Personal document development multimedia on Linux

2003-02-13 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
What have been your experiences attempting or doing the following with Linux? Editing Word, Excel Powerpoint docs on Linux in a mix with MS-weenies WYSIWYG web page and template development DVD-R DVD-RW Playing standard music CDs Playing standard Video DVDs Ripping Audio CDs Ripping

Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed)

2003-02-13 Thread Hewitt Tech
An acquaintance sent me an email asking to have her email address changed. It seems that a spammer used her email address as a return address (I guess that's sometimes called spoofing) and of course she's getting deluged with angry responses from the spammer's activities. I pointed her to some of

RE: Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed)

2003-02-13 Thread Stephen Ingham
The same thing has happened to me. I love to find out if you have any success in this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hewitt Tech Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spammer used legitimate email

Re: Spammer used legitimate email address as return (spoofed)

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
As it happens, there is a recent article on http://slashdot.org from someone this happened to along with the usual discussion. I'm sure there's some solutions. Stephen Ingham said: The same thing has happened to me. I love to find out if you have any success in this. -Original

Re: Personal document development multimedia on Linux

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * .avi's Problematic. My digicam will take short (30 sec) avi movies, and I can't play them back (though I haven't tried real hard either ) mplayer works well on this. You can use windows codecs as well. * .wmf's Never heard of it.

Re: Help with Grep

2003-02-13 Thread Ed Lawson
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: grep -E '(po|to|delay)=|dsn=4' filename Thanks to all of you you replied. It is gratifying to have such a helpful group which will take time out to help. Amazingly, my try was almost close. Yeah right. Maybe someday I can say more about this. The first

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Handheld Linuxand the HP/Compaq iPaq

2003-02-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:00 PM (6:30 for general QA) Topic: Handheld Linux and the HP/Compaq iPaq Location: MIT Building 4-370 *** NOTE: Location back to our semi-regular room. Presented by Jamey Hicks, Hewlett Packard Company - Jamey.Hicks at hp dot com An overview of Linux on the