Personally, I never run 'make install' as root. If it's in debian testing, I
trust it, and apt-get install it. If it isn't, and I'm compiling it from
source myself, I often don't know or trust it that much. So what I do is:
./configure --prefix=/opt/package_name/
(Yuri, all the 'prefix' option
Bear in mind that this virus (I assume you're talking about Sobig)
forges the emails as coming from a random person on the infected
person's email address list. So the person it appears to come from
probably doesn't have the virus, and may not even know you.
-Nick
Shane Hollis wrote:
Hi Guys,
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:59, Nuck Rout wrote:
> even a virus checker in
> the email chain is not gonna stop them using my bandwidth.
I got a spam letter from Paradise yesterday saying that they are putting a
spam and virus filter in place for the paradise mailboxes. So unwanted emails
will get rem
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:54, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> I got a spam letter from Paradise yesterday saying that they are putting a
> spam and virus filter in place for the paradise mailboxes. So unwanted emails
> will get removed before transmission to us.
TelstraClear have just announced the
Timothy Musson wrote:
>
I tend to use my browser to d/load stuff under about 3Mb, then switch to
wget for anything bigger.
Ken says, Thank you, Tim.
Wget is great for large downloads such as the just released trailer for
Matrix Revolutions.
The matrix website is kind of overloaded and dropping connections every
30 seconds and that's where wget's auto reconnect comes in very handy...
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:31, Ken McAllister wrote:
> Timoth
well why would paradise touch my mail?
the only mail that goes to my paradise pop box is from paradise
advertising their services.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:54:35+1200 Christopher
Sawtell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:59, Nuck Rout wrote:
> > even a virus checker in
> > the ema
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 18:44, Andrew Packer wrote:
(in answer to a message from Tim Wright)
> (words to the effect that the Ximian Desktop installer now) doesn't get hung
> up at gnucash. It gets hung up with the error "Unable to complete RPM
> transaction: transaction has unmet dependencies:
> m
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Phill Coxon wrote:
> Wget is great for large downloads such as the just released trailer for
> Matrix Revolutions.
You may also appreciate how 'screen' can help in such situations as
well.. I tend to run all my downloads using w
I sincerely hope they don't do that for me it would kill a lot of my
business related emails as I have the postmaster accounts from some of my
clients forwarding their stuff to me so I can deal with it from home without
having to go on site all the time. Also my clients make vitamins andmin
Which is why I put the disclaimer about it having some downsides too it. I
don't mind the spammers receiving this email personally from me coz the
account is likely to be real, except for the fake bits of course. If it was
their real account and they spammed me again then I would make their life
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:50, you wrote:
> Wget is great for large downloads such as the just released trailer for
> Matrix Revolutions.
>
> The matrix website is kind of overloaded and dropping connections every
> 30 seconds and that's where wget's auto reconnect comes in very handy...
BitTorrent is
With all the talk about converting users from windows to linux I feel that
I should put in my $0.03 worth (more inflation).
My first installation attempts were fruitless due to defective discs and
then I had email connection problems caused by an unworkable network chipset
on my motherbo
Hi Rowan,
I too am a returnee from the Windows world back to Linux. I dabbled in the
early 90's but went the MS route because my clients needed the ease you speak
of.
I am promoting Linux now to clients as it is now at a point that it is ready
for them to use. There are differences between hom
Folks,
With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been
having, I am keen to try a Linux option at our high school.
I have RH 9 Web server that performs great, no downtime.
I have spoken with our board chair who is also on my side.
For workstations and server what OS and Ap
My suggestion is a Ximian desktop, it has an oulook clone and is very smooth
and easy to use. It runs on Redhat and Debian. and other distros. Debian is a
distro worth looking into as well as it updates fro free where as redhat you
pay for auto updating etc.
(And before anyone starts a Gentoo
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:46, Terry Cole wrote:
> Folks,
> With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been
> having, I am keen to try a Linux option at our high school.
> I have RH 9 Web server that performs great, no downtime.
> I have spoken with our board chair who is also
Andrew Tarr wrote:
> For some reason, I get a lot of brazilian spam, which I
> gather is somewhat unusual, so I'd imagine someone else's
Hmm. I get heaps of russian stuff.
I have a rule in kmail that trashes any email with
a header specifying a cyrrillic char-set - that seems
to fix it.
I wonder i
Isn't that a problem in itself? I'm all for spam reduction, but should the ISP be
filtering your mail & potentially striking false positives?
BTW - is annoys me that they plan on actually _charging_ for this service on certain
plans.
