Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Chris
This was cut from the email announcement. Time is running out to make the transition to Comcast High-Speed Internet. Take a couple of minutes to make the necessary changes now. If you have already downloaded the Transition Wizard, the only thing you need to do is restart your

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Michael O'Donnell
This was cut from the email announcement. Yes, that would be an example of one of those lowest-common-denominator messages I referred to. [.] I believe from this that attbi email forwarding will not be available if the transition wizard is not used You are, of

A useful perl command line skeleton

2003-06-10 Thread Dan Coutu
As a follow-on to my talk about Perl last month I thought I'd put together a handy code framework that is very useful for creating command line or cron based utilities. The skeleton doesn't do much by itself but I have found myself making command line utilities over and over based on this same

Re: A useful perl command line skeleton

2003-06-10 Thread Morbus Iff
As a follow-on to my talk about Perl last month I thought I'd put together a handy code framework that is very useful for creating command line or cron based utilities. See also: http://sial.org/code/perl/scripts/blank.pl.html #!/usr/bin/perl -w If you're looking for crossplatform fun, use

Re: SuSE rsync?

2003-06-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:43:33 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, at 3:37pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here mirror SuSE from a sight which supports rsync mirroring? sight? ;-) Doh! You caught me. Maybe it was because there was no rsync site in sight ? ;)

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, at 5:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section 6, subsection g of [Comcast's TOS] states ... I'm pretty sure ATT Broadband's TOS has similar prohibitions on multiplexing their service. They also prohibit a number of other things. At one time,

Re: A useful perl command line skeleton

2003-06-10 Thread Dan Coutu
Morbus Iff wrote: As a follow-on to my talk about Perl last month I thought I'd put together a handy code framework that is very useful for creating command line or cron based utilities. See also: http://sial.org/code/perl/scripts/blank.pl.html Thanks for sharing the pointer! #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread R. Sean Hartnett
I recall that Comcast is tight with Microsoft. MS made a big investment in Comcast a few years ago. On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 10:31, Chris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, at 5:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section 6, subsection g of [Comcast's TOS] states ...

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:35:01PM -0400, Michael O'Donnell wrote: .. One of the things I read in attbi.ne.techtalk.general is that all a Linux user like me has to do is config different IP addrs for the POP, SMTP and NNTP servers, reportedly these: send email (SMTP):

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:22:48 -0400 Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:35:01PM -0400, Michael O'Donnell wrote: .. One of the things I read in attbi.ne.techtalk.general is that all a Linux user like me has to do is config different IP addrs for the

[gnhlug-announce] June Merrimack Valley Linux User Group meeting, 6/25/03

2003-06-10 Thread David Long
Who: Bill Sconce What: An introduction to Python When: 7:30 PM, Wednesday, June 25th, 2003 Where: 2nd floor, Martha's Exchange, Nashua, NH Directions: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/Marthas_directions The Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group,

Re: postgresql

2003-06-10 Thread Erik Price
Cole Tuininga wrote: I agree that it has some great features, but when we looked into using it, we found some serious drawbacks to it. If anybody has comments on these, I'd be very interested to hear them. I don't have any comments except to say thanks for mentioning them Cole, because I

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
It's a big pig, little pig thing. The story goes something like this: There were two baby pigs. Every night after the farmer had gone to bed, they would sneak under the wire, steal a bit of grain from the barn, eat it and and then sneak back before morning. One of the pigs had a larger appetite

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
The only document I ever signed was the Continental Cablevision document. Somewhere in my archives I may have email from a VP authorizing an internal network. I could probably use that if Comcast starts playing hardball but it would be more like, our agreement supercedes that, cease and desist.

RE: postgresql

2003-06-10 Thread Sharpe, Richard
Erik I am a DBA and have been for over 20 years and my all time favorite RDBMS is DB2 and now especially that it runs on LINUX and that the LINUX flavor of DB2 is enjoying much attention from IBM, I think it is hands down better than Oracle. Rich -Original Message- From: Erik

Re: postgresql

2003-06-10 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:58, Erik Price wrote: Cole Tuininga wrote: I don't have any comments except to say thanks for mentioning them Cole, because I didn't know about any of these. So, just out of curiosity, which database(s) do you prefer*? Truth be told, the only other one I have

RE: postgresql

2003-06-10 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:40, Sharpe, Richard wrote: Erik I am a DBA and have been for over 20 years and my all time favorite RDBMS is DB2 and now especially that it runs on LINUX and that the LINUX flavor of DB2 is enjoying much attention from IBM, I think it is hands down better than

RE: postgresql

2003-06-10 Thread Sharpe, Richard
I will answer but I am off to a meeting with people from the evil empire (M$). Rich -Original Message- From: Cole Tuininga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:57 PM To: Sharpe, Richard Cc: GNHLUG List Subject: RE: postgresql On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 13:40, Sharpe,

Re: postgresql

2003-06-10 Thread Erik Price
Sharpe, Richard wrote: Erik I am a DBA and have been for over 20 years and my all time favorite RDBMS is DB2 and now especially that it runs on LINUX and that the LINUX flavor of DB2 is enjoying much attention from IBM, I think it is hands down better than Oracle. Thanks for your

RE: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Travis Roy
The only document I ever signed was the Continental Cablevision document. Somewhere in my archives I may have email from a VP authorizing an internal network. I could probably use that if Comcast starts playing hardball but it would be more like, our agreement supercedes that, cease and

Re: OT- Comcast Subscriber Agreement

2003-06-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:59:05 -0400 Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except that all of those things have a nice disclaimer that basically states that they can change it at any time at any reason to anything and not tell you, you just have to go look at the agreement online every once and a

OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Since we seem to have an abundance of Perl experts today, I have a perplexing problem... I am trying to write a script that logs into a website. The problem that I am running into is that the website requires javascript. If the site detects that the browser doesn't support javascript, then it

Re: OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread Morbus Iff
Since we seem to have an abundance of Perl experts today, I have a perplexing problem... I am trying to write a script that logs into a website. The problem that I am running into is that the website requires javascript. If the site detects that the browser doesn't support javascript, then it

Re: OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:24:43 EDT Morbus Iff said: Since we seem to have an abundance of Perl experts today, I have a perplexing problem... I am trying to write a script that logs into a website. The problem that I am running into is that the website requires javascript. If

Re: OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: 10 Jun 2003 16:25:33 EDT Kenneth E. Lussier said: Since we seem to have an abundance of Perl experts today, I have a perplexing problem... I am trying to write a script that logs into a website. The problem that I am running into is that the website requires javascript. If

Re: OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread Dan Coutu
Hmm, you're writing a perl script that is acting as a browser (of sorts) in order to login to a remote site and then do other things there (Im assuming.) If so then you should be receiving the HTTP data, including the request from the server that they are using to determine whether or not your

Re: OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread Bob Bell
Kenny, In the past I've put together some perl code that extends LWP::UserAgent. I override or add a few methods using HTTP::Request::Form, HTTP::Cookies, and HTML::TreeBuilder. The end result is that you can come up with an enhanced useragent that lets you fill out forms, handle cookies,