Re: [Eug-lug] hello... anybody in there?

2007-03-06 Thread Russ Johnson
B. Gallagher wrote: I loaded XP on 1/3 of a 120 GB HDD; then loaded FC 6 on 1/3 (a 100 MB boot and the rest root.) I setup NTFS on the remaining 1/3, using XP, and I was using it to do some Ogg to MP3 conversion for my new Sansa e280. Now that 's finished and I want to re-partition to FAT32.

Re: [Eug-lug] Operating Systems.

2007-02-12 Thread Russ Johnson
Ben Barrett wrote: And why aren't google, microsoft, and major ISP's really cracking down on the botnet infrastructure?? They have all the tools and the power Personal opinion... If they crack down on the botnets, what's to stop them from deciding (arbitrarily) that some other tcp/ip traf

Re: [Eug-lug] Operating Systems.

2007-02-12 Thread Russ Johnson
Michael Miller wrote: NT 4.0? Why would your company support a OS that is no longer supported? That is just asking for trouble. When you have multiple customers that make several large purchases per year that still use it, and tell you they don't plan on upgrading anytime soon, then you will

[Eug-lug] Operating Systems.

2007-02-11 Thread Russ Johnson
Mr O wrote: the major operating systems (linux, OS X.3,4,5, M$ 2000, XP, Vista). Don't count just those. The software company I work for supports the following: Windows NT 4.0 and up Linux, Redhat and SuSE officially, but it runs on just about any distribution we've tried. Solaris 7.0 and up

Re: [Eug-lug] Microsoft limits Vista transfers

2006-10-16 Thread Russ Johnson
Darren Hayes wrote: So who "owns" the OS software anyway? Either when purchased with a PC (OEM) or purchased separately (retail)? According to most commercial software licenses, you do not own the software running on your computer. You have a license to run the software. This license is revo

Re: [Eug-lug] Measuring network traffic

2006-09-15 Thread Russ Johnson
Bob Miller wrote: larry price wrote: are you looking for a netflow collector or a lan monitor? I guess I'm looking for something like Big Brother but that runs on, and collects for, a single host. I want to see bits per hour, bits per day, bits per month. Maybe I'm missing something

Re: [Eug-lug] Spam on euglug list

2006-01-23 Thread Russ Johnson
Bob Miller wrote: Here are the headers. Comparing the headers you quote and the headers on the message you sent: Received: (qmail 18891 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2006 11:37:36 - Received: from euglug.org (HELO tux.euglug.org) (207.189.131.194) by chezgeek.euglug.net with SMTP;

Re: [Eug-lug] Regex

2006-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
Allen Brown wrote: Jim wants to do the opposite conversion. Regular expressions don't simply reverse. In other words s/a/./g has a very different behavior than s/./a/g I know that, but s/

Re: [Eug-lug] Regex

2006-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
gt;" and replace that with ">", globally. Then stick the results back into $input. If you replace the > and > with your values, it should be pretty simple to get the rest of it as well. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http:/

Re: [Eug-lug] Suse 10.0 install

2006-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
grub error you are getting? Without that information, everyone here is just guessing. (My guess, based on the 01 01 01 info...) It's entirely possible that you are seeing a drive in the early stages of death. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post?

[Eug-lug] Incredible expanding belief in netlore. Was: WMF exploit... intentional or no?

2006-01-15 Thread Russ Johnson
Michael Miller wrote: While on the subject of disliking Mr Gates... Did you happen to read the last line on the first link you included? "Did you enjoy this story? It turns out to have been a hoax. The full story is found here <http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsux.htm>.

Re: [Eug-lug] Ubuntu QA on amd64

2005-12-17 Thread Russ Johnson
rsion installed. With the 32 bit versions, I'm every bit as stable as pre-64 bit proc. Happily, the system IS faster with the 64 bit proc, so I'm not losing out completely. After more folks have 64 bit procs, the situation should improve. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://

Re: [Eug-lug] calling all bash experts...

