Re: helpful amanda script

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Lussier
John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Lussier wrote: There's likely lots of room for improvement here, not the least of which is to determine when (and how) to use a pager (more or less, etc.) based on the number of rows in current terminal vs. the number of rows of output. I'd

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/23/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem: people misaddress e-mails, don't look at what their client is auto-completing for them, and generally send files to people who shouldn't get them. There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -- Ed Crowley

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Bruce Dawson
On 8/23/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... ... SSL can be enforced ... So can PGP or S/MIME. (Yes, I saw your report of their objection. You presumably saw my objections to their objection. :) ) ... I should point out that SSL/PGP/S/MIME won't stop the spammers. They will

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Bruce Dawson
... first thought: some sort of bot one could send a file and description to that would respond with a URL to the sending user to add an allowed-users list and then send the intended recipients a link to a webpage where they can download the file. This at least gets one layer of

spam, anti-spam, SSL/PGP/etc, etc.

2006-08-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/23/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should point out that SSL/PGP/S/MIME won't stop the spammers. The original thread wasn't about spam, so I've changed the subject. They will just start sending authenticated spam! A'yup. One thing authentication *might* do is make

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/23/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. It was a pain. It sent an email to all unrecognized senders ... I believe the OP is looking to guard against inadvertent disclosure via people inside the organization sending things outside the organization. OP is not looking to filter

OT: Web Designers

2006-08-23 Thread Martin Ekendahl
I was hoping someone could help me with finding a web designer. We are looking to move our content of a old and user updated webpage (mostly in word and old frontpage programs) to a new xhtml strict type template, maybe with some sort of content management so the people in marketing can

Re: Tuning NFS (and Gbit Enet ?)

2006-08-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
Well, the problem in this case turned out to be an Enet cable(!) I finally noticed that one of the NICs had autonegotiated itself back down to 100MB/S when nobody was looking and it refused to go faster when instructed to do so via ethtool. I haven't yet analyzed it thoroughly but I swapped a

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 23, 2006, at 09:56, Ben Scott wrote: I believe the OP is looking to guard against inadvertent disclosure via people inside the organization sending things outside the organization. OP is not looking to filter inbound attachments (not on this thread, anyway). right-O - Bill

Re: OT: Web Designers

2006-08-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 23, 2006, at 10:17, Martin Ekendahl wrote: The past couple developers we went through were still using tables and 1x1 images for placement. I haven't found any yet who can do CSS positioning that works across all browsers consistently for magazine-layout-type work. The best I've

Looking for an App for clipboard management...

2006-08-23 Thread Brian Chabot
OK, I know I may be looking for something that doesn't exist, but... I'm looking for an X11 application for clipboard management that... * can save the list of clipboards or load a custom set on start * does NOT run in a system tray or gnome/xfce/wm/kde dock/systray/etc (eg: Not limited to only

Re: OT: Web Designers

2006-08-23 Thread Seth Cohn
The past couple developers we went through were still using tables and 1x1 images for placement. I haven't found any yet who can do CSS positioning that works across all browsers consistently for magazine-layout-type work. Depends on how fancy you go... some of the neater layouts DO look

Re: helpful amanda script

2006-08-23 Thread Mark E. Mallett
I used to write while-loop wrapper scripts like that to monitor various things, until about a year ago when I discovered the watch(1) command, which clears the screen and then runs a command repeatedly forever. Yet another thing that keeps getting re-implemented :) I think I first saw it

Re: Looking for an App for clipboard management...

2006-08-23 Thread Bill Ricker
iirc WMcliphist is such a beast or close. On 8/23/06, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I know I may be looking for something that doesn't exist, but... I'm looking for an X11 application for clipboard management that... * can save the list of clipboards or load a custom set on start

Re: OT: Web Designers

2006-08-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/23/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignore all of the above if your app can tolerate being rendered inconsistently among browsers. Being rendered inconsistently (differently) among browsers is a design goal of HTML. That really annoys the PHBs, of course. But that doesn't

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 23, 2006, at 08:07, Ben Scott wrote: I know that fixing wetware makes the Microsoft patch process look easy, but ultimately, it is what is needed. No matter what you do, you can't have a secure system with insecure people. This is inescapable fact. you also can't have fool-proof

Re: OT: Web Designers

2006-08-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 23, 2006, at 21:53, Ben Scott wrote: Being rendered inconsistently (differently) among browsers is a design goal of HTML. Sing it, brother. I actually hear, well, we don't really think many blind people will be our customers. That usually means it's going to be a long day.

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/23/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that fixing wetware makes the Microsoft patch process look easy, but ultimately, it is what is needed. No matter what you do, you can't have a secure system with insecure people. This is inescapable fact. you also can't have

Re: OT: Web Designers

2006-08-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 23, 2006, at 18:06, Seth Cohn wrote: Perhaps it's time to look into the current galleries of http://www.oswd.org or http://openwebdesign.org So I went through the favorites galleries on these sites, bumped the font size in Firefox up a couple plus'es on each and nearly all the

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Aug 23, 2006, at 22:46, Ben Scott wrote: The procedural side of things might be more useful to you. Again, not in the details, but in the concepts. Regular briefings and training. Lots of logs and audit trails and accountability. To get a Security Clearance, you have to sign an NDA,

Re: OT: Web Designers

2006-08-23 Thread Ben Scott
On 8/23/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it's time to look into the current galleries of http://www.oswd.org or http://openwebdesign.org So I went through the favorites galleries on these sites, bumped the font size in Firefox up a couple plus'es on each and nearly all the

Re: helpful amanda script

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Rundlett
On 8/23/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Lussier wrote: There's likely lots of room for improvement here, not the least of which is to determine when (and how) to use a pager (more or less, etc.) based on the number of rows in current

Re: Looking for an App for clipboard management...

2006-08-23 Thread Brian Chabot
Bill Ricker wrote: iirc WMcliphist is such a beast or close. Close, but not quite. It's basically a clone of klipper you can undock... which is a step in the right direction... But I'm not looking to save a clipboard history. I need something that I can manually add or remove items.