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Firefox and T-bird on flash drive
by Brian Kelsay 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Oren was talking last week at the meeting about putting Thunderbird on a flash drive and so this seemed appropriate. Windows-only for now. PUTTING FIREFOX AND THUNDERBIRD ON A FLASH DRIVE I had a caller on the radio show last week who wanted to put Firefox and Thunderbird on a USB flash drive. I said it could be done, but that it would take some work that I just could not explain on the air. (Note: If you don't know what a flash drive is, I cover that below in the Rookie Rundown below.) The way that I did it was to create a profile on the drive, copy some files and do a bit more tweaking. Well, Brad, in Spring Hill, TN, wrote me to say that much of the work has been done already. You just have to download the portable versions. You can find all of the details on these sites. Thank you, Brad! You rock! http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/ Brian Kelsay

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Re: Request for help: Debian firewall, and maybe some kernel upgradetips
by Brian Kelsay 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Jared wrote: >> At present, all I need open is SSH, WWW, and FTP. >You've probably already noticed this, but ftp is traditionally port 21, so >you want to open ports 21,22,80 for ftp,ssh,www. Port 23 is usually >telnet. >Regards, >-Don Don't you also need port 20 open for ftp? Brian Kelsay

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Request for help: Debian firewall, and maybe some kernel upgrade tips
by Jared 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

I need some firewall help, for starters. At present, all I need open is SSH, WWW, and FTP. I tried this: http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/iptables_install.html but I'm installing on 3.0r1 with 2.2 kernel and got several error messages regarding incompatible kernel when I tried to start the firewall. I'd like to upgrade to a newer kernel, but can't seem to find any help on how to do this easily using apt-get. I think if I'm using 2.4 or 2.6 my problem with the firewall will go away. I do not have physical access to the box I'm working on, so need to be able to do all of this without physical intervention, or even the risk of it. What's the safest way to upgrade a Debian kernel? Also. Is there any sort of firewall that is real easy to configure, something like this: [SuperEasyFirewall] Open=22,80,23 Blocked=22.23.34.43:[22,80] Closed=EverythingElse I don't understand why a firewall config has to be four miles long and so dern complicated! -Jared

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Re: Migrating to Linux - WP
by Jack 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

--- Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:07:43PM -0500, Jonathan > Hutchins wrote: > > It's my understanding that oo2 no longer runs on > Linux, but requires > > Java instead. > > > It looks like more of OpenOffice.org 2 is dependent > on Java, but you can > use parts of it without. OO.org 1 used Java for: > ... > > So you can do things like type and print, but > getting into more complex > features would require a JRE. The article goes on > to say that some > distros use a free JRE with gcj, and others don't > include OO.org at all > (Slackware). One I don't see why using java is an issue. Java runs fine on Linux. Yeah I know all the *Evil Sun* issues. Blah, blah, blah. Anyway from what I understand the "free JREs" don't necessarily work well with OO. Some of the features aren't working yet. Eventually someone will come up with a 100% "free" JRE, but until that happens you're best bet is to install Sun's JRE for OO. Personally, I don't care too much about the battle over Sun's JRE, but would use an alternate if it was stable enough. The point of the original post was about porting users to Linux. If that means giving them Sun's JRE and OO2 so much the better. BRian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: WAP Distro
by Brian Kelsay 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

ZoneCD http://www.publicip.net/ "The ZoneCD is a re-master of Morphix CD ( http://www.morphix.org/ ) which in turn is a modified version of KNOPPIX CD ( http://www.knoppix.net/ ). " Which is in turn based on Debian. Cool stuff. Brian Kelsay

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WAP Distro
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

There was some discussion of a Linux distro that was targeted at being a WAP gateway. I'm not quite completely set up here in England yet, and don't have a search function for the list, could someone remind me of the name of that packate?

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Migrating to Linux - WP
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

I was reading about yet another LTSP project the other day, and idly thinking about making the next upgrade at the law office a move to LTSP, when I was brought up short by recalling that they all run Windows, however comfortable I've become in KDE. There are going to be a couple of major showstoppers if I try to convert someone there to Linux. One is a special propietary sort of word processing package that handles Court Reporter Transcripts, but I think it might run under Wine. The big problem is that several courts require documents to be submitted in Word Perfect format, and last I checked OpenOffice was not even inporting WP, let alone saving a workable output. I seem to remember that in order to run WP under Linux, Corell had some sort of full Windows emulation set up, where you had to install Linux, Windows, Wine, WP, and maybe something else. Has anybody worked with WP on a linux platform? How much of a pain is it? Does it require a state-of-the-art workstation to handle all the emulation load or will it run on a minimal LTSP setup? (I remember when WP ran on a dedicated machine the size of an office desk with return. It's never really been happy unless it could have the whole computer to itself.)

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Re: Migrating to Linux - WP
by Jared 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I think this was meant for the list: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Migrating to Linux - WP Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:17:15 -0500 From: Justin Dugger <jldugger(a)gmail.com> To: Jared <jared(a)hatwhite.com> One word of caution, OO.org doesn't nessecarily do a great job at working with non-native documents, especially as a beta. I'm not sure how you can con the lawyers into testing the suitability for their needs though, given that the firm probably likes them working on billable hours and such. Just because it "works" doesn't mean it always works, after all. Nobody likes an upgrade that works like a downgrade, which puts a huge burden on OO.org to handle document formats, work just like the old software, and crash less often. On the other hand, it sounds like it might work better than a WINE solution. There is a third possiblity, but reading the FAQ it sounds heavily problematic: WordPerfect on Linux natively. Its now unsupported, but neither is WINE. Justin Dugger On 4/13/05, Jared <jared(a)hatwhite.com> wrote: > > The big problem is that several courts require documents to be submitted > > in Word Perfect format, and last I checked OpenOffice was not even > > inporting WP, let alone saving a workable output. > > Look at the beta for openoffice 2.0, it now handles WordPerfect. > Scroll about half of the way down this page: > > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html > > -Jared

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Re: Request for help: Debian firewall, and maybe some kernel upgrade tips
by Jared 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

> | Also. Is there any sort of firewall that is real > | easy to configure, something like this: > | > | [SuperEasyFirewall] > | Open=22,80,23 > | Blocked=22.23.34.43:[22,80] > | Closed=EverythingElse > | > | I don't understand why a firewall config has to be > | four miles long and so dern complicated! > | > | -Jared > > # clear the tables > iptables -F > # set the default for the INPUT chain to DROP > iptables -I INPUT -j DROP -i eth0 > # allow established and related connections > iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED > # Allow ports 22,23,80 > iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 > iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 23 > iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 > # Allow localhost connections > iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT -i lo > # Block this IP on port 22 and 80 > iptables -I INPUT -j DROP -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -s 22.23.34.43 > iptables -I INPUT -j DROP -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -s 22.23.34.43 > > > Chris Chris, Thank you! I now understand what iptables are doing. This helps a lot. -Jared

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RE: Migrating to Linux - WP
by Jared 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

> The big problem is that several courts require documents to be submitted > in Word Perfect format, and last I checked OpenOffice was not even > inporting WP, let alone saving a workable output. Look at the beta for openoffice 2.0, it now handles WordPerfect. Scroll about half of the way down this page: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html -Jared

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