Re: [LUAU] Myth TV Thanks!

2006-02-27 Thread yuser
I'm not sure of the order but maybe the MPLUG and the LUAU mailing list were at the same time. I joined the LUAU mailing list some time in 1996 or 1997. After quite a few moves of ownership, I am here now. As I remember that time frame... I was active in the list but the only meeting I attended

Re: [LUAU] Enterprise Anti-Spyware

2005-01-05 Thread yuser
Are you talking PC spyware tools or something at the network/gateway level? Slashdot discussion on PC Spyware tools from last month. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/1732225tid=185 My take from the PC World article and the Slashdot comments: None of them are perfect, some worse

Re: [luau] packet8.net

2004-01-15 Thread yuser
I don't know anyone using Packet8 but I know one person that is using Vonage voip from www.vonage.com. No complaints from this person at all. Neither service has the 911 capabilities of a POTS line but Vonage offers more in that area then Packet8 does. I would have canned my Verizon phone

Re: [luau] RoadRunner or EarthLink?

2003-12-26 Thread Yuser
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Jeff Wong wrote: The only way to really force a change of IP is to change the MAC address of the device requesting the IP. You could try some DHCP client side options like -s to request a specific address or possibly modify your DHCP [client/interface].cache file where

Re: [luau] Re: Which Distribution To Go With

2003-11-13 Thread Yuser
I just converted one of my kids computers from Debian to Fedora. Well, not really Debian but a HD install of Knoppix which is almost Debian. The computer is only a P200/192MB ram. Very slow in this day and age but Debian with KDE worked fine and very close to the the same responsiveness

[luau] Mixing Linux and Windows

2003-09-29 Thread Yuser
I have two Debian systems [1] at the house for my kids. I am trying to make them as Windows like as possible for my kids. For my actual Windows machines, they do domain logins and have roaming profiles with network directories and storage from a third linux machine running Samba. That works

Re: [luau] RH 9 server hacked -- what went wrong?

2003-08-26 Thread Yuser
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Keith wrote: Firewalls are your friend. These days they are so cheap, even for home use, that there is no reason not to have one. It is in your best interest to have one, set up an inbound default policy of DENY for at least all priveledged ports and only open up those

Re: [luau] RH 9 server hacked -- what went wrong?

2003-08-26 Thread yuser
On 26 Aug 2003 at 12:04, Mark Pettit wrote: There is no consumer-level product that will do that. I know, that was my wishlist!! It would be nice though. I will look into the Linksys. However, Linux iptables can do most, if not all, of what you are asking for. And they can be set up

Re: [luau] Network problem

2003-06-30 Thread Yuser
Is this internal or external resolution? I have seen spyware that replaces the DNS suffix and possiby the DNS servers before. That would not explain the reason you can not ping it from somewhere by name though (assuming it worked before and nothing else changed like Netbios names). I've

Re: [luau] File Transfers in Linux

2003-05-23 Thread Yuser
On 22 May 2003, Warren Togami wrote: Anyone want to recommend other GUI file transfer applications for Linux for our new members? I know this is not specifically what you asked for and not for Linux directly but WinSCP (http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/) is a great Windows GUI for SCP file

RE: [luau] Law stuff advice

2003-05-21 Thread Yuser
Everyone has an opinion on things of this nature and can tolerate different amounts of what ever bothers them. There have been many times I wish I could do the same. The way the economy is now, employers can do stange things like that and most of the time get away with it. IMHO, when an

Re: [luau] Speaking of hard drives

2003-05-19 Thread yuser
On 14 May 2003 at 22:48, Myles Uyema wrote: Ask Maxtor if they have something similar. They do. Just did it last month. They sent me a 120GB for my failed 80GB. They must have been running low on the 80's ;)

Re: [luau] Linux Project for HNLC...?

