Re: Menus disappeared
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 10:17 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 13/12/2007, David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Ubuntu 7.1 system running Gnome that my kids use. They managed to do something and now the Applications, Places and System menus have disappeared. I can add back individual sets of applications I think I heard that GNOME (on Ubuntu?) has some Kiosk mode which should allow you to lock-down the configuration. Maybe you should consider using that. You can install sabayon (see http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/sabayon ) and use it to create a limited profile which cannot do stuff like remove applets from the panel. Its really easy to do using the graphical interface - Sabayon logs you into a temporary session where you set things up and afterward you get a list of changes which you can then force on the user you want to limit. -- Oded = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Video card recommendation
Hi, A week ago I complained here about a poor quality of ES1000 graphical chipset on our new compilation servers (also used as workstations). So basically I need you people to recommend me a card to buy. The requirements are: 1) PCI/PCI-E (the board has no AGP slots) 2) Able to run in 1280x1024 mode. 3) Supported by vanilla kernel and vanilla Xorg. (There are at least 5-6 different distros here). 4) Relatively cheap. rantIt's simply ridiculous. Any onboard adapter would be OK, but if you buy a board without one, you're out of luck. What do I ask for? 1280x1024! Any intel chipset would do. Why is it has to be so difficult? I don't need performance, I don't need gl, I don't even know what shader is. I need it to run 1280x1024, period./rant -- Leonid Podolny | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Software Engineer| +972- 3-7668960 Linux Platform Team | +972-54-5696948 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card recommendation
Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, A week ago I complained here about a poor quality of ES1000 graphical chipset on our new compilation servers (also used as workstations). So basically I need you people to recommend me a card to buy. The requirements are: 1) PCI/PCI-E (the board has no AGP slots) 2) Able to run in 1280x1024 mode. 3) Supported by vanilla kernel and vanilla Xorg. (There are at least 5-6 different distros here). 4) Relatively cheap. rantIt's simply ridiculous. Any onboard adapter would be OK, but if you buy a board without one, you're out of luck. What do I ask for? 1280x1024! Any intel chipset would do. Why is it has to be so difficult? I don't need performance, I don't need gl, I don't even know what shader is. I need it to run 1280x1024, period./rant Ahem, stupid question. Any card is supposed to work with vesa driver, right? So it kind of solves my problems, right? -- Leonid Podolny | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Software Engineer| +972- 3-7668960 Linux Platform Team | +972-54-5696948 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've got strange viagra-mails from virus-infected mail software
Web Master wrote: So, do you know someone, how can I message to the concerned pharmaceutical company, that I am now not a handsome, strong and young boy. As I understand it, these spammers use automated software to harvest millions of Email addresses from the web and send out millions of Emails to those addresses. They really don't care if 99% of the people they write to don't buy the product. In their eyes, it's free advertising and if they get a 1% response rate (or even a 0.1% response rate) they wil clean up nicely. Also these people are probably not the manufacturers of Viagra etc, and may not even be selling what they say they are. My advice is to get a good spam blocker, and change your Email address if you can, taking care not to put it in places where it can be easily harvested. If you really want to try and do something about the spammers, look up the IP address of their originating mail servers, use whois to find out which company owns the address space, and send a note to their abuse address including all the headers of one of these messages. Better still, work out who hosts the website which they use to sell their product and write to the hosting company. A site you might find useful is www.spamprimer.com Geoff. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card recommendation
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Leonid Podolny wrote: Leonid Podolny wrote: Hi, A week ago I complained here about a poor quality of ES1000 graphical chipset on our new compilation servers (also used as workstations). So basically I need you people to recommend me a card to buy. The requirements are: 1) PCI/PCI-E (the board has no AGP slots) 2) Able to run in 1280x1024 mode. 3) Supported by vanilla kernel and vanilla Xorg. (There are at least 5-6 different distros here). 4) Relatively cheap. rantIt's simply ridiculous. Any onboard adapter would be OK, but if you buy a board without one, you're out of luck. What do I ask for? 1280x1024! Any intel chipset would do. Why is it has to be so difficult? I don't need performance, I don't need gl, I don't even know what shader is. I need it to run 1280x1024, period./rant Ahem, stupid question. Any card is supposed to work with vesa driver, right? So it kind of solves my problems, right? I've used the vesa driver with ATI cards (X700, X1250). Check before using it with other cards (new ATI, nVidia) but generally it should be OK. As for dedicated drivers, anything you find that's old enough to be PCI will probably work. A card that old though might actually not have enough onboard memory to support 1280x1024 in full color :-) However, a quick check of zap.co.il reveals only one real PCI card, and it's priced above some new cards. I don't know where you can find old, cheap (but new) cards like that anymore. For PCI-E there are the ATI cards, which have a stable, free x11 driver (radeon) for anything under X1000 (i.e. X800 and below is OK). X1000 and above are supported by the new/experimental radeonhd driver, but you don't need a fast card anyway. zap.co.il shows the cheapest X300 cards at just under 200 ILS. The cheapest PCI-E nVidia cards are a little cheaper, but if you have the choice I advise you to stay away from them unless you're very sure the vesa driver will work. Personally I don't trust nvidia hardware... HTH, -- Dan Armak = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've got strange viagra-mails from virus-infected mail software
Geoff Shang wrote: My advice is to get a good spam blocker, and change your Email address if you can, taking care not to put it in places where it can be easily harvested. I'm just not sure why you are replying to the actual spammer, though. Shachar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nolisting.org
Anyone has any thoughts on the method described here? http://nolisting.org/ As far as I followed (I just skimmed through it for now) it looks promising. --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nolisting.org
Hi Amos, I have worked with this quite a bit: TkOS hosted the secondary (next to highest priority) MX record for an Israeli government domain for a number of years. The spam behavior that we saw was that the secondary MX SMTP service that we hosted received nearly as much spam as the primary, even when the primary was functioning fully. Unfortunately I do not have a record of the data to prove this. We gradually came to the surprising conclusion that the spammers are performing load balancing over the MX records without regard to their priority and not in conformance with the RFC behavior. So I personally doubt that nolisting is a effective strategy for combating spam. My personal opinion is that using a heuristic on the reverse lookup of the sending relay to reject pool address connections at the negotiation phase, plus a local balcklist, and providing a rich set of whitelisting features is the way to keep the spam within reasonable bounds. Regards, - yba On ו', 2007-12-14 at 14:26 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Anyone has any thoughts on the method described here? http://nolisting.org/ As far as I followed (I just skimmed through it for now) it looks promising. --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
