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by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Hi Folks (and sorry for any cross-posting you may experience), It looks as though the result of the e-petition may have been positive! (Or maybe it was already OK). See: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16957 Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 26-Sep-08 Time: 17:30:46 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Twiceler is making me paranoid
by Sagr 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

I have noticed an increasing number of visits from a web bot called Twiceler (ID String: Mozilla/5.0 Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuil.com/twiceler/robot.html) It's initial visits seem to come from IP:208.36.144.6 but I have also noticed it appearing from IP:38.99.44.101 et al. I initialy thought it was a Hacker Bot as it seems to occasionaly cloak it's identity and claim to be the Google Bot. However the multiple IP address hopping and ID cloaking kind of became insignificant when my inbox started to become flooded with Hacker Alert emails from some of my PHP scripts who were reporting they were being probed with an assortment of invalid input parameters by this Bot. In short this Twiceler Bot appears to behave like a Hacker Bot deliberately designed to probe websites and scripts for vunerabbilities. However looking at it's website it gives the impression of complete innocence... What on earth is going on??? Have any other ALUGers found their website being checked for vunerabilities by Twiceler? Time for me to baracade the door and hide under the bed with tins of corned beef and bottled water??? Sagr.

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Flash/Gnash!
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi Folks, I want to install a standalone FlashPlayer on a Debian Etch 4.0 system (regularly updated), just as I once did in the increasingly distant past on a RedHat-9 system! I have the FlashPlayer plugin working nicely in Iceweasel, but I also want the standalone version. Adobe's FlashPlayer web-pages do not seem to have the standalone version for Linux available (the one page where it is alleged that it is available as part of a "developer" package has no content). Question 1: Can anyone point me to a site where it IS available? A possible alternative might be Gnash, the OSS development of a flash player. Having entered deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main (as recommended on a forum that came up on Google) into /etc/apt/sources.list, I can search for 'gnash' in the synaptic package manager and find a selection [A] of gnash and related packages. However, If I attempt to mark gnash for installation, I get [B] To be installed libcurl3-gnutls and is I then mark that for installation I get gnash: Depends: gnash-common but it is not going to be installed even though gnash-common was listed at [A] above. So I go back to the [A] listing, and mark gnash-common. I then get To be installed libcurl3-gnutls just as at [B]. And when I try to mark this again, I get: gnash-common: Depends: gnash-common but it is not going to be installed Depends: libboost-date-time1.33.1 but it is not installable Depends: libboost-thread1.33.1 but it is not installable Depends: base-files (>=4.0.1~) but 4 is to be installed So I'm right royally going round in circles. GNASH GNASH GNASH!!! Question 2: Can anyone suggest a way out of all this? Either a pukka Adobe standalone for Linux, or an escape from the Gnash labyrinth? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-Sep-08 Time: 17:14:51 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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[FTAGH] Atari 800XL + Mac IIsi
by Mark Ridley 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Apologies for the non-Linux related mail, but I'm moving abroad and I just can't bring myself to throw these away. Mac IIsi, monitor, keyboard etc. Fully working. [ex-BT kit, give to me when I left] Atari 800XL, 1050 floppy drive, PC/SIO connector, a bit tatty but works. [my first computer, what a beauty!] Free! But you'll need to come get them from Norwich Road, Ipswich. Reply to me if interested, and we can a rrange a time. -Mark

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[Fwd: Drive image advice required]
by Barrys linux mail 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ALUG] Drive image advice required Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:25:10 +0100 From: Barrys linux mail <bazubuntumail(a)tiscali.co.uk> To: Anglia Linux group <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Hi. I need some guidance on copying a windows xp drive,copying the hole drive including the operating system to another hard drive(the original drive is on its last legs). Wow Thanks for the advice,what i think i will do is look at the drive copy software mentioned and also look at the one on www.easus.com/disk-copy and see if i can back it up to DVD. Then install Ubuntu on a new hard drive and see how i get on with it. It has worked fine on my laptop for over a year, but that has no cd/dvd burning facilities and the new desktop has. It is possible to connect two desktop boxes to one lcd monitor isn't it (by a double connector)? Would really like to move completely to Linux as Don't want Vista and fed up with Microsoft money grabbing new operating system launches to get us to buy more powerful systems.What next minimum Ram 50GB? Well i ain't a buyin Mr Gates (oops sorry you don't work there anymore!) Thanks again chaps (and ladies) Barry

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Asterisk installers
by Mark Rogers 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

