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Re: [Alug] IRQ's and hardware issues
by MJ Ray 10 Mar '01

10 Mar '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > > > 1) How do I get a listing of the boot messages under Peanut liniux? > > dmesg? > Where will I find this? /bin/dmesg ... hopefully they haven't removed it in Peanut Linux. > Whats lspci? Part of the pciutils. "man lspci" may help. Or look at the PCI or Plug-and-play HOWTOs... I've not had to use these yet myself. http://webdocs.essex.ac.uk/LDP/HOWTO/PCI-HOWTO.html and http://webdocs.essex.ac.uk/LDP/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html HTH. cc'd to alug mailing list. -- MJR

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Kit going free to a good home
by merville 10 Mar '01

10 Mar '01

The following bit of kit is going free to a good home due to lack of space. Whoever wants this must collect unless they are close to PE32 [Swaffham/Dereham]. 1 HP scanjet IIc SCSI flatbed scanner c/w document feeder + HP SCSI card. Cost over £2,500 new, built like a brick s**thouse and weighs about the same. This works under Linux using my Adaptec card. The original HP card is a rebadged Symbios and I havn't tried this. Will not work under NT or Windows 2000 with the original card as HP stopped supporting the drivers after Windows 95. I have had it working with Adaptec EZ-Scsi on all MS platforms. If no-one gets back to me within a week, it goes in the skip as I am sick of wife nagging me about 7 year old hardware stored under the bed. ======================================== Rob Somerville | me(a)merville.net | http://www.merville.net ========================================

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Re: Your reply (MJ Ray)
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Mar '01

10 Mar '01

>Hope this doesn't sound condescending. No, not at all - I think I owe a bit of an apology for my mail of the other day. I'm hoping I 'll make the meeting on the 25th to meet people, which will make how I interpret stuff very different. A security talk would be excellent. Jenny.

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Re: Your reply (MJ Ray)
by Earl Brannigan 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Hi all This discussion is already past its sell-by-date so I don't want to prolong it any further unnecessarily. In my office (V Small Co.) I get very tired of anyone and everyone passing on the latest 'Virus Warning' or something so I have alot of sympathy with MJ. I have implemented a virus/security policy as follows : Every Monday Morning I visit the website of our virus checker vendor and download the latest updates, then install them. I also visit www.securityfocus.com (good source of general info), www.cobalt.com (our webserver vendor) www.redhat.com (our in-house linux vendor) www.microsoft.com (our desktop/server vendor) and check all the security advisories, download any necessary patches and install them. Meanwhile, I subscribe to a couple of the (relevant) advisory newsletters from security focus and read them when they arrive. That's it. EOF If anyone can think of anything further needed please let me know. > It's probably time to compile a list "Charter" or FAQ, pointing people > towards other more appropriate resources for common requirements like > good security alerts. Anyone able to help on this? ALUG Admin:, if you wish you can use this mail as the basis for an FAQ on posting security announcements/requests for all subscribers. Everyone: (especially home users/linux beginners) this is about all you need to do, and about all you need to advise anyone. Then if someone wants to get 'security-techie' they have a great start in the right places. Hope this doesn't sound condescending. (aside : the point is valid that for beginners the idea of totally secure Linux has been hyped from somewhere (LINUX IS MORE SECURE THAN WINDOWS BY DEFAULT - TRUE - , but that's about it) you can get a bit shocked when you hear of a so called Linux Virus - and I do think that to a point the first port-of-call for any newbie who is unsure of something should be the local LUG - from where they can get pointed in the right direction - without feeling intimidated - agreed??) > Perhaps a "Securing Linux" talk or two at the next meeting? Any > takers? I would be glad to discuss security issues in more depth if people are interested, the concepts of hacking (cracking) etc and common methods + good prevention practice (If anyone feels better qualified please feel free - I'm not an expert, just forced into it by necessity). Just an overview with perhaps some handout info so that anyone who is completely new to it can at least get a handle on it. I would admit now though that I would only be using info gleaned from www.attrition.org, www.insecure.org and www.securityfocus.com as a basis! (but I could bring along some RPMs of nmap, tripwire and other stuff for people who want them (of course I could explain/demo them if needed)) I'll await feedback on this offer... Sorry I went on a bit. Best Regards Earl

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Free hardware now gone to a good home
by merville 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

The scanjet has now found a good home with a Linux user ! Thanks to all who responded. ======================================== Rob Somerville | me(a)merville.net | http://www.merville.net ========================================

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Re: [Alug] IRQ's and hardware issues
by MJ Ray 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > 1) How do I get a listing of the boot messages under Peanut liniux? dmesg? > 2) How do I resolve this problem? Is it going to mean replacing the > hardware or can it be resolves in software? Almost certainly there is a software solution, but I've not had to do this. Probably lspci's friends? > 3) If anyone can suggest how I can get USB to work as well that would > be a great help Enable it in the kernel and it just works, I think. -- MJR

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[Various] Digested Articles
by MJ Ray 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

Spam4u... one interesting, one not. Well, not to me anyway. Topics: [lugmaster] FW: Call For Papers - Linux2001: Manchester, UK First Official MySQL Training in the UK. Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:39:52 +0000 From: Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)ukuug.org> Subject: FW: Call For Papers - Linux2001: Manchester, UK I enclose the call for papers for this year's developers' conference. The closing date for abstracts is 30th March. If you want to suggest speakers/discuss sponsorship/discuss topics before submitting an abstract etc. please get in touch with us at linux2001(a)ukuug.org. Please circulate the document amongst the development community! You can link to it at: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2001/CFP.shtml You'll find information about Manchester (incl. Travel - flights etc.) at: http://www.manchester.com/ Alasdair Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:41:12 +0200 From: Bertrand Matthelié <bertrand.matthelie(a)polycon.fi> Subject: First Official MySQL Training in the UK. Dear member of the UK Linux user community, MySQL is the leading Open Source database, and the most widely used in Linux environments. Jointly with the MySQL core team members, Polycon developed the first Official MySQL Training Program, in order to teach the MySQL users how to harness the full power of their favourite database. A portion of each course fee will be contributed to MySQL AB toward the further development of the MySQL database. Polycon will hold the first Official MySQL training session in the UK in London from May 14th to 18th, and we would very much like to communicate this news to the UK Linux community. All the information concerning the Official MySQL Training is available at: http://www.polycon.fi/mysql Do not hesitate to contact me. Best Regards, Bertrand Matthelié -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Re: alug post approval required for hahaha@sexyfun.net
by MJ Ray 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > this virus? I'm getting tired of filtering these. s/virus/worm/ ... I'm just off out to flog myself for a while. I will learn not to do your typical journo error. -- MJR

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Re: alug post approval required for hahaha@sexyfun.net
by MJ Ray 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

> List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > From: hahaha(a)sexyfun.net > Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story! ALUG users using Outlook (I think that's where this comes from), please can you upgrade or make sure your emailer isn't vulnerable to this virus? I'm getting tired of filtering these. -- MJR

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Jobs in Norfolk? :(
by Toby Jaffey 06 Mar '01

06 Mar '01

Does anyone know of any interesting technology companies in Norfolk that do embedded systems work? Coming to the end of my degree, I'm looking for work in East Anglia. Ideally, I'd like to live in Norwich. But, I'm grudgingly accepting that I'll have to work in/around Cambridge. -- (o_ | Toby Jaffey : www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj/ //\ | "... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a V_/_ | big enough hammer." -- Sun System & Network Admin manual

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