Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:48:34 -0400
From: Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As a result of the mythfest install, my computer was setup with FC6.
Go you!
outside world are excruciatingly slow. (Connection to google takes
minutes, other computers on the same network, seconds.) I do know
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:08:28 -0400
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If someone with a digital video camera wants to volunteer to record
the meeting, we can put it online at the GNHLUG website. Or YouTube,
for that matter. This was one of the explicit goals for our new
Internet
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:25:02 -0400
From: Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just watched Battlestar Galactica, which turned out to be the last one for
the season. The next one won't be till 200 8. Ugh!
Perhaps explaining to you my position will help cheer you
From: Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:02:00 -0400 (EDT)
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of off-topic posts. I think I found a new one last year that includes
a digest mode, but lately it's been flooded about IP and other issues that
are outside of Linux and even the digests
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:31:53 -0400
From: Star [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Basically, it all works fine, just not the mouse. The mouse cursor appears
to track but clicking any of the buttons has no effect unless I click like a
bug-mad monkey. If I repeatedly click,
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:20:19 -0400
From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So what do *YOU* think would be F***king cool?
md
Being able to operate/program/configure a computer soley by speaking
Lojban to it would kickgrass! http://www.lojban.org (Hi, Tucker!)
Maybe something like:
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:20:19 -0400
From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So what do *YOU* think would be F***king cool?
md
Mathematica also pretty much fits that description. I once read The
Mathematica Book (describing the language) and was THOROUGHLY
impressed. It's like LISP
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: 22 Mar 2007 15:14:31 -0400
aluminumsulfate writes:
It's like LISP only well thought out and actually useful.
I for one find your enthusiasm for Lojban and your dislike of LISP to
be pretty amusing.
--kevin (who finds LISP
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:04:07 -0400
From: Star [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I open up xnest (or more correctly gdmflexiserver --xnest) and happily get a
screen where I can choose all of my actions and move about on the keyboard
Maybe you forgot to assign the flexignome shell pointer to the *other*
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:19:39 -0400
From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Admin Street1:XXth Floor, B2B Centre #36 Con
Admin Street2:naught Road West
and I realized there was a TYPO in the address. I have been to Hong
Kong several times, and there is no naught Road
From: Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:35:16 -0400
On Mar 12, 2007, at 16:51, Ben Scott wrote:
On 3/12/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Back in the day /etc/localtime used to always be a symlink to a
zonefile. This seem[d,s] like a good idea - does
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:44:30 -0500
X-Authentication-Warning: cmarib.ramside: rusat set sender to
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mp3s can be stored in multiple directories but are all sorted
alphabetically by filename on boot, so the sort order of the base
filenames is the order in which they
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From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:15:51 -0500
On Mar 8, 2007, at 11:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a vague sort-of-almost memory of having read something about a
major mode which will let you edit multiple files in a
From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:16:15 -0500
I've been starting to go to the gym quasi-regularly, so I think it may
finally be time to break down and get a portable audio player. Looking
for any suggestions... My requirements are:
I would suggest (maybe even
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:46:01 -0500
Another thing that you might want to consider is that the grep command
that you present could die in a mysterious way -- you might have too
much mail in a given folder, and thus you might have too many
arguments
Greetings, all...
The slideshow which I presented at the SLUG meeting back in October
has been updated and is now available online. The URL for the slides
is:
http://peapod.podzone.net:1234/hive/lojban-thing
Enjoy!
Dave Montenegro
What : MP3 file handling under Linux
Who : Robert E. Anderson
Day : Mon 12 Feb 2007
Time : 7:00 PM
Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH
This month's meeting of the Seacoast Linux User Group will feature
Robert E. Anderson talking about MP3 file handling under Linux. Talk
to include:
From: Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:36:21 -0500
I'm looking for some advice from any fellow mail administrators on the list.
Ultimately, I get a number of complaints by way of SpamCop - a couple every
month or two anyway - that say I'm spamming. Even
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:17:05 -0500 (EST)
One advantage of the local guild might be the opportunity for someone
knowledgeable to knock on the door and educate the poor zombies. And of
course, to find out whether it's someone who is really malicious, with
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:16:37 -0500
From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whenever I go to Sao Paulo, I meet with the students, and recently I was
honored to be at the first graduation class (a two-year commitment) of
the first Black-belt Hackerteen students.
