May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread pll
We can not use Martha's Exchange for a Melba Meeting this month due to the fact that they have actual revenue generating customers using the rooms Wednesday *and* Thursday this week *and* next week. (something about graduations, and teenagers, blah, blah, blah). So, if anyone wants to get

Re: 802.11b setup, beginner question(s)

2002-05-20 Thread Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas
I am running SuSE 8.0 Professional on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX140 and also on my aging desktop (200 MHz MMX). I updated from SuSE 7.3 Professional, but because of inexperience and sloppiness, I had to do a clean install of 8.0 on my laptop... Although I do not consider myself a *x guru, I will

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-20 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Thanks for all the replies. need a * here, don't you? ^Subject: (ADV:) Right! Ben Boulanger and Karl Runge spotted this one. I rewrote it this way: :0 H # recognize junk mail by subject * ^Subject: (ADV:) Mail/junk-subject With this change, the rules seem to be

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-20 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you may want to have a look at razor (http://razor.sourceforge.net/). It's a distributed SPAM checking system. I noticed this a while back, and it looks very interesting. However just the other day I read a comment at Slashdot that someone has been

Re: spam filter problem

2002-05-20 Thread Rich Payne
(http://razor.sourceforge.net/). It's a distributed SPAM checking system. I noticed this a while back, and it looks very interesting. However just the other day I read a comment at Slashdot that someone has been poisoning the razor database, so that it labeled some legitimate mailing

Samba in /etc/fstab?

2002-05-20 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Here at my office, when my Win98 machine boots, it mounts my Linux box as a Network Drive. I'd like to have My Linux box do the same, in reverse. I know the command line is: mount -t smbfs //dread/c /mnt/dread/c Which translates into the /etc/fstab entries as: //dread/c /mnt/dread/c

Wedding picture...

2002-05-20 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
http://www.well.com/~kena/wedding%20pics%20(small)/small-Ken%20and%20Terri%20printing%20vows.jpg Just thought I'd share a picture of the bride and me with all of you; and, no, it's not staged, and, yes, that is Linux on there, just to make this on-topic. (Please excuse the r-e-a-l-l-y long

Re: Samba in /etc/fstab?

2002-05-20 Thread Ken Ambrose
Here's a (sample) entry: //host/resource /mount/point smb username=foo,password=bar 0 0 Note that this is -insecure- since /etc/fstab is usually world-readable. Be vewwy, vewwy careful when passwords are in plaintext. -Ken On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Here at my

Re: Wedding picture...

2002-05-20 Thread Jon Hall
Well, we can assume that it is after the actual wedding (since the groom is in the presence of the bride in her full regalia), but before they actually left for the honeymoon. Hmmm, my computer is probably the last thing that I would be using at that time, but I note that both of them are busy

Re: Wedding picture...

2002-05-20 Thread Karl J. Runge
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jon Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we can assume that it is after the actual wedding (since the groom is in the presence of the bride in her full regalia), but before they actually left for the honeymoon. Hmmm, my computer is probably the last thing that I would be

Re: Wedding picture...

2002-05-20 Thread Ken Ambrose
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jon Hall wrote: Well, we can assume that it is after the actual wedding (since the groom is in the presence of the bride in her full regalia), but before they actually left for the honeymoon. Well, no, we broke with tradition, and got our pictures taken before the

Re: Samba in /etc/fstab?

2002-05-20 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: Here's a (sample) entry: //host/resource /mount/point smb username=foo,password=bar 0 0 Note that this is -insecure- since /etc/fstab is usually world-readable. Be vewwy, vewwy careful when passwords are in plaintext. Since I'm a one-man

SpamAssassin stats

2002-05-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Considering the recent thread(s) touching on SpamAssassin, I thought I'd mention that in the 9 weeks I've been having it run interference on my main mailbox, it has intercepted about 125 megabytes of spam. That's roughly sixty megabytes a month. The time saving to me has ben significant. :-) --

Re: Samba in /etc/fstab?

