[eug-lug]some novarg strings to make life easier for mail admins

2004-01-29 Thread Larry Price
Here's some strings for your procmailrc (or amavis setup) there are two variants between them they've been hitting our mailhost at about ten per minute remove the *** in the middle and use your favorite mailfilter to scan for these in base64 encoded attachments

Re: [eug-lug]WANTED: Powered External HD Enclosure

2004-01-29 Thread Bob Crandell
I have one that can handle 5 or 6 drives. The connection is SCSI 1 Ryan Stasel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just need an external HD enclosure that holds atleast 4 drives, hopefully can handle full height 3.5 inch drives, cooling, internal power, scsi, you know. If anyone has one that they're

Re: [eug-lug]new SCO DDOS virus

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
I haven't had time to do much looking into this wormy, but can anyone who has expound on the mechanism for making the .zip appear with an icon that denotes a text file? I understand that was part of the gag, but one copy of it I saw using Mozilla Mail did not display it in this misleading manner.

[eug-lug]Feeding spam to SpamAssassin

2004-01-29 Thread Rob Hudson
I get a lot of these types of emails. I question whether to feed them to spamassassin or not simply b/c they are a random list of words. It would see like it might do more harm than good. Is that a good assumption? Thanks, Rob - Forwarded message from Deana Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-29 Thread Max Lemieux
~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile should do it. -Max Bill Essig wrote: Does anyone get the joke? Ha Ha Ha. Anyways, could someone tell me where to find the BAsh config file? ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [eug-lug]Feeding spam to SpamAssassin

2004-01-29 Thread Bob Miller
Rob Hudson wrote: I get a lot of these types of emails. I question whether to feed them to spamassassin or not simply b/c they are a random list of words. It would see like it might do more harm than good. Is that a good assumption? I've been feeding them to bogofilter. Bogofilter is

[eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread Hal Pomeranz
So what's the best store in the area for finding random computer-related cabling, drives, enclosures, motherboards, PCI cards, memory, software, etc. when I'm in a hurry and don't want to wait for an on-line order to ship? I could give you a map of such places in the Bay Area, but I have no idea

Re: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread Bob Miller
Hal Pomeranz wrote: So what's the best store in the area for finding random computer-related cabling, drives, enclosures, motherboards, PCI cards, memory, software, etc. when I'm in a hurry and don't want to wait for an on-line order to ship? I could give you a map of such places in the Bay

Re: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread Bob Miller
Bob Miller wrote: Hardware: ComputerBase, 4770 Village Plaza Loop, Suite D. That's off Green Acres east of Delta Hwy. Oops, that's off Goodpasture, not Green Acres. I must be an out of towner myself. (-: -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting

Re: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread R. Stasel
When it comes to computer base though, realize that nothing has a posted price. Go there with the knowledge of what you can get the stuff for online and be prepared to haggle. -Ryan Stasel On Jan 29, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Bob Miller wrote: Bob Miller wrote: Hardware: ComputerBase, 4770 Village

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:07:16 -0500 (EST) Bill Essig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anyone get the joke? Ha Ha Ha. That's gross!!! ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

RE: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread Grigsby, Garl
If you know exactly what you want, PC Parts Xpress is OK. They know nothing of linux, or at least they didn't use to, but most of their prices are OK. Their website lists their prices and how many they have in stock. Saves you the time of running over there to find out they are out.

Re: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
Can also suggest Graybar for cables and networking tools (ends/crimpers, etc), although they claim to be wholesalers, I think they'd happily take your money. I've found them to be more helpful and also cheaper on a lot of things, than Norvac. Graybar and Norvac are both out west 11th, Graybar is

Re: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread R. Stasel
I like PCParts just because they are close... and while the staff are basically clueless when it comes to, well, anything (I've been in there several times when they are giving completely wrong information to someone as far as hardware or software). Know what you want, and get in and out as

Re: [eug-lug]Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread Hal Pomeranz
Thanks for all the suggestions-- sounds like I need to take a short drive out West 11th. I'm delighted to learn that there's a Graybar in town because I did a lot of shopping at their Bay Area stores (the wholesale thing being basically bullcrap as far as I can tell). Same goes for VOS... but

[eug-lug]un-SCO-ization

2004-01-29 Thread Larry Price
You could burn a spindle of Linux CD's; we are running short of discs to hand out to the interested. and we can't expect kBob to burn all the CD's Knoppix is always useful, but having a little variety is also good. I heard some rumour of a live filesystem OpenBSD iso; anyone got a url??? On

Re: [eug-lug] bootable BSD CD?

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
Dunno, I only found this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-September/003007.html and (woohoo!) this: http://www.freesbie.org/ do I get a cookie? Ben On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:20:33 -0800 Larry Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I heard some rumour of a live

[eug-lug]Re: Help the out-of-towner

2004-01-29 Thread beaker
If you're looking for used parts you can try PC Parlor at West 11th and Chambers. There used to be good selections at St. Vincent DePauls (W. Broadway) and Goodwill (Coburg Rd near Autzen stadium) but the manditory $5 desposal fee law has impacted donation levels quite a bit - too bad. So what's

Re: [eug-lug] bootable BSD CD? get your URLs here; URLS here!

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
I know that was Free*... so, I also found these: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=42611+0+archive/2003/freebsd-advocacy/20030309.freebsd-advocacy ( http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#i386image ) http://sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-29 Thread Bill Essig
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:07:16 -0500 (EST) Bill Essig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anyone get the joke? Ha Ha Ha. That's gross!!! ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug Gross? What on earth.

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-29 Thread Max Lemieux
And here I thought you were referring to a Baptist revival meeting... -Max Ben Barrett wrote: Well I should clarify, that is a gross idea to me. I am admittedly hetero, and don't want to FEEL Mr. Bourne. My joke was to take you literally = ) On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:44:21 -0500 (EST) Bill Essig

Re: [eug-lug]I feel Bourne Again

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
Yeah, I don't swing that way, either, but that has nothing to do with this list or the bash shell. More specifically, I don't bash those who do swing that way On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:57:53 -0800 Max wrote: | And here I thought you were referring to a Baptist revival meeting... | -Max | |

[eug-lug]a few questions

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Barrett
1. I never realized that 'xkill' could pass the appropriate signals through a remote Xwindows connection, which in my case was SSH-tunnelled. If anyone has explored this or knows more, I'm very curious, about the security implications, for instance; what can you tell me? Example: you log your

Re: [eug-lug]a few questions

2004-01-29 Thread Steve
Ben Barrett wrote: 1. I never realized that 'xkill' could pass the appropriate signals through a remote Xwindows connection, which in my case was SSH-tunnelled. If anyone has explored this or knows more, I'm very curious, about the security implications, for instance; what can you tell me?

Re: [eug-lug]a few questions

2004-01-29 Thread Bob Miller
Ben Barrett wrote: 1. I never realized that 'xkill' could pass the appropriate signals through a remote Xwindows connection, which in my case was SSH-tunnelled. If anyone has explored this or knows more, I'm very curious, about the security implications, for instance; what can you tell me?

Re: [eug-lug]a few questions

2004-01-29 Thread Mr O
The Nehemiah M1 has been reported to handle decoding quite well especially with mplayer. I haven't had a whole lot of time to play with mine. On the other hand, the Shuttle SS51G is well below $200 now so building a slightly more powerful system is going cost you probably not more than another