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Off Topic forum / Sco - We Own All Your Code. Pay Us All You Money.

« on: November 30, 2004, 02:24:29 am »

While I don't really condone defacements, I have to admit that's pretty slick.  Especially the tagging of the whiteboard in the background.

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Pittsburgh / Newbie

« on: November 30, 2004, 02:15:35 am »

Hi chaosteo,
Welcome to the Pittsburgh ZUG.  As you can see, there hasn't been much activity 'round here lately (had a hard time coming up with a decent location for a meeting).  Though I'm fairly sure we could get a nice showing if we found a good meeting spot.  I might look into a Pitt venue, as they've finally started adding some APs around Oakland.  
-CC

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Pittsburgh / Suggestions for 1st Pittsburgh ZUG Meeting

« on: January 17, 2004, 07:27:34 am »

I\'ll see what I can put together.  Thanks for giving it a go.

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Security and Networking / Kismit runs, but doesn\'t get signals

« on: January 13, 2004, 08:40:57 am »

Are you starting the Kismet-server app first or are you simply launching the Kismet-GUI by itself?

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Pittsburgh / Suggestions for 1st Pittsburgh ZUG Meeting

« on: December 29, 2003, 09:40:27 pm »

Nice job on getting a locale together for the meeting.  Keep us posted about a potential date when you get a chance.

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Security and Networking / We need CPR for this forum!

« on: December 16, 2003, 03:07:49 pm »

True, especially when you think about all the necessary modules that come along with iptables.

Unfortunately a zaurus with wireless networking makes a nice springboard into a network; especially with nasties like samba shares and tFTP available.  Though it is possible to turn off some of the un-needed networking daemons.  I can\'t remember what the default config looks like, but I remember turning off a bunch of stuff when I first got my Z.

To be fair though, I don\'t think that it differs from any other PDA that I\'m aware of.  That just seems to be the industry standard, probably for the reasons you pointed out Taim.

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Security and Networking / We need CPR for this forum!

« on: December 16, 2003, 10:58:35 am »

Is it secure?

Not really, at least not the default configuration.  The 2 biggest weaknesses I can think of off the top of my head would have to be that there is not even a rudimentry firewall installed and the initial root password can only be a numeric string of, IIRC, 8 characters.  The fact that letters or punctuation aren\'t used reduces the amount of time needed to crack passwords by orders of magnitude.  I\'ve seen iptables packages available, but I\'m not sure if you can use it without recompiling the kernel to include netfilter support.  There\'s a boat-load of other security issues you could nit-pick about, but it really comes down to a trade-off between sacrificing usability for security.  How many newbies want to write iptables scripts just so they can get there Z to sync?  Not many.

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Pittsburgh / Suggestions for 1st Pittsburgh ZUG Meeting

« on: December 09, 2003, 10:52:37 am »

IMHO EVERYBODY is welcome....Except for that guy from \"The Jeffersons.\'

Damn,  I was going to bring him as a guest.

Anybody who can make it to  the meeting is welcome.  I\'m hoping to have a time and place worked out well in advance in order to allow those with a significant drive to have fair warning and be able to plan ahead.

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Pittsburgh / Suggestions for 1st Pittsburgh ZUG Meeting

« on: December 08, 2003, 01:50:35 pm »

Looks like we currently have 6 members at the Pittsburgh ZUG, which is probably enough to go ahead and have a ZUG meeting.   I\'m estimating that the meeting will take place in mid-January, in order to give us enough time to work out the specifics of when and where exactly.  I would appreciate any input about places to hold it.  The only guidelines I would suggest are that it is somewhere relatively central (we have members both north and south of the city) and that it have some form of wireless access (preferably free).  Beyond that I\'m open to ideas.

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Pittsburgh / Need some activity/meeting for P\'burgh ZUG

« on: October 25, 2003, 10:36:59 pm »

I guess once we get a decent number of people who are willing to show up for a meeting, it will be worthwhile.  Looks like we have 5 of us registered in the Pittsburgh ZUG as of now.  I think a few more and we should give it a shot.  Any thoughts Taim?

As far as meeting places, I wouldn\'t mind driving to anywhere in the Pittsburgh Metro area, though Washington, PA might be a little far for anyone north of Downtown.  My only request would be that it had wireless access (preferably free) :-]

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Pittsburgh / Welcome to Pittsburgh\'s very own nifty ZUG

« on: September 26, 2003, 12:08:45 am »

Damn, forgot to login.  :-]

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Pittsburgh / Welcome to Pittsburgh\'s very own nifty ZUG

« on: August 18, 2003, 09:58:24 pm »

It\'s a 5600.  The battery life on it is actually pretty good.  I know they increased the battery size when they went from the 5500 to the 5600, so I think that helps.  But I do have to agree with you on the ROMs, they\'re  not quite what I hoped they\'d be.  Oh well, I end up using the Konsole most of the time anyway.  How much different are the OpenZaurus ROMs?

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Pittsburgh / Welcome to Pittsburgh\'s very own nifty ZUG

« on: August 18, 2003, 09:07:38 pm »

Woohooo, joined the Pittsburgh ZUG!  I\'m a grad student living in Shadyside.  Got my Z a couple of weeks ago and I can\'t believe how much this thing rocks!  Glad to see that Taim put a Pittsburgh ZUG  together

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5x00 General discussions / New, naive user

« on: August 14, 2003, 11:50:10 am »

It is odd that the Zaurus isn\'t supported \"out-of-the-box\" by linux, but AFAIK the problem is really that USB networking isn\'t enabled by default.  That being said, there are some how-tos on how to set that up:

http://docs.zaurus.com/index.php?id=lc_redhat_5600

Personally I have wireless networking setup at home, so I can just connect to my AP and then use SSH to transfer stuff.

As for the login prompt, if you push the / button during the boot process (right after it says \"Entering runlevel 5\" and starts counting), it will give you a \"run-level menu\" where you can select \"a\"  (Linux Console).  From there it will give you a login prompt.  If you want to always boot into the login prompt, I think if you edit /etc/inittab so that the following line:
id:5:initdefault:
says this:
id:3:initdefault:
It should always boot into the console.  However, I haven\'t tried that, so if it won\'t boot, caches on fire, or attempts to take over the world, I am not responsible.
HTH

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Off Topic forum / so what do you do?

« on: August 08, 2003, 02:26:20 am »

I\'m a PhD student in Human Genetics.  I got hooked on linux during my undergrad days and decided to get a CS minor.  I do cancer research most of the time, but I code part of our departments web pages and maintain a small cluster of mixed linux & BSD boxes as well.  In my spare time I try and figure out why the hell some of the.ipk files I want won\'t install on my 5600   Aside from that, I think my Z is the best thing since sliced bread.