Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Russell Senior wrote: >> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein writes: > > Paul> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >>> On this subject, the intended equipment (Ubiquity AirRouter) >>> defaults to "SOHO router" mode.  I cannot say I really understand >>> the differe

Re: [PLUG] Firefox forgot what program to open a ZIP file with

2012-03-07 Thread Dale Snell
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:06:48 -0800 John Jason Jordan wrote: > But knowing the name of the executable I was able to effect a > permanent cure by going into Edit > Preferences > Applications. I > still had to browse to /usr/bin/file-roller (no address bar to type > in), but Firefox now remembers wha

Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Russell Senior
> "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann writes: Denis> [...] I stumbled on Denis> http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Heffner/DEFCON-18-Heffner-Routers-WP.pdf. Denis> I see that open WRT is listed as vulnerable. Is this of Denis> concern to anybody? The presentation is from 201

Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Russell Senior
> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein writes: Paul> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> On this subject, the intended equipment (Ubiquity AirRouter) >> defaults to "SOHO router" mode. I cannot say I really understand >> the difference between "router" and "SOHO router", [...] Paul> My guess i

Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On this subject, the intended equipment (Ubiquity AirRouter) > defaults to "SOHO router" mode. I cannot say I really understand > the difference between "router" and "SOHO router", [...] My guess is that "SOHO router" implies NAT, while "router" doe

Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I will have one desktop wired to the router, the router wired to a Comcast > modem, and very occasionally a laptop connected via wireless. Assign a WAP2 pass[word|phrase] to the WAP and the portable (network manager or wicd) and authentication will

Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mike Cherba wrote: > Denis, >    It's never been a concern for me, but then I run OpenWRT in a very much > non-stock configuration.  Just like any other distro, it's not as secure as > it could be out of the box, but can be improved substantially with a little > eff

Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Mike Cherba
Denis, It's never been a concern for me, but then I run OpenWRT in a very much non-stock configuration. Just like any other distro, it's not as secure as it could be out of the box, but can be improved substantially with a little effort. There's some good tips on the open WRT wiki.

Re: [PLUG] Writing DVD With Xcdroast-0.98alpha16 [RESOLVED]

2012-03-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Rich Shepard wrote: > Given this information, what must I do to get xcdroast to write the .iso > to the optical disk? Once again, I found the solution myself after posting a request for help. My apologies to the list. The solution was to re-scan for devices. This chan

[PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Denis Heidtmann
I have been reading the manual for my (future) wireless router. I am completely ignorant about routers, so upon seeing the term SOHO router I did some searching for an explanation. I stumbled on http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Heffner/DEFCON-18-Heffner-Routers-WP.pdf.

[PLUG] Writing DVD With Xcdroast-0.98alpha16

2012-03-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a 4.2G .iso to burn onto a 4.7G DVD. Reading the FAQ and xcdroast manual section on writing to DVDs, I downloaded the most recent (2005) cdrecord.prodvd (the changed name of the downloaded file when moved to /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/ with 755 perms and ownership of root.root). According

Re: [PLUG] Linux certifications

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Rich Burroughs wrote: > Hey Paul :) > > Yeah I remember you as well :) I hope you're doing well. I am going > to try to drop by a meeting sometime soonish. I've more or less relegated myself to mailing-list-only membership. There've been some great meeting topics of late, bu

Re: [PLUG] Firefox forgot what program to open a ZIP file with

2012-03-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:54:07 -0800 Dale Snell dijo: >On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:00:21 -0800 >John Jason Jordan wrote: >> Does anyone know how to tell Firefox what to open files with? >The only way to get around this annoyance (and yes, it's happened >to me, too), is to feed it the actual name for th