Karl Runge writes:
>It is possible you have an oddly named file " ^Subject: (ADV:)"
>that contains those missing ~ 100 emails of yours.
You're right!
$ ls -l *Sub*
-rw---1 jrv jrv 2555170 May 13 19:26 ^Subject:
Thank you very much!
- Jim Van Zandt
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Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> you may want to have a look at razor
> (http://razor.sourceforge.net/). It's a distributed SPAM checking
> system.
I noticed this a while back, and it looks very interesting. However
just the other day I read a comment at Slashdot that someone has been
Thanks for all the replies.
>need a * here, don't you?
>> ^Subject: (ADV:)
Right! Ben Boulanger and Karl Runge spotted this one.
I rewrote it this way:
:0 H # recognize junk mail by subject
* ^Subject: (ADV:)
Mail/junk-subject
With this change, the rules seem to be w
I've been running a simple procmail filter to get rid of spam from
some specific sites. The sample below only includes a few of the
addresses, but even with the whole list it's no longer very effective.
Last weekend I decided to tune it up to filter out more of the spam.
I added the last three r
"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
Ben Boulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes.
I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have?
Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For dual Athlons?
What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86?
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anyone here regularly use Emacs' changelog-mode? I'm playing
>around with it a little, and I'd like to customize it some, but not
>sure how or where to begin.
>
>The first thing I'd like to do is have it append new entries to file
>as opposed to insertin
I ordered a Woody disk last night for $5.95. Only a single disk, but
supposed to be enough to get started, and you can get the rest over
the network. (The full woody distribution apparently will take 8
CDs!)
- Jim Van Zandt
- Jim Van Zandt
Date: 25 Jan 2002 21:10:51 -0500
From: "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Microsoft Settlement
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I oppose the proposed Microsof
Greg -
I've been staying away from Adaptec adapters because so many problems
were reported with the Linux device drivers. Even after the
manufacturer started working with the kernel hackers, I heard that
there were always a few adapters that would not work. Fixing the
software for them would b
Your favorite Debian mirror ought to have binaries in
pool/main/g/gphoto/gphoto_0.4.3-5.1_i386.deb
- Jim Van Zandt
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Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aliases are not the problem. The problem is aliasing commands *for
>someone else*. If I alias 'ls' to 'rm -rf .', then that is my own
>business, and presumably I have a reason. It is things like Unix and
>Linux distro vendors setting up "default"
Michael Bovee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I discovered that under SuSE 7.1 for PPC,
>that if I type ll
>the output looks the same as if I had typed ls -l, but there is no
>man page for 'el el'?
If you want to find out where a command comes from, you can use bash's
command "type":
vanzand
Derek D. Martin writes:
>Common myth says that AWK was named from the first letters of the
>authors. The truth is it's just short for AWKward programming
>language...
Hah! For really awkward programming, try sed. Judging from the man
page, I think it actually has most of the power of awk. A
If your isolated network *does* need sub-second accuracy, you can
still use ntpd to syncronize the machines, if you provide one time
server with a radio clock. See the ntpd docs for details.
- Jim Van Zandt
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Chris Taylor wrote:
>
>Didn't that old James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun" have
>some sort of gun that could be broken down to appear as a pen and
>lighter?
A while ago I ran across a .mpg file showing a gun in the form of a
cellphone. It fired when you pressed certain keys. (The c
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I've noticed that dual-Athlon motherboards have hit the market (well,
>> okay, at least one of 'em, from Tyan)
>
> I found the following article head-and-shoulders above the rest when it
>came to solid i
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Rich Cloutier wrote:
>> ME is supposed to boot faster than 98
>
> It doesn't.
>
> (More accurately, it can boot just as slowly as [any] other version of
>Windows ever did.)
I just got a Gateway Solo 3350 notebook with Windows ME
>I can't read it using GSView 4.0 on Windows either.
>
>If someone CAN read it pls let us know and with what.
For one thing, it has a big section with only carriage returns and no
linefeeds. " tr '\r' '\n' " took care of that. However, it still
wouldn't display. There are lots of lines endin
"Karl J. Runge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > ... and now dabbles in internet security issues (ShieldsUP, etc).
>>
>> "Dabbles" isn't the right word. "Pretends", maybe. He keeps
>> re-inventing nmap and thinking he is doing s
>> > As Jerry Pournelle once said: "You can never have enough documentation."
Actually, the statement I remember was "You can never have too many
examples" which I like better. A beginner needs examples. Reference
documentation is for when you can't find a suitable example.
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
>> Oooh. I HATE spaces in file names. The file system may support it, but
>> they break almost every script.
>
>They shouldn't break a well-written script. There are, alas, a
>large number of poorly writte
Charles C. Bennett, Jr. writes:
>Remember - the GPL is here to protect *you* from having commercial
>interests poaching on your labor without you getting anything in
>return.
Well, yes, but only credit, not any monetary reward. As I read it,
the GPL ensures the user gets the benefits of open
Alex Hewitt USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Greg, the best advice that you will get from me and others who
>frequent this group is to invest in a firewall/router box. I use the
>LinkSys BEFSR41 which has 4 10/100 ports but there are several other
>manufacturers of these devices. They cost aroun
I managed (finally!) to restore my system from backups after the
possible compromise last week. I also repartitioned to make better use
of a new disk, and now have lots more room. In the process, I found
myself wishing for a better way to visualize disk and partition sizes.
A modest search of th
"Karl J. Runge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>But now it certainly seems like a name resolution problem.
>The ssh process for some reason cannot resolve "vanzandt" to an IP
>address.
...
>Just curious, if on voyager you remove the vanzandt.mv.com line
>and put in:
>
>192.168.0.1foobar
>
>d
Chad Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Okay, call me slow, but I'm having trouble setting up Public Key
>access to OpenSSH on my RH 7.0 machine.
I'm also having trouble setting up SSH between two machines. At the
moment, it works one way but not the other.
Host "vanzandt" has this:
vanzan
Randall Hofland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Doesn't sound like I could do any worse with a $5 Encore than what
> that Realtek chipset is providing.
Yes, $5 is a good price.
> It does sound like the N-Way negotiation is not working so the
> driver must not be properly installed (and I do seem
Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
>Some alternatives I have seen:
...
>3. FTP over SSH - use SSH for the base connection, then run FTP through it.
How does this work? I suppose it uses the -R option, but I would
appreciate an example.
- Jim Van Zandt
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
>> Further, I would like configure the complain when it can't
>> find the library.
You can use AC_MSG_ERROR to complain, like this:
AC_PATH_PROG(bash, bash, FAIL)
if test "$bash" = "FAIL"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot continue: bash
"Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> It then seg-faults and core dumps. Can anyone tell me how I can read the
>> core fie and find out why it's faulting?
>
>gdb
>
>At the prompt type "where".
Alternately: run tripwire under strace. I usually use "strac
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Also, please give well-wishes to my friend's MS-Windows box, which
>succeeded in staying up for 365 minutes the other day ;-)
In the Time magazine we got today, on about pages 10-11, Microsoft has
a big ad discussing "five 9s" reliability. Their punch
"Bourdon, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I meant that the original HDD (the one with Linux installed) is
>electrically and physically disconected and located on the other side
>of the room (i.e. FAR!).
I suspect there is another drive in there which he didn't notice. For
example, I had on
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Linux 2.4.0 was released today!
For me, the big news what that NPR carried the story as one of their
headlines.
- Jim Van Zandt
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I downloaded wv-source.tar.bz2 and tried to build it. configure did
not create iconv/Makefile until I made this change:
--- /dev/fd/63 Wed Dec 27 11:04:20 2000
+++ configure.inTue Dec 26 21:16:58 2000
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@
expat/xmlparse/Makefile
exporter/Makefile
magick/Makefile
+ico
Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> ie_exp_MsWord_97.cpp:
>> In file included from ie_exp_MsWord_97.cpp:274:
>> ie_exp_MsWord_97.h:28: exporter/wvexporter.h: No such file or
>> directory
>
>Ummm...that's your problem not theirs. You're missing header files that
>abiword need to com
Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Now Abiword 0.7.12 is out - see site shown. They even include debs!
I'm glad they are thinking about Debian, but I was not able to use
their debs. The installation notes say they should work in a Slink
system, but they are linked against shared libra
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Yrgh, backups of yer backups.. {sigh}
>
> Those aren't a bad idea, either. The standard grandfather/father/son
>rotation keeps nineteen copies of your data at any given time.
I count 3 copies. Obviously I'm missing something. Would you expand
on
Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I've finally discovered that the "play" command deletes the special
>file if it's asked to play a directory. Then, no matter what you ask
>it to play later, it creates /dev/dsp as a regular file.
It should not have been able to do that. Were you r
"Karl J. Runge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I haven't looked into quantum computers for about 4-5 years, do you
> have any references to some uptodate discussions?
There is a pretty good collection at http://www.qubit.org/
"Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK, throw out any a
"Karl J. Runge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Now, I'm not saying a 1024 bit RSA key is not "enough". Depends a bit
>on how long you want to keep the information secret. For a few years
>I'd opt for a 1024 bit key. For a few decades I'd probably lean
>toward a somewhat longer key (2048 - 4096?).
Robert Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I would not mind doing a talk (or part of one) on the subsections of
>EMACS that I know. I use the following parts of EMACS.
>
...
>Colorized Source code editing in (Perl, C, C++, SQL)
>
>Using the GCC to compile and automatically jumping to the err
Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggests:
>Debian - from the inside (i.e. someone from Debian talking about why
>it was set up, how it runs, what problems they have, etc)
Well, I have been a Debian developer for several years now, and know
my way around it pretty well. There are several othe
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> dpkg lacks quite a bit of the power of RPM when it comes to
>querying installed packages. There is no way to select packages
>based on a file owned, for example.
vanzandt:/tmp$ dpkg --search /bin/fgrep
grep: /bin/fgrep
...so the file /bin/fgrep
Suzanne Hillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>How does one determine the name of the package one would need for a
>specific file/command/binary/etc under Debian (without using the
>search tool on their site)?
The information is in the Contents file, e.g.
/debian/dists/potato/Contents-i386.gz
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> They don't include Netscape on *any* of the *three* CDs that come
>with the "Official" distribution.
I found this on the third CD of my set from Linux Central:
/cdrom/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/mozilla_M14-2.deb
- Ji
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can actually boot up to four different OSes this way (four
>slots for a primary partition), or three if you have an extended
>partition.
You can install a boot program in an extended partition as well as a
primary partition. (As it happens, I i
Suzanne Hillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>if we use the fill in your name tags, how
>many do you think will be legible?
Okay, we can just supply black felt markers, so everyone is forced to
write big enough to be legible.
>I think that if I get a name tag, I need to put it on my back. Peopl
Kurth Bemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>i'm working on a bid and was interested in getting more information
>about content or URL based proxy filtering. can anyone point me in
>the right direction? I know that something must exist for *nix or
>BSDcan anyone recommend any good products?
F
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'd like a printer that:
...
>Recommendations as to what to specifically AVOID are also very welcome.
Read the fine print. A friend just got an HP printer (I don't
remember the model number, but it's recent, large format, color
printer) that was adverti
Greg Kettmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
> How are RH, Turbo, Open and SuSE done? Debian?
^^
1) If your sources use autoconf, then building a .deb package is not
difficult. "dh_make" does most of the work. However,
2) There are a lot of rules a
Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
>Does anybody know off the top of his head the name of the Xwindows resource
>that lets you set focus policy ? I'd like to have focus follow the mouse but
>not bring the window forward until I click on on it so I can type into an
>obscured window.
That
Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
>> Maybe it is all faked on Intel, but on other arches (e.g sparc, alpha)
>> perhaps it is something on the board... Anyone know?
>
> Such "high-end" or "professional" architectures traditionally have
>a unique
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached:
>>Mem: 64524288 41836544 22687744 25706496 9859072 15622144
...
>I just had a discussion about that very topic with one of our kernel
>weenies last week. You're almost perfect, if I un
Bob Sparks writes:
>Linux "uses" most of the memory, most of the time. It has the kernel,
>and the applications, in memory. It uses all but a few MB of the rest
>for disk buffers. Any time the applications, etc. need more memory,
>Linux flushes some disk buffers, and frees up the memory. This is
Karl J. Runge writes:
>On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have been told countless times that I should be using Slackware, I've
>> noticed that RedHat is the standard, and Debian is getting there, and I
>> like the sound of Turbo... so recently I played with a few d
I discovered that you can copy the .config from a previous version of
the kernel into the new source tree. That sets the defaults the way
you like them. If you use "make config", the new questions are
flagged as "NEW". Changing just one thing is a lot easier with "make
menuconfig", though.
A
In case you had not noticed: Sun just released Star Office 5.2.
The ground rules are a bit different this time around. The "CDROM
only" is available for $10 - but not in English! For major languages,
the only CDROM you can get is with full documentation, for $40. You
can still download for fr
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>It's also worth pointing out that MITRE Corp. has historically been
>one of the greatest sources of Internet-based network breakins in the
>world. Read Cliff Stoll, _The Cukoo's Egg_.
Yes, MITRE got a black eye over that one. Right after that, they
s
"jim t.p. ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have the NTP daemon running as I can set the time using D4 at the
>clients by pointing them at the server.
I'm not familiar with D4. Note that there are several time services
that are not related to ntpd. If your /etc/inetd.conf has lines like
My preference is Debian, for reasons Randy Edwards already cited.
I am a developer, and occasionally get distributions for evaluation.
At present, I have SUSE 6.3 and Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 boxes (both
still shrink-wrapped). You are welcome to have one.
Of course, the fact that I'm willing to
Todd Littlefield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>StarOffice is pretty much a beast and I hate the default occupy the
>whole screen with our "desktop" approach, but it does what I need...
Somebody mentioned that this was controlled by a configuration option.
Also, I have noticed that if I mention
Todd Littlefield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Jeffry Smith said:
>
>>Well, I use both.
>
>Me too. In general, Applixware seems to do a much better job of
>importing MS Word files than SO does (5.0 is *much* better than the
>beta!)
Do you mean that StarOffice 5.0 imports better than StarOffice
>what time server is a good one to use?
Here are some I've found that honor ntp:
192.157.65.57
icm-bb1-dc.icp.net
sl-gw11-chi-9-0-TS4.sprintlink.net
sl-gw1-dc.sprintlink.net
icm-gw1-lac.icp.net
144.228.169.65
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Once Office is ported to Linux (which is like to happen fairly quickly
>if MS is broken up) we may see many large companies with many
>ingnorant/dumb users moving Linux to the desktop with
>Office/IE/Outlook on it. When that occurs, then these types of
Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Found this:
>http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html
>
>They tally the current (approximate) total at over 12,000 authors, 25
>million lines of code. They only include RH 6.1, Linux 2.2.14,
>cryptography code at a site, and 50% of freshmeat. Next survey to
>i
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have you checked out the new StarOffice 5.2 beta? In my playing with it
>I've found it has a number of minor improvements (it's a minor version
>number increase), but the one that sticks out the most is the *.DOC filter.
>It does a *much* better job
>I would appreciate it if someone could point me at information which
>ight explain how to compile, install, register, and then apply a new
>line disciline to the current TTY.
Check the book "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by
Stevens.
- Jim Van Zandt
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Adam Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Well I think that I'm (for lack of a better term) fscked. I don't
>have the partition table information on hand and I don't think I can
>pull it out of my head. Any other ideas? If not just tell me I'm
>fscked and I'll deal with reinstalling (wont be the e
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone have a simple procmail recipie for eliminating duplicate mail?
The standard solution has been posted several times. FWIW, I found
the cache size was 'way to small. This is what I am using:
:0 Whc: msgid.lock
| formail -D 65536 .msgid.cache
Kurth Bemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>um...
>this is all it contains
>
> !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghij
>!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijkl
>mnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
> !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJ
Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The GNHLUG will put on 4 meetings a year with the best speakers we
>can get. The meetings will be held in Feb - May - Aug - Nov. We are
>doing tentative scheduling for the 4th Wed of the month, but because
>of possible speaker conflicts we are leaving the actu
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