Re: [SLUG] [Job: Syd] Java Coder wanted

2004-02-26 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy Mark, I stand corrected - I shall forward to the appropriate list then. Cheers, Umar. > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004, Umar Goldeli wrote: > > Greetings all, > > > > Something you may be interested in yourself or know someone who may be > > interested.. and yes, one

Re: [SLUG] SD Card support under Linux/DRM

2004-02-25 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy Scott, Yep - been there.. doesn't work.. and the other thing is that having to use only one particular program on one particular OS offends me as well. Eek. It's interesting that Panasonic have opted down this path though.. other SD based players allow you to just mount and copy files ac

Re: [SLUG] SD Card support under Linux/DRM

2004-02-25 Thread Umar Goldeli
Actually I've also heard that the people working on the Zaurus project have got this working as well - but don't give out their code etc.. Apparantly you have to sign away your life to get access to the doco from the SD manufacturers and can't pass it on afterwards. //umar. > I believe that SD

[SLUG] [Job: Syd] Java Coder wanted

2004-02-25 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings all, Something you may be interested in yourself or know someone who may be interested.. and yes, one of the target platforms is Linux. :) Thanks.. //umar. Java Coder Wanted: Can you code beautiful Java? Are you self-motivated and don't need direct supervision? Don't want to g

[SLUG] SD Card support under Linux/DRM

2004-02-24 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings All, Quick question - I was wondering whether there was a Linux/OS version of some utils to transfer mp3 files to a SD card based mp3 player with what appears to be DRM of some sort? As it stands, I bought a Panasonic SV-SD80 - thinking that I could just mount the SD card, and just c

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy, Thanks for this - but this runs multiple copies of tcpdump etc which tends to lose packets and slows down miserably after about 5 instances or so.. Cheers, Umar. > Have you considered doing a: > > # tcpdump -i | grep 1.2.3.4 > 1.2.3.4.log & > # tcpdump -i | grep 2.3.4.5 > 2.3.4.5.log

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
with C for quite some time now and I've been converted to the Dark Side(tm) (Perl. ;) - so for me it would be quite impossible.. However, if this is indeed a simple task - I'd be willing to pay someone to put it together for me.. ? //umar. > > JeF > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at

Re: [SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
snort.. hmm.. but I think it uses libpcap as well.. danke.. //umar. > > tcpflow splits trafic by tcp stream. Not sure if that's useful to you. > > > Andrew > > > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Umar Goldeli wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:01:17 +1000

[SLUG] Tcpdump - multiple filters to multiple files?

2003-06-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
Howdy, How are we all? :) Here's an interesting question that I'm looking for a solution to - quite simply, is there a way to run tcpdump to capture different ip addresses and output them to different files without running multiple copies of tcpdump? Specifically - something along these lines

Re: [SLUG] Firewalls

2003-02-13 Thread Umar Goldeli
To add to this, and looking at it from a few steps back, one can summarize the base functionality of a firewall as something which "sits in between various areas of a network (or networks) with differing levels of trust and enforces the semantics of these levels". //umar. > A firewall is not so m

Re: [SLUG] How to create an ISP

2003-02-06 Thread Umar Goldeli
PG, Mainly regarding the "modems" side of things: If you want to do it all with linux, it is possible, however I have not played with Linux based RAC gear. However, having said that - there are a million alternatives for "modems" - if that is the business model that you will be following. Var

Re: [SLUG] System monitoring

2002-12-03 Thread Umar Goldeli
Set snaplen to MTU. //umar. > You can capture traffic in and out of your box by doing: > > tcpdump -s 20480 -p -w traffic.data -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Need to lease an IP block.

2002-11-03 Thread Umar Goldeli
Don't forget the ~$5k/year "membership" fees (In USD of course). //umar. > Hmm ... that'll be tough - APNIC will gladly give you a minimum of a /20. > Justifying 4.96 IP's isn't gonna be easy though :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a free(ish) Software RAIT solution?