I'd be interested to see
From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:57:16 -0500
When logging into a UNIX/X system via (g,k,x)dm, said session manager
writes stuff to your ~/.Xauthority file using xauth (which seems to
be it's own sort of black magic).
In an environment where your homedirectory
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:51:16 -0500
From: pds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One additional thing is to make sure the X process does not contain a
'-nolisten' option. This is enable by default on at least fedora. The
simplest way to turn it off is to run gdmsetup, under the security tab
uncheck 'Deny
From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:22:09 -0500
Just say:
xauth blah blah blah
The point is that the xauth call happens from within the session
manager code, NOT from within my personal config files.
The call is not literally 'xauth ~/.Xauthority',
From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:23:37 -0500
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Err, Oops, yeah, that would be it. My brain was parsing it as a
misspelling of 'contradiction'. My humble apologies to all here, and
especially to Greg! I will cease and desist
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:34:57 -0500
From: Christopher Chisholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
message command = some command %s %t %f
where %s is the filename containing the message. %t is the message
destination and %f is the message sender (i guess samba has these
wall(1) can send a message to
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:58:18 -0500
From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and to add inexpensive brackets to forwarded messages. The irony is that
the most nutrition was in the husk component of the rice, but the brackets
used today are just as high in nutritional value as the old
From: Andy Bair [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:37:32 -0500
This Thursday I will begin teaching a Linux/UNIX module as part of a
class titled, Introduction to Computer Forensics. I have some
materials that I will cover and will probably focus on simple commands
like cd, ls,
From: brk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:51:31 -0500
I will have (1) case each of 2 different kinds of SuperMicro Socket
370 system boards to giveaway. A few people voiced interest in
obtaining one of these boards when I posted up in my office-cleaning
email a couple of
Oops, sorry! That was intended to be a private message
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I just came across this announcement that voice-over-IP provider
Link2VoIP plans to terminate their support for IAX at the end of
February (2007). For those who don't know, IAX is the Inter-Asterisk
eXchange protocol used by Asterisk, the open source PBX.
Fortunately, Asterisk already supports
Hi, All...
Most of you are probably familiar with the ever useful TCP/IP utility
netcat (often /usr/bin/nc). It's real handy for doing quick and
easy file transfers, or otherwise tossing bytes about on a network.
It runs on most variants of UNIX (including Linux) and there's even a
version for
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:29:32 -0500
From: John Feole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
encap proto=icmp-over-smtp humor=1
pong payload=test message..
/encap
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:56:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
../dirname, it won't work. Besides all the rest of bash that you want to
learn, you want to learn the readline command shell-expand-line which by
default is bound to M-C-e. (Try it. It really works.) So when
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:43:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=If y'all haven't tried $_ yet, you should definitely give it a spin!
In terms of good practices, (assuming you're using bash) I prefer using !$
!$ is the last argument of the last command. It's from the csh
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:11:36 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've finished sorting through the box o' misfit toys that I picked
up from Brian Karas. There are a few extra things he threw in which
I don't have a reason to keep. If anyone wants any of this, mail me
off-list to
Yeah, I know, it's a great subject line. :)
But $_ is just SO handy!
$ play voicemail1234.wav
$ rm $_
$ cp myfile1 /some/path
$ less $_/myfile2
At the command line, $_ expands to the last argument to the previous
command. And, with tab completion, you can even see and edit it!
If y'all
Well, if you have several layers of private NAT, you may have trouble
routing packets to boot. And, when failing over to your ISP's
nameserver, you will also encounter problems resolving local names,
because your ISP's DNS server will have no information about your LAN
names. But those issues
Gentoo. I have four custom services which i add to default runlevel
with rc-update. viewing the runlevel information shows them in the
list. I know the services work because I can start/stop/restart/status
on them and everything works fine.
Yet, when I reboot the system, even though
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:30:12 -0500
Suppose this is version 1 of the protocol.
