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usb woes
by Rob Page 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hello Aluggers! My usb mouse is being a pain. To be honest, this system has had all sorts of usb problems over it's time, mostly when you plug in more than one device (either into the mother board or through a hub) the first device disconnects, and then it becomes really difficult to get the second device to do anything, however, my current mouse issue may be unrelated, and is certainly far more annoying. When I don't use it for a short period of time, it just stops responding. A short period of time can be as little as a few seconds but sometimes its ok for what might be as much as a minute. Unloading and reloading the usbhid module gets it working again, but this is an absolute pain. Also, killing X also gets it working again... Anyone have any idea what I can do to make it work? Rob.

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Re: [ALUG] Toshiba 4030CDT & Linux
by Rob Page 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

On 7/21/06, Simon Royal <s.royal(a)totalise.co.uk> wrote: > Rob > > How will ubuntu fair on a Celeron 300Mhz, even running xubuntu? > > Simon To be honest, I haven't a clue. Although I used to run xfce4 happily on a p200 with 64mb ram, so that part of it should be ok! (although xfce has been getting more gnome-like recently).

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Confused about zone file and DNS setup
by cl＠isbd.net 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

I recently transferred a hosted domain (isbd.co.uk) from BSNet Ltd. to Gradwell dot Net. The transfer has basicaly gone OK, any reference to isbd.co.uk now gets served by the Gradwell servers. However I also have a domain isbd.net which is still hosted at BSNet Ltd. For some reason isbd.net works correctly (i.e. going to http://isbd.net gets web pages from BSNet) but if you go to http://www.isbd.net you get a message from Gradwell to say the site hasn't been set up. Both isbd.co.uk *and* isbd.net used to be hosted at BSnet so I suspect some misconfiguration there. However, although I supposedly have access to the zone files at BSNet (it still lists files for both isbd.net and isbd.co.uk) they don't make sense to me. Here is what I see:- ; This is a generic domain template ; $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns0.futile.net. root.futile.net. ( 2003011901 ; serial 28800 ; refresh 3600 ; retry 604800 ; expiry 86400 ) ; minimum ; IN NS ns0.futile.net. IN NS ns1.futile.net. IN MX 10 mx1.mail.bsnet.co.uk. IN MX 100 foundation.bsnet.co.uk. IN MX 200 relay.bsnet.co.uk. ; IN A ip.address.of.host ; localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 ; this is a commented out line It's identical for both. I suspect I'm not looking at the right thing. What confuses me further is that isbd.net is a US registration, it's registered at Network Solutions and I have full access to the settings there. How is it that there are settings for DNS etc. for isbd.net at both Network Solutions *and* BSNet, I'm very confused! Can anyone explain a bit or point me at a good tutorial please. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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(no subject)
by Simon Royal 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

--- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better so I bought a Mac There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who dont.

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Re: Encrypting data on web pages - how?
by chris＠isbd.co.uk 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:26:14PM +0100, Tim Green wrote: > On 7/20/06, chris(a)isbd.co.uk <chris(a)isbd.co.uk> wrote: > >I want the 'source text' of the HTML page itself to be encrypted, i.e. > >if someone on the server system looks at the HTML itself then it will > >be valid HTML but with some encrypted gobbledegook in the <BODY>. > > > >Using https: will (hopefully) stop 'man in the middle' attacks (which > >always seem to me pretty unlikely) but does no good at all at protecting > >against someone who gets access to the server system. > > > >If I get really paranoid I will use https as well so the text isn't > >'in clear' while it's in transit to me but that's an extra. > > If UNIX style access protection is not sufficient to prevent snooping, > then it is very likely the snooper also has the ability to snoop the > network connection or even the active memory of the process decrypting > your files. Yes, but there's a very small time window when those methods of access are available, unenecrypted files sitting on disk are there 24 hours a day, seven days a week. > Also to consider: where would you like the decrypting key > stored? > In my head! > We appear to be heading towards the solution of storing encrypted > files on the server, and they are not decrpyted until they reach the > viewer. Is there a GPG plugin for Mozilla? > That would be the perfect (well, very good anyway) solution. > Tim. > > PS. Did you want to include ALUG again in the CC? > Yes, I must have hit r[eply] by mistake instead of L[istreply]. I've actually come up with an acceptable solution using mozex (a Firefox extension that I already use for other facilities). It allows a link with an arbitrary protocol (e.g. pwd://somewhere) to run any local executable. I have used this to pop up a small terminal window which does an ssh to the remote system and run vi on an encrypted file. Enter the correct password and there's the data I want. It runs across ssh so the data is encrypted on the way. The remote file is encrypted (as I wanted) though the encryption is probably not *very* strong. It's also rather impenetrable to anyone looking at the web page where the pwd://somewhere link is as it just looks like an invalid URL. Unless they have mozex *and* the script that the particular pseudo-URL links to they won't even know what it does. The disadvantage is that it's not particularly quick and is 'outside' the web pages but it's good enough for the present. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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Encrypting data on web pages - how?
by cl＠isbd.net 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

I want to put some fairly (but not *very*) confidential data on some web pages. Are there any simple[ish] CGI utilities that allow one to save the text part of an HTML page in encrypted form and decrypt it "on the fly" when displayed after entering the correct password? I don't want to hide the HTML 'code' or Javascript or anything, just some small data items. Basically all I need to encrypt is a few words but bigger chunks than that would be fine too. A Google search doesn't help much as it comes up with hundreds of (crap) ways of hiding HTML, Javascript and such which I don't want. I know I can password protect access to a page using .htaccess (or equivalent) but I'd really like to encrypt the data so it isn't "in clear" anywhere. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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Linux HTML WYSIWYG Editor
by Ian Douglas 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hi Folks, Can anyone recommend a Linux based WYSIWYG HTML editor for creating/editing a simple website? Thanks, Ian.

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Website Plans
by Simon Elliott 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Hello all, So, myself and Dave have agreed to take over looking after the Alug website. We've had a talk and our plans are something along the lines of the following; - Get rid of all old and out-dated content. - Possibility of using Django if hosting is available. - Have a "community" section for stuff like the Planet etc. - A more formal part of the site for new people. - Keep the site more centralised - Have part wiki, part static kept up to date by us. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, let us know! -Simon

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include xchat, irssi and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [ALUG] Website Plans
by Christopher Dawkins 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

> We've had a talk and our plans are something along the lines of the > following; > > - Get rid of all old and out-dated content. Instead of "Get rid of" how about "move down to a subdirectory called something like "old". Then over the next thousand years this can be developed into subdirectories for each decade or century - at any rate, a new one each time the site is redesigned. Our modern trend for "get rid of" causes so much landfill. Let's think of "preservation" instead. Today's boring records become interesting archives a century or two later. -- Christopher Dawkins Garnetts Corner, Braintree Road, Felsted, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3DS cchd(a)pjcd.org 07816 821659 01371 821076

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