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Mac terminal emulation software
by Scott Granados 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Can anyone point me at a native Mac application for terminal emulation over serial connections? I have a pl20323 serial adapter which the Mac recognizes no problem but I don’t have any software that I can use to take advantage of this port and allow me to configure new routers and switches etc. Any pointers would be most appreciated! Obviously Voice Over support is critical. Anyone using a program they can suggest, free paid or otherwise. Thanks Scott

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old operating systems
by Philip Hall 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Hi. I recently came across emulators for old hardware such as IBM 360/370/390, and digital equipment's PDP line. Does anyone on this list have any documentation laying around for this old hardware, and for the following operating systems? Any OS for IBM 360/370/390, especially VMS or TOS TOPS10 on the PDP 10 or any of the different operating systems that can run on the pdp 8, pdp11, PDP 15 or VAX? RFB&D used to have a lot of manuals on tape, but I guess it is all gone now. Many thanks Phil

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WatchGuard XTM accessibility
by Anatoliy Shudrya 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hello Everyone, I was wondering if anybody ever used watchguard products like firewall and stumbled with accessibility of GUI or Watchguard System Manager. I know the GUI web interface works with Windows eyes to some extent, but could not ever find any kind of screen reader to make system manager accessible. Any kind of input greatly appreciated. P.S. New to the mailing list, so if I am doing something wrong, please steer me on the right way. Anatoliy

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Setting up a web server with FTP
by Andrew Hodgson 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi, I want to set up a web server with FTP on a Debian box. Idea is that users log in and get access to /var/www/host, but that is it. I have done this before but it wasn't the best option, and I need this to be as secure as possible (realising that the password for FTP connections go over plaintext). Any recipes/ideas that have worked in the past? Thanks. Andrew.

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Setting up a web server with FTP
by Andrew Hodgson 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Hi, I want to set up a web server with FTP on a Debian box. Idea is that users log in and get access to /var/www/host, but that is it. I have done this before but it wasn't the best option, and I need this to be as secure as possible (realising that the password for FTP connections go over plaintext). Any recipes/ideas that have worked in the past? Thanks. Andrew.

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Accessibility VMWare training
by John G. Heim 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

All, I am interested in the experiences people have had with getting training for VMware. IAVIT is currently working with VMware on accessibility and they asked me to see if I could collect some information. If you have gotten training from VMware itself, that would be especially useful information.

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just idia
by Ibrahim Mahsoub 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

hello guys this is ibrahem mahsoub from egypt there is alot of keyboard typer teachers softwair in english there is an idia come up in my brain as a lettle programmer to make an keyboard typer teacher but for arabic keyboards and i wana make it special for cheldren and sure it must be talking to them i want to hear from you thanks in advance -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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just idia
by Ibrahim Mahsoub 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

hello guys this is ibrahem mahsoub from egypt there is alot of keyboard typer teachers softwair in english there is an idia come up in my brain as a lettle programmer to make an keyboard typer teacher but for arabic keyboards and i wana make it special for cheldren and sure it must be talking to them i want to hear from you thanks in advance -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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possible security breech
by David Mehler 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Hello Everyone, I'm running an fc20 Linux linode. I'll admit the past two months I've not been paying as much attention to it as I should, with a bunch of unexpected stresses. That being said it is fully up to date, I do that daily and it is running a firewall as well as the fail2ban software for automated bots defense. Tonight I checked my email and noticed two from an account on my system sent to me that is my account. I've got all root email forwarded to my account to read it. Now two things, first this account shouldn't have got any cron reports, second since I use virtual users and they're all in a database that user shouldn't have been able to send email from my server to me. I checked the account on the server and noticed a hidden directory called .local under which there was a share directory and a system directory under that. Finally there is a broken symbolic link called user which points or pointed I should say to a now nonexistent file and folder which do not exist. I've got an email out to the user, and I've checked the password file for any accounts with login shells, nothing new has come up. If this was an attempted root breakin with a rootkit this user is not in th e sudoers file so I think I'm safe there. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, and some further steps I can take on this issue to either confirm or refute as to whether I've been breeched. Thanks. Dave.

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possible security breech
by David Mehler 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Hello Everyone, I'm running an fc20 Linux linode. I'll admit the past two months I've not been paying as much attention to it as I should, with a bunch of unexpected stresses. That being said it is fully up to date, I do that daily and it is running a firewall as well as the fail2ban software for automated bots defense. Tonight I checked my email and noticed two from an account on my system sent to me that is my account. I've got all root email forwarded to my account to read it. Now two things, first this account shouldn't have got any cron reports, second since I use virtual users and they're all in a database that user shouldn't have been able to send email from my server to me. I checked the account on the server and noticed a hidden directory called .local under which there was a share directory and a system directory under that. Finally there is a broken symbolic link called user which points or pointed I should say to a now nonexistent file and folder which do not exist. I've got an email out to the user, and I've checked the password file for any accounts with login shells, nothing new has come up. If this was an attempted root breakin with a rootkit this user is not in th e sudoers file so I think I'm safe there. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, and some further steps I can take on this issue to either confirm or refute as to whether I've been breeched. Thanks. Dave.

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