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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Floppy and CD-ROM access http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1092059964 During the last [1]last [2]kernelupgrade, we installed [3]supermount on our [4]Linux workstations. You wont need to mount your floppys and CD-ROMs any longer. Just insert the media and go to the directory /floppy/ or /cdrom/. References 1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090564301/index_html 2. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091686492/index_html 3. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ 4. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/workstations/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Readme http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/1 Antispam at ETHZ http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/149 How to automatically forward Email http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/81 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 08 Aug '04

08 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Printing with CUPS (MacOS X) http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Linux kernel bug http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091686492 Paul Starzetz discovered a [1]collection of problems ([2]CAN-2004-0415) in the current 2.4 and 2.6 [3]Linux kernels. Marcelo Tosatti included the fixes in [4]2.4.27rc5 and [5]announced 2.4.27 for the next days. We need to patch and reboot all [6]servers and [7]workstations running Linux: Thu Aug 5, 17:00 [8]Student- and [9]seminarworkstations (done) Thu Aug 5, 20:00 [10]Servers Wed Aug 11, 06:00 [11]ITP, [12]Astro, [13]IPP and [14]Solid workstations References 1. http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0016-procleaks.txt 2. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0415 3. http://www.kernel.org/ 4. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.27.log 5. http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3578 6. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/ 7. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/workstations/ 8. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/bb/physstud/physstud.html 9. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/bb/physsem/physsem.html 10. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/ 11. http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/ 12. http://www.exp-astro.phys.ethz.ch/ 13. http://www.ipp.phys.ethz.ch/ 14. http://www.solid.phys.ethz.ch/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Critical Internet Explorer Security Update http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091448051 On Friday night [1]Microsoft has released the critical [2]MS04-025 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer Run [3]Windows Update (with Internet Explorer) on all the Windows workstations and servers to install this security update. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-025.mspx 3. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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