Re: [SLL] OT: Ethics question

2011-10-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed October 19 2011, Chris Fischer wrote: > > Curious what model laptop. > Compaq F730US. :D

[SLL] OT: Ethics question

2011-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
One of my co-workers gave me a relatively recent vintage laptop that was non-functional. He'd previously asked me about it saying it wouldn't finish starting up. Not having a chance to look at it, I gave him several options, including a dead motherboard, etc. He called me up the other day and of

Re: [SLL] Robert Nelson invites you

2010-05-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri May 21 2010, Abha Harting wrote: > While this looks great, there is a part to the sign up (step 2) that is > pretty offensive: > > "We are interested in partnering up with true opinion leaders. Prove us > your friends listen, send them an invitation to become testers too. > It's very easy t

[SLL] Lug near Indianapolis

2010-05-14 Thread John Aldrich
Hey, everyone... I'm in Georgia and I have a user in Indiana (northern Indianapolis suburbs.) She is wanting to upgrade to a newer, more secure O/S than XP Pro (she saw an article that XP SP2 won't be getting any more updates from Mickeysoft.) I offered her an Ubuntu CD, but with me being in Ge

Re: [SLL] Cisco ASA VPN config

2010-04-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri April 16 2010, Geoff Cummins wrote: > Hello, > > I have been fighting our Cisco ASA 5505 trying to get a couple VPN > configurations working together. 1 for our IT Staff to login remotely > and another for a Vendor. > > When we first got the 5505, I had the IT Staff VPN working okay, then

Re: [SLL] TDMA [was: What are you using for spam control?]

2009-12-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 18 December 2009, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > > (b) Depends on humans to do something that can easily be implemented > with technology > > >This statement implies that Spam is a solved problem. I use all the > technologies you mentioned, and I still get ~40 spams per day. > Then yo

Re: [SLL] What are you using for spam control?

2009-12-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 18 December 2009, Derek Simkowiak wrote: [snip] > For those who responded against TMDA: if I set up a procmail bounce > rule that simply required all email to come with a GPG signature, would > you reject that for the same reasons you reject TMDA? Or would that be > acceptable becau

Re: [SLL] What are you using for spam control?

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 18 December 2009, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > I've been using Postfix w/postgrey + spamassassin (via amavisd) + > RBL lists + SMTP sender verification. > > My email address is very old, and I use a few aliases, so I still > get ~40 spams per day. Thunderbird's Bayesian filtering ca

Re: [SLL] What are you using for spam control?

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Jules Agee wrote: > I'm getting more complaints lately from users on my network about spam. > Investigating the complaints reveals they get between five or ten per > day on average. This is about what I expect in my own inbox, and I don't > mind because it's a lot bett

Re: [SLL] Fwd: OT: NEC SAN

2009-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Michael Evans wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Michael Evans > Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:24 PM > Subject: Re: [SLL] OT: NEC SAN > To: John Aldrich > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:50 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > >

[SLL] OT: NEC SAN

2009-10-30 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone here have any knowledge about NEC and their SAN products? I got a call from an NEC person this morning (referral from a vendor) wanting to talk to me about my storage project. I told him what I was looking for and he suggested a specific NEC product that would do what I wanted. Now all I

Re: [SLL] OT: NAS/SAN

2009-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
thanks for the info folks. We are looking for about 3-5 Tb of storage, connected to our two servers via ISCSI and shared out from the servers. Mainly just files at this point, but possibly also email (probably using Kerio mail server, if I have my way!) We currently are using about 150 or so Gb

[SLL] OT: NAS/SAN

2009-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
Apologies for the OT post here, but I need some advice and for reasons that are explained below, I can't ask locally. :-) We're looking to add our first storage appliance at work. Here in my area, we also have a LUG and a LUG mailing list. Some of the smartest people I know are on that list. Un