Re: [techtalk] Re: Odd firewall outputs (cont)

2001-03-24 Thread Rick Scott
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:31:04PM -0500, Angela Nash wrote: > If your connection is on cable or DSL, expect to get port scanned > every few minutes. You'll fill up your firewall logs very fast. As Clifto said when I posted about this in news.admin.net-abuse.email, `Raise the drawbridge and ma

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:20:17AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Gina Lanik thought: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:47:24 +0100, Makiko Itoh writes: > >Anyway, this is my first post here. I've enjoyed lurking so far. :) > > welcome! and finally someone from "central" europe! :-) > I'm from "

Re: [techtalk] Re: Odd firewall outputs (cont)

2001-03-24 Thread Kath
My Cisco teacher at school runs a firewall and he told me he gets scanned tons of times. I just never saw these things echoed to my display before, so it scared me. - Kath - Original Message - From: "Angela Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'psyche'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kath" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > And is there much non-academic work for programmers/designers* in this > sort of area? (Yes I realise I'll have to be good :) ) Depends on what 'this sort of area' is. Where in Australia are you? Dancer (my husband) nowadays has the geek-cred to be getting research and bl

Re: [techtalk] Re: Odd firewall outputs (cont)

2001-03-24 Thread psyche
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kath wrote: > Is that (the IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 24.112.23.202!) > anything to worry about? > > - Kath > - Original Message - > From: Kath > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:58 PM > Subject: Odd firewall o

RE: [techtalk] Re: Odd firewall outputs (cont)

2001-03-24 Thread Angela Nash
If your connection is on cable or DSL, expect to get port scanned every few minutes. You'll fill up your firewall logs very fast. Jason -Original Message- From: psyche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 7:26 PM To: Kath Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [techtalk

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 04:01:14PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > YES!!! We talk about that a lot where I work. My company is crawling > with people who have advanced math degrees. I affectionatly call 'em > "Those Math People." They took to computer languages so easily. I, on > the other hand

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:36:18AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Note that 'My husband is right, Mr Smith is a knight' is a complex > statement, and technically should be separated into 'My husband is > right' and 'Mr Smith is a knight'. Yeah I realised that, and I'm also not sure what a li

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Nancy Corbett
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Makiko Itoh wrote: > Speaking of which, I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on how > learning human languages, or the ability to, translates to the > ability to learn programming languages, or vice versa? Both my > husband and I are multilingual and we often talk about h

Re: [techtalk] Odd firewall outputs

2001-03-24 Thread Kath
It was actually four times in sequence. Checking to see if there is any new user accounts on the system. Did anyone on the list do it? I did give out my domain name which corresponds to this box. If you did, just say so, I won't be mad or anything. I would just like to know what the hell that

Re: [techtalk] Odd firewall outputs

2001-03-24 Thread jenn
Kath wrote: > I have a Debian 2.2 firewall doing ipmasquerade running the kernel that > came with it (2.2.18 IIRC). > > > > This machine also serves as a web, email and DNS server. > > > > I woke up this morning and saw the following on the monitor: > > > > IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP: fai

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > I've only been looking at Prolog for a few days though and got very > frustrated at the step of defining Y true, from knight says Y. Been many years since I last used prolog. Lemme go grab a book. true(Y) :- knight(X) says(X, Y) Try that. Jenn V. --

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > So everyone's a normal. > > Is this actually right? I haven't stepped through each individual stage, but it looks like your working is correct. Your answer agrees with mine, as well. Note that 'My husband is right, Mr Smith is a knight' is a complex statement, and tec

RE: [techtalk] Snort - Sensor and Analyst console HW config

2001-03-24 Thread Angela Nash
On my OpenBSD system right now snort is using 7MB of RAM. I don't think you can have one snort process listen on multiple interfaces, so you would have to run more than one process. I may be wrong on that, but the -i option doesn't seem to take multiple options. If you have to listen on 3, I'd

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > Knights and Knaves problem. > > Suppose you visit a strange island with three types of people. Knights, > who always tell the truth, Knaves, who always lie and Normals who > sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth. It is also th

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote: > One time someone told me to study Logic...but not just any logic, some > specific type of logic. I can no longer remember what it's called. Maybe > you know. I can see how it would help me to cover all my bases when > writing progr

Re: [techtalk] Snort - Sensor and Analyst console HW config

2001-03-24 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Angela Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Snort by itself doesn't seem to use a lot of CPU. What eats up CPU on my > Snort system is the snortsnarf tool that takes the log information and > outputs it to HTML reports. A "reasonably fast" system like a Pentium II or > higher should work jus

Re: [techtalk] Problems with mouse and X

2001-03-24 Thread Eva Fenrich
Hi! On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:54:13AM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:20:14AM -0800, jennyw wrote: > Before going any farther with configuring this mouse to run in X, turn > off gpm (console mouse driver). For some reason 2.2 has a hard time > with gpm running and a working X mous

Re: [techtalk] Problems with mouse and X

2001-03-24 Thread Gina Lanik
greets! what you can try for sure is look into the settings for gpm, they're usually not usuable/correct. I use debian potato here with a MS intellimouse. part of my settings of /etc/X11/XF86Config are: Section "Pointer" Protocol"IMPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" ZAxisMapping

[techtalk] Re: Odd firewall outputs (cont)

2001-03-24 Thread Kath
Is that (the IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 24.112.23.202!) anything to worry about?   - Kath - Original Message - From: Kath To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Odd firewall outputs I have a Debian 2.2 firewall

Re: [techtalk] Problems with mouse and X

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:20:14AM -0800, jennyw wrote: > I'm using an Microsoft's optical mouse (Intellieye), and am having trouble > getting it to work well with X. In particular, I can't get the mouse to > emulate the middle button (I tried using Emulate3Buttons). I'm using Debian > 2.2 which

[techtalk] Odd firewall outputs

2001-03-24 Thread Kath
I have a Debian 2.2 firewall doing ipmasquerade running the kernel that came with it (2.2.18 IIRC).    This machine also serves as a web, email and DNS server.   I woke up this morning and saw the following on the monitor:   IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP: failed checksum from 24.112.23.202 IP_MASQ

[techtalk] Problems with mouse and X

2001-03-24 Thread jennyw
I'm using an Microsoft's optical mouse (Intellieye), and am having trouble getting it to work well with X. In particular, I can't get the mouse to emulate the middle button (I tried using Emulate3Buttons). I'm using Debian 2.2 which comes with XFree86 3.3.6.11. Although I think this is an X issue

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Gina Lanik
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:47:24 +0100, Makiko Itoh writes: >Anyway, this is my first post here. I've enjoyed lurking so far. :) welcome! and finally someone from "central" europe! :-) cheers, Gina -- The correct plural of virus is "vi". Throw enough of the little buggers together and they neutr

Re: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...

2001-03-24 Thread Makiko Itoh
Michelle, jenn, Nancy, >One time someone told me to study Logic...but not just any logic, some >specific type of logic. I can no longer remember what it's called. Maybe >you know. I can see how it would help me to cover all my bases when >writing programs. It involves mapping out truth tables