CentraLUG report - meeting of July 3rd

2006-07-06 Thread Bill Sconce
A light turnout (three of us!), but a highly productive evening. As promised we cross-reviewed the magazines the attendees use the most. There was no formal poll, but from memory: o Linux Format (expensive, but more than one of us has installed a product for the first evaluation from the

OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread psnider
I'm finally fed up with adelphia email service. They have enough space but limit the inbox to 1000 messages even though there is still 90% free space available. Does anyone have an available gmail invitations or would recommend yahoo or hotmail email? thanks, -pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Christopher Chisholm
sending a gmail invite your way. gmail is great, it's my favorite of every one i've tried -chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally fed up with adelphia email service. They have enough space but limit the inbox to 1000 messages even though there is still 90% free space available. Does

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm finally fed up with adelphia email service. They have enough > space but limit the inbox to 1000 messages even though there is > still 90% free space available. > > Does anyone have an available gmail invitations or would recomme

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread psnider
Thanks to all the gmail invites... -pete Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm finally fed up with adelphia email service. They have enough > > space but limit the inbox to 1000 messages even though there is > > sti

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Travis Roy
That said, considering that gmail keeps archives of all messages, I'd put some thought into how comfortable you are with having somebody else keep a copy of your email. Personally, I only ever use my gmail account for public mailing lists I'm on. And who's to say that any email on any server is

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Christopher Chisholm
but google's motto is "don't be evil". they wouldn't read my e-mail, right? haha i do wonder if one day I'll do a google search and see one of my e-mails show up. -chris Cole Tuininga wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally fed up with adelphia ema

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/6/06, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And who's to say that any email on any server isn't archived for who knows how long... Indeed. It's a fair bet it is. Google isn't the only operator that performs backups of their systems. And besides, the NSA keeps a copy of everything for y

DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - August 3rd

2006-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux Users Group http://www.dlslug.org/ *** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 6, 2006, at 13:43, Ben Scott wrote: Indeed. It's a fair bet it is. Google isn't the only operator that performs backups of their systems. And besides, the NSA keeps a copy of everything for you, too. ;-) So next time I lose a mail disk I should file a FOIA request with the NSA? :)

Re: Stupid ebay/amazon question

2006-07-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 30, 2006, at 18:52, Ben Scott wrote: Well, since you bring it up, Firefox's "Extensions" are very similar to ActiveX in this regard. Both will auto-download programs to your computer. One difference worth noting is there aren't websites (statistically, at least) that require a Firefo

Re: QMail help

2006-07-06 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:33:08PM -0400, Tom Faska wrote: > If you have not seen it yet go to http://www.qmail.org/ for information > on QMail. Another very useful site is http://www.lifewithqmail.org/. > > I switched from QMail to Postfix several years ago but may still > remember enough to h

Re: Stupid ebay/amazon question

2006-07-06 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/6/06, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, since you bring it up, Firefox's "Extensions" are very similar to ActiveX in this regard. Both will auto-download programs to your computer. One difference worth noting is there aren't websites (statistically, at least) that require a

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:42:09PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Jul 6, 2006, at 13:43, Ben Scott wrote: > > > Indeed. It's a fair bet it is. Google isn't the only operator that > >performs backups of their systems. And besides, the NSA keeps a copy > >of everything for you, too. ;-) > >

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:42:09PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Jul 6, 2006, at 13:43, Ben Scott wrote: > > Indeed. It's a fair bet it is. Google isn't the only operator that > > performs backups of their systems. And besides, the NSA keeps a copy > > of everything for you, too. ;-) > >

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/6/06, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So next time I lose a mail disk I should file a FOIA request with the NSA? :) Hmm, We know you're joking, but... Yah, why bother with all these expensive tapes and hard disks and such, when you can just let the NSA handle your backups for y

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [LXP] Linux Pipeline - 07.05.2006 - SCO Smack-Down]]

2006-07-06 Thread LDR
--- Begin Message --- When the US brought antitrust suit against IBM, IBM had more antitrust lawyers than the justice department had lawyers of any kind. :-| (This is a real, genuine fact!) :-| I have a strict rule. I let IBM's lawyers worry about their domain, and I worry about everything el

Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-06 Thread Steven W. Orr
I've looked everywhere. What happened to gasp, the gnu assembler macro processor? Did they stop making it? It used to be in its own rpm and then the latest thing I found on the web is that it used to be part of binutils. Gone. Anyone know where my gasp went? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas Charron
  Gasp is considered 'obsolete'.  The bintuils-gasp is the only remnant of it, for applications that require it.On 7/6/06, Steven W. Orr < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I've looked everywhere. What happened to gasp, the gnu assembler macro processor? Did they stop making it? It used to be in its own rpm

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-06 Thread Bill Ricker
Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only remnant of it, for applications that require it. Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what? What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS tool-chain? -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-06 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Jul 6th 2006 at 22:22 -0400, quoth Thomas Charron: => Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only remnant of =>it, for applications that require it. It just doesn't make any sense. I know that with the advent of pipelining, writing assembler is less and less sensib