Re: Block stupid/annoying sites
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:26:28PM +0200, andreas palsson wrote: Hello. I am using Debian GNU/Linux as a nameserver, and I wonder how do I modify it to reject all lookups for stupid sites like ad.doubleclick.net or any other annoying banner-site? I've been told to use something called junkbuster but I rather not run anything extra on the host, I simply would like to change something in the bind-configuration. Anyone got an idea? This thread has been going on for a few days, and noone seems to have said very much about junkbuster. I use junkbuster at home to block adverts (with great success) for two reasons: 1) I am offended by the overly commercial nature of much of the web, when it is piggybacking off the work and time that others have put in for free. 2) It saves on download time. Basically any url specification (this can include eg ads.*.com, or any directory on a site called ads etc.) can be blocked, and optionally replaced with either a 1x1 transparent gif, or a gif that says junkbuster. It works very well for me. After having to add about 10 or 20 specifications to the blockfile (examples of which can be found on the web anyway) when I first installed it, I now do not see adverts on any of the sites I visit regularly, and a greatly reduced number on other sites as well. Junkbuster can also stop your web browser sending out your email address, and can block cookies in either direction. I recommend that everybody install junkbuster for privacy reasons, apart from anything else. frankie -- ,-. Frankie Fisher| Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that frankie @ | the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | reasons, will somehow work for the benefit PGP Key available on request. | of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes `-' pgppzyFtXudUK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist, it would automaticly search the command from a small APT database or from the internet if diald|direct connection is here. Are you sure it would be good? Aren't debian's dependencies meant to handle that pretty much? And we could specify in a conffile to download the software or to install directly from the CD. Wouldn't it be cool ? Is it possible to program ? Well you would have to alter each and every shell for a start, to call your code when it can't find the path, and that's just for commands people would type. Then commands called from compiled languages would need a lower level method of handling it maybe. If a such software doesn't exist, do some people want to join to me to program a such thing - As soon as I'm able to do it, I'm learning C in the moment -. ? I wouldn't. I think that unix is not like that; I think the fact that apt-get can install packages I haven't individually requested it to is enough for me; I want control, not nannying. Good idea though. frankie -- ,-. Frankie Fisher| Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that frankie @ | the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | reasons, will somehow work for the benefit PGP Key available on request. | of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes `-' pgpunMmfc4al6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DVD on Linux?
due to patents problem, it is impossible to have open-source software only DVD player. It is possible however to have: Hmmm. Does anybody know if these patents apply in the UK or Europe? It seems ridiculous that they are pushing to make this technology commonplace, when you have to pay to use it, effectively. Do CD's work on this basis too? frankie OK, in answer to my question: http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8940.html (interview with RMS) about halfway down. I think this means that it would be legal to write a software only decoder in the UK and (some of) Europe. It would, however, be illegal to use it in US, cos of it's shortsighted, biased and unfair patent laws. My other question still stands, does the fact that CD's and CD-players have a compact disc logo on mean that the hardware is patented and that sony gets lots of money for every CD sold? -- ,-. Frankie Fisher | frankie @| Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ PGP Key available on request. | `-' pgpbMGcZvVKVr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DVD on Linux?
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Brian Kidder wrote:
Frankie Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think this means that it would be legal to write a software only decoder
in the UK and (some of) Europe. It would, however, be illegal to use it in
US, cos of it's shortsighted, biased and unfair patent laws.
Sorry. That was probably a little bit harsh, and thoughtless.
Not being very familiar with the UK's patent system, I'm curious:
What about the US patent system do you find objectionable?
-Brian Kidder
In my opinion, the US laws regarding software patents are wrong.
The patent laws (as I understand them, and I am not an expert) vastly favour
companies.
If an American programmer writes a program, and it happens to infringe some
software patent (which, according to the likes of RMS and slashdot, are handed
out willy-nilly with few checks to ensure that they are valid), then he may be
forced to stop using this program, or sued, or forced to pay royalties on an
algorithm which he (as well as the company) invented. Part of the nature of
programming is coming up with new solutions to (new) problems.
What I particularly dislike (about my perceived view of the American patent
system) is that this programmer may or may not be within the law in his use
of the patented code, but the chances are there is nothing he can do but
comply with whatever the large company wishes.
He cannot afford to fight a (potentially long) battle in the courts, let alone
afford to conduct a `prior art' search; nor can he afford to register any
software patents in his own name (in order that he may have a bargaining point,
and
cross-license / counter sue the company), because the cost is quite high
compared to one man's expendible income.
This is perhaps more a flaw in capitalism, and the western legal system, but
overall it involves freedom and power being taken off the individual and into
then hands of those who already have power (such as companies/etc).
Also I am led to believe (again by the likes of RMS and slashdot) that a lot
of US software patents are handed out without proper searches being carried
out. This means that a lot of bogus patents are currently held, and the
expense to sort this out in the courts will ultimately have to come out of
the pockets of individual programmers, because otherwise they are the ones
who will lose out.
At the moment, the US government/business lobby is pressuring the European
patent rules to be changed to allow software patents USA-style (currently
they only allow patents on software and hardware working together or
something).
To software patents as M$ et al. want them, I say: begone.
frankie
P.S. significant portions of this may be {bigoted,wrong,misinformed,\
ill-judged,communist,so true that you have to go out and do something about
it} for which I accept no responsibility.
P.P.S. Blame RMS+slashdot+linux press for spreading FUD if I am wrong.
--
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Re: DVD on Linux?
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 07:25:24PM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 12:30:39AM -0700, Ramiel G. wrote: Does anyone know if there are any DVD players out there for Linux? Due to restrictions on the decoding algorithms and (I presume) the specs for chips used in hardware decoders there aren't any. hmm... i believe that is not true due to patents problem, it is impossible to have open-source software only DVD player. It is possible however to have: Hmmm. Does anybody know if these patents apply in the UK or Europe? It seems ridiculous that they are pushing to make this technology commonplace, when you have to pay to use it, effectively. Do CD's work on this basis too? frankie -- ,-. Frankie Fisher| Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that frankie @ | the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | reasons, will somehow work for the benefit PGP Key available on request. | of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes `-' pgpI0QW4nKHWP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Joe Emenaker wrote: For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian. *snip* Is there anyway to use unstable *only* for the packages that *don't* exist in stable? *snip* Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due to the different glibc dependencies. What I would do, had I not already taken the plunge to potato, would be to download the source of apt from potato, compile and install it. Then I could add a deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list specifying potato, and from then on, any packages I wanted from unstable I could fetch with apt-get source --compile package, while any packages fetched with apt-get install would continue to download from slink as normal, and I would solve any glibc2.1 problems as well as having the updated packages. frankie -- ,-. Frankie Fisher| Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. frankie @ skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ PGP Key available on request.| `-' pgpx8NqB2a4XD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Partitioning and symlinks
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 02:49:51PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: (I already posted this to the SuSE list, so apologies if you see it twice) A query/discussion-point for those of you who know their way around these things -- When you first set up partitions (for /, /usr, /home etc) you won't be sure how the takeup of space on these will turn out in the long run, so you make an intelligent guess. Sometimes the partitions you create will be on the same physical hard drive, sometimes on different HDs. The usual (and recommended) approach is that a particular partition on a particular drive will be home to a particular sub-tree: for instance you may have created /dev/hdb2 to contain /home and then, when the system boots, /dev/hdb2 gets mounted onto /home. However, this aproach has the disadvantage that the association between logical sub-tree and phyical disk-space is, as it were, carved in stone. If it turns out, for instance, that you under-estimated the space required for /home, then you have some retructuring to do. yes, a problematic area for newbies. Although the advantages of speed (when partitions are split across multiple disks)/ and the oft-quoted reason of not taking the whole system down if the mail spool gets very full etc. make this a good way of doing it. -- ,-. Frankie | Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. frankie at skunkpussy.dhis.org | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ `-' pgpdxxDnyuqAU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:48:06PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:44:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: In the past few days (today and yesterday to be precise) I've noticed that I can no longer click on links in Navigator. All mouse related events work it's just those that are on the rendered HTML page that don't work. This includes both left and right mouse clicks on links. I have sometimes encountered a similar problem with netscape: sometimes the cursor goes to the wristwatch or whatever, and doesn't get changed back correctly, so you can't click on any links, menus etc. However non-netscape windows (and even the border around netscape, which is owned by the window manager) work ok, and a click on one of them will reset the mouse cursor to the correct pointer/mode/whatever. yours, wondering if this is relevant, frankie -- ,-. Frankie | Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. frankie at skunkpussy.dhis.org | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ `-' pgpHxRThZftQm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???
Hi, Sometimes fetchmail is interrupted when it is fetching mail from my pop account. The result of this is that I have duplicate emails in my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and remove duplicates? [perhaps I could work it into my .fetchmailrc or sthg, or ppp/ip-up.d or somewhere] TIA, frankie -- ,-. Frankie | Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. frankie at skunkpussy.dhis.org | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ `-' pgpLJeFGSPrhT.pgp Description: PGP signature