Now suppose in version 2 of the protocol we want to add some more
properties:
foo
colorblue/color
height1.3m/height
fav-dessertpie/fav-dessert
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:21:40 -0500
From: Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On November 14, 2006, Steven W. Orr sent me the following:
On Tuesday, Nov 14th 2006 at 09:06 -0800, quoth Thomas Charron:
= Brace yourself. I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know
=Comcast has
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:22:05 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One problem I did encounter in the past was that Adelphia was
dropping UDP packets with a *source* port of 53. Any other source
port was fine. Today's Internet is a weird place. :)
/me is really looking forward to
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:26:32 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The best results I've gotten, looking at the whole picture (price,
performance, reliability, customer service, etc.) are with local ISPs
doing fixed wireless. The major advantage is that by eliminating a
Really?! I
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:23:01 -0500
On the other hand, if the communication protocol was formed solely of
grammatical Lojban text, this problem would never happen:
I'm betting that Lojban poetry is even worse than Paul Neil Milne
Johnstone's of
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:00:30 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/14/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits...
And the mome raths outgrabe!
You joke! But, on OSCAR, someone once said youre so grabe to me.
To
What XML gives you is a standard way to define the structure,
schema, and so on, in a way that is unambiguous and machine-friendly.
Hm. unambiguous and machine-friendly. Lojban, which is formally
defined by a yacc grammar, meets both these criteria.
As others have said, the major
From: Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:12:32 -0500
And the mome raths outgrabe!
You joke! But, on OSCAR, someone once said youre so grabe to me.
To this day, I wonder what s/he meant... *scratches head*
My sincere apologies if I damage any illusions you
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 09:49:27 -0800
From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apperently, kdelibs was either not installed, or needed to be recompiled.
I made a change to my use flags, to allow Qt to support opengl, and
sounds like you forgot to emerge -N/revdep-rebuild
I have
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0500
From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So which guru is going to tell me which flavor magical pixie dust to
sprinkle where, whilst I waste my time trying to find the solution myself.
Thomas
Guru? Maybe not. But pixie dust? That I migt
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:29:01 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Should we generally disable middle-click-to-paste by default, since
newbies generally don't understand *that*, either?
IMHO, these features should be disabled for security reasons...
Even experienced users
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:24:00 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And don't get me started on things like Firefox, which come with a
completely brain-dead default configuration, and almost no way to
easily change that behavior.
Of course, another problem is that what
From: Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:23:05 -0400
Nina's van somewhere where it couldn't be so quickly found, etc. Also, on
the presumption that he cares for his kids, I would think he would've set
something up so that they would not wind up in foster care. Or,
From: Kjel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:17:48 -0400
Hey everyone,
I am having a weird problem with Kmail. When it connects to my pop server,
it sees the mail, but thinks that it has 0 size. It doesn't do this for
every message, it seems like it happens a
From: Chris Brenton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:08:31 -0400
Hey all,
After much advocating, I've finally convinced SANS to at least run a
small conference in NH. It will be in Portsmouth from 10/20-10/28. More
info can be found here:
From: Rob Lembree [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:53:34 -0400
Why is this interesting? Check out http://www.tuxscreen.net/ .
It seems as though lots of the scrapped production made it into the
wide open world of open source, and Linux has been ported to it,
From: James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:17:08 -0400
...22now ,is the time for all good men to
,000,...
snip
starts that way, so that's one possibility to try. Incidentally, you
can then continue the process -
From: Kjel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:35:00 -0400
but unfortunately it records it as an *.mov file. I figured out how to use
mencoder to change it to a variety of different formats. What I would like
to
do is to be able to edit several of these clips
ugh. qu=6Fted-printable enc=6Fding...=20 );
From: Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:20:44 -0400
What if the language we speak affects how we think? If that's true, what
if we spoke a language that had a basis in logic? Would it lead to more
logical
# head -30 /etc/procmailrc | tail -7
:0
* ^From[ :].*gnhlug-jobs.*
{
:0 B b
* degree
| cat /dev/null
}
discrimination on the basis of institutional education ought to be
unconstitutional.
Hrumph!
