Re: [SLUG] Sharp Zaurus?

2004-03-30 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 10:02, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any experience with the Sharp Zaurus, or other Linux-based PDAs? I'm particularly interested in how usable they are for usual PDA type stuff (like the Datebook etc., functionality on a PalmOs device), as well as for the

[SLUG] Cisco airo driver mpi350

2004-03-30 Thread Slug
Has anyone succeeded in installing this driver and getting it going on a 2.6.3 kernel. Rumour is that the mini PCI driver code merged at rc1 and should now work in 2.6.3-rc1+. I've been having issues on a thinkpad X31. Thinking I need to go backwards in firmware Revs.. Where is the best place

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread James Gray
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:38 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote: *snipped* Unless employers have a court order, they will need to give employees notice that surveillance will be conducted, he said. That could mean a warning box pops up when the computer is turned on. We already have a pre-login message on

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive it's in part because of this: Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2004 http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/browse.aspx?NodeID=173 It will also be illegal to archive emails, or to appraise them as

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 20:43, James Gray wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:38 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote: *snipped* Unless employers have a court order, they will need to give employees notice that surveillance will be conducted, he said. That could mean a warning box pops up when the computer

Re: [SLUG] Problems with .tv?

2004-03-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:31:44AM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: Looks like jkljhlkajhslkjh.tv or anything.tv resolves to the same IP... Hmm... looks like they're trying what they did with .com a few months back only it's really backfired. It'd be nice if this were enough to convince Verislime

Re: [SLUG] Cross platform interpreter invocation

2004-03-30 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:47:12 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: I'm accustomed to starting my various Python and Perl files with: #!/usr/bin/env python or #!/usr/bin/env perl However, you can't pass arguments to whatever you're invoking, thanks to the limits of the #! interpretion (#!/usr/bin/env

RE: [SLUG] OpenOffice.org Mailing list

2004-03-30 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently had to unsubscribe from the OOo mailing list. The reason: I received so many copys of an email that was autogenerated by exim that it filled my mailbox and caused it to refuse further posts. Is this a fault within exim or

Re: [Oz-ISP] Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:17, Howard Lowndes wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive it's in part because of this: Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2004 http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/browse.aspx?NodeID=173 It will also be

[SLUG] Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message you sent. The infected attachment was deleted.

2004-03-30 Thread NAVMSE
Recipient of the infected attachment: HOMER, First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (HOMER), Chas Honton/Inbox Subject of the message: Re: details One or more attachments were deleted Attachment details.zip was Deleted for the following reasons: Virus [EMAIL PROTECTED] was found. Virus

Re: [SLUG] info on barebone laptos

2004-03-30 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 10:51, Benno wrote: Questions about ELX products should probably be directed to them: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/contact.php3 Well, I actually thought it was appropriate as I always use laptops and the winmodems are always the most troublesome. Therefore, I thought

Re: [SLUG] Command Line Package Installation

2004-03-30 Thread James Gregory
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 00:44, Rajnish Tiwari wrote: Hi All, I need to install the package corresponding to development tools onto a RH EL server - but it doesn't have X-Windows. I guess the good old command line interface (CLI) is the option. Assuming I've found the

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Dave Airlie
There is nothing that says that you have to allow your employees to have email access other than that which is work related. They might scream, but screw them... Their screams are sweet music to the BOFH, and me :-) Now picture this, you are the IT admin and you've no personal e-mail

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread James Gray
Dave Airlie wrote: There is nothing that says that you have to allow your employees to have email access other than that which is work related. They might scream, but screw them... Their screams are sweet music to the BOFH, and me :-) Now picture this, you are the IT admin and you've no

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread kevin . saenz
I think you are hitting the extremist view. By following your concept businesses would also remove B2B, B2C etc. How are you going to ensure your connectivity is functioning and secure? It's not going to happen. Why? Computer systems need to be kept up to date. Many businesses, do business using

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it comes down to ethics when I was working for a top 10 fortune 500 organisation I was asked to snoop. I turned it down stating it's not ethical unless they have a valid reason and I would prefer to hear that command from HR or the

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 31/03/2004 01:05:41 PM: --snip-- Dave. True. I am also subject to the AUP. However, I need SSH for my job, SSH can forward ports and thus my life will go on as normal. Most of what I do is shell-based anyway (mutt, slrn, nethack etc), so not using a

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:38, Howard Lowndes wrote: hfl I guess there are a few of out there that will be needing some legal opinions on this one and some re-defined acceptable practice conditions. It looks like a minefield. /hfl http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1077250.htm The

[SLUG] Using SAMBA/Linux to push Windows Group Policies

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Hyne
Folks, I'd love to chuck out a Windows 2000 server however it is used to push group policies down to windows clients. This includes such things as the default proxy, default settings, what the user can/cannot change and other admin things. I was wondering if there is anyway I can do this from a

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Benno
On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 14:41:15 +1000, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:38, Howard Lowndes wrote: hfl I guess there are a few of out there that will be needing some legal opinions on this one and some re-defined acceptable practice conditions. It looks like a minefield.

Re: [SLUG] Using SAMBA/Linux to push Windows Group Policies

2004-03-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:46:28PM +1000, Matt Hyne wrote: Folks, I'd love to chuck out a Windows 2000 server however it is used to push group policies down to windows clients. This includes such things as the default proxy, default settings, what the user can/cannot change and other admin

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004, Benno wrote: Wow, I'm amazed at this `workers as slave' mentality people have. The employer as essentially honest (in the just trying to make an honest busk sense) and employee as regretfully necessary dishonest money sink thing is also a bit odd. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread David
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Benno wrote: Wow, I'm amazed at this `workers as slave' mentality people have. I would not like to work in an office, or for a company, with such policies, it sounds like a depressing, draining, stressful environment to work in. (I'd wonder how productive/creative a

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Benno
On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 15:26:48 +1000, David wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Benno wrote: Wow, I'm amazed at this `workers as slave' mentality people have. I would not like to work in an office, or for a company, with such policies, it sounds like a depressing, draining, stressful environment

Re: [SLUG] Cross platform interpreter invocation

2004-03-30 Thread Peter Chubb
Mary == Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mary On Tue, Mar 30, 2004, DE LUCA Ben wrote: Ive just tested it on gentoo and osx and both of them accept arguments Mary Latest env on Debian unstable doesn't. env on Solaris does. It's not env, it's the kernel. The kernel invokes an

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:51, Benno wrote: On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 14:41:15 +1000, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:38, Howard Lowndes wrote: hfl I guess there are a few of out there that will be needing some legal opinions on this one and some re-defined acceptable

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 15:26, David wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Benno wrote: It's like everything else... in the end management has to create an environment where work WILL get done. At my place there is a clear policy (set by me) that says you play all you like as long as you don't stop

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Benno
On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 16:33:34 +1000, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:51, Benno wrote: On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 14:41:15 +1000, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:38, Howard Lowndes wrote: hfl I guess there are a few of out there that will be needing

Re: [SLUG] NSW targets employers' email snooping

2004-03-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:34, Howard Lowndes wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it comes down to ethics when I was working for a top 10 fortune 500 organisation I was asked to snoop. I turned it down stating it's not ethical unless they have a valid