Re: (OT) Does anyone use FOSS Virus Scan?

2007-07-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: Response time from the ClamAV team has been measured to be lower than commercial vendors in many cases (virustotal I think was the source on that) - that's not an issue to worry about. I want to add that ClamAV has often caught stuff that Symantec running our our

Re: (OT) Does anyone use FOSS Virus Scan?

2007-07-19 Thread Jason Stephenson
Another vote for clamav, here. Use it on all the mail servers I run. I've never used it on a desktop machine, but have manually scanned stuff with it. As mentioned earlier, there is a Windows version, too, called ClamWin. It would also be useful to know how you intend to use it, because there

Re: Liberation Fonts?

2007-05-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Marc Nozell wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:35 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: Is that like Freedom Fries? Anyone tried this? https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ They are pretty nice. I've installed them on my Ubuntu/Feisty laptop by just unpacking them into ~/.fonts and running fc-cache.

Re: [OT] Don't Download This Song - Weird Al

2007-03-30 Thread Jason Stephenson
Larry Cook wrote: Larry Cook wrote: http://www.myspace.com/weirdal/ Interesting!? The trailing slash causes an error. Need to use: I don't know what's worse: the trailing slash causing an error or the fact that MySpace uses IIS. The latter likely has something to do with the former.

Re: Henniker report - Re: [GNHLUG] A ham radio flea market - tomorrow, in Henniker

2007-03-18 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill Sconce wrote: P.S. Another anecdote tickled me. It was about a friend of a friend who supposedly took someone's money to intall Vista on their PC. He played a trick: installed Ubuntu instead of The Genuine Advantage, told the client you'll notice that it looks a little different from XP,

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs? I have a PowerBook G4 that I'd like to be able to play with some stuff on. Specifically, I'd like to play around with a couple of the BSDs and possibly some different Linux distros. Have you tried just

Re: Emacs: Multiple files in one buffer?

2007-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd like to do is have each function in a C source file appear in different subfiles. But I want to be able to perform text operations over the whole bunch of them... query-replace, isearch-forward, etc. I don't think it would require any extra structure in

Re: I reallly do not understand what the issue is.....

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
Actually, I don't understand what the issue is, either. I manually updated my servers at work by writing a textual zoneinfo file with the proper configuration as described in the manual page for zic. I checked the contents of /etc/TIMEZONE or /etc/localtime and made sure that my input file

Re: Emacs: Multiple files in one buffer?

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is addressed to all the Emacs gurus on the list... Dunno if I'm a guru or not, but I've used GNU Emacs for 15 years and dabbled with X-Emacs briefly. My .emacs is only about 4K in size, but I've created a couple minor and major modes for various special

Re: Ripping from CD to FLAC, and then transcoding to lossy (was: More on MP3 and open formats)

2007-02-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: On 2/26/07, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm already planing a nice utility for managing all of that, too. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't something out there already. I wrote my own collection of really bad hacks (shell and Perl scripts) to do this; I

Re: More on MP3 and open formats

2007-02-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
In reply to Ben's message about ripping to FLAC and then converting to other formats, I believe that is what I am going to do. I'll rip to FLAC and store the results on one of my PCs or possibly even burn them to DVD+R DL discs. Then, I'll convert the FLACs to Ogg when needed for greater file

Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

2007-02-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:02, Thomas Charron wrote: The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up, and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available. Ah, OK, thanks for the correction. Still, if I hit that problem I'd go file a bug

Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

2007-02-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Nigel Stewart wrote: Without disagreeing with your points about how open source is supposed to work, I think doing better repo quality control would be a good direction for things to go. There doesn't seem much point in letting a repo get into a inconsistent state and letting that flow

Re: More on MP3 and open formats

2007-02-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Not that anyone really cares what I'm doing, but until this Alcatel thing, I never thought that I was infringing on someone's patent rights by ripping music to MP3. I did it because it pretty much worked everywhere without hassle, though I knew that Ogg was supposed to be better. Now, I'm

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
If end users are defined as home users and office users, then 64 bits will never matter to them, just like 32 bits doesn't matter to them today. For the majority of people, its just a yard stick, like 4 cylinder vs. 6 cylinder vs. 8. Most have some notion of what it means, that more is

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben's point about the advantages of more memory and the comparison to the 16-bit to 32-bit transition is well taken, but I don't think that changes my main point: Typical end users as defined before don't really care about the differences. As long as they can do more or less what they want to

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox

2007-02-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: On 2/15/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It may be double the number of address bits, but it is woo more than double the address space. ... Exactly how much more than double is a woo? Quite specifically, it's one metric assload. What's that in imperial

Re: OT: Cygwin/X on Windows XP

2006-12-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
Erm, never mind, I fixed it by unmounting everything and reinstalling the fonts while the Cygwin bash window was still open. I found this solution by digging deeper into the Gmane Cygwin-x archives. Go figure. According to some posts that I've seen, that isn't supposed to fix it if you

Re: SPARC Live CD?

2006-12-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: I'd imagine there's a NetBSD and maybe OpenBSD or Gentoo. I'd imagine that, too, but I can't find a working link to either for the Sparc architecture. The only live OpenBSD CDs that I find are for i386. The working links that I can find for NetBSD live CDs are also for

Re: Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

2006-10-31 Thread Jason Stephenson
RE: User interface (which is what this has turned into) I find the best user interface is the most minimal. Something that isn't cluttered with a lot of buttons and gee-whiz googaw. I like the command line, and then simple GUIs for times when data needs visualization. The problem is that

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
mike ledoux wrote: I'm sure there are some exim fans out there, but I'm not one of them. I have had two experiences with Exim, neither positive. The relevent one was a server that processed 20-50k inbound messages/day, and was ground nearly to a halt under Exim. Replacing with a properly

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: [repling to off-list message, with author's permission] On 10/16/06, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exim ... It's my preferred MTA. Every MTA is somebody's preferred MTA. ;-) True. I will enumerate the reasons that I like Exim: 1. It is not Sendmail. 2

Re: Solved: Problem with bash login.

2006-08-05 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: Okay, the next thing to do (after Thomas Charron's .gnomerc idea) is poke around under /etc/X11/ for anything that looks like a shell script or initialization file. Generally speaking, everything starts in there, somewhere. In particular, if the system is using gdm, the

Re: Malware best practices

2006-07-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: The MySpace worm does highlight something important: Programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes, over and over and over and over and over again. As a programmer, I can tell you why. Most programmers are not well versed in the art or the science (if there really is

OT: Whirled Peas (was Re: Malware best practices)

2006-07-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
Fred wrote: Humans will never learn to live in peace (I pray that I am wrong here). Oh well. Perhaps the way to induce peaceful living would be to give the cyber-equivalent of the thermonuclear bomb to everyone. Kinda like giving everyone a lit match whilst standing in a pool of petrol.

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
You seem to have already gotten answers on your problem and I hope that they work for you. Something I'll add is that when building UW Imap (boo hiss! I hear you jeer), I've had to use the WITH_NETSCAPE_BRAINDAMAGE option to get IMAP to work properly with Mozilla and Mozilla-based mail

Re: Problem with bash login.

2006-07-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ah, professor, but the real problem here could be Gnome/GDM using a non-standard initialization I get my bash environment in regular X by sourcing .bash_profile in my .xsession file: #!/usr/local/bin/bash # If we have a .profile, then load it: if [ -f ~/.bash_profile ]; then .

Re: What's a developer to do?

2006-04-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
Uh, he could release the source and let people build it themselves. That is honestly the only way to guarantee the code runs on your machine, to compile it yourself. Frankly, I think that is what the different distros are for, providing binary packages that work with their mix of software and

Re: Free web-based email?