2005-12-08 Thread Russ Johnson
Rob Hudson wrote: Given a variable with something like this in it: /Volumes/Projects/Testing/Simple_Carbon_App.pkg I need to extract the base path to get: /Volumes/Projects/Testing basename will give you the name of the file, and dirname will give you the path: $ basename /Volumes/Project

Re: [Eug-lug] corporate hardware firewalls

2005-10-15 Thread Russ Johnson
are. Where it runs is the critical part. I'm assuming you mean a network gateway/firewall standalone machine. I'm thrilled with the celeron system I have IPCop running on. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

Re: [Eug-lug] bad news for MySQL fans

2005-10-12 Thread Russ Johnson
Patrick R. Wade wrote: On the one hand, it will gratuitously alienate some Linux adopters that *have* been embracing and extending Linux behind closed doors (Google comes to mind) and inspire them to re-think the benefits of *BSD. On the other hand, it will add more fuel to the "viral license

[Fwd: Out of Office AutoReply: [Eug-lug] Music. WAS:iPods, batteries, a udio output]

2005-09-30 Thread Russ Johnson
Would someone please turn off Annettes email from the list. After she returns, she can turn it back on. It's very bad form to post "away" messages to a mailing list... --- Begin Message --- Title: Out of Office AutoReply: [Eug-lug] Music. WAS:iPods, batteries, audio output Hi, sorry I misse

Re: [Eug-lug] Music. WAS:iPods, batteries, audio output

2005-09-30 Thread Russ Johnson
Definitions of *Western music* on the Web: * Western music is a broad category of music that includes all musical genres that use a 12-note chromatic scale, including Western classical music, rock and roll, and many other forms of popular music. The word Western may be misleadin

Re: [Eug-lug] offline webpage viewer?

2005-09-28 Thread Russ Johnson
Mr O wrote: I'm being put on vacation and won't have internet for a few days so I'm needing to know if anyone knows of some webpage sucking programs so I can grabs some things to read over the weekend. wget -m http://site.com You might want --convert-links and --page-requisites as well.

Re: [Eug-lug] C questions

2005-09-19 Thread Russ Johnson
Fred James wrote: All Can anyone confirm for me that // is not an allowed syntax for a commnet line in ANSI C, please? (example: // line of text should be /* line of text */ It was my understanding that the latter is the only type of comment in C, while both are valid in C++. Rus

Re: [Eug-lug] EFN/EPUD mail server management.

2005-09-16 Thread Russ Johnson
Jeff Newton wrote: Russ, I got a contact out that way, let me see if he can help you with this and get in touch with you directly Actually, I believe the issue is resolved. It seems that when EFN decided to start charging for shell access via the network, and I cancelled my account a

[Eug-lug] EFN/EPUD mail server management.

2005-09-15 Thread Russ Johnson
to give. Unfortunately, if you use EFN as your email address, you won't be able to send mail directly to me. Either send it through this list, or use my yahoo address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks again! -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http:/

Re: [Eug-lug] calling all bbs sysops

2005-08-23 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: With an attitude like that, just see if the sysop gives you access to the hidden file areas... I *AM* the sysop, and I feel your access slipping. Russ Johnson Dimension 7 BBS ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [linux] Sun releases Open Solaris

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: Tell that to a certain company based in Utah who at last check had more lawyers than programmers and claimed that they OWNED Linux and all of its ancestors.. Yeah, and if Linux suddenly becomes a bad thing to run, there's any of the BSDs, and now Solaris. Not to men

Re: [Eug-lug] Geeks and nerd and coke and water oh my!

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: Corporate ownership and an army of trolls happened, I think. I still occasionally hear about people blathering about having a five digit slashdot ID. I don't get the big deal. Geez, you mean the fact that I have a slashdot id that's less than 50,000 is a big deal? I'v

Re: [Eug-lug] geeks, dorks, and nerds

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Johnson
Alan wrote: Russ Johnson wrote: You realize what they say about those who deny being something... :) It's a river in Egypt? No no no... that's denial... wrong form of the word... but then, I'm being a geek again... :p On the contrary. I've found that many folks

Re: [Eug-lug] geeks, dorks, and nerds

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Johnson
Rodney Mishima wrote: If you have self-esteem issues, you are not a genius. Stick to the nerd label, since you feel comfortable with it. The ones with self esteem issues are those that refuse to acknowledge their own identity. Russ ___ EUGLUG mail

Re: [Eug-lug] geeks, dorks, and nerds

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Johnson
Alan wrote: Mr O wrote: There may be subtle difference between the above but deep down none of us can deny that we are not one or the other. I am neither a geek nor a nerd. You realize what they say about those who deny being something... :) Maybe it's just the era or area that I grew up

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [linux] Sun releases Open Solaris

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Johnson
Greg KH wrote: Name one. :) Unless things have changed dramatically... NFS. I had several Linux NFS servers running in a production environment. If one of them went down while other machines had exported directories mounted, they would not gracefully re-mount when the server came back u

Re: [Eug-lug] This week's Thursday Clinic is cancelled.

2005-06-16 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:34:32PM -0700, perdurabo wrote: On 6/14/05, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Enjoys Slashdot Nope. Slashdot has become less and less enjoyable... Too many people with too many far out ideas of what "should" be. Whatever h

Re: [Eug-lug] Apache won't start

2005-05-24 Thread Russ Johnson
larry price wrote: It's a pretty maddening problem to figure out the first time because it's dying before it can open the log files and so it can't log the errors. Actually, I think it's dying BECAUSE it can't open the log file. But that's just my take on it.

Re: [Eug-lug] Purism Bites

2005-05-06 Thread Russ Johnson
Jason Van Cleve wrote: Incidentally, I don't really mind the fact that sed won't acknowledge other, less perfect end-of-line conventions, assuming there is genuine value in so much pedantry. DOS does DOS style stuff. Unix does likewise. I just think it would help to document that behavior explicit

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Walter Hurst wrote: What kind of box are you running it on? I'm using a celeron 533 with 128 megs of ram, but that's WAY overkill. There are folks on the mailing list using 486s. There are also lots of folks using small appliance like devices with flash cards in them with ipcop on the flash. Rus

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Walter Hurst wrote: Is there a reason why ... IPCop forked from Smoothwall? There were some fundamental differences between the maintainers of each product. I'm not privy to the specifics, so I'm not going to speculate. I know from what I've read in the IPCop mailing lists, the maintainers o

Re: [Eug-lug] Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) experience?

2005-05-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Walter Hurst wrote: I was wondering if anybody has any experience with the Smoothwall I use IPCop (www.ipcop.org). It's a product that forked from smoothwall, and has done really good work with it. If you are just securing a LAN that you don't run a bunch of server on, the firewall appliances wo

Re: [Eug-lug] Comcast Digital Voice (VOIP) in Eugene soon?

2005-04-29 Thread Russ Johnson
nyal wrote: On Thursday 28 April 2005 04:48 pm, Russ Johnson wrote: LD calls anywhere in the US and Canada are a bonus, but not why I got the service. I save about $25 a month over what I was paying Verizon for my local service. Russ QuestionHas anyone used this for International Calls

Re: [Eug-lug] Comcast Digital Voice (VOIP) in Eugene soon?

2005-04-28 Thread Russ Johnson
Jason Van Cleve wrote: To someone who makes infrequent L/D calls, I don't see much value in this. If broadband 'Net access is <= $50 and basic phone service is ~$20, it looks like a wash. And, if I may say so, given that VOIP is about to make POTS service obsolete, it even seems a bit steep. Are

Re: [Eug-lug] 2GB+ files over Samba

2005-03-16 Thread Russ Johnson
Christoph Otto wrote: Hi all, I'd like to backup my 20GB laptop's harddrive to my samba fileserver, but I've been running into a 2GB limit. I can create a 3GB file with dd when logged into the server via ssh, but trying the same thing over a samba mount gives me a "File size limit exceeded" err

Re: [Eug-lug] Mandrake 9.1

2005-02-28 Thread Russ Johnson
Jeff Newton wrote: Well, there's one problem here guys, I didn't get any CD's with this thing So, if I can't get it done here on my own, I may just have to have a hack planned for Thursday night if there's a meeting this week somewhere?? Have you tried booting in

Re: [Eug-lug] Mandrake 9.1

2005-02-28 Thread Russ Johnson
Jim K wrote: N\Mandrake 9.1 defaults to grub bootloader. If you can't get root access, you will need to get copy of the 1st CD in the mandrake 9.1 set. When you get to the first screen that offers you a chance to make a choice press the help key which I believe is F1 key. It will direct you to

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [linux] F+!*ing Gentoo...

2005-02-22 Thread Russ Johnson
riority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought #16 (Collec

Re: [Eug-lug] MythTV

2005-02-15 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: 1. New TiVo + $100ish for about the same capacity I have now (a little less) + It Just Works + Easy to add a new drive and connect to network - Probably can't transfer lifetime service to a new box anymore - Hacking docs are scattered/inconsistent/stale/now-404 -

Re: [Eug-lug] Who tripped over the switch?

2005-02-11 Thread Russ Johnson
Alan wrote: Is UO broken for everyone or just me? = traceroute to darkwing.uoregon.edu (128.223.142.13), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 1.2.3.4 (1.2.3.5) 3.329 ms 3.324 ms 3.583 ms 16 ge-5-1.uonet1-gw.uoregon.edu (128.223.2.1) 94.160 ms 110.326 ms 110.411 ms 17 * * * Traceroute isn

Re: [Eug-lug] symantec tech serv#

2005-02-11 Thread Russ Johnson
walter fry wrote: I have a problem when trying to bu to cd the fedora image with Ghost 2003 which I paid money for. In case of problems contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that is not responding...am I just too much of a dunce or is that site no longer in sevice... does someone have a better sym

Re: [Eug-lug] favorites

2005-02-08 Thread Russ Johnson
back on Windows 98. Not sure about Windows 95. I'd say that's back at least to IE 3 or 4. It's always stored the favorites in some other format, in the registry or whatever, but it could be exported to html easily enough. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.

Re: [Eug-lug] favorites

2005-02-08 Thread Russ Johnson
I've been doing that for years. At least since I was as Symantec, and that's been 6 years ago. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought #6 (Collect all 25) "All the knowledge I possess everyone

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: 'doze use

2005-02-05 Thread Russ Johnson
protected mode of operation, the 286 was truly something new. In this mode, a program designed to take advantage of the chip's capabilities believes that it has access to 1GB of memory (including virtual memory). The 286 chip, however, can address only 16MB of hardware memory..." -- Russ

Re: [Eug-lug] mac-mini mac-slack-ub-lin meeting

2005-01-26 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: That's easy, you're going to get yourself a 7 port USB2 hub and a 5 port firewire hub and have yourself a ball. And some would argue that this will simply INCREASE the clutter on desks... cables snaking all over the place instead of devices neatly tucked into the same box.

Re: [Eug-lug] shut down unneeded ports in Gentoo?

2005-01-25 Thread Russ Johnson
Rob Hudson wrote: When I run "netstat -pant", I do not see the opened ports, only 22, 25, 80, and 993. Which makes me think "filtered" means something. According to the nmap manpage, "Filtered means that a firewall, filter, or other network obstacle is covering the port and preventing nmap fro

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time

2005-01-21 Thread Russ Johnson
Allen Brown wrote: Now that the subject is presented, I'm sure several people will try to turn this into a religious arguement about why their choice is the only choice. It happens every time both editors are mentioned. USE VI! No! USE EMACS! You Nazi! GODWIN! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-20 Thread Russ Johnson
larry price wrote: No but Verizon does offer VOIP, http://www22.verizon.com/ForYourHome/VOIP/VOIPHome.aspx Weird... They don't offer 541 numbers either... I wonder where the bottleneck is... But then, I notice Portland seems to be completely out of 503 numbers, but you can still get a "west m

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-20 Thread Russ Johnson
Alan wrote: My wife and I routinely ran up hundred-dollar monthly bills. Free LD would have been a godsend back then. Gee, I wonder if plugging in a VoIP adapter to the room ethernet port violates any rules in the dorms? If not, that's a pretty good incentive for college students to use Vonage.

