June 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Who is port scanning me?
by Simoncini, Matthew 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

Hi everyone, I'm constantly getting port scanned from a certain IP address on our internal corporate network. I'd really like to find out where and who this person is, but don't know much outside of ping, traceroute, nslookup, etc .... I was wondering if anyone knows of any tools that can get me more information on this person? This happens to be on our private network, so most internet tools I don't think will help much. Thanks for your time. Matthew

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Re: [Wlug] Who is port scanning me?
by Joe Riopel 21 Jun '02

21 Jun '02

You could download Sam Spade ( I only know of a windows version ). It will give you a good amount of information about an IP address. -Joe

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Re: [Wlug] Who is port scanning me?
by Peter Gutowski 21 Jun '02

21 Jun '02

On Friday, June 21, 2002 4:24 PM, Simoncini, Matthew <Matthew.Simoncini(a)bsci.com> wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I'm constantly getting port scanned from a certain IP address on our >internal corporate network. I'd really like to find out where and who this >person is, but don't know much outside of ping, traceroute, nslookup, etc >.... I was wondering if anyone knows of any tools that can get me more >information on this person? This happens to be on our private network, so >most internet tools I don't think will help much. > >Thanks for your time. > >Matthew >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > With iptables (upgrade to ipchains and so much more sophisticated) installed you can configure it to ignore *any* packet sent from that machine [defining it by IP address or MAC address] -- responding (or not, this case) as if your computer were turned off. Works for me. -- Peter Gutowski <peter(a)linuxchamps.com> // tel.: (413) 531-0123 "When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body not usually discovered." --George Washington, _Rules for Civility and Decent Behavior_

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browser war
by Karl Hiramoto 20 Jun '02

20 Jun '02

A co-worker wanted help checking his AOL e-mail. He would usually use M$ IE to longin to the AOL webmail. M$ IE now crashes on the webmail page. It is unuseable in most cases. I installed netscape 6.2.3 the AOL webmail page works 100%. So the Netscape/AOL time warner broswer works there. return of the browser wars. -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø PENGUINICITY!!

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XO goes Chapter 11...
by Stephen C. Daukas 19 Jun '02

19 Jun '02

Thought I'd pass this along in case anyone out there is thinking of going with XO Communications. http://www.xo.com/news/restructuring_update.html

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Boston Globe article
by Bill Mills-Curran 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/globe_tech/at_large/2002/0617.html Today's edition of the Boston Globe has an article about collaborative tools. Featured in the article is a product called SiteScape which I had seemed demo'd just last week. Many of the features of the collaborative tool set are familiar to me in other settings: email, IRC (for "immediate" stuff), news (for discussions) and version control to track document modifications. One feature they mentioned that I have not encountered in the UNIX/Linux/Gnu world is a collaborative whiteboard that allows different users to share an electronic whiteboard. Has anyone seen anything like this in the open source community? Ideally, it would be web-based so that it would not be specific to any one client OS. Thanks, Bill

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Laptop question - screen resolution
by Andy Stewart 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

HI WLUG, My laptop has a 15" screen rated for 1024x768. I setup my laptop to have 3 resolutions in my XF86Config file: 1024x768 (default) 800x600 640x480 With XFree86 4.x, it appears that I don't explicitly need to specify a mode line any more (but I can if I wish). SuSE's configuration process puts a mode line in for me. When I run X and then run xvidtune, when I'm in 1024x768 mode, it indicates a refresh of 60 Hz. However, when I run in 800x600 mode, xvidtune thinks the refresh rate is around 90Hz, and in 640x480 mode, xvidtune thinks the refresh rate is 131 Hz(!). I'm not sure I believe it since I don't think the display can handle that (but if it is true, am I seriously overdriving the display?). Also note that in the lower resolution modes, the display actually looks a tad fuzzy. I am not using anti-aliased fonts. Is this normal for laptops or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Javascript Help
by Wesley Allen 18 Jun '02

18 Jun '02

Guys, My Javascript + dhtml has always been one great hack. And, unlike the other scripting languages I use (all open source) there just doesn't seem to be a great "javascript community" on the web. Just lots of free samples (yes, i've googled, maybe not enough). Here's my problem. I've got a table and I want one column to be used to display the different links in each area. If I mouse over "about us" I want the other table to display the links for that area. when I do this outside a table, I just create a bunch of <div>'s that are hidden, and just Javascript to make them visible and raise their z-index at the proper time (yes, terrible hack, my javascript sucks). In the table, I'm not sure how to "stack" the different <div>'s. I though relative positioning would do the trick, because the parent for all of the <div>'s should be the <td> tag, but instead the <div>'s relatively position to one another. So, I'm kinda stuck. Any help you can give would be great, web sites with tutorials are great too. Pre-made scripts are ok, but I'm actually trying to learn something here. Thanks, Wes

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Xmon / Serial cable
by Skip Gaede 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

Folks, I'd like to try my hand at debugging the kernel boot process on a Macintosh PPC. I have a couple of silly questions, though. 1) Can I debug a Mac from an x86 box using Xmon? 2) I need a null modem cable to connect my Athlon and my Mac. Any thoughts as to where I could buy such a beast, or how to wire one up from parts obtained from Radio Shack? Thanks, Skip

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RE:[SOLVED] [Wlug] Burning ISO's
by Simoncini, Matthew 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

Thanks everyone for their input and offers for burning 7.3 to CD's. I actually found what I needed with the existing burn software I have. It was under "Global Image or Other Image", in my case ISO is Other Image. -----Original Message----- From: David Goss [mailto:vze2bd6u@verizon.net] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:30 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Burning ISO's i've got 73 on cd if you need a copy... but from what i've seen so far don't rush into anyuthing... 72 with a couple kernal upgrades runs just as well... assimilation is futile dave goss ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: RE: [Wlug] Burning ISO's > Your other solution might be to bribe a member of wlug to make a copy of > their 7.3 disks in exchange for a free beer after the meeting tonight. > > unfortunately, 1. I don't drink beer and 2. I won't be able to attend, > otherwise I'd make a copy for you... > > Later, > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simoncini, Matthew [mailto:Matthew.Simoncini@bsci.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:55 PM > To: 'wlug(a)mail.wlug.org' > Subject: [Wlug] Burning ISO's > > > Hi everyone, > > I recently downloaded the iso's for Red Hat 7.3 and wanted to burn them to > CD so I can install the distro on my home PC. I've never burned iso's > before, so this is new to me. I have the following setup: > > Work PC running Windows 2000 w/ iso images for Red Hat 7.3 saved to hard > drive > CD Burner > Prassi PrimoCD Plus 2.0 burner software by Veritas > > From the little that I know, I understand that iso images need to be burned > in a certain way rather than just copied to a CD-ROM. Can anyone point me to > a site or a particular program for burning iso's? > > Thanks. > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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