Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread aluminumsulfate
From: Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:53:29 -0500 > * Mandating SMTP AUTH > * Universal use of GnuPG + message signing > * HashCash (or similar systems) http://www.hashcash.org/ They're all hacks. The only *real* solution is something completely

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just off the top of my head... * Mandating SMTP AUTH * Universal use of GnuPG + message signing * HashCash (or similar systems) http://www.hashcash.org/ They're all hacks. The only *real* solution is something completely different. In general, any spam-proof m

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread aluminumsulfate
From: Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:00:00 -0500 > it that even they don't get accepted. In the meantime any > countermeasure is a hack. They're actually not ways to reduce spam. There are many, many analyses available on the web that show exac

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Mar 13, 2006, at 18:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just it. It's NOT a valid way to reduce spam. Just like killing junkies is not a valid way to fight AIDS... The trouble is the valid ways to reduce spam (like DomainKeys and SPF records) are very very lightly

GNHLUG Nashua, Thr 16 Mar, Christopher Aillon on NetworkManager

2006-03-14 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Who  : Christopher Aillon of Red Hat What : NetworkManager Where: Martha's Exchange Day  : Thur 16 Mar (*THURSDAY*) Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for presentation :: Overview All other programs on the system interact with NetworkManager over dbus, sending messages and receiving replies via

Re: Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL))

2006-03-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: > My high school taught Pascal on Z/80 machines running CPM when those > were 'out of date'. I think they'd still be fine for learning > Pascal. My high school math teacher took me aside on the first day of computer class and told me that he didn't know anything about com

Re: Dia and pdf

2006-03-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 2:39 pm, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > I believe Adobe Photoshop can read eps files and also save to pdf, so > that may work. Apparently, DIA uses Pango, and there is a PangoPDF tool. http://pangopdf.sourceforge.net/ -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Un

Re: Dia and pdf

2006-03-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 14, 2006, at 13:57, Cole Tuininga wrote: Anybody know an easy way to save Dia files as pdf's? I typically print to a PostScript file and run ps2pdf. For some reason Dia likes to print extra blank pages, though. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Compu

Re: Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL))

2006-03-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 13, 2006, at 15:18, Christopher Schmidt wrote: So, although most of the computer related classes - Desktop Publishing, Word Processing, etc. - were taught on relatively modern machines running a recent windows version, the Computer Science courses were taught on the oldest computers in th

Re: Dia and pdf

2006-03-14 Thread Christopher Chisholm
I believe Adobe Photoshop can read eps files and also save to pdf, so that may work. -chris Michael ODonnell wrote: dia claims to be able to export in EPS format so it's possible that you could feed that to epstopdf, or maybe some combination of eps2eps and ps2pdf if that don't work.

Re: Dia and pdf

2006-03-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
dia claims to be able to export in EPS format so it's possible that you could feed that to epstopdf, or maybe some combination of eps2eps and ps2pdf if that don't work. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 13, 2006, at 18:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's just it. It's NOT a valid way to reduce spam. Just like killing junkies is not a valid way to fight AIDS... The trouble is the valid ways to reduce spam (like DomainKeys and SPF records) are very very lightly deployed and the IETF

Dia and pdf

2006-03-14 Thread Cole Tuininga
Hey all, Anybody know an easy way to save Dia files as pdf's? -- Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Anyone locally installing Asterisk based PBX systems?

2006-03-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 13, 2006, at 16:34, hewitt_tech wrote: I have a client who got a proposal for a PBX system and I suspect it might be more costly then necessary. They need something like 20+ phones in their new facility and I would like to have them have a counter bid. Is there a local company doing thi

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 14, 2006, at 10:30, Christopher Chisholm wrote: Thanks for the feedback, DB Designer looks like a winner to me. It looks like it can even connect to remote databases and work with them live! Very cool. Bugger - this looks really great, but when I went to check out the forum I got:

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:21 am, Star wrote: > On 3/14/06, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > > > Hey Everyone, > > > > > > Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can > > > graph relational databases?

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
VCG can be used to generate some fairly complex graphs. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Star
On 3/14/06, Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote:> Hey Everyone,>> Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph> relational databases?  I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS > Access draws tables, o

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 10:30 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > Thanks for the feedback, DB Designer looks like a winner to me.  It > looks like it can even connect to remote databases and work with them > live!  Very cool. It's not perfect, but it did a good job for the project I was working on.

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Christopher Chisholm
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: Hey Everyone, Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. I don't ne

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 9:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph > relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS > Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. > > I don't need the program

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph > relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS > Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. I haven't tried it out, but

open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Christopher Chisholm
Hey Everyone, Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. I don't need the program to be able to read the contents of an existing database (though that

Re: Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

2006-03-14 Thread Jon maddog Hall
I use a technique for passwords that I have not seen anyone mention. I use the first letters of a phrase that is simple to remember (for me) that relates to the site. This makes a "word" that is not in any dictionary, and is typically long enough. The truly paranoid could put a digit or special