I'm interested in installing an Asterisk phone system, but it'll be in an environment that'll want someone who knows what they're doing to install and support it. Does anyone here have any knowledge of (and preferably recommendations) for companies who install Asterisk-based phone systems? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Drive image advice required
by Barrys linux mail 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi. I need some guidance on copying a windows xp drive,copying the hole drive including the operating system to another hard drive(the original drive is on its last legs). (1) does drive image software work ? as i thought for copyright reasons it was not possible to copy all of windows. (2) If it works does the receiving drive have to be the same size as the original drive. (3) what would happen if i put this new drive into another computer with a different processor and video card,will windows throw a wobbly? The reason for all these questions is i have the chance of a cheap second hand desktop computer with a hard drive that is getting very noisy, so i want to fit a new drive.I do not have the xp disks so i need to if possible copy windows onto the new drive.Then install ubuntu on the same drive as a dual boot(if i am right ubuntu will partition the drive as i require and do the dual boot settings.My own computer has a better version of xp (professional)on it but the processor and video card are different.Would like to put that on the new if possible. I really want to change fully to ubuntu but not sure if it will be happy with a games type video card which the previous owner had put in the computer. OR should i say what the heck and just put ubuntu on the new drive after running checks with the live disk? Barry

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How to get around missing gstreamer.pc (pkg-config) file?
by Chris G 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

I'm trying to build gnome-alarm, when I run ./configure I get:- ... ... checking for GTK... yes checking for GNOME_VFS... yes checking for GCONF... yes checking for LIBGLADE... yes checking for GST... configure: error: Package requirements (gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.2) were not met: No package 'gstreamer-0.10' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GST_CFLAGS and GST_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. I *do* have gstreamer installed:- home# yum list gstreamer Installed Packages gstreamer.x86_64 0.10.15-1.fc8 installed gstreamer.i386 0.10.15-1.fc8 installed but it doesn't seem to come with a gstreamer.pc file. I have checked on another system which also has gstreamer installed (a different version) and that doesn't have gstreamer.pc either. So "adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable" isn't going to help me because there's no gstreamer.pc to be found. I don't really follow the other suggestion "you may set the environment variables GST_CFLAGS and GST_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config". I can't see any reference to GST_CFLAGS and GST_LIBS in the pkg-config manual page. Can anyone help? -- Chris Green

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Zone file help wanted
by Chris G 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Zone files always seem a bit of a black art to me so before I screw things up I thought I'd ask here. My domain isbd.net is hosted at gradwell.net and I can customise the zone file. The only change I have made is that I have added a CNAME entry for 'home' with a data value of 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net (note that this is a web form with columns for these values, it's not the actual raw zone file). This has been working fine for the past couple of years so I can access my home machine as home.isbd.net. The 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net is my EntaNet (via ukfsn) domain with a static IP. However 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net seems to have gone AWOL, the DNS name that is, not the actual connectivity to 84.45.228.40. I've contacted them and they don't really know why but the names are about to be changed so maybe something has happened ahead of time. Anyway I'd like to change things so that I can give the raw IP address for home.isbd.net rather than relying on Entanet's name for it, so my question is how do I do this? Do I need to add an A record instead of a CNAME, or do I need both, or what? I suspect that all I need to do is to delete the CNAME I have added and then add an A record for 'home' with data 84.45.228.40, is that right? -- Chris Green

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Re: [ALUG] FoxGM carrier
by Wayne Stallwood 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 14:59 +0200, Granville Paulse wrote: > Hi Wayne > > I've basically re-soldered the whole of J6 and J7. These are the files that > I am using: > > gprs-options: > /dev/ttyS2 > 9600 > defaultroute > user "" > connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/gprs-connect" > disconnect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/gprs-disconnect" > > gprs-disconnect: > ABORT 'BUSY' > ABORT 'ERROR' > ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' > TIMEOUT 30 > '' '+++\c' > SAY " + sending break" > 'NO CARRIER' 'ATH' > SAY "\n + dropping data connection" > OK 'AT+CGATT=0' > SAY "\n + disconnecting from GPRS" > OK '\c' > SAY "\n + disconnected." > > gprs-connect: > TIMEOUT 60 > ABORT 'BUSY' > ABORT 'ERROR' > ABORT 'NO CARRIER' > '' 'AT' > OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","Unrestricted","0.0.0.0",0,0 > OK ATD*99***1# > CONNECT '' > > ppp-start: > /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/gprs-options > > pap-secrets: > '' * '' * > > In gprs-options, it mentions ttyS2 but there is no mention of ttyS3. Is this > ok. I am using pppd 2.4.2b3. Is this ok? Are you using a different version? > What does your connection script look like? That looks pretty ok to me from a quick glance, ttyS3 is only used if you have the gps/gprs module for the GPS bit..I actually have ttyS3 tagged off board as I need the serial port for something else. My fox is currently not with me but I will take a look at my backup of my scripts later and tell you if there is any obvious difference. The only other test I can think of is to compile some sort of teminal emulation command line app for the fox and then try and talk to ttyS2 direct and see if the modem is responding..I suspect not as I can't think of any other reason ppp would fail like that. The only other thing I can think of is that the telit module isn't connecting properly via that multiway connector on the bottom (but obviously well enough that the power, status and start pins are connecting) either that or you have a faulty foxGM board but as I say the traces are pretty much straight though so I can't see what would be wrong. What sdk/firmware image are you using..I am on the phrozen one

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