InfoWorld learns a lesson (maybe)

Someone (I won't say who because I don't want to get Jeff Smith in trouble) posted a rant a couple weeks ago about how MS-friendly InfoWorld magazine (and friends) were. Apparently, they have found out that dancing with the devil is a dangerous game:

Re: DNS equiv of traceroute?

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: In debugging DNS issues, I'd like to know what servers my DNS lookups are hitting to make sure things are set up correctly. Briefly: No. The way DNS works does not lend itself to such things. Briefly, Yes. You just need to install a local DNS

IBM Linux

For those following the IBM support of Linux (including they're new advertising campaign of peace,love, linux), check out the home page of the Linux Technology Center, where they list recent contributions to the community: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/ jeff

Re: Need to know what vendor made your NIC

Paul Lussier wrote: Look up the first 3 octets at: http://www.shmoo.com/cgi-bin/mac_search.cgi Don't know if anyone cares or not :) Well, I do. Thanks. This comes in handy. -- Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA, 1-603-627-0443 *** Technical Support for

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

In a message dated: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:45:40 EST Tilly, Lawrence said: Haven't you seen the commercials...they can now be up for DAYS without needing attention. :-) Not only that, but the server doesn't even get lonely :) BTW, I agree fully with the posts concerning browser

Need to know what vendor made your NIC

Look up the first 3 octets at: http://www.shmoo.com/cgi-bin/mac_search.cgi Don't know if anyone cares or not :) -- Seeya, Paul It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away. If you're

RE: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

-Original Message- From: Benjamin Scott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:16 AM To: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Subject: Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :) snip My goal was not *just* to be an arrogant ego-maniac. I

rpm too new?

This sounds to me like I can't install tcsh-6.10-0.6.x.i386.rpm (RH6.0 system) because I have rpm 3.0-6.0 rather than 3.0.3-1 - any other explainations out there? error: faild dependencies: rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 is needed by tcsh-6.10-0.6.x Just --force it??

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: I would just like to point out that *nothing* I was trying to do would have prevented anyone from viewing the page on what ever their choice of browser was. All I wanted was several buttons of uniform length ... Browser independence means more then

Re: rpm too new?

I wrote: This sounds to me like I can't install tcsh-6.10-0.6.x.i386.rpm (RH6.0 system) because I have rpm 3.0-6.0 rather than 3.0.3-1 - any other explainations out there? error: faild dependencies: rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 is needed by tcsh-6.10-0.6.x Nevermind.

RE: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

Yeah! ALT tags are a beautiful thing...they at least keep a site usable no matter who's looking around. It's amazing how many sites don't even go that far (and it's really not that far to begin with...just a few extra words to type in). Unfortunately, I've even met someone who refused to use

Re: DNS equiv of traceroute?

Today, Peter Cavender gleaned this insight: On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: In debugging DNS issues, I'd like to know what servers my DNS lookups are hitting to make sure things are set up correctly. Briefly: No. The way DNS works does not lend itself to such things.

Re: Stupid HTML Tricks (or I hate HTML :)

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: Now why couldn't you have suggested this the other day? This is a decent solution I can live with :) I thought I mentioned something about using graphics for the buttons... Hmmm, looking back, I stated it poorly; the phrase dynamically-generated

Fwd: Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NT E-Banking and E-Commerce Sites

This is rather interesting. Dave Hardy Systems Manager/DBA Vermont Health Care Administration 89 Main Street Drawer 20 Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 802-828-2914 FAX: 802-828-2949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Large Criminal Hacker Attack on Windows NT E-Banking

Re: DNS equiv of traceroute?

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: In debugging DNS issues, I'd like to know what servers my DNS lookups are hitting to make sure things are set up correctly. Briefly: No. The way DNS works does not lend itself to such things. At length: It depends on where the recursion occurs.