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> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp