Re: ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 56, Issue 333

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Today's Topics:

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: to Karl
To: ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: FingerPrint Reader - jaunty 9.04 - thinkpad t61
To: ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Newbie still confused about potential for virus problems
on Ubuntu
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, wirechief <silvermachineman@xxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Newbie still confused about potential for virus problems
on Ubuntu
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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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@xxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: to Karl
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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>
+1 416-410-3326
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:44:41 +0200
From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu
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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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