Re: [clug-talk] Meeting June 4.... Topics

2014-05-24 Thread Mel Walters
Thanks for your ideas, they are great. As for my abilities at philosophy, practical application is what intrigues me on that subject. There's been much "synergy" among the new exec and I see more from the rest of the members still to come. Tied up most, if not all this weekend, so talk to you lat

[clug-talk] CUUG May meeting - Tuesday May 27 LibreSSL

2014-05-24 Thread caziz
CLUG members and friends are invited to the CUUG May meeting Tuesday May 27. Admission is free. Regards, Chris Aziz CUUG President May General Meeting LibreSSL: an Open-Source Replacement for OpenSSL Sometimes You Just Gotta Say, "Fork It!" Speaker: Theo de Raadt,

[clug-talk] Dual boot issues from (mythical underworld of your choice)

2014-05-24 Thread Noah Tellin
As of late last night, the Windows 7 installation (64-bit) on my Lenovo ThinkPad T420i will not start. While I know that this has an upside, I was planning to do some Windows-based training with a development environment to play with. I also have a legit MS Office installed there, with the receipt

Re: [clug-talk] Dual boot issues from (mythical underworld of your choice)

2014-05-24 Thread Gustin Johnson
Is the hard drive to be in know working condition? To test I would boot the computer with a bootable distro that has the badblocks program installed (systemrescuecd has this). Hopefully there is nothing wrong with the disk. The noisy fan may be the source of your troubles. If the laptop cannot

[clug-talk] Firewall/iptables

2014-05-24 Thread Joe S
I am looking for a firewall program to set up iptables on my computer. Any suggestions. I would also appreciate if someone could refer to some tutorial. I will probably have to get a basic understanding of networking and iptables to be able to use it. From my search I came across ip6tables. Conside

Re: [clug-talk] Firewall/iptables

2014-05-24 Thread Gustin Johnson
In Ubuntu the program is called ufw. Firestarter and fwbuilder are two GUI front ends that I have heard of, though I have not used them. You don't really need to worry about IPv6 since your ISP does not make use of IPv6 and your router probably doesn't either. Unless you manually set up an IPv6

Re: [clug-talk] Firewall/iptables

2014-05-24 Thread Gustin Johnson
The Ubuntu howto is pretty good and does not seem to be Ubuntu specifc (it should work on any Linux distro released since the 2.4 kernel, which was more than a decade ago): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo The automatic start part of the guide is somewhat specific to Debian and Ubun

Re: [clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 114, Issue 20

2014-05-24 Thread Noah Tellin
Re the dual boot problem, the fan issue is only intermittent and I will look at the exterior casing to make sure that all is in place. I've done a backup of the files I need from all user accounts on both operating systems. I have both two current releases of Mint 16, one 64 bit and the other 32-