alongside perl) I'm not sure
whether I'd have started using Perl.
I think the early days of comp.lang.perl (before the split) with informed,
entertaining helpful commentary from some of stalwarts was also key
in the rise of Perl.
Best wishes
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on a
64-bit o/s ...
HTH
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:05:21PM +0100, d...@chromiq.org wrote:
On Apr 29 2009, Chris Benson wrote:
Indeed: one of those simplifications they make in teaching O-level
(sorry, GCSE) physics (that dates me... :-)
But I don't remember it coming up in A-level physics either, (but I was
well
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:57:49PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:10:30AM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Domestic charges are per the meter: kW.
kWh surely?
Argh yeah! I must remember where I'm writing :-)
I blame my lying Efergy meter that tells me kW when it's really kVA
: I'd like a meter
that piggy-backs in the circuit-breaker socket of a distribution board so
that I can monitor each circuit. Individual devices would be even better!
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, there's
too much sand.
/quote
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365 92% /music
This saves a several 10's of MB in unused inodes ...
[*1] I also changed the Reserved block count to 0, but it looks like df
doesn't take that into account ...
Contention away!
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Chris Benson
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for ppc-linux
Then trash the base o/s while keeping your customisations safe in an
(temporarily) unmounted partition.
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partition you may well find you have anulled any possible marginal
benefit of using partitions.
Amen. Thank goodness for LVMs (and the low cost of storage).
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:05:11AM +0100, Jody Belka wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Chris Benson wrote:
Although it'll be protected by a firewall, security will definitely be
important with it owning (at least) one static ip on the end of an adsl
I was thinking more about RAID1 vs no RAID type
something similar ...
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col15.html
(Trying to answer before Randal wakes up :-)
HTH
--
Chris Benson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:37:56PM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:29, Chris Benson wrote;
CB I thought it already was ... thinks: prison statistics/
I thought that the US prison statistics were because of the War on
Drugs.
Perhaps I mean sentencing statistics
was ... thinks: prison statistics/
Seriously though,
Yeah, I was :-(
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and report the 00's of PCs using up to 70% of the 10Gbit
backbone bandwidth at work ... and a couple of days after hearing that
the NorthEast's emergency response teams plans are all stored as ...
.doc and .mdb :-(
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permissions, passwords and so forth.
It runs as a service, so if installed, root can start it with
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
if it's not autmatically started. The init.d script does the
first-time-startup actions (except setting a root password).
HTH
--
Chris Benson
Puzzles and Diversions.
I'm feeling fantasy-deprived :-)
The teacher had a story about the leprechauns that could count up to
1023 on their fingers, so I might have known what binary was too (though
I don't remember binary being mentioned).
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Chris Benson
think I'll let it get to an hour.
Nice one.
I got one with an 0800 number in it last night ... - any evening of
server-fans and typing on their answering machine :-)
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none of you have finished any of your projects, don't blame
me :)
Never a true-er work spoken. Damned thing :-(
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afraid i lost interest before
finding out what the numbers meant.
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redbook and suggest them as authors, but
there're too many to choose from!
Reminds me again that IBM are serious about Linux ...
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to $EXTERNAL do out_ext
on output log DROPPING:output
# policy is drop
That gives me
gamma:~ # wc -l /etc/firewall.conf
130 /etc/firewall.conf
gamma:~ # setup-firewall /etc/firewall.conf | wc -l
201
gamma:~ #
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dmz - f/wall
int'l - f/wall
int'l - dmz
int'l - inet
f/wall - inet
f/wall - dmz
f/wall - internal
I've a perl script that writes a set of iptables commands from a
simplified config file ...
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Chris Benson
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:10:56AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
I mean, what is the official name for the UK money?
Currently it's called sterling. Soon it will become the Euro.
For some value of soon.
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for a taster:
- lynx and w3m: no chance
- NS7: links don't work then crashes
- Moz1.2: hangs
- Konqueror: tabbed areas aren't visible then the tabs disappear
Class act -- I won't be back there again. So in their logs everything
except IE doesn't exist :-(
[*] insert non-IE browser of choice
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Chris
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:30:56PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
Chris Benson wrote:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/
I didn't mean to associcate you with *that* site! :-)
Looking at the code, it is *very*very*very* far removed from the coding
style that I am advocating.
I don't think anyone
://www.pcworld.co.uk/
cbblade:~/work/oracle/11i $
Like I said: Class Act :-)
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of the
accessability features of new browsers (It's one of the reasons I like
Lynx -- hard to change the font/colours of an xterm :-) and I'm still
50!
