On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:23:14PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
And let's not forget that Linux isn't immune to restart-the-world
issues, either. For example, on a Linux server, if you update glibc
to patch a
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Shawn O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has a number of apps that I use pretty regularly, including the
as-yet-unmentioned Pidgin (IM client), Audacity (audio recording/editing)
and VLC (movie/media player).
M-Audio has a portable device for recording
Audacity often gets recommended to podcasters and they never need to get
another app. Imagine if The Gimp came out got estabilished before
Photoshop?
Keep in mind, though even older versions of Photoshop have features that
Gimp does not. Gimp, however, is an *excellent* replacement for
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:38:52 -0400
Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sometimes it's good to reboot a system just to make sure you can.
That's very old school :-)
Back in the days where mainframes had the power of my PDA, operating
systems were somewhat unsophisticated. I ran a data
On Mar 19, 2008, at 15:36, Ben Scott wrote:
You're obviously not installing all your security updates, then.
Both the 2.4 and 2.6 Debian kernels have had security advisories
posted within the past two years.
Hey, it's possible that Warren's kernel is so old that he doesn't
suffer from the
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:41 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Mar 19, 2008, at 15:36, Ben Scott wrote:
You're obviously not installing all your security updates, then.
Both the 2.4 and 2.6 Debian kernels have had security advisories
posted within the past two years.
Hey, it's possible
Nah, we are not vulnerable to that exploit. We do keep tabs on important
security issues when they come up. We plan to retire that server pretty soon,
although I may leave it running behind the firewall, just to see how long it
goes... ;-)
- Original Message -
From: Bill McGonigle
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:48 -0400, Warren Luebkeman wrote:
Nah, we are not vulnerable to that exploit. We do keep tabs on important
security issues when they come up. We plan to retire that server pretty
soon, although I may leave it running behind the firewall, just to see how
long it
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:46:04AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:38:52 -0400
Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sometimes it's good to reboot a system just to make sure you can.
That's very old school :-)
thank you :)
Back in the days where mainframes had
Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Relatedly, a group of systems can get into a state where it's hard to
reboot the whole group back into that state. This can happen when you
build up a collection of services and servers over time, but never from
scratch. e.g. you might have a
Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone here think that Writing FOSS applications for Win32
would be a good presentation topic for a LUG meeting?
I do, and would also be interested for myself. It even has
potential to be a good
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got my daughter a Dell (Windows XP) laptop for Christmas, and we have
tried to
add only free software. Right away, we set up Firefox as the default
browser,
and added OpenOffice for her school work.
* Last week, she
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