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Linux kernel copying violation!!!!!
by NuTTeR -- Not Entered -- 08 Feb '03

08 Feb '03

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/07/2225224.shtml?tid=117&tid=106 Castle Technology Ltd Ore Trading Estate Woodbridge Road Framlingham Suffolk IP13 9LL UK Sales Telephone Line: 01728 723 200 Lines Open: Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00 - Ok this company seems to have stolen some of the linux kernel code and distributed it without giving the code away, this is a violation of the GPL. I think that this is all very wrong and will be writing a letter to them in complaint and asking for the source code(lol i bet i get a link to www.kernel.org sent back)! "This code is linked with other proprietary code." - dose that not mean that the proprietary code should also become GPL? What do you think will be done? What should be done? Dennis Dryden -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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possible GPL violation "The Linux Kernel and Castle Technology Ltd, UK"
by Adam Bower 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

front page of slashdot links to this http://lkml.org/archive/2003/2/7/55/index.html mail on lkml which explains about this company http://www.castle.uk.co/castle/front.htm who from their contacts page give an address in Suffolk. Does anyone know any of them? or has anyone had any dealings with them at all? would be good if local people could at least boycott them etc. and let them know why. Adam

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Re: [Alug] IMAP problems with Kmail
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

>God it's starting to sound like Slashdot in here > > >*bangs on door* Lemmee out ! > >On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:01, Ian Douglas wrote: >> On Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:28 AM, Keith Watson wrote: >> > i fink u shood trie Sylpheed-claws, witch dus hav a spill chucker. >> > >> > Keef >> >> Fanks Keef four der gowd teep abowt Sylpheed-claws. Worf lookin inn two. >> Eye wood owe-ever steel bee interwsted inn fyndin owt wat der problem iz >> wif my Kmail/IMAP if anywon nose oar as n.e. diagknwstic sugesteons. >> I wondered if you'd been handing round a copy of Feersum Endjinn. Jen

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IMAP problems with Kmail
by Ian Douglas 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hi Folks, I store all my incoming email on my home network's central mail server. When in my Living Room I read this email via Kmail on my laptop using IMAP. Unfortunately, recently, when starting Kmail it occasionally throws up an error message saying: "Error: The process for imap://hedgehog.noahsark.the-zub.net died unexpectedly" followed immediately by an error message saying: "The application KMail crashed and caused a signal 11 SIGSEGV. An application mostly receives the SIGSEGV signal due to a bug in the application. The application was asked to save its documents. Starting backtrace... No debugging symbols found" Arrrggghhh! memories of the Blue Screen Of Death coming flooding back from my experiences with another operating system! My laptop is quite old and slow (100MHz) and takes 1 minute 49 seconds to start up Kmail once the kmail icon has been clicked and I have noticed that this error occurs most frequently when I run the laptop using it's battery where it runs slightly (but noticeably) slower than when running off the mains power pack. I am therefore wondering if I have hit some kind of handshake timeout problem during the Kmail startup process. Do I, for example, need to somewhere extend a timeout period variable relating to the response time between Kmail and the IMAP server while the laptops processor is busy thrashing around trying to start Kmail? Has anyone else come across this error or can suggest a way to get round it? As a temporary fix I have started using Sylpheed (which I am growing to like) but Eye kneed aye spell chequer. Ian.

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Co-lo Server Advice Needed (CC'd to list)
by Michael Sage 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

