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2009-12-15 Thread Alan Dayley
A great deal from Wiley on Linux books! Alan -- Forwarded message -- From: partnerwithwileytech partnerwithwileyt...@wiley.com Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM Subject: Holiday Greetings a Special User Group Offer from Wiley Publishing To: Happy Holidays from Wiley

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread JD Austin
I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :) I prefer using firefox to gopher, media mail to text mail, and audio AND video over just audio. There is however a point when there's too much of a good thing. I have a very low tolerance to 'elf yourself' and other such media

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :) And html allows you to send the gift that keeps on giving: http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html I prefer using firefox to gopher, media mail to text

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Austin William Wright
Lisa Kachold wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com mailto:j...@twingeckos.com wrote: I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :) And html allows you to send the gift that keeps on giving: http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread JD Austin
I think some of the standards have gone way overboard.. some things just don't need scripting - LIKE PDFs. As soon as you make it programmable you make it a medium for malware. The real issue is the paper bag security model that Microsuck has. JD On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Lisa Kachold

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Dazed_75
Furthermore, it dos this for addressees with unknown preferences. The Thunderbird Address book lets you specify text/html/unknown as a preference for each person in your address book if you are so inclined. It also has a checkbox for allowing remote images in the email (don't do it to me BTW).

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Austin William Wright diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Lisa Kachold wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com mailto:j...@twingeckos.com wrote: I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :)

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
Correction: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Here's a couple of better dissections of the subject: http://knol.google.com/k/a-short-history-of-cross-site-scripting-viruses-worms# And this CSRF gmail hack (still possible in the wild I believe):

Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 54, Issue 15

2009-12-15 Thread gm5729
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Great article Lisa. EVERY computer OS is vulnerable --- Yes friends including Linux! I love how advanced Firefox is on their extensions to address such areas. My general rule of thumb is if the email is from me and I know me didn't send it --- auto

SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Trent Shipley
(SOT: somewhat off topic) I want to set up a Windows lab computer. I want to work with XP, Vista, and Win7. On an MS list it was suggested that I use virtualization rather than multiboot. I'm thinking I'd run a Linux distro natively, run FOSS virtualization software on Linux, and run the

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
VMWARE: ESXi if you have hardware that will run it? http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/ Vmware player is great also on whatever your dual core OS is? Existing images can be downloaded and tried http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ OpenVZ is nice also? http://wiki.openvz.org/ XEN is

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Josef Lowder
. gm5...@gmail.com wrote: ALL HTML emails are auto deleted. Use inline or attach please. What is inline and how does one do that? (Is that a way to display images within a text email?) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread GK
http://ask-leo.com/why_do_pictures_in_email_sometimes_show_up_inline_and_sometimes_as_attachments.html Theres a quick link... HTML AND RTF can be done inline. As far as one of Lisa's Click jacking thing. I use Iron for all unencrypted connections and Firefox for all encrypted. I NEVER click on

Re: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
Google's Recapta has been reverse engineered also: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/14/google_recaptcha_busted/ On 12/15/09, GK gm5...@gmail.com wrote: http://ask-leo.com/why_do_pictures_in_email_sometimes_show_up_inline_and_sometimes_as_attachments.html Theres a quick link... HTML AND

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Technomage
Trent, of the major distro's, debian 5.0 has the least troubles right now and is therefore, probably the best for your needs currently. Others like Fedora or Opensuse have package dependency problems and are a little more difficult to develop on properly. Fedora: forces you to run SELINUX

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
Second that with OpenSuse! On 12/15/09, Technomage technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Trent, of the major distro's, debian 5.0 has the least troubles right now and is therefore, probably the best for your needs currently. Others like Fedora or Opensuse have package dependency problems and

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-15 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:46 -0700, Technomage wrote: Fedora: forces you to run SELINUX regardless of whether you need it or not this is simply wrong. On Fedora 12 (the latest version released a few weeks ago)... # head -n 5 /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on