Re: Greylisting [was Re: OT: horse]

2005-07-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I'm interested in this myself actually, what are you using to do this? Do you have any informative links to share on the subject? This was discussed in some depth on the procmail list recently, probably this month. Please make sure you read that thread *before* you

Re: Greylisting [was Re: OT: horse]

2005-07-13 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Greylisting mail is completely pointless, due to all of the methods having been published in great detail. I'm not sure that reasoning holds. Rejecting all email from senders which haven't sent anything before with a service unavailable, try again in X minutes is, theoretical anyway, covered

Re: C as a scripting language: TCC

2005-07-13 Thread Wesley Parish
I'll certainly take a look at pike. Thanks. That's a scripting language I don't know _anything_ about at present. Wesley Parish On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:20, Martin Bähr wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:32:18AM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: TCC can also be used to make C scripts, i.e. pieces

Re: help desk system for gentoo

2005-07-13 Thread Zane Gilmore
Maurice, I have done a Bugzilla installation and can give you some pointers on how to go about it if you want. The thing to remember about bugzilla is that it is not helpdesk software. Bugzilla is primarily designed to accept notifications of bugs and feature requests in software from users

RE: help desk system for gentoo

2005-07-13 Thread Maurice Butler
Hi, Just building up a gentoo box to play with mantis and rt ticket systems that appears to be a close match than bugzilla. Thanks for the offer Maurice -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2005 9:27 p.m. To: Clug Subject: Re: help

Re: corrections to AVI editing

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:27 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: ffmpeg should also handle it, use the copy output codecs that don't change anything, but use the cutpoints, something like (say it is 3 hours long and you want three one hour segments) ffmpeg -v copy -a copy -t 1:00:00 -i inputfile.avi -o

Re: C as a scripting language: TCC

2005-07-13 Thread Martin Bähr
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:49:32AM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: You are, of course, very right there Volker. But tcc can be useful for scripting (in a round-about way). tcc can be used as a back-end for a scripting language - in other words, C is the intermediate language. It's dynamic

Re: C as a scripting language: TCC

2005-07-13 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 14/07/05, Martin Bähr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:49:32AM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: You are, of course, very right there Volker. But tcc can be useful for scripting (in a round-about way). tcc can be used as a back-end for a scripting language - in other words, C

Re: Greylisting [was Re: OT: horse]

2005-07-13 Thread Jim Cheetham
Hadley Rich wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:41, Jim Cheetham wrote: I've been playing around with greylisting attack sources - it was I'm interested in this myself actually, what are you using to do this? Do you have any informative links to share on the subject? Not really, it's more of a

Re: Greylisting [was Re: OT: horse]

2005-07-13 Thread Roger Searle
I'm involved with the administration of around a dozen email lists that run via mailman. They would typically get at least half a dozen messages a day that were either spam or viruses/worms etc and generate an email requesting they be dealt with by the individual list admins. A couple of months

Re: Greylisting [was Re: OT: horse]

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
I simply incorporated spamassassin into mailman, set the level at low, enough, and the spam all but disappeared. I hold all non spam-identified non-subscribed addresses. Occasionally people post from the wrong address etc. On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:22:01 +1200 Roger Searle wrote: I'm involved

RE: C as a scripting language: TCC

2005-07-13 Thread mpj17
= Original Message From linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz = Yes. psyco is an interesting beast. Not only does it translate to ia32, but it also dynamically optimises the code while the program is running. There are similar systems for C and FORTRAN: the program produces a profile at

linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Matthew Whiting
Hi all, New to Christchurch and to this list, so hello all! I'm in the process of buying a new machine and wondering whether or not to get XP with it. I don't really want to spend hours and hours struggling to set the machine up with Linux. I've spent considerable time in the past partitioning

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread sirlancelot
Hu Matthew, in my experience, you could install MEPIS in 20 minutes on your machine and you'll already know if everything works OK before you commit to it since it installs from a live disk install. It really is easy, even your dynalink modem will work (installed automatically, but only with

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:44:05 +1200 sirlancelot wrote: Hu Matthew, in my experience, you could install MEPIS in 20 minutes on your machine and you'll already know if everything works OK before you commit to it since it installs from a live disk install. It really is easy, even your

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread sirlancelot
Not sure Nick, have you had success, I haven't that's all? Lance Blackler Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:44:05 +1200 sirlancelot wrote: Hu Matthew, in my experience, you could install MEPIS in 20 minutes on your machine and you'll already know if everything works OK before you

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
No, i don't know what driver you are even using. I know a lot of drivers had transition problems from 2.4--2.6, but most have been fixed. What driver is it for this modem? On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:02:22 +1200 sirlancelot wrote: Not sure Nick, have you had success, I haven't that's all? Lance

