[Gllug] OT: Announcement

[Ian Norton]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:24:15AM +0100, Rob Andrews wrote: 
> Don't diss ac97s completely ;)
> Chances are audio was from the VIA integrated southbridge chip - 686A/B or
> suchlike. ac97 is a codec - the SoundBlaster Live! uses it and that's fine <g>

true, true

> Shame about the non-disabling of the AGP device. Did you try setting the
> amount of system RAM the gfx took to 0MB? In any case, adding a second card
> should have worked fine anyway, 

min setting is 8mb :-/ it just wont go away!!!
 
> A more obvious solution would be to find a list of ports that are open (I'm
> suspecting they've blocked running a webserver on port 80, but have they on
> all ports? Is it port blacklisting or port whitelisting?), and run your
> server for that service on an alternative [unfiltered] port. So you can
> still have your ssh on port 22, run web server on say, port 81, stuff like
> that. Much tidier. Just means you have to bump other bits onto your
> addresses.

yup, was the first thing done, only 22 is free direcetly thru the firewall,
6667 is if you run one of the essex.ac.uk irc servers. no udp traffic at all
can go in or out except from allowed hosts, (yes thought of ip spoof) allowd
hosts are assigned by mac address 

well it will be fun :-)

bredroll

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