still very unclear. - Most of the workings of the Act have been left to OFCOM to implement, and OFCOM is still consulting with stakeholders (which does include ISPs but also the media industry) - OFCOM is not going to force ISPs to be police (we aren't going to be forced to investigate reports), judges or juries (we aren't going to be forced to decide who is guilty of anything or not), but we might end up being like prison guards (enforcing punishments ordered by the courts). - What is an ISP and what is a subscriber are not yet defined. For example, there is no indication yet that [my company] is an ISP in the eyes of the government for the purposes of this Act. The government thinks there may be somewhere between 5 and 450 ISPs in the UK. It is possible that the final definition will exclude [my company] at which point I have no official interest. - The Act will be introduced in a staged manner, starting in January 2011 in a mode where rights owners may send alleged infringement reports to ISPs regarding subscriber IPs and the rights owner's content. At this stage the ISP is supposed to just relay the information to the subscriber, e.g. - for the first few reports to just pass on information about alleged copyright infringement, where to buy legal copies etc etc. - 10+ reports send warning letter/email - 50+ reports send severe warning/email Rights owners will be able to ask ISPs for a list (anonymised) of alleged serious infringers, and can then ask court for a court order to obtain the alleged infringers' identities presumably for the purpose of suing the alleged infringers. - 2012 or later, if the government decides it is appropriate, a technical measures clause may be added. This might mean that at some high level of alleged infringement reports, ISPs are compelled to take some technical measure such as throttling or filtering. Basically a purposeful degradation of the subscriber's service. There will be an appeal process. - 2012 or later, if the government decides it is appropriate, it will be possible for rights owners to obtain a court order for blocking a subscriber, i.e. disconnection but they don't like to call it that. There will be an appeal process and the court will be required to consider third party interests (other users of the service, ongoing police investigations etc.). - Note that at present, the government is under the belief that an ISP always knows who its subscriber is, of course depending on how you define subscriber this may not in reality be the case. Also note that changing the subscriber or the ISP resets all alleged infringement counters because the information is not shared between ISPs. So moving to another broadband ISP (typically free) or changing the person who holds the contract resets the alleged infringement count for that service to zero. It is still unclear if this can be applied to a subscriber who is not a UK citizen. There's still a lot to be decided. At this stage I think it is probably best if ISPs engage with OFCOM to try to influence the eventual code, and the best way for this to be done is via ISPA, the UK's Trade Association for ISPs: http://www.ispa.org.uk/ If your ISPs are members then you might ask them to work with ISPA on this wherever possible. If this Act is going to be enforced then it would be nice if OFCOM was influenced by ISPs as uch as possible, because it appears that every ISP in the UK is on the side of the consumer on this one. The following page is some ongoing work by Andrews Arnold on what a code that ISPs could work with might look like: http://aaisp.net.uk/dea-code.html Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:51:23AM +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi David, Apologies for the dupe - hit the wrong key in my mailer. :( Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 12:44, John Matthews wrote: @Alan Lord..that is very clever I'm impressedalso very patronisingand you wonder why it is I react the way I do on here and IRC ubuntu-uk. I want to say more. If I understood how it worked, I wouldnt have needed to ask. The way I see it, you didnt have to talk, just do what Alan Pope did, just give some urls, that didnt hurt. Or better still, say nothing. Because it didnt help, apart from the wind me up even more. Sorry. No offence intended. LMGTFY is used frequently and I don't take offence when it is offered to me. If it means anything, I did a google search, prior to e-mailing, and couldnt work out if they were talking about Linux or Windows, or what they would work on. In that search it didnt seem to mention Linux at all, so I dont know if it will work on Linux or not, hence the question. Initially, what should be of interest is actually what ports are open to the outside world via your router. It doesn't really matter if the machines are Windows or not to start with. Find out what ports are accessible from the Internet and then work out if they need to be open or not on the router. Unless you are hosting a web site, ssh access or a mail server there aren't