Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Shane D
The reason I don't do that, and trust me, I didn't see that much of it, is: (A)I am not advanced at the use of Linux (although I could call muyself a geek) (B)I need something that can talk to me effectively, and guess what guys: Linux sort of loses that bet for e-mail. So, I'll be here in gMail

Getting System Stats

2008-01-09 Thread Shane D
Hey, What would one type in to the shell to get some of the statistics of a machine? I am running asterisk on an old laptop, and I want to try to see if the studder I am recieving is caused by a terrible processor... -- -Shane Blog: http://blind-geek.com/blog/ CoOwner: http://sjtechzone.com

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-08 Thread Shane D
You seem to think that it is just the debian-user list that is being spammed. I personally am recieving a great deal of spam, as well, and it is getting passed my filters as well. They have figured out a new way of doing it, and this will die down some time soon. Just deal with it for now. On

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-08 Thread Shane D
That's good. Now I just have to deal with it on my personal address. On 1/8/08, Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? ;-) Should be fixed by

Re: DVD image download issue Opera, Konqueror, and Firefox/iceweasel

2008-01-08 Thread Shane D
Maybe you could use bittorrent? On 1/8/08, joseph lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been trying to download the DVD images from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/i386/iso-dvd/ every attempt had the images giving me an error on the download after aproximately 24% completion

Re: No DNS consistency checks in Debian spam filter?

2008-01-08 Thread Shane D
My oppinion is that we just give up on the spam. It happenned, it's over, just stop. On 1/8/08, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Bird writes: No, I checked headers during the flood. Debian was forwarding spam directly received from hosts with PTR records without matching A records.

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-08 Thread Shane D
Yeah... It kind of sounds like I want attention and to harp on something that has been done to death... On 1/8/08, Mark Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel Roberts Joel.Roberts at pinkardcc.com writes: I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully supplied some as

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Shane D
I randomly started getting a lot of it that hit my inbox last night, too. About the same time. Very weird. And the gMail blocker usually gets stuff. I've had almost all of it to my inbox! On 1/7/08, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Shane D
I know! But it doesn't look like the advertisements for [insertnameofillegalprescriptiondrughere], it's just like e-bay and credit and I won [insertlargesumofmoneyhere]! On 1/7/08, Julian De Marchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shane D wrote: I randomly started getting a lot of it that hit my inbox

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Shane D
Yup. I'm even marking the stuff from this list, too... WooHoo! Saving the spam from the rest of the world. On 1/7/08, Chris Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 8:14 AM, Qubby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen anything in my Gmail inbox. Maybe Google zapped it before I

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Shane D
True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. It's not good, but it is helpful. And I want to know why they know enough about me to _stop_ sending me ads. Where did they get the private information on, well, my private information? On 1/7/08, David Brodbeck [EMAIL

Re: Blind Debian Potential User

2008-01-06 Thread Shane D
? Shane On 1/6/08, Tapio Kelloniemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:57:38AM -0500, Shane D wrote: Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not have a hardware synthesizer. I want a way of (A) Being able to install debian with speech I doubt

Blind Debian Potential User

2008-01-05 Thread Shane D
Hello Debian Users, My name is Shane. I am new to the list. I am trying to install Debian on an older laptop of mine so that I can use it for an Asterisk box. I run a couple of radioshows, and need to take calls. Anyway, I am questing a way to install Debian with Speech. I do not have a hardware

gcc setup problem

1998-01-30 Thread Shane D. McAndrew
; } Thanks in advance -Shane D. McAndrew === | Where were you at Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1970 ? | === -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

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1997-04-18 Thread Shane D. McAndrew
about 50% of the debian-user-digests are marked M and the rest are P and sometimes S? I can't see any pattern, I would expect them to be all one or the other. Thanks in advance -Shane D. McAndrew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble