Re: [Eug-lug] Meeting this week

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Parker
Jay Purcell wrote, > I am a mid-newbie that has not attended a meeting yet. > > Is there a meeting 5/25/06 at the 222 Polk place? No...the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) is having their monthly Tech Brew Pub on 5/26. Since several EUGLUGgers like to go to the SAO Tech Brew Pubs, we general

Re: [Eug-lug] Cheap Linux Modem

2006-05-24 Thread Quentin Hartman
On 5/24/06, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lucent/Agere modems are supposedly supported well. Me thinks Intel modems too. USR maybe. Conexant has too many styles to be wary. A note on the Intels. There are some Intel win-ish modems that supposedly have support, Intel even provides a driver fo

Re: [Eug-lug] Cheap Linux Modem

2006-05-24 Thread Quentin Hartman
On 5/24/06, Martin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anybody know of a good, cheap modem that is well-supported on Linux? I am getting someone who has a winmodem to switch to Linux, so I will be replacing the modem. If you can find one of the older Diamond external USB modems, they work wel

Re: [Eug-lug] Cheap Linux Modem

2006-05-24 Thread Mr O
Lucent/Agere modems are supposedly supported well. Me thinks Intel modems too. USR maybe. Conexant has too many styles to be wary. --- Martin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know of a good, cheap modem that is > well-supported on > Linux? I am getting someone who has a winmodem t

[Eug-lug] Cheap Linux Modem

2006-05-24 Thread Martin Kelly
Does anybody know of a good, cheap modem that is well-supported on Linux? I am getting someone who has a winmodem to switch to Linux, so I will be replacing the modem. Thanks, Martin ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mail

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Ron LeVine
This kernel is the one included with the latest stable version of Debian. Mr O wrote: I would seriously consider a 2.6 series kernel. --- Ron LeVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Aug

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Mr O
I would seriously consider a 2.6 series kernel. --- Ron LeVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc > > version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 > UTC 2005 > > > Mr O wrote: > > cat /proc/version > > What distro? What kernel? Sel

Re: [Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread Mr O
+5 Informative iptables and /etc/hosts are looking good. Would ifconfig be used to restrict the client to not look for DNS? Basically this should be done on one box. Dropped in at a clients, minimal window manager (I'm thinking Fluxbox with a custom menu and 3 entries at the most). User comes up,

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Ron LeVine
Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 Mr O wrote: cat /proc/version What distro? What kernel? Self-compiled? USB mass storage support in there? My Nikon 2100 and 4300 are both mass storage. --- Ron LeVine <[EMA

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Mr O
cat /proc/version What distro? What kernel? Self-compiled? USB mass storage support in there? My Nikon 2100 and 4300 are both mass storage. --- Ron LeVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the response Mr. O, > > > Here are the last few lines of dmesg: > > hub.c: new USB device 00:10

Re: [Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread Jason
If this is for security purposes, I'd prefer to leave the security to an external device/application/system/etc. and not rely solely on client-side security. The solutions provided thus far will do a good job at limiting on the client side - external firewalls and proxies will solve the problem in

Re: [Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread Ben Barrett
possibly redirecting it to a local home page or list of options :)Also, wanted to point out that Bob's solution is the first-mentioned to block access to IP addresses...   Ben On 5/24/06, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: larry price wrote:> two broad categories of solution DNS, or browser conf

Re: [Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread larry price
The filtering proxy + firewall rules preventing traffic anywhere else would be the most bulletproof solution. On 5/24/06, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: larry price wrote: > two broad categories of solution DNS, or browser configuration > the details are going to vary depending on what y

Re: [Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread Bob Miller
larry price wrote: > two broad categories of solution DNS, or browser configuration > the details are going to vary depending on what you want to do. More secure than either of those would be to set up iptables to filter out traffic to anywhere other than approved hosts. -- Bob Miller

Re: [Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread larry price
two broad categories of solution DNS, or browser configuration the details are going to vary depending on what you want to do. if it's a short list of allowed sites with little volatility then an /etc/hosts file with only those sites and disabling external lookups should do it. for a longer list

Re: [Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread Alan
Mr O wrote: How can I setup a kiosk so that it can only access a very limited number of sites? Preset bookmarks in the browser with anything linking outside that site being dead. Don't give it a DNS server, and have only approved sites in the host file. Alternately, setup a proxy server with o

[Eug-lug] proxy server / kiosk

2006-05-24 Thread Mr O
How can I setup a kiosk so that it can only access a very limited number of sites? Preset bookmarks in the browser with anything linking outside that site being dead. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Bob Miller
Ron LeVine wrote: > I get the following error when I do this: > > An error occurred in the io-library ('Unsupported operation'): Camera is > su pported by USB Storage driver. If it works with the storage protocol, as Mr. O described, then go with the storage protocol. If storage protocol doesn

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Ron LeVine
Thanks for the response Bob, Bob Miller wrote: Ron LeVine wrote: I have a Nikon Coolpix 2200 camera which is supposedly supported by Gphoto. It is a USB interface. According to gphoto2, the Coolpix 2200 is a PTP device. Linux doesn't let you access PTP as a general storage device.

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Ron LeVine
Thanks for the response Mr. O, Mr O wrote: Here's what I do. Open a terminal, become root, run "dmesg", plug in the camera, turn it on, run "dmesg" again. You're only looking at the last few lines. Your camera is likely /dev/sda. "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/???, rsync /mnt/???/dcim/nikon???/*.jpg /ho

Re: [Eug-lug] Digital Camera support

2006-05-24 Thread Ron LeVine
Thanks for the response Larry, larry price wrote: On 5/23/06, Ron LeVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings all, I have a Nikon Coolpix 2200 camera which is supposedly supported by Gphoto. It is a USB interface. I can get the computer to see the camera, but I can't get any photos from it or

[Eug-lug] Meeting this week

2006-05-24 Thread JP
(Attn moderator: There is little need to post this, I assume)   Mike, et al, Allow me to introduce myself; I am Jay Purcell. I am a mid-newbie that has not attended a meeting yet. Is there a meeting 5/25/06 at the 222 Polk place?   Jay   -- No virus found in this outgoing m