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
Actually I am not sure how we can even guess at whether the modem will work from this information: DYNALINK 56K INTERNAL PCI MODEM On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:04:26 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: No, i don't know what driver you are even using. I know a lot of drivers had transition problems from

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Fisher
I totally agree. My Mepis experiences have been good too. I have the latest iso if needed. Rob sirlancelot said: Hu Matthew, in my experience, you could install MEPIS in 20 minutes on your machine and you'll already know if everything works OK before you commit to it since it installs from a

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
1. With a reasonably new machine, can there be issues with drivers being available for all the hardware? Yes. Losemodems are an eternal in the proverbial. Newfangled gigabit ethernet chips aren't always immediately supported at gigabit speed, though are at 100M, SATA can still be tricky - but I

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Matthew Whiting
Thanks for thoughts and suggestions so far. Sounds like I should find out more about this modem before I purchase it and maybe look at getting something else? Cheers Matthew Actually I am not sure how we can even guess at whether the modem will work from this information: DYNALINK 56K

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Matthew Whiting
Thanks Lance, Any recommendations on a site to download MEPIS from, or where I could get a CD/DVD from? Cheers Matthew Hu Matthew, in my experience, you could install MEPIS in 20 minutes on your machine and you'll already know if everything works OK before you commit to it since it installs

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
robert offered it to you. follow up with him. On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:59:48 +1200 (NZST) Matthew Whiting wrote: Thanks Lance, Any recommendations on a site to download MEPIS from, or where I could get a CD/DVD from? Cheers Matthew Hu Matthew, in my experience, you could install

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Tindall
Matthew Whiting wrote: Thanks for thoughts and suggestions so far. Sounds like I should find out more about this modem before I purchase it and maybe look at getting something else? Are mobo's still supplied with serial ports? If so, get an external 56K too (_not_ USB; even better, ADSL via

Meeting topic suggestion - multimedia

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
After the mythtv meeting I thought that maybe it would be an idea to give a talk on multimedia and linux, covering such stuff as: digital sound and video technology concepts - digital/analogue, surround sound, codecs, containers etc etc linux multimedia support - * audio:

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
you caught us on a good day :-) not even any arguments about what distro to suggest LOL. Welcome aboard. Please also take a cruise around the wiki: http://www.clug.org.nz On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:13:40 +1200 (NZST) Matthew Whiting wrote: Wow, I'm rather blown away by how helpful you all are.

Re: linux installation questions

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Fisher
If I was you I would take up the offers of help to install either SuSE or Mepis. They are both, IMHO, great distros and you would not waste much time if in the end they are not for you. Matthew Whiting said: Wow, I'm rather blown away by how helpful you all are. Cheers. I'll have a further

Re: Meeting topic suggestion - multimedia

2005-07-13 Thread sirlancelot
I would definitely be interested. Probably would end up missing it sadly, as I did the MythTV presentation, being on one of my unavalaible days, but definitely interested. Lance Nick Rout wrote: After the mythtv meeting I thought that maybe it would be an idea to give a talk on multimedia

Re: Meeting topic suggestion - multimedia

2005-07-13 Thread Douglas Royds
Nick Rout wrote: multimedia files and formats (wav, mp3, flac, avi, mpeg, rm, wmv,pal, ntsc, dv etc etc) how to play them - mplayer, xine, vlc, kaffeine, xmms, play, aplay how to edit audio and video - turning your camera's videos into dvd's Very interested.

clug.tv

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
I have a friend who runs a private amateur TV station called ATV (A=Amateur). He is an electronics wiz who lives up in Cashmere. It broadcasts somewhere on the UHF or VHF range AFAIK. The stuff is mainly community contributed. Some of it is delightfully low tech - if you want to advertise a party

Re: clug.tv

2005-07-13 Thread sirlancelot
Sounds good Nick. Some thing like that would be worth doing in my opinion. Lance Nick Rout wrote: I have a friend who runs a private amateur TV station called ATV (A=Amateur). He is an electronics wiz who lives up in Cashmere. It broadcasts somewhere on the UHF or VHF range AFAIK. The stuff

Re: clug.tv

2005-07-13 Thread Nick Rout
Heres some more. http://www.geocities.com/chchatv/ Channel 39 VHF No point in me trying, wrong side of the hill. Actually this site says UHF: http://www.yobbo.co.nz/tv_transmitters.htm YMMV On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:02:58 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: I have a friend who runs a private amateur TV

Re: clug.tv

2005-07-13 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Sounds good Nick. Some thing like that would be worth doing in my opinion. It would be nice if they could be put somewhere for out of towners to download too :-)