2002-05-20 Thread Ken Ambrose
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Since I'm a one-man operation, that's not a big issue. If someone else gets in enough to read fstab, Ive got more to worry about than a windows password. :) Regardless, there is no password required. Would the fstab then be: //host/resource

leafnode?

2002-05-20 Thread pll
Hi all, Anyone here using leafnode with multiple servers? I need to access multiple sets of newsgroups coming from different servers. For example, I want to access public usenet groups from the free/public server I have access to, and I need to access a corporate/internal news server for

Re: Samba in /etc/fstab?

2002-05-20 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Thomas M. Albright wrote: Here at my office, when my Win98 machine boots, it mounts my Linux box as a Network Drive. I'd like to have My Linux box do the same, in reverse. I know the command line is: mount -t smbfs //dread/c /mnt/dread/c Which translates into

Re: auto mounting issues

2002-05-20 Thread pll
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing. Thanks in advance. Can you give us a clue as to how your automount config files are set up? Also, have you looked at whether there are some homedirs which might be getting mapped directly vs. indirectly? Linux automounter doesn't

auto mounting issues

2002-05-20 Thread Robert Casey
Hello, I installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on a pc clone with an Intel Pentium 3 processor and it is connected to a NIS domain. I configured this machine as a NIS client during the install and upon reboot it seemed like it bound no problem. The NIS server is a Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris

A note on Netiquette...

2002-05-20 Thread pll
I happened to stumble across this rfc in one of the news groups I'm on, and thought people might be interested in reading it. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1855.txt (Btw, I'm not trying to beat any particular dead horse here, the timing of this rfc and any recent dead-horse beatings

Re: A note on Netiquette...

2002-05-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:27:14 EDT Ben Boulanger said: That being said, a charter -can- sometimes be unnecessary - when a group is small, when a group is made up of friends, or any number of other reasons. While some of those reasons may be true for the gnhlug lists, some

Re: A note on Netiquette...

2002-05-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:35:31 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I happened to stumble across this rfc in one of the news groups I'm on, and thought people might be interested in reading it. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1855.txt And further along these lines, I came across:

GNHLUG charter (was: A note on Netiquette...)

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 20 May 2002, at 4:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it worth taking a stab at drafting a trial run of a charter or Rules of GNHLUG type doc? This is one of the many things I wanted to bring up, but was deliberately blocking until the GNHLUG server situation got sorted out. Since it

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 20 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if anyone wants to get together for dinner and/or drinks on Wednesday night, we can do that. If someone has an alternative meeting place we can try on short notice that meets all our requirements: - free - close to source of

Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread Jon Hall
Paul, I recently got back from a trip to Brazil where they have some very interesting projects going on. I could give a report on the trip and some of the projects. Then you could demonstrate GnuCash, and we could end up by heckling Ben over at Martha's. A perfect night. md --

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote: The only thing that can bump you is official city business. Otherwise it's first come first serve. Just thinking back, there were projection screens in the room + a stage that could be nice for presentations. I imagine the president or some

Re: Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:39:03 EDT Jon Hall said: Paul, I recently got back from a trip to Brazil where they have some very interesting projects going on. I could give a report on the trip and some of the projects. Then you could demonstrate GnuCash, and we could end up by

Re: GNHLUG charter (was: A note on Netiquette...)

2002-05-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:43:11 EDT Benjamin Scott said: We haven't really needed one yet, but we have come close a couple of times. Yeah, but that tells me we are *really* good at evading the necessary in favor of stuff we'd *rather* do, like drink :) -- Seeya, Paul

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:41:10 EDT Ben Boulanger said: I imagine the president or some other board member should be the person to coordinate, let me know if you'd like my help here. Letters can either be dropped off or mailed to: City Clerk's office ATTN: Pat

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread Jon Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since I'm no where *near* Nashua to drop off a letter, and mailing it tomorrow may not get it there via snail-mail until Thursday, could *someone* in the Nashua area take care of this for us? I could do this tomorrow morning, and report back via email on the

Re: Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread Jon Hall
Sounds good! All we need now is a decent place to meet :) Another possibility is Daniel Webster College. As I think I told you, I visited them the night they were starting their .NET training, but they were interested in making a firmer contact with GNHLUG and offered the use of their

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 20 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I'm no where *near* Nashua to drop off a letter, and mailing it tomorrow may not get it there via snail-mail until Thursday, could *someone* in the Nashua area take care of this for us? I'm in Nashua, I can take care of this. I would say

Re: Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jon Hall wrote: Another possibility is Daniel Webster College. As I think I told you, I visited them the night they were starting their .NET training, but they were interested in making a firmer contact with GNHLUG and offered the use of their facilities for meetings.

