Re: BigNews

2001-06-26 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:59:45AM -0700, BigNews wrote: English: http://www.faluninfo.net/ Chinese: http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/6/14/12083.html Sorry, gnucash folks. I was trying to do something else at the same time as moderating the non-member posts and I let this little

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2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
FYI. --linas - Forwarded message from Paul Fenwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Paul Fenwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-PGP-Fingerprint: BD81 4071 CB8C A0A3 79A9 0319 C793 7A8F B147 9E55 Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finance-quote-devel] Finance::Quote v1.06

Re: initializing currencies ??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:18:48PM -0700, Dave Peticolas was heard to remark: On 26 Jun 2001 00:56:51 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: What's the right way to initialize the list of iso currencies? When I just call gnc_book_load() from a stand-alone C program, it gets a parse error, because

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:40:07PM -0400, Mattias Hembruch was heard to remark: Linas Vepstas wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:53:57PM -0400, Mattias Hembruch was heard to remark: Thanks. I was going to try that anyway as soon as I get another machine up and running.. for

Re: sql gnucash

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
ccing the mailing list ... On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:54:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to remark: One thought would be to try to build an alternative to QIF/OFX/IFF, and _DO IT RIGHT_. Easier said than done. (actually, IIF doesn't look that bad; just underdocumented). Note the

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level encryption? -derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: It should ... but that depends very much how you set up hba.conf If you marke a certain host (such as yourself) trusted, then clearly it won't behave the same way

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:26:06PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level encryption? The postgres documentation recommends setting up ssh to port-forward the postgres port. And if you already know ssh, this seems to be

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:26:06PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level encryption? The postgres documentation recommends setting up ssh to port-forward=20 the postgres

Re: sql gnucash

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: One posibility is OTP -- open trading protocol. This was issued by a small company some 3 years back. Don't know if its dead or allive. It seemed to be designed specifically for communicating the transfer of 'stuff' from one vendor to another, and

post-it notes

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
I was sitting here, thinking, 'you know what gnucash really needs? post-it notes!' It would be pretty cool to stick one onto some transaction; every time you opened the register, there it would be, a big fat post-it stuck to the transaction, scrolling with it. It screams out 'hey you need to

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:00:14PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:26:06PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level encryption? The

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
True, I agree with you that key management is hard. However, SSH is not the answer. Think about what it means to require SSH with port forwarding: a) you cannot easily have multiple connections going at once (because you cannot have multiple port-forwarders on the

Re: sql gnucash

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:12:21PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: One posibility is OTP -- open trading protocol. This was issued by a small company some 3 years back. Don't know if its dead or allive. It seemed to be designed

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:56:34PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: True, I agree with you that key management is hard. However, SSH is not the answer. OK, yep. I still maintain that a self-contained end-to-end encryption is the way to go. We can use an RPC (be is

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Orndorff
Thus I claim that the 'right' implementation would be a kernel module (so that its not breakable even if the root shell has been compromised, which is something lomac protects against). The kernel module would work with some appropriate set of authentication mechanisms to verify the