James, I work for a company in Norwich that does colocation, if you are still after some advice and/or a quote then drop me a line tomorrow on 0845 345 455!! Hope this helps Regards, Michael Sage -----Original Message----- From: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of James Green Sent: 03 February 2003 23:30 To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Co-lo Server Advice Needed Hi all, Long time since I've posted here - long time since I've actually been subscribed for one reason or another... Anyway, the company I work for is investigating the purchase of floorspace in a facility in London. We have a quote for space in Level3, which we look to be taking up. I am told that part of the setup fee includes the installation of a 42U cabinet with various shelves. Into this we are struggling to identify hardware. We are already in webserving and voice applications, and we are looking to expand by having our own hardware. Now - does anyone have any experience in identifying kit and what gotchers we can expect along the way. We've been advised that the sort of requirements we have are pretty rare and thus expertise may have to be gained from multiple sources, fingers crossed that they happen to work together. Can anyone provide some advice (I know specifics would be helpful here) or perhaps phone numbers of contacts that would be used (we could be willing to pay for consultancy at this level). I'm probably the most technical at the company and thus am dealing with this matter, but I'm out of my depth here. Help! Advice! Shine a torch and let me see with at least moderate clue! We're looking at: * RAS box with E1 terminating into it supporting traditional PC plus mobile phone connections * WAP Gateway server * 2x Webservers * 1x WAP content platform * 1x dialup billing system * 1x possible IVR with E1 terminating into it. Sadly some of the products we're bringing in as ASP/MSSQL based, and thus the hardware costs x, the Microsoft licensing costs x more :(. The servers that will host our company created bits will be *nix though. Many thanks in advance, James _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.435 / Virus Database: 244 - Release Date: 30/12/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.435 / Virus Database: 244 - Release Date: 30/12/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.435 / Virus Database: 244 - Release Date: 30/12/2002

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My Mozilla no longer does DNS lookups
by Ian Douglas 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hi Folks, My Mozilla browser has suddenly, for no apparent reason, stopped doing DNS lookups. I was using Mozilla quite happily doing some web browsing yesterday evening then temporarily exited it to check my emails using Kmail. I then restarted Mozilla and, frustratingly, discovered that I could no longer browse the web with it. Every time I type in a URL it immediately comes back saying page not found. If however I do a ping to suss out the websites IP Address and type this IP Address directly into Mozilla then it finds the webpage and loads it ok. The problem still exists this morning, even though I have rebooted my PC several times in the mean time. I can of course still check my emails and ping using URLs, I can even use the Opera browser without problems; it is just the DNS lookup part of Mozilla which has stopped working. Has anyone else come across this problem? If so how did you solve it? Confused and bewildered... Ian.

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Re: [Alug] chroot jail for ftp
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Laurie wrote: >When I first did this, I used wu-ftpd because it offered the easiest path the >a chroot jail. The documentation is in the wuftpd web site, and pretty easy >to follow. Laurie, thankyou. I've set up wu-ftpd, and it seems to be running ok in the jail: get /home/jenny/testdoc /home/ftp/testdoc "/home/jenny/testdoc" - no such file or directory (Oh yes there is!!!) A few permissions to be ironed out yet. Many thanks. Jenny

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chroot jail for ftp
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Hi, I'm setting up an ftp server that I wanted to run in a chroot jail. I've created /home/ftp and created the basic etc, bin, lib, pub, dev, usr directory structure with the necessary files and correct permissions on them. Now what I'm unsure of is how I tell ftp that is where it has to run from. Do I need to modify the inetd.conf line ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd to something like ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /home/ftp/usr/sbin/in.ftpd Then create the sbin directory in /home/ftp/usr and copy in the in.ftpd program? Or do I leave inetd.conf as it is and create a wrapper script. If anyone has any experience of setting ftp up in a chroot jail, I'd be grateful of any pointers to web sites, or hints..the info I've found is always somehow missing parts I need to know. Thanks, Jenny.

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Best way to play .MOV files under GNU/Linux
by Keith Watson 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Any trekkies out there might be interested to know about a bunch of Minnesota fans who have made their own Star Trek look-alike episode using the original Star Trek look and feel, see <http://www.StarshipExeter.com> The episode is offered as a series of QuickTime .mov files, can anyone suggest the best way I can view these on a Debian Woody based system? Keith ____________ The saddest thing in the world is someone who has sight but no vision. - Helen Keller

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RE:Co-lo Server Advice Needed
by tom potts 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

I would have thought anywhere was cheaper than London - you could probably fly one round in a helicopter and save money - and it would be more accessible than London on slightly snowy day. Price yourself out of the market - move to London and knacker your staff! Computers and computer staff should never be in London! Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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