2006-04-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: I've been pretty happy with SquirrelMail. It's not flashy or AJAX yet, but it works OK. Runs on Linux/Apache/PHP - I think many ISP's offer it with their minimal-level packages (a few bucks a month). I set up SquirrelMail where I work. It works and was pretty simple

Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bruce Dawson wrote: One thing that might help would be clean rooming it... have *someone I've done the above in a couple of projects. Mostly by reading the manpage and the usage report and doing the code based on that, without looking at the source code of the original program. Actually,

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-31 Thread Jason Stephenson
Stephen Ryan wrote: Can anyone think of a better way to blit an arbitrary number of bits from 0 to 1? Well, let's see Taking advantage of the fact that all of the '1' bits are at the end of the hostmask, you've actually almost gotten it already. hostmask = (1 (32 - n)) - 1 netmask = ~

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-30 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Yes, more or less. Between you and Jason I've been able to come up with exactly what I need. Thanks a lot for all your help. Why I couldn't see this for myself is beyond me. Of course, this week has been full of me missing the details to the point where I somehow managed

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it help to convert to 32-bit integers? I might. I'll try that. It will definitely help. If you get the netmask and address both in 32-bit integers, then calculating the network and broadcast addresses is very straightforward.

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to me that the answer is that your IP addresses are limited to the range of 10.0.32.0 to 10.0.63.255 with 10.0.0.0 being the network address and 10.255.255.255 being the broadcast address, no? Err, you've got the IP

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Errr, no, just the opposite actually. Trying to *prevent* routing from a very existent router :) Sounds to me like what you really need is a router with VLAN capability. If I understand correctly, it sounds like you're trying to implement VLANs. Your setup actually

FTP PASV IE

2006-03-23 Thread Jason Stephenson
I always say things that are wrong and discover within 5 minutes of saying them that they are wrong. IE has an option to use passive mode in Internet Options. I saw it just now when trying to find another option. (I'm doing something for work that pretty much requires IE at the moment.) I

Re: FTP, proxies, firewalls (was: Fedora ftp install without a name server?)

2006-03-23 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: Perhaps, an upgrade or a switch to a different firewall software is in order. What are you using now? Currently, it is a relatively old release of IP Filter (ipf) from http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ that was hacked up by the OpenBSD folks before the licensing

Re: Firefox crashes on a bad .gif?

2006-03-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bair,Paul A. wrote: Found it: http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/360arrows-r-nogray.gif I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.1 on FreeBSD 5.4 and the gif above does not cause problems in my browser. I'm running Mozilla 1.7.12 on FreeBSD 6.0 and it doesn't cause the browser any trouble. Makes my

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just off the top of my head... * Mandating SMTP AUTH * Universal use of GnuPG + message signing * HashCash (or similar systems) http://www.hashcash.org/ They're all hacks. The only *real* solution is something completely different. In general, any spam-proof

Re: Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

2006-03-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Drew Van Zandt wrote: Also... what drives me crazy is that requirements conflict on websites where security isn't important anyway, so I can't use the same password for all the ones that don't really matter. PASSWORDS ARE NEVER GOING TO BE THAT STRONG, get over it and use real authentication

Re: Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ted Roche wrote: Designing a web site for a client, he asked what the general guidance was for passwords. Users are going to be logging into the site (just plain http initially, no banking info, SSNs or credit card numbers, all that comes after SSL and first round financing). Looking

Re: Used Laptops (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
John Abreau wrote: I've had good luck with eBay. I picked up an old Thinkpad there a few years back for about $180, and it still works well today. I thought of ebay, but I've not used my ebay id in about 6 years, and I'd rather not go that route. I found a couple sites today that sell

Re: Used Laptops (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
I'm CCing my reply to the list because it sounds like Christopher meant for his question to go to the list. Christopher Chisholm wrote: I've been keeping my eyes out for an old laptop HD for a while.. I really want one of those USB 2.0 enclosures on a small drive, but the ones they sell are

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
Drew Van Zandt wrote: Happens I know the newly-hired IT director for a new library in the New England area... any pointers to info on libraries using Linux thin clients etc. I can pass along to them? It just so happens that by day I am the Assistant Director for Technology Services (*yawn*)

Used Laptops (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

2006-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ted Roche wrote: At Monday's CentraLUG meeting, Steve Amsden was showing off LTSP. He said the laptops he was using were for sale in bulk for $240 each. Used beaters, and not cutting edge, but the prices are getting amazing! Speaking of used laptops. My 6+ years old Compaq laptop stopped

Re: asset management tools?

