Re: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-07 Thread Ben de Luca
Ok, I will agree that writing virus's might be more simple and for that we get many many many many more times as many virus's compared to other OS's. But when you look at the mode of entry of the most damaging virus's in the last 18 months you see that a fair proportion of them are worms,

RE: [SLUG] installing ps2 mouse

2003-10-07 Thread Amanda
Ummm Ditch Sun keyboard. Use ps2 keyboard with ps2 mouse. Run dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-xserver now I can set mouse to psaux. All works great. Seems if it detects a Sun keyboard, expects to have sun mouse as well. Amanda Quoting Rowling, Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think

Re: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
** Reply to note from Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:11:57 +1000 To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. not bad, though I like this one best that Tom sent me : My wife, bless her cottin socks, is a Mac

RE: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-07 Thread Jasper Streit
As far as crashing goes, well OS X has been **fairly stable, though not bullet proof. OS 9 on the other hand was a joke in terms of stability... Trying to interface to MS windows networks from OS X does sometimes hang the system (maybe just aqua, but there doesn't seem to be alt+F6 type of

[SLUG] Valid characters in hostnames.

2003-10-07 Thread Gareth Walters
G'day all, Valid characters for hostnames (DNS) are still a-z and - are they not, as per rfc952? I am getting some entries in my mail server logs that suggest there are a few hosts trying to send mail to me with underscores in their names. ---Gareth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

RE: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-07 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
The Australian yesterday had a column from David Frith on just this subject http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7457276%5E15423%5E%5Enbv %5E15309,00.html A quote: No-one, not even an administrator, is permitted to tinker with the Mac's core system software, so a Mac OS X virus - and

Re: [SLUG] Valid characters in hostnames.

2003-10-07 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:57 am, Gareth Walters wrote: G'day all, Valid characters for hostnames (DNS) are still a-z and - are they not, as per rfc952? I am getting some entries in my mail server logs that suggest there are a few hosts trying to send mail to me with underscores in their names.

Re: [SLUG] ot: Mac OSX and virii in the open

2003-10-07 Thread Benno
On Wed Oct 08, 2003 at 09:00:42 +1000, Visser, Martin (Sydney) wrote: The Australian yesterday had a column from David Frith on just this subject http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7457276%5E15423%5E%5Enbv %5E15309,00.html A quote: No-one, not even an administrator, is permitted to

Re: [SLUG] Valid characters in hostnames.

2003-10-07 Thread techsupport
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/10/2003 09:33:53: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:57 am, Gareth Walters wrote: G'day all, Valid characters for hostnames (DNS) are still a-z and - are they not, as per rfc952? I am getting some entries in my mail server logs that suggest there are a few hosts

Re: [SLUG] Valid characters in hostnames.

2003-10-07 Thread James Gray
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/10/2003 09:33:53: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:57 am, Gareth Walters wrote: G'day all, Valid characters for hostnames (DNS) are still a-z and - are they not, as per rfc952? I am getting some entries

Re: [SLUG] Valid characters in hostnames.

2003-10-07 Thread jeff . allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/10/2003 10:58:45: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/10/2003 09:33:53: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:57 am, Gareth Walters wrote: G'day all, Valid characters for hostnames (DNS) are still a-z and - are they

[SLUG] fwd: Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Conference Programme available

2003-10-07 Thread Jeff Waugh
For the impatient: http://lca2004.linux.org.au/programme.cgi TOTAL ROCK CENTRAL. - Jeff - Forwarded message from Michael Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:58:05 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux.Conf.Au 2004 announces conference programme!

Re: [SLUG] Firewall appliance box

2003-10-07 Thread Del
Hi, Since it came up, I've done a fair amount of hacking recently to get IPCop to install via PXE. Useful because most of these appliance boxes don't contain a floppy disk drive, and the FD controller is fairly hard to get at even when you open the box up. Red Hat is easy because they give you

[SLUG] MythTV

2003-10-07 Thread Peter Vogel
Anyone got any experience with MythTV? Peter Vogel ZapTV Pty Ltd 30 Adeline St, Faulconbridge 2776 Australia Tel: 02 4751 8735 Fax: 02 4751 2601 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Smoothwall.... Other alternatives?

2003-10-07 Thread scott
Hi All, A friend of mine has just implemented smoothwall in their office, and no-one there knows much about Linux They were having problems with pptp VPN forwarding, however We finally sorted it out. My problem is, smoothwall still uses ipchains. I am not real familiar with ipchains (only

Re: [SLUG] Smoothwall.... Other alternatives?

2003-10-07 Thread jeff . allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/10/2003 14:30:52: Hi All, A friend of mine has just implemented smoothwall in their office, and no-one there knows much about Linux They were having problems with pptp VPN forwarding, however We finally sorted it out. My problem is, smoothwall still uses

[SLUG] Synchronizing Pocket PC's (non palm-os) with Evolution.

2003-10-07 Thread Ron Daniel
I am considering an attempt on sync'ing my Ipaq 3800 with Evolution on my Mandrake 9.1 linux laptop. Has anyone achieved same ? Is it possible ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 12:00 PM

Re: [SLUG] Smoothwall.... Other alternatives?

2003-10-07 Thread Guy Ellis
Hi Scott, Check out IPCop www.ipcop.org It is a GPL fork from SmoothWall - forked about 18 months ago. It uses iptables. It also has lots of other cool features that SmoothWall doesn't... Will run from Compact Flash. ISDN DOV support. PCI ADSL support. Cheers, - Guy. At 02:30 PM 8/10/2003

[SLUG] Re.E;Tried to deque ...

2003-10-07 Thread Adam Bogacki
Apologies, I managed to get it working ... but I am now facing ... apt-get install gnome-gv . E: The package gnome-gv needs to be re-installed, but I can't find an archive for it. This is in stable (!) and I've forgotten how to do it off CD-ROM. Can anyone remind me ... ? Adam Bogacki,