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Re: [Wlug] Volunteers needed!

by doug waud

Hi > Also, would somebody be kind enough to > allow me to use their laptop for the presentation since I don't own a laptop? You can certainly use mine --- provided I don't trash it in the interim :-) / :-( Seriously, it has StarOffice 5.2 on it already. You could either put your stuff on a CD which you could bring with you and/or send it to me ahead of time and I could download it onto the computer. doug

April 5, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Volunteers needed!

by Andy Stewart

Hi all, WOW! The response has been great! Here's what I've got for volunteers so far: Critique the slides ------------------- Scott Venier Dean Deaver Doug Waud Tom Manders Conduct Demos ------------- Tim Keller Doug Waud Mark Komarinski I was hoping we could get 1 or 2 more people to do demos. I suspect that 4 people is enough to sufficiently critique the slides. The Delphi Developers group meeting takes place at: Allaire Corporation 275 Grove Street Newton, MA Check out their website for directions: http://www.discom.com/delphi/meeting/MeetingDirections.html The meeting is scheduled to start at 7:00 PM so we should probably get there early enough to setup, say 6:30 PM on Monday, April 23rd. I'd expect the traffic in this area to be pretty heavy at that time of day due to rush hour. I will find out more of the logistical information, such as, how much table space do we have, how many outlets, etc. Also, would somebody be kind enough to allow me to use their laptop for the presentation since I don't own a laptop? I'll export the presentation to HTML if necessary, or if you have StarOffice already installed, I'll use that. (Maybe its time I bought one instead of lugging around my full tower...). Later, and thanks! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | If you want divine justice, die. -- Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | Nick Seldon Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | http://www.wlug.org | Andy Stewart wrote: > > HI gang, > > I have been asked to be the guest speaker at the Delphi Developers Group meeting > in Newton, MA on Monday, April 23rd (http://www.discom.com/delphi) They are > interested in Linux due to the recent product announcement of Borland Kylix > (http://www.borland.com/kylix) These folks are a group of software developers > living in the Windows world. > > I had planned to prepare a 45 - 60 minute talk, Q/A, and then demonstrate some > apps for them, such as: > StarOffice > Netscape > Developer tools and utilities > VmWare > LILO > Desktops - KDE, Gnome, enlightenment, etc. > Installation of Linux > > The above list was suggested to me by their representative as a list of things > that would be interesting to their developers group. > > I am seeking 2 or 3 people would like to volunteer to demo some of these tools > at the meeting, and who can provide support for the questions which I can't > answer. I'm looking for folks with systems or laptops that they are willing to > bring to this meeting for the demos. > > I would also appreciate a volunteer or two who would be willing to critique my > presentation slides before the meeting. You would not need to actually attend > the meeting. I'd e-mail the slides to you and request your written feedback. > The Delphi group representative will also get a sneak preview. > > If you are interested in either of these opportunities, please contact me this > week if at all possible. > > Thanks in advance! > > Andy > > -- > Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | Harris's Lament: All the good ones are > Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | taken. > Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | > http://www.wlug.org | > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 5, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester

by Orion

Similarly, I'm on dialup with RCN (formerly Ultranet). Although, I seem to be experiencing more network problems with RCN than ultranet had. I've never had any problems with them, as far as OS (linux), dialup-connection times (24/7), or running services (http, smtp, ssh, irc) Keller, Tim said: > Well, I'm only on dialup and I've been using Erols (Its actually RCN) and > I've had > extremely good luck with them. > > Like everything, your mileage may very... > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rodrigo Gomes [mailto:gomes_k@dr.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:18 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester > > > I would like to know names and url of lnx friendly ISP's in Worcester area. > > > Thanks in advance. -- Orion orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org I need to learn spanish..I only know one sentence, and its not very nice... got it from some Mexican brick layers - kepe

April 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester

by Richard H Fox

I've used AT&T Worldnet with great success - much faster than other dialups... yes, the big mega-ISP but with Linux loving employees who I've spoken with for server / network related issues... how Linux friendly is AT&T??? Visit: http://www.wurd.com/eng/setup/dialers/index.htm There's other Linux stuff on the AT&T WURD site ( http://www.wurd.com ) - but I think this is what you are looking for... OH! if you want to sign up for a Linux account use this method: https://registration.att.net/cgi-bin/inregister Hit the CONTINUE REGISTRATION button - the nine-character Registration Code is not needed... The only way to avoid downloading the Wintel or MAC dialer to setup an AT&T account is through this page... and AT&T customer (tech) support forwarded me a Linux guy (Debian his preference though he runs Mandrake on one of his machines) who gave me the link, only available by direct reference... Best... Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodrigo Gomes" <gomes_k(a)dr.com> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester I would like to know names and url of lnx friendly ISP's in Worcester area. Thanks in advance. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester

by Richard H Fox

I've used AT&T Worldnet with great success - much faster than other dialups... yes, the big mega-ISP but with Linux loving employees who I've spoken with for server / network related issues... how Linux friendly is AT&T??? Visit: http://www.wurd.com/eng/setup/dialers/index.htm There's other Linux stuff on the AT&T WURD site ( http://www.wurd.com ) - but I think this is what you are looking for... OH! if you want to sign up for a Linux account use this method: https://registration.att.net/cgi-bin/inregister Hit the CONTINUE REGISTRATION button - the nine-character Registration Code is not needed... The only way to avoid downloading the Wintel or MAC dialer to setup an AT&T account is through this page... and AT&T customer (tech) support forwarded me a Linux guy (Debian his preference though he runs Mandrake on one of his machines) who gave me the link, only available by direct reference... Best... Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodrigo Gomes" <gomes_k(a)dr.com> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester I would like to know names and url of lnx friendly ISP's in Worcester area. Thanks in advance. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 4, 2001

RE: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester

by Keller, Tim

Well, I'm only on dialup and I've been using Erols (Its actually RCN) and I've had extremely good luck with them. Like everything, your mileage may very... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Rodrigo Gomes [mailto:gomes_k@dr.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:18 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Friendly ISP in Worcester I would like to know names and url of lnx friendly ISP's in Worcester area. Thanks in advance. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 4, 2001

Friendly ISP in Worcester

by Rodrigo Gomes

I would like to know names and url of lnx friendly ISP's in Worcester area. Thanks in advance. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

April 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Firewalls

by ccb＠acm.org

> After spending many hours this past week trying to understand ipchains and > firewalling in general I have come to the conclusion that I am spending a lot > of time trying to recreate something that probably already exists. Does > anyone have any experience with either open source or commercial firewalling > products that can be configured to work in a small office network and allow > VPN connections to larger networks. I do not have a very big budget but would > be willing to pay for the appropriate solution. > > Mike Might I suggest an appliance? D-Link, SMC, NetGear and LinkSys all have them for just a hair over $100 provided you're sitting on a Cable or DSL connection. My SMC is web managable and does a lovely job. It also has a COM port so I can use it with dial-up networks if I have to. IPCHAINS/IPTABLES is cool, but you need to patch for IPSEC support in 2.2.x kernels. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

April 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Firewalls

by Theo Van Dinter

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:36:43PM -0400, Michael Long wrote: > of time trying to recreate something that probably already exists. Does > anyone have any experience with either open source or commercial firewalling > products that can be configured to work in a small office network and allow > VPN connections to larger networks. I do not have a very big budget but would define "VPN connections". do you mean IPSec, or some third-party (ie: proprietary) VPN connection? If you want IPSec, you can look at FreeS/WAN which interoperates with several different vendor's IPSec implementations. (http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/) As was mentioned, PPP over SSH works (klugy, but I've done it and it works fairly decently) as well. ipchains/iptables will take care of your firewalling needs. VPN is a completely different puppy though. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "So Lone Star ... Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." - Space Balls

April 3, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Firewalls

by Leon Do

you may want to look into the compact Coyote Linux solution. They are easy to configure and the entire package is on a single floppy disk provide more secure to your network. They are available for free or commercial Here are their features: DHCP Connections Static IP Connections PPP Dialup PPPoE Connections DHCP Server IP Chains Firewalling IP Auto-forwarding Linux Floppy Builder PPTP Client Support Their web site is http://www.coyotelinux.com "Brian J. Conway" wrote: > > > After spending many hours this past week trying to understand ipchains and > > firewalling in general I have come to the conclusion that I am spending a lot > > of time trying to recreate something that probably already exists. Does > > anyone have any experience with either open source or commercial firewalling > > products that can be configured to work in a small office network and allow > > VPN connections to larger networks. I do not have a very big budget but would > > be willing to pay for the appropriate solution. > > The approach I use for my home network is with masquerading a set of > 10.x IPs. For a configurable office solution I would recommend > something commercial or at least far more complex than what I have in > use, but my ipchains setup is as follows, for reference: > > /sbin/ipchains -F > /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY > /sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.254/24 > /sbin/ipchains -M -S 43200 120 300 > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_user > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_icq > /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_msn > > For VPN-type connectivity I use ppp-over-ssh (search google, there are > plenty of howto's on it), but that's more of a hack than a useful > solution, though a clever one at that. =) > > Brian J. Conway > dogbert(a)clue4all.net > Geek for hire: http://clue4all.net/resume > > Men may control the free world, but women control the boobs. > (http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20001024) > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- Leon Do Lucent Technologies eServices Group 200 Lucent Lane Cary, NC 27511 email: leondo(a)lucent.com fax : (919) 463-4379 ph : (919) 463-3149

April 3, 2001