KCLUG August 2007

kclug@kclug.org

45 participants
54 discussions

xmonad users?
by Kyle Sexton 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Anyone out there using the xmonad window manager? It's in the same vain as Ion3 and Rat Poison, but for some reason it just seems to flow better for me. It's got a *tiny* code base at ~500(!) lines of Haskell code. Another quirk is that configuration options are actually compiled into the program. It's also has Xinerama support for those out there with dual head setups. Check it out if your interested at http://xmonad.org. -- Kyle Sexton

1 0

JOBOP: Linux Unix Sr. Security position
by Hal Duston 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

----- Forwarded message from "Garlington, April" <ADJ(a)BGCS.com> ----- All candidates must take and pass fingerprint , Drug Screen and government background check. No felonies charges or convictions are accepted. We have a 6 month Contract for Hire position. Position Title: Senior Network Security Technician Working Location: Kansas City, MO Employment Status: Full-Time Regular Required Experience: 5 years Required Travel: 0% Job Duties: The Information Security department a security administrator whose primary responsibility will be designing, implementing, and maintaining security controls for UNIX systems in a Windows environment. Additional duties include: *Development, implementation, maintenance, and compliance verification of policies, processes, and procedures relating to the security of operating systems and applications. *Day-to-day intrusion detection monitoring activity. *Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. *Firewall administration. *Handling of security incidents, recoveries, breaches, intrusions, and/or system abuses. *Install, maintain and troubleshoot information security hardware and software. *Participate in IT projects to provide security consultation. *Lead, plan, schedule, coordinate, and manage security projects. *Provide reports to appropriate areas. Minimum Requirements: *Job candidate must have five to eight years or more of IT experience with two to three years experience in administering security on Unix operating systems and applications including but not limited to Solaris, Red Hat Linux, VMWare ESX, WebSphere, and Oracle. *High school level command of spelling, grammar and math, and/or basic vocational training required. *A Bachelor's degree in an information technology-related field is preferred. *Certified Information Systems Security Processional (CISSP) certification or Global Information Assurance (GIA) certification preferred. *Candidate must be able to design, implement, and support UNIX security solutions in a Windows environment. *Candidate must have good project management skills as well as the ability to document and communicate technical information to a variety of audiences. If you are interested please contact April Garlington Branch Manager Bradford & Galt, Inc. (o) 913.663.1264 x 403 adj(a)bgcs.com ----- End forwarded message -----

1 0

Re: Kclug Digest, Vol 37, Issue 31
by cragos＠gmail.com 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Message: 1 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:39:10 -0500 From: Kyle Sexton <ks(a)mocker.org> Subject: Re: Evading Punishment To: Leo Mauler <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> Cc: kclug(a)kclug.org Message-ID: <87ir6zixs1.fsf(a)mocker.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Leo Mauler <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> writes: > Having considered the method a bit longer, and also > taking into account all your additional suggestions, I > have come to the conclusion that, absent Linux > monitoring software, forcing him to use Windows for > the duration of his probation is quite likely the most > enforceable option for the court and his probation > officer, and the best option for him as well. > See, there's the solution to the problem! We just need to create some open source monitoring software for Linux. :) -- Kyle Sexton ------------- You mean like squid? :) Doesn't take much to proxy the hell out of a network. Can be done in the middle. -Sean

1 0

Evading Punishment
by Earle Beason 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

I disagree, I had more interactions with convicts then most, and I disagree with the thought our laws our fair and unbiased. I think this is perfectly acceptable solution for the dilemma at hand. It is not violating the parole restrictions, “monitor the use of the Internet,” as long as this condition is met, the parole restrictions are met Now, because circumvention of the monitoring software is so easy, I will have to say the judge and prosecutor are ignorant to computer tech. Every user here should know that Microsoft Windows can be bypassed with a LIVE CD, and Internet access may be gained. You can also get a “Free Internet” disk for dial up from AOL, Kmart, net zero and other companies, with spare hard drive and prepaid phone line. There are hundreds of ways to defeat such an order; the judge/prosecutor is crazy to think this is something they can really enforce. What they should have done was place a filter in with his IP provider and mandated that he keep the same provider, and inform the parole office before he changes IP providers. I have seen a filter of this sort, it tracked everywhere I went and kept a copy of everything I downloaded. Yes, I am the guy who advocate better right for convicts/felons/ and other "undesirables" --- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> wrote: > > >>On Monday 27 August 2007 07:39:17 am Leo Mauler >>wrote: >> >> >> >>>He could put up a Windows box with the tracking >>>software, share its Internet out over a local >>>network, and use Ubuntu on a second computer >>>that gets all its Internet from the Windows >>>computer. >>> >>> >>I'm glad so many of you have never known or been >>involved with someone who has served time and is >>on probation. Even -thinking- about ways to >>evade and avoid the intent of your restrictions >>is a bad idea. It puts you in entirely the wrong >>frame of mind to complete the probation >>successfully. >> >>The object is not to comply with the letter of >>the terms and blatantly violate them at the >>same time. the object is to do EXACTLY what is >>expected and requested of you, because the ONLY >>alternative is to return to prison and serve the >>remainder of your sentence. >> >>If they want you to stand on your head and spit >>jelly beans, you'd better get good at it, because >>there's only ONE alternative. >> >> > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. >http://sims.yahoo.com/ > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Kclug mailing list >Kclug(a)kclug.org >http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > > >End of Kclug Digest, Vol 37, Issue 29 >************************************* > > > >

6 5

boot sequence discussion
by Charles Steinkuehler 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Who has a link to a current boot process explanation? not a howto, but > a lecture, covering what is supposed to be happening at each point in > a modern complex linux boot? I'm no fedora expert, and I don't have a link to a lecture, but your problem is happening before things really get complex. You mentioned you're not using a modular kernel, so you generally should not require an initial ramdisk. The boot process should basically be: (apologies in advance if this seems too basic) - - BIOS performs POST and boots from selected primary boot device - - Your boot loader (grub? lilo?) reads the linux kernel into memory - - The boot loader runs the linux kernel - - The linux kernel detects hardware, disk partitions, MD devices, etc. - - The linux kernel mounts the root partition read-only - - The linux kernel runs init - - Init starts launching all the startup scripts, and the startup sequence rapidly become complex and disto specific You indicated init is not being run, which says to me that your kernel is not seeing your root device. This could be due to an incorrect root= kernel command line, or missing module(s) required for your hardware. Also, please note that if you are booting from a software raid, all required raid modules must be compiled into the kernel, along with the IDE/SCSI driver, proper filesystem, etc. If you are booting from a logical volume, I think you have to use a modular kernel, or at least an initial ramdisk (to get LVM running). Have you crawled through the kernel output (use <shift>-<page up>)? Can you see where the kernel found your disk(s) and any partitions present? - -- Charles Steinkuehler charles(a)steinkuehler.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG1BKRLywbqEHdNFwRAnWnAKDU9mHJopeChsLw0UmI/MAHeNp0RACgzV7W xdLpkdz8C3VfO0IKWTl7XK8= =j2mT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 0

p2pnet talks to Scott �sk0t� McCausland
by Julie 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13147 Jon Newton is an on-line friend of mine. I've been helping him a bit with Linux. I'm the reason he has Linux on his site. When I found out he was interested in Linux I showed him how to find a LUG near where he lives and gave him the other info I have about Linux, including a bit of what I've learned from some of you at the KC-LUG meetings. I think...OOOOPS! that some of you may find this article, along with the message threads to it, somewhat intriguing. Julie @};- BTW: Y'all missed a GREAT Pow Wow!!! LOL! --------------------------------- Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more.

1 0

Hello Kitty?
by Earle Beason 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

For the daughter, she quite the girly-girl, and infatuated with pink. Think about from this perspective, eye-candy to get her to want to use it, even though it's a linux based system. Because she likes the color and the glitz, she will use it over the black microsoft system. Modify trick from the book of being an evil parent, it found under the "Cook Liver, to Look Like Breaded Chicken" section Tim Reid wrote: Uhmmm... Hello Kitty?

1 0

Pirate Banned from Using Linux
by Julie 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Pirate Banned from Using Linux http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/23/190238&from=rss --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.

7 8

Novell Users Intl. meeting - tomorrow night.
by Alex Monteiro 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Come join us tomorrow night for our Novell Users Intl. (NUI) Kansas City meeting. KC LUG members are welcome and we'd like to discuss how we can combine our efforts. Novell will give away plenty of swag and pizza/refreshments will be served. ~Alex ========================================== Here is your invitation to join us for the NUI Kansas City meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm. We hope to see you there! What: Novell Users International Kansas City When: Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm Where: KIS Kansas City - 4230 S. Phelps Rd. Suite A. Independence MO. 64055 - 816-373-9900 RSVP: http://register.novell.com/login/?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=20897&lcode… Agenda: ** Novell's training and certification roadmap presentation Election of new NUI KC officers Identifying new locations and meeting dates for future NUI meetings Open discussion/roundtable Pizza & refreshments will be served. -- Alex Monteiro Business Development Manager KIS Computer Center - Kansas City o. 816-373-9900 (vmail ext. 7554) f. 816-373-9904 m. 650-279-1909 www.kiscc.com - alexm(a)kiscc.com

1 0

Whither ITEC?
by Monty J. Harder 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

I got an email a little while ago from the folks responsible for ITEC, which led me to this page, which shows Exhibitors: http://pages.crosstechmedia.com/WebSite/HtmlPage.aspx?S=50000093&C=70000087… We aren't mentioned yet. Who had contact with them last time? Heard anything yet? Can we get a few hundred Ubuntu CDs again? . . .

6 8

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

KCLUG August 2007