Re: procmail-fu needed

2003-09-29 Thread pll
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Mark == Mark Komarinski wrote: Mark If I have this as my ~/.procmailrc file, this works fine. Mark But if I set this up as /etc/procmailrc, the delivered files Mark are owned by root and not the user it's intended for. You could try using INCLUDERC=/etc/procmailrc

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread pll
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jerry == Jerry Feldman wrote: Jerry First, try to see if you can access your cable modem at Jerry 192.168.100.1. I found this IP on the web somewhere after googling around. The question I have is this, how can I access a network for which I have no route? IOW, I

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread pll
In a message dated: 23 Sep 2003 09:30:57 EDT Kevin D. Clark said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found this IP on the web somewhere after googling around. The question I have is this, how can I access a network for which I have no route? The question was mostly rhetorical. I was thinking

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread pll
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Andrew == Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: Andrew Remember you can ifconfig a single NIC with a secondary IP Andrew in when using linux/Solaris. This is kind neat since it Andrew allows you to easily run two 'networks' on the same media. Now *that* I hadn't tried or even

looking for JBOD vendors

2003-08-27 Thread pll
Hi all, Does anyone have any preferred storage vendors? I need to buy ~3TB of JBOD storage (cheap!) Any recomendations? Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul GPG Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!

Re: OpenOffice help?

2003-07-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:13:13 EDT Jeff Kinz said: Select menus format = paragraph then go to the box labeled line spacing Select one of the values there, or select fixed and advance to the next box (on the right) and enter a number value there. Aha! thanks, that's the knob I

Re: The lack of need for Caps-Lock (was laptop keyboard replacement)

2003-07-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:15:09 EDT Erik Price said: I like emacs too, and use it whenever I'm logged into a server w/ssh, but I don't think I know it too well -- I have no idea what those keystrokes do!! ;) You should spend some time using the Emacs tutorial: C-h t should get

Re: PGP/GPG Key signing party

2003-07-17 Thread pll
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Matt == Matt Brodeur wrote: Matt You, as usual, are on crack. But Matt, you gotta admit, at least he's consistent. Therefore, it must be pretty *good* crack :) -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE It may look

Re: sudo Runas_Spec?

2003-07-16 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:20:54 EDT Tom Buskey said: Well, you could wrap su - user command in a shell script they're allowed to run. More work than I care to undertake. It's for ClearCase :) So all someone needs to circumvent your sudo security is to setup a fake NIS server

Re: Graphics blips

2003-07-16 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:37:33 EDT Erik Price said: Kevin D. Clark wrote: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perl with a code formatter? I think that's one of the signs of the apocalypse. Another sign would be a Python one-liner $ python -c 'print hello world' hello

Mozilla is leaving AOL

2003-07-15 Thread pll
Big news! Check out http://www.mozilla.org This hasn't hit /. yet. I just heard on IRC from some of the mozilla folks! -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, but I'm

Re: DSL firewall/router solutions?

2003-07-15 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:42:52 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, at 7:35pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it weren't my brain-lapses requiring you to answer what most would consider rather obvious and self-evident questions, we'd have almost no traffic here. We

looking for GNU project standards

2003-07-15 Thread pll
Hi all, I'm trying to find some doc that outlines the stardard config of a GNU project. For example, I know they require a README and INSTALL file. I want to know what other files they either require or recommend, and where in the project directory hierarchy they should go. I've searched

DSL firewall/router solutions?

2003-07-14 Thread pll
Hi all, I'm about to order DSL. Unfortunately, SpeakEasy isn't available in my area, so I'll likely go with Earthlink. Since they're my current ISP, it at least makes the switch easier, i.e. now e-mail address changes :) However, they charge more than I'm willing to pay for a static IP.

Re: Errr! DSL is here, DSL is gone.

