Re: speakup disks needed

[Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>]

Darrell:

What happens with the modified RH boot disks and the Accent? 
Specifically, can you describe the process and what happens?

Let me say that I have installed several systems for several people using
a variety of speech synths both in the U.S. and in the U.K. in the past
two weeks using precisely these boot disks without a hitch.

As for the exposure to hacking, the Redhat installation includes the
configuration of a firewall. If you pay attention in that part of the
process you can, among other options, fully lock the machine down against
any incoming traffic. If you're not careful, though, you can leave one
interface fully open while locking down another. To that end, it is
important to read and understand the Redhat installation help messages
and/or the installation manual available for online reading or for
download at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/. 

Bill's site is no longer the preferred place for downloading either the 
Redhat kernel RPMS or the full Redhat iso images which Bill modifies with 
speakup. This is a good thing because Bill's net connection was getting 
overloaded from all the interest in these files. They are now available on 
the speakup site, which has a much larger pipe to the net, via anonymous 
ftp at 
www.linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/redhat/7.2/. They are definitely 
there--I just checked. But use ftp and not http, as the revamped web pages 
are still not quite correct on the speakup site.

 On Thu, 6 Dec 
2001, Darrell Shandrow wrote:

> Hi Jude,
> 
> Yeah; DSL is even less secure than dial-up, especially with a static IP 
> address.  But, if your system is solid, and you keep all the doors closed 
> you want, you should be relatively safe.
> 
> The RedHat boot disks are available on the linux-speakup.org FTP site, but 
> they don't work, at least the RH 7.2 boot image does not seem to work for 
> the Accent PC.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> At 07:36 PM 12/6/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >I'm rather certain I lost the patched red hat 7.0 kernel file for speakup.
> >Right now, I have red hat 7.0 somewhat verbal on my computer with
> >doubletalk synthesier.  I just got in the mail red hat 7.2 boxed set so
> >I'm also going to need an updated boot disk and the kernel patch file for
> >doubletalk and red hat 7.2 so I can do the upgrade.  I've been under the
> >radar for quite a while since my linux system that was on a dial up
> >account got hacked.  linsniffer was put onto my computer since one of the
> >server doors was open that oughtn't have been for single home users and
> >the hacker got in that way.  That sniffer has a web page at
> >http://www.attrition.org.  I don't know that dsl will be anymore secure,
> >but I got me a modem and an account with verizon so am going to find out.
> >The speakup mirror disk link for red hat 6.2 7.0 and 7.2 so far as I can
> >tell is broken and generates an error 404 so I'm wondering if these files
> >are available on the internet now.  Last I heard Bill Hacker's ftp site
> >was shut down so ftp.octothorp.org isn't an option now.
> >
> >
> >Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> >
> >
> >
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