Re: upcoming SLUG meeting on 10/10/2005

2005-10-06 Thread Kevin D. Clark
The SLUG Daemon writes: You might be fascinated to learn that there is a SLUG meeting next Monday evening at 7pm. As a reminder, SLUG meetings occur on the second Monday of each month. Today is Wednesday; I just wanted to give you plenty of advance notice. Here is the code, in case other

Re: Who here works on Subversion?

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that we want to do another merge from dev back to main, the merge tool provides no help in knowing that a previous merge has already happened. The result is that every affected file will have to be merged manually. This is the very first thing I

Re: Who here works on Subversion?

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Christopher Schmidt writes: Except in the situation where main and dev are both altered in a conflicting way, Subversion doesn't offer any smart techniques for merging that I'm aware of. The only thing that I've ever seen that was smart enough to resolve overlapping conflicting changes as an

Re: Best tool for MIME handling in scripts?

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: What do folks here use for massaging MIME messages in shell scripts? I recommend Perl's MIME::Tools package. Check out the source tree's examples subdir, there are scripts in here such as mimedump and mimeexplode that do exactly what you are asking for. These could

Re: Broadcom (was: Laptop Suggestions)

2005-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: And they still haven't figured out how to release a proper Windoze drivers (one that doesn't have syntax violations for the RIS INF parser). What's that? (RIS INF parser) Goggling this tells me that it is some sort of Remote Installation Service, but more than that I

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes: (while /bin/true ; do sync ; sleep 3 ; done) cd /usr/src/linux while /bin/true ; do make clean make -j 4 all modules ; done This doesn't really test that much though, cpu, disk i/o, maybe some memory, but completely misses

philips dmvc 300k funcam - linux?

2005-08-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
If anybody on this list has had any success snarfing the images off of a Philips FunCam (model: DMVC 300k) over a USB cable, please give me the details as to how you did it. gphoto2 doesn't recognize it; it isn't a USB storage device either. One of these arrived in my mailbox the other day. I

Re: Stupid bash scripting question

2005-08-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Cole Tuininga writes: In other words, if I have something like: user=username f=~${user} I'd like $f to end up with the path to username's actual home. As it is, it just has the value ~username. What magic do I need to do on my f assignment line?! user=username f=`eval echo ~$user`

Re: Need a quick sed recipe :-(

2005-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Look for a marker in a file and delete the line with the marker. Then insert file2 at that location. sed -e '/MARKER/{ r /tmp/file2 d }' file --kevin -- Kevin's new Elephant Memory Systems Tribute Page: http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/

Re: system excercising/burn-in tests?

2005-08-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone here have any experience with creating system burn-in suites? One idea that comes to mind is this: (while /bin/true ; do sync ; sleep 3 ; done) cd /usr/src/linux while /bin/true ; do make clean make -j 4 all modules ; done You get the

Re: BASH question: executing a cmd with a pipe that is in a variable

2005-08-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Larry Cook writes: I'm being stupid! Can someone please help? I've got a BASH script with the following: CMD=zcat myfile | tar xf - $CMD This puts zcat's output to stdout, rather than piping it to tar like I want. This is because the shell's order of operations is different

Re: Is anybody getting good BitTorrent rates with Comcast?

2005-07-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Freeman writes: What rates do other folks see? What torrent are you using? Obviously, this info will help others make a more accurate measurement. Please post this. (of course, more people using that torrent will skew the numbers too, but let's ignore that) Regards, --kevin --

NYT: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[I send stories like this to various people that I know, encouraging them to use safer, and in many cases, open-source software. The fact that (1) some people will throw out an otherwise functional computer and (2) that the computer got into a messed up state so easily and can't easily be fixed

Re: Is a signon to an SSL site from an http:// page secure?

2005-06-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/23/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip tcpdump -i en1 -qe -vvv -ls 400 port https ... Most useful for debugging and developing web applications, you can install the 'LiveHTTPHeaders' extension into your browser to view the HTTP

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: On Jun 20 at 4:11pm, Kevin D. Clark wrote: # nice -17 cdrecord -v -speed=16 -dev2,0,0 -data FC4-i386-disc1.iso You might try adding -dao. /voodoo Maybe I owe Ben a beer. I just got my first success *ever* with the Fedora media check when I burned the CD

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S: I forgot to mention the obvious: Did you verify the MD5/SHA1 checksums on your downloaded image files? Good point. Yes, I *always* do this. I'm kindof paranoid that way. --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness

Re: Postfix: phantom hostname.

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
grep nebula Regards, --kevin # Author: kevin d. clark # Finds text files in the specified directories. These use Perl's -T and -B # tests. Here's some relevant documentation from the perlfunc page: # #The -T and -B switches work as follows. The first block or #so of the file

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael Nolin writes: The last Fedora 3 I burned with your ISO's :) If I am good for nothing else, I am good for downloading. (-: nice -10 cdrecord dev=0,0 -v -date ./image.iso Just to be clear, I belive that you meant -data there. Not a far from what you are using there. The biggest

cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lately when I burn Fedora ISOs to CD I get a strange error. When I boot the disk I am offered the opportunity to do a media test. So, I run this test and it always fails, for all of the CDs. However, I have seen this exact test work with CDs burned by other people. Unfortunately, I don't

Re: HD partitions?

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Peter writes: I hope that I am posting this in the right place. If not, please forgive me. I am new to Linux, and by new I mean that I have yet to install it, but that will be happening shortly. Anyway, I was hoping to get suggestions on partition sizes. I have a 200GB HD. This system will

Re: [HUMOR] End Times

2005-06-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Brian Chabot writes: If you're polytheist or unitarian-universalist, or maybe just agnostic, please consult /etc/aliases for more options. If you worship at the Unix Temple, you're by definition a polytheist, as their are multiple roots out there. The exceptions to this would be if: o

Re: [OT] GoDaddy feedback

2005-06-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Maybe GoDaddy took money out of their web development budget and instead poured it into their TV commercial budget. Given the results, are you still complaining? (-: --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an

Re: inetd help

2005-06-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
TARogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About every fifteen minutes, the following entry gets logged: Jun 1 19:09:38 gore inetd[467]: pid 21168: exit status 1 Obviously, the dates and times change, but it's been happening ever since the 30th. Any idea what it means, and how i might fix it?

Re: [OT] Combinatronics WAS Re: /dev/random and linux security issues (kinda long)

2005-05-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I sent these to Dave yesterday but I haven't heard any feedback yet. I've done a small amount of testing with these and they seem to work just fine. If you find a bug in these, please let me know. This code uses bigint because, after all, we're dealing with integers. --kevin -- GnuPG ID:

Re: Rookit infections: AARRGH!

2005-05-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On May 10, 2005, at 14:30, Kevin D. Clark wrote: The crucial element in the password thefts that provided access at Cisco and elsewhere was the intruder's use of a corrupted version of a standard software program, SSH. So, what's a 'corrupted

Re: AOL access from Linux

2005-05-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My mother down in FLA gripes constantly about the latest raft of problems she's suffering with on her XP machine, and the machine is so unstable that she's phobic about installing anything new on it, so I want to suggest she boot something like a

Re: AOL access from Linux

2005-05-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't suggest that she use some other ISP because, Well, you've backed me into a corner, because this is the best suggestion that I have ([1]). Maybe somebody here knows a lot about Linux-AOL. Regards, --kevin 1:

Re: IP addresses and FC3

2005-05-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Fred writes: The problem I am seeing is that the IPs appear to work for a little while, then they are all dropped save for the first one in each class. Can you show us your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 files? Are you running

Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill

2005-05-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You cannot prevent organizations, and especially government, from keeping track of you and much of what you do. Last time I checked the US government got its power from the people. The people supply it with taxes and votes. I find the assertion that

Re: Rookit infections: AARRGH!

2005-05-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am suspicious that they are somehow breaking in through ssh -- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/technology/10cisco.html Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators By JOHN MARKOFF and LOWELL BERGMAN Published: May 10, 2005

Re: Rookit infections: AARRGH!

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 09 May 2005 09:06 am, Brian wrote: 1, NEVER allow root access via SSH. You should have to login as a user, and then su - to root, or better yet setup a sudoers file. This is one of those best practices I've never really felt had

Re: Rookit infections: AARRGH!

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is an interesting perspective I hadn't considered. I can think of more than a time or two that would have been helpful in retrospect. So perhaps it's more of an administration best practice than a security best practice? I dunno. I

Re: Weird tcsh question

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Kenny Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have a weird tcsh question ask. in both Linux and Solaris if try and execute . I get either /usr/sbin/. : permision deinied or in Lunux /bin/. :Permission denied. What is happening? Example: Kenny on somemachine% . /bin/.: Permission

Re: Computer fatalities

2005-04-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Travis Roy writes: While I agree that if it works for SOMETHING you shouldn't trow it away, but as far as recycling in general, you may want to watch this (if you have showtime, or you know where to find it if you don't) http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r Opened my eyes on

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Tom Buskey writes: I don't think so: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/ab/details.html Like nearly every other privacy policy on the web, such policies are SUBJECT TO REVISION AT ANY TIME: : This page describes current Yahoo! practices with respect to this : particular service. This

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well that's what I was really looking for, or something MySQL backed so they can make an ODBC call to print out holiday labels. Strangely enough, I think we'd find more use for that than easily looking up e-mail addresses. The Scene: December in

Re: Database design question [was: free software alternative to Access]

2005-04-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, does anyone have any decent references or pointers to basic relational database design? I'm looking for something generic to SQL, and not tied to any specific implementation. The O'Reilly mSQL and MySQL book has a chapter or two that discusses this

Re: ODBC question

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Kenneth E. Lussier writes: So, I have been tasked with writing some PHP code on a Linux system running Apache, PHP4, etc. However, the database that they want the interface for is an MS-SQL database. After doing some research, unixODBC is the way to go. The problem is, the only way that I

Re: Dereferencing links

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jim Kuzdrall writes: Is there a command line function to collapse a group of symbolic links, replacing them with the files they reference? Older editions of the _Programming Perl_ book come with the program sl (for show links). Either this does what you want or else it should be easy to

Re: I find this *really* annoying

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:22:49PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: only way to put a stop to the spam problem is to make it unprofitable for the so-called advertiser, by fining offenders a substantial amt. per individual spam message, and jail time for

Re: I find this *really* annoying

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, right. THAT's what I meant. ;-) The person who is selling whatever's being sold in the spam... including figurative uses of the word sell in the case that nothing is directly being sold for money. If I decide to send out bulk email urging people

Google Gulp

2005-04-01 Thread Kevin D. Clark
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/index.html I have a few extra caps in case somebody wants to try this out. --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an epileptic fit -- Tom

Re: Mount on top of / ??

2005-03-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Andrew W. Gaunt writes: Simple tools can often be used in ways not imagined by the designer and that's not always a bad thing. Who among us has not used a hammer or screwdiver in ways that they were not specifically designed for? Sometimes the results are desirable, sometimes not. Suppose

Re: High memory kernel support

2005-03-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: In addition to that, IMHO, the 2.6 kernel is, BY FAR, the most stable .0 (and subsequent) release I've ever seen. Gone are the days of the 2.4.9 debacle, the 2.2.0 debacle, etc. It

Re: OpenOffice/Impress -- how to import a template?

2005-03-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jim Kuzdrall writes:     Open File-Templates-Organize.  Select Default in the left box, then Commands-New to get a new category; create ISC, JAK, and TESCO.  Select ISC, then Command-Import Template.  Maneuver the file box to /std/oo and copy the first isc_* template.  Repeat for  all the

OpenOffice/Impress -- how to import a template?

2005-03-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I'm trying to put together a presentation with Impress. I decided to check out one of the templates here: http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/downloads/simpress/ I can open the template in Impress and I guess I could make my slides. However, this is a small nit: how do I import this template

Re: OT: Looking for a Cisco person.

2005-03-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Travis Roy writes: Please let me know if this makes sense. Not all customer on the switch are on a vlan. So customers not on a vlan are dumping traffic onto customers with a vlan via the trunk port (to the router). The fix is to put EVERY customer on a vlan. Would it help if I mentioned

Re: Any dialup ISP's besides EarthLink support LINUX

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Richard A Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know of any ISP's that have local NH numbers, who support LINUX users or have away to connect with a LINUX client, so far Earth Link has been the only one I can find and I am using it right now. http://access-4-free.com/

Re: ati video card

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
James Orman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think its the file permissions that was a problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] build_mod]# ./make.sh ATI module generator V 2.0 == initializing... kernel includes at /usr/src/linux/include not found or incomplete file:

Re: Any dialup ISP's besides EarthLink support LINUX

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
One other small problem with access-4-free (etc.) is that they've got their mail server setup to bounce (sortof) mail that comes from sites that fail their mail-server's SPF test. I write sortof because the bounce contains instructions as to how to get the mail forwarded to the original sender.

Re: OpenOffice query: shutdown

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
It looks like the thing that I want to mess with is gnome-session and gnome-session-properties. OO already has an entry in gnome-session-properties under FC2. Something must be going wrong in the interaction between gnome-session logout and OO. I'm still looking into this -- OO runs under the

Re: OpenOffice query: shutdown

2005-02-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me say that I am in no way trying to accuse you of being unreasonable, or to insult you in any way. If you have taken offense (as it seems you have), it is very likely that I have said what I wanted to say poorly, and so you have misunderstood my

OpenOffice query: shutdown

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I have some spreadsheets and documents that I have been editing in OpenOffice lately. Sometimes when I'm tired, when I decide it is time to stop working and turn off my laptop, I just tell Gnome to logout and shutdown the computer -- I don't manually tell OpenOffice to exit first. As I recall

Re: OpenOffice query: shutdown

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In all seriousness, while I would agree with you if you made the argument that OO should responsibly handle signals and exit cleanly, I don't think it's a tenable position to argue that you should be able to depend on a clean exit when you essentially

Re: Debian flamewar (plus a GNU/Linux rant)

2005-02-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, again, it's also largely responsible for why Windoze sucks so much. When everything a binary which you have no source for, and no two packages share information on what is being installed, and you can only install one version of any given

Re: SLUG meeting tonight 7pm UNH Morse Hall 301 Topic: Video Processing

2005-02-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert E. Anderson wrote: The Topic is: Video Processing tools for Linux The next meeting is Monday 2/14/2004 at 7pm in Morse Hall room 301. Sounds like a great presentation tonight. Thanks in advance Rob. See everyone there :-) Pray tell, where

Re: SLUG meeting tonight 7pm UNH Morse Hall 301 Topic: Video Processing

2005-02-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The message was addressed to the 'announce' list, which I believe automatically gets sent to the 'discuss' list, but that may be untrue. This was my understanding as well. You might be right -- this might be untrue, because I am not subscribed to the

Re: SLUG meeting tonight 7pm UNH Morse Hall 301 Topic: Video Processing

2005-02-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Dawson wrote: It goes to gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org (well, that's the official address). And (!) gnhlug-discuss is subscribed to that list, so it also gets everything sent to the announce list. Though I know the above is the official

Re: Time shifting radio (specifically NPR)

2005-02-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an epileptic fit -- Tom Waits #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Author: Kevin D. Clark (alumni.unh.edu!kdc) # Copyright 2005 Kevin D. Clark # This program makes generates content

Re: Multiple list addrs (was Debian flamewar)

2005-02-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have to agree though. Isn't the gnhlug-discuss address is redundant with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless there is some historical reason that the longer one is needed. IIRC, the other day I subscribed Gmane to gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org because that is the

Re: [OT] News Server Help

2005-02-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Numberwhun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I was just wondering if anyone here knows of a nice, free new server that allows unlimited downloads/uploads, without monitoring? Terra News (http://www.teranews.com/) probably doesn't fit your bill but I thought that I'd mention them anyways. ~$4 for

gmane test (please ignore)

2005-02-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I have subscribed gnhlug-discuss to Gmane (http://gmane.org/). I am just sending this mail in order to see what Gmane does with it. --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an epileptic fit

Re: gmane test (please do not ignore)

2005-02-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Went there, clicked on the top message, coincidentally from me. Clicked on the top line (the From: me) and got a page Gmame - Decrypted Address but the image link was broken. The HTML read: Me too. If this isn't fixed in a few days, I'll report it.

Re: Genetics - Open Source in reverse?

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The cooperation described in this article seems somehow familiar: http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/03/issue/magaphone.asp I agree, both in terms of sharing code/genes and in terms of patents. Thanks for the pointer! --kevin (still

[OT] elephant memory systems

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
For those of you who remember using floppy disks back in the '80's, I thought that you might enjoy the collection that I put together: http://www.mrcoffee.org/~kdc/ems/ This is my collection of stuff related to Elephant Memory Systems, whose advertisements were famous back in the day. Enjoy!

Re: cron job verification

2005-02-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ed Robitaille writes: If I'm not mistaken, If #!/bin/sh is used the shell will use what is set for the user variable $SHELL when a user logs in. I use zsh and have SHELl set for /bin/zsh. If what you say is true, why when you run a /bin/sh script doesn't exec run your shell scripts through

Re: mail archives

2005-01-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] The problems with python2 have been resolved, and there is a later version of mailman on that system. However, this has exposed a problem with moving a list from one version of mailman to a later version. After corrupting the mailman database

Re: mail archives

2005-01-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 11:22pm, kevin_d_clark wrote: If you have your own server, you could put up your own archives with your own Perl script, and likely many would thank you. I would. Throughout this thread I've been interested in solving a technical problem

Re: mail archives

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These changes were made quite a while ago (I forget when, but it was during the last storm over this topic). All that I've gotten out of this thread is that this happened before the last storm and not during it. Unless, of course, you're referring to a

Re: mail archives

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I recall, someone outside of GNHLUG wrote and complained that their info (not just an email, IIRC) appeared in a message in the archives. That's the first I've heard of this. Again, if this really bothers anyone, I suggest they step forward

Re: mail archives

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What else is there to discuss? except maybe who does it and how? I nominate KevinC, assuming he's willing... Dear Mr./Mrs./Ms./Dr./Etc. Person who runs the mail archive server: please re-enable public access to the mail archives. But, before you

Re: mail archives

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have your own server, you could put up your own archives with your own Perl script, and likely many would thank you. I would. Throughout this thread I've been interested in solving a technical problem that I was led to believe existed in the

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: According to their FAQ, they keep mail indefinitely. They say they only keep the most recent 3000 msgs in data or thread indexes; is that what you mean? Or are they not working as advertised? All I know is that I could only look back 196 days at that instant. If the

Re: mail archives

2005-01-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: The archives at http://mail.gnhlug.org have, to the best of my knowledge, always been there. They were switched from public to private some time back with no discussion. The reason was to bypass the email address publication problem. Indeed, there was no

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Kevin D. Clark writes: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This appears to be the main stumbling block. Mailman has an e-mail address obfuscation feature but it's very sad ('user at domain'). If I were writing a harvester I think I'd throw in the 1-line regex to fix these so it's

Re: mail archives

2005-01-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott writes: Note that the action in question had nothing to do with Derek Martin's bitching, but rather was due to an off-list issue with a party outside GNHLUG. Sorry, I don't recall hearing this before. --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 23, 2005, at 22:30, Kevin D. Clark wrote: One thing that this highlights, to me, is that the archives to this mailing list still aren't available online. http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg08582.html The archives

Re: mail archives

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm. Those archives should be available at: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/ These appear to be password protected, preventing non-subscribers from accessing them. Can search engines see these? I do like these archives; however

Re: mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 24, 2005, at 12:48, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Some folks on this list are *very* concerned with their email addresses appearing on a web-accessible archive (they don't want to give anything to the spammers). I share this concern, although I

mail archives (was: Another ACPI anecdote, plus footnotes)

2005-01-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've had threads here previously about ACPI. [1] [2] [3] A very informative post. I found all of this to be very interesting. Thanks for sharing. It seems like you did quite a bit of research into this problem. One thing that this highlights, to me, is

Re: America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

2005-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Other than the fact that the Heritage Foundation's web server seems to run Linux, this entire thread seems to be off-topic. --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an epileptic fit

Re: Looking for a good portable linux system

2004-12-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Essentially, I want one processor to handle a request while the other processor is busy. If Linux and hyperthreading can do that, then a hyperthreading CPU would be fine. Context switching is an issue on this traveling workstation - there will be some

bash find aliases

2004-12-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
these to this list before, but recently I hacked together dostxtfind, which I had a need for. Enjoy! --kevin # Author: kevin d. clark (alumni.unh.edu!kdc) srcfind () { if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then srcfind . else find [EMAIL PROTECTED] \( -name \*.c \ -o -name \*.cc

Re: hot spot managment

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Steven C. Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am working with a client of mine that owns a restaurant in Nashua he is looking to add a free hotpot to his restaurant but does not want people not in the restaurant using it Your client's problem reminds me of this:

Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why go to all the bother of decoding the winmail.dat attachments? Lookout can be configured to send proper attachments. I've forgotten exactly what the steps are, because I haven't had to help anyone with it in about 4 years. Most folks are

Re: Can only the 100Mbs part of a 10/100Mbs router fail?

2004-12-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is the fact that autonegotiation is an imperfect science. In what way are the autonegotiation specs. deficient? Just curious. Thanks, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd

Re: Printing web pages

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We host our monthly reports for our customers on a server and it's split up in subdirectories based on customer name (all on a secure site of course). Is there a way that anybody can think of to make it so I can print out the report for each customer

Re: PHP wizard needed

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a hell of a time trying to parse some HTML to get out part of it. Can somebody that knows PHP really well contact me off list. I'll show you the html and what I need. Most of the other stuff I'm going to do with it I can do.. I'm just having a

Re: PHP wizard needed

2004-10-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The html is a report for our customers.. I want to grab the 95th percentile number.. TR TD WIDTH=17095th Percentile:/TD TD9.88 Kbits/second/TD TD WIDTH=350/TD /TR I would snarf this thusly:

Re: Verizon DSL

2004-10-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've heard rumor that CLECs who are leasing copper pair from ILECs like Verizon are going to be squeezed out of the market because the FCC/PUC/etc is changing the rules to no longer require ILECs to offer fair access to their infrastructure.

Re: CVS, Mailman, and HTML

2004-10-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a lot easier for people to search an IMAP box, and if they're already using an IMAP mail client, there's no need for them to a) subscribe to the list, they can just look in the IMAP folder, and b) change clients to search the archives. Not that I

Re: Verizon DSL

2004-10-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, couldn't resist... sarcasm Thanks for continuing to discuss this inappropiate for this list topic. Excellent judgement there. I myself am a better person for hearing you extoll your political viewpoints on this Linux list. /sarcasm --kevin -- GnuPG ID:

Re: Unprivileged user shutdown

2004-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Cole Tuininga writes: I manage a system remotely for some people who are not terribly linux (or really, computer) savvy. When they need to move the server for whatever reason, they just hit the power button to shut it off. Obviously, this is not preferable. I accidently hit the power

Re: schadenfreude

2004-10-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Feds in hot pursuit of spyware maker: http://www.fosters.com/October_2004/10.08.04/news/ro_1008j.asp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

schadenfreude

2004-10-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
The Spam King's two clubs go out of business: http://www.fosters.com/October_2004/10.07.04/news/bu1007f.asp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking last time there was a topic amok - are there any MUA's that have something like the old usenet 'killfile' functionality? Gnus (running in X?Emacs) supports this, but then again Gnus thinks that mail and news are pretty much the same

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeff Kinz writes: When I find them (I get almost no spam at all these days), I sometimes follow the trail back to the original company's website, track down the hosting company, and send the spam with an explanation that the company is violating the AUP to abuse@isp/hosting compay. I find

Re: Forcing sendmail to use HELO (vs. EHLO)?

2004-09-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Scott Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The support guy wants me to try this now (even though Exchange advertises ESMTP capability in its banner). Funny. I recently had to deal with an Exchange server that advertised 8bitmime capabilities in response to a EHLO, but bounced messages when it

Re: RedHat/Other Support?

2004-09-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: See? If only you'd bought proprietary software you'd have somebody to hold your hand through these difficult times. I bet Microsoft is looking pretty good to you right about now... Or, for possibly cheaper support, just call the Psychic Friends

Re: Problem with recursive searches.

2004-09-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ken D'Ambrosio writes: [snip] Running find -- as any user -- on root dies thusly: # find / [some 200-odd files scroll by, all from /root] /root/.Xauthority find: ./.. changed during execution of find [snip] Any ideas? This sounds like it could be a filesystem mounting problem to me.

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