2006-03-01 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: I've never found anything decent. We're in the (very slow) process of writing our own. Part of the problem with an asset management system is that it's a shame to stop there :) Five years ago, give or take, when I was still a system administrator at the University of

Re: using make to convert images to thumbs

2006-02-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
Python wrote: I have a client that laid out their images and thumbs into almost parallel directory structures. /img/thumb /x /img /y /x /*.jpg /y /*.jpg x and y are two

Re: using make to convert images to thumbs

2006-02-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jason Stephenson wrote: ## Makefile example starts here. ## IMG_BASE = /img THM_BASE = /thumb/img IMG_PROC = /path/to/image/processor IMG_PROC_OPTS = # default options for image processor TARGET = # undefined. define on command line thumbs: if test ${TARGET} = ; then echo TARGET

Re: Standard Unix utilities

2006-02-22 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: Solaris has rename(2) also. Just in case someone is reading this and doesn't know the man pages, rename(2) is a system call and part of the C standard library: RENAME(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual RENAME(2) NAME rename -- change the name of a

Re: Standard Unix utilities

2006-02-21 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: Why didn't I see rename? Aha. rename is a linuxism. Or GNUism. It's on linux. It's on Cygwin. It's not on Solaris. It's not on Irix. I don't have a BSD system to test, but it might be on that. I bet it's not on HP-UX or AIX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -sr FreeBSD

Re: change file names

2006-02-21 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: On 2/21/06, Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is why I really miss the printed man pages. Well, you can always do something like this: cd /usr/shared/man/man1 for i in *.1 *.gz ; do j=$(basename $i .gz) ; j=$(basename $j .1) ; man -t $j | lpr ; done If you

Re: LUA language

2006-02-07 Thread Jason Stephenson
Larry Cook wrote: I have not used it myself, but I know that http://www.freepops.org is using it for modules and plugins. Lua is also the scripting language in several F/LOSS, 3-D game programming toolkits. I have no personal experience with it myself, though it looks interesting.

Re: A rant about ZendPlatform

2006-02-05 Thread Jason Stephenson
Randy Edwards wrote: (Forgive me for stating the obvious. :-) Well, folks, I'm peeved. For a $1000 product, I expected *much* better than what I saw. I was shocked at all the stuff it added to my system, and fuming at the fact I had to undo all of their crap by hand. Isn't that the

Re: Emacs

2006-01-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: What version of emacs do you prefer? GNU or X? I started with GNU Emacs, and I currently use GNU Emacs. I tried X Emacs for a while, but found it a bit odd in places. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Emacs (was Re: a question about evim)

2006-01-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fred wrote: ... I use emacs extensively, and get annoyed with the backup files too. So I wrote a bash script I run peroidically to copy *all* the backup files in the directory tree to /tmp. All you need to get rid

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Kinz, thanks for the tip on UTF-8 and grep. I'll give that a try on Tuesday. I also thought of one other problem that I've encountered with FreeBSD. With two releases, 6.0 and one of the 4.x releases, the installer didn't work right on my laptop. It actually skipped a couple of the

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: SMP and journaling file systems. BSD belives in FFS and doesn't think journaling is the way to go. Yes, but with UFS2 and soft updates one does not need a journaling filesystem. Don't ask me for the details right now, I'd have to look it up again. :) NOTE: I am NOT a

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Martin Ekendahl wrote: Does anyone know of any BSD user groups in NH or the greater Boston area? I've been a long time user, but always get drawn back to BSD bases systems for some reason. BLU? at http://www.blu.org/ might fit. However, it seems rather Linux-centric. I hang out on this

Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

2005-12-24 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: On 12/21/05, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean to turn things into a Gnome-vs-KDE thing, but I'm a KDE guy and options are good. Pick your preference. Awww, c'mon now fellers - make up your minds. Is it Gnome vs. KDE, or KDE vs. Gnome...? ;-

Re: any good light shareware/freeware to detect hardware configuration?

2005-12-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
The previous two suggestions are pretty solid, and I'll second the Knoppix suggestion. However, my usual approach to used hardware (and I deal with a lot of it) is to open the case and take the parts out. I generally write down the serial and part numbers and maker names off of the bits and

Re: set default file permissions for a directory

2005-12-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
In your first post, you said that you can set the umask to 002. Have you tried that? I'm pretty sure that even using scp actually logs in the user enough so that the shell environment is set up and things like the umask set in .profile or whatever for their shell is sourced and does work. At

Re: call to arms

2005-12-05 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bruce Dawson wrote: OOo.org and XML are good steps in the right direction because they allow quick and easy analysis of documents, and provide structure to new documents. But screen readers aren't the solution that's needed. That is a key point! A FLOSS screen reader doesn't actually have to

Re: where to buy a new system.

2005-11-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
I generally build my own for home and home business use or use used PCs that others are throwing out. I buy my parts generally from MicroSeconds in Salem, the CompUSA in Salem, or from www.computergate.com In doing price comparisons online, Computer Gate usually has the best price on name

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
John Abreau wrote: Jason Stephenson wrote: I have heard that you can burn a tar file raw to a CD-R and then treat it like a tape. I've never gotten that to work, so I assume this is an urban legend. You can burn *any* file to a CD-R, assuming it's small enough to fit. The problem

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
Lawrence Tilly wrote: What about the software side of the discussion. Assuming a basic backup strategy around either CD-R or DVD-R, what are your favorite tools for scheduling and handling nightly ( incremental ) backups and periodic full? I've seen scripts for doing incremental backups to

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: However, I hear CD-ROM is unreliable even over 12 months, so that's out. I have heard this too. Does anyone know the physical mechanism responsible for the deterioration? I seem to associate the tale with a study at a library, and the CDROMs being scratched by

Re: Hardware FAQs and the wiki? [ was Alternative to k3b? ]

2005-11-07 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: I've used a Matrox G450 to drive dual CRTs. I'll second the Matrox G450 recommendation. I've used 'em for the exact same purpose back before they were inexpensive. Ran it on a triple boot system with Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD 4.x, and Windows 2000 Pro. Worked great in

Re: Attempt at cgi mail exploit

2005-08-31 Thread Jason Stephenson
The funny thing, to me, is that I see stuff like this in my mail logs all the time, both at my day job and at home: 2005-08-30 00:20:36 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from H=[81.12.246.11] input=POST /

Re: Annoying question: Installing W2K or WXP on a Linux-only box

2005-08-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
Try this: htt://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html It was how I got Windows 2000 to install and boot on a computer with FreeBSD 4.x on the main disk. You can pretty much ignore the FreeBSD-specific stuff in there. Also, feel free to ask if you have any specific questions related to it.

Re: Annoying question: Installing W2K or WXP on a Linux-only box

2005-08-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
I wrote in error: Try this: htt://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html Yeearrggg! Left a p outta there! http://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html The key is to disconnect the first hard drive; hook the second hard drive up as the first; then install Windows. Windows wants to be on the first

Re: Java on Debian (wow that was easy!)

2005-07-22 Thread Jason Stephenson
For some real fun, try installing Java from the source! Warning: This is not for the easily frustrated, and it probably helps if you have a masochistic streak! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Sometimes, I think Zawinski just might be right.

2005-06-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: [...] I'm more inclined to blame AbiWord... It sounds like it's generating bad postscript. Especially since it sounds like you can't even export to PS and open it with a ps application (incidently, did you try using gv or ghostview rather than xpdf?). I'm inclined to

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
It has been a while since I last used cdrecord, but FWIW, I don't see any errors in the output that you provided. It looks like a clean burn. I've been having some issues on a different OS with different burning software using CD-RW discs. The odd thing is that if I mount the iso and the

Re: HD partitions?

2005-06-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Here's what things look like on my FreeBSD system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a248M 56M171M25%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1e

Re: Linux vs. BSD?

2005-06-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Theo is a nut.There, I said it. I got that off my chest. ;) That said, I do use OpenBSD for my homebrew routers, and he makes a few good points. I have used and continue to use in some capacity FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and various flavors of GNU/Linux: Red Hat 6.x, 7.x, 8.0, 9.0, FC3, RHEL;

Re: ps/pdf to text converter

2005-06-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Charles Farinella wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of or have experience with a tool to turn either ps or pdf documents into text? --charlie I have AFPL ghostscript 8.51 installed and it has 2 utilities that might help you: ps2ascii pdftops The first converts PS to ascii text, the second

Re: [Pedantic RANT] Re: [HUMOR] End Times

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
I *SO* want to invoke Godwin's Law on this thread. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Trade show banner

2005-05-24 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: [insert catchier suggestions here] Code Free or Die! I like this one because it works on a couple of levels if you stop to mull it over. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Benjamin Scott wrote: On Apr 25 at 3:13pm, Bruce Dawson wrote: Steven: Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that the milter is called only after the message had been received. Obviously, in order to do content analysis or other magic on a message, you have to receive the

Re: free software alternative to Access

2005-04-18 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Smith wrote: I should have used scalable instead of robust. Ideally,the Access design tools would have been designed separately from the db engine. You plug in the db of your choice on the back end. Alas, I'm told you can do that, but I haven't met anyone who a) has done it, or b) can show

Re: Tracking Internet Computers

2005-03-04 Thread Jason Stephenson
That sounds interesting, but I wonder if regularly setting your computer's clock via ntpd or ntpdate would defeat this. Having a sysctl MIB to turn off the TCP timestamping would certainly defeat this. I'll wager that if such doesn't already exist in the various BSD and Linux kernels, it will

Re: Tracking Internet Computers

2005-03-04 Thread Jason Stephenson
Just answered my own question. On FreeBSD, there is a sysctl MIB to activate or deactivate RFC 1323 timestamping: net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 Setting it to 1, the default, turns it on, setting it to 0, turns it off. Looking at my OpenBSD machine, I see the same sysctl MIB as FreeBSD. Finally, checking

Re: SLUG meeting tonight 7pm UNH Morse Hall 301 Topic: Video Processing

2005-02-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bruce Dawson wrote: It goes to gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org (well, that's the official address). And (!) gnhlug-discuss is subscribed to that list, so it also gets everything sent to the announce list. Though I know the above is the official answer, I'll confirm that I received two copies of

Re: Debian flamewar

2005-02-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
Heh. I find this discussion mildly interesting from where I sit, a mostly xBSD user. It's funny, too, 'cause I didn't start using FreeBSD for my workstations and personal servers until I worked in a data center environment with mixed UNIX systems. At the University of Kentucky's College of

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

2005-01-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
Travis Roy wrote: I'll second this. In fact, every Compaq that I've ever seen does this. It's usually the last partition on the disk, is roughly 32MB in size and generally of a type not recognized by Linux fdisk or fips. It was actually the first partition and it was 5 GIGS in size. Guess it

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

2005-01-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jerry Feldman wrote: Most PC vendors today place a hidden partition from which you can reinstall or repair the OS. The reason for this is that they do not have to provide you with an installation CD. Right. I'm aware of that. It's another reason why I don't buy named brand PCs. They advertise an

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

2005-01-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jon maddog Hall wrote: It is not just that they want to save the cost of the CD, but some companies are ordering systems without CD drives because they want a thin client on the desktop...something without floppies and/or a CD...something that could boot over the network and be diskless or be

Re: HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

2005-01-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
Benjamin Scott wrote: Keep in mind that many Compaq's keep the BIOS setup program on disk, where just about everything else keeps it in firmware. That means that if you blow away the utility partition, you can no longer do anything useful to configure the BIOS. I'll second this. In fact, every

Re: cron job verification

2005-01-11 Thread Jason Stephenson
Larry Cook wrote: On my Debian boxes, cron jobs send me an email if and only if they have any output. Also on RedHat 8 and Solaris. I would guess that is the standard behavior for all distros. Also on Solaris, HP-UX, *BSD, etc. It's the standard for cron on UNIX or any UNIX-like OS. Also, I

Re: grub mysteries

2005-01-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Macdonald wrote: However, that's under Linux. When booting however, Grub sees something else. hd3 becomes hd1! hd1 becomes hd2! Changing grub.conf to point to the correct devices doesn't help. I'm only able to boot using a floppy and specifying root, kernel and initrd command by hand. Has

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Mark Komarinski wrote: And that's upstate NY. It's worse in NYC. Taxachusetts indeed. Yeah, I moved from KY to Massachusetts a couple years ago. The sales tax here is lower, in KY it's 6%, and the bite from state income tax is about the same, though lower once you factor in some deductions that

Re: Slightly OT: GPG and PGP Global Network

2004-12-12 Thread Jason Stephenson
I don't usually followup on my own list mails like this, but I thought that I'd share what I did. Well, I went ahead and told them to publish that key. However, once I checked it, I discovered that I had already revoked it in 2002! If you query pgp.mit.edu or the new PGP Global Network for my

Slightly OT: GPG and PGP Global Network

2004-12-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
About 3 years ago, I published my public key to a PGP keyserver. It has two signatures from friends. I have not used it other than a half-dozen times during the first year after publishing it, in fact, I'd almost forgotten about it. Tonight, I received a message from the PGP Global Network to

Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments

2004-12-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
Why go to all the bother of decoding the winmail.dat attachments? Lookout can be configured to send proper attachments. I've forgotten exactly what the steps are, because I haven't had to help anyone with it in about 4 years. Most folks are thankful for the help if you're polite about it.

Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-21 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Macdonald wrote: Anybody agree with the following statement? The HELO domain represents the mail provider used by the author of the message and thus is more closely related to the author than any other header within the message. This is from the CSV doc to the FTC. Is is just mean, or does

Ports (was Re: The First Linux Distro?)

2004-10-04 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: As to 'most stable' I've run into unresolvable and/or circular dependency problems with both rpm and dpkg (dpkg more) so frequently of late that I'm about to give up on that method. Nice idea, but 'works sometimes' isn't quite enough. I'm interested in finding out if

Re: Making a Windows disk a file on Linux

2004-09-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
You've gotten some good advice so far, but I just wanted to mention another alternative that I've done on several different systems, including GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. If you really are interested in having a FAT32 or some specific filesystem available on a drive without repartitioning, then

Re: Want to reverse engineer Yahoo's multiple photo upload

2004-09-01 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Macdonald wrote: Anybody have an alternative that isn't shareware? Yes, Apache (http://www.apache.org/) can be configured as a proxy server and could log/store just about anything you want. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Limiting login SSH attempts?

2004-08-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Aug 29, 2004, at 19:07, John Feole wrote: What about using TCPWrappers and the /etc/host.allow, /etc/hosts.deny funtionality? I only know about the attack/host-ip after the fact so I can't just add it to the hosts.deny. Does TCPWrappers have some stateful rules? If you

Re: Sound issue

2004-07-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
The most likely thing is you don't have the proper cable running from the back of the CD-ROM drive to the sound card. If you built the machine yourself, one should have come with the CD-ROM drive, if not, I'm not sure if anyone sells them, and I don't know exactly what they are called.

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