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Chris Benson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
On 18 Mar 2003 at 14:32, Chris Benson wrote:
[ORA books]
I blame Josette. You can't turn round without getting a discount: London
PerlMounger - get a discount, Tyneside PerlMounger - get a discount,
UKUUG member - get
PerlMounger - get a discount, Tyneside PerlMounger - get a discount,
UKUUG member - get a discount, ...
:-)
[*] implying an uncounted number at work ...
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DBA at London and surroundings?
http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/Details.d/Trends.d/SKILL/ORACLE.d/index.html
http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d/Details.d/Trends.d/LOCATION/LONDON.d/index.html
Looks like a qualified maybe. (Up 1% since February!).
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Chris Benson
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:53:52PM +, Tim Sweetman wrote:
Chris Benson wrote:
Bzzzt! in 8i and 9i, Oracle defaults to the Cost Based Optimizer.
Unfortunately it needs a (manual)
SQL exec dbms_utilities.gather_schema_statistics('APPS');
(or something like that) to work
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:14:51PM +, the hatter wrote:
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Chris Benson wrote:
there is. It works on 4KB pages, so is supposedly v.efficient).
It's effectivey some clever uses of diff. You have the 'real' fs, as it
existed at one point in time. When you take
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:29:15PM +, Dirk Koopman wrote:
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 18:53, Chris Benson wrote:
I think of it as 'copying the inode-table' ... and since their f/s
doesn't rewrite blocks only writes fresh ones, by looking at the 0800
copy of the inode-table, you get
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:33:11AM +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:44:11PM +, Chris Benson wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:43:50PM +, Shevek wrote:
Among them the whirl as you realise that rm -rf
shouldn't be taking this long
format config file). They originally did cheap retail sales over
the internet but have moved into embedded market and OEM deals ...
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of there.
If you've never heard of grep, glob, split, local/gmtime, unlink,
STDIN, ARGV, ... or seen a regular expression, it's all pretty
bewildering. Even if you have, there's all the chop/chomp/splice/...
cuteness to confuse.
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wheeled device. Much easier!
Or even three: http://www.ice.hpv.co.uk/
Then you don't fall over when you stop :-)
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Chris Benson
never seen a Unix
shell ... and maybe only see a DOS prompt when things go wrong :-)
Among them the whirl as you realise that rm -rf
shouldn't be taking this long...
Ah, that time-stopping, stomach-dropping, splicter-clenching moment :-)
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Chris Benson
you had ... or does it? I guess it'll
get the latest versions from CPAN: roll-on CPANPLUS.
HTH
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Chris Benson
) environment; it
paints the same graphics on all participating displays. The shared
client applications appear to each participant in a virtual root window
which is subject to local window management. In this way, the shared X
session coexists with each user's private X session.
HTH someone
--
Chris
it either tho'
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Chris Benson
several people running 4 and 8-way boxes
(someone was talking about a V880 last week).
Don't know how it runs compared to Sol9 tho'
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Chris Benson
is
perl is not
And rather surprisingly:
perl is a trademark of o'reilly associates
-and-
perl is already installed on all the student pcs in block 16 the
!
--
Chris Benson
- NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY ETRN
214- XEXCH50 STARTTLS AUTH
214 End of HELP info
quit
221 closing connection
Connection to staffmail.barnsley.ac.uk closed by foreign host.
So it looks OK (FSVOOK) to me. Not that I trust MS Exchange to do
anything.
--
Chris Benson
?
--
Chris Benson
by tonight and the app (Oracle
Financials) still runs like a dog.
Of course, the conspiracy theorists would claim this is to keep DBA
consultants in business...
:-)
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Chris Benson
Financials :-)
--
Chris Benson
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:13:42AM +, Graham Barr wrote:
Well as I said I am in Guildford, now. But soon I will be moving
to Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.
Flat, very flat, Norf^WNorth Cambs.
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Chris Benson
... if that's north enough.
The next one is Edinburgh.pm so I guess we're the last Perl Moungers in
England :-)
Tyneside.pm is still quiet tho'. Please join the mailing-list if you're
up this way to stop it going back to sleep until spring :-)
--
Chris Benson
reduced to hours instead of weeks :-(
Learn the IPv4 lesson: bugger short-term performance/storage issues,
take the biggest sensible size ... and make everything 4x bigger!
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Chris Benson
remember it? (and are able and willing to tell me :-)
Thank you.