many other reasons why your router should expose any open ports at all. Most DSL routers perform a function called NAT (Network Address Translation) so that the single IP address that is on the Internet side can be mapped to multiple individual IP addresses on the private side. As a direct consequence of this, you have to explicitly configure port forwarding from the Internet to a specific machine on your network for a specific port, or as has been discussed before, a DMZ (De-Militarised Zone) to which all unknown incoming traffic is directed. Once you have the router setup correctly, you can then use tools like nmap from your Ubuntu pc to show you what ports are open on *every* machine on your local network. You can then decide if they need to be open or not on a case-by-case basis. @Alan LordIn that search you just performed for me, it mentions nothing about Linux, so how do I know if it will work. See above. These web based sites will tell you what ports are open to the Internet. For example using any of those tools on my IP address (the one I have on the Internet Side of my router) would show you I only have 3 ports open: 22 (ssh) 80 (web) and 8080 (Another web service). On my router each of those ports are forwarded to specific machines and ports on my network. I also have a couple of ports configured on the router's firewall to only allow traffic from a known destination IP and Port to connect to a specific host/port on my LAN. A port scanner will not pick these up of course. HTH Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+
On 23/04/10 11:51, Andy Smith wrote: snip As a result of this I personally will never have dealings with LPI-UK or Linux-IT. I have not experienced anything bad from any other LPI affiliate but since taking an LPI exam requires giving LPI your email, and LPI's privacy policy says they will share your details with their affiliates, I can't recommend that either. I hope that Linux-IT's understanding of customer service and the UK Data Protection Act has improved in the last ~16 months. As it happens I do hold several Linux and IT-related certifications, all of which are associated with more enterprisey corporations than LPI, and none of them aggressively market to me in this manner. Cheers, Andy That's certainly interesting to know, I was looking at possibly doing an LPI course, mainly because it appears the material is available online for free. I think if I do sign up though, I'll give them my hotmail address (where most of my junk mail goes). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+
On 23/04/10 12:19, James Thomas wrote: Hi there, I have an LPIC 1 certification which I can say has been a help in job searches and also applications to emigrate. Also in having the LPIC 1 I was awarded 2 further awards from Novell, as they deemed it that the course covered the knowledge needed for those exams... That's interesting, did you have to go through Novell to get the 2 further awards or was this done automatically when you passed the exams? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 13:12, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 23/04/10 12:44, John Matthews wrote: @Alan Lord..that is very clever I'm impressedalso very patronisingand you wonder why it is I react the way I do on here and IRC ubuntu-uk. I want to say more. If I understood how it worked, I wouldnt have needed to ask. The way I see it, you didnt have to talk, just do what Alan Pope did, just give some urls, that didnt hurt. Or better still, say nothing. Because it didnt help, apart from the wind me up even more. Sorry. No offence intended. LMGTFY is used frequently and I don't take offence when it is offered to me. If it means anything, I did a google search, prior to e-mailing, and couldnt work out if they were talking about Linux or Windows, or what they would work on. In that search it didnt seem to mention Linux at all, so I dont know if it will work on Linux or not, hence the question. Initially, what should be of interest is actually what ports are open to the outside world via your router. It doesn't really matter if the machines are Windows or not to start with. Find out what ports are accessible from the Internet and then work out if they need to be open or not on the router. Unless you are hosting a web site, ssh access or a mail server there aren't many other reasons why your router should expose any open ports at all. Most DSL routers perform a function called NAT (Network Address Translation) so that the single IP address that is on the Internet side can be mapped to multiple individual IP addresses on the private side. As a direct consequence of this, you have to explicitly configure port forwarding from the Internet to a specific machine on your network for a specific port, or as has been discussed before, a DMZ (De-Militarised Zone) to which all unknown incoming traffic is directed. Once you have the router setup correctly, you can then use tools like nmap from your Ubuntu pc to show you what ports are open on *every* machine on your local network. You can then decide if they need to be open or not on a case-by-case basis. @Alan LordIn that search you just performed for me, it mentions nothing about Linux, so how do I know if it will work. See above. These web based sites will tell you what ports are open to the Internet. For example using any of those tools on my IP address (the one I have on the Internet Side of my router) would show you I only have 3 ports open: 22 (ssh) 80 (web) and 8080 (Another web service). On my router each of those ports are forwarded to specific machines and ports on my network. I also have a couple of ports configured on the router's firewall to only allow traffic from a known destination IP and Port to connect to a specific host/port on my LAN. A port scanner will not pick these up of course. HTH Al Hi Alan, thanks for your reply, that helped a lot. I am still wondering about the Ping problem that I mentioned earlier. In that test, I passed everything, was telling me that I am not visible, but still fail because they can ping my pc. How are you affected with being pinged, and is it worth blocking pinging. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 12:31, Rob Beard wrote: On 23/04/10 11:47, John Matthews wrote: Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside. How do you do that? Is there any software, or can it be done via the Terminal. Can somebody help? John. There is Shield's Up from the Gibson Research Corporation... https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 What it does is check against your internet side IP address (the IP address that your ISP will give you) and it will scan for open ports (basically whatever your router might be forwarding to your internal PC IP addresss). Rob Hi Rob, Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. Plus, it was a bit strange because on one of the things it said 'it was unusual to find a windows machine so completely hidden'. But I'm not using windows, I'm using Ubuntu. That is amazing really considering. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
Hi John, Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. Some routers by default block WAN pings some do not. My Sky router has a field called respond to ping on WAN port its checked off. I passed the test with all my ports in stealth mode. Basically the check at the link rob passed runs a port scan against the WAN side of your router. This is if your are connected via a router. If you connect directly via a USB modem or a Cable modem then it will scan your PC directly. Plus, it was a bit strange because on one of the things it said 'it was unusual to find a windows machine so completely hidden'. But I'm not using windows, I'm using Ubuntu. That is amazing really considering. :-) I would say that its making an assumption that your running windows. Lets face it us Linux users are pretty much in a minority at least when it comes to the OS of choice on the desktop / laptop. Thanks Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Blue tint on screen?
Hiya Guys, i have a laptop thats about 2 years old...and it developed a sudden blue tint on the LCD moniter, i have done the usual diagnostics (plugged it into an external moniter, it was fine, and booted into Windows to check it wasnt a faulty driver) So i am left with a fault in the LCD moniter, how easy is it to repair myself, or will i need a specialist to have a look? I am comfortable and familiar with the hardware of my laptop, i have done a few hardware upgrades, and needed to fix the sound card, swap the RAM and a few other things due to previous faults. It appears to have been quite error prone in the past year or so, and its never taken out of the house so i am not sure why :S -- ~Daniel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 16:58, Markie wrote: Hi John, Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. Some routers by default block WAN pings some do not. My Sky router has a field called respond to ping on WAN port its checked off. I passed the test with all my ports in stealth mode. Basically the check at the link rob passed runs a port scan against the WAN side of your router. This is if your are connected via a router. If you connect directly via a USB modem or a Cable modem then it will scan your PC directly. Plus, it was a bit strange because on one of the things it said 'it was unusual to find a windows machine so completely hidden'. But I'm not using windows, I'm using Ubuntu. That is amazing really considering. :-) I would say that its making an assumption that your running windows. Lets face it us Linux users are pretty much in a minority at least when it comes to the OS of choice on the desktop / laptop. Thanks Mark Hi Mark, thats done it. Brilliant. I looked for respond to ping on WAN port in my router settings, found it, it was ticked, I unticked, then ran the test again, and passed everything. That is brilliant. Thank you. Feel a bit better now. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Blue tint on screen?
