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
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=04/12/02/1732225&tid=185
My take from the PC World article and the Slashdot comments:
None of them are perfect, some worse th
Not directly related to the posted phishing scam but here is a link that
describes other ways to obscure URL's.
http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm
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 s
R. Scott Belford wrote:
Prior to Christmas, I saw that Circuit City had the Western Digital
160gb, 7200rpm, 8mb cache, 3-year warranty drive for 79.99 after
rebates. They were out, so I received a raincheck. I have now received
it. It is unopened. The packaging states that a 160gb drive is
i
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
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 that
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
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
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 tho
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 seen
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 trans
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 emp
On 17 May 2003 at 18:09, Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It would be like a programmer taking the
> part of the program that they coded when they leave the company.
Not the same thing. If your job is programming you are being paid to
create programs for the company. Using y
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 ;)
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
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 Win
That's an intersting method. I have used the physical shock method many
times in the past. Start by tapping with your hand and work up to
multiple blows with the handle of a large screw driver. It really has
worked before.
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Warren Togami wrote:
> > -Vince
>
> I heard
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Vince Hoang wrote:
> Does anyone have any [good] experiences of data recovery from
> a hard drive after a dd or fsck fails? I have never been in
> a situation where it was economically feasible to employ the
> services of hard drive surgeons in clean rooms.
>
The place I wor
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 ;)
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
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 car
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 decent
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=03/02/24/2130246&mode=thread&tid=14
6
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
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 no
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:
I am not familiar with Mandrake and have not experienced this before.
How is smbd and nmbd being started? Through inetd or as a standalone
service in daemon mode (nmbd -D), you can do either but it is
generally better to NOT use inetd.
Even with nmbd not running and the Linux machine not showi
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
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 an
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,
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 so
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 he
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 a
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 Dec
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
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 r
Been there, done that! Have fun sucking air through the hose on drill
days.
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Brandon Jasper wrote:
> Hey, just giving notice that I'll be away for six months or so. I'm getting
> off the list so I won't have a gig of mail when I come back :P
> Reguards,
> Brandon Jasper
Again, sorry. I meant Netfilter.
With Netfilter and iptables being leaps and bounds more then ipchains
and having never messed with it before it's going to take me awhile
to walk through some of the examples I found. I was looking for a
quick solution until I could figure it out and tune it on
I recently upgraded a 7.1 RH machine and now I need a really quick
crash course in ipfilter. How can I convert the below to an ipfilter
format? I found some automated tools to go from ipfwadm to ipchains
but that is obviously not what I need. I am reading the RTFM's and I
will eventually get
It does not matter how the virus sends the mail, all at once in the
to field, individually, reverse order, random blah blah, none of it
matters.. Having a bogus address in your address book will not stop
any of them.
Your mail client never connects to the intended receipients mail
server. Yo
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mike Lui wrote:
This is not going to stop anything. A mail is not determined
undeliverable until you get a message from site b claiming such. This is
in no way shape or form related to you sending further outgoing mails.
That's like
me forwarding a copy of this mail to
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"
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 l
> [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 set
> 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
--
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 mo
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 to
> 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
>
> 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 shop
> 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
>
> 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 commercia
> 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 I
>
> 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
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 addr
> 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 site
> 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
> 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 ke
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 an
> 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 Expre
>> 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
e of
speed.
>
>>* ^List-Id:.*bugtraq*
>>/var/spool/mail/yuser
>>
> [...]
>
>>* ^(To|Cc):.*luau*
>>
> I notice you do ^(To|Cc) a lot. You may find this quote from the
> man page useful:
>
> > If the regular expression contains `^TO' it will
Mailing Lists
# 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
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.
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.
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
This was posted on /.
Very scary article..
Aside from the DMCA flap, this part in the article caught my eye and is equally
scary.
"SecurityFocus.com, which is in the process of being acquired by Symantec, said
it had already deleted a copy of the C source code from its Web site at the
request
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
>
> 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 a
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
> 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
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 c
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
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 and
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
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
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
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
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 shoul
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 r
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
On 19 Apr 2002 at 12:10, Robert Green wrote:
can they be daisy-chained to create additional hubs if
> needed?
Yes, http://www.allusb.com/FAQ.html
> any feedback as to good or bad brands would be
> appreciated.
I got a 4 port with an included A>A and A>B cable for just over $20 at Costco.
I i
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