2003-04-17 Thread yuser
on the Apache machine and share out your www doc root and connect to it from the win machine, then save your html files directly to the apache machine. A typical www share in the smb.conf would look like this: [www] comment = risc-www path = /var/www valid users = yuser admin

Re: [luau] Administrivia: Reply-To header removed

2003-04-14 Thread yuser
On 13 Apr 2003, Warren Togami wrote: I'm willing to hear more opinions on this matter. It has been only a few days, let's see how this goes for a while more. Does not really matter to me but my opinion is strickly based on the mail clients I use. Pine for the console and Pegasus for

Re: [luau] Re: Dell Server for $466 before $100 mail in rebate

2003-03-12 Thread yuser
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ben Timmerman wrote: Do NOT buy your memory from Dell...go to http://crucial.com. You'll save about 50%-Ben Of course Crucial/Micron memory is the best. My wife works for Micron in a chip fab but I'm not biased ;)

Re: [luau] Re: Dell Server for $466 before $100 mail in rebate

2003-03-11 Thread yuser
Damn... I had everything in my shopping cart for this and decided to wait until morning so I could research the Linux compatibility a little more. In the morning the $110 discount was down to $80. Figuring I better get the ball rolling I completed everything up to and including my credit

Re: [luau] Re: Dell Server for $466 before $100 mail in rebate

2003-03-11 Thread yuser
On 11 Mar 2003 at 15:46, Ronald Willis wrote: Ask about the processor...celeron or pent. Ask about the motherboard buss speed, will you truely experience 533 mhz with the cheaper microprocessor? And of course make sure the rebates are not based on your agreement to purchase the 3 year

[luau] ATA133 support

2003-02-26 Thread yuser
I have a Promise chipset PDC20269 now. It has issues and appeared to be working fine for a few months but only in UDMA 33 [Note 1] as the current kernel supported by RH does not fully support it. I could stray from the RH kernel and get my own or get another card. Any suggestions on a

[luau] Article: Linux in high schools

2003-02-24 Thread yuser
For those that might not be Slashdot readers (slashdot.org) there is an interesting discussion on using Linux in schools. (URL might be wrapped) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/2130246mode=threadtid=14 6

Re: [luau] Verizon DSL

2003-02-20 Thread yuser
Now this was like 1997 so I could be way off... LUAU (or whatever it was called years ago) got an after hours guided tour of the Miliani RR and cable facility thanks to Doug Stanfield. There was a lot of interesting stuff in there and it was definitely full of things that geeks would love. I

Re: [luau] Verizon DSL

2003-02-19 Thread yuser
On 19 Feb 2003 at 14:11, Casey Roberts wrote: One of the downers of having a cable connection versus a DSL connection is that cable modem users actually share bandwith with other users in that area. I understand the theory of CM operation and am aware of the shared concept of a local node

Re: [luau] Lindows?

2003-02-18 Thread yuser
It has been mentioned before but does not hurt to remind! Sams Club (www.samsclub.com) has two models preloaded with Redhat 8.0 for sale online, I would post the direct link but it is very long. From the main page search for Linux and they will show. On 19 Feb 2003 at 0:02, First Last wrote:

Re: [luau] Looking for an article

2003-01-02 Thread yuser
Did you ever find that article? If so could you pass on the URL? I just used rsync -avr to transfer stuff from two old partitions over to a new drive on the same machine. Worked great. On a side note.. I now completely dislike Western Digital hard drives. This is more of a personal choice

Re: [luau] Western DIgital Drives / Hard drives in general

2003-01-02 Thread yuser
There are some drives still floating around with a 3 year warranty. I believe they are left overs. I just bought a Maxtor 6Y080L0 yesterday with 3 years. WD makes a special edition series that offers decent performance, price and a 3 year warranty. In fact CircuitCity on the mainland had a

[luau] Flames Here

2002-12-27 Thread yuser
HAHAHAHA... Everyone, get your kill file and filters ready for the flame fest that is about to start! I suggest using Flames Here as the subject header so others can choose to ignore it. I can probably sum up the next two weeks of emails that are going to be bouncing around. There will be

Re: [luau] Flames Here

2002-12-27 Thread yuser
You get positive support? Based on how many times I see your name pop-up in news.admin.net-abuse.* and years ago when i used to actively read hawaii.*, I just assumed you were only making enemies!! Someone has to maintain some standards on usenet.. A task I do not normally attempt. On Fri,

RE: [luau] trying to remove .eml files

2002-12-26 Thread yuser
Where is this home directory that these files are on? On a native linux machine? You have files like something.eml in your Linux home directory and you can not delete them as yourself or even root? I must be missing something here. On a side note, Symantec has a W32 removal tool for Nimba

Re: [luau] dhcp-146-41

2002-12-23 Thread yuser
I may have missed something in context here but I do not believe this is some conspiracy. Setting a hostname is something normal in DHCP operation. It is a configuration option on a DHCP server and overrideable option on a DHCP client. This option is useful if you need it but can be equally

Re: [luau] KNOPPIX LINUX ON TECHTV

2002-12-22 Thread yuser
Yes but readonly. It automounts any local NTFS partitions (Fat32 and others also) that it finds during bootup. Works fine as far as I've tested. I've also been able to run Solitare and a few other Win32 binaries from the NTFS and FAT32 mounts with the included Wine setup. On 21

Re: [luau] KNOPPIX LINUX ON TECHTV

2002-12-18 Thread yuser
I've been messing with it on and off for about two weeks now. Seems to run very well on my Intel P3 1Ghz and Intel P4 1.7Ghz with 512MB ram but a dog on my P200 with only 64MB. I have not tried it on any laptops yet. I've never used KDE so I have nothing to compare it to. Bottom line it is a

Re: [luau] problems switching from MS to Linux

2002-12-10 Thread yuser
On 9 Dec 2002 at 16:49, MonMotha wrote: Unless you need really oddball formatting Rick Text Format (RTF) should work fine, and most likely the prof won't even notice (other than the file being about 1/4 the size) since windows defaults to having file extensions turned off! If you

[luau] OT: Other Linux user groups..

2002-11-13 Thread yuser
I saw this in a comment on /. yesterday. Some might not find it as funny as I did but I was I was laughing for hours.. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=327588 I liked the one in the skating rink, All non picked stand here

Re: [luau] Ghost for Linux and Pattition Image

2002-11-05 Thread yuser
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, MonMotha wrote: When cloning windows systems, Norton Ghost can modify the magic numbers associated with your NT install that are supposed to be unique (a plain disk image can't do this) as well as a few other things (people tout ghostwalker which is essentially a

Re: [luau] Samba headache

2002-10-31 Thread Yuser
[2002/10/30 15:55:37, 0] client/smbmount.c:do_connection(204) 1062: session setup failed: ERRSRV - 2242 [2002/10/30 20:02:16, 0] client/smbmount.c:do_connection(204) 1062: session setup failed: ERRSRV - 2242 [2002/10/30 20:03:39, 0] client/smbmount.c:do_connection(204) 1062: session setup

Re: [luau] Help Needed with Comp USA

2002-10-03 Thread Yuser
tongaloa wrote: One of the best techs I ran into there in Unix was kept on the sales floor in the cell phone sales area because they didn't want him in the tech shop. I can't believe why. Two thoughts.. He did not have his A+ and was beat out by someone that had the paper (and maybe no

Re: [luau] Re: imap

2002-09-26 Thread Yuser
-- vanilla imap is an insecure protocol, unless you only run it in secure mode (imaps, port 993). If anyone sniffs your regular unencrypted imap traffic they will not only be able to intercept your email, but possibly to login to your account -- Don't forget about POP, it is no

Re: [luau] Blocking mail relayers

2002-09-25 Thread Yuser
Are you sure they are trying to relay or bounce mail from your server? Based on your commentsbelow about messages to: people and the passing of the relay tests it appears this might be anattempt to flood your mailserver with pseudo-random names trying to actually find validusers to send spam

Re: [luau] Fuji FinePix 1300

2002-09-20 Thread Yuser
BTW, I got the MrFlash brand generic smart media online last christmas, got 128M for $43, much cheaper than the $399 Fuji wanted. I am getting way off topic here... I there any real difference between brands of Smart Media available or some meaningful specs to look for for comparative

Re: [luau] fstab smd mounts

2002-09-20 Thread Yuser
Is it possible to add an entry into fstab to mount a smbfs automatically at boot up? What would the entry look like? Have you considered autofs? IMHO a much better method for mounting frequently used remote file systems. Once you get autofs going (man autofs, automount, and auto.master), an

Re: [luau] New Linux Worm Threatens Serious Denial Of Service Attacks Sept. 16, 2002

2002-09-17 Thread Yuser
Dubbed the Linux.Slapper.Worm, it exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability within OpenSSL, often used in Apache Web servers. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020916S0001 Reading many of the headlines about this is interesting. One of the best was the information from Symantec, the

Re: [luau] Commercial Announcement Policy - Request for Comment

2002-09-16 Thread Yuser
This makes the peer review a bit more fair as it's not just one or a few people, but anyone who is willing to take a little time to browse through all of them to pick the ones that they feel are in the best interest of the community. --MonMotha That is a very good idea for commercial

Re: [luau] 9/10/2002 - MPLUG Status... HELP!

2002-09-12 Thread Yuser
The Intel print server is supposed to be configurable through a web based interface, but we can't seem to access that interface nor can we ping the print server even though the diagnostic says it has an IP address. Zero responses on TCP/IP. I'm not sure if you read my message about the Intel

Re: [luau] Beware of Using Word 97

2002-09-07 Thread Yuser
In the legal profession (and in many other professions as well), it is a common practice to receive a .doc file from your client, a 3rd party, or even your opposing counsel. You are then asked to make changes to the original .doc file, then send it back, either by electronic mail, or by

Re: [luau] What is 24.165.57.16

2002-09-06 Thread Yuser
It is a pop up ad. Trash it and move on! Probably selling some type of firewall package and using a VERY questionable scare tactic to do it. About the IP address. Yeah that's probably yours unless you are going through some type of proxy. Big deal. A firewall can not hide your gateway ip

Re: [luau] $199 Walmart Computer, pre-loaded with Linux

2002-09-05 Thread Yuser
It is because the supplier is not able to understand that Hawaii is a US State and the shipper is usually UPS and they ship here all the time. I had a $30 software rebate form rejected from Corel because they said the offer was only good in the US and Canada. After phone calls, emails and

Re: [luau] IMPORTANT - Upcoming List Policy

2002-09-05 Thread Yuser
If this is the character that you want for this group, then please continue the bashing. Just because all other Linux User Groups do it, does that make it right? I consider a local user mailing list to be from the shallow trenches, with usenet, irc to be the deeper holes and many web sites to

Re: [luau] M$ secret code....

2002-09-03 Thread Yuser
Third, as disk space goes, win95 is 45 MB, win2000 is 600MB, redhat 7.3 defaults to about 1000MB and if you install everything will go up to about 3GB. My RH machines are both under 300MB. My Linux firewall boots and runs from a floppy (no HD installed) and is quitefeature packed (older

Re: [luau] Squid

2002-08-24 Thread Yuser
I am running it on a dedicated 7.1 machine. The machine is by no means a powerhouse but it does the job well, it is a P100/64MB ram. What do you mean by good or bad? It does what it is supposed to. On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, John Pescador wrote: Anyone running Squid on Red Hat Linux 7.3? Or on any

Re: [luau] Procmail - was -video card follow up

2002-08-15 Thread Yuser
is all patchwork. I've seen examples that used locks and ones that did not. For certain situations locking is suggested and others it is not required. I failed safe, specified a lockfile and used locking for all of my rules at the slight expense of speed. * ^List-Id:.*bugtraq* /var/spool/mail/yuser

Re: [luau] Procmail - was -video card follow up

2002-08-15 Thread Yuser
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 14:30, you wrote: Do you have strong feelings about wrapping your imap sessions in ssh versus secure imap? I know that I don't want to send my password in text, but, I don't really know one encryption to be better than the other. I had planned on generating

Re: [luau] Status of Mililani High School

2002-08-15 Thread Yuser
3. Intel Netexpress print server appliance and Samba print queue setup. I haven't done a Samba print queue before. Has anyone configured that before? I may need help in figuring out how the Intel appliance can be re-configured to work with anything other than IPX. I have a Netport Express

Re: [luau] Procmail - was -video card follow up

2002-08-14 Thread Yuser
# Bugtraq :0: * ^List-Id:.*bugtraq* /var/spool/mail/yuser # NT Bugtraq :0: * ^Sender:.*NTBugtraq* /var/spool/mail/yuser # Luau :0: * ^(To|Cc):.*luau* /var/spool/mail/yuser :0: * ^(To|Cc):.*epic\.org /var/spool/mail/yuser # Block executable attachments #:0 B #*^Content-Type: (application

[luau] Update on multiple machines

2002-08-05 Thread Yuser
What is the best way to maintain updates on several RH 7.1 machines that have 90% of the same software on them? up2date works but I find I am repeating steps on all 3 machines. Would rdist be a better option? Any suggestions or links would be helpful.

Re: [luau] Firewall question..

2002-08-01 Thread Yuser
Sorry if this message dupes, I used the wrong from address the first time and the listserver held it. I was hoping that you'd reply I do not like ipfwadm either. Maybe its time to look for an alternative to FreeSco like you suggested. I did kludge something together to work for the time being.

[luau] Firewall question..

2002-07-31 Thread yuser
I for the life of me can not figure this out.. I have a floppy boot FreeSco router (similar to LRP) with 2 NIC's for my cable modem and internal lan. eth0 is outside, eth1 is internal. I am using ipportfw to forward outside port 22 to 192.168.0.1 port 22, and outside 11500 to 192.168.0.5 port

Re: [luau] (no subject)

2002-07-23 Thread yuser
I may have missed some of this thread... On 22 Jul 2002 at 13:49, Michael Ableyev wrote: service swat { port= 901 socket_type = stream wait= no only_from = localhost user= root server = /usr/local/samba/bin/swat

Re: [luau] Fwd: Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.

2002-07-17 Thread Yuser
The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world's most sophisticated IT infrastructures. It's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before. I wonder if they are hiring IT folks. Probably not much more risk then working at

Re: [luau] Underclocking / delta T

2002-07-08 Thread yuser
On 4 Jul 2002 at 19:50, Joe Linux wrote: Many people who have run out of water going over the Pali have had to have their engines replaced if it has an aluminum block, whereas a cast iron block might even seize up yet run perfectly fine again once it has cooled down. HAHAHAHAHAHA I know

Re: [luau] Underclocking / Aluminum cases

2002-07-03 Thread Yuser
Robert Green wrote: Your idea of just leaving the cover off is less efficient than a well-designed case with good air flow via a case fan, unless you're going to use a room fan to blow into the open case (or other method to increase the air flow across the components). I agree with this

Re: [luau] Lilo to get root shell

2002-07-02 Thread yuser
Hey Speaking of uptime... Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i586 login: yuser Password: Last login: Sun Jun 30 19:08:17 from yuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] yuser]$ uptime 10:33pm up 179 days, 8:11, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 Not to shabby for a home server. My

Re: [luau] Underclocking / Aluminum cases

2002-07-02 Thread yuser
On 2 Jul 2002 at 16:33, Ray Strode wrote: My feeling is that copper would tend to hold the heat, for example a copper clad bottom on a pot or skillet. I'm pretty certain that aluminum cooling fins are the most efficient, although aluminum car radiators aren't very good while car

[luau] Help with procmail recipe

2002-06-13 Thread Yuser
I need help with a procmail recipe I want messages from a specific sender to be delivered to my default mailbox and the subject of the original mail to be forwarded to another address. I can get the entire mail to be copied to the second address but not just the subject. I've searched Google

Re: [luau] KLEZ Worm?

2002-05-08 Thread Yuser
Where I work, we were getting about 50+ a day. I do not know how many now because most of the users are aware and ignoring it. We are in the middle of a Groupwise/Novell to Outlook/Exchange conversion so everyone is confused and blaming IT for everything anyway. Those damn end users! ;) Wed, 8

Re: [luau] WordPerfect for Linux

2002-05-08 Thread Yuser
On Wed, 8 May 2002, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Sorry, I am just a bystander First you say.. A dead-end product doesn't necessarily mean that it is less functional. Then contradict with.. But, anyway, there is an effort going to garnish enough WP8/Linux users so that we can force Corel to at

Re: [luau] RH 7.3 is officially out...

2002-05-06 Thread yuser
And I have mod points for the next few days ;) On 6 May 2002 at 10:40, Jeff Mings wrote: and everyone is trying to snag it as we speak. I posted a message about the Linuxconf missing on /. and will post any interesting responses on the list. -Jeff

Re: [luau] RH 7.3 is officially out...

2002-05-06 Thread yuser
And I have mod points for the next few days ;) On 6 May 2002 at 10:40, Jeff Mings wrote: and everyone is trying to snag it as we speak. I posted a message about the Linuxconf missing on /. and will post any interesting responses on the list. -Jeff

Re: [luau] kernel problem???

2002-04-29 Thread Yuser
Is it possible that you knocked off the IDE cable when you were messing with the memory? Maybe something came loose. Get into the system bios and verify if the HD is getting detected, every bios is different so you will have to look around. If not in the bios, just before post completes you

Re: [luau] Webmail for POP3

2002-04-23 Thread Yuser
Why IMAP? IMAP has many advantages over POP3. IMAP allows you to retrieve and store your messages in a standard format at central location that is accessible from ANY mail client that supports IMAP. Meaning... You can use an IMAP server on your machine to store all of your mail. You can

[luau] Interesting Day..

2002-04-20 Thread Yuser
Had an intesting day at work today.. I got to see Bill Gates and quite a few members of the legal team. Do to the locations of IMF and other various scheduled protests in DC today, they decided to move the team away to our office a few blocks from the scheduled action. I was called in to get our