Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread kenta
I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to support across different Linux flavors. That's a dark road to follow. (This is in reference to not having official support for our milter

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Ray Cote
At 9:02 AM -0400 6/3/08, kenta wrote: I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to support across different Linux flavors. That's a dark road to follow. Amusing to consider

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:02 -0400, kenta wrote: I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to support across different Linux flavors. That's a dark road to follow. (This is

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:02 AM, kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to support across different Linux flavors. That's a dark road to follow.

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:40 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:02 -0400, kenta wrote: I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to support across different

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 10:07 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:40 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:02 -0400, kenta wrote: I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, there's this company behind Sendmail who has some productization ... Even better: Postfix used to be called Secure Mailer, back when it was being developed exclusively by this computer company -- you may have

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:00 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, there's this company behind Sendmail who has some productization ... Even better: Postfix used to be called Secure Mailer, back when it was being

Linux vs. PC Commercials WAS: Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:02:26 -0400 From: kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to support across different Linux flavors. That's a dark road to

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:02 AM, kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to support across different Linux flavors. That's a dark road to follow.

Re: Linux vs. PC Commercials WAS: Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things like this get me thinking we really need Linux vs. PC commercials, like the Mac vs. PC commercials you see on TV. http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+pc+linux -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Linux vs. PC Commercials WAS: Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Drew Van Zandt
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cldeHjFig_c http://youtube.com/watch?v=GVOnFdMf0RU --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Disable environment settings

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:01, Kenny Lussier wrote: The problem that I am running into now is how to maintain that variable when they `su - user`. The question doesn't really make sense. the '-' means, 'replace the current environment'. So, to rephrase your question, How can I get it to keep

Re: Linux vs. PC Commercials WAS: Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:02:26 -0400 From: kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just had to share this, one of the consulants here just sent an e-mail in which he said: Postfix is open source. That's not a good thing for any product to

Re: Linux vs. PC Commercials WAS: Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Shawn O'Shea
2008/6/3 Drew Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cldeHjFig_c http://youtube.com/watch?v=GVOnFdMf0RU Found in the related videos of those two, or the whole collection here: http://tv.truenuff.com/mac/ They're a sketch comedy group and they did a series of PC/Mac spoofs,

Re: Disable environment settings

2008-06-03 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:01, Kenny Lussier wrote: The problem that I am running into now is how to maintain that variable when they `su - user`. The question doesn't really make sense. the '-' means, 'replace the

Re: Disable environment settings

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:36, Kenny Lussier wrote: Unfortunately, people get tired of typing it when they need to run 100+ commands as another user to diagnose a problem. Yeah, me too. :) Are they special programs or common utilities? If they're special, you can wrap them, e.g.:

Re: Disable environment settings

2008-06-03 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:36:08 -0400 From: Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org cover all of the odd cases that we seem to be running into. I like sudo. Unfortunately, people get tired of typing it when they need to run 100+ commands as another user to

Re: Disable environment settings

2008-06-03 Thread Shawn O'Shea
If they're special, you can wrap them, e.g.: /usr/local/bin/foobar: #!/bin/sh sudo /usr/local/realbin/foobar $* Better yet, if you're already modifying their environment with profile changes (which it sounds like you are), just setup some shell aliases. I've done this for sudo

Re: Disable environment settings

2008-06-03 Thread Coleman Kane
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:49 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:36, Kenny Lussier wrote: Unfortunately, people get tired of typing it when they need to run 100+ commands as another user to diagnose a problem. Yeah, me too. :) Are they special programs or common

Re: Disable environment settings

2008-06-03 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:36:08 -0400 From: Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org cover all of the odd cases that we seem to be running into. I like sudo. Unfortunately, people get tired of

[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] LAST CALL: Remote Access, Data Replication, and File Encryption with FUSE - June 5th

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
[please RSVP today if you're coming so we can have adequate refreshments] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org

Re: Funniest thing I've heard today and it's only 9 AM

2008-06-03 Thread Ted Roche
Jarod Wilson wrote: Though to be honest, I'm still amazed how many people I talk to and mention who I work for (Red Hat), and they have no clue what I'm talking about -- they don't know the company name or what Linux is. So perhaps the world in general isn't as educated as I'd like to

Re: [GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] LAST CALL: Remote Access, Data Replication, and File Encryption with FUSE - June 5th

2008-06-03 Thread David Samson
Thanks for the heads up, Please count me in Dave Samson easton, nh 603 823 9535 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [please RSVP today if you're coming so we can have adequate refreshments]

[GNHLUG] SLUG/Durham / Mon 9 Jun / Motion video editing

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
Who : Rob Anderson What : Video editing Date : Mon 9 June 2008 Time : 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH For the June meeting of the Seacoast LUG (SLUG), Rob will be demonstrating the use of motion video editing tools with Linux. As of this writing, it is not known

[GNHLUG] Ubuntu Local Community Team for NH

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Scott
For those interested in Ubuntu and its sister distributions, there is now a Ubuntu LoCo (Local Community) Team for the NH area. They're having a Team Collaboration Event on Sat 14 June in Manchester. You can check their website for more information, and to get directions. * Wiki web page: