[Hampshire] Security compromise in liblzma/OpenSSH daemon

2024-03-30 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
s-security/20240329155126.kjjfduxw2yrlx...@awork3.anarazel.de/ It's likely to only affect unstable or testing distributions. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Mana

Re: [Hampshire] Compiling from source

2023-02-17 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
e. Another tip is to keep the configure invocation for future reference. Once you have the log, check it for errors or reports of missing elements that you expect to be there. Depending on how it was set up, configure can report a dependency as "missing", but still complete. Nick. -- N

Re: [Hampshire] raspberry pi and educational software

2022-03-14 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
y: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/wide-input-shim Going back to displays, those above require 5V so the RPi and display could be powered by the same source. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to

Re: [Hampshire] (Very) Old Hardware

2022-03-14 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
dget for two packages. I'll measure tha actual sizes today, but one reference gave the SC-750 as 670 x 210 x 440mm. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] (Very) Old Hardware

2022-03-14 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
hough I'll need to check if I have enough cardboard to pack them. Beware that, even empty, they're heavy - I'd estimate about 10kg each. Courier charges might be significant. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to unders

Re: [Hampshire] (Very) Old Hardware

2022-03-14 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
-750 case that I'm no longer using, and a similar Addtronics case. The Supermicro looks like this: https://www.frostytech.com/articles/218/index.html You're welcome to have both for free, if you don't mind collecting from Romsey. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a

Re: [Hampshire] 8% Packet loss due to ethernet cable

2021-03-04 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
hile, I worked for an ISP. A regular task was to check the ethernet interface statistics on the routers and switches for rapidly increasing FEC or CRC errors. That information would allow us to detect dodgy cables and interfaces that were on their last legs. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop

2021-01-27 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
Linux on it, I would avoid > NVIDIA GPUs. Go for AMD or Intel graphics on > the laptop. That depends on the job. The MathWorks site states that Matlab can use Nvidia cards for computation, which may be relevant for Owain's son. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Des

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop

2021-01-27 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
ok. Out of interest, how large are the datasets you work on? I'd say 16GBytes of memory was on the small size. Our desktops have 32GBytes, and I've run out of memory running customer test cases in the past. Our test servers typically have ~128GBytes. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . o

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop

2021-01-26 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
pport? Our support team regularly answers queries about hardware requirements. He may need to supply some example programs, or list the algorithms he uses. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshir

Re: [Hampshire] Debian flash drive mount problem

2020-06-01 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
second will likely appear as /dev/sdc1 Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Server for Southampton mutual aid group

2020-03-24 Thread Nick Chalk via Hampshire
l one do? If the latter, try Bitfolk: https://www.bitfolk.co.uk/ They offer Xen-based virtual servers, and are highly recommended. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org

[Hampshire] OT: Free computer bits

2013-10-27 Thread Nick Chalk
00, RISC OS 3 PRM, FPA10 data sheet. - Quantum DLT7000 tape drive. If you could make use of any of that, please contact me off-list. Thanks, Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.

Re: [Hampshire] Netbook batteries

2012-07-31 Thread Nick Chalk
could find elsewhere. Delivery was very fast, too. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] [Job] Linux Web/Networking Developer, Portsmouth

2012-02-08 Thread Nick Chalk
Hello Andy. Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:05:09AM +0000, Nick Chalk wrote: >> My current employer is looking for a Linux >> Developer to help out with Web / Amazon EC2 / >> Network coding. > May I repost this to linuxjobs?: Thanks for the offer, but I t

[Hampshire] [Job] Linux Web/Networking Developer, Portsmouth

2012-02-07 Thread Nick Chalk
ct built almost entirely on Open Source code. There's an Official Advert for the job [1]. If you'd like something a little less generic, email me off-list. Nick. [1] https://www.webrecruitjobs.com/site/viewvacancies.cfm?ID=306868 -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer

Re: [Hampshire] Are UDP responses allowed from a different source?port?

2009-11-11 Thread Nick Chalk
suggested, it looks like it'll be necessary to modify ldirectord's SIP tests. Thanks for your help, everyone. Nick. [1] W. Richard Stevens, "UNIX Network Programming, The Sockets Networking API", Volume 1, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004. ISBN 0-13-141155-1. -- Nick Chalk ..

Re: [Hampshire] Are UDP responses allowed from a different source port?

2009-11-07 Thread Nick Chalk
's just ldirectord, so the Perl source is available. Sounds like I need to find out what ldirectord and Perl are doing with the socket. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.or

Re: [Hampshire] Are UDP responses allowed from a different?source?port?

2009-11-07 Thread Nick Chalk
STD0006 - which was RFC0768 - is terse, and doesn't discuss this. However, Stevens [1] mentions that most UDP implementations allow processes to restrict the foreign address and port. I'll need to dig into the source and see what it's doing. Nick. [1] W. Richard Stevens, "TCP

[Hampshire] [OT] [FS] Old Cisco routers

2009-10-06 Thread Nick Chalk
502s to simulate two leased lines running Frame Relay, and connected the 1720s to both "ends". That's sufficient to get IP over Frame Relay running, and experiment with configuration and fail-over. The 827 is a standard ADSL router - it can be used on any version 1 line. Anyone

[Hampshire] [For Free] Two 17" CRT Monitors

2009-10-06 Thread Nick Chalk
e slightly blue - it looks like it's on ~9500K colour temperature. Probably no good for colour matching, but usable as a general monitor. They're both in Romsey, if anyone's interested. Thanks, Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to u

Re: [Hampshire] network testing

2009-09-30 Thread Nick Chalk
shell script might do that for you. Unfortunately, I don't have copies of the scripts; that was job[-2]. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] IPV4 : 700 days and counting ?

2009-08-11 Thread Nick Chalk
ext, they give an idea of the free address ranges... once you've removed 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16, etc. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailm

Re: [Hampshire] Broadband Issues

2009-06-06 Thread Nick Chalk
be contended, as the big boys make you pay for your bandwidth. You're then onto the wider Internet, where anything goes. Vic's point is valid - traffic shaping is possible, and is being done. It's an attractive way for ISPs to control their bandwidth costs, and the margins are narro

Re: [Hampshire] Fw: ADSL Line problems

2009-05-24 Thread Nick Chalk
et connection, and can still access the router then, look at the connection stats - do you have DSL sync, is PPP still up? > Is there anything I should be telling zen to > talk to BT about? They probably have enough to shout at BT about. (BT managed to drop one of our Centrals last week, thro

Re: [Hampshire] Router secuity alerts

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Chalk
n punts end-user onto a new IP so that they still have Net access. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Packet flooding tools or techniques

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Chalk
Hello Graham. Graham Bleach wrote: > 2009/4/20 Nick Chalk : >> I'm trying to test methods of mitigating packet >> flood attacks on Cisco routers, but I'm having >> trouble with my control test. Despite pushing >> the 7200 to 100% CPU load, I can't see

Re: [Hampshire] Packet flooding tools or techniques

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Chalk
king at damage minimisation - the target is probably going to drop off-line, but we want to make sure that the L2TP tunnels stay up and BGP keeps working so that other customers aren't affected. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand th

Re: [Hampshire] Packet flooding tools or techniques

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Chalk
Hugo Mills wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:21:38PM +0000, Nick > Chalk wrote: >> Can anyone suggest a tool or technique for >> generating a packet flood attack from a Linux >> box, or small group of them? > If I remember aright, there's a packet > g

[Hampshire] Packet flooding tools or techniques

2009-04-20 Thread Nick Chalk
'm currently playing with plain ping -f, using large packets, and hping2. I plan to look at hping3 which appears to have a flood option. Are there any other tools I could try? Thanks for your help. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to unders

Re: [Hampshire] WANTED: Motherboard I/O Shield plate

2009-03-18 Thread Nick Chalk
of the plates I have fits. That shape isn't too uncommon for server boards. Try Jamie's - they used to have a good assortment of parts like that. http://www.jamies.org.uk/ Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand t

Re: [Hampshire] Does anyone 'know someone' at Demon?

2009-02-09 Thread Nick Chalk
pathy for the tech support people - they get very little training, and have to listen to a large number of lusers ranting at them all day. When someone with clue phones up, it must be difficult to switch out of defensive mode. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Design

Re: [Hampshire] SSH pain

2009-02-08 Thread Nick Chalk
protocol, the client checks the authenticity of the server with the ssh_host_[rd]sa keys, then the server checks the user's authenticity with the id_[rd]sa keys. Beyond that, looking at the server's sshd_config and the client's ssh_config would be useful. Nick. -- Nick Chalk .

Re: [Hampshire] Linux & Active Directory

2009-02-08 Thread Nick Chalk
ly to get Kerberos set up. I tended to work from the standard Samba docs, but they're not always easy to follow. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disk destruction

2009-01-08 Thread Nick Chalk
oles in an aluminium platter is easy enough, but is likely to cause a glass one to shatter. A sufficiently-financed opponent would also be able to recover data from the areas you hadn't damaged. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disk destruction

2009-01-08 Thread Nick Chalk
- the domains will be completely disordered then. Finding the Curie Point of the magnetic material used on your particular drive is more of a problem, as is dealing with the molten aluminium if your platter happens to be made of that. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Co

Re: [Hampshire] Hard disk destruction

2009-01-08 Thread Nick Chalk
Stephen Rowles wrote: > Getting the correct circuit board, when it has > been disposed of separately from the drive, will > be hard but not impossible. Smaller data-recovery firms are frequent advertisers for, and purchasers of, old HDs, purely for their controller PCBs. Nick.

Re: [Hampshire] APIC, interrupts and wired NIC

2008-12-30 Thread Nick Chalk
ame line, in which case you won't be able to separate them. You might like to try a kernel with Message- Signalled Interrupts enabled - the IRQ will be sent over the PCI bus in that case. I think the e100 supports that. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence

Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo adaptec RAD controller hangs

2008-11-11 Thread Nick Chalk
Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:32:54PM +0000, Nick Chalk wrote: >> Chris Aitken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > System MTBF = component MTBF/n >> > where n is # of components. > The MTBF quoted above is for the failure

Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo adaptec RAD controller hangs

2008-11-10 Thread Nick Chalk
Hours MTBF, two-drive RAID 1 gives an MTTDL of 10G Hours, and three-drive RAID 5 gives an MTTDL of 1.7G Hours. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Error message help for a friend

2008-11-08 Thread Nick Chalk
3 tcp616 mountd 1000241 udp 35403 status 1000241 tcp 59477 status The result of rpcinfo -p run on the server should be the same as rpcinfo -p run on the client. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understan

Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo adaptec RAD controller hangs

2008-11-08 Thread Nick Chalk
hardware. Given that hardware RAID controllers usually cost extra, I wonder what the balance is like between hardware RAID vs. software RAID and spending the money on faster processors or more memory... Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to

Re: [Hampshire] Laptop external powerpacks?

2008-10-31 Thread Nick Chalk
he voltage drooped - or the supply voltage was simply out of the laptop's tolerance. If you can find a third-party PSU with the right connector, sufficient current, and tight enough voltage regulation, then I'd expect it to work. The tricky bit may be finding a spec for that last

Re: [Hampshire] Swap versus RAM size

2008-10-25 Thread Nick Chalk
the past, I've found a post by Alan Cox detailing when the practice was no longer necessary, but I can't find it tonight. The HantsLUG archives may have it as it's something we've discussed before, many years ago. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confide

Re: [Hampshire] Has anyone ever got pasta on their computer? And a few other things

2008-10-23 Thread Nick Chalk
john lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Chalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> john lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I was seriously thinking I'd have to >> > dismantle them to clean out the gunge but >> > haven't yet found a t

Re: [Hampshire] I just have to tell someone...

2008-10-23 Thread Nick Chalk
Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry about this, but I'm just *so* impressed by the box I'm working on > today... > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor > processor : 0 Don't tease - show us the rest of the specs! Nick. -- Nick Chalk ...

Re: [Hampshire] Wireless bridging

2008-10-22 Thread Nick Chalk
ying with them, I seem to remember that not all APs could bridge. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Has anyone ever got pasta on their computer? And a few other things

2008-10-22 Thread Nick Chalk
h > unaffected by the process. I understand dishwashers are an efficient way of cleaning Model M's. For the really grubby examples, the plastics and keycaps can be soaked in a Milton solution. Just remember to put the keycaps back in the right places... Nick. -- Nick Chalk ..

Re: [Hampshire] Has anyone ever got pasta on their computer? And a few other things

2008-10-22 Thread Nick Chalk
5.5mm is the closest match to the imperial bolt the Model M's use. Nick. (Owner of a large number of M's, rescued from Jamie's.) -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.o

Re: [Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

2008-10-12 Thread Nick Chalk
ctors not to push FLOSS >> to the charities. I doubt they get a financial kick-back. The suppliers don't need to - they can just refuse to take part if they don't like the deal. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understan

Re: [Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

2008-10-12 Thread Nick Chalk
Alan Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Chalk wrote: >> That might be useful advertising, but I'm not >> sure what level of take-up you'd get. > I just want to see it listed as a choice. Yes, it's probably worthwhile for that. >> CTX provides no

Re: [Hampshire] anyone work with a registered charity?

2008-10-11 Thread Nick Chalk
#x27;re also competing with MS prices like UKP 4 + VAT for a copy of XP Pro. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] help needed to diagnose computer problem

2008-10-10 Thread Nick Chalk
ard, but I'd want to check the power supply independently first. Nick. -- Nick Chalk . once a Radio Designer Confidence is failing to understand the problem. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --