From manuel.montezelo at gmail.com Fri Aug 2 16:15:51 2013 From: manuel.montezelo at gmail.com (Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:15:51 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2013/7/29 Tollef Fog Heen : > > Hiya, > > Karianne and I will be travelling a bit around the UK in August and it'd > be great to meet up and say hi to folks. > > Our plan is (all August): > > - 11th: Cambridge > - 12th: Oxford/Banbury > - 13-15th: Around Wales > - 16th: York > - 17th: Newcastle > - 18th-21st: Castleton (for LBW) > > We already have arrangements to meet up with some folks at some of the > places, but if you want to come say hi, please just respond and we'll > find a suitable venue, most likely a pub. :-) Did you already organise something in Cambridge? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo From tfheen at err.no Tue Aug 6 21:47:28 2013 From: tfheen at err.no (Tollef Fog Heen) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 22:47:28 +0200 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: (Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo's message of "Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:15:51 +0100") References: Message-ID: ]] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" > Did you already organise something in Cambridge? The current plan is Steve's for a test BBQ if the BBQ is ready by then, else a nearby pub. Steve, can you tell which one you were thinking of? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are From steve at einval.com Wed Aug 7 13:52:48 2013 From: steve at einval.com (Steve McIntyre) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 13:52:48 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20130807125248.GA19133@einval.com> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >]] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" > >> Did you already organise something in Cambridge? > >The current plan is Steve's for a test BBQ if the BBQ is ready by then, >else a nearby pub. Steve, can you tell which one you were thinking of? I was thinking of the Green Dragon: http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/green-dragon-pub/ it's ~5-10 minutes walk from my place. The BBQ is progressing, but slowly... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve at einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll From manuel.montezelo at gmail.com Wed Aug 7 15:31:46 2013 From: manuel.montezelo at gmail.com (Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 15:31:46 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: <20130807125248.GA19133@einval.com> References: <20130807125248.GA19133@einval.com> Message-ID: 2013/8/7 Steve McIntyre : > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >>]] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" >> >>> Did you already organise something in Cambridge? >> >>The current plan is Steve's for a test BBQ if the BBQ is ready by then, >>else a nearby pub. Steve, can you tell which one you were thinking of? > > I was thinking of the Green Dragon: > > http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/green-dragon-pub/ > > it's ~5-10 minutes walk from my place. The BBQ is progressing, but > slowly... :-/ Ah OK. Please post time and so on when you decide which place -- I will pop up if I can. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo From matthew at debian.org Fri Aug 9 08:55:34 2013 From: matthew at debian.org (Matthew Vernon) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:55:34 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: References: <20130807125248.GA19133@einval.com> Message-ID: <5204A076.7050302@debian.org> On 07/08/13 15:31, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2013/8/7 Steve McIntyre : >> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >>> ]] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" >>> >>>> Did you already organise something in Cambridge? >>> >>> The current plan is Steve's for a test BBQ if the BBQ is ready by then, >>> else a nearby pub. Steve, can you tell which one you were thinking of? >> >> I was thinking of the Green Dragon: >> >> http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/green-dragon-pub/ >> >> it's ~5-10 minutes walk from my place. The BBQ is progressing, but >> slowly... :-/ > > Ah OK. > > Please post time and so on when you decide which place -- I will pop > up if I can. +1 ; we have visitors on Sunday, but I'm expecting them to be gone by mid-afternoon. Regards, Matthew From tfheen at err.no Fri Aug 9 09:21:14 2013 From: tfheen at err.no (Tollef Fog Heen) Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:21:14 +0200 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: <5204A076.7050302@debian.org> (Matthew Vernon's message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:55:34 +0100") References: <20130807125248.GA19133@einval.com> <5204A076.7050302@debian.org> Message-ID: <87a9kr9sw5.fsf@xoog.err.no> ]] Matthew Vernon > On 07/08/13 15:31, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > 2013/8/7 Steve McIntyre : > >> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >>> ]] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" > >>> > >>>> Did you already organise something in Cambridge? > >>> > >>> The current plan is Steve's for a test BBQ if the BBQ is ready by then, > >>> else a nearby pub. Steve, can you tell which one you were thinking of? > >> > >> I was thinking of the Green Dragon: > >> > >> http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/green-dragon-pub/ > >> > >> it's ~5-10 minutes walk from my place. The BBQ is progressing, but > >> slowly... :-/ > > > > Ah OK. > > > > Please post time and so on when you decide which place -- I will pop > > up if I can. > > +1 ; we have visitors on Sunday, but I'm expecting them to be gone by > mid-afternoon. Ferry lands at 1, then we need to drive to Cambridge, check in, walk the dogs and before showing up, so we're likely to be there between 17 or 18, I think. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are From prjmellors at gmail.com Fri Aug 9 09:58:29 2013 From: prjmellors at gmail.com (Paul Mellors) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 09:58:29 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Introduction Message-ID: Hello All Just thought I'd say hello Name is Paul Mellors and I've just install Debian onto my laptop, nothing exciting and looking at the list history, this email might not even get read ;) But hello any way :) Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From manuel.montezelo at gmail.com Sun Aug 11 16:06:54 2013 From: manuel.montezelo at gmail.com (Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo) Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:06:54 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: <87a9kr9sw5.fsf@xoog.err.no> References: <20130807125248.GA19133@einval.com> <5204A076.7050302@debian.org> <87a9kr9sw5.fsf@xoog.err.no> Message-ID: 2013/8/9 Tollef Fog Heen : > ]] Matthew Vernon > >> On 07/08/13 15:31, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> > 2013/8/7 Steve McIntyre : >> >> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> >>> ]] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" >> >>> >> >>>> Did you already organise something in Cambridge? >> >>> >> >>> The current plan is Steve's for a test BBQ if the BBQ is ready by then, >> >>> else a nearby pub. Steve, can you tell which one you were thinking of? >> >> >> >> I was thinking of the Green Dragon: >> >> >> >> http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/green-dragon-pub/ >> >> >> >> it's ~5-10 minutes walk from my place. The BBQ is progressing, but >> >> slowly... :-/ >> > >> > Ah OK. >> > >> > Please post time and so on when you decide which place -- I will pop >> > up if I can. >> >> +1 ; we have visitors on Sunday, but I'm expecting them to be gone by >> mid-afternoon. > > Ferry lands at 1, then we need to drive to Cambridge, check in, walk the > dogs and before showing up, so we're likely to be there between 17 or > 18, I think. So finally, it's the Green Dragon pub after 18h? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo From steve at einval.com Sun Aug 11 19:06:26 2013 From: steve at einval.com (Steve McIntyre) Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:06:26 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Travelling the UK in August, meet up? In-Reply-To: References: <20130807125248.GA19133@einval.com> <5204A076.7050302@debian.org> <87a9kr9sw5.fsf@xoog.err.no> Message-ID: <20130811180626.GF14303@einval.com> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:06:54PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >2013/8/9 Tollef Fog Heen : >> ]] Matthew Vernon >> >>> On 07/08/13 15:31, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >>> > 2013/8/7 Steve McIntyre : >>> >> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >>> >>> ]] "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" >>> >>> >>> >>>> Did you already organise something in Cambridge? >>> >>> >>> >>> The current plan is Steve's for a test BBQ if the BBQ is ready by then, >>> >>> else a nearby pub. Steve, can you tell which one you were thinking of? >>> >> >>> >> I was thinking of the Green Dragon: >>> >> >>> >> http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/green-dragon-pub/ >>> >> >>> >> it's ~5-10 minutes walk from my place. The BBQ is progressing, but >>> >> slowly... :-/ >>> > >>> > Ah OK. >>> > >>> > Please post time and so on when you decide which place -- I will pop >>> > up if I can. >>> >>> +1 ; we have visitors on Sunday, but I'm expecting them to be gone by >>> mid-afternoon. >> >> Ferry lands at 1, then we need to drive to Cambridge, check in, walk the >> dogs and before showing up, so we're likely to be there between 17 or >> 18, I think. > >So finally, it's the Green Dragon pub after 18h? (Belatedly!) yes. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve at einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty From jurzik at guug.de Wed Aug 14 20:20:14 2013 From: jurzik at guug.de (Heike Jurzik) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:20:14 +0200 Subject: [Debian-uk] Get-together in Cambridge, Friday 16th August? In-Reply-To: <87y593mxaa.fsf@poker.hands.com> References: <20130718162724.GA10275@einval.com> <87y593mxaa.fsf@poker.hands.com> Message-ID: <20130814192014.GD25053@newverein.lst.de> Heya, On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 09:24:29PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > Let us know, and we'll see if we can organise a pub trip or similar. > > The 16th also happens to be Debian's 20th birthday > (counting from Ian Murdock's announcement[1]). Great timing on my side it seems. Also, I just finished updating my Debian book (800 pages on Wheezy, phew). > Sadly I'll be locked up in Le Camp in Switzerland, so won't be able to > make it, but I hear rumours that we'll be partying in parallel. Yes, I know, this collides with yet another DebConf, but everyone who is not in Switzerland: help us to celebrate and drink. ;) Have fun in .ch and see some of you soon maybe, Heike -- I'm the operator with my pocket calculator. (Kraftwerk) From mac at mcrowe.com Thu Aug 15 19:47:53 2013 From: mac at mcrowe.com (Mike Crowe) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:47:53 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] UK DSL _modem_ recommendation Message-ID: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> I've run my Debian box as a NAT router connected to my ADSL connection for many years. To do this well so that a network interface on the box gets the public IP address from my ISP I've used a D-Link DSL-300G ADSL1 Ethernet modem then a Speedtouch USB ADSL1 modem and more recently a Draytek Vigor 120 ADSL2+ modem. Unfortunately I've had two of the Vigor 120s fail for me after less than a year each. Now it's out of warranty Draytek aren't interested so I'm looking at alternatives. It looks like many ADSL routers support bridge modes but from what I can tell (and this is why I'm posting to debian-uk) these modes are useless in the UK because we use PPPoA rather than PPPoE and unlike the Vigor 120 they don't translate between the two. I can't believe I'm the only person trying to do this. What does everyone else use? Thanks. Mike. From mac at mcrowe.com Thu Aug 15 21:44:10 2013 From: mac at mcrowe.com (Mike Crowe) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:44:10 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] UK DSL _modem_ recommendation In-Reply-To: References: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> Message-ID: <20130815204410.GA25582@mcrowe.com> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Mike Crowe wrote: >> It looks like many ADSL routers support bridge modes but from what I >> can tell (and this is why I'm posting to debian-uk) these modes are >> useless in the UK because we use PPPoA rather than PPPoE and unlike >> the Vigor 120 they don't translate between the two. >> >> I can't believe I'm the only person trying to do this. What does >> everyone else use? On Thursday 15 August 2013 at 21:27:17 +0100, Edward Allcutt wrote: > I use a ZyXEL P-660R-D1 in RFC1483 Bridge mode (whatever that is). > It's used on a BT 21CN line although I know the same model also > works in bridge mode on Be lines (why may use the other > encapsulation? not sure). I believe I'm on a 21CN line from Eclipse so that sounds promising. > It was supplied by my ISP and works fine as a bridge modem without > any intervention for nearly three years. The only wrinkle is that it > doesn't support "baby jumbo" frames which allow using PPPoE with an > MTU of 1500 for encapsulated frames. AAISP seem to recommend a > "DLINK DSL-320B" for that use-case. Eclipse sent me a Zyxel AMG1202-T10A which claims to do RFC1483 bridge mode so perhaps I'll do some experiments. On Thursday 15 August 2013 at 21:53:48 +0200, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > It's probably worth checking with your ISP, but I believe that > nearly all lines now support PPPOE directly. I certainly had no > trouble with the A&A-supplied ZyXEL P660R with a BT 21CN line (I now > use an openreach supplied VDSL modem on the A&A FTTC service). I asked Eclipse what they recommend and they suggested using two IP addresses and disabling NAT on the router. This sounded like it would work too and it apparently wouldn't cost me any more but it would mean changing IP addresses and more reconfiguration so I would prefer to just stick with one. Thanks to both of you for your swift replies. Mike. From dom at earth.li Thu Aug 15 20:53:48 2013 From: dom at earth.li (Dominic Hargreaves) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:53:48 +0200 Subject: [Debian-uk] UK DSL _modem_ recommendation In-Reply-To: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> References: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> Message-ID: <20130815195348.GN3181@urchin.earth.li> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 07:47:53PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: > I've run my Debian box as a NAT router connected to my ADSL connection > for many years. To do this well so that a network interface on the box > gets the public IP address from my ISP I've used a D-Link DSL-300G > ADSL1 Ethernet modem then a Speedtouch USB ADSL1 modem and more > recently a Draytek Vigor 120 ADSL2+ modem. > > Unfortunately I've had two of the Vigor 120s fail for me after less > than a year each. Now it's out of warranty Draytek aren't interested > so I'm looking at alternatives. > > It looks like many ADSL routers support bridge modes but from what I > can tell (and this is why I'm posting to debian-uk) these modes are > useless in the UK because we use PPPoA rather than PPPoE and unlike > the Vigor 120 they don't translate between the two. > > I can't believe I'm the only person trying to do this. What does > everyone else use? It's probably worth checking with your ISP, but I believe that nearly all lines now support PPPOE directly. I certainly had no trouble with the A&A-supplied ZyXEL P660R with a BT 21CN line (I now use an openreach supplied VDSL modem on the A&A FTTC service). Cheers, Dominic. From michael.dorrington at gmail.com Thu Aug 15 21:48:01 2013 From: michael.dorrington at gmail.com (Michael Dorrington) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:48:01 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Manchester Debian 20th Birthday meet-up Message-ID: <520D3E81.9040208@gmail.com> We are going to meet up at 7pm tomorrow (Friday) in The Knott Bar on Deansgate (374 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4LY if the Internet is to be believed). It's on the opposite side of the road to Deansgate locks and is under the rail bridge. It'll be rather busy but I'll try to remember to wear some Debian gear so you can find us. See you there, Mike. -- FSF member #9429 http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429 http://www.fsf.org/about "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users." From edward at allcutt.me.uk Thu Aug 15 21:27:17 2013 From: edward at allcutt.me.uk (Edward Allcutt) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:27:17 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Debian-uk] UK DSL _modem_ recommendation In-Reply-To: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> References: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Mike Crowe wrote: > It looks like many ADSL routers support bridge modes but from what I > can tell (and this is why I'm posting to debian-uk) these modes are > useless in the UK because we use PPPoA rather than PPPoE and unlike > the Vigor 120 they don't translate between the two. > > I can't believe I'm the only person trying to do this. What does > everyone else use? I use a ZyXEL P-660R-D1 in RFC1483 Bridge mode (whatever that is). It's used on a BT 21CN line although I know the same model also works in bridge mode on Be lines (why may use the other encapsulation? not sure). It was supplied by my ISP and works fine as a bridge modem without any intervention for nearly three years. The only wrinkle is that it doesn't support "baby jumbo" frames which allow using PPPoE with an MTU of 1500 for encapsulated frames. AAISP seem to recommend a "DLINK DSL-320B" for that use-case. -- Edward Allcutt From steve at einval.com Fri Aug 16 10:56:56 2013 From: steve at einval.com (Steve McIntyre) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:56:56 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] UK DSL _modem_ recommendation In-Reply-To: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> References: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> Message-ID: <20130816095656.GA26616@einval.com> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 07:47:53PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: >I've run my Debian box as a NAT router connected to my ADSL connection >for many years. To do this well so that a network interface on the box >gets the public IP address from my ISP I've used a D-Link DSL-300G >ADSL1 Ethernet modem then a Speedtouch USB ADSL1 modem and more >recently a Draytek Vigor 120 ADSL2+ modem. > >Unfortunately I've had two of the Vigor 120s fail for me after less >than a year each. Now it's out of warranty Draytek aren't interested >so I'm looking at alternatives. > >It looks like many ADSL routers support bridge modes but from what I >can tell (and this is why I'm posting to debian-uk) these modes are >useless in the UK because we use PPPoA rather than PPPoE and unlike >the Vigor 120 they don't translate between the two. > >I can't believe I'm the only person trying to do this. What does >everyone else use? Hi Mike, I've been using a wide variety of cheap and cheerful ADSL modem/routers in bridged mode for years, terminating the PPP session as PPPoE on my firewall/router box. I've never had any issues this way, and it means I can simply swap in a new ADSL modem with minimal setup as/when needed. My experience has been that consumer-level ADSL kit is cheap and nasty, even when you pay over the odds. So I'm happy to reduce my reliance on such devices to simple translation. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve at einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. From steve at einval.com Fri Aug 16 11:48:15 2013 From: steve at einval.com (Steve McIntyre) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:48:15 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Happy birthday Debian! Message-ID: <20130816104815.GD26616@einval.com> 20 years ago today, a young Linux enthusiast by the name of Ian Murdock wrote: Fellow Linuxers, This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn't simply make some changes to SLS and call it a new release. [1] Things have certainly come on a little since then. Today, Debian has thousands of contributors around the world and we're the centre of an ecosystem with many millions of users. This sounds like a good excuse for a party! I suggest a gathering in Cambridge (where else? *grin*) tonight. How about we meet at the Haymakers [2] pub for some food, drink and general merriment? Jo and I will aim to be there from 7pm or so, wearing Debian-themed stuff. We'll even have a friendly journalist with us! [3] See you there! [1] http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=CBusDD.MIK%40unix.portal.com&output=gplain [2] http://www.individualpubs.co.uk/haymakers/ [3] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/debian-uk/2013-August/000196.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve at einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty From steve at einval.com Fri Aug 16 14:19:35 2013 From: steve at einval.com (Steve McIntyre) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:19:35 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Mini-Debconf in Cambridge, UK - November 14-17 2013 Message-ID: <20130816131935.GF26616@einval.com> Hi! I'm organising a mini-conf in Cambridge for November this year. My employer ARM has graciously volunteered to host people for 4 days for a mix of sprint sessions and talks: * 2 days for a mini-DebCamp (Thu 14 - Fri 15), with space for dedicated development / sprint / team meetings for up to 40 people * 2 days for a more regular mini-conf (Sat 16 - Sun 17) with space for more general talks, up to 100 people and I'm hoping to find sponsors to cover some other costs for the conference for things like food. I'm expecting that we will end up discussing and working on the new arm64 port and other ARM-related topics at the very least, but there's obviously also scope for other subjects for sprint work and talks. For more details and to sign up to attend, please visit the wiki page at https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013 I look forwards to seeing lots of you in November! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve at einval.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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My > employer ARM has graciously volunteered to host people for 4 days for > a mix of sprint sessions and talks: > > * 2 days for a mini-DebCamp (Thu 14 - Fri 15), with space for > dedicated development / sprint / team meetings for up to 40 people > > * 2 days for a more regular mini-conf (Sat 16 - Sun 17) with space > for more general talks, up to 100 people > > and I'm hoping to find sponsors to cover some other costs for the > conference for things like food. > > I'm expecting that we will end up discussing and working on the new > arm64 port and other ARM-related topics at the very least, but there's > obviously also scope for other subjects for sprint work and talks. > > For more details and to sign up to attend, please visit the wiki page > at > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Miniconf-UK/2013 > > I look forwards to seeing lots of you in November! > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. > steve at einval.com > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-uk maillist - Debian-uk at chiark.greenend.org.uk > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/debian-uk > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Should I book my flight already? :) -- WBR, Andrew From mac at mcrowe.com Fri Aug 16 20:35:07 2013 From: mac at mcrowe.com (Mike Crowe) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:35:07 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] UK DSL _modem_ recommendation In-Reply-To: <20130816095656.GA26616@einval.com> References: <20130815184753.GA22045@mcrowe.com> <20130816095656.GA26616@einval.com> Message-ID: <20130816193507.GA9427@mcrowe.com> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 07:47:53PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: >>It looks like many ADSL routers support bridge modes but from what I >>can tell (and this is why I'm posting to debian-uk) these modes are >>useless in the UK because we use PPPoA rather than PPPoE and unlike >>the Vigor 120 they don't translate between the two. On Friday 16 August 2013 at 10:56:56 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I've been using a wide variety of cheap and cheerful ADSL > modem/routers in bridged mode for years, terminating the PPP session > as PPPoE on my firewall/router box. I've never had any issues this > way, and it means I can simply swap in a new ADSL modem with minimal > setup as/when needed. My experience has been that consumer-level ADSL > kit is cheap and nasty, even when you pay over the odds. So I'm happy > to reduce my reliance on such devices to simple translation. I configured a random router for RFC1483 bridged mode and my connection just worked straight away with the existing PPPoE configuration on my Linux box. I also found http://blog.farnz.org.uk/2010/02/on-pppoa-pppoe-atm-and-adsl.html to be interesting reading. Thanks to everyone who replied. Mike. From colin at tuckley.org Sat Aug 17 09:32:00 2013 From: colin at tuckley.org (Colin Tuckley) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:32:00 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] GPG keys and QR codes Message-ID: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> With the BBQ coming up and the associated keysigning that implies I was thinking about ways of exchanging key fingerprints and it occurred to me that maybe QR Codes would help. A quick Google turned up https://github.com/psychomario/Key2QR Has anyone else thought about this and maybe got further towards a usable system where people could swap key fingerprints by scanning each others QR coded Public key info? Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223 830814 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x1B3045CE The world is coming to an end. Please log off. From liw at liw.fi Sun Aug 18 11:43:05 2013 From: liw at liw.fi (Lars Wirzenius) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:43:05 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] GPG keys and QR codes In-Reply-To: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> References: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> Message-ID: <20130818104305.GA4585@havelock> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:32:00AM +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote: > With the BBQ coming up and the associated keysigning that implies I was > thinking about ways of exchanging key fingerprints and it occurred to me > that maybe QR Codes would help. > > A quick Google turned up https://github.com/psychomario/Key2QR > > Has anyone else thought about this and maybe got further towards a > usable system where people could swap key fingerprints by scanning each > others QR coded Public key info? /me dons paranoid hat QR codes are fun and can be very useful. They are not, however, human readable, and for key signing their use needs to be considered carefully. As long as the QR code is used to save some typing, and the actual verification happens of cleartext, it's probably a good idea. What I mean is, the QR code should be accompanied by a cleartext key information (name, key fingerprint), and after the QR code is decoded on their own system should see the same cleartext information. A bad scenario would be that you are given only a QR code on paper, and you take a photo of that, see a name and a fingerprint, and sign that. This opens an attack vector where either the QR generating code modifies the fingerprint, or the QR scanning code does that. This is not a very likely attack, of course. I wouldn't have thought a photocopier alters numbers on a page, either, and that's now happening (though not, it seems, intentionally.) /me removes paranoid hat I had a quick play with the Key2QR script. * Does not use proper shell quoting at all times. * Encodes the entire public or private key in the QR code: as Colin said on IRC just now, it's probably meant for key backup rather than key signing. * Takes a long time for me to run (at least six minutes), and then fails, except it exits with 0. Also leaves some temporary files around. Overall, I'm not impressed. I've attached a quick hack to do what Colin suggests. There may be existing tools, but it's Sunday morning and if I can't NIH on a Sunday morning, when can I? -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -------------- next part -------------- #!/bin/sh # # A small script to produce a PDF with key slips for exchanging PGP # key information for key signing purposes. # # Requires gpg, qrencode, and pandoc (with TeX stuff). # # Usage: $0 keyid... set -eu temp=$(mktemp) trap 'rm -f "$temp"' EXIT for keyid in "$@" do # Save key info to a file. gpg --fingerprint "$keyid" > "$keyid.mdwn" # Generate QR code for key info. qrencode $(cat "$keyid.mdwn") -o "$keyid.png" # Indent the key info by four spaces, so its a code block. sed -i 's/^/ /' "$keyid.mdwn" # Include the QR code. cat <> "$keyid.mdwn" ![Key information as QR]($keyid.png)\\ EOF # Duplicate it a few times to have many keyslips per page. With # my key, experimentation shows 2 slips will fit on one # page. That's obviously dependent on how many usernames a key # has. # # Someone who understands pandoc better might tweak margins and # font sizes enough that more can be fit on the page. Or someone # could do the formatting with another tool, which could allow # for a tighter layout. for i in $(seq 2) do cat "$keyid.mdwn" done | sponge "$keyid.mdwn" # Produce a PDF. pandoc -f markdown -o "$keyid.pdf" "$keyid.mdwn" done From liw at liw.fi Sun Aug 18 15:27:17 2013 From: liw at liw.fi (Lars Wirzenius) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:27:17 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] GPG keys and QR codes In-Reply-To: <20130818104305.GA4585@havelock> References: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> <20130818104305.GA4585@havelock> Message-ID: <20130818142717.GB4585@havelock> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:43:05AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I've attached a quick hack to do what Colin suggests. There may be > existing tools, but it's Sunday morning and if I can't NIH on a > Sunday morning, when can I? Well, that was an utter failure... Colin pointed out that I had shell script quoting problems of my own. http://paste.debian.net/26612/ (and attached) should be a fixed version. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -------------- next part -------------- #!/bin/sh # # A small script to produce a PDF with key slips for exchanging PGP # key information for key signing purposes. # # Requires gpg, qrencode, and pandoc (with TeX stuff). # # Usage: $0 keyid... set -eu temp=$(mktemp) trap 'rm -f "$temp"' EXIT for keyid in "$@" do # Save key info to a file. keyinfo=$(gpg --fingerprint "$keyid") # Generate QR code for key info. qrencode "$keyinfo" -o "$keyid.png" # Create the Markdown document. # Indent the key info by four spaces, so its a code block. echo "$keyinfo" | sed 's/^/ /' > "$keyid.mdwn" # Include the QR code. cat <> "$keyid.mdwn" ![Key information as QR]($keyid.png)\\ EOF # Duplicate it a few times to have many keyslips per page. With # my key, experimentation shows only one slip will fit on one # page. That's obviously dependent on how many usernames a key # has, etc. # # Someone who understands pandoc better might tweak margins and # font sizes enough that more can be fit on the page. Or someone # could do the formatting with another tool, which could allow # for a tighter layout. for i in $(seq 1) do cat "$keyid.mdwn" done | sponge "$keyid.mdwn" # Produce a PDF. pandoc -f markdown -o "$keyid.pdf" "$keyid.mdwn" done From matthewv at chiark.greenend.org.uk Sun Aug 18 16:14:37 2013 From: matthewv at chiark.greenend.org.uk (Matthew Vernon) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:14:37 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] GPG keys and QR codes In-Reply-To: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> References: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> Message-ID: <5210E4DD.1080609@chiark.greenend.org.uk> On 17/08/13 09:32, Colin Tuckley wrote: > With the BBQ coming up and the associated keysigning that implies I was > thinking about ways of exchanging key fingerprints and it occurred to me > that maybe QR Codes would help. I'm a bit of a luddite, but I just use gpg-key2ps from the signing-party package to produce a set of slips of paper to give people. It's easy for me to be sure I've given out the correct fingerprint, and easy for the other party to check the fingerprint against a key in due course. I'm not sure I quite want to trust QR-codes... Cheers, Matthew hoping to collect lots of signatures on Saturday :) From colin at tuckley.org Sun Aug 18 22:59:07 2013 From: colin at tuckley.org (Colin Tuckley) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:59:07 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] CACert Assurances at the Debian-UK BBQ Message-ID: <521143AB.3000403@tuckley.org> Several of the people attending the BBQ are CACert assurers. We usually have enough assurers present that we can get a new CACert member up to assurer status straight away. If anyone is interested in becoming a CACert assurer then please go to the CACert website and register for an account *before* the BBQ. If you have questions that are not answered by the information on the CACert site then please contact me off list. Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223 830814 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x1B3045CE ... Getting the truth from Clinton is like nailing Jello From pm at debian.org Sun Aug 18 22:29:00 2013 From: pm at debian.org (Paul Martin) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:29:00 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] GPG keys and QR codes In-Reply-To: <5210E4DD.1080609@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> <5210E4DD.1080609@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Message-ID: <20130818212859.GA6414@thinkpad.nowster.org.uk> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:14:37PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I'm a bit of a luddite, but I just use gpg-key2ps from the > signing-party package to produce a set of slips of paper to give > people. It's easy for me to be sure I've given out the correct > fingerprint, and easy for the other party to check the fingerprint > against a key in due course. I'm not sure I quite want to trust > QR-codes... Agreed. I always check the fingerprint visually against the uid[*] I'm preparing to sign. That's a bit difficult to do if you have to decode a barcode with your smartphone. Anyone proffering solely a QR code will be politely refused. [*] Make sure your key slip shows all the email addresses/uids you wish to be signed. -- Paul Martin ...who is starting to sound like Kinnison on this matter. ;-) From dsilvers at digital-scurf.org Mon Aug 19 08:18:22 2013 From: dsilvers at digital-scurf.org (Daniel Silverstone) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:18:22 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] GPG keys and QR codes In-Reply-To: <20130818212859.GA6414@thinkpad.nowster.org.uk> References: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> <5210E4DD.1080609@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20130818212859.GA6414@thinkpad.nowster.org.uk> Message-ID: <20130819071822.GF3070@somnambulist.local> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 22:29:00 +0100, Paul Martin wrote: > Anyone proffering solely a QR code will be politely refused. 100% in support of this statement. > [*] Make sure your key slip shows all the email addresses/uids you > wish to be signed. Not quite so bothered about this. So long as personal details are covered, email addresses can be checked post-hoc using Caf or similar tools. But names, any IRC nicks used on the key, etc should be present on the keyslip. Also, remember to include not only your fingerprint, but size and type of key. E.g.: 4096/R 1956 8523 759E 2A28 58F4 606B 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69 Otherwise you leave the door open to someone faking up a smaller key with the same fingerprint. Regards, Daniel. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.digital-scurf.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged. Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69 From smcv at debian.org Mon Aug 19 11:44:23 2013 From: smcv at debian.org (Simon McVittie) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:44:23 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] GPG keys and QR codes In-Reply-To: <20130818104305.GA4585@havelock> References: <520F3500.2070600@tuckley.org> <20130818104305.GA4585@havelock> Message-ID: <5211F707.7090500@debian.org> On 18/08/13 11:43, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:32:00AM +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote: >> Has anyone else thought about this and maybe got further towards a >> usable system where people could swap key fingerprints by scanning each >> others QR coded Public key info? monkeysign also exists. > A bad scenario would > be that you are given only a QR code on paper, and you take a photo of > that, see a name and a fingerprint, and sign that. Unfortunately, it seems monkeysign generates a bare QR code (containing the fingerprint, or at least, it doesn't look information-rich enough for a whole key to me). I agree it'd be better if it produced a gpg-key2ps-style keyslip, with the QR code added at one end: then you could show the QR code to your webcam as a shortcut for data-entry, and check the on-screen fingerprint and details against the ones on the slip (the same way you would if you'd retrieved a key by its short key ID). S From martin at antibodymx.net Mon Aug 19 14:00:11 2013 From: martin at antibodymx.net (Martin A. Brooks) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:00:11 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Debian-uk] BBQ related assistance request Message-ID: <8218485.3009.1376917211775.JavaMail.root@clues.ltd.uk> Hello This coming Saturday I will be driving from London to Cambridge for the barbeque and bringing quite a lot of food with me. I wondered if someone would volunteer to help me with the shopping. I have a back injury and heavy lifting aggravates it. In exchange, I'll give you and lift up to Cambridge on the day and, if you like, a lift back on the Sunday morning. Thanks! -- Martin A. Brooks http://antibodyMX.net/ - antispam & antivirus email filtering. From pm at debian.org Mon Aug 26 23:46:03 2013 From: pm at debian.org (Paul Martin) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:46:03 +0100 Subject: [Debian-uk] Lost tee-shirts Message-ID: <20130826224603.GA5414@thinkpad.nowster.org.uk> It looks like I left behind at Sledge's: * Swirl tee with "debian/rules" on back (size small) * Codethink tee (size small) * Baserock tee (size small) They must have fallen out of my laptop backpack which was to the right of the TV. -- Paul Martin