September 2001 - Announce

UK leafletting campaign, Saturday 15th
by MJ Ray 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:55:15 +0100 Subject: [uklugs] UK leafletting campaign, Saturday 15th From: Jim Peters <jim(a)uazu.net> I've written to most of the LUG-Masters in the UK with a long E-mail outlining our plans for a nationwide day of action, handing out leaflets to raise public awareness about the EUCD + Dmitry Sklyarov, based on the current issue of 1,000,000 uncopyable audio CDs, intentionally corrupted and released into this country by the record companies. I asked them to forward the message to their mailing lists, but I suspect that many of them may have deleted it before they got as far as reading the request to forward it ! For this reason I'm writing this little E-mail to try and get in contact with more people before the weekend. We already have people planning to do leafletting in Rugby, Birmingham, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield and Glasgow. I would appreciate it if this message could be forwarded to all the LUG mailing lists, or any other relevant lists. If people are interested in reading more about the issues, and maybe joining us, they can check out the following site: http://uazu.net/cd/ http://uazu.net/cd/email.html This is just a small site setup to handle this weekend's campaign. For future campaigns and more general information, they can check out the main Campaign for Digital Rights site: http://uk.eurorights.org/ Many thanks - Jim -- Jim Peters (_)/=\~/_(_) Uazú (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) jim@ (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) www. uazu.net (_) ____ /=\ ____ ~/_ ____ (_) uazu.net

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[cedric.gauthier@soissons-technopole.org] [uklugs] European Free Software Contest
by MJ Ray 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

From: cedric.gauthier(a)soissons-technopole.org Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:36:15 GMT Subject: [uklugs] European Free Software Contest European Free Software Contest The Soissons technopole is organising the first European Free Software Contest. European developers will be able to contest by registering their free software projects, during one year. Once a year, the handing out of awards is a way to make the best projects known to media, to allow easier meetings and to value new free software projects. All your suggestions are welcome, more particularly regarding these subjects : - Would you like to compete, what is the free software project you are working on,... ? - Where would you advise us to give information on this contest (web sites, universities, ...) ? Thanks for giving us your suggestions : cell(a)soissons-technopole.org -------------- Soissons-Technopole http://www.soissons-technopole.org/dom/cell.php tel : +33 3.23.76.40.36

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Apologies for the last newsletter
by MJ Ray 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Sorry about the slight error in the last edition which saw it go out as two single-article messages. The new list server works in a different way and it tricked me. I now (hopefully) return you to your normal service.

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Realtime and Embedded Linux shows
by MJ Ray 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:52:12 +0200 From: Astrid Schoofs <astrids(a)aexpo.com> Subject: Realtime and Embedded Linux shows Dear Sir, Please find out our show schedule for our Real Time Computing & Embedded Linux Expo's and Conferences. You are free to registrate as a visitor!! At www.aexpo.com or www.rtcgroup.com under SOLUTIONS you will find all the shows, seminars and conferences. The fist show is in LONDON, October 9th 2001. Thank you for forwarding this to your members, kind regards, Astrid Schoofs Sales & Marketing Manager ACTIVE Exhibitions Europe PO Box 2114 5300 CC Zaltbommel The Netherlands Phone: +31.418.577700 Direct Phone: +31.418.577713 Fax: +31.418.577720 E-mail: astrids(a)aexpo.com Internet: http://www.aexpo.com/

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The economics of free reproduction
by MJ Ray 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

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[Clive Gould <Clive@bromley.ac.uk>] [uklugs] Linux training...
by MJ Ray 02 Sep '01

02 Sep '01

From: Clive Gould <Clive(a)bromley.ac.uk> Subject: [uklugs] Linux training... Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:56:20 +0100 In order to make Linux training more accessible to everyone, Bromley College has substantially reduced the cost of their Linux courses, and all courses have been rescheduled for Saturdays. We offer the following short courses: Introduction to Linux, Linux System Administration, Apache Server, Samba Server, and LPI Certification Training. For more information please visit the website: http://ce.bromley.ac.uk/linux

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Best of ALUG (end of August)
by MJ Ray 02 Sep '01

02 Sep '01

Here's this month's 2nd edition... Topics: [Alug] Syleham poster 4 u Re: [Alug] Announce ALUG 2001.5 [Alug] Announce ALUG 2001.5 [Alug] Linux Expo Birmingham re-scheduled from 12th-13th september 2001 to [Alug] LPI Certification Re: [Alug] SSH/SCP No Password [Alug] Friendly Offer ? Re: [Alug] Security problems (was Lurkers) Re: [Alug] Disk Space for Linux Re: [Alug] Meeting report? [Alug] Getting data out of databases ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 24 Aug 2001 15:47:18 +0100 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: [Alug] Syleham poster 4 u Initial details of the syleham meeting should be on the website. A poster to be scattered around liberally is at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/alug/syleham20016.pdf ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 23:38:56 +0100 (BST) From: "D.I. Redhouse" <dir21(a)cus.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Alug] Announce ALUG 2001.5 On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, John Woodard wrote: > Announce ALUG 2001.5 > > The next meeting of ALUG (Anglian Linux User Group) will be on Sunday 16th > September 2:00 - 6:00pm at Syleham and Wingfield Village Hall (Mid Suffolk > venue). Venue details at http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/syleham.html If nobody's got any objections I was planning to bimble along to this. So it seems only polite to say that since I have a nice fast connection and more CD burners than you can shake a stick at: if anybody wants CDs of ISOs that they can't get down a modem or whatever, I'll make them up and bring them along if you let me know what exactly you want (within reason, like). Oh, and another thing. On the website at: http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2001a/alugfaq.html it says: `It can be installed alongside another OS (such as MS Windows or (i think?) Mac OS)' ^^^^^^^^^^ You can definitely dual-boot with MacOS, although I'm not entirely sure how easy it is to install Linux alongside an existing MacOS installation that already uses the whole disk. If you see what I mean. - - David Redhouse, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge 0787 6372962 dir21(a)cam.ac.uk http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:14:15 +0100 From: "John Woodard" <mail(a)johnwoodard.co.uk> Subject: [Alug] Announce ALUG 2001.5 Announce ALUG 2001.5 The next meeting of ALUG (Anglian Linux User Group) will be on Sunday 16th September 2:00 - 6:00pm at Syleham and Wingfield Village Hall (Mid Suffolk venue). Venue details at http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/syleham.html I will of as ever volunteer to organise this meeting and any future Mid Suffolk meets. If enough people want it I might be able to get the bar opened for the afternoon so make your requests now. The promotion of the meeting via Usenet can be left to me I will do it ASAP so if there are any news groups you think would be an appropriate place to advertise let me know in the past I have announced meets to: uk.comp.os.linux alt.local.east-anglia comp.os.linux.announce (local:) and the pcplus.linux news groups are there any I have missed? If you are coming mail me with what kit you are bringing and any requests for help and we will get it put up on the web site as before. Cheers, BJ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:39:36 +0100 (BST) From: Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> Subject: [Alug] Linux Expo Birmingham re-scheduled from 12th-13th september 2001 to 29th 30 th May 2002. (fwd) Hi all, Just got this mail in my inbox, so it is now on for May. I think we will organise an outing a bit nearer the time. Adam - -=20 This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam - --------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Linux Expo Birmingham re-scheduled from 12th-13th september 2001 to 29th 30 th May 2002. Dear Visitor, Thank you for registering for LINUX EXPO BIRMINGHAM. Please note that the show has been RE-SCHEDULED from 12th-13th September 2001 to 29TH-30TH MAY 2002. The show will still take place at the NEC and will have exactly the same focus, dedicated to GNU/Linux and Open Source Solutions. There is no need to register again - we will re-register you automatically for the 29TH-30TH MAY 2002. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by re-scheduling the show. We look forward to seeing you in May for a high-quality show! Yours Sacha Dunas CEO Sky Events / Linux Expo T=E9l : 0143456600 Fax : 0143459244 Portable : 0672802604 Email : sacha.dunas(a)sky-events.com Linux Expo 2002 Amsterdam - 19 - 20 February Paris - 30 - 31 & 1 February Madrid - 3 - 4 April Sao Paulo - 15 - 16 May Birmingham - 29 - 30 May Milan - June Sky Events 12 avenue de Corbera 75012 Paris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:01:36 -0400 From: John Seago <john.seago(a)btinternet.com> Subject: [Alug] LPI Certification There was a query raised as to the costs of the Linux Professional=20 Institute Exam. Details can be found at :- http://www.lpi.org/ I understand the costs are $100 US for the Exam and a registration=20 fee. The nearest Exam centres are reported to me as being at Ipswich=20 and Peterborough. John Seago=20 (I've got the time to browse!) ------------------------------ Date: 19 Aug 2001 12:56:06 +0100 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Alug] SSH/SCP No Password "D" <dsc(a)clara.net> writes: > Anyone ever got this to work? Not sat down and tried yet but a guy I was > talking to yesterday said its harder then it looks, surely you just need the > host keys etc.. and your away. I have eval $(ssh-agent) quite early in my .xsession file. This makes sure everything in my X session knows where to find the key manager. Then using ssh-add lets me add keys to it. You generate ssh keys with ssh-keygen and have to copy the right one to the target machine's $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file. Other than that, it's fairly simple... ask questions if you want more than the manual pages say. I even have a VPN using slip over ssh, for when I need to appear to be on an internal network somewhere. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:37:26 +0100 From: "Martyn Ashworth" <martyn.ashworth(a)eag.uk.com> Subject: [Alug] Friendly Offer ? All, I have got a copy of Kylix (Open Source) that I will gladly burn onto a CD for anyone interested (or who do not have the bandwidth to download 28Mb). All you then have to do is register to play with an awesome RAD tool for Linux. Sys Requirements: RedHat >= 6.2 Mandrake >= 7.2 SuSE >= 7.0 175Mb Free HD Space. Just e-mail me the postal address (mailto:martyn.ashworth@eag.uk.com) and i can get it sent out in the post tonight. Martyn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:33:21 +0100 From: xsprite(a)bigfoot.com Subject: Re: [Alug] Security problems (was Lurkers) on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:13:15PM +0100, MJ Ray scribbled: > MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > > > Can someone clue me in on how MITM attack would work here? > > Key stroke analysis even. http://www.openwall.com/advisories/OW-003-ssh-traffic-analysis.txt It's quite fun looking at a certain stream and guessing what the user is doing. One long burst normally indicates a full screen editor/program. Regular short updates tend to imply something like a progress bar (wget, bsd ftp). And as the paper says, single characters, sometimes typed quite quickly, sometimes slowly (because passwords can be complex to type), that are not echoed back, tend to be passwords. Surely the echo control should be on the client side. Anyhow. > > I'm probably just hard-of-thinking this morning. > > Yes, you are, aren't you? hehe, it would seem soo.. :) ------------------------------ Date: 15 Aug 2001 08:42:54 +0100 From: Andrew John Savory <a.savory(a)btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [Alug] Disk Space for Linux On 15 Aug 2001 08:41:44 -0400, John Seago wrote: > We would like to know what is the optimum size for one Linux distribution, as > the Mandrake I have currently installed takes up a little over 2 gigabytes, > (in a 5.5 gigabyte partition), how much more space do they needed over the > the actual programme itself? How long is a bit of string? The amount of space needed depends heavily on what it is you're doing with the machine. I've got a debian firewall using 300mb of a 2gb drive... but a debian desktop machine using every spare byte of 4gb... a debian server that has cheerfully chewed through the best part of 40gb... > There would also seem to a problem with the rest of my rather elderly > computer recognising the whole of the 40 gigabytes, it seems to be able to > `see' only 33 gigabytes of the new disk. I've got a P133 that's able to see the entire partition of a 34gb disk (only one partition on there). It has to be slave though, as it's linux that can see the disk and not the machine itself (I can't boot off it). Good luck with the experiment, anyway, Andrew. - - a.savory(a)btinternet.com All views are my own - who else would want them? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:49:50 GMT From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)alug.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Alug] Meeting report? On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:21:16 GMT Martyn Drake wrote: > Okay, spill the beans - how did yesterday's meet go? :) > > Regards, > > Martyn Having managed to give Mark 125MB of email since 7pm yesterday I think its now safe to post a report. Well My worst fears didn't occur as I got a phone call from Mark at 1pm "Where are you" "getting cash out of a cash point which is giving me a DHCP error" replies I. Once I arrive I get a call from Andrew "I'm at tesco's how do I get to you?" which was duely sorted. 8 people turned up including Steve Fosdick Mark Ray Syd Hancock Neill Newman Andrew Glover Peter Holness Peter Clarke and me. We got the cd-writter and sound working on my new debian install and discovered why I couldn't install netscape. Other than that it was a typical meet with lots of chocy biscuits and stilulating conversation on various subjects. Notable by absence BJ Jen Jo Earl Tarquin So who wants to do the next one? Thanks D ------------------------------ Date: 11 Aug 2001 20:05:31 +0100 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: [Alug] Getting data out of databases I'm the secretary of an association and responsible for keeping their membership lists. As a Linux user, it seemed natural to me to keep the membership records in a database and along the way I discovered two applications which make life very much easier for the non-programmer. PostgreSQL is the database that I use, mainly because I like to have all the features available and I have never had any stability problems with it. For database design and data entry, I discovered the handy pgaccess application which presents an interface not dissimilar to a more famous program with a similar name. The notebook window which is displayed when you start up has tabs for Tables, Views, Forms, Queries and so on, while each one contains a list of available items and some actions on them. Once the command "CREATE DATABASE members;" had been given at the psql command line, it was simply a case of inputting the database details into pgaccess's "Open Database" window to be able to start entering the information. pgaccess was downloaded as part of PostgreSQL, available from ftp.postgresql.org/pub and its home page is at http://flex.ro/pgaccess/ The report generator of pgaccess is not yet finished, so I was left with the problem of how to get the data out. I usually use LaTeX for writing letters and reports, so I was quite happy to discover the GNU Report Generator, gurgle, which was originally designed to work with that. To use it, you write a short gurgle script which includes a few definitions, the database query and the template for outputting the data to another file. Here's my script to print envelopes: %%define PHYSDB "members" %%define NAMCOL %%define TEXEXT .tex %%database "members.sql" select name, institution, mailaddress from memberdetails %%header %%record \envelope{%NAME \\ %INSTITUTIO \\ %MAILADDRES} %%footer %%end The first line sets the database name to connect to, the next tells gurgle to use the names from the query, the third says to save the file with the .tex extension, then we have the query. An empty header and footer surround the record template, which simply puts the database results in a call to my "envelope" macro with some line breaks. The file is then included into my envelope printing file (which also contains the association's logo, etc) and any small changes (replacing commas in the address with line breaks, for example) are done before sending the file to the printer and generating a stack of printed envelopes for a mailshot. Gurgle can be downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/directory/GURGLE.html or http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/timc/gurgle/ and has optional modules for GNUSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and CA-Ingres databases as well as text dump files. Comments? Improvements? Your alternatives?

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