2002-03-08 Thread Umar Goldeli
I think "AMANDA" did tape striping, but I could be wrong... //umar. > RAIT = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes.. > Ie RAID for Tapes. > > Im looking for some code that will do RAIT in software.. > > Has anyone seen anything like that about in the free or GPL space? > -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

Re: [SLUG] Sick of this crap

2001-06-13 Thread Umar Goldeli
And as we all know, Australia does whatever Uncle Sam says. Uncle Sam says "Sign the damn thing". //umar. > Please go back and read what was written. It doesn't fscking matter what > our law is, if Australia signs up, then laws in other countries could be > enforced here. > > This is like th

Re: [SLUG] OT - Job advertisement

2001-06-06 Thread Umar Goldeli
> "Fear leads to consultants, consultants lead to NT, NT leads to > suffering" I'm going to have to bite on this one.. "consultants" should be defined further - "clueless consultants" perhaps.. :) //umar (consultant who breaks out in hives when M$ products are mentioned) -- SLUG - Sydney Linu

Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous I/O

2001-06-04 Thread Umar Goldeli
I have no idea about the function calls themselves, but I would assume that you have to mount the filesystem that you're working on ayncio - it's a mount option. $0.02. //umar. > hello, this is kiran. I am using Red Hat linux version 7.0. kernel > version is 2.2.16-22. i want to know does th

Re: [SLUG] OFFTOPIC: Re: Linux Instructor - what about "jobs wanted?"

2001-05-31 Thread Umar Goldeli
> > Finding contracts by word of mouth is the best though. Always. But there's > > always the pimp as backup. > > "If you can't find a real job, go ask the pimp"? :) Close. :) > If all pimps get squishy toys and umbrellas, I want to be a pimp. The clients get the squishy toys.. pimps supply

Re: [SLUG] OFFTOPIC: Re: Linux Instructor - what about "jobs wanted?"

2001-05-31 Thread Umar Goldeli
Rick, The way I think of pimps is as a "service" - otherwise you'll be pissed off to the point of combustion everytime you send an invoice. For example - my current position: I sourced it myself (they called me actually) - and I stated a rate and got it.. however since they're a large corporatio

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux Instructor - what about "jobs wanted?"

2001-05-31 Thread Umar Goldeli
James, Being an "old hand" at being a professional slut and having dealt with many pimps and even once been shafted 35%, I think I'll save you some pain and give you a little advice. :) Quite simply - pimps are tools. Some of them are nice, some are not, some you may even become friends with aft

Re: [SLUG] list broken?

2001-05-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
Well, I'm gettign two of everything.. may I'm getting your share... *smirk* //umar. On Thu, 17 May 2001, DaZZa wrote: > Testingtesting...one two three. Is this thing on? > > Do we have a badly broken list, or has everyone just run out of problems? > I haven't seen slug mail in several days

Re: [SLUG] E-Commerce...what do I need.

2001-05-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
Chris, It appears that everybody has suggested the "shopping" bit - but you'll find that you'll also need something to talk to the bank.. this is the hard bit (as by your question, I'm assuming that you want realtime transaction approval etc..) In 99% of situations, you have to write bits of cus

Re: [SLUG] Getting a dial in up to speed

2001-05-15 Thread Umar Goldeli
> If your ISP has analogue lines or no digital access server > or you have a crap phone line, you'll get a max connection of > 33.6k (except if it's cos you've got a crap line, then you might > get somewhere between 33.6 - about 50 odd). Just being the devil's advocate - Tel$tra actually only "

Re: [SLUG] Linux & viruses

2001-05-13 Thread Umar Goldeli
Note the keywords: "worm" .. not "virus".. A dodgy script that exploits a known vulnerability and perpetuates itself by the same method is not worthy of the label "virus".. By the same token, some moron who writes a bit of cheap VBS and sends it to other morons who double click everything they s

Re: [SLUG] Studying Programming

2001-05-13 Thread Umar Goldeli
Mr. Squirrel, Best way to learn how to code is to sit down, think about a project that needs to be done, and do it in the language of your choice (after deciding on the suitability of that language for your task). If you're relatively bright, this is the *only* way to learn. ;) Code a few more

Re: [SLUG] Linux Geeks & Printing

2001-04-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
> 2) I have a network, email and the web; what the hell do I need a printer > for? So you can give dead trees with bits of carbon on it to management types to make them feel secure. :) //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.or

[SLUG] Free: HP Draftmaster A0 Plotter.

2001-04-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings, Due to space restrictions.. I must whittle my hoard somewhat. :( I have a lovely A0 sized, HP Draftmaster.. a big-arse 8-pen plotter.. *sob* I will give it away to a loving home. You may need to fiddle with it (i.e. make/buy a new serial cable), but as far as I know, it works fine.

Re: [SLUG] FC: Australian government wants to ban Net-gambling (fwd)

2001-03-29 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Anyway, to let out another secret about myself, I am an ex-gambler. > At one stage I used to put all my earnings, after paying my rent > and food bills &c. through the Poker machines. I reformed myself > and managed to wean myself off them. I personally think gambling is > Evil Incarnate.

[SLUG] FC: Australian government wants to ban Net-gambling (fwd)

2001-03-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
Sure this does not necessarily directly relate to Linux - but as geeks, this should concern you. Your Government is fucking both the economy, and the IT industry. If there is anything else that can be done to fuck a country, I'd be quite impressed if it isn't already being done here in the "clev

Re: [SLUG] UPS serial cable

2001-03-26 Thread Umar Goldeli
On another note, have you tried to email them yet? Every single address on their contact list bounces.. :( //umar. On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Michael Still wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Dave Fitch wrote: > > > I noticed second hand UPS' for sale at > > www.pcrecyclers.net (checking out those HP mac

Re: [SLUG] Sun optical mice

2001-03-22 Thread Umar Goldeli
> is that supposed to work?! (printing it out) > I just assumed the Sun mats had some kind of "depth" (like the > way CDs work). It's just a grid.. a shiny one mind you, but still a grid.. so it should work.. //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More In

Re: [SLUG] Slugs

2001-03-21 Thread Umar Goldeli
My comment segfaulted... *grin* //umar. > > > > Slug Libido Understanding Group > > > > ? > > > > //umar. > > > > Gotta love those recursive acronyms :-) > > Dan. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Slugs

2001-03-21 Thread Umar Goldeli
Slug Libido Understanding Group ? //umar. On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Arn't they hermaphodite anyway -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Hacking of my box

2001-03-21 Thread Umar Goldeli
Peter, I'm assuming you don't want to do any serious forensics on it.. and this is just for "fun" so: 1. Unplug. 2. Assuming not a very sophisticated cracker (the git looks like he forgot to trojan ps, or didn't setup the config files properly *sigh* and you discovered it pretty easily), mount

Re: [SLUG] XMPS - sound but no video..

2001-03-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
So you ended up using avifile? Or can you use the windows dll's with xmps as well? As long as I don't have to physically *boot* that dirty OS, I'm more than happy to use the DLL's.. :) //umar. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Fire it up, open a video.. and whammo.. I've got sou

[SLUG] XMPS - sound but no video..

2001-03-15 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings, I've just downloaded a whole pile of libraries, installed them and finally got xmps-0.2.0 compiled and installed.. I then installed the opendivx plugin.. Fine. Fire it up, open a video.. and whammo.. I've got sound, but I've got no video - no little playing screen, nothing.. The in

[SLUG] Perl Help - reply..

