Re: [Eug-lug] Bad MD5 hash's

2005-02-19 Thread Po Petz
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Bill Essig wrote: I downloaded fedora core 3 7 times yesterday and today. Everytime I get the wrong MD5 sum and a different sum every time. I finally tried to just burn a image to a cd to try and se how badly it is damaged, it was bad. I'm wondering if any of you had any id

Re: [Eug-lug] OT - Symantec contact

2005-02-19 Thread Po Petz
an average of 3 degrees. Does Symantec still have that office by Gateway? I thought they had moved. --- Po Petz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, My six-degrees-o-separation mojo isn't working well right now. I was wondering if anyone who works at Symantec up by Gateway is on this list co

[Eug-lug] OT - Symantec contact

2005-02-18 Thread Po Petz
Hi, My six-degrees-o-separation mojo isn't working well right now. I was wondering if anyone who works at Symantec up by Gateway is on this list could drop me a line, please. Thanks, -po ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/

Re: [Eug-lug] Name server for a ppp connection

2004-12-29 Thread Po Petz
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Allen Brown wrote: All addresses work by IP address. None work by name, except for those we have inserted into /etc/hosts. Just to rule out /etc/nsswitch.conf, what does the line beginning with "hosts:" include? It should have something like "hosts: files nis dns" in it.

Re: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious

2004-12-22 Thread Po Petz
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, larry price wrote: currently my backup strategy (for my stuff) consists of Raid 1 on one machine and selective directory mirroring using rsync from the other machines, plus a monthly session of cd burning for critical data. It's starting to look inadequate and in the case of

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: In /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 there exists a file called CGI.pm, and CGI.pm.newcgi. I created the CGI.pm file from the .newcgi file in hopes that it would see it and execute. Is this my problem? I had the same issue with CGI::Carp.pm and it went away when I made

Re: [Eug-lug] Perl and Apache RE: Wiki

2004-12-21 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jim Beard wrote: Only problem is my Perl and Apache config seems a bit boinked. Describe the perl and apache. Are they redhat 9 defaults? Did you update them with some other rpms? Rebuilt from srpms? Built from source? I added the '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CGI.pm' line myself

Re: [Eug-lug] Virtual Private Servers; recommended providers?

2004-12-16 Thread Po Petz
d. A little more expensive than others but both the service and customer support are fast and responsive. A minor nit is their Linux distribution selection is a touch limited. -po Po Petz wrote the following on 12/1/2004 1:52 PM: I was wondering if anyone had any experience with VPS providers; pr

[Eug-lug] Virtual Private Servers; recommended providers?

2004-12-01 Thread Po Petz
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with VPS providers; preferrably with Open/Freebsd instances but Debian or FCore are fine. I've worked with JohnCompanies before but I was shopping around for a slightly better deal than $65 a month since this is for a low-bandwidth, small footprint p

Re: PLEASE MOVE THIS THREAD [Eug-lug] OT: University facilities [was:Are we meeting tonight?]

2004-10-20 Thread Po Petz
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Darren Hayes wrote: RightO. That's why the thread belongs in the null hole. Procmail is your friend. -po ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Software Dev: Bug Tracking

2004-09-28 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jim Beard wrote: Thanks for the response, I'll check out mantisbt. I was looking at FogBugz the other day. Have you used it? I have read several of Joel Spolsky's articles in the past and thought that he has a real good head on his shoulders in regards to software develop

Re: [Eug-lug] Software Dev: Bug Tracking

2004-09-28 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jim Beard wrote: I, and many of the developers I was working with at the time, eventually stopped using Bugzilla because it seemed to be overly complex. There too many features and things to track, it became cumbersome and a bit overwhelming. That's too bad. I've found Bug

Re: [Eug-lug] source of ssh scanner

2004-08-25 Thread Po Petz
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, larry price wrote: > I rather doubt that anyone on this list is using passwords this weak. You'd also have to be running OpenSSH with "PermitRootLogin yes" for all the checkauth("root",,) calls, no? > I guess I'm mildly surprised at how crude the damn thing is, couldn't > th

Re: [Eug-lug] EDITOR'S NOTE:

2004-08-05 Thread Po Petz
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > But then again, using safer functions, W^X, randomized memory allocation > > and mapping, privilege separation, propolice, etc, minimize the risk > > of bugs becoming serious security problems. Some of these things are > > availabl

[Eug-lug] legal counsel for contracting: IANAL -> BINSWI

2004-07-22 Thread Po Petz
I am not a lawyer but I need someone who is. I just burned a bunch of time negotiating and ultimately withdrawing my bid on contact because of some disagreement over IP and non-compete provisions. Law is just one of those weird programming languages that I will just have to take a course in event

Re: [Eug-lug] Keysigning party

2004-07-20 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Jacob Meuser wrote: > What's the point of encryption for an archived mailing list? Signatures for non-repudiation/non-disavowal of bad advice. "That iptables rule came from, uhm, a different Po..." -po ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMA

Re: [Eug-lug] Meeting place

2004-07-01 Thread Po Petz
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Russ Johnson wrote: > Just because you lose the key to your house, with the address tag > attached, does not give anyone the right to enter your house without > your permission. > > How is this different? If they came in and left cookies, you wouldn't hear me complain. But if

Re: [Eug-lug] swap: books or battery for ram?

2004-06-29 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Mr O wrote: > You just confused me. Looking for DDR for a desktop? That's > 184pin. SDRAM is 168pin. Laptop DDR is 200pin, laptop SDRAM is > 144pin. > > --- Po Petz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need a 168pin 256MB PC2100 DDR DIMM (non reg,

[Eug-lug] swap: books or battery for ram?

2004-06-29 Thread Po Petz
I need a 168pin 256MB PC2100 DDR DIMM (non reg, non ecc). In exchange for: W. Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography 2nd edition (both read, good condition, no markings) or new Dell laptop battery type 3R305 (4320mAh) - fits newer

Re: [Eug-lug] cmd line tool to set the X selection?

2004-06-24 Thread Po Petz
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Bob Miller wrote: > So is there an X program that can explicitly set the selection > from the command line? > > $ xsettheprimaryselection http://w3.org/ Xclip does but not with the same syntax It'd be: $ echo http://w3.org/ | xclip http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/

ISPs and privacy - was: Re: [Eug-lug] Re: High speed internet

2004-06-22 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, perdurabo wrote: > While I agree to a large extent, I think there's something to be said > for large corporate ISPs with too many users, too many policies, too > many eyes, and too much work to make "privacy violation" ventures > feasible/desirable. I'd wager that it affords m

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: High speed internet

2004-06-22 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, perdurabo wrote: > Additionally, if you are concerned about your privacy, you might want to > give weight to a big corporation, as I am personally aware of local > folks at a few local ISPs who like "examining web/nntp traffic" and > "grepping for interesting keywords" in mail

Re: [Eug-lug] After virus dump, and reinstall.

2004-04-28 Thread Po Petz
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Larry Price wrote: > Actually, I had someone go in and dump the list roster for me last night, > I suspect that someone who had turned off mail delivery for their address > but not formally unsubscribed would display exactly these symptoms. I've avoided this (after many prior