Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv

...but did register another domain for myself, which I will have a site, do already have a site (though still under construction). I for one would be interested to see that. Please post a URL when it is ready. * ==>

Re: [CGUYS] email header time stamps?

How do you verify if it came from your server... contact them and ask them to check their records? Is there an automated method for doing that? What would someone have had to do get mail into my ISP's download to my personal computer's email client while replacing the normal header dates with

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro n' AHA-19160/39320

What the heck is an AHA-39320? I know you don't expect us to take the time to look it up, so how is that 'simple'? Anyway, chances are it will need drivers from a floppy drive - one of the first prompts during the XP setup. disappeared from the BIOS, XP Pro still recognized it. I decided, I woul

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance [Was: Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

I finally decided to see what all the hoopla was about, so I did a little Googling myself. The horrendous 40 step process for changing the admin name on a Mac turns out to be an Apple support document with instructions for changing the admin name, and even with this method you could have pro

Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro n' AHA-19160/39320

That is what I was thinking. But, Nothing happens when I press F6. -- Original message -- From: Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No, you don't want a bootable floppy. XP prompts you to insert a floppy when > you press F6 and reads the drivers from there. > > On 10/10/07

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance

> This is not just a name written in a box on the screen. You also must > take care of things like file access permissions and the keychain. I > guess since the Windows system is inherently insecure there is less > involved in changing a username. No, Windows just takes care of these housekeeping

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

> When you log onto a computer, you need to authenticate yourself (so the > computer system can know who you are) and establish credentials (so the > computer system can enforce the appropriate access controls, give out > the > right privileges, etc.). Even Windows sort of works like that. It is

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

So if the other guy named Tom Piwowar does something that I think reflects badly on our name can I sue him for damages? Well, anybody can sue anybody for anything, that's the beauty of the system. It would most likely be thrown out of court though, and you'd be out court costs and attorney fees

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

Are you going to sue Wikipedia if they post your *unauthorized* biography? Maybe. If it's not factual information from public records and isn't incredibly complimentary and uplifting, ha ha. Will you demand that people seek a waiver before uttering your name in a public place? Of course not

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv

No, a residential address of a building I happen to know is unihabited; either that or take my chance with a fictitious address (unless someone can give me a good reason why they need a real home address, AND for this to be available to the public). I'm not going to use that other person's doma

[CGUYS] Creating Flash apps with PHP/Ming/Fedora

Has anyone tried writing software to create Flash apps with the above listed software? I couldn't find any ming-related software in any Fedora repositories. If anyone could provide guidance I'd be greatly appreciative. *

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv

>Nothing, I suppose, unless you were to be caught if they check. This is >what GoDaddy indicated. I would use a real address; maybe not my personal >home address, but a real one ( and one not belonging to a current resident >of a home). You are going to register the a site named after a pers

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

We have a winner! On 10/12/07, Michael Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/12/07, John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [OT quiz - what was the first registered domain name with a numeral as > the > > first character in it? BTW, the RFC documenting it allowed it, but none

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

>Clearly, we could legislate that everyone at birth be given a UUID/GUID >(Universally Unique ID/Globally Unique ID) and prevent anyone but that >person from using that ID in a web site. Simple, just apply an RFID implant shortly after birth. >What about the "tompiwowarsucks.biz" web site? We sh

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

Uncle Ben? I do a mean Darth Vader impression; maybe I should set up a Darth Vader podcast, if name isn't taken or protected by Lucas or others. Randall - Original Message - From: "Tom Piwowar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Grabb

Re: [CGUYS] File time stamps?

>While we are at it, shouldn't guns send off little messages with GPS >locations and time stamps, with fingerprints collected off the handle, to >law enforcement, every time someone fires a gun? Wow! You may just have something there. A plan that can keep us safe and keep the NRA happy too. I sen

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

On 10/12/07, John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [OT quiz - what was the first registered domain name with a numeral as the > first character in it? BTW, the RFC documenting it allowed it, but none > of > the early DNS implementations did.] 3com.com ? ***

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance

>That's a given, but I keep coming upon issues on the Mac that are nothing >but hoop jumping, compared to administering a PC. Change the admin name on >a PC? That takes seconds. This is not just a name written in a box on the screen. You also must take care of things like file access permission

Re: [CGUYS] boot G4 or Intel Mac from flash drive?

At 6:54 PM +0200 10/12/07, b s-w wrote: [input] [input] [input] [input] Can I boot a PM G4 from a USB2 flash or micro drive? How about an Intel Mac? Or a Gen 4 iPod with FW? Yup

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

On 10/12/07, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We use ADmitMac, since our network is a Windows Active Directory domain. > Not the most reliable of apps, but it allows the Mac users to authenticate > to the network and Windows servers transparently. > > If there is a way to access a Mac ove

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

On 10/12/07, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If you can't see that then you haven't got a sense of basic fairness, > which > >I got from the start. > > I think you are exhibiting an RIAA-like exaggerated notion of ownership. > Are you going to sue Wikipedia if they post your *unauthoriz

[CGUYS] File time stamps?

On 10/12/07, rlsimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not being expert, I do recall having had some time back an app that would > change the time/date stamp of any file/folder and I assume that would > include emails. When such an app does so, would it not be wise to design > such files/folders/emai

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance [Was: Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

> IMVHO, complaining that a Mac does not work exactly like a PC is a > silly > exercise. That's a given, but I keep coming upon issues on the Mac that are nothing but hoop jumping, compared to administering a PC. Change the admin name on a PC? That takes seconds. > That is why those of us who

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

> You should be using NIS (http://www.bresink.com/osx/nis.html) or > something similar to manage user security (I am familiar with NIS but > this article suggests there may be more appropriate solutions for a > all-Apple network). Users should be authenticating to a nameserver and > should be able

Re: [CGUYS] boot G4 or Intel Mac from flash drive?

>Can I boot a PM G4 from a USB2 flash or micro drive? How about an Intel >Mac? Or a Gen 4 iPod with FW? TechTool has a version that comes on a USB drive. Need to check which models it works with. * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND R

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

>If you can't see that then you haven't got a sense of basic fairness, which >I got from the start. I think you are exhibiting an RIAA-like exaggerated notion of ownership. Are you going to sue Wikipedia if they post your *unauthorized* biography? Will you demand that people seek a waiver before

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv

Nothing, I suppose, unless you were to be caught if they check. This is what GoDaddy indicated. I would use a real address; maybe not my personal home address, but a real one ( and one not belonging to a current resident of a home). Randall - Original Message - From: "db" <[EMAIL P

Re: [CGUYS] email header time stamps?

Not being expert, I do recall having had some time back an app that would change the time/date stamp of any file/folder and I assume that would include emails. When such an app does so, would it not be wise to design such files/folders/emails such that editing of the headers leaves an invisible tr

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv

What happens if you weren't to give a real address or name ... gave fictitious ones instead? Tom Piwowar wrote: Using your logic we would all be wearing hoods or a chador when walking down the street. Don't you think you might have less of a problem with your privacy being invaded if you wer

[CGUYS] boot G4 or Intel Mac from flash drive?

[input] [input] [input] [input] Can I boot a PM G4 from a USB2 flash or micro drive? How about an Intel Mac? Or a Gen 4 iPod with FW? Betty - Sé un Mejor Amante del Cine ¿Quieres saber cómo? ¡Deja que

Re: [CGUYS] Power Off?

FYI, I tried powering up both router and modem simultaneously and they booted up ok. I guess the router did wait for the modem to get going first. Thanks for the feedback from all parties; it's always a good learning environment. Richard P. Tom Piwowar wrote: Actually, this isn't *strictly*

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv

I would rather that, say, my home address and phone # not be plastered in a public database in the first place. If someone did post this or other harmful material about myself should still be possible to go to whoever manages the site and have them track down who did it, just as, say, Yahoo ca

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

Yep, and these all have in common the fact that they are not living or never existed. Could see making that distinction. Randall - Original Message - From: "Tom Piwowar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of wel

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

Well, it's not hard to imagine various ways even a non-famous, average person could be exploited or even hurt by putting up a website that appears to be from them. Think you gave the example of posting porn in someone's name, for instance. Most people don't have the legal or other resources to

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

>Unless you can tell me some legitimate purpose for >registering and maybe using someone else's name without permission, there >are too many ways this could exploit or hurt the person (as someone said, >post things in the name of that person that would be embarrassing or worse). Happens all th

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv

Using your logic we would all be wearing hoods or a chador when walking down the street. Don't you think you might have less of a problem with your privacy being invaded if you were able to readily discover who was doing the invading? Just the opposite of what you propose. >Suppose making such

[CGUYS] MacIgnorance [Was: Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

IMVHO, complaining that a Mac does not work exactly like a PC is a silly exercise. >change the short name of the root admin... >*40* steps to do this. 40. If you don't make things worse doing it. That is why those of us who know what we are doing use a widely-available script. The general rul

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

>Unless he is harmed, in which case he could expect remedy (if he pays >a lawyer to bring suit, fight the case and wins). So if the other guy named Tom Piwowar does something that I think reflects badly on our name can I sue him for damages? *

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration /host file ?

Latest email from GoDaddy announces that they have a "new GoDaddy girl." * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list

Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration /host file ?

> I have this question about owning a website. Why can't you have a > "dark" web site? When you pay for hosting, they allow you to use an > fixed IP address right? Otherwise the DNS would have to be updated > with changes all the time. So why not just give your friends or club > members a

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

Further to the problem of locking the screen of a Mac: This article discusses various methods, some with quite a bit of jiggery-pokery. But a very simple solution that I overlooked is this: But what if you don¹t want

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

At 7:53 AM -0400 10/12/07, Jeff Wright wrote: > How can I invoke the screen saver on Windows without finding the actual module and creating a shortcut on the desktop? -Set up the screensaver. Start >> Control Panel >> Display >> Screen saver (or right click on the desktop >> properties >>

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

You should be using NIS (http://www.bresink.com/osx/nis.html) or something similar to manage user security (I am familiar with NIS but this article suggests there may be more appropriate solutions for a all-Apple network). Users should be authenticating to a nameserver and should be able to log

Re: [CGUYS] email header time stamps?

Remember that email headers are just text. And there are no checks on those headers, practically speaking. If someone spoofs your mail server, everything in that message could be false. If you have verified that the message came from your real mail server, then there is a reasonably good chance

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

> How can I invoke the screen saver on Windows > without finding the actual module and creating a > shortcut on the desktop? -Set up the screensaver. Start >> Control Panel >> Display >> Screen saver (or right click on the desktop >> properties >> screensaver) -Keyboard shortcut: Windows key+L

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

At 7:28 PM -0400 10/11/07, Jeff Wright wrote: Yeah, I saw that, but no native shortcut. Heck, there are no less than 2 ways of doing this on a PC without waiting for the screensaver to kick in.  Just illustrating that Windows does this simple, yet very valuable, thing out of the box and on a M