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Re: [Alug] A Couple of responses in one :
by MJ Ray 05 Jun '01

05 Jun '01

Earl Brannigan <earl.brannigan(a)lindenhouse.co.uk> writes: > I was planning to do a little security overview thingy last time but > unfortunately couldn't make the meet, > would this still be of value to anyone ? > I can bring along some goodies (nessus, nmap and the like and show you how > to use them. I could also demonstrate a buffer overflow and that sort of > thing...if anyone's interested...) I'd certainly still be interested. It would also be nice to be on the sending end of one of these attacks for a change...! I've played with toy exploits (sending bad data to web servers to make them die, etc), but not buffer overflows. -- MJR

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A Couple of responses in one :
by Earl Brannigan 05 Jun '01

05 Jun '01

Hi all, > From: MJ Ray <mjr(a)stats.mth.uea.ac.uk> > Date: 04 Jun 2001 13:26:20 +0100 > Subject: [Alug] ALUG meeting 17 June > > Hi all, > > The Hive has been booked for the afternoon of 17 June. Sadly the 10 > June is taken up by a ball. Is this a reasonable date to aim for? > It's right on the end of term, so I'd like to get publicity out this > week. Anyone volunteering to "do stuff" at this meeting? > > MJR Looks like a pretty good date to me. I was planning to do a little security overview thingy last time but unfortunately couldn't make the meet, would this still be of value to anyone ? I can bring along some goodies (nessus, nmap and the like and show you how to use them. I could also demonstrate a buffer overflow and that sort of thing...if anyone's interested...) > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:01:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> > Reply-To: David_freeman(a)rocketmail.com > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > Subject: [Alug] California dreaming > > ok so the subject may confuse you but. > > Before christmas someone mentioned that they had apool and large garden > and were willing to host a ALUG meet. But even if we couldn't use this > venue. How do people feel about the idea of having an ALUG BBQ or > similiar? We could perhaps use the (a) sylham as they have a bar > etc...? > > What do people think? > Now the pool sounds great!, and I think an ALUG BBQ would be a good thing..... > August would seam like a good time (ab normal distribution of birthdays > amoungst ALUG members in this time) > Not mine however ... > Thanks > > D > > PS and if anyone is trying to work out why this subject, its the song I > am listening two as I right > on such a winter's day ? What a way to waste a day..... I was going to entitle this post after what I'm listening to at the moment but " 'scuse me while I kiss the sky" would probably have set people worrying rather than guessing. Perhaps. Cheers Earl

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California dreaming
by David Freeman 05 Jun '01

05 Jun '01

ok so the subject may confuse you but. Before christmas someone mentioned that they had apool and large garden and were willing to host a ALUG meet. But even if we couldn't use this venue. How do people feel about the idea of having an ALUG BBQ or similiar? We could perhaps use the (a) sylham as they have a bar etc...? What do people think? August would seam like a good time (ab normal distribution of birthdays amoungst ALUG members in this time) Thanks D PS and if anyone is trying to work out why this subject, its the song I am listening two as I right __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] Beginner Reading List
by MJ Ray 04 Jun '01

04 Jun '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)zeus.com> writes: [...] > I know some of the Introduction sections are a bit Noddy if you are > more experienced but they really don't help a complete newbie Isn't that what the NHFs et al are for? And magazine articles? [...] > Hmmm, two of those books probably won't help people like Jen *that* > much! No, we drifted :-) But as long as you've got the O'Reilly debian book and access to someone else's bookmarks ( http://www.towers.org.uk/links/root_software.html might be useful to some of the people some of the time), you're on your way. Is system administration ever going to be *that* easy, though? At least once the hard work is done, you can relax as a normal user. -- MJR

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ALUG meeting 17 June
by MJ Ray 04 Jun '01

04 Jun '01

Hi all, The Hive has been booked for the afternoon of 17 June. Sadly the 10 June is taken up by a ball. Is this a reasonable date to aim for? It's right on the end of term, so I'd like to get publicity out this week. Anyone volunteering to "do stuff" at this meeting? MJR

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Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by Adam Bower 04 Jun '01

04 Jun '01

This is the automated ALUG irc meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an irc meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Popular irc clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and ircII on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.bitchx.com http://www.xchat.org http://freshmeat.net http://www.epicsol.org/ (for Brett!) Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Help for a new Newbie - Please
by Mark Myatt 03 Jun '01

03 Jun '01

I have recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and am enjoyng it. However when I log off there appears a "Failed Message" shortly before "Power Down". It says "Saving mixer settings aumix: error opening mixer [failed]" Is this important ? what should I do about it ? I shall be glad to hear from anyone who can tel me what this is all about. Mark Myatt

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lxml
by oms101＠freeuk.com 31 May '01

31 May '01

I have just writern a simple C++ XML processing app which I described for source forge as lxml is a simple XML processing filter, tags can be scripted to launch any application which will receive the XML between triggering tags this is piped to stdin of the launched applications, stdout is redirected by lxml to replace the triggering tags. unfortunately they said they would not host it (insufficient information) some further information is presented here This application will be accompanied with two further applications which together should provide session management for CGI based web application. running in an XML frame work. does any one have a location I can upload this to permanently, I am going to release it under the MIT style licence, ie people and compnays are free to use it as they like. Cheers Owen Synge Date: 30-May-01 Time: 20:23:15

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Re: [Alug] Beginner Reading List
by MJ Ray 31 May '01

31 May '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > Please, it wasn't a flame, it was just a small rant aimed at noone in > particular, I was only Identify a weekness in the documentation of > Linux. What the hell are the "Introduction" sections for, if not to explain? They usually lay down the basic concepts in really easy language. In fact, it irritates me by being a bit too "Noddy" sometimes. How To Design Programs from PLT Rice (IIRC) is a quite good intro to programming. I'm biased. Other than that, I have a Babani book on C (for when I have to hack and I can't tell my pointer from my elbow) and an old Linux book which came with my second distribution (right about when I realised that CDs in books are really out of date when you buy them). -- MJR

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BOOKS
by David Freeman 30 May '01

30 May '01

People, Does anyone want any books from O'reilly, I need to give them a decent size order. The cost will be 25% off list price. Please please, make this work. Thanks D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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