Sounds like the red signal is bad. You'll get the same effect if you bend that pin on a VGA cable. Regards, Tyler On Friday 23 April 2010 17:20:20 Daniel Case wrote: Hiya Guys, i have a laptop thats about 2 years old...and it developed a sudden blue tint on the LCD moniter, i have done the usual diagnostics (plugged it into an external moniter, it was fine, and booted into Windows to check it wasnt a faulty driver) So i am left with a fault in the LCD moniter, how easy is it to repair myself, or will i need a specialist to have a look? I am comfortable and familiar with the hardware of my laptop, i have done a few hardware upgrades, and needed to fix the sound card, swap the RAM and a few other things due to previous faults. It appears to have been quite error prone in the past year or so, and its never taken out of the house so i am not sure why :S -- In a society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by 'thou shalt not', the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by 'love' or 'reason', he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else. -- George Orwell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23 April 2010 17:24, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 23/04/10 16:58, Markie wrote: Hi John, Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. Some routers by default block WAN pings some do not. My Sky router has a field called respond to ping on WAN port its checked off. I passed the test with all my ports in stealth mode. Basically the check at the link rob passed runs a port scan against the WAN side of your router. This is if your are connected via a router. If you connect directly via a USB modem or a Cable modem then it will scan your PC directly. Plus, it was a bit strange because on one of the things it said 'it was unusual to find a windows machine so completely hidden'. But I'm not using windows, I'm using Ubuntu. That is amazing really considering. :-) I would say that its making an assumption that your running windows. Lets face it us Linux users are pretty much in a minority at least when it comes to the OS of choice on the desktop / laptop. Thanks Mark Hi Mark, thats done it. Brilliant. I looked for respond to ping on WAN port in my router settings, found it, it was ticked, I unticked, then ran the test again, and passed everything. That is brilliant. Thank you. Feel a bit better now. Note that the ping was not getting through to your PC, it was the router that was responding to the ping. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
On 23/04/10 17:52, Colin Law wrote: On 23 April 2010 17:24, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: On 23/04/10 16:58, Markie wrote: Hi John, Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. Some routers by default block WAN pings some do not. My Sky router has a field called respond to ping on WAN port its checked off. I passed the test with all my ports in stealth mode. Basically the check at the link rob passed runs a port scan against the WAN side of your router. This is if your are connected via a router. If you connect directly via a USB modem or a Cable modem then it will scan your PC directly. Plus, it was a bit strange because on one of the things it said 'it was unusual to find a windows machine so completely hidden'. But I'm not using windows, I'm using Ubuntu. That is amazing really considering. :-) I would say that its making an assumption that your running windows. Lets face it us Linux users are pretty much in a minority at least when it comes to the OS of choice on the desktop / laptop. Thanks Mark Hi Mark, thats done it. Brilliant. I looked for respond to ping on WAN port in my router settings, found it, it was ticked, I unticked, then ran the test again, and passed everything. That is brilliant. Thank you. Feel a bit better now. Note that the ping was not getting through to your PC, it was the router that was responding to the ping. Colin Hi Colin, thank you for pointing that out. I keep forgetting I have a router, and things work differently with it. If I can connect to the internet, I dont think about it, it is only when it breaks, I remember. John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+
I received notifications that I had qualified. Had to log into Novell site and give my LPIC number and that was all. On Apr 23, 2010 2:39 PM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 23/04/10 12:19, James Thomas wrote: Hi there, I have an LPIC 1 certification which I can sa... That's interesting, did you have to go through Novell to get the 2 further awards or was this done automatically when you passed the exams? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.c... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LPIC vs CompTIA Linux+
Hi I also read here http://www.lpi.org/eng/about_lpi/what_s_new/comptia_and_lpi_join_forces_to_advance_global_linux_workforce That if you complete the CompTIA Linux+ Powered by LPI certification, you also automatically qualify for the LPIC1, and I assume by association you would also get the Novell qualifications? Les On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 18:16 +0100, James Thomas wrote: I received notifications that I had qualified. Had to log into Novell site and give my LPIC number and that was all. On Apr 23, 2010 2:39 PM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 23/04/10 12:19, James Thomas wrote: Hi there, I have an LPIC 1 certification which I can sa... That's interesting, did you have to go through Novell to get the 2 further awards or was this done automatically when you passed the exams? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.c... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zeus virus targets Firefox
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 19:25 +0100, Ashley Whetter wrote: www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000496-en--Trojan.Spy.Zeus.W.html By the looks of it, no we are not. :) Gadget3000 Cheers Ashley, I suppose it is asking too much for the BBC to mention that their scare reports are for Windows users only. Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.
Just to explain why the ping test is probably in Shields-up, is that... In times long-gone, and around about when Shields-Up was being created, many people would be using Dial-up, and even getting a ping from an IP address in a dial-up range would make you a fair target (as it was likely that would be an unprotected host). Nowdays, most people sit behind a router, if only because we want wifi or have two-or-more PCs in the house, (or most likely, because the ISP got a bulk load of cheap aDSL routers that weren't just modems) that it becomes more convenient to have another device there which does it... and if that also offers a little bit more protection at the same time... well, that's useful :) All the best, -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs This message was sent from my mobile phone. Please, therefore, excuse any typo's, gramatical errors or top posting that may occur as a result. On 23 Apr 2010 18:01, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 23/04/10 17:52, Colin Law wrote: On 23 April 2010 17:24, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote:... Hi Colin, thank you for pointing that out. I keep forgetting I have a router, and things work differently with it. If I can connect to the internet, I dont think about it, it is only when it breaks, I remember. John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ub... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Blue tint on screen?
On 23/04/10 17:20, Daniel Case wrote: Hiya Guys, i have a laptop thats about 2 years old...and it developed a sudden blue tint on the LCD moniter, i have done the usual diagnostics (plugged it into an external moniter, it was fine, and booted into Windows to check it wasnt a faulty driver) So i am left with a fault in the LCD moniter, how easy is it to repair myself, or will i need a specialist to have a look? I am comfortable and familiar with the hardware of my laptop, i have done a few hardware upgrades, and needed to fix the sound card, swap the RAM and a few other things due to previous faults. It appears to have been quite error prone in the past year or so, and its never taken out of the house so i am not sure why :S It is possibly doable yourself if you're happy to go unplugging things, I've stripped down a couple of laptops before (one being a Dell which I had to completely strip down to reset the BIOS password) and it wasn't too bad. I'd say make a note of where the screws go (and maybe have some pots for each individual size screw) and take your time. You may find some service manuals online for your specific laptop if you're lucky (free ones too if you're even luckier). A supplier of mine (a trade supplier) sells screens around the £60 upwards mark for a 15 screen, I'd say it would probably be not much more on eBay, and I gather 90% of laptops use the same sort of screen (presumably to keep the prices down). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....
I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like updates. You have to log in all the time to find out what is happening. How can I increasse the time before it goes to that log in page? John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....
On 23 April 2010 23:07, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like updates. You have to log in all the time to find out what is happening. How can I increasse the time before it goes to that log in page? The screensaver? System - Preferences - Screensaver. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....
On 23/04/10 23:07, John Matthews wrote: I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like updates. You have to log in all the time to find out what is happening. How can I increasse the time before it goes to that log in page? John. Sounds like it could be the screen saver, try going to the System menu, select Preferences and Screen Saver. You should be able to change the amount of time it waits until the screen saver kicks in, or alternatively untick Lock screen when screensaver is active (which will still turn on the screen saver but not lock the machine). Of course unchecking the lock screen option will stop it prompting for a password, so maybe you might just want to increase the time until it locks. I've also found that holding down Control, Alt and the L key, it locks the desktop, maybe that might be a handy thing for when you leave your machine unattended. (I didn't know about that one). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
