Re: OT: I've Been Burgled!

2008-10-11 Thread Tuna
Okay, cool. Dad got a new laptop, I installed that Adeona thing and created a strong password for it. It is working just fine, and I am very impressed. Thanks, guys! -tuna --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To

Re: OT: Gmail filter errors

2008-10-11 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I see a few things to be concerned with here: 1) GMail expects you to use it's built-in spam detection (it's a lot more expansive than what LK described, BTW). Building your own spam detection net via filters is likely to result in a lot of bad effects. 2) Filters have nothing to do with SPAM,

Free Software Stammtisch

2008-10-11 Thread Josh Andler
Hey all, Is anyone on the list going to the Free Software Stammtisch in Avondale next week? Just wondering as it's right down the street from my house (and I wasn't aware of it until now). Cheers, Josh --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: Free Software Stammtisch

2008-10-11 Thread Joey Prestia
Josh Andler wrote: Hey all, Is anyone on the list going to the Free Software Stammtisch in Avondale next week? Just wondering as it's right down the street from my house (and I wasn't aware of it until now). Cheers, Josh Josh, Yes, myself and several others from the Red Hat Academy

Re: hdd encryption

2008-10-11 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:28 -0500, GK wrote: I use encfs/fuse as its built into the kernel, bcrypt and gpg. All run under GPL unlike Truecrypt which is Open Sourced but the owner holds the copywrite. Meaning they could pull it back, etc. Plus it is not in the Debian repos like the other

Re: OT: Gmail filter errors

2008-10-11 Thread Josef Lowder
Joseph Sinclair wrote, in part: Seriously, are you really getting that much spam in your gmail account? Yes! It's incredible ... 300-400 every day (if I don't use filters to send the worst of this garbage to trash) ... and it almost always includes 1 or 2 or more legitimate email messages that

Re: OT: Gmail filter errors

2008-10-11 Thread Josef Lowder
Joseph Sinclair wrote: ... filters almost always return more matches than you would expect unless you make them really tightly controlled (i.e. listid:some-single-word-id, with quotes to limit expansion, NOT subject:blah). PS: I do make those filters really tightly controlled as you

Re: Free Software Stammtisch and Router weirdness

2008-10-11 Thread Jamie Shackles
I as well will be there.  Can't wait to say hi to everyone as I have not been on line much...router issues.  Actually this is a great place to ask a question.  My router has pretty much always blown.  Now when I hook it up to my modem, my cable goes out for about 10 to 12 hours, and then comes

Re: OT: Gmail filter errors

2008-10-11 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I feel your pain, I've made similar suggestions to the GMail team several times, and never got a positive result (partly because there is too much other work to do to get it to the reliability required to exit beta). There's a base philosophy behind GMail that nothing should ever be really

Three Devel Meeting photos

2008-10-11 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have posted three new photos to the PLUG Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/ These are from the October 2nd Developer Meeting. Scott Harris presented OpenDDS to a small but interested group. Someone please cross post this to the

Re: Free Software Stammtisch and Router weirdness

2008-10-11 Thread Eric Shubert
I've seen problems with a Belkin wireless router with Cox. The connection drops periodically (apparently randomly), and a reboot of the router restores the connection. What make/model is your router? I take it you're using Cox? Jamie Shackles wrote: I as well will be there. Can't wait to say

Re: Free Software Stammtisch and Router weirdness

2008-10-11 Thread Jamie Shackles
It is a D-link   ~ Jamie --- On Sat, 10/11/08, Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Eric Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free Software Stammtisch and Router weirdness To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 4:20 PM I've seen problems with a