February 2007 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Comprimised servers?

by Karl Hiramoto

What gives you evidence they were compromised? To what extent was security breached? Was just a website defaced, did they get user, or root access? Do you know how they got in? You may want to audit all of your running services and check if there are known exploits. Unfortunately your best option may be to backup your data, format disks, and reinstall the OS. It can be hard to tell if a back door was installed. .. karl Michael Zarozinski wrote: > Hi all, > > It appears as if 2 servers we have were compromised. Does anyone know of > someone or a business we can get to examine our servers and tell us what > to do? Our hosting company is not the easiest to deal with and I'm > having trouble getting anything beyond level 1 support from them. > > Thank you in advance, > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Feb. 28, 2007

Comprimised servers?

by Michael Zarozinski

Hi all, It appears as if 2 servers we have were compromised. Does anyone know of someone or a business we can get to examine our servers and tell us what to do? Our hosting company is not the easiest to deal with and I'm having trouble getting anything beyond level 1 support from them. Thank you in advance, Michael

Feb. 28, 2007

Ham Radio meeting about GNU Radio...

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gang, FYI: I thought some of you might be interested in this meeting regarding GNU Radio. I think I'm going to attend, but admittedly its a lot closer to my house than it probably is to yours. Later, Andy - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PART/WB1GOF] FW: 2/24 CWA Meeting on Gnu Radio Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:02:48 -0500 From: Steve Telsey <steve.n1bda(a)verizon.net> To: PART <PART-L(a)wb1gof.org> - -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Pettengill [mailto:ghp@space.mit.edu] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:27 PM To: CWA Members Subject: 2/24 CWA Meeting Dear CWA Members, As you already know, there will be a meeting of the Colonial Wireless Association next Wednesday evening, 28 February at 7:30pm, in the Concord-Carlisle High School on Thoreau St. The invited speaker is Dr. Gregory D. Troxel, N1DAM, who is a network researcher at BBN Technologies working on software radios for the Department of Defense. Greg will give an overview of software-defined radio, a new technology that is already changing Ham Radio, and will talk about a free software radio package called GNU Radio. Greg will also describe a hardware front-end for software radios, the USRP, that uses daughter-boards for various functions, from transceivers for 440, 902, 1296 and 2400 MHz to boards for IF use. Greg's talk will highlight the challenges in changing GNU Radio from receiving continuous signals to packet radio. Following the talk, Greg will demonstrate GNU Radio and the USRP with several daughter-boards. Unfortunately, I will be unable to join you, but hope for a good attendance. As a result of generous donations over the past month, our treasury now stands at $2194.28. 73, Gordon Pettengill W1OUN - -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/696 - Release Date: 2/21/2007 _______________________________________________ Police Amateur Radio Team (PART) of Westford Post messages to: PART-L(a)wb1gof.org (Un)Subscribe at http://PART-L.wb1gof.org - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4OekHl0iXDssISsRAs5MAJoD+48OSb+BkTaeE1idTvCDUvHvOgCfVvWw wdMkFN4H2sDsAePHOavWgOo= =J4// -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Feb. 25, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Amarok

by Hanley.net

Eric Stein wrote: > Wow, I use amarok nearly constantly and I never heard this before. > > Eric I just checked Wikipedia and there is a mention of the pop-up (Easter Egg) towards the bottom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_%28audio%29 I noticed I said "flec" in my post. That should have been "flac", of course. :-) -- Gary

Feb. 23, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Amarok

by Eric Stein

Wow, I use amarok nearly constantly and I never heard this before. Eric Gary Hanley wrote: > I picked up a Cowon iAudio U3 a few weeks ago after and exhaustive > search for a player with a good amount of memory (2GB) and plays > ogg and flec files. > > Anyway, I've been burning my CDs to ogg/vorbis as time allows to build > a library for myself and recently burned my old copy of Mike > Oldfield's _Amarok_. > > I honestly never made the connection between the name of the album and > my new favorite media player, but when I started playing amarok.ogg > in the Amarok player this morning this popped up: > > "One of Mike Oldfield's best pieces of work, Amarok, inspired the name > behind the audio-player you are currently using. Thanks for choosing > Amarok! > Mark Kretschmann > Max Howell > Chris Muehlhaeuser > The many other people who have helped make Amarok what it is" > > Cool! Just thought I'd share that. :-) > > -- Gary > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Feb. 23, 2007

Amarok

by Gary Hanley

I picked up a Cowon iAudio U3 a few weeks ago after and exhaustive search for a player with a good amount of memory (2GB) and plays ogg and flec files. Anyway, I've been burning my CDs to ogg/vorbis as time allows to build a library for myself and recently burned my old copy of Mike Oldfield's _Amarok_. I honestly never made the connection between the name of the album and my new favorite media player, but when I started playing amarok.ogg in the Amarok player this morning this popped up: "One of Mike Oldfield's best pieces of work, Amarok, inspired the name behind the audio-player you are currently using. Thanks for choosing Amarok! Mark Kretschmann Max Howell Chris Muehlhaeuser The many other people who have helped make Amarok what it is" Cool! Just thought I'd share that. :-) -- Gary

Feb. 22, 2007

Dell survey

by Mike Leo

http://www.dellideastorm.com/ I found this interesting.

Feb. 22, 2007

Re: [Wlug] interesting backups problem

by Eric Stein

It is mostly full. It's not possible to shrink it enough to make a difference. Interesting idea, though. I'm borrowing a 200GB drive from a friend so I can use it as scratch space, but the IDE to USB adapter is producing some interesting results in /var/log/messages... Feb 21 22:23:30 glamdring kernel: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Feb 21 22:23:31 glamdring kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Feb 21 22:23:31 glamdring kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Feb 21 22:23:41 glamdring kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6 Feb 21 22:23:41 glamdring kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery Does anyone know what this means? Is the drive dead? Eric Aaron Haviland wrote: > Eric Stein wrote, on Feb 18, 2007 at 20:18 EST: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've got an interesting issue with disk usage. I have a hard disk image >> (from dd) stored on a server, and it needs to be compressed it to make >> room for other data. The image is 160 GB, but I only have 30 GB of free >> space to work with; the data isn't compressible enough to fit in 30 GB >> in the meantime. I don't need the image right now and having only a >> compressed copy is perfectly fine. How can I compress the image while >> simultaneously deleting the old data? I can think of a way to do it >> using perl, dd, and some other tools, but I'd much prefer to do it the >> "right" way if there is one. >> > > Is the image completely full or is there free space within the image? > i.e., might you be able to resize it smaller with ext2resize or > somesuch? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Feb. 22, 2007

Re: [Wlug] interesting backups problem

by Aaron Haviland

Eric Stein wrote, on Feb 18, 2007 at 20:18 EST: > Hi all, > > I've got an interesting issue with disk usage. I have a hard disk image > (from dd) stored on a server, and it needs to be compressed it to make > room for other data. The image is 160 GB, but I only have 30 GB of free > space to work with; the data isn't compressible enough to fit in 30 GB > in the meantime. I don't need the image right now and having only a > compressed copy is perfectly fine. How can I compress the image while > simultaneously deleting the old data? I can think of a way to do it > using perl, dd, and some other tools, but I'd much prefer to do it the > "right" way if there is one. Is the image completely full or is there free space within the image? i.e., might you be able to resize it smaller with ext2resize or somesuch? -- Aaron

Feb. 21, 2007

Re: [Wlug] switch distros???

by Brendan

On Saturday 17 February 2007, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > A big win would be to get my 17 yr old son off windows. He's forever > infecting the windows box with junk from his web surfing. Install Ubuntu (I prefer Kubuntu, but hey I do KDE devel). Set up *AHEAD OF TIME* all paths, icons, multimedia codecs, etc. Anything you could possibly want to do in Windows....Just to cut down on the bitching later. In the meantime, install Firefox and remove all IE icons. Remove AOL, no matter what the wife says. Use a stick if necessary. Just tell her that "AOL broke". Say nothing further. Your son will want games. Get him a Wii. Buy an extra controller and invite me over. I kill at Bowling.

Feb. 20, 2007