Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 11:35:07AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
>
>> That would make an interesting project to film for this
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
>>
>
> Indeed, though you may need to tweak the language so that the
> virus claim is to
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 at 11:05:58PM +, Gordon Scott wrote:
>
> M$ have been running that campaign for some time on their website.
>
> People really do seem to put themselves on the website as "I'm a PC".
>
> That's _way_ beyond sad!
I know they must be really desparate.
At the London Perl W
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 11:35:07AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
> That would make an interesting project to film for this
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
Indeed, though you may need to tweak the language so that the
virus claim is toned down to make sure it's legal.
> Alan.
>
> P
You are licensing the right to receive a television signal, be that by
terrestrial, satellite, cable or on your PC. (I abhor the "license" moniker...
it's a tax)
When I actually proved to them that I wasn't receiving any signal to my
television, I was told my TV was "illegal" and I had to have
These people are really vile. They get a commission for each person they
"catch" and are quite willing to lie about you.
I bought a usb wintv freeview receiver thingy recently and even though my wife
(who shares my surname and lives at the same address as me) has a television
license, the bugge
It's already been done. My friend lives in Turkey and they have those there.
His online banking displays a keypad to enter the PIN and every time he clicks
a digit the numbers all mix up so the screen clicks can't be tracked. The
latest Turkish spyware takes a photo of a small square round the m
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:17:33PM +, trotter wrote:
> At 18:11 04/12/2008, you wrote:
> >Hi trotter,
> >
> >On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:54:00PM +, trotter wrote:
> > > I was wondering if a keylogger infection inside windows could
> > > read keystrokes in a Linux virtual OS. I was thinking
At 18:11 04/12/2008, you wrote:
>Hi trotter,
>
>On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:54:00PM +, trotter wrote:
> > I was wondering if a keylogger infection inside windows could
> read keystrokes
> > in a Linux virtual OS. I was thinking of setting up a virtual
> Linux OS inside
> > windows so when i w
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 17:54 +, trotter wrote:
> I was wondering if a keylogger infection inside windows could read keystrokes
> in a Linux virtual OS.
Yes.
> I was thinking of setting up a virtual Linux OS inside
> windows so when i want to purchase online or do some banking I wouldn't
> ha
Hi trotter,
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:54:00PM +, trotter wrote:
> I was wondering if a keylogger infection inside windows could read keystrokes
> in a Linux virtual OS. I was thinking of setting up a virtual Linux OS inside
> windows so when i want to purchase online or do some banking I wou
2008/12/4 trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> But isn't that the point really?
>
No, my point was that if you have to go to the extreme of installing
an entire VM to run an alternate OS then you're doing it wrong.
> You don't necessarily know if windows is free of malware as detection
> is reactive to
At 23:01 03/12/2008, you wrote:
>2008/12/3 Bob Jelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > on Wed 03 December 2008 21:28 Rob wrote
> >
> > Part of the problem is the only cable I have that has connectors for both
> > has no ridge in the centre so I don't know whether I'm alligning it
> > correctly.
> >
> > You
At 18:01 04/12/2008, you wrote:
>2008/12/4 trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I was wondering if a keylogger infection inside windows could
> read keystrokes
> > in a Linux virtual OS. I was thinking of setting up a virtual
> Linux OS inside
> > windows so when i want to purchase online or do some
2008/12/4 trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I was wondering if a keylogger infection inside windows could read keystrokes
> in a Linux virtual OS. I was thinking of setting up a virtual Linux OS inside
> windows so when i want to purchase online or do some banking I wouldn't
> have to reboot into Lin
I was wondering if a keylogger infection inside windows could read keystrokes
in a Linux virtual OS. I was thinking of setting up a virtual Linux OS inside
windows so when i want to purchase online or do some banking I wouldn't
have to reboot into Linux.
Any thoughts if malware can affect a virt
Much as I enjoy posts dissing Windows from a superior vantage point,
please have a bit of pity for those of us in workplaces where we have XP
with Intenet Explorer 6 (do you remember browsing without tabs?) and
beaurocracy to get through before any chance of anything as radical as
installing Fi
At 11:49 04/12/2008, you wrote:
>Dean Earley wrote:
> > Does anyone here have a set of IBM X41 recovery CDs that I could use?
> > I've recently had a hard disk die, taking its recovery partition with
> > it... :)
> >
> > Failing that, is there any known way to reset the supervisor password?
>
>Acco
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 15:06 +, Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> As you say it is an over simplification but even so there are tens
> of thousands of items of malware for Windows and less than
> hundreds for Linux.
Oversimplification perhaps, but I think accuracy, honesty and openness
are importan
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 09:58:26AM +, The Holy ettlz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 09:10 +, Paul Stimpson wrote:
>
> > "How about viruses?"
> >
> > "None"
>
> Hmm, this isn't entirely true though, is it? There is a small ecosystem
> for Linux malware (cracked forum, anyone?) including a
Yep, just so. Path not initialised, profile not executed ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh qq3 '/u01/app/oracle/OraHome_1/bin/oerr ORA 12152'
ORACLE_HOME not set. Please set ORACLE_HOME and try again.
Basically I think we are in an analogous situation to when you set up
a cron job to run: you get a m
Victor Churchill wrote:
> The ssh man page sayeth:
> SYNOPSIS
> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [command]
> ...
> If command is specified, it is executed on the remote host
> instead of a login shell.
>
> Something's not right..
I htink it is the 2instead of a login shell" that is causing the prob
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh qq3 "oerr ORA 12152"
> bash: line 1: oerr: command not found
Have you tried an explicit filespec? Sometimes path is set in different
places, and so depends on the way you log in...
Vic.
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I have an Oracle server which I can access with a passwordless ssh
login from my desktop, connecting as the 'oracle' user.
In ~/.ssh/config, I have:
Host qq3
User oracle
, and the appropriate setup of id_dsa.pub, authorized_keys2 etc.
I do not have an Oracle installation on the desktop machine its
Lisi wrote:
> I would have been entitled to a refund for the
> period of the licence which covered school terms.
At least you can get refunds now. When I went to work in the US for a
year in 1987 I couldn't get a refund on my TV license (couldn't even
cancel it), so I just let it lapse a couple
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 09:12:42AM +, Jacqui Caren wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > Hi Adam,
> >
> > 2008/12/2 Dr Adam Trickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> Has anyone been annoyed by the silly Microsoft advert where clueless people
> >> claim that they are a PC?
> > Nope. Get a decent PVR with an ad
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 07:45:39AM -0500, Andy Random wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Paul Stimpson wrote:
>
> > It's also true that TV retailers are obliged to inform licensing of
> > every TV device purchased and your address as are subscription TV
> > providers.
>
> It is though sometimes the
> I got a letter about a month later saying they had no record of my holding
> a TV license at my office address and asking me to either buy one or
> explain why not? I ignored it, they wrote to me again about 3 months later
> with slightly more threatening language and I ignored that as well. I'v
John Cooper wrote:
> B STEVENS wrote:
>
>> node=linux.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1228205558.218:12):
>> arch=4003 syscall=10 success=yes exit=0 a0=9e53790 a1=29 a2=7d9ff4
>> a3=9e53790 items=0 ppid=1 pid= auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0
>> suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Paul Stimpson wrote:
> It's also true that TV retailers are obliged to inform licensing of
> every TV device purchased and your address as are subscription TV
> providers.
It is though sometimes the retailers get it wrong.
Last year I bought a Freeview receiver online and
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Jack Knight wrote:
>>> Stephen Rowles wrote:
>> I just find I don't watch TV, or even have time to watch TV, with a 7
>> month old child around ;)
>>
>> I've doubled checked and according to the TV license web site:
>>
>> "You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch
>>I've doubled checked and according to the TV license web site:
>>
>>"You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record
>>television programmes as they're being shown on TV."
>>
>>And from an article on the BBC news:
>>
>>"The law says that anyone who uses a TV, or any other device,
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:34:13AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
> Here http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/Postcards.pdf
> is some sample artwork for postcards we could send to small businesses
> (but I think we prefer the full colour version) let me know what you
> think.
Excellent! Like the conce
>- Original Message -
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Stephen Rowles
>Sent: Thu, 12/4/2008 11:53am
>To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...
>
>
>> Stephen Rowles wrote:
>I just find I don't watch TV, or even have time to watch TV, with
> Stephen Rowles wrote:
>>> They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV.
>>> My
>>> friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come
>>> round.
>>>
>>> I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told
>>> them
>>> he didn't have a T
Dean Earley wrote:
> Does anyone here have a set of IBM X41 recovery CDs that I could use?
> I've recently had a hard disk die, taking its recovery partition with
> it... :)
>
> Failing that, is there any known way to reset the supervisor password?
According to this [1] the SVP is stored in eepr
On Thursday 04 December 2008 11:05:34 Victor Churchill wrote:
> I believe it is the case that a licence is required if you have a
> piece of equipment that is capable of receiving broadcast material.
> If you have a TV screen that you use for watching pre-recorded
> material but can demonstrate tha
That would make an interesting project to film for this
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
Alan.
Paul Stimpson wrote:
> "Is it legal?"
>
> Whispers, "Shhh! Just don't tell Bill!"
>
> Or...
>
> Two people outside an office with "Bill" on the door. One of then has a disc
> case wit
It's also true that TV retailers are obliged to inform licensing of every TV
device purchased and your address as are subscription TV providers.
Cheers,
Paul.
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2008/12/4 Sean Gibbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> That is odd because I thought you were licensing the set(s) at your
> address and and not the right to receive and watch broadcasts as such.
I believe it is the case that a licence is required if you have a
piece of equipment that is capable of recei
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:07:41AM -, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> > They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. My
> > friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come
> > round.
> >
> > I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He
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Stephen Rowles wrote:
>> They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. My
>> friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come
>> round.
>>
>> I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told them
>> he didn't have a TV. The investiga
> They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. My
> friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come
> round.
>
> I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told them
> he didn't have a TV. The investigator challenged him "but you'
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 09:10 +, Paul Stimpson wrote:
> "How about viruses?"
>
> "None"
Hmm, this isn't entirely true though, is it? There is a small ecosystem
for Linux malware (cracked forum, anyone?) including a handful of
viruses.
James
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> They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV.
My
> friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come
> round.
No-one is obliged to answer the letters - they're demanding that you
inform them that you're not committing a crime. Sorry, doesn't work
like
They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. My
friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come round.
I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told them he
didn't have a TV. The investigator challenged him "but you've got a
Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> 2008/12/2 Dr Adam Trickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Has anyone been annoyed by the silly Microsoft advert where clueless people
>> claim that they are a PC?
> Nope. Get a decent PVR with an advert skip button and you'll never
> have to see it again :)
We decided to
"Is it legal?"
Whispers, "Shhh! Just don't tell Bill!"
Or...
Two people outside an office with "Bill" on the door. One of then has a disc
case with Tux and "Linux" on it.
"Is it legal?"
"Yes"
"Does it really work?"
"Yes"
"Is it quicker than ours?"
"Fraid so""
"How about viruses?"
"None
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