Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread John
I am not a good interpreter of log files but a search of the mail.log came up with the following line which would appear to be relevant: amavis[3692]: (03692-04) Blocked BANNED (multipart/mixed | image/jpeg,.exe,.exe-ms,FTLINK40.jpg), [ip number] -> , quarantine: banned-A53A50k3vlJk, Message-ID:

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Oliver Hookins
On 1/23/07, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone recommended dspam -- but www.dspam.org is old and been claimed by some squatter/exploiter. Time to laugh or cry... http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/ ...if you are a real masochist. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Someone recommended dspam -- but www.dspam.org is old and been claimed by some squatter/exploiter. Time to laugh or cry... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Oliver Hookins
On 1/23/07, Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This one time, at band camp, John wrote: >A signpost would be appreciated and any suggestions as to how I might >achieve my desired configuration. Try setting up dspam in between your MTA and the delivery. www.dspam.org I haven't used it

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:14:39PM +1100, John wrote: > Hi list, > > I've just had someone try and send me an e-mail with a .zip file attached > containing a .exe file. Are you sure it was "someone" and not some spammer pretending to be someone? This happens to me all the time; I've even had zip

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, John wrote: >A signpost would be appreciated and any suggestions as to how I might >achieve my desired configuration. Try setting up dspam in between your MTA and the delivery. www.dspam.org I haven't used it yet, but I was reading about it several months ago. It mi

[SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread John
Hi list, I've just had someone try and send me an e-mail with a .zip file attached containing a .exe file. It was rejected and an automatic message sent back to the sender explaining the situation. This is great you'd suppose but it isn't the way I'd like this to happen. What I'd like to happe

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Since it's nearly 6 years since I bought my current Nokia phone, and it > ain't broke so why change it, then my ignorance is understandable, but > your suggestion wouldn't work on my phone whereas mine would. A phone without a screen reader i

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
> It just dawned on me that this is a variation on the CAPTCHA concept. I > wonder if they also enable a phone call at the same time for the visually > impaired. Ebay do this. - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ I wanted to be Superman

Re: [SLUG] Xen and bridged networking

2007-01-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: > >But then inside the domU, running Ubuntu Edgy, it's not finding any > >network: > >There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid > >134993416 > >Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 > >Copyright 2004-2006 Internet

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread jam
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 08:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > They need to educate their own staff before they worry about the > customers' computers! > > (These experiences from UK banks, but I'm sure they apply here too.) > > I've regularly had my bank phone me up and say they're from the bank, >

Re: [SLUG] System freeze - how to diagnose?

2007-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:33:42AM +1100, david wrote: > For the record, this was a disk I/O error, which I discovered by leaving > the job running over night logged into a console rather than Gnome. > > I'm guessing something is overheating, since it's a job that's very > processor/harddrive int

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:16:57 +1100 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:21:29PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > > > A really simple two-factor authentication is for them to sms a > > single-use token to your mobile phone. This solves the "something > > you have

Re: [SLUG] System freeze - how to diagnose?

2007-01-22 Thread david
For the record, this was a disk I/O error, which I discovered by leaving the job running over night logged into a console rather than Gnome. I'm guessing something is overheating, since it's a job that's very processor/harddrive intensive. I'm also assuming (!) that it wasn't logged because the s

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/01/07, Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: by browsing I meant looking for things that I did not know what I wanted , having a list of things in my head, but if something sounded like it might solve a problem that I had that wasn't on the list then I would check it out too. Finding the t

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:21:29PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > A really simple two-factor authentication is for them to sms a > single-use token to your mobile phone. This solves the "something you > have + something you know" problem. Yes, if someone robs you AND > somehow gets your p

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-22 Thread Ken Wilson
by browsing I meant looking for things that I did not know what I wanted , having a list of things in my head, but if something sounded like it might solve a problem that I had that wasn't on the list then I would check it out too. Finding the things that I didnt know that I needed. any searchin

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: > It just dawned on me that this is a variation on the CAPTCHA concept. I > wonder if they also enable a phone call at the same time for the > visually impaired. Blind people can receive text messages just fine. There are numerous models out

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
They need to educate their own staff before they worry about the customers' computers! (These experiences from UK banks, but I'm sure they apply here too.) I've regularly had my bank phone me up and say they're from the bank, then ask me all the security questions. I refuse to give it to someo

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Michael Fox
On 23/01/2007, at 9:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks James. One of the proposals for the new EFT Code is that users be liable for all losses caused by infected computers. My point is going to be that this is inappropriate as long as the banks do not restrict connections from older syste

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread matt
>> Thanks James. One of the proposals for the new EFT Code is that users >> be liable for all losses caused by infected computers. My point is >> going to be that this is inappropriate as long as the banks do not >> restrict connections from older systems that are known to be insecure. > > My 2c, b

Re: [SLUG] Xen and bridged networking

2007-01-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: > >I'm trying to install my first Xen domU and I thought I'd go with the > >defaults so my domU is configured to use bridged networking thus: > > Don't you mean dom0 in the above two cases? No. dom0 quite happily has network access, as shown i

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/01/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: > And BTW - the command to set the default time zone on Debian is "tzconfig". And finally, date Sat Jan 20 12:48:39 EST 2007 Now why the system is not aware of daylight savings is beyond me. tzconfig is part

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21/01/07, Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thats often the hard bit, finding programes that do what you want. I browsed the applications-->add/remove programes to find some which wasnt too bad, but browsing Synaptic, while finding some useful looking candidates for trying out does take t

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:37:47 +1100 Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alan L Tyree wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:57:55 +1100 > > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:45:02AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > >>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:34:24 +1100

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:57:55 +1100 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:45:02AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:34:24 +1100 > > James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:22 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > > Hi a

[SLUG] SyPy Meetup Thursday February 1, 2007

2007-01-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
See attached announcement. --- Begin Message --- This will be the second social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group for 2007 and any individuals interested in discussing Python, Web, Ruby, Perl etc. Laptops, code review, show and tell etc allowed and encouraged. We meet in the ground floor are

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:45:02AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:34:24 +1100 > James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:22 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I'm about to give an interview on the ABC concerning the EFT Code of > > > C

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:34:24 +1100 James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:22 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm about to give an interview on the ABC concerning the EFT Code of > > Conduct. I realised that I am ignorant on the following question: > > > > Wh

Re: [SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread James Purser
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:22 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Hi all, > I'm about to give an interview on the ABC concerning the EFT Code of > Conduct. I realised that I am ignorant on the following question: > > When a customer connects for on-line banking, is it possible to > identify the system that

[SLUG] ID question

2007-01-22 Thread Alan L Tyree
Hi all, I'm about to give an interview on the ABC concerning the EFT Code of Conduct. I realised that I am ignorant on the following question: When a customer connects for on-line banking, is it possible to identify the system that the customer is using? Can they tell it is Windows 98, XP, etc? T

Re: [SLUG] System freeze - how to diagnose?

2007-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:30:13PM +1100, david wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:46 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:13:24AM +1100, david wrote: > > > The power light was on, but no-one home. Nothing responding, no ping. > > > Other machines on the same UPS are running fine.

Re: [SLUG] Hosed Ubuntu by apt-get upgrade

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 20:22 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 21 Jan, To: Sydney Linux Users Group wrote: > > Any advice would be most welcome. Dont do 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' - for two reasons: Firstly, a failed update is not something you want to upgrade from, so doing 'apt-get u

[SLUG] Xen and bridged networking

2007-01-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Hi folks. I'm trying to install my first Xen domU and I thought I'd go with the defaults so my domU is configured to use bridged networking thus: vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] Which, when xend runs, results in this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:55:1A:65:D2 inet addr:192.1