2003-07-14 Thread pll
Errr, I send the wrong e-mail to the list :) In a message dated: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:00:44 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Okay, I don't know who is playing what games, but I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon is behind this! 2 weeks ago I checked with Earthlink, DSL Reports, and Verizon. All 3

Errr! DSL is here, DSL is gone.

2003-07-14 Thread pll
Okay, I don't know who is playing what games, but I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon is behind this! 2 weeks ago I checked with Earthlink, DSL Reports, and Verizon. All 3 locations stated I was within 9000 feet of the CO, and could order DSL service. This week, as I'm about to order, I

Re: DSL firewall/router solutions?

2003-07-14 Thread pll
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Travis == Travis Roy wrote: Travis Any decent broadband router can deal with DHCP. Good to know, since I've never looked at any of these :) Travis I've used linksys ones with great results, I have some Travis friends using Netgear ones that also work good. Thanks.

printing may Word files at once?

2003-07-11 Thread pll
Hi all, I've just been handed a book to review and it's all in Word. Each chapter is in a separate directory, and it appears that each chapter contains several diagrams/pictures, etc in the form of PowerPoint docs :( Is there anyway to mass print these as a single document? (I'd like to shoot

Re: printing may Word files at once?

2003-07-11 Thread pll
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Now, if you just want to print them all, you could prolly do a Ben select all and then do File - Print in Windows Explorer. Except the moron created a separate subdir for each word doc to live it! -- Seeya, Paul -- Key

ssh and port redirection...

2003-07-10 Thread pll
Hi, Is there a way to generically redirect a specific port number, regardless of destination IP? For example, I don't have a direct net connection on my laptop, but my server at home does. I don't have the time to set up iptables to do this correctly, and I want to surf the web. Can I do

Re: [gnhlug-announce] SLUG problem solution meeting Monday 7/14 7pm at UNH in Morse 301

2003-07-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:16:09 EDT Bob Bell said: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:56:51AM -0400, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think many sites consider downtime to just be part of life for server moves, upgrades, etc. Even name brand sites like ebay and Amazon have maintenance

Database User Groups anyone?

2003-07-08 Thread pll
Hi all, Does anyone know of any Database user groups in the greater Boston area? Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems

Re: New topic. Need a procmail recipe.

2003-07-08 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:54:27 EDT Steven W. Orr said: I have two mailinglists. Let's call them A and B. All members of A are allowed to be zubzcribed to B. Not all members of B are allowed to be zubzcribed to A. Noone is allowed to post to either list unless they are

Re: OT - Re: Dimensional Warp Generator...

2003-07-08 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 16:28:50 EDT Andrew W. Gaunt said: Now I feel left out, I get all the other spam that has no humor value. Please share PLEASE DON'T spam the list :) Google for the above Subj. line if interested, it's out there! -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint =

Re: OT from Tokyo

2003-07-03 Thread pll
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben I encourage you to take all that stuff with a bit of salt. Ben Long-time members of this list sometimes resemble a group of Ben people sitting around a bar, debating the issue of the day. Ben We're all loud and opinionated, but

Re: Wireless PDA workstation

2003-07-02 Thread pll
In a message dated: 02 Jul 2003 12:10:47 EDT brian said: Ob content: I'd prefer if it ran linux... Anyone have a good recommendation (or warning) in regards to a decent,portable wireless PDA-esque device? Check out the Kyocera cell phone. It's a cell phone which has an embedded Palm Pilot.

HTML/CSS question

2003-07-01 Thread pll
Hi, I'm trying to create a web document using CSS. Though, what I want to do really seems to lend it self to tables, unless there's something I'm missing. Basically, I want: Term:Some long description here which may or may not span multiple lines, but

Re: What's the best way to automatically swap smart hosts (sendmail)?

2003-07-01 Thread pll
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Travis == Travis Roy wrote: Travis Since you're going to do some work for this... Maybe once you've figured it all out, you could write a HOWTO type doc for the GNHLUG Wiki :) -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE

Re: What's the best way to automatically swap smart hosts (sendmail)?

2003-07-01 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:13:05 EDT Marc Nozell said: I set the smtp host for evolution (kmail, mozilla -mail, etc) to be: localhost:2525 and then use a network-appropriate script to forward the mail across ssh to a properly configured mail server.=20 #!/bin/bash #

Re: HTML/CSS question

2003-07-01 Thread pll
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Erik == Erik Price wrote: Erik dt { float: left; margin: 3em } Erik dd { margin: 5em; } Doh Thanks, I'm obviously just learning the CSS thing, and it didn't occur to me to re-define the dt/dd tags :) Btw, what the 3/5em? Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul

Re: HTML/CSS question

2003-07-01 Thread pll
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Can't you apply styles to the tags to get them to do what you Ben want? I've never tried, myself, and don't have the time to Ben look it up, but that would seem to me to be the Right Thing to Ben do. I think so. I'm going to try

Re: HTML/CSS question

2003-07-01 Thread pll
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben I always keep a copy of the HTML and CSS spec's next to me. I Ben find them remarkably readable, for specification documents. Ben And, of course, they make excellent use of hypertext. :-) Pointer please :) -- Seeya, Paul -- Key

Re: HTML/CSS question

2003-07-01 Thread pll
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Erik == Erik Price wrote: Erik ems being the height of a capital M in whatever the current Erik font/fontsize is, so this would put your term at 3em from the Erik left and your definition at 5em from the left... sort of. It Erik was a quickie. Ahhh, okay. I've

Re: installing subversion

2003-06-30 Thread pll
In a message dated: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:39:02 EDT Greg Rundlett said: Paul L., or anyone else with knowledge of subversion... I wanted to install subversion, from scratch, to set up a version control system. So I ended up at this page

Re: installing subversion

2003-06-30 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:19:10 EDT Michael O'Donnell said: subversion isn't in the 'package list database' for apt yet. Is, too! I think he meant it isn't available within the RH version of apt-cache. It's been available for Debian since the beginning of the project AFAIK,

Re: simple shell script for running awstats

2003-06-30 Thread pll
In a message dated: 30 Jun 2003 11:18:39 EDT Greg Rundlett said: #!/bin/bash for n in /var/log/httpd/www*.gz do /path/to/my/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=www.buzgate.org -update -logfile=`gzip -d $n |` echo processing $n sleep 3m done echo All log files processed successfully. Ahm, why are

Re: Linux at the Dod

2003-06-20 Thread pll
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Or better yet, maybe Microsoft will just buy the DoD. ;-) Have you read Neal Stevenson's Snow Crash ? There's General Bob's National Defense Force, Inc. :) -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07

Re: Admin horror stories (was: Replacing NIS)

2003-06-19 Thread pll
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Anyone care to top that? (I have no doubt that some could; I'm Ben curious if anyone *will*. GRIN) This won't top that, however, at my first sysadmin job, we had a source license to Ultrix. I needed to move the source repository

DSL service questions

2003-06-19 Thread pll
Hi, I just discovered that according to both Verizon and Earthlink my lines are eligible for DSL service. This is a very good thing IMO :) However, not knowing a lot about DSL, I'm curious about how it works. Currently, I have 2 phone lines in the house, one of which is used exclusively for

Amusing feature of Earthlink DSL

2003-06-19 Thread pll
Your EarthLink DSL service includes: [...other stuff deleted...] * Dynamic IP addressing for added security Hmmm, I've never considered DHCP an 'added security' when connecting to an ISP. I suppose it is, but I think for most of us on this list anyway, it's more of a hinderance :)

Re: Data retrieval from dead laptop

2003-06-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:10:45 EDT Roger H. Goun said: What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead laptop? I have a three-year old Sony VAIO Z505JS laptop that refuses to start. Will it just not boot? I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix on CD

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread pll
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, ken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + My copy of Managing NFS and NIS, by Hal Stern, page 23, says + that the NIS master should not include the +:: entry in the + /etc/passwd file. On page 26, it states that NIS clients must + have that entry. ken Adding the +

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread pll
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, ken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, + no? ken No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a ken client (unless for some bizarre reason it was determined that ken even though it served

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:42:32 EDT Tom Buskey said: To fix it, I made all the YP slaves (and the master) bind to themselves. Paul, do you remember that day? No, I've subconsciously blocked it and other atrocities committed at that location from my memory. It's just too painful

Google changed their logo?

2003-06-17 Thread pll
Hey, When did Google change the logo on their website to the Escher-esque style? While I like the new logo, I think I liked the old one better, at least it added *some* color to the site :) -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE It

Re: web mail

2003-06-17 Thread pll
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, ken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ken Though apparently [EMAIL PROTECTED]*D#!!! Adelphia's blocked my port 80, ken so I'm having to VPN in to use it.) Can't you just run the server on a different port? Choose something which isn't normally associated with a web server,

Re: Google changed their logo?

2003-06-17 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:59:56 EDT Matt Brodeur said: Google changes their logo quite often. Usually it's due to a holiday, special event, or promotion. In this case it happens to be Escher's birthday. Huh. I never noticed that before. The downfalls of using Galeon

Re: Sendmail configuration

2003-06-16 Thread pll
In a message dated: 15 Jun 2003 22:05:21 EDT Jeff Macdonald said: I don't understand what you are trying to do. I use this feature for SPAM tracking. Every time a website requires an email address I do this: jeff+vendor@virtualbuilder.com eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I get mail addressed to this

Re: RH question

2003-06-13 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:23:12 EDT Derek Martin said: $ rpm -qf /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd up2date-3.0.7-1 Interesting, when I did: $ rpm -qf /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid is not owned by any package Which is what led to my

Re: RH question

2003-06-13 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:47:54 EDT Bob Bell said: Interesting, when I did: $ rpm -qf /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid is not owned by any package Which is what led to my question in the first place. Could be created after the RPM

Re: Free brewing kit

2003-06-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:29:18 EDT Tom Buskey said: Erik Price wrote: You know, that might be a cool activity for a GNHLUG social. There's a beer-brewing place in Nashua, and you can do group-brews where corporate/religious/other parties can go there and make the beer one

RH question

2003-06-12 Thread pll
Hi, I was just showing someone the use of xargs in conjunction with find. I thought I'd show him how to find which files in the /etc tree contain the system's hostname. So, I did: find /etc -type f | xargs grep qatest52 (qatest52 being the system's name). I was pretty confident of

Re: RH question

2003-06-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:52:12 EDT Jason Stephenson said: I'm guessing the rhn subdir is for the Red Hat Network programs. When you sign up for up2date, you're signing up the Red Hat Network. Yeah, that's what Ben said too. My RH 8.0 machine does not have that subdir, but I've

Re: CSS Question

2003-06-11 Thread pll
In a message dated: 11 Jun 2003 15:44:34 EDT Cole Tuininga said: I apologize if this is off topic. [...snip...] I don't think it is, since I'm attempting to finally learn the correct way of doing things with xhtml and css. A) me too B) I'm using Linux, and this is a linux list ;)

Re: SuSE rsync?

2003-06-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:43:33 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, at 3:37pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here mirror SuSE from a sight which supports rsync mirroring? sight? ;-) Doh! You caught me. Maybe it was because there was no rsync site in sight ? ;)

Re: OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:24:43 EDT Morbus Iff said: Since we seem to have an abundance of Perl experts today, I have a perplexing problem... I am trying to write a script that logs into a website. The problem that I am running into is that the website requires javascript. If

Re: OT: Perl and Javascript

2003-06-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: 10 Jun 2003 16:25:33 EDT Kenneth E. Lussier said: Since we seem to have an abundance of Perl experts today, I have a perplexing problem... I am trying to write a script that logs into a website. The problem that I am running into is that the website requires javascript. If

SuSE rsync?

