Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-21 Thread Kent Johnson
Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them. I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job. Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Ed lawson
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:34:53 -0500 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those two both seem rather unlikely. In particular, remember Hanlon's razor. My guess is some kind of crawler robot. You block Google from indexing your site, too, then, right? FWIW I know nothing from the

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Kent Johnson
Ed lawson wrote: I know nothing from the technical side of this, but I mentioned this to someone who works at MSFT and their first comment was that it was likely Live Search crawling to build an index. Except: - the referrer is a single-word search at search.live.com, e.g.

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Coleman Kane
Kent Johnson wrote: Ed lawson wrote: I know nothing from the technical side of this, but I mentioned this to someone who works at MSFT and their first comment was that it was likely Live Search crawling to build an index. Except: - the referrer is a single-word search at

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 08:56 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: Except: - The client acts like a browser, in that it fetches CSS and JavaScript files as well as the primary page, and the User-Agent seems to be MSIE 7: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) This

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Coleman Kane
Cole Tuininga wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 08:56 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: Except: - The client acts like a browser, in that it fetches CSS and JavaScript files as well as the primary page, and the User-Agent seems to be MSIE 7: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Arc Riley
What's your robots.txt look like? Does it forbid this kind of behavior? The IPs in question never accessed robots.txt. Only MSNBot and family on different IP blocks. You will see the bad behavior if you log referers. The bots in question claim to be arriving on your site by various search

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is extremely amusing to me that MSIE still identifies as Mozilla/4.0... All user agents are Mozilla, thanks to brain-damage perpetrated back in the mid-1990's by dumb web developers who assumed that Netscape was the web

eliminating gnome-terminal colors

2008-02-21 Thread Tom Buskey
My google-fu is lacking. I want to force gnome-terminal (and konsole and xterm and...) to not allow colors. When I bring up lynx, I want black white with bold. I don't want the white on blue status at the bottom or the yellow on white I can't read either. I don't want ls to use colors. I

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 02/21/2008 09:30 AM, Ben Scott wrote: All user agents are Mozilla, thanks to brain-damage perpetrated back in the mid-1990's by dumb web developers who assumed that Netscape was the web and used User-Agent to block all other browsers, even compatible ones. Now, of course, we have the

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's your robots.txt look like? Does it forbid this kind of behavior? The IPs in question never accessed robots.txt. [...] Many of the hits were also to pages specifically forbidden to * User-agent, such as Disallow:

Re: eliminating gnome-terminal colors

2008-02-21 Thread Coleman Kane
Tom Buskey wrote: My google-fu is lacking. I want to force gnome-terminal (and konsole and xterm and...) to not allow colors. When I bring up lynx, I want black white with bold. I don't want the white on blue status at the bottom or the yellow on white I can't read either. I don't want

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Arc Riley
liberty$ find -name access_log\* | xargs egrep -h '^(131\.107|65.5[2-5])' | fgrep robots.txt | wc -l 1453 Look specifically at the IPs the faked live.com search results are hit from vs those running msnbot. msnbot accesses robots.txt more than any other search engine (seconded by Yahoo!

Re: eliminating gnome-terminal colors

2008-02-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
I don't want ls to use colors. export LS_COLOR='' alias l='ls --color=no' I don't want vim to use colors. Assuming you mean syntax highlighting: echo syntax off ~/.vimrc ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: eliminating gnome-terminal colors

2008-02-21 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want anything to use anything except black on white text with bold. Try setting your TERM environment variable to vt102 or vt220, instead of linux, xterm, or xterm-color. Thank you very much. export

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I did noticed that some of the kernel crashed message had something about ndiswrapper which I am using at the time due to how badly Broadcom works on my laptop. - Original Message - From: amc To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:23 AM

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:32 -0500, amc wrote: I did noticed that some of the kernel crashed message had something about ndiswrapper which I am using at the time due to how badly Broadcom works on my laptop. - Original Message - From: amc To:

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote: I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them. I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job. Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should be very

kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. It doesn't really matter what kernel I use. I upgraded to gentoo-sources- 2.6.23-r8 and the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80370665 and gave me a lot of call trace info and stack info.

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. Brand and model of laptop? You mention Gentoo. Have you tried any other distros? Nothing against Gentoo, but the build everything yourself approach means

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
- Original Message - From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug problem is how do I capture the stack output when the kernel has crashed ? there seems to be no log entry of kernel crashes. like I

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:46:37 -0500 From: Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* All of it, well 97.2%, from the above two subnets, belonging to Microsoft. I don't seem to have this

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn O'Shea
If you have python and the pywin32 libraries installed, a script like this works... Adjust the dirs at the beginning. This will convert to rtf (and strips the last three letters of the filename and changes them to rtf). If you want txt, change rtf to txt and 6 to 2 in the SaveAs (the numbers come

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
that was a stupid error . for whatever reason sometimes when I respond it wants to email the person that last sent. sorry about that ben - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:41 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
- Original Message - From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:24 AM Subject: Re: kernel bug HP pavilion DV6258SE . the laptop has had many hardware challenges that I have solved. I haven't tried other distros on it in a while.

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:30 AM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP pavilion DV6258SE Thanks, that is likely to help. I haven't tried other distros on it in a while. I love how gentoo portage systems work. Not saying Gentoo is bad, it just makes tech support difficult. If someone says I'm

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:46 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been getting a strange kernel bug on my laptop from time to time. [...] the bug says unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80370665 and gave me a

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Jarod Wilson
I'm assuming your reply to me was meant for the list, so re-adding the list to the cc... On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 11:26 -0500, amc wrote: problem is how do I capture the stack output when the kernel has crashed ? there seems to be no log entry of kernel crashes. like I said the kernel crashes

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-21 Thread Kent Johnson
Shawn O'Shea wrote: Putting on my python-tutor hat... import win32com.client import os docsdir = C:\Documents and Settings\shawn\My Documents\wordtest outdir = C:\Documents and Settings\shawn\My Documents\converted Raw strings or / or doubled \\ would be prudent here. docslist =

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:07:03 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] build environment, and so on. Also, ndiswrapper is a userland program, so if ndiswrapper is involved, something is running in userland. It might be an initrd (initial RAM disk), which runs things before init starts.

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I will take a picture of it and upload it when it happens again. - Original Message - From: Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug I'm

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
I'm not using genkernel but gentoo-sources. I don't use initrd image . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:25 PM Subject: Re: kernel bug Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:07:03 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL

free software gaming

2008-02-21 Thread Arc Riley
Anyone on this list interested in promoting free software games projects? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set up serial console output if you've got a serial port on your laptop, or set up kdump to capture a vmcore. Ah, for the good ole days, when everybody had a directly-connected printer and a text console, and you could

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread VirginSnow
From: amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:44:00 -0500 I'm not using genkernel but gentoo-sources. I don't use initrd image . IIRC, gentoo-sources is just a patched kernel source package. genkernel uses whatever kernel sources you have to build a bzImage/initrd pair. Are you SURE

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 21 Feb, MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs (Talk Postponed)

2008-02-21 Thread Marc Nozell
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:14:26AM -0500, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Who ??: Marc Nozell, MySQL Conference presenter, Officially certified What : MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs Where: Martha's Exchange Day ??: Thur 21 Feb **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion

[GNHLUG] POSTPONED! MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 21 Feb, MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs

2008-02-21 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
I suppose I could fill in with my Confessions of a Brothel Owner talk. (Just kidding. Have to update some of the presentation slides.) JAK -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [SPAM-60] Re: Draft: MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 21 Feb, MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs Date:

[GNHLUG] POSTPONED - SORT OF! MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 21 Feb, MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs

2008-02-21 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
To fill in (since you already committed to an evening out) we will take turns relating strange adventures we have endured - Linux, work, hardware, building collapse, flying saucers, time travel, etc. I suppose I could fill in with my Confessions of a Brothel Owner talk. (Just kidding. Have

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In particular, remember Hanlon's razor. Does that have more or less blades than the competing Occam's Razor? And how do either of those compare with Vipul's Razor? And are *any* of those better than the Motorola Razr? -- Seeya, Paul

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread amc
yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to the kernel. then you can load the ndiswrapper as a module and yes ndiswraper does work . I don't have initrd entry in grub only root kernel and

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM, amc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to the kernel. then you can load the ndiswrapper as a module As far as I know,