On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, at 6:11pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Scott said me too and then proceeded to tell us details far beyond
the scope of the question in a language that uses only English words, but
which isn't English.
Heh. :) Seriously, if anyone has questions about what a particular
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, at 5:22am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Little easier than mucking with iptables and less parts to break.
Another interesting hack is the dynamic port forwarding feature of
OpenSSH's ssh(1) program (the -D switch). For example:
ssh -D 1080 server.example.com
That
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, at 10:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for a good domain registrar who can
handle international registrations.
Technically speaking, each country is responsible for operating or
appointing their own registry for their ccTLD. You can find the
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, at 4:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I'm looking for tips, war stories, and warnings as to what to say to
W98 install to minimize the likelihood of having to restore the Linux
partitions.
As others have noted, this is not really that big a problem. Most
versions and
Coming into this a bit late, but knowledge seems to a bit scarce around
this thread, so:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, at 12:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040914141417417
Ho-hum. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that agreement (the referenced
document in the
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, at 10:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the latency like on that? I'm assuming with a 48K mile round-trip
minimum for every packet, latency must be rather high?
It's closer to 100K mile. Geostationary orbit is about 25K miles up.
For a round-trip, that means 25K
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, at 1:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only problem I've had was the initial install. Verizon came out to
the house and ran two new lines (don't ask me why)
*Two* new lines is rather odd. Typically, Covad DSL (which is what
Speakeasy is using) brings in DSL on a
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, at 1:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Verizon will be cheaper for the speed, but their TOS specifically forbade
running servers last time I checked.
Yes, they do. And they do not plan on issuing static IP's. EVER.
That is not correct. You can purchase a static IP option
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, at 7:50am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish I could get it, but not in my part of Merrimack, I would need
Adelphia and I will not use them.
I'd rather have Adelphia then dial-up. Yah, Adelphia sucks, but when it
comes to ISPs, Sturgeon's Law is overly optimistic.
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, at 2:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HB495 didn't get passed .. but it basically said that if somebody has
their access point open that they did it like that on purpose.
Uhh... if it didn't get passed then it does not matter *what* the bill
said. A bill has precisely zero
I encountered a couple of weird problems booting my primary home computer
today, and I wanted to share.
Possibly relevant details:
- Red Hat Linux 7.3
- GRUB 0.91-4
- Epox EP-8K7A+ motherboard (w/ latest BIOS)
- AHA-2940UW SCSI host adapter (BIOS 2.20)
- IDE hard disk
- Multiple SCSI CD/DVD
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, at 10:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/53311
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980609
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980610
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19980611
;-)
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, at 10:27am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question: What happens, and what are the dangers, when you check Keep
Password? How is the password stored and could this later be used as a
hole by some malware?
From reading the page you linked to, I surmise that the kdesud daemon
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, at 8:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From a big brother perspective I'd be unhappy about the enhanced privacy
...
The VoIP providers have already been told by The Powers That Be that they
must make their services available for monitoring for legal reasons.
Ironic that
Some additional commentary to add to this thread:
* People have drawn the analogy to leaving your house unlocked and having
stuff stolen. It's worth pointing out that, in the state of NH, if your
property is not clearly posted as being private, people who wander on to it
(or claim to have
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, at 11:18pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that pccard is the same is pcmcia (easier for consumers). What is
cardbus?
PCMCIA the next version (well, next in 1997)
In particular, PCMCIA cards are 16-bit and use 5 volts. CardBus cards (or
at least, can be) are 32-bit
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, at 12:43am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder if the identd service is somehow sending the
request to the client to identify itself to 10.x.x.x.
AFAIK, identd doesn't initiate requests, it only responds to them. I
expect either xinetd or the POP3
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, at 9:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want to disable the identd service.
That isn't going to help at all. The OP's system is *sending* AUTH
requests; identd only *responds* to ident requests. Turning off his identd
isn't going to stop his box from sending requests
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, at 3:20am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My system is redhat9. It cannot receive broadcast packages, I am sure the
broadcast server send packages.
I assume you mean packets and not packages.
What is happening (or not happening) that tells you your computer is not
receiving
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, at 2:39pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly. But... Why would it work fine over one interface but time out on
the other? xinetd is not bound to any specific interface.
I doubt it has anything to do with the interfaces involved, but rather,
the networks (and firewalls and
On 22 Aug 2004, at 8:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Yes, I have the appropriate .jar files in my ClassPath under the OO
Security setting).
I had a semi-colon instead of a colon in the classpath. Sigh.
One of the laws in one of those Laws of Public Forums lists is that you
will only notice
On 23 Aug 2004, at 9:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yet another thing that the Linux community needs to fix.
s/Linux community/IT world/
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, at 7:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been waffling (heh, sorry) on whether or not I'm willing to trust to
Gmail, but I'll never know unless I try (for my least sensitive mail, at
least).
If you're sending sensitive email unencrpted, you're already in trouble
And you
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, at 2:11am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish I could put more time into this announcement to explain the hows
whats whys etc.
FWIW: One thing trying to help GNHLUG has taught me is that the that the
organization and administration is the critical part, and the hard part,
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:38pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't really go portscanning/pinging the crap out of the network ... We
had a couple customers say that they would leave if we did it again, even
if it was a planned event and announced.
IWF detected.
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 7:24am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing exciting - just a backup program. In a given week, I accumulate
about 10-15 CD's worth of data that needs to be backed up and the company
is too cheap to go with tape.
Penny wise, pound foolish. But I'm sure I'm preaching to
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 10:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, this only works if both drives are in the system. If
there's only the built-in drive, it boot to greet me with GRUB and a
blinking cursor. I had expected that I still would have seen the menu, but
only the Windows option
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 1:03am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And one more link that seems to be the most comprehensive, most up-to-date
on the subject
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/groupware.html
Hm. Some of that stuff appears *very* interesting. I also see why I
never found some of
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, at 10:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The file i downloaded was FC2-i386-disc1.iso and then I sucked it back out
of the cd using
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
In my experience, that does not work right. Use
readcd dev=/dev/sgcdrom f=cdimage.iso
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, at 12:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
In my experience, that does not work right. Use
Interesting. I've used exactly that approach a number of times recently,
and had no troubles. Perhaps the difference is bad sectors on the
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, at 11:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:58:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most important of all, in order to make use of data in a filesystem
journal, you basically need to assume the attacker has achieved full root
compromise of your
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 11:11am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone willing to comment on their experiences with specific UPSes with
Linux?
In my opinion, you can't go wrong with APC's Smart-UPS, Matrix, and
Symmetra lines. They may not be the cheapest, but they always work, and
well. Any
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 3:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used APC SMART-UPS 1400 at a few installations with NUT and it's
worked properly. I haven't specified them, they just seem to be popular -
I think it's the biggest 120V unit they make in that model range.
FYI: The Smart-UPS 1400
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, at 1:09am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AND the two tables will cost $200 + $10. for electricity.a lot more
expensive than Hoss Traders. (sigh)
This concerns me more then the morning. Not that I'm a morning person by
any stretch of the imagination, but I can do it if I
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, at 1:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was developing a CD-ROM product which contains multiple Microsoft
PowerPointless (tm) presentations.
You might as well give up on any hope of doing anything
standards-compliant right there. :-/
Pedantic clarification: This isn't
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 10:48pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gentoo - an awesome file manager.
I thought Gentoo was a distribution?
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, at 12:46pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I search for Kazza Lite Download, for non-illeageal reasons, of
course, I get this at the bottom of the page ... [DMCA stuff removed]
Yah, Google has been doing this for awhile. The DMCA says they have to,
and Google's not about
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, at 11:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I put in a music CD, it brings up the CD player just fine, that goes
out and finds disk info to display, the CD plays, and I can hear it
through the headphone jack on the front of the drive, but no sound comes
out of the speakers.
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 11:51am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... This requires more computrons ...
So that's the most fundmental element of computing physics, it explains so
much. ;-)
Absolutely!
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/computron.html
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 2:25am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't get what I asked for ...
Well, you were rather vague in what you asked for. What are you looking
for, other than a magic-wand or a big-foam-clue-bat?
The following procmail recipe will route everything claiming to be from
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, at 9:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, at 2:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, anyone have any good procmail recipies for this bogosity?
Since you're dealing with a message that forged the sender as coming from
*your domain*, you might look into things such as SPF. If you can get away
with it, you could
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, at 5:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
( I now it is old but it is what I have)
You know that Linux is free, right? You can go and download the latest
Red Hat Linux (now called Fedora Linux) for free:
http://fedora.redhat.com
If you don't have the bandwidth, you
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, at 5:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the logs say that Samba is started but I can not get it to show up on my
windows network.
Issue all of the following commands at the shell prompt on your
Linux/Samba computer.
Try:
ps ax | grep smbd
If you do not see at
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, at 10:59am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fantastic news: we're having an Installfest, hosted by Bruce Dawson at
Miles Smith Farm. Anyone is welcome to come - you can get your machine
installed with a high quality Free operating system...
Hmm. Sounds like Libranet.
Since
Speaking of NAT issues, I've got one which is driving me nuts.
Simple FTP downloads are failing to complete on my Linux box which is
behind a firewall/NAT setup on a Linksys router.
I have 6 or 7 computers behind the firewall, all sharing the same IP on
the cable modem (Comcast).
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, at 8:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This isn't really a Linux question but with all the networking experts on
the list, I figured this is as good a place to ask as any.
To understand what you are seeing, one will have to know how IP and
traceroute work.
Every IP packet
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, at 3:12pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Either way these last minute announcements make it difficult for those
with busy lives to plan for and attend a distant meeting which is of
interest as this one definitely is.
AOLMe too!/AOL
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, at 5:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry about the late announcement, I had the speaker some time ago ...
I suggest that, when we secure a speaker, we make an immediate
announcement. Even if we don't know the exact *date*. This way, there is
nothing to remember -- get
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, at 8:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suggest that, when we secure a speaker, we make an immediate
announcement.
Ooops, sorry, this was supposed to go to gnhlug-org@ and not
gnhlug-discuss@. I must have removed the wrong header when I hit Reply.
My mistake. Sorry for
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, at 7:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've set up a SCSI tape drive on a system. The drive is a SONY AIT
*mumble mumble* on a symbios based card.
Oh, that's easy. The answer is mumble mumble.
Seriously, to help, we need information. We're not psychic. Model of
tape
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, at 9:38am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These will be the last Linksys VPN boxes I buy ... based on my experience
trying to configure them.
Yah, like I said, LinkSys is pretty horrible for VPN stuff.
The thing that really worries me is: A VPN box that is doing things
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 9:32am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He dropped one line that really annoyed me. He stated that Windows Server
2003 performed a new authentication protocol that would break most Samba
network share setups.
It's not new. There has long been a feature in NT that supports
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, at 10:13am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Public-key crypto in SNMP would probably be unweildy, especially since
SNMP is supposed to have a light footprint to make it easy to put into
small embedded systems.
That's not the point I was making.
A lot of customers just want to
On 13 Jun 2004, at 1:32pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've had someone recommend SnapGear to me ...
If you're speaking of the ClearPath SNAP box...
No, I'm speaking of SnapGear. http://www.snapgear.com
Hmmm... they appear to have been bought by CyberGuard. Since I don't
really know
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... shared secrets went out in the 1980s ...
Maybe, but SNMP V3 still uses it..
That's hardly an endorsement. SNMP's approach to security issues has
generally been to ignore them. (SNMP = Security? Not my problem!) The
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, at 6:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering if there's another gamble involved. At today's
closing price the total market cap for SCOX is $70.49M.
Let's wait a few more weeks, and we'll buy it with the change I have left
over from lunch...
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On Thu, 20 May 2004, at 3:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone got suggestions for an ISO repair kit? Or am I SOL?
If the MD5 checksum does not match, it means the CD image you have does
not match the one that Red Hat/Fedora released. This most likely means one
or more of the files on the CD
On Mon, 17 May 2004, at 12:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been hacked ...
Quick answer: Copy any important data/files off to another computer, then
wipe the hard disk(s) and reinstall everything from scratch. It's the only
way to be sure the attacker hasn't subverted some part of the
On Fri, 14 May 2004, at 9:09pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for recommendations for spam filtering.
As others have said, SpamAssassin is a very good foundation. Even in the
untrained factory install configuration, I find it does a very good job.
I just used the canned procmailrc
On Sun, 16 May 2004, at 5:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OTOH, my honest answer is that only after I 'fessed up to myself that
there's no free lunch have we been able to be in control of the spam mess.
Indeed. Spam-filtering is a great one size does NOT fit all case. One
person's spam is
On Sun, 16 May 2004, at 5:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. SPF. This seems to be promoted as something we should really want -
tightening the loose SMTP rules which permit spammers to pretend to be
sending from arbitrary addresses (including yours).
Background information (for the list):
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 6:47am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently my parents (that use Comcast) can no longer connect to port 25 of
my server.. one that is legit, has correct reverse and MX records.
Has anybody else seen this?
More and more ISPs are blocking port 25 outbound on consumer
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 10:25am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yah, that's what I'm going to have to do.. BLAH.. stupid comcast.
Get used to it. More and more ISPs are adding this. And I cannot say I
entirely disagree with the policy.
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 10:53am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yah, that's what I'm going to have to do.. BLAH.. stupid comcast.
Get used to it. More and more ISPs are adding this. And I cannot say I
entirely disagree with the policy.
Why?
Mail abuse. A great deal of spam and other
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 11:04am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The solution is to add yet more and more entries into my mailertable file
in sendmail.
Why don't you just relay everything through your ISP?
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On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 11:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mail abuse. A great deal of spam and other mail abuse comes from
computers on consumer feeds that are incorrectly configured as a mail
relay (don't ask me how, but it happens more often then you would think),
or have been compromised
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 2:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm basically on the side of individual freedoms and don't like that port
25 egress filtering is being implemented by broadband vendors.
Geeks (I include myself in this category) like to romanticize this idea of
the big, happy Internet,
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 6:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do predict that spammers will adapt to this new authenticated email
world rather quickly. Namely, they will modify their spam-cannon-laden
viruses ...
That seems likely, but how much email is send from virus-attacked
computers?
On Sun, 2 May 2004, at 9:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I bought a motherboard, cpu and memory off a friend (P3 based). When I
got the system put together, the BIOS (which I did flash to the latest
version) only seems to recognize it as a 8.5 GB drive. However, even
though the BIOS only sees
On Mon, 3 May 2004, at 9:08am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With lilo, it seems to just hang. I get LI and then nothing.
That means LILO loaded what it though should be the second-stage boot
loader, but had a problem executing it (possibly because it loaded the wrong
thing). This might mean
On Mon, 3 May 2004, at 10:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dunno - what is LBA? How do I find out if my drive is LBA or not?
LBA = Logical Block Addressing.
The original IBM-PC BIOS (and MS-DOS) used C/H/S physical block
addressing. Each block (AKA sector) on the disk was addressed by
On Mon, 3 May 2004, at 10:17am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's what I was wondering. Not knowing much of anything about hardware,
I didn't know if the linux distro's ability to see the whole drive would
bypass the problem of the BIOS being able to see it.
Well, remember, Linux distro means
On 28 Apr 2004, at 9:03am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think they mostly need volunteers (and more interest) at this point.
Where have I heard that before? ;-)
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, at 3:11am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd be perfectly happy to expound on my cyrus-imapd / sieve / sendmail /
mysql (or postgresql) / SMTP AUTH solution complete with virtual hosting
if anyone's interested :-).
Well, I'm definitely interested. Would you be
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, at 12:02pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That alone would make me say no thanks to buying it.
Most 1U systems tends to have some kind of funkiness to them. That's the
price you pay for stuffing hardware into such a small form-factor. In
particular, the CD/FDD are very often
On 26 Apr 2004, at 11:58am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to remember from a long time ago, that just dd'ing a CD (or hard
drive for that matter) didn't produce workable results. Looks like things
have gotten better since then.
It's one of those it depends things. With CDs, between all
Hello world,
Has any one on the list done anything with policy-based routing and Linux?
Scenario: We have two Internet feeds, DSL and cable, both connected to a
single Linux box. Said Linux box is also connected to our LAN -- it is our
firewall/router/gateway. The Linux box has a default
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, at 7:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... the commands I type don't seem to work. The system accepts them, and
appears to make changes to the routing tables, but the packets still end
up going out the wrong interface.
Turns out that is not entirely true. I was testing my
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, at 10:19pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for those who just can't resist the
off-topic?
Not sure if you are serious or not. If you are...
We can create two lists, if that proves to be the best solution. I
generally dislike this
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, at 8:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just got a question from a friend who is looking for a sniffer
to capture network session traffic ...
Ethereal. http://www.ethereal.com
It has both excellent GUI and command-line components, and includes
analysis code for an amazing
On 23 Apr 2004, at 10:09am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how I can copy the whole CD as an ISO filesystem file?
Use the readcd program that comes with the cdrecord/mkisofs package.
The syntax is (from memory, so double-check this):
readcd dev=/dev/sgfoo f=cdimage.iso
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 1:33am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Electronic voting machines are feared to be vulnerable to hidden malicious
code (Easter eggs) that could subvert voter intentions and deliver votes
to the wrong candidates.
Open the source code to public review.
That's the solution.
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 9:24am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to me that what FOSS denotes and what it commonly connotes are
two different things.
Absolutely. However, you still haven't clarified what *you* meant in your
message, which is why I brought it up. :-)
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 10:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realize the problems in Florida, and the need for something better.
One of the points I was trying to make that one cannot really fix the
problem in Florida.
But as I pointed out in my email, how can you trust what's out there now
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 10:45am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This tends to feed the desire (requirement?) for a system that counts
votes accurately. Florida 2000 just provided proof that the existing
systems did not meet requirements.
Question is, how to meet those requirements?
Again: The
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 11:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some folks think that's important too, maybe enough to accept the flaws in
those systems.
I might argue that, in that event, we deserve what we get.
Of course, I might also argue that, in that case, we are already doomed.
But
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, at 8:58am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can we also please lose the [gnhlug-announce] clutter on Subject: lines
for that channel?
Done.
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 3:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:04:38PM -0400, Hewitt Tech wrote:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/index.pl?Contents=/2004/20040405/badger.shtml
A sentence or two about what we'll find at that link would be great...
I think the subject
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, at 2:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But anyway, the List-Id header is guaranteed to be present and the same
for all messages delivered through this mailing list. So, one should
filter on that, and not anything else, to identify list mail.
This is a point worth taking
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, at 8:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, folks, sorry to have brought up the subject ...
Don't be. It's more on-topic then a lot of other discussions we've had in
this forum, and it resulted in knowledge-sharing. That's the primary
purpose of this group.
Next step is
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, at 11:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hoss traders is at the Hopkinton Fair Groups in Hopkinton, New Hampshire,
and this year will be held Friday, April 30th and Saturday, May 1st.
I should be able to be there both Fri and Sat, with my usual collection of
equipment, and a
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, at 11:50am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I had a client who almost lost a $50,000 deal due to a single missed
email.)
Eeeesh. Yah. I regularly remind my clients that Internet email is not
and never was a guaranteed reliable service, and that if the subject
matter is
Hello world,
After giving my recent presentations on DNS at a couple of LUG meetings, I
received several requests for copies of my example DNS zone files. What
I've done is dress up my examples to be even more like examples, and posted
them here:
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, at 4:17pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I know Ben Scott has a few very blinding LED flashlights ...
Who, me?
Inova has some really cool and well-made stuff. I suspect you would be
interested in their 24/7 product. It has multiple LEDs for brightness and
color (white,
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, at 1:09pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Though it runs only on windows... check out one called Sagetv
http://www.sage.tv/
So it (1) costs money and (2) won't run on Linux. I'll pass. ;-)
I'm much more psych'ed about Travis's MythTV project. He's been
describing some of
2On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, at 1:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been hard at work getting my presentation put together ...
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, at 12:43pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a little dismayed that there has been zero response to my message
about GIMP 2.0
And you waited a whole 23
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, at 1:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to start announcing the meeting ...
Maybe I'm just picky, but I think meeting announcements should generally
include the date, time, and location of the meeting. ;-)
(Yes, I realize you mentioned MELBA, but one would
On 13 Apr 2004, at 10:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I'll see if I can give you some more info...I haven't had a chance
to try anything though as the Bruins are about to go into double
overtime...:)
Yes, they must be taking drama lessons from the Patriots. ;-) Although
last night's
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, at 2:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ... found out that my mail was blocked from here and I could not hit the
web page. This turned out to be due to dns issues.
Could you explain this in a little more detail, please? What were the DNS
issues?
I found that I could hit
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