Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-07 Thread Darrell Michaud
Once the gig-E cards have dropped down to 100 for a valid reason, sometimes it is tricky to induce them to renegotiate up again. If they don't handle it automatically or with something like ethtool or a manufacturer's utility, you might try removing the kernel module drivers and re-adding them

Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-07 Thread bruce . labitt
Thanks for the tip on depowering. I'll try this. Not sure about boot on LAN. But the switch is definitely indicating 100MbT at my ethX connection. The remote connection indicated 1000MbT. This indicator followed the hosts even if I swapped the ports on the switch. I'm about ready to dump

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-07 Thread bruce . labitt
Sorry to have caused such trouble. New company and new email system here. The defaults are html. (Like most modern email systems.) My intent is to keep it simple. Let me know if I didn't get it right this time. -Bruce The original sender may well have sent using quoted-printable or

[GNHLUG]  MonadLUG October 9, 2008

2008-10-07 Thread charlie
Who: Patrick Galbraith What: MySQL Replication Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 Time: 7:00PM ** Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough             http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/www/MonadLUG ** Due to a scheduling conflict we will not be meeting in the SAU ** conference room

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New company and new email system here. Yah... in your mail headers, I saw that you were now using Lotus Notes. You have my sympathies. Sorry to have caused such trouble. I don't think it's fair to say you did, at least not

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-07 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New company and new email system here. Yah... in your mail headers, I saw that you were now using Lotus Notes. You have my sympathies. There's something to be

Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Scott
Hi list, Recent discussion made me curious: Assume we have someone using a very old version of an MUA (Mail User Agent, like /bin/mail or Pine) -- one that is unaware of MIME, the BASE64, and quoted-printable encodings, or HTML mail. Assume that, for whatever reason, they are unwilling or

Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread bruce . labitt
After agonizing a bit, I am in the process of installing ubuntu 64 bit on my workstation. I think I will need to do the proxy thing again. What is the name of the base package system, and where do I find the configuration files to send it to the proxy? I will use ntlmaps again. It was fun

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-07 Thread Ric Werme
... It could be we simply have some vocal Luddites (hell, I'm usually one of that group), and most other people are perfectly happy with this radical new stuff from circa 1988. Or maybe everybody here thinks HTML mail is ugly, promulgated by Microsoft and AOL, and an evil waste of time,

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Free Fun - Open Source Video Games

2008-10-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
hen: October 15, 2008 7PM (6:30PM for QA) Topic: Free Fun - Open Source Video Games Moderator: Joseph Guarino Location: MIT Building E51, Room 376 An exploration of Free and Open Source (FOSS) Video Games What do you think of when you hear the words open source? Probably not video games -- but

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will need to do the proxy thing again. Probably. You might ask your IT people if it is possible to have them configure an exception for your stuff. What is the name of the base package system ... APT (Advanced Package

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:08, Ben Scott wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text * Replace any common Unicode characters with ASCII equivilents * Replace unhandled non-ASCII characters with an ASCII text representation * When a plain text body alternative is

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. * Replace any common Unicode characters with ASCII equivilents * Replace unhandled non-ASCII characters with an

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread bruce . labitt
I don't seem to have an apt.conf. Any Ubuntu people out there to tell me where to put a new one? I found the configure-index file which gives an example for apt.conf. What to use for a proxy command? Where in the file? beginning? Syntax? http_proxy=? ftp_proxy=? Once I get this going I'll

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Šarūnas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to have an apt.conf. Any Ubuntu people out there to tell me where to put a new one? I found the configure-index file which gives an example for apt.conf. It's in /etc/apt/, i.e. /etc/apt/apt.conf. However,

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to have an apt.conf. Any Ubuntu people out there to tell me where to put a new one? I found the configure-index file which gives an example for apt.conf. You probably have /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/, which is a directory full

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:35 -0400, Stephen Ryan wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to have an apt.conf. Any Ubuntu people out there to tell me where to put a new one? I found the configure-index file which gives an example for apt.conf.

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread bruce . labitt
Thanks! Does Update Manager use apt? Do I need to do something for it? -Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/07/2008 03:35:38 PM: On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to have an apt.conf. Any Ubuntu people out there to tell me where to put a new one?

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread bruce . labitt
I tried that. Or at least I tried using the autoconfiguration URL that works with windows. No such luck. I guess I could try a manual proxy. -Bruce Tom Engle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/07/2008 03:29:48 PM: At the risk of recommending a GUI where the command line will do, have you tried

Re: Ubuntu package system

2008-10-07 Thread Stephen Ryan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! Does Update Manager use apt? Do I need to do something for it? Yes it does, and no, you shouldn't have to do anything else for it. apt-get, aptitude, synaptic and update-manager should all use the same

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. Nope. Not if you're talking strict RFC-821/822 compliance. The specs say ASCII. ASCII is properly a 7-bit

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Roger H. Goun
2008/10/7 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. Nope. Not if you're talking strict RFC-821/822 compliance. The

ubuntu equivalents for:

2008-10-07 Thread bruce . labitt
I'm in the process of converting everything over to ubuntu from rhel. I have a script file that has some commands in it that are rhel specific. Can someone provide the ubuntu equivalent for: chkconfig xxx on service xyz restart Also in rhel there is a package called nfs-utils, what is the

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Chip Marshall
On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:08, Ben Scott wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text * Replace any common Unicode characters with ASCII equivilents * Replace unhandled non-ASCII characters with an ASCII text representation * When a plain text body alternative is

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. In the general case, you have been handed a BASE64 or quoted-printable encoding of random 8-bit data. ... The first step is to remove the encoding, leaving unencoded 8-bit data, not 7-bit data. Ah, I see where our

RE: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Pelletier
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:56 PM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail * Handle MIME file attachments Depending on the situation, it

Re: ubuntu equivalents for:

2008-10-07 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chkconfig xxx on update-rc.d me thinks: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit service xyz restart /etc/init.d/xyz restart Also in rhel there is a package called nfs-utils, what is the equivalent in

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

2008-10-07 Thread Ric Werme
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. Nope. Not if you're talking strict RFC-821/822 compliance. The specs say ASCII. ASCII is properly a 7-bit

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:08:19 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] * When a plain text body alternative is provided, strip any other body alternatives * Render HTML to plain text, when only an HTML body is provided * Strip any remaining MIME headers Hm. Maybe: * Convert to ASCII as

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Ric Werme
2008/10/7 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. Nope. Not if you're talking strict RFC-821/822 compliance. ...