[Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Kumaran R
Hi ILUGC! Yesterday I got the pleasure of using one of the TN govt. laptops. I think we all remember the struggle whch we had to take to make the laptop a dual-boot one. And it has paid off (atleast partially.) Hardware Specs: Intel Pentium Dual Core@2.3 GHz, 2 GB DDR3 RAM (upgradable

[Ilugc] Snort Presentation Slides (14-April-2012)

2012-04-22 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Hi Here is the link to the slides which I used for Snort Installation and simple rule creation. http://www.slideshare.net/bala150985/snort-12637571 -- Regards, Balasubramaniam Natarajan www.etutorshop.com/moodle/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Kumaran R kuma...@kums.in wrote: Yesterday I got the pleasure of using one of the TN govt. laptops. I think we all remember the struggle whch we had to take to make the laptop a dual-boot one. And it has paid off (atleast partially.) Hardware

[Ilugc] Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Jacob G Podipara
Hi guys; Looks like the Govt. got it right this time! Neat review! Podi ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Fwd: [OT] [Interns] C42 Summer of Code

2012-04-22 Thread Shrinivasan T
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ashish Ranjan hi.ashis...@gmail.com Date: Apr 22, 2012 2:35 PM Subject: [OT] [Interns] C42 Summer of Code To: linuxusers_i...@googlegroups.com C42 Summer of Code C42 Engineering (website github) is running a Summer of Code (SoC),

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread manimaran
On Sunday 22 April 2012 12:54 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Kumaran Rkuma...@kums.in wrote: Yesterday I got the pleasure of using one of the TN govt. laptops. I think we all remember the struggle whch we had to take to make the laptop a dual-boot one.

Re: [Ilugc] Snort Presentation Slides (14-April-2012)

2012-04-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Bala, Can you please educate me on snort? I know nothing about IDS. Thanks! -Girish On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan bala150...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Here is the link to the slides which I used for Snort Installation and simple rule creation.

[Ilugc] Specific questions about snort

2012-04-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear Bala, I looked at your snort PDF. Nice presentation. But I want background theory and usage tips and architecture and use cases. Instead you have dwelt on installation and configuration, this may be trivial on OpenBSD. I want to know how snort can be used to detect youtube access as you

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Kumaran R
Hi ILUGC! IMHO, I think it would have been better for ELCOT to have skipped Windows and instead put that money into a WiFi chipset. The educational apps on BOSS Linux seem much lesser than the ones in Windows. I think that GNOME 2.3 could have looked a lot better. Or, they should have used

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2012-04-22 Thread R.I.P-7
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Re: [Ilugc] Snort Presentation Slides (14-April-2012)

2012-04-22 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Replied off list. On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Bala, Can you please educate me on snort? I know nothing about IDS. Thanks! -Girish On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan bala150...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Ilugc] Specific questions about snort

2012-04-22 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
I gave a live demonstration of how Snort can detect the word password going in a LAN and I have also shown live demo of how snort can alert us if some on is trying to access passwd via URL. I showed this while installing Snort on Ubuntu. I will try to record Snort installation when I find time,

[Ilugc] linux mint 12 partion

2012-04-22 Thread snegan
hi lugs, aim using mint 12 i have Partition done 500 GB hard disk root 100 GB,home 100 GB,swap 2GB,balance i have Partition done like this / drive,/ utl after the installation this 2 (/ drive,/ utl) showing folder's in file system but i need this like separate hard drive in computer like d,e

Re: [Ilugc] Snort Presentation Slides (14-April-2012)

2012-04-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
You made two mistakes Bala. I don't want to know snort's installation. I told you that clearly. I want you to reply to the list so everyone gets the answer along with me. Can you explain the real meat of snort instead of talking only about installation in 15 slides when that is not so

Re: [Ilugc] Specific questions about snort

2012-04-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan bala150...@gmail.com wrote: I gave a live demonstration of how Snort can detect the word password going in a LAN and I have also shown live demo of how snort can alert us if some on is trying to access passwd via URL. I showed this

Re: [Ilugc] Snort Presentation Slides (14-April-2012)

2012-04-22 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Snort installation and auto signature upgrade are really more important than developing our own signature. Snort has lots of options to match and catch traffic based on Signature, You can find almost all the features of snort here on this PDF www.snort.org/assets/166/snort_manual.pdf On Mon, Apr

Re: [Ilugc] samba share permissions

2012-04-22 Thread rapghere rap
Dear friends, I did adding and my Centos 6.2 to windows 2008 domain and shared a directory with samba. Here are the steps I did, 1. Joined my Centos 6.2 with *ext4* file system into our windows 2008 domain using winbind. 2. modified fstab to set acl to the directory which has to be shared 3.

Re: [Ilugc] linux mint 12 partion

2012-04-22 Thread Shrinivasan T
i have Partition  done like this / drive,/ utl after the installation this 2 (/ drive,/ utl) showing folder's in file system but i need this like separate hard drive in computer like d,e at which step of what i need to do You can not see them as separate partitions like d: or e: using file

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Kumaran R
I was thinking of the same thing. But I don't think I'd be able to check that, because this is a borrowed laptop, and opening the case might not be acceptable. I want the people who own one of these to find that out. Also, I wonder as to why the BOSS people have decided to go with their

Re: [Ilugc] linux mint 12 partion

2012-04-22 Thread prasannatsmkumar
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: i have Partition done like this / drive,/ utl after the installation this 2 (/ drive,/ utl) showing folder's in file system but i need this like separate hard drive in computer like d,e at which step of what i

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread ThiaguWinId
Well Mr. Kumaran, Nice Review I am a Teaching Computer Science for the past 15 years for the Hr. Sec. Students. Kindly consider the following # The custom distro should attract the students # Unless there is a syllabus and exam in the school curriculum , students will not learn from LINUX # 95%

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Kumaran R kuma...@kums.in wrote:     On the whole the laptop doesn't feel cheap. Its light in weight thanks to the absence of a DVD drive and Wifi. The keyboard is not upto Lenovo standards, but it is still much better than most laptop keyboards. I'm typing