Re: [Hampshire] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK

2009-04-28 Thread Rik
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 07:42 +0100, Jon Fautley wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:20:09 +0100 > Rik wrote: > > > Which brings me back to the point of little list Nazi's. Yawn - this > > is all very very boring and a very poor substitute for actual > > relevant list

Re: [Hampshire] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK

2009-04-27 Thread Rik
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 07:03 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/28 Rik : > > Good. I found your rant childish and offensive too and I don't feel that > > walking on egg shells around people that rant is an acceptable response. > > > > To be fair to Phillip, the

Re: [Hampshire] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK

2009-04-27 Thread Rik
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 06:30 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: > 2009/4/28 Rik : > > Man, what is it with little list Nazi's??? If you don't want this guys > > job posts just set up a bloody filter and stop whining like a retarded > > chimp. > > I am sorry, but I

Re: [Hampshire] JOB: Senior Security Engineer | LOCATION: London, England, UK

2009-04-27 Thread Rik
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 23:14 +0100, jt wrote: > Philip Stubbs wrote: > > 2009/4/27 jt : > >> JOB: Senior Security Engineer > >> SALARY: £60-£75K plus attractive package! > >> LOCATION: London, England, UK > > > > Dear Admins, > > > > I am sure this guy has been advised of the correct place for th

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Wndows Bulk e-mailing software

2009-04-23 Thread Rik
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 15:56 +0100, Tim wrote: > The company I work for want to start sending marketing e-mails to it customer > database and e-mailing statements and remittances from the accounts > department. > Now obviously we don't want several 1000 e-mail hitting the server at once, > so

Re: [Hampshire] Packet flooding tools or techniques

2009-04-20 Thread Rik
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:25 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:21:38PM +, 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? > > > > I'm trying to test methods of mitigating pac

Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320

2009-04-19 Thread Rik
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:01 +0100, m.nutt...@ukonline.co.uk wrote: > Quoting Rik : > > > > > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 15:26 +0100, trotter wrote: > > > At 23:31 18/04/2009, you wrote: > > > > > > > > [1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ > >

Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320

2009-04-19 Thread Rik
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 15:26 +0100, trotter wrote: > At 23:31 18/04/2009, you wrote: > > > > [1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ > > > >nice one, will. > > > >i love the idea of having a basic installation then choosing which > >apps you require... i don't need 3 web browsers, 7 email clients and

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Email query

2009-04-16 Thread Rik
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 18:19 +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:25 +0100, hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk said: > > > Spam & Intent specialist. > > [OT] What's an "intent" specialist? Is that a typo, or do you really > specialise in "intent" in some way?! > I do. Perhaps you are u

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Email query

2009-04-16 Thread Rik
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 02:26 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 22:35:09 +0100, Leo wrote: > > > I've got a domain registered (call it, mydomain.org.uk) with an email > > address set up on it (say, em...@mydomain.org.uk). I recently received > > an email addressed to an...@mydomain.

Re: [Hampshire] What is a Shuttle PC?

2009-04-13 Thread Rik
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 07:32 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > Rob Malpass wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I've done a bit of googling but (apart from the obvious shape of the > > case) what's so special about a shuttle PC? > > > > I'm looking to put together a new machine with quite a bit of grunt >

Re: [Hampshire] Recommendation on Virtualisation books

2009-04-13 Thread Rik
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 21:21 +0100, Brian Chivers wrote: > I'm starting to look at virtualisation but I know very little about it. > I've read a bit about Xen & KVM and have had several companies visit > College drumming on about VMWare (very expensive but nice features) & M$ > HyperV(quite chea

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meeting Instructions

2009-04-09 Thread Rik
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:47 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Rik, > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:41:54PM +0100, Rik wrote: > > gpg: armour header: Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > gpg: Signature made Thu 09 Apr 2009 16:35:09 BST using DSA key ID > > 166C4BF0 >

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Meeting Instructions

2009-04-09 Thread Rik
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 16:35 +0100, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: > Hi, > > Bob just sent me the latest "getting into Nokia procedure". > > * Arrive at Nokia front gate, mention you are here for Linux > meeting in building 1 atrium. Google Maps: > http://xrl.us/beoefy > * May need to collect a

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Vinyl Ripping Issue

2009-03-30 Thread Rik
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:16 +, Paul Stimpson wrote: > Hi, > > I got a fantastic deal from Absolut Music in Poole. It was a Tapco LinkUSB > musicians audio interface. It works with ubuntu and as far as my tests have > gone pretty good. > > It's 24 bit, bidirectional at all sampling rates b

Re: [Hampshire] insmod problem

2009-03-23 Thread Rik
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 16:46 -0500, Mike Burrows wrote: > > > > Building modules outside the kernel can be fraught with problems > > though... > > > > Adrian > > Think the required module went in ok: > > testerm...@marvin:/$ lsmod > Module Size Used by > quickcam_messenger

Re: [Hampshire] You win some, you loose some.

2009-03-06 Thread Rik
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:34 +, Tim wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2009 18:56:37 Rik wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:29 +, Lisi wrote: > > > I have recently acquired a new client whose problems required a > > > reinstall, but he hadn't got any disk

Re: [Hampshire] You win some, you loose some.

2009-03-06 Thread Rik
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:29 +, Lisi wrote: > I have recently acquired a new client whose problems required a reinstall, > but he hadn't got any disks. I told him what I saw as the options and he > chose Linux. That evening he rang his son-in-law "who knows about > computers", and he rang

Re: [Hampshire] Home server

2009-02-24 Thread Rik
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:28 +, Gordon Scott wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've just started setting up a home server on a nive little ITX box, > based upon Ubuntu-server Intrepid Ibex. > > But .. the setup might make sense for a server farm, but for a small > three/four machine network it seems di

Re: [Hampshire] Drive Imaging

2009-02-24 Thread Rik
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:03 +, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > Sorry - but if a newbie question - but do people have a favourite > drive imaging program? > > I'm looking for something to take an image of both my NASses (is that > how to spell the plural?!) which can happily be Linux and on

Re: [Hampshire] Mobile Broadband opinions

2009-02-13 Thread Rik
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:13 +, Andrew Rogers wrote: > Good afternoon fellow LUGers, > > I'm shortly moving into a home that has no broadband, but as it is > possibly quite temporary I dont want to arrange home broadband. So > what other options do I have? I currently when away from home use

Re: [Hampshire] Is Google toast?

2009-01-31 Thread Rik
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 15:23 +, Vic wrote: > > Is Google down, or is my ISP playing up? > > Seems to be back now. > > stopbadware.org is not responding, though - looks like Google have chagned > their mind about relying on them... > > Vic. > > I just thought that Google had got a whole lot

Re: [Hampshire] Evolution / Exchange - Missing messages

2009-01-28 Thread Rik
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:26 +, Tony Smith wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to use Evolution to get my mail from an Exchange server. > > For a while all looked to be OK but this morning I noticed some mails > > had vanished from my inbox. Looking via webmail and Outlook I can see > > the

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Aspire One 120GB Cheap ASDA deal?

2009-01-17 Thread Rik
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 10:43 -0500, Andy Random wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Rik wrote: > > > Basingstoke had it just before Christmas - I did not see it in there > > yesterday PM and I looked for it. It was not under ?200 back when I saw > > it mid December and I bought

Re: [Hampshire] Acer Aspire One 120GB Cheap ASDA deal?

2009-01-17 Thread Rik
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 13:54 +, Tony Whitmore wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:24:57 - (UTC), "Damian Brasher" > wrote: > > Was forwarded this, can anyone who has recently shopped in ASDA's confirm > > this exceptionally good deal? > > > > http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/318205/acer-aspire-

[Hampshire] [test] - ignore

2009-01-14 Thread Rik
Seem to have issues posting here - this is a test please ignore - -- 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 --

[Hampshire] Test - hello and a Linux job going begging in Basingstoke

2009-01-04 Thread Rik
. I'm sure guru's who read this list are in well paid employment and won't be interested, but if anyone is a call to the support manager at Barracuda Networks may get someone out of a spot. 01256 300102 Hopefully I've got this right and I'm not about to suffer first deg