My manager is making a new contact DB for our company, and it's great.
The problem is that for spaces he's using nbsp and it shows up in my
firefox, but not in his IE.
I'm positive it's that he's doing it wrong, but searching for it in
google is hard because I get a ton of other pages that
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don't forget the semicolon.
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My manager is making a new contact DB for our company,
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:23:27AM -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
My manager is making a new contact DB for our company, and it's great.
The problem is that for spaces he's using nbsp and it shows up in my
firefox, but not in his IE.
I'm positive it's that he's doing it wrong, but searching for
On 2/2/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that for spaces he's using nbsp and it shows up in
my firefox, but not in his IE.
Maybe he should switch to Firefox? ;-)
Anyway, can anybody show me a proper example of using nbsp?
PMy name is Bennbsp;Scott. This is a
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:23:27AM -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
My manager is making a new contact DB for our company, and it's great.
The problem is that for spaces he's using nbsp and it shows up in my
firefox, but not in his IE.
Your manager is broken. Replace him with a bash script. :-)
On 2/1/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 1, 2006, at 13:30, Ben Scott wrote: I didn't say you wouldn't want to use any modules, I said you don't want every module known to man to be used. But then someone has to decide which modules are appropriate and
which are not.I think the
On 2/1/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's worth noting Apple has ditched the whole lot and gone with launchd ...Wasn't familiar with it.I just looked it up.Yet Another daemonmanager/init replacement.There's gotta be over a dozen out there by
now.Ho hum.:)One idea I saw pitched once that
I just experienced an interesting incident involving information
security practices.
At a client's organization I recently, and very gently, urged a DBA to
stop their practice of recycling the printouts from test runs of certain
reports.
These test runs were huge so it's understandable that they
That's a pretty funny story, but on the other hand, that realy sucks
for those invovled.
Do you know if rather than reusing documents like that for internal use,
do companies like Absolute Data Destruction (based in Goffstown) offer
srecycling services? Personally I think it's insane
On 2/2/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Solaris SMF soes the dependencies and watchdogging.
I'm not surprised in the least that Sun came up with their very own
init replacement. ;-)
Instead of init 3, svcadm milestone multi-user-server.
Eeesh. They taking lessons from VMS or
On Thursday 02 February 2006 09:21, Jeff Kinz wrote:
...
The Lesson:
Its clear that one never really knows how recycled materials are going
to be used so confidential materials must always be destroyed rather
than recycled. (duh)
Also, if you do *test* runs, use *test* data if at all
On 2/2/06, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the Boston Globe case, there is an element of professionalism amiss here.
Sadly, this appears to be the norm and not the exception. There
have been many news reports over the past couple of years where
supposedly personal and private information was
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:08:08AM -0500, Fred wrote:
On Thursday 02 February 2006 09:21, Jeff Kinz wrote:
...
The Lesson:
Its clear that one never really knows how recycled materials are going
to be used so confidential materials must always be destroyed rather
than recycled. (duh)
Fred wrote:
In the Boston Globe case, there is an element of professionalism
amiss here. It seems to me pretty darn tacky to use test printouts
for wrapping paper. It shows no one cares a hoot about their image
there.
The only folk who ever see toppers are the people on the loading dock
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:27:48AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:08:08AM -0500, Fred wrote:
On Thursday 02 February 2006 09:21, Jeff Kinz wrote:
...
The Lesson:
Its clear that one never really knows how recycled materials are going
to be used so
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:26:59AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
Chris, yes, the toppers ordinarily don't have confidential info on them.
They are usually just a delivery list, nothing wrong with having toppers.
In this case, the toppers were printed on recycled paper which
had the confidential
On 2/2/06, Christopher Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand that, but the problem is not in using recycled paper for
toppers -- that is neither an image problem nor any other kind of issue ...
I think the *point* was not the use of recycled paper for toppers,
but that they were
Its clear that one never really knows how recycled materials are going
to be used so confidential materials must always be destroyed rather
than recycled. (duh)
Very true, most stuff being sent out to be recycled tends to end up in
the trash anyway:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:26:59AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
Chris, yes, the toppers ordinarily don't have confidential info on them.
They are usually just a delivery list, nothing wrong with having toppers.
In this
On 2/2/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very true, most stuff being sent out to be recycled tends to end up in
the trash anyway:
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r
Ah, yes, Penn and Teller, clearly an unbiased, subject matter expert
on materials engineering and reuse...
On 2/2/06, Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The md5 signature is probably overkill since everything we are storing
originated with the client and I can not come up with any likely reason
for someone to flood the server with synthetic survey results, however
the signature is easy to do and I'd
I'm not sure I trust that site's assessment of recycling. It's true
that recycling creates pollution, and that's because it uses energy,
just like everything else. When you compare the total lifecycle energy
cost of different materials, you find varying degrees of recycling
success. Some
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:07:45AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r
Ah, yes, Penn and Teller, clearly an unbiased, subject matter expert
on materials engineering and reuse... ;-)
I don't understand, the Penn and Teller article says exactly the same
Travis Roy wrote:
Its clear that one never really knows how recycled materials are going
to be used so confidential materials must always be destroyed rather
than recycled. (duh)
Very true, most stuff being sent out to be recycled tends to end up
in the trash anyway:
This confusion
It's really a good show. You should watch it.
I'm not saying it's right, or wrong, but it's a different perspective
and usually gives you views that you might not normally hear.
Their one of environmentalism was fantastic, they got a ton of people to
sign petitions to ban Dyhydrogen Monoxide
On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:28, Christopher Chisholm wrote:
totally destroy data ON-SITE
If you can trust your employees to make decisions about what needs to
be destroyed and what doesn't, many companies have two paper recycling
bins - one for normal recycling and one To Be Shredded. There are
On 2/2/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But which mailing list is this again? Oh, right, linux.
In all fairness, from what I can tell, the major objection I and
others have had is to a particular set of people pushing the same
political statements and arguments on this list *ad
-- Original message --
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/2/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very true, most stuff being sent out to be recycled tends to end up in
the trash anyway:
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r
Ah, yes,
So, to bring it back to topic, how do people go about removing data from computers?I have to deal with DOD stuff and there are some approved disk scrubbers. They have to be approved so something like Darryl's Boot 'n Nuke that goes further doesn't cut it.
Some it also depends on having a badblock
At 9:21 AM -0500 2/2/06, Jeff Kinz wrote:
Everything: Family info, age, birth date, addresses, SSN, phone #'s,
emails, all contact phone #s and more.
This begs the question of precisely why such a report is needed.
Why do you need a printout of all your customer's info?
What do you do with
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you're doing option parsing, IMO, it's a *lot* easier to use
getopt, whicn is a bash built-in than arcane and confusing bash
magic like this...
P.S. That's a novel way to spell which - I had to clean
my eyeglasses and refresh my screen
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Ray Cote wrote:
At 9:21 AM -0500 2/2/06, Jeff Kinz wrote:
Everything: Family info, age, birth date, addresses, SSN, phone #'s,
emails, all contact phone #s and more.
This begs the question of precisely why such a report is needed.
Why do you need a
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you've caught the Microsoft mentality. Features, features,
features! Hey, let's embed an ANSI-compliant C compiler into our web
browser, a 3D video game into our spreadsheet, and a spell checker in
our backup software! (Extra points for knowing
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Feb 1, 2006, at 13:30, Ben Scott wrote:
I didn't say you wouldn't want to use any modules, I said you don't
want every module known to man to be used.
But then someone has to decide which modules are appropriate and
which are not. I think the
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 01:04:58PM -0500, Christopher Chisholm wrote:
Good points. Obviously the best way to go about things is to use as
little as possible. You /do/ have to wonder why huge paper reports need
to be printed these days. Especially when you can buy a 200gb HDD at
On 2/2/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, to bring it back to topic, how do people go about removing data from
computers?
For corporate data and internal re-use of equipment, I generally
just use Delete. Regular users don't have the privilege to do
anything more (and if they've
On 2/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Penn Teller, might not be experts, but here is an interesting article to
read
http://www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/garbage.html
The one comment I'll make on recycling in this forum is that many of
the analyses I've seen
On Thursday, Feb 2nd 2006 at 13:04 -0500, quoth Paul Lussier:
=Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
=
= I think you've caught the Microsoft mentality. Features, features,
= features! Hey, let's embed an ANSI-compliant C compiler into our web
= browser, a 3D video game into our spreadsheet, and
Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just experienced an interesting incident involving information
security practices.
At a client's organization I recently, and very gently, urged a DBA to
stop their practice of recycling the printouts from test runs of certain
reports.
These test runs
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:12:14PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just experienced an interesting incident involving information
security practices.
At a client's organization I recently, and very gently, urged a DBA to
stop their practice of
Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wow! And I thought *I* was wasting huge amounts of brain cells with
useless stuff. :^)
The problem with having a brain capable of remember this type of
useless stuff is that there's often little capacity left over for
truly important things like
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 2/2/06, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the Boston Globe case, there is an element of professionalism amiss here.
Sadly, this appears to be the norm and not the exception.
[...]
People often express concerns about the security of their personal
Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sure, if one side is blank, then you've wasted one potential use. The
cure for that is 4 or 8 up, duplex as the default setting on *all*
Would break the premise of the test run. Has to come out same as final
form.
Perhaps they just need 4-up, duplex
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