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Re: [ALUG] Bittorrent / Sky / ThePirateBay
by mick 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:44:24 +0100 Alex Scotton <alex.scotton(a)gmail.com> allegedly wrote: > >>and if so does anyone know of a good encrypted proxy?.. > > > > Try Tor, though some operators (myself included I may add) actually > > block torrents in their exit policies. Too bandwidth hungry. > > been checking out the website, looks very good.. however few > questions, I assume you have volunteered to be a "relay" so this just > sets up a few ssh tunnels between you and the target and bounces your > connection around a little etc... its routed through encrypted > "relays" to the target and then "encrypted" back through? does this > not create a tad of latency, especially on torrents if some relays are > allowing it and some aren't. See http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en for details of how tor works. It is not really a set of ssh tunnels. Tor's great strength is that no-one can link your source address to the destination you are interested in (well, no-one without the capability of observing all possible tor nodes - which excludes even most nation states). Yes, tor is slow, but how fast do you need to be for file transfer? And of course, the more tor relays there are, the faster the network gets. See also http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en for how to configure your tor client as a relay. But beware, the impact on your own bandwidth can be huge. I choose to run a tor exit node (a relay which also permits exit) on a VPS. Despite some judicious throttling I still consume 3 to 3.5 Gig of traffic per day. My VPS contract allows 150 Gig per month so I kep an eye on usage. I found that running a relay on my ADSL line was totally impractical. You can, of course, just use tor as a client, but that way you are not giving anything back to the community. And as I said, the more tor relays there are, the faster and more "secure" the network becomes. When I want to use tor myself, I just set up an SSH tunnel to my relay and join the network from there. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Partition imaging and restoring
by Mark Rogers 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Ah, Windows, Windows, Windows, how I love thee. There definitely seems to be a certain type of user who, given a few weeks with a Windows installation (no matter what AV software is installed) will end up with a compromised machine. So I'm looking for a way to roll-back to a clean install. What I'm thinking is to have two partitions on the disk - the Windows one and an EXT2/3 partition containing an image of the clean Windows install. All I need then is: (a) a way to create the image (Linux has several of these but recommendations welcome) (b) a way for a "normal user" (with some support) to restore the image I started by thinking simple; have a dual-boot config with a basic Linux install selectable from a Grub menu (labelled "System Restore" or similar), which when booted simply runs the restore command automatically (which might just be dd). To create/update the image I'd use a LiveCD. But then I thought that this has probably all been done before and there's probably a standard solution out there? The key point is that it needs to be end-user friendly when it comes to restoring the image. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Pub meet pub suggestion
by Montmorency 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

>We need to have a bit of discussion over where the 2nd Thursday Norwich >pub meet is going to be held this month. The Coach and Horses on Thorpe Road! http://www.thecoachthorperoad.co.uk/ Points: a) Very good beer that they brew in the premises. b) They do food c) The location is very convenient for the railway station, for getting home. Busses and taxis are to be found there as well as trains. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox- a&ie=UTF8&q=Coach+Horses +Norwich&fb=1&split=1&gl=uk&cid=0,0,4671222259257925321&ei=djqkSpe9NdG6j Ae-wvi2Dg&ll=52.627098,1.311128&spn=0.008075,0.01929&z=16&iwloc=A d) There is some parking in front of the pub. And side-street parking in the area. e) It's not crowded on weekdays, it's a large place with lots of tables so getting one for Alug shouldn't be a problem. f) The pub has wireless. katmeat montmorency(a)ukfsn.org bellphegore(a)nerdshack.com

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Bittorrent / Sky / ThePirateBay
by Alex Scotton 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

Hello guys, I've been humming and harring for days now, over what's been going on with The Pirate Bay tracker.... Basically, I download from nowhere else other than thepiratebay, hastening to delete all other trackers from torrents before starting downloads; however over the last few days I've noticed a rapid decline in my download speeds, and noticed differences between the number of seeders published on thepiratebay site and what I actually get in bittorrent... So after about 30 seconds of investigation today realised that bittorrent was registering tracker.thepiratebay.org as "offline(timed out)"; assuming the worst I headed over to suprbay.org only to find out that the tracker was indeed up and running fine, so i decided to ping/traceroute tracker.thepiratebay.org and have found that it is possible for me to resolve the IP linked to the hostname but not in fact get there: traceroute to tracker.thepiratebay.org (192.121.86.7), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 myrouter.home (192.168.0.1) 1.224 ms 1.632 ms 2.040 ms 2 cr0.eacos.uk.easynet.net (87.87.253.19) 62.079 ms 62.576 ms 63.556 ms 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * ........ So assuming that Sky had done the dirty deed; I switched to OpenDNS and unfortunetly the same story there as I guessed there would be, because all they provide me with is resolutions and the direction for the IP linked to the hostname, right? they are as they say a Domain Name Server... so if Sky don't want me going somewhere, then I ain't getting there, even if I use OpenDNS. So would I be able to get around this using a proxy? and if so does anyone know of a good encrypted proxy?.. so i can say a big F**k you to Sky... (I am by the way calling them tomorrow to ask them why I can't connect to it) Gathering all the info possible would help for my lovely telephone call with a bright and bubbly Sky rep tomorrow; So if any of you other poor poor peeps use Sky, can you ping/traceroute tracker.thepiratebay.org for me, and in fact even if you aren't with sky give it a try for me, and let me know your findings.. ya never know maybe it isn't sky but instead a higher power up the line. Thanks in advance Alex Scotton

