Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 13:04 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: I just found out that because I use spamassassin/sendmail and spamass-milter, I have to use a sitewide bayes database. If you don't want to use spamass-milter, you could do what I do. Everybody gets a .procmailrc that looks something like

Re: Linux Made Easy: Linspire 5.0

2005-04-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:30PM -0400, David Ecklein wrote: Derek- I would not be particularly interested in running Linspire on high end systems, but there may be some who are. You are among that group, perhaps, and the Lynch review methodology may be appropriate. But if you have a

Re: Linux Made Easy: Linspire 5.0

2005-04-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:43:30PM -0400, David Ecklein wrote: Derek- I would not be particularly interested in running Linspire on high end systems, but there may be some who are. You are among that group, perhaps, and the Lynch review methodology may be appropriate. But if you have a

[OT] Python Jobs

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Kinz
As some of you may already know I was at Dragon Systems in the mid 90's porting their speech recognition product to the Alpha platform (under NT :( ). The (then) director of software development just posted this to the Exdragons list. On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:50:34AM -0400, Sean True wrote:

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Apr 25th 2005 at 09:10 -0400, quoth Cole Tuininga: =On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 13:04 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: = I just found out that because I use spamassassin/sendmail and = spamass-milter, I have to use a sitewide bayes database. = =If you don't want to use spamass-milter, you could

Re: [gnhlug] The Averatec 6240 Laptop

2005-04-25 Thread Donald Leslie {74279}
. Overall, I am pleased with the Averatec 6240. I am waiting with bated breath, though, for a SiS video driver for the 64-bit Linux. In the meantime, I am wondering if it is possible to modify the VESA driver to give me the 1280x800 mode. Any ideas are welcome. -Fred You may want to look at the

Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Whelan, Paul
Title: Ripping wav files from iso image Does anyone know how to rip tracks off an iso image? I thought I'd be clever and just dd one of my new cd's to my hard drive for later ripping/encoding of the tracks. The problem is getting cdparanoia to read the iso image. I setup the iso image as a

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:47 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: Thanks, that's just what I don't want to do. I really do want to reject the mail before reception is complete. After I get it then they know I got it and I have to take the rouble to report it to spamcop. This is rather difficult to do

Re: Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:13:45PM -0400, Whelan, Paul wrote: Does anyone know how to rip tracks off an iso image? I'm pretty sure that just won't work. IIRC, cdparanoia uses SCSI commands to read the disk directly. An ISO image isn't a SCSI device... Not only that, but as I understand it,

Re: Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Derek Martin wrote: I'm pretty sure that just won't work. IIRC, cdparanoia uses SCSI commands to read the disk directly. An ISO image isn't a SCSI device... Not only that, but as I understand it, if you tried to burn the resulting image to a CD, it would not produce a working copy of the

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Apr 25th 2005 at 13:20 -0400, quoth Bruce Dawson: =On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:47 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: = Thanks, that's just what I don't want to do. I really do want to reject = the mail before reception is complete. After I get it then they know I got = it and I have to take

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 14:45 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: On Monday, Apr 25th 2005 at 13:20 -0400, quoth Bruce Dawson: =On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:47 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: = Thanks, that's just what I don't want to do. I really do want to reject = the mail before reception is complete.

Re: Linux Made Easy: Linspire 5.0

2005-04-25 Thread David Ecklein
Derek- I see your point at last. Of course you are right. I guess Linspire is a Windoze Wannabe, and should be compared to that system on today's hardware running today's games played by today's overindulged teenagers and older but not necessarily wiser adults. That's where the market

Re: Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
If you feel like experimenting, cdfs might be useful: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ If you do, post a summary. I've heard people say that dd won't work because dd defaults to 2k blocks and CD's have 2.3K audio blocks. I can't see how that's relevant if you're dumping to a flat

Re: Linux Made Easy: Linspire 5.0

2005-04-25 Thread Karl Hergenrother
David Ecklein wrote: You are also right that I am primarily intrigued that some variety of Linux that will rescue these older machines (perhaps for school systems, hard-pressed inner-city community centers, first-time users trying to live on Walmart-or-below wages etc.). Linux to me means low

Re: Linux Made Easy: Linspire 5.0

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Lussier
David Ecklein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are also right that I am primarily intrigued that some variety of Linux that will rescue these older machines (perhaps for school systems, hard-pressed inner-city community centers, first-time users trying to live on Walmart-or-below wages etc.).

Re: Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Lussier
Whelan, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to rip tracks off an iso image? Errr, if it's an ISO image, why not just mount it and copy them to the hard drive? I thought I'd be clever and just dd one of my new cd's to my hard drive Yeah, that won't work. Audio CDs are not

Re: Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Apr 25 at 1:13pm, Whelan, Paul wrote: Does anyone know how to rip tracks off an iso image? I thought I'd be clever and just dd one of my new cd's to my hard drive for later ripping/encoding of the tracks. Short answer: You can't do that. The image you extracted with dd is useless and can

Re: Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Apr 25 at 5:59pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: I've heard people say that dd won't work because dd defaults to 2k blocks and CD's have 2.3K audio blocks. I can't see how that's relevant if you're dumping to a flat file but I could be missing something. dd won't work because CDDA discs do not

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Apr 25 at 3:13pm, Bruce Dawson wrote: Steven: Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that the milter is called only after the message had been received. Obviously, in order to do content analysis or other magic on a message, you have to receive the content. As I

Re: Ripping wav files from iso image

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Lussier
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Apr 25 at 8:40pm, Paul Lussier wrote: Yeah, that won't work. Audio CDs are not ISO images. They're usually in a format called CDDA or something like that (I think there's also CDDB and a couple of others). CDDB is the thing that lets software

Computer fatalities (was: Linux Made Easy: Linspire 5.0)

2005-04-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Apr 24 at 9:21pm, Paul Lussier wrote: But, if your system dies tomorrow I'm always curious when people use this phrase. I mean, who's ever had a system die such that it required a complete replacement? It's getting kind of weird. Prices in the PC world have dropped hugely. At the same

Re: [Slight OT] - CD Lables

2005-04-25 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Apr 24 at 7:38pm, Dan Jenkins wrote: ATIP apparently stands for Absolute Time in Pre-Groove. (Perhaps someone else knows what that has to do with the media manufacturer. :-) CD-Rs have a pre-recorded groove or pre-groove which guides the laser during the recording process. The groove is

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Benjamin Scott wrote: On Apr 25 at 3:13pm, Bruce Dawson wrote: Steven: Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that the milter is called only after the message had been received. Obviously, in order to do content analysis or other magic on a message, you have to receive the