2003-06-09 Thread pll
Hi, Anyone here mirror SuSE from a sight which supports rsync mirroring? Someone here would like me to mirror SuSE and I can't seem to find an rsync mirror for it anywhere. Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE It may look

Re: PDA Suggestions

2003-06-06 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 13:00:58 EDT Erik Price said: (Which I am actually somewhat sad about, because I had an emotional attachment to it -- and it could hold paper documents, stamps, etc, which the Palm cannot.) You just need the right case for your Palm, they have some which

Re: PDA Suggestions

2003-06-06 Thread pll
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben I won't say I can't live without it, but I certainly do a lot Ben better with it. It reminds me of appointments and events; I Ben keep track of what I do at work; I make notes on things I want Ben to check out. I basically use it

Re: Merging file sub-trees

2003-06-04 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:41:37 EDT Lee D. Rothstein said: # cp -a --reply=yes $1 $2/ rm -fR $1 # '--reply' not recognized Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'? My Debian man page has it mentioned and it seems to work for me. -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC

Re: Merging file sub-trees

2003-06-04 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:49:57 EDT Lee D. Rothstein said: Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'? My Debian man page has it mentioned and it seems to work for me. == No stinkin '--reply' option for: cp, on Redhat: -- $ cp --version

resolv.conf?

2003-06-04 Thread pll
Hi, I know actually discussing DNS on a Linux system is wildly off topic, and I'm still waiting to find out if KFC was successful in forcing that family to sign an NDA, but, my laptop is pissing me off today :) It is my understanding that if there is a line in /etc/resolve.conf which lists

Re: SCO Thread that will never die (was Re: Maddog at work.)

2003-06-04 Thread pll
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Basically, patents are intended to protect ideas. Well, that is the way they are used, but they were *intended* to foster invention and innovation by rewarding the inventor/innovator with a 17(?) year span of exclusivity during which

Re: More SCO news

2003-05-29 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:34:29 EDT Michael O'Donnell said: Bob: Hope Rob don't say balls nasty. Rob: -Balls- nasty! Bob: He don't shiv. I'll bet this is high-larious, 'cept fer I don't get it... Mmmm, yeah. That was my reaction too. I even tried googling for the various

Emacs question

2003-05-29 Thread pll
Hi, I tend to use Emacs' 'abbrev-mode' quite frequently. Often times, I'll create an abbreviation and save it 'locally' to the current major mode I'm in, since I don't really want abbrevs in text-mode to auto-expand in perl-mode or apache-mode, etc. However, I've also discovered that I need

Re: More SCO news

2003-05-29 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:37:08 EDT Mark Komarinski said: In case you don't read slashdot. This is getting strange. Novell (remember them?) is getting into the picture. They claim that they never sold the copyrights/IP to SCO, only a license to use said copyrights/IP. Yeah, now

Re: Apache 1.3.x directive question

2003-05-29 Thread pll
In a message dated: 28 May 2003 08:56:58 EDT Greg Rundlett said: You are correct. [...snip...] I would suggest taking the trailing slash off the admin directory directive. Directory /admin Hope that helps. So did I :( Unfortunately, the ACLs as pertain to the DocumentRoot are applied and

Re: Dumb networking question...

2003-04-02 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:25:50 EST Ben Boulanger said: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Derek Martin wrote: This is not entirely true. Many switches have ports that auto-sense whether they should be crossed over or straight through... Never heard of this - got any models I can look up??

Re: Potential depletion of lumineferous electrons

2003-04-01 Thread pll
In a message dated: 01 Apr 2003 15:38:18 EST Kenneth E. Lussier said: On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 15:20, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Maybe my humor circuits have burned out, but... CPAN doesn't look a whole lot different to me today than usual. (Though my Wanda the Gnome Fish looks suspiciously

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: 26 Mar 2003 12:26:11 EST Kenneth E. Lussier said: The only way that the big companies will learn is when their subscribers start leaving en masse to go to a smaller provider because they are better. Unfortunately, this means that the big companies will never learn, since

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:19:32 EST Derek Martin said: It also says nowhere in the consitution that I have a right to buy an automobile that won't blow up when struck in the rear (to borrow Jeff's pinto analogy), but that doesn't mean I shouldn't expect it. Huh, the pinto had

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: 27 Mar 2003 09:27:32 EST Kenneth E. Lussier said: Tom, you're on the wrong train. You have it backward. It's the broadband users who want to run their own services that are being punished. No, they aren't. They are being forced to live up to an agreement that they

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:34:19 EST Jason Stephenson said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I can write a insert favorite language here program to directly connect to port 25 on any given system and speak SMTP, and technically I am not running an SMTP server. Actually, what I'm

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:59:28 CST Thomas Charron said: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So they shouldnt filter netbios broadcast traffic either, right? It's not in the TOS.. This argument is a distraction for the sake of argument. The entire discussion thus far has been

Re: AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

2003-03-31 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:45:30 EST Derek Martin said: Hold on chief. I posed it as a question. Please don't put words in my mouth. Wait a minute. He's far too young and short to be a chief. I'd rank him no higher than a squaw ;) [Do I need to reiterate here that Comcast's

Re: Fwd: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Get it Early

2003-03-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: 24 Mar 2003 19:41:59 EST Jeff Macdonald said: Beginning March 31st, paid subscribers to Red Hat Network will have access to Red Hat Linux 9 ISOs - a full week before retail store and Red Hat FTP availability. I'm a RHN subscriber, that's why I posted my message! :-) So,

Re: Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

2003-03-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: 24 Mar 2003 22:57:59 EST Rob Lembree said: Well, now doesn't that figure. Here I am, working on a great presentation for the MerriLUG on Wednesday night on RH8.0.. Rob, We all are quite excited about next months presentation where you then show us RH9.0 and explain

Re: What Excites You?

2003-03-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: 25 Mar 2003 09:19:42 EST Cole Tuininga said: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:44, Greg Rundlett wrote: I love OpenOffice, and how it lets me setup ODBC connections to remote MySQL databases that I can edit via a Microsoft Access-style interface without the deficiencies that

Re: Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

2003-03-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:55:55 EST Derek D. Martin said: At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Again: Red Hat's long-standing policy on version numbers is that the major number gets bumped when they break binary compatibility. This typically Ordinarily

Re: Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

2003-03-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:43:05 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I seem to remember a 7.0-7.1 bump with an incompatible compiler problem. I'd classify that as an incompatible binary ;) 7.0 came with that infamous, incredibly buggy GCC 2.96 that was based on a development snapshot

Re: Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

2003-03-24 Thread pll
In a message dated: 24 Mar 2003 15:48:05 EST Jeff Macdonald said: Interesting, not even a point release for Redhat 8.0! Why does that scare me :) Was 8.0 that bad that only another .0 release could fix it? Or was 8.0 really that stable? (would be a good thing :) If 8.0 was really that

Re: What Excites You?

2003-03-24 Thread pll
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, md == Jon Hall wrote: md I know that some people like The Gimp, and I know that Paul md Lussier likes GNUcash, but what other Open Source programs do md you think are either stellar, close to stellar, or rapidly md approaching stellar? I have to say, that though I

Re: Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

2003-03-24 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:25:31 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, at 3:59pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was 8.0 that bad that only another .0 release could fix it? Again: Red Hat's long-standing policy on version numbers is that the major number gets bumped when

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-21 Thread pll
In a message dated: 21 Mar 2003 09:58:55 EST Kevin D. Clark said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Understood, however, Mike stated he does not want OT posts, and whether an OT posts is interesting or not is technically irrellevant by Mike's standard. So, it is your contention that anybody who

Re: Free mail list servers?

2003-03-21 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:41:50 EST Hewitt Tech said: A business group that I belong to wants to be able to use a mail list server. I know that Yahoo provides a free list server but was wondering if anyone knew of any others. Yahoo pays for their free servers with advertisements

Re: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:43:30 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ask your network dudes: - Are they using 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, or Something Else(TM). I'm pretty sure the card you describe is 11b only, but let's be sure. 11b. - What is the SSID? Don't know, they

Re: Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:24:25 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 11:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really depends on the version of WEP.. Cisco has WEP with some of it's own stuff and that makes it work rather well ... Yah, basically, Cisco has an

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:07:56 EST mike ledoux said: Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by accident, and intended this for

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:51:34 EST mike ledoux said: Look at my history. Off topic posts piss me off, as they defeat my filters and waste my time. So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07

Wireless and Linux?

2003-03-19 Thread pll
Hi all, I was just issued a wireless card at work. Of course, IS only support Windows (actually, they only support W2K, so people with XP are SOL :) Fortunately, I left my laptop as a dual-boot, with W2K, which allowed the IS person to install the card. Of course, now I want this thing to

Re: Oracle and Linux

2003-03-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:39:54 EST Ed Lawson said: Richard Soule wrote: I also remember some young kid explaining why Oracle didn't understand Linux... Seems like I remember a meeting at UNH where it was said Oracle would never release a product for Linux even thought they had

Re: More debian apt-get help

2003-03-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 13:54:21 EST Jefferson Kirkland said: Ok, I am looking to install Gnome after finally getting Xwindows installed. I did the following: apt-get update apt-cache search 'gnome' list Try: $ apt-cache pkgnames task | grep gnome and $ apt-cache

Re: Top posting

2003-03-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:06:35 EST David Andrew - Sun MDE said: If everyone top-posted, the thread would be intact, and it would save a lot of wasted time searching through the message to get the part added with the new e-mail. It would also make every e-mail incredibly huge,

Re: Top posting

2003-03-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:45:00 EST David Andrew - Sun MDE said: Paul, I am not advocating keeping entire message history, unless absolutlely needed for context. Okay, then I mis-understood the point you were trying to make. And I specifically addressed interleaving, with an

Re: Top posting

2003-03-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:58:19 EST Erik Price said: If you've ever been a list manager and inundated with requests from subscribers to 'please unsubscribe me from this list', then you'd quickly come to appreciate these footers. It's funny b/c I see these happen all the

Re: More debian apt-get help

2003-03-10 Thread pll
In a message dated: 23 Feb 2003 15:08:39 EST Kenneth E. Lussier said: the easiest way of doing this would be to use Ximian-Gnome. Have they fixed this? The last time I tried using Ximian-Gnome on Debian, if completely fscked up my system. I had to manually remove all the ximian packages and

Re: Top posting - was Re: sendmail vulnerability

2003-03-07 Thread pll
On 6 Mar 2003, Jeff == Jeff Macdonald wrote: Jeff Mike, You seem to be a mission. You know, I've thought and called mike a lot of things over the years, but I've never considered him a mission :) Jeff I've done top posting because I'm to lazy to delete all the Jeff text that Evolution

Re: ifconfig nightmare

2003-03-07 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:53:45 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: did you do what Paul Lussier does, and configure a default route via every router on your network, plus a few that don't exist? ;-) Hey! I resemble that remark! And further more, resent the heckling! *YOU* are the one

Webmin question

2003-03-07 Thread pll
Hi all, I need to give access to my DNS server to someone, and figured Webmin would be the best way to do it. However, it seems that, at least at first glance, it's an all-or-nothing thing. What I'd like to do is restrict his access to only the zone files he needs access to, and nothing

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