VMS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Dan Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:06 AM
To: Greater NH Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: Computer industry woes due to Microsoft?
Jerry Eckert wrote:
Can I say the V word here? Compaq
During the past two weeks I've received several messages from Derek Martin
(posted to the list) which have been unreadable in MS Outlook 98. In each
case the message flag was set, and I get the error Can't open this item. A
follow-up flag must be 100 characters or less. when I attempt to open
Your crusade might be more effective if you used the short message -- at
least then people using Outlook can see what the message is.
Unfortunately, some of us work in M$-centric environments and are forced to
use these tools at home, like it or not, for compatibility reasons.
I do wonder what
I would encourage all such people who are unhappy about it to make
arguments to their bosses and to their IT departments in favor of
switching.
If only it were so easy. I've spent the last year trying to convince the
local management (without success) that it might be a good idea to wait
until
Dan Jenkins wrote:
Of course, the real problem for Compaq, et al is commoditization of the
PC.
More OS choices might help, but they could be commoditized too. With
Linux, et al, however, you have more ways to configure the desktop. This
reduces the commodity aspect, and could return some
Looks like a bad sector on the hard drive...
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Tom Rauschenbach
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 6:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: messages in logJul 8 18:30:37 localhost kernel: hdd: read_intr:
Try these sites:
http://www.grc.com/ (Shields-Up)
http://www.secure-me.net/
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Tom Rauschenbach
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 1:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Net etiquette
I have a
Thanks, Paul. That helps quite a bit.
Next question: does anyone know of a version for V..., er, OpenVMS?
Jerry
-Original Message-
From: Paul Lussier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 5:30 PM
To: Jerry Eckert
Subject: Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell
Heard on the news yesterday:
A bomb went off inside the Microsoft office
in Johannesburg. The explosion shattered
windows...
If only we were so lucky.
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Paul Lussier
Sent:
Actually, I don't understand.
Were you assigned that IP address by your ISP, or did you pick it at random?
24.10.24.10 is a valid IP address assigned to @Home in OK. If you need to
assign IP addresses for your network, use one of the following ranges
reserved for this purpose:
10.0.0.0 -
Did anyone else not get the message Bob is replying to?
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greater NH Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: Another name server
Niall Kavanagh wrote:
I use IE, Netscape 4.72, Netscape 6 and Moz every day. Netscape 4.72 is by
far the most painful to use, even taking into account all the bells and
whistles missing in Mozilla and Netscape 6.
This doesn't surprise me. The only software worse than M$'s is AOL's (and
BPSCo -
explicitly mention clicking on the attachment.
Jerry
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From: Marc Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:22 AM
To: Jerry Eckert
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Today's reason not to run Windows
See http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22
Unfortunatly, "Don't Open Attachments" doesn't solve the problem. With
Outlook and Outlook Express, If you have the "Auto Preview" turned on,
it will execute any VBScript that it finds embeded in the message. It's
a "feature". So, basically, if you have that feature enabled, it will
automatically
David Roberts wrote:
Haven't played with M$ mail for a long time (ignorance is bliss, at
times), so here comes a stupid question... Why don't the Admins turn
off this "feature", or hasn't M$ given them the ability to do so? It
is an obvious security breach - make the user click on something,
Derek Martin wrote:
As an administrator, I'm inclined to agree. As a USER, if there were a
program attached to my mail that I wanted to run, if I have to perform
extra mouse clicks to say Yes, I really do want to run that, I'd be very
irritated. So I guess I'd have to disagree.
However, I
Marc Evans wrote:
I wish this were true, but it sadly is not. The MS Outlook program has a
"feature" which previews messages. Anyone who has that feature turned on,
which I believe it is by default, would become infected simply by
retrieving messages from theie pop/imap/whatever box.
The
Marc Evans wrote:
I beg to differ, but this is hadly the forum. The VB file attached is
immediately executed upon retrieval from the POP box. The user does not
have to open the message in any fashion, if the preview feature is
enabled.
Why is it that none of the information releases from the
Even if you don't purge, the messages shouldn't reappear as new messages.
They should just remain in the wastebasket, trashcan, or whatever...
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Thomas Charron
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 11:51 AM
To:
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From: Matteo Semplice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [tlinux-users:00527] ANNOUNCE: v2.6 Laptop-HOWTO (fwd)
thought it might be of some interest to everyone...
matteo
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Matteo
I just purchased a copy of SuSE 6.4 to upgrade my RedHat 5.2 system.
The SuSE manual mentions the Reiser filesystem, but doesn't give a lot of
details (the pointer to the README is nice, but not of much use before
installation...).
Are they any disadvantages to using the Reiser filesystem vs.
| It's like putting antibiotics into chicken feed. It might temporarily
| decrease the spread of certain types of bacteria in improperly cooked
| food, but in the long run, the bacteria develop resistance, and then
| we're back where we're started. And you'll notice that scientists have
| made
Does anyone know if TECO was ever ported to any variant of Unix? And, if
so, where I might get a copy?
For those who may not know of TECO, it is the Text Editor and COrrector. It
was originally written at MIT in the early 60s for the PDP-1 (I believe).
It was widely used on the PDP-11s and was
Benjamin Scott wrote:
Oh, get a grip. The *analogy* works. It is comparing *methods*, not
*severity*. Nobody is suggesting crashed computers are the same as dead
people!
(I hate people who argue against the analogy while missing the point of
it
in the first place)
And I hate it when
What's VOS? Have I been missing out on something interesting??
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From: Thomas Charron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 1:27 AM
To: Jerry Eckert; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: compromised system
If only we still had the *real* *ics operating
Derek Martin wrote:
someone just asked
if RH configures named to run as a non-root user. The named daemon binds
to port 53, which is a "reserved" port, and requires root priviledges for
this operation.
Is it possible for named to start running
Welcome back!
Will you be doing a post mortem so the rest of us can (hopefully) avoid the
same situation?
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Derek Martin
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:14 PM
To: GNHLUG mailing list
Subject: Back from
Thanks, Marc. That worked like a charm.
P.S. Please say hello to Wendy for me.
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 6:40 PM
To: Jerry Eckert
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Emacs
Jerry Callen wrote:
DOS/360 became available for IBM 360s (with as little as 16KB of memory...)
in June 1966.
It's hard to imagine a 360 with only 16 KB of memory. IIRC, the PDP-11/20
(circa 1972) even had more memory than that.
Jerry
Thanks to everyone for the string comparison suggestions. I wasn't able to
use them for this project, but I plan to look at them in more depth later to
learn more about the language.
The book I'm using ("Practical C Programming" from O'Reilly) states simply
that strcmp() returns 0 if the
Hi Folks,
I hope it's not inappropriate to ask a C language question here.
Is there a more elegant way to do the equivalent of a switch statement for a
character string value than a chain of if (strcmp())... else if
(strcmp())... else if ?
What I tried to do was
switch (char-var) {
Thanks Dave.
I'm not looking to do anything complicated; I was asking to make sure I
hadn't overlooked something obvious and simple.
Jerry
-Original Message-
From: Dave Seidel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 11:05 AM
To: Jerry Eckert
Subject: Re: C question
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions for comparing a list of strings. For
now I think I'll stay with the if..else if.. for simplicity.
One more question:
To test two strings for equality, is there a difference between
if (strcmp(s1, s2) == 0)
and
if (! strcmp(s1, s2))
Jerry
You say you can't pipe the output to more or less. What happens. I tried
it and it works OK for me. One thing to note is that you can NOT have a
space between the vertical bar and the following program name (i.e., "|more"
works, "| more" does not).
If you want the output in a file, try: ls .
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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 7:35 AM
To: Jerry Eckert
Subject: RE: FW: [LBS] Update
Jerry Eckert writes:
I don't think the '1' box solution proposed below will work. When you
register the domain you have to provide the host name and IP address of
the
DNS servers. Since Media One is using
Hi Jeff,
ns1.vmsguy.com 216.181.193.242
Jerry
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Jeffry Smith
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:34 PM
To: Jerry Eckert
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: [LBS] Update
I need a name ip address
Smith
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:49 PM
To: Jerry Eckert
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NUN / ORG List
Subject: Re: FW: [LBS] Update
Ack - it insists on 2 nameservers! Got a second one handy (name
ip)? Anyone?
jeff smith
Jerry Eckert wrote:
Hi Jeff,
ns1.vmsguy.com 216.181.193.242
Jerry
If you can include .64 and .95, the address/netmask would be
206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224.
It was explained to me that the net mask must be a bitstring of contiguous
'1's followed by a bitstring of contiguous '0's (starting at the MSB).
Using that rule, there's no way to construct an
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote:
206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224.
It was explained to me that the net mask must be a bitstring
of contiguous
'1's followed by a bitstring of contiguous '0's (starting at
the MSB).
Using that rule, there's no way to construct an address/mask
for the range
Jeff Macdonald wrote:
are you referring to my scheme?
I'm still not sure about this, although I haven't tried it
yet... Could you
please give it a try and tell us about the result? I am
really wondering about
this because I read somewhere that it is possible.
I believe he was referring
"Karl J. Runge" wrote:
May we please change this thread over to vi vs. emacs?
vi Vs. Emacs, Emacs Vs. vi.. why is always these two?? What about
pico? What is so wrong with pico???
I'm partial to TECO myself...
- J
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Derek Martin wrote:
Jerry Eckert wrote:
I'm partial to TECO myself...
I've reconsidered... edlin is DEFINITELY the ultimate editor known to
man.
Do we have any votes for Son of Stopgap?
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Did you have a /boot partition near the beginning of the drive?
Jerry
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From: Matt Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, February 21, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Redhat Install on 27 GIG IDE
Hey everybody,
After an awesome quake 3
Will parted allow the partition table to be rebuilt without formatting the
data area?
I have a disk with a hosed partition table, but I believe most of the data
is intact. I have a copy of the original partition table information from
Partition Magic. However, I don't know of a way to have PM
df -lk
disk full/free local kilobytes
Is '-l' supposed to work on Linux? It is an invalid option on RedHat 5.2
and there is no "local" option listed in the man page.
Jerry
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From: Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 3:02 PM
Subject: Stupig ? time
Does anyone remeber the command for checking disk space?? I can't for
the life of me remember what it
Mike,
Thanks for posting that! The web site mentions that the crackers are using
SunRPC vulnerabilities to plant the tools used to launch the attacks. Not
an hour before reading it my firewall logged a site in CA which attempted to
scan port 111 (sunrpc) on my subnet twice.
Jerry
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