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:42:49 -0400
I made an image copy of the DVD using the readcd(1) command:
readcd dev=/dev/scd0 f=FC-5-i386-DVD-readcd.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root pubadmin 3253698560 Sep 18 21:59 FC-5-i386-DVD-readcd.iso
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:33:42 -0400
Hmmm, well, this is not an audio disc. :)
Well, it could be! There's a song by Aphex Twin which was supposedly
made from an image of the artist's face. Supposedly, you can take the
track's raw audio, lay it out
/me points to... [EMAIL PROTECTED],
messages to which are received by people looking for jobs,
within which you may (at your option, of course!) describe
in detail:
/me points to... your company name
/me points to... job description
/me points to... job requirements
/me points to... phone
From: Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:00:00 -0500
it that even they don't get accepted. In the meantime any
countermeasure is a hack.
They're actually not ways to reduce spam. There are many, many analyses
available on the web that show exactly
From: Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:53:29 -0500
* Mandating SMTP AUTH
* Universal use of GnuPG + message signing
* HashCash (or similar systems) http://www.hashcash.org/
They're all hacks. The only *real* solution is something completely
From: Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:20:40 -0500
I think there is a reason the OP put OUTBOUND in all caps. This isn't about
running your own SMTP server at home, it's about using a non-Metrocast SMTP
server to
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:27:05 -0500
Metrocast, last week, started filtering packets sent by their
customers to port 25 on ALL Internet hosts.
Yup. More and more ISPs are doing this -- generally the larger
ones. Get used to it. It's not
From: Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:02:13 -0500
Metrocast is filtering ALL port 25 packets OUTBOUND from their
residential customers.
While I understand your frustration, what they are doing is a
pretty valid way to reduce spam. If you're
From: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:34:56 -0500
If they are filtering for Spam on outbound packets whose dport is 25 then
I think its probably a good thing.
No? Content filtering is supposed to be done at the application
level. Content filtering at the
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:31:28 -0500
From what I understand, many drives have additional diagnostics and
commands in addition to the standard read block X stuff. However,
these commands are manufacturer-specific.
Sometime during 2.4, the
When I encounter processes which are unresponsive to kill -9, I find that
this generally works:
runlevel # say the current runlevel is 3
telinit 1
telinit 3
For some reason, init seems to clean them up when nothing else does.
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I've seen many tools for extracting data from partitions. But, has
anyone seen FOSS tools that will let you microstep a drive? You
know... move the head and record its signal, so you can recover data
that's been overwritten
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Those on this list may recall my recently having recommended NuFone as
a PSTN-VoIP gateway. I must now withdraw this recommendation.
I just found out that new NuFone accounts will be charged a monthly
fee (in ADDITION to the per minute rate) for DIDs. Existing accounts
(like mine) are exempt,
I've been seeing some mentions lately of cheap VoIP/Asterisk service,
so I thought I'd put in my $.02--quite literally.
NuFone http://www.nufone.net provides SIP and IAX2 (with protocol
failover) PSTN access for a flat rate of $0.02 per minute for all
incoming and outgoing calls. There is no
For the record, I would *not* advise hot-swapping IDE drives on a 2.4
kernel. I tried this (using the bays from aforementioned shop in
Manchester, specifically marked hot-swappable on the box) and hosed a
filesystem. From what I have read, hot swap IDE is not supported b/c
the kernel only
Hey, check out this... um, interesting... link
http://www.usatoday.com/news/ndstue05.htm
Dave
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From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 00:11:10 -0400 (EDT)
That's all it'll take to hose your beloved linux filesystems.
I'm afraid I have to disagree. In my experience, simply installing and
running Doze size-by-side with Nix does not cause any
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:44:22 -0400
On 5/18/05, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, it's just asking for data loss to run window$ and linux on the
same machine.
I really have to strongly disagree there...
I gotta go
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:22:07 -0400
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.
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:39:36 -0400
--=-=-=
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(1) Always double check your crypto.
(2) Never use Perl BigInt's for anything ever... especially crypto.
(3) When in
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 02:55:59 -0400
From: mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When that simple test shows it is clearly true that /dev/random
blocks just as stated in the man page. The kernel's RNG may not be
very good, but that is a separate issue.
Yes, it's true that the device
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:18:30 -0400
snip
Anyhow, I've gotten a jar and put 128 pennies in it. I'll be sure to
let you know if I find any patterns in the data from that, too. ;)
Dave
Well, I've flipped 512 pennies run them through my base 95 analyzer.
For those of you who've been waiting to see what patterns I can find
in the number pi uh, oh... wrong movie. I have good news: the
universe ISN'T falling apart! I recoded my Perl scripts in LISP (the
language I should have coded it in, anyway... but I was trying to be a
Perl geek and use
From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:42:38 -0400 (EDT)
snip
If the series is statistically random, then the probability of getting
*any*
set of N characters it the same. If you have a statistically random penny,
for example, and you flip it 20
From: David Ecklein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:49:06 -0400
My 2 cents worth...
In my wasted youth I experimented with random number generator algorithms of
various kinds. One amusing but useful tool that can act as a fairly
Greetings,
I just discovered something VERY DISTURBING about /dev/{u,}random in
Linux Despite what the man page for urandom says, the data from
/dev/random is REALLY not very random at all. Many googleable pages
on entropy gathering will tell you what the man page says: that
/dev/random
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 22:58:29 -0400
From: mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:39:44PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:50:14PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just discovered something VERY DISTURBING about /dev/{u,}random in
Okay, I'm going to officially request a KILLTHREAD on this topic
This thread's grown six heads, four arms, eighteen legs, and just
gotten way out of control
All in favor, type:
!kill -TERM $PPID
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One .sig which is particularly sneaky (not going to say who invented it ;)
is:
[] []
^^.:[]:_ ^^ ,:[]:.^^
.: :[]: :-. ^^,-: :[]: :.
.: : : :[]: : : : :-._
From: Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
snip
The thing that's got me irked is that I can't mount
either of those non-root ext3 filesystems; the mount
command instead just complains about how either the device
appears to already
Greetings,
Do any of you have experience with getting DCC (direct client connect)
under IRC to work?
I'm using BitchX 1.1 (20040326) behind NAT firewall. I've forwarded a
range of TCP/UDP (both) ports to my machine, and set the variables in
BitchX accordingly (DCC_USE_GATEWAY_ADDR ON,
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jon Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:25:51 +
Randy,
Your analysis is quite good, but does not go far enough. The problem is that
by giving the tube away, you have to assume that it still is going
From: Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:22:49 -0400
Ultimately, as I've said many times before, there is no method of
fighting spam which will be truly effective. The best you can do is
let the client deal with it by running
Cc: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:49:19 -0400
Sure, because I'm on their wire, they can obviously find out some
level of information about me. But by me relaying through their
Has anyone else ever noticed this *and* bothered to figure out why ? :)
I'd love to know!
Yes and no. Yes, I have seen this, but no, I never did debug it.
I've seen this problem using custom kernels I've built and used on
both Slackware and Debian. Note that, when this happens, kill
From: Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:31:15 -0400
Here's the deal. Now I attach the drive ,and within SECONDS I get:
Apr 7 00:21:36 alfred kernel: usb 4-5: USB disconnect, address 4
WTF?!?
Hm. Have you checked your IRQs lately?
The CD burner
From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 19:45:18 -0400
I keep my ssh keys on an encrypted filesystem on the laptop. It's a
pain to backup, but lets me feel more comfortable with having my laptop
stolen. I guess I worry a bit about what someone might find in
From: Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:14:45 -0400
and block that domain. Do it by having outgoing mail servers
cryptographically sign messages with keys registered in DNS, and
reject mail if the signatures don't match, or if the domain is known
to mass
From: Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:53:46 -0400
I'm afraid signing SMTP won't help the spam problem.
Sure it will, if implemented well.
snip
Reject if:
1) the message is not signed with the domain's published key
2) the signature
From: Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:53:46 -0400
I'm afraid signing SMTP won't help the spam problem.
Sure it will, if implemented well.
If you want a crypto solution to the spam problem, how about this:
(1) Whenever you give out your email
From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello LUGers,
I recently posted a message[1] here asking if there was any interest in
continuing the GNHLUG presence at Hosstraders. To date, I've received two
responses, and only one person really interested in helping at the booth.
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