Re: ATA disks and controllers (was: Hoss Traders)

2002-05-03 Thread James R. Van Zandt
"Rich C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: "Ken Ambrose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:43 PM >Subject: Re: ATA disks and controllers (was: Hoss Traders) > >> darn close to a

Re: Tape Backups

2002-05-03 Thread Karl J. Runge
Hi, Out of this thread Bill Freeman and I got onto a side discussion of the compression efficiency of gzip(1) vs blocksize. This led to an experiment to take the first 2MB of /usr/doc/HOWTO/* and /bin/* and see how well that blob compresses when broken up into blocks where each block is gzip com

M$' MIT prof witness gets toasted over KDE, GNOME

2002-05-03 Thread Karl J. Runge
Amusing and tense questioning of M$ "expert witness" and the 9 State's attorney: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25136.html * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe

Re: cat an Exchange inbox?

2002-05-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Todd Littlefield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This may not be for the faint of heart but it is an option... The > RFC will contain all the commands that you can use... A google search > should produce some links... >From my notes: POP3 conversation: -- $ telnet mailserver

Re: cat an Exchange inbox?

2002-05-03 Thread Tom Buskey
Benjamin Scott said: >On Thu, 2 May 2002, at 7:58pm, Karl J. Runge wrote: >> Is it possible to "cat" an Exchange/Outlook mailbox from a unix shell? > I'm thinking along the lines of being able to view (but not download) >> ones POP/IMAP email via fetchmail like: >> % fetchmail -k -m cat | more

Re: cat an Exchange inbox?

2002-05-03 Thread Todd Littlefield
For the truly hardcore (well, maybe not) it is possible to telnet to the POP3 port and manually login. It is a text based, standard protocol. I looked it up on the web at one point but don't remember the RFC number. It is a fairly trivial thing to do. In fact Outlook Express kept choking on an