Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-26 Thread Wayne Merricks
I second the Open VPN approach, if you can spare a box of any sort for a serious firewall, look at pfsense.org it was really easy to set up and has some other additions that kicks the ass out of my old Cisco PIX Firewall (and the newer ASA). Stuff like: Failover WAN Traffic Shaping Traffic

Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-26 Thread James Harrison
Also check out the Mikrotik routers - the 450G works great, and supports hosting OpenVPN, L2TP and IPsec based VPN services on the same router. Complete solution for about £80. Cheers, James Harrison On 26/11/12 10:05, Wayne Merricks wrote: I second the Open VPN approach, if you can spare a

Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-26 Thread Rob Landry
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, James Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Best approach is not to use passwords - SSH keys are simple to set up and you can disable password authentication in sshd, which makes your system practically uncrackable. Unless, of course, someone

Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-26 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 26, 2012, at 06:47 33, Rob Landry wrote: Unless, of course, someone gets control of a laptop or other computer that has the key on it. That's what strong passphrases are for -- assuming users actually utilize such. At the end of the day, social engineering is still the biggest

Re: [RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-26 Thread John Penovich
We've been using heartbeat and drbd for exactly this type of topology for about 5 years now, no issues. ~~ John Penovich Radio Free Asia 2025 M Street, NW Ste 300 Washington DC 20036 (202) 587-2042 ~~ CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION This e-mail message

[RDD] Rivendell choosing ALSA over AudioScience

2012-11-26 Thread Joe Makowski (RIT Student)
Hi all, I'm a relatively new engineer here and am trying to upgrade our workstations to fresh installations of Ubuntu 12.04 and Rivendell 2.2.0. We have AudioScience cards and currently have AudioScience HPI 4.10.15 drivers installed. Ubuntu reports the driver as installed and active, but not

Re: [RDD] Rivendell choosing ALSA over AudioScience

2012-11-26 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 26, 2012, at 10:03 47, Joe Makowski (RIT Student) wrote: I'm a relatively new engineer here and am trying to upgrade our workstations to fresh installations of Ubuntu 12.04 and Rivendell 2.2.0. We have AudioScience cards and currently have AudioScience HPI 4.10.15 drivers installed.

Re: [RDD] database backup failed.

2012-11-26 Thread Nathan Steele
What is the command generated through the GUI? Also this doesn't tell me what is broken or how to fix it. the gui used to work... thanks. Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 11/19/2012 5:55 PM, Alessio Elmi wrote: Hi, try to append

Re: [RDD] Rivendell choosing ALSA over AudioScience

2012-11-26 Thread Wayne Merricks
I've never used an ASI card so forgive me if this is just a stupid suggestion, have you tried looking at rdalsaconfig and making sure the ASI card is the active device? -Original Message- From: rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org on behalf of Fred Gleason Sent: Mon

Re: [RDD] database backup failed.

2012-11-26 Thread Alessio Elmi
Hi Nathan, I think the MySQL user you're trying to backup with has no LOCK TABLES privileges (that's what it tells you). Solutions are: - You give those rights to the user under which you run the backup. If it has LOCK TALBES, it may be that the user can't have permissions outside 'localhost'

Re: [RDD] Multiple studios

2012-11-26 Thread Rivendell Steve
On 26 November 2012 14:37, John Penovich penovi...@rfa.org wrote: We've been using heartbeat and drbd for exactly this type of topology for about 5 years now, no issues. Ah, good stuff - many answers to problems I don't have ;) Can anyone help with my multiple studio question? Steve. P.S.

[RDD] Windows manager

2012-11-26 Thread Rivendell Steve
Whilst I'm a linux guy, I have very little to do with X windows as virtually all my kit is headless. The studio playout PC is running debian wheezy. Can anyone recommend a suitable windows manager? If it makes any difference I'm running with two touch screen displays. This is only for playout,

Re: [RDD] Windows manager

2012-11-26 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Fluxbox is a proven, very lightweight window manager that is somewhat easily extensible. OTOH, we at our radio run a full-fledged XFCE4 desktop, because that machine is also used as a general purpose computer for the jockeys (browser, file explorer...). On 26 November 2012 16:21, Rivendell Steve

Re: [RDD] Windows manager

2012-11-26 Thread Cowboy
On Monday 26 November 2012 04:21:29 pm Rivendell Steve wrote: The studio playout PC is running debian wheezy. Can anyone recommend a suitable windows manager? If it makes any difference I'm running with two touch screen displays. This is only for playout, there's a seperate PC for email,

Re: [RDD] Windows manager

2012-11-26 Thread Rivendell Steve
On 26 November 2012 21:43, Cowboy c...@cwf1.com wrote: On Monday 26 November 2012 04:21:29 pm Rivendell Steve wrote: The studio playout PC is running debian wheezy. Can anyone recommend a suitable windows manager? If it makes any difference I'm running with two touch screen displays.

Re: [RDD] security breach

2012-11-26 Thread Rivendell Steve
On 26 November 2012 10:05, Wayne Merricks waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.comwrote: I second the Open VPN approach, if you can spare a box of any sort for a serious firewall, look at pfsense.org it was really easy to set up and has some other additions that kicks the ass out of my old Cisco PIX