[ilugd] Update on Debian.org servers

2003-12-02 Thread Vipul Mathur
A post on debian-security-announce finally talks about the post-mortem of the recent server compromises. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html Here is the abstract: Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a

[ilugd] Re: Mandrake recd

2003-12-02 Thread Puneet
Dear Ashwin, nothing is to be paid. that's a very small contribution from my side for the upcoming meet. anyway! just for list junta info- today i happened to attend linux bangalore 2003 meet. the schedules are here http://linux-bangalore.org/2003/schedules/. i think within 2-3 days we shud

[ilugd] lycroris

2003-12-02 Thread LinuxLingam
http://www.lycoris.com/ couldn't help sharing this with you. i feel this a great choice for large and rapid deployment, where organizations want 1:1 windoze to linux migration, with support and branding and even OEM bundling etc. (alok sinha, your kind of thing) :-) LL

[ilugd] The debian compromise

2003-12-02 Thread Spoonman
Hi, There is a LOCAL ROOT EXPLOIT in all 2.4 kernels before 2.4.23: http://xrl.us/66p, Compromised machine info: http://xrl.us/65c Exploit Advisory: http://xrl.us/66p Patch: http://xrl.us/67f no new packages are being uploaded get more info at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/

[ilugd] [OT]SCO and IBM(again)

2003-12-02 Thread vivek khurana
Hi! Some issues regarding the SCo claim and the refusal of IBM to indemnufy Linux user in case the outcome of sco lawsuit is averse to open source community. Read Thsi article http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3114961 It appears to me that open source community is in the midst of dirty

Re: [ilugd] Update on Debian.org servers

2003-12-02 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:11, Vipul Mathur wrote: A post on debian-security-announce finally talks about the post-mortem of the recent server compromises. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html [snip] horrid stuff this! but i don't know

Re: [ilugd] Logos (finally a reality)

2003-12-02 Thread Raj Mathur
LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:55, Raj Mathur wrote: LL umm,... was just gonna tell you guys it is a great LL illustration, but not a logo. these are two different LL things. a logo is *not* an illustration. there are some strict

[ilugd] Mandrake recd

2003-12-02 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Dear Puneet, Thanks, 3 CDs Mandrake 9.2 recd. Let me know offlist if anything is to be paid and how to send it. If nil, then Thanks from all of us. I'll hand them over to Raju Mathur. Regards, Ashwin Dear all, Mandrake 9.2 with me - thanks to Puneet. Should we distribute this in place of Red

Re: [ilugd] Logos (finally a reality)

2003-12-02 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 08:33, Raj Mathur wrote: [snip] before you get a true logo. Which are...? LL sigh! was trying to avoid this. ...which is why there exist irritating people like me to prod lazy designers into creative diarrhoea :) thanks, my dear isapgol. Thanks,

[ilugd] [Fwd: The results of your email commands]

2003-12-02 Thread Arvind Sinha
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[ilugd] Remember the ILUG DD logo?

2003-12-02 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Hi all. I just want to ask the concerned people if they remember the ILUG dehradun logo that was posted to this mailing list some time back. That looked pretty neat. Tux with just the text Linux users group, dehradun. The URL might be somewhere in the archives. Thank you. Shehjar

[ilugd] userlinux

2003-12-02 Thread Spoonman
I dont know if this was posted to the list earlier but Bruce has a proposal up at userlinux.com UserLinux: Repairing the Economic Paradigm of Enterprise Linux Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perens LLC FIRST DRAFT: Please send corrections. The Problem Enterprise users have embraced GNU/Linux.

[ilugd] [OT]any java expert??

2003-12-02 Thread vivek khurana
Hi! Is there a java expert on our list. I have a few queries regrding java (basically deals with java app deployment on Linux and memory allocation). If somebody is ready to answer them please answer me off list. with regards vivek = When DESTINY has closed all the DOORS; Jump out of the

[ilugd] OpenOffice prez

2003-12-02 Thread LinuxLingam
whew! just finished a massive 117-slide openoffice presentation, complete with images, graphics, text, animations. openoffice impress rocks. i do not see *any* reason why someone should be using powerless pointless proprietory apps anymore, in my humble opinion. one extremely cool

[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory

2003-12-02 Thread Raj Mathur
[Local root vulnerability in all 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels up to and including 2.4.22. Please upgrade to a newer kernel, or get a kernel with a backported fix from your distribution vendor -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message)

[ilugd] (fwd) [RHSA-2003:335-01] Updated Net-SNMP packages fix security and other bugs

2003-12-02 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade if you use Net-SNMP on any platform -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[ilugd] Fetchmail help!!!

2003-12-02 Thread linux
Dear All, For past few days, fetchmail on my linux box is giving problem. This is the error that I receive: - fetchmail: 12 messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at mail.net4india.com (460789 octets). fetchmail: reading message 1 of 12 (2329 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 300

Re: [ilugd] OpenOffice prez

2003-12-02 Thread Sudev Barar
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 03:45, LinuxLingam wrote: anybody from the win / mac domain wanna match this feature-to-feature? 50-paisa bet says you can't do this muft and mukt. By very definition impossible to be muft and mukt in those domains.. ;-o Yeah I also impressed a few of our in house

Re: [ilugd] OO stuff

2003-12-02 Thread Sudev Barar
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:29, Spoonman wrote: Hello, In the last meet I promised sudev and others that I will be working with sudev's Openoffice persentations, towards giving them more of a tutorial/bookish kind of look. Since last week I was struggling with a bad hard