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Chris Benson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:29:18PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:00:24PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format
irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style MAC addresses into standard 00027E6437C0
ones.
Not worked out
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:26:48PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:00:24PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Hi, within the last few weeks I've seen a nice bit of code to format
irregular 0:2:7E:4:7:0 style MAC addresses into standard 00027E6437C0
ones.
I'm not sure
and over and thrown open for all to use and extend.
I've just been Googling for it without success: I thought it had a
snappy acronym, but can't find it now ...
http://www.eff.org/CAF/ (in the Archives section) has some notes about
policies.
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Chris Benson
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:29:22PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 06:17:08PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Perhaps we should sort out which chapters we have and put it up on
london.pm.org?
Perhaps we should get definite information on what's up with them before
we
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
* at 15/07 17:17 +0100 Dominic Mitchell said:
Chris Benson wrote:
Next time I'm in London this's what I'll be using:
http://www.bromptonbicycle.co.uk/
They're very good and I wouldn't part with mine, but go easy
; no rootkits.
Have you built a new kernel? What version?
If so it might be a they've changed the format of /proc again problem.
And the fix is to update your top/ps-utils/procps to match.
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Chris Benson
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 04:34:18PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:37:56AM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
Have you built a new kernel? What version?
It's 2.4.18 stable (i.e. not a -ac or -pre or -rc etc).
If so it might be a they've changed the format of /proc again
-- than CORBA's.
If developments of SOAP means that it becomes clear that it's not a
magic bullet to distributed applications that, at least, will be useful.
--
Chris Benson: Still bitter because people don't know about DCE providing
secure, cross-platform RPCs since 1991.
for Betsy Waliszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] she'll probably put it on
www.perl.com, send you some O'Reilly books and maybe put it in the
Perl Success Stories pamphlet with personal and corporate bios: a
good deal for very little effort :-)
--
Chris Benson
and enough physical
ability: I practiced flying like Superman for years without any
improvement :-(
Ahh! Looking stupid! *That's* what Superman's costume is for...
Yes *that* explains it! To get Super-powers you have to look
Super-stupid and feel Super-foolish.
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Chris Benson
ahead.
It should be forty quid in the UK; Waterstones in CXR was the only bookstore
us$49.95+shipping from the states was about that ... and I get a few
weeks head start!
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Chris Benson
the rest ...
Good list tho' I'll save it for when I have less CFT but more money :-)
--
Chris Benson
Superman for years without any
improvement :-(
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Chris Benson
promising.
Anybody got any hints, tips and/or words of warning. I thoroughly expect
to be met with stony silence though :)
Use IO::Socket::UNIX for a OO i/face?
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Chris Benson
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:31:08AM +0100, Clive Hills wrote:
Otherwise Debian/Linux, OpenBSD, or NetBSD would be the obvious
choices.
If you want the kitchen sink, ftp.suse.com has Sparc iso images ...
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Chris Benson
628K in_int all -- eth0 any anywhere anywhere
Anyone who's read this far want an undocumented Perl script to translate a
human-readable firewall description like the attached, into a set of
iptables commands?
--
Chris Benson
define $INTERNAL eth0
define $EXTERNAL ippp+
define
not caught on[1].
[1] Except when it used to be called Computer Services Bureau.
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Chris Benson
-there scheduling patch for Linux
*somewhere* that will do weird stuff like that, don't know where it is
tho' :-(
Good luck
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Chris Benson
this trigger all sorts of virus scanners?),
or other false positive.
(I've just had my CV ignored by a local agency 'because .rtf files have
viruses, please resend it as .doc' :-(
I think this was discussed a few weeks ago. What happens to these .doc
scanners if I rename my .rtf to .doc ?)
--
Chris
coming in through?
Show us a netstat -tn.
Do you have any aliases? (ifconfig should have shown them tho')
Does '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down' just down eth0:0 or eth0:*?
i?ppp connections (should be shown by ifconfig...)
Running a routing daemon? netstat -rn might be interesting.
dunno, give up.
--
Chris
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:58:49AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interesting that the only other (intentional) fiction in the True Names
book is from rms.
Oh yes. The unintentional fiction that's resulted from the dot.com
crash is faintly amusing all
proved to be more reliable than human inspection
shocker!!!
Of couse the only people who'll see this are those foolish enough to put
the Mail::Spamassassin check after filtering out mailing lists :-(
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Chris Benson
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:04:13AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mmm... True Names. Have you seen the new edition of that (True Names
and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier) with a bunch of essays
inspired by the story from some of the great
(name that SF book!).
Shockwave Rider, John Brunner, take out the net to stop a worm releasing
all the secrets.
True Names, Vernor Vinge, destroy the net (nearly) to stop the MailMan.
... and as you say, others
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Chris Benson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:22:16PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Chris Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
cool, i forgot this was a thread about SF AI's and read the above as a
real, albeit strangely written post - its just like war of the worlds
all over again.
Need I say, Greg, you need
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:42:53PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:20:56PM +, Chris Benson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
How many people use {} in real
regexps?
phone
/grumpily :-)
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:54:58PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to be able to input data at speech speed.
Talk slower.
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Chris Benson
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:18:31PM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
31.5, and the winner is:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (49.5 hits, 5 required)
Yow!
Looking at it, I have to think it is an example of spammer wit.
The From: scores 5.8 by itself
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:26:52AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Following comments here, I installed Mail::SpamAssassin in early
January. It is a huge improvement on my previous Mail::Audit blacklist.
Some spam still gets through, but way less than
: 0113 234 1222
Fa: 0113 234 1666
Em: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JS/JVBB/115420
Lk: http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=J15385941
I don't have any other information yet tho'
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Chris Benson
got lots (50-100?) CDs I've only listened to once, That would be too
much when some albums have been played hundreds of times ...
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Chris Benson
explicitly make it :w %~
(but the current file is still linked).
--
Chris Benson
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:24:15AM +, robin szemeti wrote:
you can have much more fun mailing the producers and directors personally
than using those 'wastebasket' emails they read out at the end.
Score: 110/100 on the cynicism meter.
:-)
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Chris Benson
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:16:59PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:
Chris Benson wrote:
The disk on mine has started to whine: I'm not sure iBooks
were designed for Linux style up-times in the months ...
I was under the impression that disks in general were designed to be
powered-on always
, or as close to it as possible, to get it shoved up
the list a bit.
Done.
And the URL again, is accent role=bbc-announcerh-t-t-p-colon-forwardslash-
forwardslash-nms-cgi-dot-sourceforge-dot-net/accent
or: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net
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Chris Benson
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:27:12PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote:
And the URL again, is
accent role=bbc-announcerh-t-t-p-colon-forwardslash-
forwardslash-nms-cgi-dot-sourceforge-dot-net/accent
So would the BBC not pronounce the dash in 'nms-cgi
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:30:13PM +, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote:
Nah, you sent that at 8:30pm, thus they were all probably oggling season 6
Willow on skyOne.
:-)
Been quiet all day tho' ... I was wondering if Penderel were poorly:
obviously not.
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Chris Benson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:34:21AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Thought y'all'd get a kick out of this,
http://www.knowyourtype.com/mbti.html
Upper right corner. Oh, man.
P (viewing from Konqueror, fwiw)
January 15, 102
Opera 6.0 Technology Preview 2
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Chris Benson
-address -j MIRROR
'cuz this seems like an ideal use for it ... it might even stop when it
recognizes 'another' owned machine.
--
Chris Benson
. The Who at the Isle of Wight
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Chris Benson
hire of intellectual property rights, say another 500/day.
Whoops.
See, I'm still thinking of you all. I could have had this job, but I've
passed it on to you :)
All heart :-)
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Chris Benson
-line filter tool, try the spamassassin
or spamd tools provided.
SpamAssassin also includes support for reporting spam mes
sages to collaborative filtering databases, such as
Vipul's Razor ( http://razor.sourceforge.net/ ).
--
Chris Benson
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:29:37PM +, Robin wrote:
Chris Benson wrote:
Can I find out WTF it is looking at? Nope. On Un*x it's 10 seconds:
strace target-program | grep '^open' | less
coincidentally, we spoke of this on IRC just the other day ... can I point sir
': such as why does rundll32 need
to check the winders version number ... 4 times a second ... continuously
... does it think it might change? Maybe it's using Dave's
Tie-Hash-Cannabinol?
Thanks for the suggestions - very useful and informative!
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Chris Benson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:09:34PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I find out WTF it is looking at? Nope. On Un*x it's 10 seconds:
strace target-program | grep '^open' | less
http://www.securityfocus.com/tools/1276
far: a bit like becoming a junkie
because you like the coool-look.
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Chris Benson
...
the CD reads OK (at least the visible data does) on a plain SCSI CD-ROM.
But I was wondering about a faked ToC ... mmm, in the morning I'll have a
look at it on a 'proper' computer and see what lies beyond the EOF :-
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prototypes somewhere?).
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