Re: [SLUG] Re: search engine for company network (OT)

2008-05-14 Thread Jeremy Portzer
rich wrote: Hello all, Richard here - been lurking for a while, first post. Seb, If you only have a few users to deal with then I concur with the Rev, Google Desktop is a great solution; it's simple and it will meet your users needs. There are alternatives, I actually use one called Copernic Des

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

2008-05-14 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 17:13 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > "Manual Configuration" only gives me the usual "Enable Roaming" option > for both wireless and wired networks, which doesn't seem to make a > difference? The roaming mode is meant to be checked. If Network Manager doesn't pick the change up

[SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

2008-05-14 Thread John Clarke
G'day sluggers, I updated openvpn on a Ubuntu Feisty server today and discovered that the openvpn server wouldn't allow incoming connections (tried with two different clients). This message appears in syslog when a client tries to connect. May 14 16:45:46 dropbear openvpn[17945]: 59.167.42.1

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

2008-05-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 17:13 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > "Manual Configuration" only gives me the usual "Enable Roaming" option > > for both wireless and wired networks, which doesn't seem to make a > > difference? > >

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

2008-05-14 Thread Gerard Blacklock
Sebastian Spiess wrote: hi all, I know this is not a 100% linux related question but it's open source baby :-) On our company network we have a daily growing number of documents in lots of folders and stuff. Most of it is organised in project folders and has reoccurring folder structures an

[SLUG] Get involved at the first OLPC Australia TechFest!

2008-05-14 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, thought this would be of interest :) --- The first OLPC Australia TechFest will be held on June 1st in Sydney. It will include demonstrations, workshops about the OLPC hardware and software, developer tutorials and more! Everyone is welcome, though the event is mainly designed to help po

Re: [SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

2008-05-14 Thread Mary Gardiner
I haven't tried OpenVPN yet, but a new security advisory came out this morning saying "A regression was introduced in OpenVPN when using TLS and multi-client/server which caused OpenVPN to not start when using valid SSL certificates... It was also found that openssl-vulnkey from openssl-blacklist w

Re: [SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

2008-05-14 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 07:39:01 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > I haven't tried OpenVPN yet, but a new security advisory came out this > morning saying "A regression was introduced in OpenVPN when using TLS Thanks Mary, I've just seen that too. I'll give it a go later. Cheers, John -- I find

Re: [SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

2008-05-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:39 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > I haven't tried OpenVPN yet, but a new security advisory came out this > morning saying "A regression was introduced in OpenVPN when using TLS Out of interest, what source are you using for your security advisories? -- SLUG - Sydney Linu

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

2008-05-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:39 +1000, Jeremy Visser wrote: > If it still doesn't work, go edit /etc/network/interfaces (I hope your > distro has its config there), and delete every single line _except_ for > the ones containing "auto lo" and "iface lo inet loopback". Log out and > log in to see if it

Re: [SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

2008-05-14 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:35:31 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Hi Sonia, > Out of interest, what source are you using for your security advisories? I get mine from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, John -- PdS> You obviously haven't used terminfo. All the problems of termcap, a few extras and a layer

Re: [SLUG] help! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again

2008-05-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Out of interest, what is the canonical (vs Canonical) way of giving NM a > kick when you've changed something, apart from logging out/in? In the olde > days when manually editing /etc/network/interfaces I used to do > /etc/init.d/network restart or ifdown eth0; ifup eth0, but NM often > appears

Re: [SLUG] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?

2008-05-14 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, May 15, 2008, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Out of interest, what source are you using for your security advisories? Same as John, I subscribe at http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce and to similar lists for other distros when I'm using them. http://lwn.net/ has reg