Today, my company doesn't run Linux on any of its client hardware and I
understand the main reason is that the learning curve is too steep for
Windows users.
This is a surprisingly complicated question.
First, define users. I have found that, for your average user, the
learning curve for
On 18 Feb 2004, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Could someone here slap me upside the head and point me in the right
direction?
makewhatis is a shell script that does all sorts of hokey stuff with
shell redirection ...
*A*. Well, okay, then. It's good to know that I'm not just losing my
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, at 1:37pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone explain why this message has taken so long to arrive
I am guessing it is because [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a a
pre-approved poster for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. So,
when a message arrived from that address, it was
Okay, do we need to split the list into on-topic and off-topic or what?
I've always believed that this list is for and of GNHLUG members, and not
just about Linux or even Free Software. GNHLUG members tend to have
common interests and concerns beyond those topics, as well as open minds.
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, at 4:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as a client to
be a terms of service violation (because each client also serves)?
When an ISP's ToS refer to running servers, they generally mean hosting
services. They don't
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The scammers should be tracked down one by one and made to face the
courts.
Sure. Tell me how NH residents like myself are supposed to track down a
criminal in Russia sending stuff from a zombie box in Korea and using a PO
Box in
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, at 2:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that he aim of such messages is to poison the cache of filters
such as SpamAssassin and POPFile ...
That is generally assumed to be the intent, yes.
I'm not at all sure that this sort of thing accomplishes its goal, though,
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, at 5:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They [GWI] ARE very picky about where you are, though. They can only pull
it off becouse they're hooking up to their own equipment, which means they
arent simply reselling Verizon..
[momentary delurk]
I've heard rumor that CLECs who
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, at 2:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So on the one hand I want to reject the message because of the To but it
gets accepted by the Received: from mx2.zoneedit.com header.
You don't want to SMTP reject spam relayed through a secondary
MX. Google for backscatter to find
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, at 4:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to reject all incoming email which is addressed to my domain and
has a completly numeric address
e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone have a recipe?
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null
--
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| The opinions
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, at 4:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If your using the milter, why not configure the secondary to use the
milter as well?
That's the way to do it, for sure, but the OP said he was using some third
party secondary MX service, which I expect won't give him the control he
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, at 4:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, but no. What I want is to reject in sendmail. I don't even use
procmail for spam processing since I'm using spamass-milter. The goal is
to reject all spam before reception completes.
Ahhh. The dream of mail admins everywhere.
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, at 7:26pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... making QuickBooks compatible with Open Source platforms would not only
open up new markets but make them less dependent on Microsoft behaving
themselves ...
Only problem with that is that QuickBooks is *extremely* married to
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, at 9:16pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Samba doesn't work out-of-the-box with Quickbooks when multiple users
have the database open. You have to do something like, IIRC,:
[share]
oplocks = No
level2 oplocks = No
strict locking = Yes
Intuit
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, at 9:50pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even then, I was able to run QuickBooks multiuser without any problems on
a Samba 2.0.x platform.
How often did you run a consistency check on your company file?
One of the really SARCASMwonderful/SARCASM things about QuickBooks is
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, at 9:50pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In any event, an open source equivalent to QuickBooks would be very useful
to us.
Hell, I'd pay good money for a proprietary, closed, commercial product
that provided a QuickBooks like interface, but was Linux *and* Windows
friendly,
I was asked off-list about spam backscatter and joe-jobs. Rather then
make a private reply that only helps one person, I'm posting a public one
that will hopefully inform many.
SMTP = Simple Mail Transport Protocol. The mechanism behind email.
MTA = Mail Transfer Agent. A working
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, at 10:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Eh...
HELO isn't even a header. It is an SMTP command
Sheesh. HELO is not a header. :-)
I quote from RFC-821, Section 4.1.1, Page 19:
HELLO (HELO)
This command is used to identify the sender-SMTP to the
receiver-SMTP. The argument field contains the host name of
the sender-SMTP.
The
On 30 Nov 2004, at 12:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ouch. Got backups?
This *was* my backups. :-(
Double ouch.
This is on my home PC and all that really is lost is some personal stuff
and various things I've been saving.
Triple ouch. If you lost data, then that disk wasn't a
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 8:07pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I kinda like Gimp's GUI the way it is and would not want to see it changed
just to win over a handful of Photoshop lovers.
A handful of Photoshop users? Heh. When it comes to graphics on
desktop computers, there's Photoshop, and then
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 12:42pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently purchased ... a new Dell Inspiron 9200 ... I have been doing
some searching on places like google and cannot really find anyone that
has installed Linux on this particular model.
Well, a couple academic points:
One should
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 9:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've heard stories about some rather interesting installs for people
who... lets just say they paint houses...
... and fly around in black helicopters powered by devices obtained from
crashed alien spacecraft, I'm sure. ;-)
I've seen
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, at 11:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://info.linspire.com/walmart/
While interesting, the thought occurs to me that I don't think I would
trust a $500 notebook if it came without an OS and I had to load one myself.
Neither Wal-Mart nor Linspire have stunning records
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, at 8:46pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heh. I use it all the time. I know I downloaded/saved a copy of a
file that had info on/does that
Ah, well... that's what hierarchical directory trees are for... ;-)
Sure, but did I put that document about Mozilla under
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, at 8:16pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(is this really off topic?)
However, purist seek to keep the conversation more on the side of Linux
the kernel, the OS, and hardware capable of running the OS.
Well, given that GNHLUG has no formal existence, and this list has no
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, at 7:35am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can somebody help me out with the basics of setting up a Linux box to be
on multiple subnets.
New way (iproute2):
ip addr add 192.168.10.5/24 broadcast 192.168.10.255 dev eth0
ip addr add 10.0.0.22/8 broadcast
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, at 8:14pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a WRTG54 Wireless Router.
I just bought one of those yesterday myself. They run Linux internally,
and are supposed to be rather hackable.
Where I'm having problems is port 80!... No matter what I try, on the
router or on the
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, at 2:22am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was actually surprised to find out M$ has not come out with their 64-bit
version of Windows yet -- Linux beat them to the punch!
That's old news. Linux was natively 64-bit on the DEC Alpha at least as
far back as 1997 (maddog can no
Hello world!
I know this list has a lot of people with experience in IT administration
whose opinions I respect, so I'm floating question this here.
Anyone got any recommendations for IT management software? Something that
can track equipment (computers, printers, etc.) as well as software,
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I'm hoping to get Win4Lin runnig on it.
Can't help with the rest, but as far as Win4Lin goes, NeTraverse has
switched to providing a generic binary kernel based on pristine sources plus
their own MKI patchkit. The theory is that this
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, at 2:34pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll put a plug in for SysAdmin Magazine. While not dedicated to linux,
it basically is and has more hardcore content than others I've seen.
But it's focused on the sysadmin - you'll never find an article about
managing your checkbook
This is a reply to a message in a different thread (Linux Cafe) which,
although it was posted before this thread, is very relevant to this thread.
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, at 5:19pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no problem with topic-oriented groups at all. However, with all
the topic groups
Hello world!
My sound card (an old Ensoniq ES1370) blew the other day, so I'm looking
for a new card. Can anyone make a recommendation for a good sound card
these days?
My requirements are simple: I listen to music while hacking. I play video
games. I want GAIM to make little noises when
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, at 9:16pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having trouble getting a printer working network-wise at my in-law's
house. ...
There are two approaches to printer drivers and such with *nix and *doze.
One is to tell *nix to just pass the data unchanged, and use the specific
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, at 8:59pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My sound card (an old Ensoniq ES1370) blew the other day, so I'm
looking for a new card. Can anyone make a recommendation for a good
sound card these days?
ALSA has a vendor matrix of what they support.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, at 9:45am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have used VNC to help in this type of situation. You can put some win
boxes somewhere on the net and let those special users access them from
any Linux box across the LAN.
FWIW, Netraverse, the Win4Lin people, offer a product that
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, at 2:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/
I do like these archives; however I didn't know about them until around 30
seconds ago. The archives were removed with some fanfare (or, more
precisely, not enough fanfare) a
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, at 12:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg08582.html
The archives from mail-archive.com are regularly purged, and in fact only
go back to 196 days at this instant.
According to their FAQ, they keep mail
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, at 8:32pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to setup an FTP server on a Fedora Core 3 system that will
allow users to login in via LDAP/Kerberos login and restrict access to
their individual home directories only. I do not want them to be able to
access ANY other
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 9:26am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These changes were made quite a while ago (I forget when, but it was
during the last storm over this topic).
All that I've gotten out of this thread is that this happened before the
last storm and not during it.
As I recall, someone
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, at 9:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GNHLUG has a new chair - myself. More info soon.
Everybody else has been offering congratulations. I will offer you
something I think more appropriate: My condolences. ;-)
Seriously, thanks a lot for taking on what has, historically,
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 10:42am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with this.. I've never really thought about GNHLUG as much of an
organization rather then a list of linux geeks that sometimes have
meetings to talk about geeky things.
It used to be more, and I have hopes it will be again.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 11:15am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just tell a friend and don't buy anymore. It's all you can do. :-)
I disagree. True, word of mouth is great, but a pointed letter to
HP/Compaq would definitely be in order.
They don't care. Indeed, they want it that way.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 11:19am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've encountered similar things before. In my cases, I found it was a boot
partition, not the BIOS, which was enforcing the repair. I just deleted
the small boot partition, and rewrote the boot sector, and the problem
went away. YMMV.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 11:43am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, IIRC there's that loadlinux.exe (or whatever
it's called)
LOADLIN.EXE (FYI)
... that boots Linux directly from Windows.
To the best of my knowledge, it can only boot Linux from DOS. It needs
the system in real mode (circa
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 3:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I recall, someone outside of GNHLUG wrote and complained that their
info (not just an email, IIRC) appeared in a message in the archives.
That's the first I've heard of this.
I don't think it was discussed. I know myself and
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 3:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, like write a script to strip out email addresses. Of course, I
wrote this when I was led to believe that this would solve the actual
problem.
When this came up before (with Derek) ...
Just to be perfectly clear: Derek's
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 3:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I'll confess. I think I triggered all of this. I forwarded an
email about a job opening and it contained the senders email address. In
his effort to minimize spam, he checks the search engines to make sure his
email address
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 11:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have your own server, you could put up your own archives with
your own Perl script, and likely many would thank you. I would.
Throughout this thread I've been interested in solving a technical
problem that I was led to
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 7:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFAIK, the DeskPro line was killed several years ago.
Well, the DeskPro *brand* was retired, but I'm pretty sure the part of HP
that was Compaq still offers a line of business class desktop computers,
or whatever you want to call them.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 9:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the consumer standpoint, I can attest to this: my boss was recently
buying a new laptop, and had the choice in front of him to choose two
mostly identical laptops. When he asked the difference, this was basically
their answer: One
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 9:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note that the price tag for this apparently obsolete version ...
My understanding is that it is not obsolete, just limited. They restrict
max memory and don't allow a full virtual network adapter (socket proxy
only).
I use Win4Lin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 8:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What level of traffic are we talking about?
I suggest you start by putting up an independent mail archive, sub'ing the
list to it, and posting a link to them here. That gets everybody started in
small steps.
I don't have
There are two types of special partitions one usually sees these days:
One is the system utility partition, which contains things like BIOS
setup, diagnostics, and such. Compaq is famous for using such a partition
*instead* of firmware-based utilities, meaning if your hard disk or RAID
Since everyone is voicing their opinions and experiences with vendors,
here are some of mine:
I work for a systems integration and support company, so in most cases, I
*am* technical support for the end-user. While I can do all the work
myself, it's far cheaper for me to be able to pick
A reoccuring theme in this and many other forums is that the level of
support one gets with a computer really sucks.
As I said before, more and more companies (Dell, HP/Compaq, and Gateway
for sure) are offering two product lines. One is called the consumer
product line. They call it
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, at 1:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Win4Lin does that. DOS based, lightweight, runs everything 16-bit Windows
was able to run, requires a u$ OS license.
Technical clarification:
Win4Lin can also run Win95, Win98, and WinME, all of which are 32-bit as
well. Both in
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, at 2:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody have an smb.conf for a Samba 3 server as an ADS member server
(using ADS for authentication)?
The key ingredient is to put
security = ADS
realm = ad-domain.example.com
in your smb.conf file.
The
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, at 5:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really liked firestarter, too... EXCEPT that I was utterly unable to get
it to allow NFS. So, whamo -- every so often, it'd start up, and no more
homedir for me. Anyone have an idea about how to get around that?
Traditional NFS is
(Long-time members of this list will recognize the subject, which I drag
out whenever I get particularly irritated by all the Debian elitists who
think nobody's ever installed software before. If you're not interested in
this kind of crap, just ignore this thread.)
(The inflammatory nature
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, at 12:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This started cropping up last week. Our DNS server is running fine, then
for no reason it dies with this error:
exiting (due to assertion failure)
As Kevin Clark said, you really should know to provide more info. :)
One thing
WARNING: I'm being my usual tactless self here. :-)
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, at 11:24pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those of you who have Comcast cable internet, you are probably aware
that there was a recent change in their service regarding their newsserver
for news groups.
I didn't even
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 11:57am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are insurmountable technical reasons (as far as I'm concerned) for
keeping gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org, so if anything, we should remove
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reluctantly agreed. Many moons ago, when gnhlug@zk3.dec.com was being
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, at 1:14pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still not quite sure what y'all are looking for.
I'm pretty sure Bruce is looking for a way to say this:
rpm -qa --qf '%{INSTALLTIME} %{NAME}\n' | sort -nr | head -50
in Debianese.
For those who don't know hatspeak, the
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 6:38am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was a small comment that I didn't expect would incite such a banter,
but let me throw a few words of explanation through here at least to try
and settle the water.
Hah! You didn't expect a calm, reasoned approach to actually stop a
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, at 9:26am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, everyone here is a nazi, therefore I hereby declare this
debate/thread/discussion over! :)
Quirk's Exception states that deliberately attempting to cause a Godwin
Event will always fail. ;-)
--
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, at 8:00am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's close to what I was talking about. The really neat part (IMHO)
about apt-cache search is that it doesn't just do a glob search on package
names, it does a glob search on the files *within* the packages.
I think
yum
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 6:38am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But all the Debian zealots just say APT rocks and RPM sux!! and wonder
why nobody cares.
I don't recall saying RPM sux...
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 10:06am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But all the Debian zealots just say APT rocks and RPM
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, at 11:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I couldn't agree more.
[giant snip]
Okay, Derek Martin posted a message where he did nothing but agree with
me. Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse? ;-)
--
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| The opinions expressed in this
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 6:43pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wait, I'm have a little trouble understanding the problem.
I know you know this, but it's educational to state it explicitly:
The problem is simply that binary compatibility is hard.
Easy enough; it's the implications that are
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, at 9:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In practice, so-called stable releases of certain software may be no
better, but you're never going to convince a non-technical manager type
that it's a good idea to use something which is not considered
production-quality by the people
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, at 12:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There must be something about this that is either hard to comprehend, or
hard to accept. It gives a lot of RPM users trouble, it gives Debian
users a sense of superiority,
Um, Ben ... I take exception to this. By saying that it is
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, at 10:33pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:39:47PM -0500, Ed Robbins wrote:
Any ideas or possible fixes?
Switch to Red Hat? =8^)
Hey, at least I put some content in my flame-bait... ;-)
--
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| The opinions expressed in
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, at 10:30pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think it's a tenable position to argue that you should be able
to depend on a clean exit when you essentially crash the program by
forcibly disconnecting it from the X server to which it's connected...
The thing is, from what
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, at 6:26am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The single-large repository part is what's important. It takes a little
longer to unify configuration ...
No, it takes a **LOT** longer. If the number of components in a
Configuration Management scenario is N, then the number of
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 1:57pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I stopped by Win4Lin's booth at LinuxWorld yesterday. There is now a
new version of Win4Lin which DOES support W2000 and XP. It's a deeper
technology than the DOS-emulation approach used for W9X. Who knew?
Well, people who read this
[I have re-arranged the order of subthreads for editorial purposes.]
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 9:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I have 3 packages, A, B, and C ...
Similarly, most packages don't rely on more packages.
Irrelevant. The issue isn't that I expect most packages to depend on
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 7:35am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yum works like a charm when everything is up to date in the repositories.
It's next to useless otherwise.
FWIW, one of the points I've been trying to make in all of this ranting is
that no package manager -- apt-get, yum, rpm, dpkg,
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 7:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And the fact that BSD ports downloads, configures, builds, and installs
all the specified components *from source* leads BSD bigots into thinking
that the BSD ports packagers must be doing a much better job then Red Hat
or Debian
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, at 5:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of SATA, how well is SATA supported in 2.6? Is it at the point I
can buy a SATA motherboard blind and not worry? Or do we still have a
way to go yet?
As I understand it, when it comes to SATA, there are two paths.
