rant on pathetic example of Microsoft FUD

2004-08-13 Thread Greg Rundlett
I was developing a CD-ROM product which contains multiple Microsoft PowerPointless (tm) presentations. The CD would launch an html Table of Contents page using auto-run. To make the TOC page layout the same as the .ppt files, I simply created a slide in PowerPoint with appropriate links to th

Re: Site defaced - what next?

2004-08-13 Thread Greg Rundlett
Greg Rundlett wrote: My site was owned and defaced. It looks like the mediawiki script that I recently installed to create a free-software community may have opened the 'door' to the site being compromised. This is unconfirmed however. I ruled out the possibility of mediawiki being the one to

MS Exchange Server competition

2004-08-13 Thread Greg Rundlett
In case you missed it... People are often looking for Linux work-alikes for MS Exchange Server. Novell just announced that they are making SUSE OpenExchange GPL. This should mean lots of good things, and faster adoption. http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/ Also, there is a project

Re: Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

2004-08-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 12, 2004, at 14:43, Bill Freeman wrote: Just for grins I tried holding C while it booted. No difference. (I get a chord played rather than what I'd call a ding or dong.) Might you know how to ask the OS whether it believes that it has a CD? Does it sound like this: http://www.tc

Re: wipe utility

2004-08-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:56:48 -0400 Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to be more secure, you could always have /tmp be a tmpfs > (aka a ram disk). Then the data is never stored on a hard drive > anyway. > > Well, excluding swap I suppose. Nevermind. I would think that this

Re: wipe utility

2004-08-13 Thread Tom Buskey
> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:53, Fred wrote: >> How is "wipe" any different from "shred", which is already on your >> linux system? > > Dunno. Could be that they're basically the same. > >> I keep my /tmp partition as ext2 for that sole reason. Anything >> sensitive goes there, and I can shred it af

Re: wipe utility

2004-08-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:53, Fred wrote: > How is "wipe" any different from "shred", which is already on your linux > system? Dunno. Could be that they're basically the same. > I keep my /tmp partition as ext2 for that sole reason. Anything > sensitive goes there, and I can shred it afterwards.

Re: wipe utility

2004-08-13 Thread Fred
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:46, Cole Tuininga wrote: > Essentially, just use it like any other shell command: > > # wipe filename > > # wipe file1 file2 filebase* > > # wipe directory > > > expected results > > Wipe attempts to overwrite the file several times with different binary > patterns, t

Re: Samba Problems turn out to be ??

2004-08-13 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 21:37, c.e.smith wrote: > The Samba Problems are solved it turns out that the nick card was going bad > at first I could ping out then later I could do nothing I was getting no > ping return when checking from the rest of the network even though it picked > up a dhcp address

Re: Samba Problems turn out to be ??

2004-08-13 Thread Bill Sconce
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:37:04 -0400 "c.e.smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Samba Problems are solved it turns out that the nick card was going bad > at first I could ping out then later I could do nothing I was getting no > ping return when checking from the rest of the network even though i

Re: wipe utility

2004-08-13 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:38, John Malloy wrote: > Has anyone out there had experience with the wipe utility? > on the web: > > http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ > > I am running on Solaris 7 (sparc) > What I was wondering is: > > command syntax Essentially, just use it like any other shell command:

Re: OT: Re: Site defaced - what next?

2004-08-13 Thread ksandre
Derek Martin wrote: Finally, geeks tend to be (in my experience, anyway) a bit more idealistic than the average non-techie. heh. In case you missed it, this UFie is worth the look: "Different takes on [F911]" http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040711&mode=classic