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Bittorrent / Sky / ThePirateBay
by Alex Scotton 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- (didn't CC the list haha...again) From: Alex Scotton <alex.scotton(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [ALUG] Bittorrent / Sky / ThePirateBay To: Srdjan Todorovic <todorovic.s(a)googlemail.com> > Others on IRC are reporting similar. Can resolve the host but can't get > to it. Wow.. had spaced on the Alug IRC, has been a few years since I've been on there.. and with IRC on my phone aswell no less, what a fool ha ha ha... Are these peeps on Sky also, or does it vary? there's a lot of people experiencing the same from all over the world according to the Suprbay forums.. bring on Blackout Europe and the end of our free speech, aye?.. Will let you know what Sky has to say on the matter, I shall be informing them that I wish to download "legitimate" un-copyrighted data from there and that i shall be canceling the direct debit etc.. and forfeiting the contract as a result of this action... as I am paying for the "Internet" (open and free as it is) not some corporate fool's idea of the Internet.

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Thursday pub meet
by Richard 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

How about Take 5 in tombland? Equal distance from bus and train station, it's a busier area at night than the reindeer, next to inner-city bus stops, taxi rank, and a cash machine. They do great food, plenty of Ale (YAY!). St. Andrews car park is very nearby. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=take+5,+tombl… Cheers Richard -- Richard Bensley - 07540878285

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Re: [ALUG] Google Phone (T-Mobile/HTC G1)
by Alex Scotton 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Doh! Well trust T-Mobile, aye?.. it's pretty iritating, so there's no flash support in cupcake either?.. hmm I know (what I assume is version 2) the g2 has flash 10 support so it must be coming.. Just going to have either play the waiting game, or flash it with JesusFreke's copy, then begs the question do you trust a guy who calls himself jesusfreke haha On 17 Aug 2009, 1:43 PM, "samwise" <samwise(a)bagshot-row.org> wrote: Hi, Alex. I have a Vodafone HTC Magic Android phone. Fortunately, for me, it came with Cupcake (Android OS 1.5) by default, so I haven't had any of the problems you describe. Although I'm pretty sure I don't have Flash support - that's supposed to be on the way, but it's not in Cupcake out of the box. October was the last date, I remember reading ... I haven't hacked it much - I've installed some apps that weren't in the Android market but, so far, I haven't seen any real need to root it, tbh. Android is pretty flexible anyway, and does most things out of the box or with apps from the market place so I haven't felt a need to put Debian (or Ubuntu) on it. Peter. 2009/8/17 Alex Scotton <alex.scotton(a)gmail.com>: > Hi guys, > > I'm a relative new comer to the world of linux, I use Ubuntu when I > can, however ha... > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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Thursday pub meet
by Adam Bower 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi all, We need to have a bit of discussion over where the 2nd Thursday Norwich pub meet is going to be held this month. We need a venue with good beer, plenty of seating, good accessibility for people using bus/train and nearby car parking. As I've not got any idea over city pubs does anyone else have any suggestions? or shall we just start by doing some investigative research in person starting over the next few days ;) Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Re: [ALUG] Google Phone (T-Mobile/HTC G1)
by Alex Scotton 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Alex Scotton<alex.scotton(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> For the following reason: >> >> <head><style>body{font-family: >> Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: >> #ffffff;color: black;}p{margin:0px}</style></head><body >> id="compText">Helena >> Oakey wrote<br><<<<br><o:p></o:p> > > Fair enough, just going to have to wait until I get back to a PC to > email you guys then ha ha, how useless :-( > > Whilst I am emailing though, I posed a question a while back that I am > now about to search my emails for; it was regarding my Monitor and it > not "sleeping" correctly, and it was answered with something along the > lines of "DPMS 0 0 15", but after a quick google last night when I > suddenly remembered the words DPMS (at 3am in bed) haha, no such joy.. > Sent this to Ted by accident ha ha... i'm such a fool sometimes haha... Found the answer in my emails, gotta love archiving all the ALUG conversations hehe... the answer lies in "xset DPMS" but if i want these settings to persist past a restart of X, I need to set them in Xorg.conf, right?

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Why do these pipes report as empty files to 'file'?
by Chris G 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Using NFS it sets up what would *seem* to be some pipes in /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, however some of these seem to have rather odd characteristics and they confuse rdiff-backup so it reports errors due to files apparently changing while it runs. The specific files in question are these:- chris$ ls -l /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt* /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt6: total 0 -r-------- 1 root root 0 2009-08-25 21:42 info /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt7: total 0 -r-------- 1 root root 0 2009-08-25 21:42 info /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt8: total 0 -r-------- 1 root root 0 2009-08-25 21:42 info Now note that these are reported as normal (but empty) files by 'ls'. Similarly 'file' reports them the same:- chris$ file /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt?/* /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt6/info: empty /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt7/info: empty /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt8/info: empty But they're not really empty, presumably because they're pipes or fifos or something:- root@chris:/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs# cat /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt6/info RPC server: garage.local service: nfs (100003) version 3 address: 192.168.1.88 protocol: tcp port: 0 root@chris:/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs# This is presumably what's confusing rdiff-backup because they *seem* to be empty ordinary files but they aren't. Is this normal for pipes/fifos or is there something special about these? -- Chris Green

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