Re: [Eug-lug] Time warp

2005-01-19 Thread Russ Johnson
27;s right, but Thunderbird is telling me the stamp on this email is 05:24, which doesn't seem like the right thing to do. If I understand it correctly, it IS the right thing to do, because it's also saying that it's using GMT/UTC (-). So when you put the two together (the time and

Re: [Eug-lug] Time warp

2005-01-19 Thread Russ Johnson
Rob Hudson wrote: I'm having a similar problem of time warp emails I think. Can anyone verify? Unless you wrote your message around 1pm, I'd say you have your timezone set wrong. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.c

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: fiber

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
verge of bankruptcy. It's been a while since I saw anything in the news about it, and I can't find anything now. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought #7 (Collect all 24) "I am bigger than anythi

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:01:59AM -0800, Russ Johnson wrote: I'm using Vonage in Beaverton, and it's great. $27 (including taxes) and I get all the local and long distance (US and Canada) I want, and many of the features you pay extra for with Qwest and Ve

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
larry price wrote: what is the quality level like for Vonage? While I can't say it's perfect, I can say that I've been really pleased. I set up a QoS rule to give my adapter absolute priority through the firewall. I haven't had any dropped calls. Every once in a while I get echo for a second

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
Alan wrote: Well, that doesn't matter to me so much, since my current landline phone doesn't ring in Portland either. heh. Here's another advantage to Vonage (and other VoIP providers... ). If I came to visit, and you had broadband, I can bring my VoIP adapter and a phone. Now my number rings at

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
Linux Rocks! wrote: I have cricket, it cost less than i was giving qwest/uswest, or the other local providers... but cell phones are annoying... I put up with the inconvenience of cell phone, rather than pay qwest. And your cricket phone doesn't work outside your home area. I.e. take your phon

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
Alan wrote: And for most people we know, calling a 503(1?) Portland number is just as LD as calling an 845 NY number. And on Vonage, neither would be long distance. Russ ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/eu

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
Bob Miller wrote: It seems like the only real value a VoIP telephone company can add, for the hacker who enjoys building his own phone system, is routing to/from the PSTN. Skype and Vonage sell complete "phone service" for nontechnical customers, and their product is no cheaper than Qwest (for bas

Re: [Eug-lug] Local dial tone providers - Qwest alternatives?

2005-01-18 Thread Russ Johnson
John Sechrest wrote: I wonder if anyone has considered using one of the VOIP solutions for phones. I know someone in portland who has done this. I don't remember the company, but they provide a VOIP gateway to the network and give you a regular phone number. This assumes you have a non-qwest net

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
right querry command up front? TA walter Look inside that file. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought #7 (Collect all 24) "I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, s

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time on Mozilla email?

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
Alan Crandall wrote: This is just a side note to this thread and a ? When I reboot from Mandrake 10.1-it has the correct time-into XP, XP time is 4 hours off ? Any ideas why? This only occurs when i reboot from mandrake,rebooting from 2000/QNX does not have this problem ? Thanks Next time you r

[Fwd: Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time on Mozilla email?]

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
I'm forwarding part of your message to the group so we can look at the headers. Your time is near correct. It's the timezone that's wrong. In the date field, it should say -0800 if your timezone were set correctly. From other stuff I've seen, you appear to be running debian. Someone familiar wi

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time on Mozilla email?

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
Jeff Newton wrote: Ok, tried a littl tweakin here, Russ - what does it say now?? No change... This message is dated 1/16 at 12:40 PM. (40 minutes after noon). Russ ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time on Mozilla email?

2005-01-17 Thread Russ Johnson
Jeff Newton wrote: Okay, now lets try this now and see how this goes?? Comments anyone, did I master the jedi, yet? I'm not seeing the same thing as Larry... It appears (to me) that you wrote that message at 1:57 PM, on the 16th, not 9:57. Larrys' message came in at 1:37 AM on the 17th. (Today)

Re: [Eug-lug] Computer time on Mozilla email?

2005-01-16 Thread Russ Johnson
tively. You'll need to adjust your timezone settings to be correct. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought #7 (Collect all 24) "I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorro

Re: [Eug-lug] grrrr.... damn computers!

2005-01-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Linux Rocks! wrote: So, Im still trying to backup my laptop, and thats being a pain in the ass... kbear keeps barfing on me.. getting real tired if that, but whats pissing me off more is this damn raid setup. I still havnt gotten linux to see the drives. I have tested it in windows xp, and the h

Re: [Eug-lug] Another DSL option

2004-12-14 Thread Russ Johnson
Tim wrote: which product from speakeasy did you get? last i knew they didnt offer all there products here. I got their One-Link service. It's still subject to the 18000 foot limit for loop length, so if you live too far from the CO, it won't work. When I lived on Dean Ave, I was 900 feet beyon

[Eug-lug] Another DSL option

2004-12-13 Thread Russ Johnson
I recently moved, and Verizon (my telephone provider in Beaverton) installed a phone line on a digital loop... You got it. No DSL on a digital loop... So, after 5 years with the same DSL ISP, I was forced to look at my alternatives. Verizon would not, under any circumstances, re-engineer my lin

Re: [Eug-lug] Stupid Security Story of today

2004-11-04 Thread Russ Johnson
Jason wrote: With XP, 2K, 2K3, etc. though, the recommendations of user/admin are pretty much the same as with Unix, Linux, etc. That may be the "recommended" way, but it's not how the installer sets things up. In XP, when you add users during the install they're all administrators. Russ

Re: [Eug-lug] Stupid Security Story of today

2004-11-04 Thread Russ Johnson
larry price wrote: OK, linux, unix, BeOS, anything must be better than a system that allows this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/04/phishing_exploit/ I mean, rewriting the hosts file from a browser exploit...? Shouldn't you a least need elevated privileges to access functionality that could

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: confirm ad8a9e7615525e05f5acd715586dd5b7734eae9a

2004-10-24 Thread Russ Johnson
means the list is hosted on the euglug.org mail server. So it only makes sense to send the command to disconnect from the list to the server that's hosting the mailing list. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html R

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: confirm ad8a9e7615525e05f5acd715586dd5b7734eae9a

2004-10-23 Thread Russ Johnson
nymore, it has to be sent to the proper server. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought #18 (Collect all 24) "The sum of the parts of the whole is due a portion of the overall sum of the portion of th

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

2004-10-20 Thread Russ Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voting would not be considered terrorism. Violence is the key here. But what you have to understand here is what the government considers "violence". They stretch the term quite a bit, including acts of vandalism under its unbrella. Some of the counseling I've been

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

2004-10-20 Thread Russ Johnson
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:21:03PM -0700, Russ Johnson wrote: In another useful attempt to produce a definition, Paul Pillar, a former deputy chief of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, argues that there are four key elements of terrorism: 1. It is premeditated?pl

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

2004-10-19 Thread Russ Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, I should clarify that the US government defines terrorism as those who kill OR disrupt society OR strike fear in large groups of people. You don't actually have to commit violent acts to be officially labeled as a terrorist. Actually, to quote from the Council O

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Bluetooth and connectivity

2004-10-06 Thread Russ Johnson
Allen Brown wrote: If two folks want to share addresses they then make their phones discoverable? Well, one must be discoverable. The other does the discovering. That was probably the weakness that I heard about. Folks naturally forget to take the phone out of that mode afterwards. (And in any c

Re: [Eug-lug] Text file

2004-09-24 Thread Russ Johnson
Bob Crandell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to process the contents of a text file in a bash script. There is a part of this I'm just not getting. The script: USERLIST=/mylist.txt for NAME in $[USERLIST] ; do echo "$NAME to do." done What are you wanting to do, and what happens when you do what you are d

Re: [Eug-lug] Dell Service?

2004-09-16 Thread russ johnson
bstitute? # cd /mnt/hda2; find . | cpio -pdm /mnt/hdd2 -- Russ Johnson ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] Newbie Thank You and a Question answered?

2004-08-18 Thread Russ Johnson
nyal wrote: On Wednesday 18 August 2004 12:10 pm, nyal wrote: I've had a thought but I'm not sure if I'm on the right track. I'm thinking that if I add: none /mnt/cdorm supermount rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 things might

Re: [Eug-lug] Keysigning party

2004-07-20 Thread Russ Johnson
Jacob Meuser wrote: What's the point of encryption for an archived mailing list? There appears to be some confusion here. Two different functions of keys. Encryption of email and signing of email. One hides the content of the email and the other identifies the author and/or validates the conten

Re: [Eug-lug] NYTimes.com Article: You' ve Got Mail (and CourtSays Others Can Re

2004-07-06 Thread Russ Johnson
ested interest in keeping encryption out of general use. It's more of a lack of exposure and ignorance. People don't think it's necessary. Russ Johnson ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] Accountability... was "Meeting place"

2004-07-02 Thread Russ Johnson
larry wrote: That is true, but what about the automated threats (virus,worm,webtrojan, etc.) If they were naturally occurring, I'd agree with you. However, I have yet to see a virus, trojan, etc that wasn't written by a person. That person should be held accountable. It seems to me as though in

Re: [Eug-lug] Meeting place

2004-07-02 Thread Russ Johnson
Allen Brown wrote: It really isn't different. Attaching your address to your keys is just as stupid. I'm sick of the American trend of always blaming someone else for one's own stupidity. However, it does not make the act of B&E any less illegal. No matter how stupid one is, the criminal is stil

Re: [Eug-lug] Meeting place

2004-07-01 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph Carter wrote: I almost have a hard time holding any attackers responsible for this kind of thing. That would be like painting your IP address and root passwd on a billboard along I-5. Just because you lose the key to your house, with the address tag attached, does not give anyone the

Re: [Eug-lug] Meeting place

2004-06-30 Thread Russ Johnson
T. Joseph Carter wrote: Hmm, half the Linux dists I know to be worthwhile require a network connection for installation. And in my world, requiring an external connection for installation is a bad thing. Case in point, what if I can't get online, for whatever reason?? Just because there's no inte

Re: [Eug-lug] The Fair....

2004-06-27 Thread Russ Johnson
Mr O wrote: ""you get some hits"" (just not right I tell you) that support your definition. Yeah, I noticed that... just seemed appropriate. :) -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought

Re: [Eug-lug] The Fair....

2004-06-27 Thread Russ Johnson
is context, schwag is a synonym for tchotchkes. http://www.netlingo.com/right.cfm?term=tchotchkes As usual, engish is a very imprecise and fluid language. -- Russ Johnson Dimension 7/Stargate Online http://www.dimstar.net Top post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Random thought #18 (Collect al

Re: [Eug-lug] [Fwd: EFN Invoice On Account: 0084897]

2004-06-24 Thread Russ Johnson
Bob Miller wrote: Russ Johnson wrote: Well, end of an era. So, I don't have an efn account any longer. My longest running email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is no more. I don't see your point. You can either drop the email address or you can pay $5/month. If it's not wo

Re: [Eug-lug] [Fwd: EFN Invoice On Account: 0084897]

2004-06-24 Thread Russ Johnson
John Michael McCool wrote: Please don't take this personally, Russ, but, at last survey, there were literally thousands of such free shell accounts open on efn, and though it can't be contended that this was an outrageous drain on our resources, it did represent one of our major liabilities. E

[Eug-lug] [Fwd: EFN Invoice On Account: 0084897]

2004-06-24 Thread Russ Johnson
Well, end of an era. I got this in my inbox today. Called EPUD and told them I'd been a user on efn since Clif ran it under his stairs oh so many years ago. All I have is a free shell account, and I really only use it for testing from a remote location. Even that is once in a blue moon. Bottom

Re: [Eug-lug] EUGLUG Book Review Ratings

2004-06-08 Thread Russ Johnson
Larry Price wrote: Nutria after all nothing says oregon like giant swamp dwelling rodents. I'd think you'd want to pick something that was native to Oregon, not an imported species. Russ ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org

Re: [Eug-lug] opening .dmg files on unix ??

2004-05-17 Thread Russ Johnson
perdurabo wrote: No, it's not a lie, per say. A DSL modem demodulates an analog signal from the wire into digital information. It also takes digital information and modulates it into an analog signal and put onto the wire. This is roughly the same as how a dialup modem works. It also performs routi

Re: [Eug-lug] Trying New OS

2004-05-15 Thread Russ Johnson
Jim Darrough wrote: Regards, Jim Darrough Are you the same Jim Darrough that was the Fidonet NC in Net 152 for a while? Russ ___ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug