Speakeasy as a DSL provider

2005-01-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Do I correctly remember someone using Speakeasy as their DSL carrier, with more than 2 static IPAs and less than US$95 a month? - -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/

Re: Speakeasy as a DSL provider

2005-01-24 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Drew Van Zandt wrote: > Yes; click on slashdot broadband (under services on left), you can get > an 8-ip deal. You can also probably get the same deal direct, > excluding the OSDL special stuff (that you'd eventually have to pay > for...6 months OSDL free, IIRC)

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One reason I use SMTP/SSL on standard and nonstandard ports, and ssh-tunnel between my two laptops when travelling when it's needed. It's particularly obnoxious at hotels. This is one of several reasons I like Speakeasy. Static IPAs, no restrictions

Re: [NLC] Drip Dry Phone

2006-05-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Kuzdrall wrote: > > As I remember from trying to pump lasers system clean, water quickly > freezes if you try to vaporize a droplet in a vacuum. Then you have to > wait for it to sublime. We had lots of heating tapes on the chambers. Coul

Re: [NLC] Drip Dry Phone

2006-05-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Lussier wrote: > "Bill Ricker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is why Steve O recommends rinsing in DISTILLED water > > Must it be distilled? Would RO-filtered water be effective? Dunno, but the last RO water we got from Whole Foods was v

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Jerry Feldman wrote: > > That's very easy. Just use fdisk to change the file type of /dev/sda2. I am anticipating having to do something similar; I need to enlarge my / partition. However, it's a sole-boot RH 7.2 system, so I need to juggle the partitions already in use. -- #kenP-)} Ken C

.forward for Postfix

2002-08-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
One of my packages (an email autoresponder; any of you who have sent me private mail have seen it ;-) is designed to be set up as a piped recipient in a .qmail or .forward file. E.g., | /usr/local/bin/autoresponder Do any Postfix users here know the equivalent mechanism for Postfix? Is there o

Re: moving linux partitions

2002-08-15 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Jerry Feldman wrote: > > I've used Partition Magic successfully for years. Okey, I've got that (5.0). I just wasn't sure it'd play well with the root partition. :-) -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Serve

[Semi-OT] ApacheCon 2002 US: Registration open!

2002-09-18 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Greetings! We've been encountering a series of bugs in the new registration system, delaying the opening of general registration. However, we seem to have killed them all, so now's the time! Please spread the word; forward this message around to co-workers, f

[OT] ApacheCon: Less than a week left for early-bird savings

2002-09-24 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Greetings! Just a couple of quick reminders: 1. There's less than a week left to get the Early-Bird rate on ApacheCon registration; on October 2 the price goes up from US$499 to US$699! 2. If you want to stay informed of ApacheCon news, subscribe to

Re: Apache configuration

2002-09-25 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Bob Bell wrote: > > > order deny,allow > deny from all > allow from 10.0.0. > > > > order allow,deny > allow from all > That's your problem. takes a simple filename, not a complete path. Change this to: order deny,allow deny from all allow from 10.0.0.

ApacheCon early-bird registration deadline extended

2002-10-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Please spread the word.. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" --- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Greetings! Two items (described in more detai

'process accounting paused'?

2002-10-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
i saw these in my log last night: Oct 7 02:23:10 yyy kernel: Process accounting paused Oct 7 02:23:42 yyy kernel: Process accounting resumed it happened several times, for generally about 30 seconds. i've never seen it before. none of my filesystems are full. anyone have any idea? have i b

Re: updating gpg keys

2002-10-09 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
semi-ot: someone i know has twiddled mailman into working with pgp. dunno exactly what that means, but if you want to know more, ask ben laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.

Re: [OT] How much is a domain worth?

2002-10-16 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Hewitt Tech wrote: > > P.S. BTW, my little domain name problem got resolved. > Apparently Verisign must really have screwed up somewhere. > In the meantime, once I found out the domain was good for > two years, I transferred it to a different registrar. i didn't think you could transfer mid-term

Re: LyX, LaTeX, PS, PDF

2002-10-25 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yes, the alphabet soup in the subject line is actually intended. :-) some real words in addition might have meant i wouldn't have had to rescue it from the spam folder.. :-) -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer

non-netsol registrars with non-web interface

2002-11-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
i may have asked this here before, but.. netsol is not my favourite bunch by any means, but one thing i like (that they inherited from the internic) is the ability to do registrations and make changes using email authenticated with pgp signatures. unfortunately, they appear to be the *only* one w

Re: non-netsol registrars with non-web interface

2002-11-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, at 12:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > netsol ... [has] the ability to do registrations and make changes using > > email authenticated with pgp signatures. > > And, FYI, as of today (1 Nov 2002), they are supposedly > discontinuing the old email-

apachecon reminder -- price is only us$699

2002-11-06 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
in case you haven't considered apachecon because it has been too expensive, please notice that this year we've cut the registration price by about 60%. i mention this because someone asked 'who's going' at a linux group in california, and *none* of the other people there knew the price had been sl

backup up a laptop disk for replacement

2002-11-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
heh. my laptop drive is starting to whine and buzz, so ibm is sending me a replacement. that's cool hardwarily, but.. what's the best path for backing the current drive up and restoring it onto the new one? rh 7.2, five partitions on the drive. i have my 7.2 cds. i'm guessing one possibility i

Re: backup up a laptop disk for replacement

2002-11-18 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
if anyone is interested in the results, i ended up buying a superbay hdd adapter for the thinkpad, putting the new drive in it, booting from the old one in standalone, and using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc . the bs and count parameters were determined from looking in the /proc/ide files. this resul

Re: RH, a wireless network, Linksys and an IBM ThinkPad

2002-12-10 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Fritz Gibbs wrote: > > I'm in the process of connecting my IBM ThinkPad 390X laptop > running RH 7.2 to a Linksys wireless network. Is anyone aware > of a brand of wireless PCMCIA that I can use and that is an > "easy" install? i use both a lucent orinoco gold and a cabletron (oem of the lucent c

securing pop3 transactions

2002-12-10 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
'k, the time has come when i have a couple of cylces available to work on this.. i have a number of people using one of my systems for pop mail. i would like to configure the pop3 service to use tls (or whatever other mechanism works) to encrypt the exchange and conceal the credentials. the serve

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why does the browser need to be tied to the email program? because of the amount of rich-format mail i receive. bopping between application windows sucketh excessively imho. > I think you will find your life gets much easier if you > split the two functions. tried

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Derek Martin wrote: > > > and lastly, the mua needs to be able to leave pop messages on the > > server, and keep track of its own pop state and not rely on any > > notion the server may have about which ones are new and which > > have already been downloaded. > > I wasn't aware that (that is, not

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Bob Bell wrote: > > I assume IMAP isn't an option? It would be a much better solution. i disagree. been there, done that, got seriously pissed and frustrated. :-) > FWIW, mutt does have POP support. i never said it didn't; in fact, i think i said i used it for text-only mail. its failing is

Re: replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Derek Martin wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:53:37PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > > > i never said it didn't; in fact, i think i said i used it > > for text-only mail. its failing is the handling of rich-format > > mail, and that's just i

Re: IMAP (was: replacement for netscrape mail)

2002-12-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, at 2:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I assume IMAP isn't an option? It would be a much better solution. > > > > i disagree. been there, done that, got seriously pissed > > and frustrated. > > Okay, I simply have to ask: What about it frustra

replacement for netscrape mail

2002-12-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
'the time has come,' the walrus said.. i've been using netscrape for my main browser on both linux and windows, and as my mua on windows, for years now. i've got 4.79. i tried 6.0 when it came out, but it sucked so badly i fled the experience. however, netscrape just doesn't cut it any more, so

Re: IMAP (was: replacement for netscrape mail)

2002-12-28 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Paul Iadonisi wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 12:29, Paul Iadonisi wrote: Argh! It happened again. All messages in my Sent folder got resent. Please ignore this duplicate. uh, what mua are you using? i guess that's one to avoid, eh? -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Go

Re: Moving files

2003-01-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to organize my MP3's, but I ran into a little trouble. Apparently, one of the rippers that I used wasn't configured correctly, and evey albumn and song name has spaces. I can go through and rename each song one at a time, but that will take for

another windoze emulator

2003-01-07 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
didn't someone recently mention yet another windows emulator for linux? not wine, not vmware.. it was new to me, but now i can't find the message.. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand

Re: Apache Questions

2003-02-12 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
/me howls at the missing reply-to and vows [again] not to reply to any mail on this list.. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" --- Begin Message --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Grep

2003-02-13 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Ed Lawson wrote: > My son who is working at an unamed, but major health care institution in > boston has a desparate > need to extract all instances of the following four text strings in a 6 > meg file: > > po= > to= > delay= > dsn=4 > > It is an urgent issue as the SQL slammer just got into

Re: Help with Grep

2003-02-13 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Ed Lawson wrote: > My son who is working at an unamed, but major health care institution in > boston has a desparate > need to extract all instances of the following four text strings in a 6 > meg file: > > po= > to= > delay= > dsn=4 try grep -E '(po|to|delay)=|dsn=4' filename -- #kenP-

Re: Controlling Apache Error messages?

2003-02-14 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got an SSL protected/LDAP authenticating web server. However, > when a user can't get into it, I want to return more than just the > standard Apache error response, which simply states: > > Authorization Required > > This server could no

Re: Controlling Apache Error messages?

2003-02-14 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:19:48 EST > Rodent of Unusual Size said: > >>this is HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED, which is status code 401. > > Hmmm, that's what I thought. However, I have tried the following: > > ErrorDocument 40

[off-topic] bleed a little for the tree of liberty

2003-02-27 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
from what i've read online, this 'patriot ii' act is immeasurably worse than the first one, and a tremendous blow to our constitutional guarantees. i recommend that you read this, and about the act, and then take advantage of the aclu's free-fax service if you think it's appropriate. http://www.a

sendmail, procmail, and damaged 'from ' lines in mbox files

2003-04-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
i've just discovered that *something* appears to be occasionally damaging my mbox inbox (/var/spool/mail/$USER) on my server. procmail is my local delivery agent, and so all the messages get their 'From ' lines rewritten to 'From coar '. however, i've just noticed that sometimes this is truncated

Re: sendmail, procmail, and damaged 'from ' lines in mbox files

2003-04-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Morbus Iff wrote: > >however, i've just noticed that sometimes this is truncated to > >'rom coar ' -- i.e., the leading 'F' gets gobbled somehow. > > Yeah, take a look here: > >http://spamassassin.org/dist/procmailrc.example > > where it remarks: "Work around procmail bug: any output on s

ApacheCon Call for Participation now open

2003-07-26 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Call for Participation: ApacheCon US 2003 = November 16-19, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, US [Please feel free to forward this notice far and wide!] SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, 25 August May 2003, 23:59 EDT Come share your k

amanda defs for an hp c1533a 4/8gb dds2 dat tape?

2003-08-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
as the subject says, i want to set up amanda to back things up to an hp c1533a 4/8gb dat drive (the one in the system i bought from jacob towers of the trilug). has anyone any details or particulars for setting this up with amanda? ta.. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://

ibm hardware for servers

2003-10-17 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
does anyone here use ibm hardware for their personal servers? (not desktops, but servers..) -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" _

Re: ibm hardware for servers

2003-10-19 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Dan Jenkins wrote: >> >>does anyone here use ibm hardware for their personal servers? >>(not desktops, but servers..) >> > I have a handful of IBM e-servers. We also use/build clones, more > typically. > I have one client who really likes IBM (which I generally do to). > Why? necause i need to re

shunting virus spam

2003-10-21 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
does anyone have any /etc/procmailrc rules that will recognise these bloody 150K virus spams so they can be shunted aside before spamassassin starts wasting time on them? they're killing my system.. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opin

Re: shunting virus spam

2003-10-21 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
brian wrote: > > * ! From:.*(@axsne.com|@nstarch.com|jdsusers.com|@reports.spamcop.net) > * ! To:abuse*(@commrail.net, @axsne.com) coolness! erm, i would have thought the second one should have been * ! To:.*abuse.*(@commrail.net|@axsne.com) instead..? -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgag

Re: redundant login redundant login

2003-10-22 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Jason wrote: > using .htpasswd I have made some directories pw protected via http. trouble > is, the user must login twice.. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ#prompted-twice -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://

Re: Ken Coar on Slashdot / Slashnet

2004-01-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Bob Bell wrote: > Though I'd point out the following. Ken Coar at least used to be active > on this list, though I can't say I've heard much from him recently. i'm here. however, i'm swamped. i just came back from a gruelling trip (http://Ken.Coar.Org/gallery/lk2004/Sri_Lankan_Trip_1273x636)

ApacheCon 2004 US: Only two (2) more days for submissions

2004-08-02 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The deadline for ApacheCon session proposals was extended from 26 July 2004 to 2 August 2004. That's this coming Monday, so there are only a couple of days left for you to get your submissions in. The Web site will stop accepting submissions as of midnight EDT