ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 56, Issue 333
Gaurav Sharma
me at gauravmail.info
Mon Apr 27 01:12:37 UTC 2009
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> 1. to Karl (Corwin)
> 2. FingerPrint Reader - jaunty 9.04 - thinkpad t61 (Himanshu Sharma)
> 3. Re: Newbie still confused about potential for virus problems
> on Ubuntu (Hakan Koseoglu)
> 4. Re: Newbie still confused about potential for virus problems
> on Ubuntu (Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu))
> 5. Re: to Karl (Karl F. Larsen)
> 6. Re: to Karl (CLIFFORD ILKAY)
> 7. Re: Installing Ubuntu (Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu))
> 8. Re: Installing Ubuntu (Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu))
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No yaar i dont knw that i have search that one and then i will be able to
tell yu
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:47:49 +0200
> From: Corwin <eventhorizon at telia.com>
> Subject: to Karl
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> could you please repost that tip bout gui ssh
>
> i have "misplaced" it
>
> TIA
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:53:41 -0500
> From: Himanshu Sharma <s.himanshu9 at gmail.com>
> Subject: FingerPrint Reader - jaunty 9.04 - thinkpad t61
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1240768421.6847.5.camel at montys-Jaunty>
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>
> Hi,
> I am not able to configure my fingerprint reader on a thinkpad t61. I am
> using 9.04 ( btw i love the new upgrade ).
>
> has anyone been able to do so ?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Himanshu
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:53:50 +0100
> From: Hakan Koseoglu <hakan.koseoglu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Newbie still confused about potential for virus problems
> on Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, wirechief <silvermachineman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Please tell that to the makers of rkhunter and all the various linux
> > programs designed
> > to find these things that do not bother linux, tell the people who
> > make clamav they
> > are wasting their time making anti-virus for linux, maybe they could
> > spend it making
> > money on windows systems, do you think you can convince them ?
> Ermmm, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Having a good
> anti-virus kit on Linux is usual in many ways. Here are two:
> - Using Linux as a file server means that you might have plenty of
> users storing their data on the server. Scanning these against viruses
> regularly on the server is easier and more resource-effective than
> making the users do it.
> - When a Windows user gets infected, you can boot off a Linux
> distribution and disinfect their environment.
> - Plenty of people use Wine for various reasons and those executables
> can be infected/infectious.
>
> The ClamAV team are definitely not wasting their time and their
> efforts should be appreciated.
> --
> Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:56:37 +0200
> From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> Subject: Re: Newbie still confused about potential for virus problems
> on Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> wirechief schreef:
> > Please tell that to the makers of rkhunter
>
> A root kit is not a virus!!!
>
> A root kit is a set of tools that a hacker installs on your system when
> (s)he has compromised it. But (s)he has to have access to your system
> first! Usually they get access via bad configured services (weak
> passwords etc)
>
> > and all the various linux programs designed to find these things that
> > do not bother linux, tell the people who make clamav they are
> > wasting their time making anti-virus for linux,
>
> ClamAV is mainly an anti-virus for mail gateways. It is irrelevant what
> the operating system is of the gateway. The most vulnerable thing is the
> mail client.
>
> > maybe they could spend it making money on windows systems, do you
> > think you can convince them ?
>
> I don't have to convice anyone.
> The simple fact that the ClamAV project is still alive, means that they
> must be doing something good.
>
> If I had Linux mailserver + Windows mailclient, then I would use ClamAV.
> But I have Linux mailserver + Linux mailclient, so I don't need it.
> It's just as simpel as that. Everything else is FUD. Please stick to the
> facts and don't troll...
>
>
> --
> Amedee
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:08:08 -0600
> From: "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: to Karl
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> Corwin wrote:
> > could you please repost that tip bout gui ssh
> >
> > i have "misplaced" it
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> I will add it here:
>
>
> The GUI way to use ssh to connect two, or many computers
> together is very simple to do. To begin you need to install sshd on all
> the computers. It is not part of the normal Ubuntu so you need to
> download it. This is done in a terminal by typing $ sudo aptitude
> install sshd.
>
> You need to be using Gnome on the computer that is connecting to
> the others. This is because you need to have "Places" available for use.
> Here now is how you connect the other computers.
>
> Click on Places and then click again on "Connect to Server".
> This brings up a panel. The top setup is Service type and you want to
> change that to SSH. Below that is a setting called Server: and here you
> put in the IP number of the computer you want connect to like
> 192.168.1.12 and then skip down to where you can put in a name that you
> want to connect to. Then put a check in Add bookmark. Just below that
> put in a name you like that tells you which computer this is. For
> example laptop-15. Now click on the Connect button.
>
> Next a panel comes up asking for a Password. Enter the proper
> information and click on Connect. Now look at the Desktop and you will
> see a device called "sftp on 192.168.1.12" and it looks like a folder!
> It is that other computers files, all of them. Just click on the folder
> and it comes up in the Desktop - File Browser. You should know how to
> use this.
>
> Now turn off the connection. Do this by a right-hand click of
> the folder and select Unmount Volume. That drops the connection. Now to
> regain the connection just click on Places and see now the listing for
> laptop-15 under Bookmarks on Hardy or just Places on Jaunty.
>
>
>
>
> Karl
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:33:17 -0400
> From: CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com>
> Subject: Re: to Karl
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <49F4A8ED.3060509 at dinamis.com>
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> On 26/04/09 02:08 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > Click on Places and then click again on "Connect to Server".
> > This brings up a panel. The top setup is Service type and you want to
> > change that to SSH. Below that is a setting called Server: and here you
> > put in the IP number of the computer you want connect to like
> > 192.168.1.12 and then skip down to where you can put in a name that you
> > want to connect to. Then put a check in Add bookmark. Just below that
> > put in a name you like that tells you which computer this is. For
> > example laptop-15. Now click on the Connect button.
> >
> > Next a panel comes up asking for a Password. Enter the proper
> > information and click on Connect.
>
> Even better yet, use key-based authentication and you won't have to
> enter a password every time you want to open an ssh/scp session to the
> other machine. Use a key manager to keep the key in memory so that you
> won't be challenged for your private key's passphrase every time. In
> KDE, Dolphin, Konqueror, and all KDE dialogs are networking
> protocol-aware so you can access a remote filesystem as easily as you
> access a local one by using "smb://" (for Samba) or "fish://" (for SSH).
>
> I've noticed in other distros I've used, like Mandriva, that if I had my
> private key in ~/.ssh, after logging in to KDE but before I would see
> the desktop, I would get a dialog for entering my passphrase. I can
> invoke that same dialog in Kubuntu by doing "K Menu>>Run Command..." and
> typing "ssh-add" but it's not as convenient. I'd like to have that
> dialog come up before the desktop so that things that are dependent on
> my private key being unlocked, like Konsole sessions and fish:// session
> in Konqueror to remote machines, can use that key for auth. I've never
> managed to get the ssh-add dialog coming up early enough in the KDE init
> cycle in Kubuntu for it to work properly.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Clifford Ilkay
> Dinamis
> 1419-3266 Yonge St.
> Toronto, ON
> Canada M4N 3P6
>
> <http://dinamis.com>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:44:41 +0200
> From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> Sean or Mona schreef:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pridvi Kandagatla" <pridvik at gmail.com>
> > To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 22:14
> > Subject: Installing Ubuntu
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I recently downloaded the iso file of the latest version of Ubuntu to
> >> install on my laptop. When I put the cd into my laptop, the autoplay
> > feature
> >> is not working. I am not getting a menu of any sort. I can explore the
> >> contents of the cd and the autoplay feature is working on another
> computer
> >> of mine, which is a desktop. Also, when I try to boot from the disk, I
> am
> >> getting an error and I can't boot from the CD. What should I do? Any
> help
> >> would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > It was a disaster for me. A terrible disaster.
> > This bugger is a 1.8 ghz Pentium 4 that I'm running. But I tried
> installing
> > Ubuntu 9.04 and not only did it crawl like molasses but nothing could be
> > done with it.
> > Indeed I'm not sure if the menus were supposed to work in a similar
> fashion
> > to MS Windoze, but I tried left clicking, right clicking, double
> clicking,
> > just waiting to see if they drop on their own - nothing.
> > A misaligned screen display didn't help much, I suppose. But after all
> the
> > hope and hype and buildup and anticipation that I had subjected myself to
> --
> > I was really let down.
> > I was really hoping it would be my salvation from Windoze. No. It was
> > useless. So I'm back with Windoze 2000 and the very least I can say about
> it
> > is -- well.... it works.
> >
> >
> I suggest installing with the Alternate CD, followed by "sudo aptitude
> install xubuntu-desktop" to get a lightweight gui, XFCE.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingXubuntu
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:51:45 +0200
> From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> Derek Broughton schreef:
>
> > So it works on Windows 2000 - you could probably get great performance
> out
> > of a Dapper version of Ubuntu, too.
>
> "Unlike the Windows family of operating systems, an early machine does
> not require an early version of Ubuntu. If you are installing Xubuntu on
> an old PC or with early hardware, jump straight to the most recent
> version. It is not necessary to hunt down an old version of Ubuntu to
> use your PC. The newest version is the appropriate one."
>
> From: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingXubuntu
>
>
> There is absolutely no good reason to install Dapper Drake (6.06) except
> that it is a Long Term Support version.
> And why did Canonical invent LTS? To get inside companies. If you are
> not a big corporation with special business needs but just a Joe Sixpack
> desktop user at home, I wouldn't bother with LTS. Just take the stable
> release.
>
> --
> Amedee
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