One path
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, at 5:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone has a clue as to why I would be having permission denied even
while logged in as root would be helpful. It had occurred to me while
trying to install my video card modules manually.
I've seen kernel modules return all manner
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, at 10:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Purely a hardware question: has anyone run across a Dell 2650 server that
flashes PCI Parity Error E13F4 on the PC Health LED?
Not that in particular, but a PCI parity error generally means a
low-level signaling problem on the PCI
Sorry for the spam, but I know several people on this list use Win4Lin,
and others who have expressed interest, so I figured this was appropriate.
If you're not interested in payware to help you use legacy Windoze programs
under Linux, please delete this message. Thanks.
For a long time,
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, at 10:24am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The not loading as SCSI is what confused me, but I read something
somewhere that said the new USB wasn't using SCSI anymore ...
There is a new USB device driver in recent kernels that provides reduced
block device functionality. I
This post has been certified 100% content-free by the Listmaster General.
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, at 11:31am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, there are probably other folks with the reverse set of
conflicts. Inevitable... :)
I fall into that category. In fact, I've got about four
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, at 10:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for
'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS nuts.
I highly doubt Windows Rights Management Services has any connection at
all to Richard
tongue.insert (head-cheek);
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, at 11:57pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would not be so quick to dismiss the possibility of conscious acronym
overloading on the part of a company who supposedly considered the
application of the HAL naming algorithm (IBM+1) in naming Windows NT
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, at 1:02pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An article today on CNET says A doctoral student at the University
of California has conclusively fingerprinted computer hardware
remotely, allowing it to be tracked wherever it is on the Internet.
Worrying about this strikes me as
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Michael ODonnell wrote:
Can anybody provide a clue as to what the proper sequence of steps might be
that would result in (A) getting a Windows XP (Home Edition) machine rigged
to accept a connection from the Linux rdesktop client
Win XP Home doesn't include Remote Desktop
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Paul Lussier wrote:
It's not easy to undo, either - trying umount generates device is
busy.
Well, of course it is, you now have *2* file systems mounted on the same
file handle.
I don't think file handle is the proper term here; I believe mount point
would be. I believe
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Michael ODonnell wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd once heard that the difference between NT4.0workstation and
NT4.0server was three registry entries... and $1200.
And the terms of the software license, which is what the code in question is
enforcing. And the development and
Hello LUGers,
I recently posted a message[1] here asking if there was any interest in
continuing the GNHLUG presence at Hosstraders. To date, I've received two
responses, and only one person really interested in helping at the booth. So
unless I receive an outpouring of volunteerism in the
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Paul Lussier wrote:
I've got 50 as well.
Me three.
You want lots of Gmail invites, sub the address to some mailing lists.
Google apparently bases it on mail volume, and doesn't care if you almost
never send mail.
--
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is an amalgamated reply.
To those complaining that I gave up too easy:
It got a bunch of people to reply, didn't it?
To those who have responded:
*THANKS!!!*
To those wondering what Hosstraders is:
Sorry, I thought the recent traffic here was enough. Hosstraders, in it's
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Michael ODonnell wrote:
Lately I've been getting SPAM with URLs laid out like this:
(note the ampersands in the hostname portions of these URLs)
http://yZyvbbllZvotZw%2eZr%2esoftpyp%2einfo/in.php?aid=11bZpaZtx
Googling for spam ampersand url found this:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Paul Lussier wrote:
http://spamblock.outblaze.com/, which is apparently in use by whatever
mail server Ben S. is behind, is referring to http://www.us.sorbs.net/
in order to list IP addresses to block e-mail from.
Ahhh, that's just great.
FWIW, I ha(ve|d) configured my
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Derek Martin wrote:
do it by checking that the machine in question isn't registered in DNS as a
bonifide e-mail server for the sender domain.
The problem with that stance is that for many MX operators, it blocks too
much wanted mail. Most domains don't have SPF or anything
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Michael ODonnell wrote:
Since the spammer only knows me by my email address and is unlikely to ba
able to correlate the Host: values reported by a browser with my email addr,
I'm thinking that Host: value isn't of much interest. Further, if my browser
is behind a firewall
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Paul Lussier wrote:
Peter Dobratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a KDS 19 CRT that ran X at 1600x1200 under Debian unstable for
many years. It's still a perfectly good monitor, but it draws close
to 90 Watts of power
If my calculations are correct, that's only .75 amps at
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