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Goodies for ALUG 2001.2
by Gareth Watts 02 Mar '01

02 Mar '01

I have in my posession no fewer than 20 of Linuxcare's "Bootable Business Card" cdroms plus a few stickers and other bits and pieces. As usual they were handing these out at Linuxworld in New York so I asked Linuxcare to send some my way for distribution at our next meet and thus they arrived today :-) For those that haven't come across these before, Linuxcare have basically managed to get about 100Mb worth of Linux recovery tools onto a bootable CD the size of a credit card. These things are incrediably useful if you come across a Linux box that no longer boots or has some other weird problem; it's stuffed with useful utilities and it's all bang up to date (it'll mount ReiserFS partitions for instance). Anyhow, if you want one I'll be giving them out on a first-come-first-served basis in Syleham. See you there :-) Gareth

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Ann: ALUG 2001.2 (Don't forget your wellies)!
by John Woodard 02 Mar '01

02 Mar '01

Announce: ALUG 2001.2 (Don't forget your wellies)! The next ALUG meeting will be at our Mid Suffolk venue Syleham Village Hall again as guests of Syleham and Wingfield Computer Club (SWCC) on Sunday 18th March 2001 2:00pm - 6:00pm. Venue details at http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/venues/syleham.html. If you are coming please mail me mailto:mail@johnwoodard.co.uk with details of any kit you are bringing so we can update the web site. Please mail the list if you have any requests for help or would like a demonstration of anything specific and we will try to accommodate if at all possible. SWCC will as always provide hot drinks and maybe some biscuits (if I remember). The hall will cost us a tenner again, which is very reasonable considering the facilities. We will do the normal whip round of a pound a head, any surplus being donated to SWCC funds. Those of you who came to the last meeting at Syleham will appreciate the (Don't forget your wellies) tag line. :-) I'll post an announce to relevant Usenet groups over the weekend. As an aside we could really do with other venues for these meetings this one should have been at the UEA but Mark is up to his eyeballs in work at the moment so I'm quite happy to host again. If any of you can host an ALUG meeting please post to the list with contact details. Requirements are fairly modest warm dry room with power and light that can hold 20+ people and a few tables for demonstration machines to sit on is the bare minimum. Cheers, BJ

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Introduction
by govind chandra (JIC) 02 Mar '01

02 Mar '01

Hi everybody I am here in the John Innes Centre, Norwich. I have come here from Lucknow, India to research on plant viruses. I have been using Linux for about eight years now. All my installations were done from CD's which come with an Indian magazine called 'PC Quest' (www.pcquest.com). At work here I use Windows NT and at home it is Red Hat 6.2 running Gnome installed off a PC Quest CD on a Pentium 66 MHz with 24 Mb RAM. Believe me, it is very usable! Most of the time that I am on a machine I am playing with PERL scripts for manipulating / analysing nucleotide sequence data. Hoping to hear some nice discussions on this list. Govind Govind Chandra Department of Disease and Stress Biology John Innes Centre Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7UH

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Re: [Alug] Your reply
by MJ Ray 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Kerin <kerin.westgate(a)virgin.net> writes: > a lot of us are switching > over from "Windows" were much of this is done for you This is simply not true. Windows requires you to download and install security updates from Microsoft, doesn't it? Well, if you've got Redhat, you should download and install updates from them on a regular basis, just the same. If you have Debian, you should set apt to get them for you and use it on a regular basis. etc SuSE etc Slackware etc Like I said, other mailing lists are for security alerts. We have neither the time nor the expertise to check and handle all of them on a LUG list. This place is really for the LUG and things affecting LUG members which are best dealt with by other members. We seem to handle most general problems quite well, but I don't want to see it drown in real and fake security warnings, as it surely will. And if you think I'm being harsh, please just imagine what posting your message to the uk.comp.os.linux newsgroup would have been like. I'm quite friendly really. -- MJR

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RE:New Linux Varus
by Earl Brannigan 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Hi all What I know about this : Technically Ramen is a worm (not necessarily a virus as such except in the sense that it is self replicating) It uses standard buffer overflow routines ( code freely available from : www.attrition.org, www.securityfocus.com, www.insecure.org) to attack known weaknesses. So effectively it is merely an amalgamation and automation of existing hacking code, with a little port scanning & network detection (OS Fingerprinting by TCP/IP is pretty simple, and very accurate) thrown in for good measure. I understand it also attacks BIND (port 53) which is often the first line of attack anyway. There will be a script available soon to automate removal of RAMEN ( http://www.securityfocus.com/tools/1944) which is worth getting JIC. Previous advice about getting the latest fixes is still the best. (There are a number of ways of automating this but the first thing I recommend to anyone is to subscribe to bugtraq at securityfocus, and also LINUX Security Newsletter - same place). HTH Regards Earl

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Your reply
by Kerin 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Hello Thank you for your reply, but as I keep trying to say is, as a "newbie" I and other do not know about kernel traffic. We have spent a lot of time trying to set up this, what seems a strange system, remember a lot of us are switching over from "Windows" were much of this is done for you, You may say well this is something you should have looked at before. maybe, maybe not. But until someone like your self mentions it, we don't know of it. and all the books I have read have not mentioned it. I sent the article in for two reasons, 1) I,m always being told this can not happen. 2) more importantly, if someone out there is running 6.2 or 7.0 and they have not updated, is not it a friendly thing to do and warn them that they could have a problem. remember the spirit of the Linux world. Please no offense meant. Cheers. Kerin.

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