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:57:35 EDT Ben Boulanger said: I'm in Nashua, I can take care of this. Great! Jon, can you ask DWC as well? What day(s)? This Wednesday/Thursday? I can determine the availability before dropping the letter so that only one has to be dropped off.

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:59:37 EDT Ben Boulanger said: On Mon, 20 May 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote: I would say that we would like to use the room from 19:30 until 21:00ish, at which point we can retire to Martha's for more food/beer. Just got off the phone - this is

Re: Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 20 May 2002, at 4:59pm, Jon Hall wrote: after all, Ben will still be there to be heckled. Yes, I am dedicated to serving all your heckling needs. ;-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily

Re: Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 20 May 2002, at 4:51pm, Jon Hall wrote: As far as food goes, the American Buffet is very close by, and could supply enough food for even GNHLUGers. I like this place better all the time. ;-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Mon, 20 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yikes, not unless you want to push this out until next week. What's the concensus here? My vote goes for the DWC, I'll get the ball rolling on the City Hall for backup and find out if we fall out of grace for not showing. We can use it as

Re: Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 20 May 2002 16:51:53 -0400 Jon Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another possibility is Daniel Webster College. As I think I told you, I visited them the night they were starting their .NET training, but they were interested in making a firmer contact with GNHLUG and offered the use of

Re: May MELBA Meeting information

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 20 May 2002, at 5:12pm, Ben Boulanger wrote: (anyone know any tap routines?) Just ask Microsoft about their business practices. ;-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or

Sony to outlaw felt-tip marker pens?

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/05/20/copy_proof_cds.html Basically, Sony has come up with yet another bogus copy-protection scheme. This one is (was) designed to prevent you from listening to your music CD in your computer. Someone discovered that you can circumvent this

Re: Meeting Wednesday night

2002-05-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
The former BCS NH Isig group used to meet at the Library. They have a small auditorium complete with video equipment on wheels. There is plenty of parking and it is about a block off of Main St. On 20 May 2002 at 16:51, Jon Hall wrote: Sounds good! All we need now is a decent place to

R.I.P. Stephen Jay Gould

2002-05-20 Thread Michael O'Donnell
This is a loss. The fact that we're not closer to being ruled by our own version of the Taliban is due in part to clear-eyed, clear-voiced civilized beings such as he. --M * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: GNHLUG charter (was: A note on Netiquette...)

2002-05-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
I dunno - I'm sorta burned out on this topic. We've been here so often before... So, let anarchy prevail! Whoever can get a charter passed by our general membership - more power to ya! (And I've got this wonderful chairmanship I can give ya too!) And then someone can post it on the web site (or

Re: GNHLUG charter (was: A note on Netiquette...)

2002-05-20 Thread Michael O'Donnell
This list is in good shape because GNHLUG members do (generally) seem to respect each other. That respect is (generally) manifested in the messages posted here; they're (generally) on-topic, (generally) free of pointless re-re-re-quotings, (generally) uncluttered with irritations like HTML,

Microsoft admits their products are fatally flawed

2002-05-20 Thread Benjamin Scott
Oh, this is just too good. http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp Microsoft Vice President Jim Allchin has testified *in a court of law* that their code is so flawed that it seriously threatens the security of the United States of America. Using Microsoft

Re: GNHLUG charter (was: A note on Netiquette...)

2002-05-20 Thread Jon Hall
Hi, I see two issues here, that of a Charter and that of a set of guidelines for interaction with GNHLUG. The first is usually fairly complex and costs lots of time and energy to create. It speaks of formalism and guidance in the direction that the group wants to go. It says what the group