2001-03-08 Thread Umar Goldeli
Oops.. I deleted the email before I got to reply to it.. but I think it was a Bronwyn that asked the question about cookies + perl... :) Anyway, something along these lines: ncftpget \ ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/CPAN/modules/by-module/CGI/CGI.pm-2.752.tar.gz tar -zxvf CGI.pm-2.752.tar.gz cd CGI

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Stateful inspection is the only way to come remotely close to securing > UDP without stepping to the point of not using it at all. UDP == evil. *grin* (but this is getting way OT ;) //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] Re: Security Breaches

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
dd will not affect the atimes on the files on the filesystem. dd is your friend. //umar. > > Oh one more thing - it will alter the atime on /dev/sdb1 (or whatever) - > > but that's not exactly going to be useful anyway. > > If your backup software didn't preserve the atime then perhaps it's

Re: [SLUG] Re: Security Breaches

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
7;s the latter - you can ignore the CD anyway, because you need to blow away the box WHOLE anyway. It can't be trusted anymore. //umar. > Umar Goldeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Every admin should also have a statically compiled set of tools on CD > > btw

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Hence why you use stateful inspection firewalls, not ipchains. > ipchains is completely unflexible in this regard. It works, but even so, let's face it, stateful inspection in regards to UDP is still a kludge. ;) //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
You just missed Alan Cox by a few weeks I believe! :) //umar. > What sort of time/date/places do the Linux gurus, or those who others > might consider to be gurus anticipate being around. I anticipate I might > have some beer money with me (8-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
Or try two part authentication, ala secureid.. or at least SNK (challenge response) as a minimum.. it doesn't fix the problem, but makes it more difficult. //umar. > the problem is not so much the key being in memory (it needs to get into > memory if it's ever gonna go through the cpu) but that

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Theres no c compiler (but they could upload bin's I suppose) but there is > perl, I'll have to check if perl is needed. Uploading a compiler is hard.. why not upload a binary straigt away? :) But remember - if there are no ready tools, they'll find it very difficult to readily suck a binary d

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-28 Thread Umar Goldeli
> filtered, but that won't stop them. If a cracker wants to spend time rooting > the firewall I wish them well, at least while they are trying to get root on > the firewall, they aren't trying to attack other hosts. This has nothing to do with man pages anymore but as an aside, you're assuming th

Re: [SLUG] Re: Security Breaches

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> BTW, when you do a backup to tape, would that not alter the atime? Oh one more thing - it will alter the atime on /dev/sdb1 (or whatever) - but that's not exactly going to be useful anyway. With the /dev tree - mainly you're concerned with dodgy devices - a lot of people make a /dev/rpty123 or

Re: [SLUG] Re: Security Breaches

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> ...or keep this discussion on list for those who cannot get to SLUG > meetings. Or both.. I'd be happy to do a presentation or a QA session on security if anyone's interested.. and consdering that a lot of people on this list are admins or working in IT - it'd be quite good to keep it on method

Re: [SLUG] Re: Security Breaches

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> > a "netstat -an | grep LISTEN" will show you "evilthings(tm)" ;) > > Not necessarily. Some rootkits have nobbled the "netstat", "ps" and other > system binaries, so that they don't show up suspicious processes/listening > ports/logged in users. Agreed thoroughly. But remember, this is as

RE: [SLUG] Security Breach

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
"netstat -ean" will tell you which uid is listening on those ports. //umar. On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard Lüder wrote: > Hi, > > In this context. What is port 587 and 1024. I couldn't find these in > /etc/services > > > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:587 0.0.0.0:*

Re: [SLUG] Security Breach

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Feb 28 01:53:07 emu portmap[12152]: connect from 202.157.133.184 to > getport(status): request from unauthorized host Why are you rnning the portmapper? Turn it off if youdon't specifically need it. a "netstat -an | grep LISTEN" will show you "evilthings(tm)" ;) If you don't recognize it as s

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report - advice. :)

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
mounting noexec and nosuid? man mount also, mount it "nodev" as well for flavour. :) //umar. On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: > OK, next question. What's the RTFM for this? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/l

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
*Every*time. :) And the procedure is pulled form an outdated copy of the ACS "audit questions guide" or simply the output of: /bin/satan-like-product :) //umar. On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: > How many times is this a service provided by a large accounting firm using > green b

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Non root users can't write to it because of file permissions, root users > can remount it read write. You haven't convinced me. Reading other peoples > responses I can see some value in it. You've said it yourself - root can remount rw.. again, you're assuming initial root access. :) > Are yo

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> The good old firewall audit... Yet to find an auditor who returns a > worthwhile report... It is only too true... most "auditors" are not very useful.. *sigh* > Of course, you could just upload something into a different partition which > is read-write (/etc maybe?), but given that we're tal

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> I concurr with Howard - but their suggestion is legitimate - but for a > different reason. PasswordAuthentication means you're relying upon > users to pick sensible passwords. Its actually best to make sure > nobody but your administrators have access to your firewall systems Unfortunately, n

Re: [SLUG] Firewall security audit report - advice. :)

2001-02-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
> > We were advised to turn sshd PasswordAuthentication off because it allows > > clear text passwords. > > hey? That doesn't sound right. > > pass PasswordAuthentication allows the use of an account even if you don't have a key on the box.. i.e. all you have to know is a username and password..

Re: [SLUG] deltree equivalent

2001-02-21 Thread Umar Goldeli
Yep, equivalent is: cd / rm -rf * Oh S***T! //umar. > Hi, > Is there an equivalent in Linux to the DOS deltree, that will remove > folders, files and .files without confirmation? Such a fun command on a > Windows system, generally goes like: > cd / > deltree * > Oh S***T! -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Convert unix timestamp to human readable?

2001-02-14 Thread Umar Goldeli
perl -MPOSIX -e 'print ctime( x )' //umar. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, MacFarlane, Jarrod wrote: > Does anyone have a script/method/program that'll convert a unix timestamp in > to something I can read? > > I've searched google, found some scripts that have not worked.. found a lot > of t

Re: [SLUG] antivirus solution????

2001-02-13 Thread Umar Goldeli
"AmaVis" :) //umar. On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Alister Waller wrote: > > In light of the current situation could anyone suggest software/a way of > scanning emails as they come in or go out of a linux email gateway. Its just > running sendmail. > > regards > > Alister Waller (B. Comp) > Technical

Re: [SLUG] Why do all mail servers suck? (Maildir + POP3)

2001-02-11 Thread Umar Goldeli
Err... why not just use vpopmail (from the same people who wrote Courier-IMAP) - www.inter7.com :) It's fantastic - will also auth from MySQL etc... very funky. //umar. > > > > I thought that the server daemons were really nice, but all the > > IMAP _clients_ sucked... > > Heh. They're gett

[SLUG] BIND vulnerability.

2001-01-30 Thread Umar Goldeli
I'm not sure whether this was mentioned on SLUG, but all versions of Bind below 8.2.3-REL are vulnerable to a remote root exploit - already available in Script Kiddy Format(tm). The Redhat packages are already avaiable at mirror.aarnet - as is the source at www.isc.org Please tell your fellow a

Re: [SLUG] Powertools ?

2001-01-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
Statically compiled? //umar. > Richard Blackburn wrote: > > > > Looking at the stuff on a RH7 Powertools CD, I see 2 copies of each > > item. One has an 'S'. What does that stand for? > > My guess is "source" > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] Private ADSL connection possible?

2001-01-27 Thread Umar Goldeli
I've found that the PainGains are very picky with line quality and hence distances.. Have a look at the Nokia BB2M - extra funky echo cancellation and it will work longer distances on crappy Telstra copper. Just make sure that with any HDSL product, that the pairs they give you are "unloaded" (i

[SLUG] LARGE files...

2001-01-18 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings, My brain may have stopped, but is there a way to create files under Linux (on a 32 bit platform) greater than 2Gb? If I were to take a dd of /dev/hda1 and dump it to a file to mount later via loopback and the /dev/hda1 slice is larger than 2Gb.. what does one do? Danke muchly.. //

Re: [SLUG] Fixed frequency monitor

2001-01-04 Thread Umar Goldeli
I don't knwo about your monitor in particular, but I managed to get a really old 19" Sun moniotr happening with X... fixed freq - not video card (using standard VGA card).. The trick is to pull it open and play with it until you get the hsync and vsync right.. the larger monitors will usually wor

Re: [SLUG] nsa developes secure version of linux

2001-01-01 Thread Umar Goldeli
> There's no "pestering" about it. They flat out demand it. The NSA is the > sole reason it was so fscking hard to get a 128 bit browser outside the > USA for years. And that pretty much suggests that they're comforable with breaking it now.. //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailin

Re: [SLUG] Learning to program

2000-12-14 Thread Umar Goldeli
> I would have thought that the "fruit" of that one was evident! *grin* Seriously though.. teaching kids at uni languages that are completely and utterly useless (and UNSW still does this - Haskall (sp?) - a Miranda replacement or somehting.. is a complete and tter waste of time.. I mean what u

Re: [SLUG] Learning to program

2000-12-14 Thread Umar Goldeli
> I have a mate who swears Miranda is fantastic. It would be pretty hard to > get a job writing it, though :-). Mind you, it would probably be at a > university somewhere, so it could be the best job in the world! I think Miranda only exists in Unis... :) > I don't think perl is a BAD langua

Re: [SLUG] Learning to program

2000-12-14 Thread Umar Goldeli
We were taught "Miranda"... now that's a waste of time. I think all students should be taught Perl compulsorarily! ;) (and warp their point of view early, like it should be.. :) //umar. On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Harry Ohlsen wrote: > > >Would it be ironic that since I learnt Java, I can't stand

Re: [SLUG] Poland taxes GNU/opensource/freebeer

2000-11-22 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Just hope the ATO doesn't see this thread...:-( Well if it makes you feel any better... Big Brother *IS* watching... I was recently (a few months back) asked for advice from the ATO regarding tracking any and every online transactions/sales/commerce etc etc.. I did my best to instill the conce

Re: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

2000-11-21 Thread Umar Goldeli
> telstra's backbone for the a slice of the reduced capacity. if bigpond is > getting preferential treatment, all the other ISPs should be kicking up a > fuss... Bigpond undoubtedly gets preferential treatment, and the ISPs certainly have been complaining.. But what can you do against a monolith

Re: [SLUG] bandwidth co-op... really!

2000-11-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
> It's my understanding that 2.4Ghz below a certain power level > is completely unrestricted. > (http://www.air.net.au) and links thereof. This power level > certainly could be applied to line of sight links of a few kilometers. > > I'd be interested in evidence to the contrary. If you're carryi

Re: [SLUG] bandwidth co-op... really!

2000-11-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
> JUst stick a firewall in, and they won't know...:-) Ahhh.. if you mean encrypt the data.. then that's illegal. If you look hard enough at the legislation, you'll see that even amateur radio links (i.e. packet radio etc) aren't allowed to be encrypted. Please fork out $100k+ for an applicatio

Re: [SLUG] bandwidth co-op... really!

2000-11-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
This is a legal landmine.. especially if it is for commercial purposes... you may need a carrier license. If in doubt, ask the ACA.. they'll know how to shaft^H^H^H^H^Hhelp you. Welcome to the Overregulated Country. www.aca.gov.au and also the Telecommunications Act.. thousands of pages of cra

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netscrape 6 is here

2000-11-15 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Perhaps with a bit of fiddling, the cruft can be opted "off". I'd be interested to find out too.. but I tried and failed.. > Would anyone know if it is easy to backoff the Netscape 6 release? Yep. :) rm -rf /usr/local/netscape //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - ht

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netscrape 6 is here

2000-11-15 Thread Umar Goldeli
> I've yet to install it. I'll let the list know if it trashes my machine ;^) I wouldn't bother.. not unless you like having hundreds of "Shop at Netscape.com" buttons and other cruft all over the place... They've even included a horrible "addition" to the "Print" button.. it pops up two options:

Re: [SLUG] Re: bandwidth co-op (was:web hosting)

2000-11-15 Thread Umar Goldeli
> unreliable. If I'm paying for hosting, I want it to work for everyone, > not just IT PHD's. Or Windows users for that matter. //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] multiple POP-3 servers on one machine

2000-10-30 Thread Umar Goldeli
Certainly sounds better than my theory, that's for sure. :) > Nah. > > For each Listen ip:port as configured in httpd.conf, > the parent Apache process bind()s a socket to that ip and port > and hangs a listen() on it. As many as you have specified. > > Whenever a request comes in on a it is f

Re: [SLUG] multiple POP-3 servers on one machine

2000-10-30 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Unless you are doing IP address based virtual hosting, which is what I am > using. In which case I can't tell you *exactly* what apache does - but I can give you a feasible method.. :) Basically in terms of a threaded application, you can always get one process to bind to port 80 and listen. E

Re: [SLUG] multiple POP-3 servers on one machine

2000-10-30 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Then what does apache virtual hosting do? It looks at the HTTP "Host:" header in the request. //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Redundant Email systems

2000-10-23 Thread Umar Goldeli
> places when the other box comes up and you would have to find a pop > client that would deal with that. Unless you have a third box which NFS > servers /var/spool/mail then you could setup both boxes as primary MX's > and allow either of them to deliver. But you need to make sure you get > locki

Re: [SLUG] Routing Book

2000-10-17 Thread Umar Goldeli
A friend of mine actually just bought a book called "Linux Routers" (I think) - a had a quick flick through it, and it had everything from LRP to which WAN cards worked best etc... it's hardcover and definitely lives at tech Dymocks in the city... have a look.. :) //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

RE: [SLUG] remote printing acorss Internet, possible ??

2000-10-09 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Remember, you are trying to print over the internet BEHIND a firewall. If > you desire to get rid of the firewall (effectively) and deal with the NAT > problem then yes it will work. I missed the beginning of the thread, but *are they* NATting or are they using real addresses behind the fw? A

RE: [SLUG] remote printing acorss Internet, possible ??

2000-10-09 Thread Umar Goldeli
> Doesn't lpr or lprng work over the internet? > Can't the clients just insert a hostname and then print to that, as long as > the permissions are ok then it should work right? It will - but are the people running the lpd on the printhost happy to open gaping holes in their firewall? ... in fact

Re: [SLUG] Daemons, RH, from Security Portal

2000-09-25 Thread Umar Goldeli
> > I'd have thought it would be better to keep the daemon and just ensure > that > > it works properly... > > Very true. As long as it functions properly, there isn't much of a problem > with it running, it is simply a personal preference i have to disable > things. Actually - your "personal pr

RE: [SLUG] CD Burners vs CDROMs

2000-09-24 Thread Umar Goldeli
> >Is there a way to convince dd to copy the disk bad secotry and all ? Or you can do what I did and have a hated 200 Meg M$ partition and boot it for the sole use of one program: CDRWIN -> http://www.goldenhawk.com/ It'll do the job. On another note - if anyone can point me to something Linux

Re: [SLUG] More Anti-Linux Olympic madness!

2000-09-16 Thread Umar Goldeli
> This is quite sad when people can't make such an important site work on This *is* IBM we're talking about - the most incompetent fools I've ever dealt with.. expect the worst. //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/li

[SLUG] Quake3 on Linux?

2000-09-10 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings Gentlefolk, I've just gone out and bought myself Q3 for Linux - and am trying to setup a q3 server.. the only problem is that the usual backgrounding and tty dissociation methods don't seem to be working.. On RH6.2 - in /etc/rc.d/init.d/quake3 - under start I have: /bin/su -c "/usr/bi

Re: [SLUG] Redhat printtool.

2000-08-26 Thread Umar Goldeli
I ended up installing lprng, apsfilter and all the other goodies neccessary... it all generally works beautifully now, apart from remote printing - but I'll figure that out eventually. Danke all.. :) //umar. > There's another alternative: apsfilter. This is especially good when your > sysadmin

[SLUG] Redhat printtool.

2000-08-26 Thread Umar Goldeli
Greetings, Being new to the world of squirting ink onto dead trees - I am currently fiddling with the latest version of ghostscript/rhs-printfilters and other miscellany.. Firstly - the printers in question aren't postscript capable.. secondly, I would prefer not to have X on this machine. It a

RE: [SLUG] To write good perl, you should know assembly

2000-08-24 Thread Umar Goldeli
> It's always interesting being on a mailing list of supposedly intelligent > people arguing over whether the earth is held up by elephants or turtles. It's actually both - four elephants on top of a giant turtle named the Great A'Tuin. This is important - get your facts straight. :P //umar (cu

Re: [SLUG] vgetty add-ons/voice menus.

2000-08-24 Thread Umar Goldeli
> I found calltree at > ftp://spoon.beta.com/pub/voice/calltreeB2.tgz If you managed to suck down the tarball, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could email it to me as I've been trying to connect to that site all day... it appears dead.. in fact, I can't even pull an A record out from their NS fo

Re: [SLUG] vgetty add-ons/voice menus.

2000-08-24 Thread Umar Goldeli
Check out MVM: http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/~schaefer/mvm/ It looks like it'll do quite a bit - or at the very least, serve as a codebase of sorts for hack'n'slash :) //umar. On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Rodos wrote: > * VModem attached to phone line and Linux box > > * Will answer phone after n

Re: [SLUG] vgetty add-ons/voice menus.

2000-08-24 Thread Umar Goldeli
> I can't really help you, but thought I'd mention a project I've been > thinking about. *sigh* :P > You could then react by calling an IVR type machine, and and after entering > a password, and maybe checking callerid as well, have a menu from which you > could issue commands, like "Which m

[SLUG] vgetty add-ons/voice menus.

2000-08-24 Thread Umar Goldeli
Goodmorning, After having spent the past few hours following dead links and generally unproductive efforts,I have decided to post here in the hope that some has done this before and can tell me all about it. :) In short, I would like to create a DTMF (IVR) menu system - I know vgetty has hooks f

Re: [SLUG] re: ipchains and dns server

2000-08-22 Thread Umar Goldeli
> You'll also want to make sure your named is bound to port 53 for it's > query-source - otherwise it'll pick a random source port, and make it > nigh on impossible to do your firewall rules to allow it back in.. Not neccessarily - remember that all your queries will *go* to a port 53 of the othe

Re: [SLUG] Linux Certification

2000-08-22 Thread Umar Goldeli
> At the top there is a huge demand for IT skills, but at the bottom there > are a lot of people trying to get in and every little bit helps. Well said. Indeed, in the end, regardless of where you are in the market, whether it be top or bottom - every little bit *does* count. //umar. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Linux Certification

2000-08-22 Thread Umar Goldeli
Please excuse me, I think I just threw up... I can't believe people actually waste precious oxygen doing an MCSE. Although, a handy hint for anyone thinking about wasting money on certs: it will get you into your *first* job. After that, nobody really cares about your certs - only that your res

Re: [SLUG] Linux Certification

2000-08-22 Thread Umar Goldeli
Please excuse me, I think I just threw up... I can't believe people actually waste precious oxygen doing an MCSE. Although, a handy hint for anyone thinking about wasting money on certs: it will get you into your *first* job. After that, nobody really cares about your certs - only that your resu

Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process

2000-08-21 Thread Umar Goldeli
Just don't try it on Solaris. :) ( yes there is a killall, but it kills.. *ALL* ) $grin$ //umar. > $ killall netscape-communicator > $ killall -9 netscape-communicator -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

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