Brad
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob [mailto:[EMAI
ok, so you want the dutch spam instead of the russian spam, i'm sure
that can be arranged :-)
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:56:46 +1200
Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Tarr wrote:
> > For some reason, I get a lot of brazilian spam, which I
> > gather is somewhat unusual, so I'd imagin
Spamassassin 2.5 and upwards can be configured to reject mail based on its
language. Funnily enough, I have mine set to reject anything that isn't in
english :o)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>ok, so you want the dutch spam instead of the russian spam, i'm sure
>that can be arranged :-)
>
>
>On Fri, 2
Chris, can you post a copy of that letter please so when I phone them to
hassle them not to do it to my account I have something to reference. There
may be other CLUGers who want to see it as well to do similar things with it.
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:54, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > I got a
Linux Servers Advance on Enterprise
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31392.html
Hi Terry,
I advocate Mandrake as a far superior solution to RedHat. Mandrake
offers free updates and has a "graphical" centralised control centre for
system configuration. As far as "replacement apps" you may
> Isn't that a problem in itself? I'm all for spam reduction, but should the ISP be
> filtering your mail & potentially striking false positives?
>
> BTW - is annoys me that they plan on actually _charging_ for this service on certain
> plans.
Then what do you actually want? If they charge for
Friday, 22 August, 2003
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/NL/3A3724B0C2303E5ECC256D8900192423
*Green Party's IT man all for open source*
"There is a lack of real awareness about what open source is”
/Vik Olliver, Auckland/
Given the media attention he gets in other areas, it may come as a
sur
> Yeah and you'd be SEVERELY Fscked off if you had paid good money for
> your OS too!! Everytime I have a "Linux" problem I think of the fact
You have a problem with someone saying when something as simple as
reading a CD brings the whole system down? And I bet you're touting
Linux as being read
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:46, you wrote:
> Folks,
> With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been
> having, I am keen to try a Linux option at our high school.
> I have RH 9 Web server that performs great, no downtime.
> I have spoken with our board chair who is also on my si
No Volker, you mistook my post, it was NOT an attack on the quoted post.
All I was saying is that, in addition to the frustration experienced at
the failures, there would have been sheer anger if your new shiny OS
that cost you $200 caused these sorts of problems. I know your penchant
for brusq
Hello Everyone,
I am uttam from india and living in
CHCH now.
On 14 Aug I attended the CLUG meeting
at sydenham but i could not meet many of you.
Lately i realised an anotther problem
in my computer that is with the sound
(noise) all the time from the speakers
and particularly more when l
uttam wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am uttam from india and living in CHCH now.
On 14 Aug I attended the CLUG meeting at sydenham but i could not meet
many of you.
Lately i realised an anotther problem in my computer that is with the
sound
(noise) all the time from the speakers and particularl
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:20, you wrote:
> I am uttam from india and living in CHCH now.
[ ... ]
> Internal MODEM is TM-IP5600 from TP-LINK (WWW.TP-LINK.COM)
> Any help Please?
http://www.tp-link.com.cn/chinese/soft/20021114105315.zip
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
Hi Uttam,
Are you running gnome or kde?
Rob
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:20, uttam wrote:
>
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am uttam from india and living in CHCH now.
>
> On 14 Aug I attended the CLUG meeting at sydenham but i could not meet
> many of you.
>
> Lately i realised an anotther problem
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:46, Terry Cole wrote:
> With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been
> having..
Others can comment on the rest, but since I have an exchange server here
and probably most of the problems you've had, I'll comment here.
Exchange is a festering hea
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:20, uttam wrote:
> Lately i realised an anotther problem in my computer that is with the
> sound (noise) all the time from the speakers and particularly more when
> loading something.
>
> My PC is a DUAL boot(XP and RH Linux 9)
Okay - first question is "Does it happen in
> Exchange is a festering heap of fertilliser. There is no way to move
> all the existing mail from ES to any other mailserver other than
> forwarding all email manually.
IBM / Lotus notes have an exchange connector. Lotus notes is also an excellent
mail server, runs on Linux, is secure and cost
Having used, installed and cofigured exchange quite a bit in the past I can
tell you that you are wrong on most counts below.
You can create individual PSTs from each user, or configure each computer to
maintain a local copy of their mail in order to move email from one server to
another, let
--- Begin Message ---
Shane Hollis wrote:
Chris, can you post a copy of that letter please so when I phone them to
hassle them not to do it to my account I have something to reference. There
may be other CLUGers who want to see it as well to do similar things with it.
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at
I am attempting to fashion myself a backup script.
If I point tar at a directory it tars subdirectories which I don't want. I
have come up with a solution which only tars files in the directory and
ignores everything else. It works but it a bit of a kludge. Does anyone have
a more elegant sugge
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:15:42 +1200
CF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:46, Terry Cole wrote:
> > With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been
> > having..
>
> Others can comment on the rest, but since I have an exchange server here
> and probably m
Hi all, after the recent spat of MS virus attacks & a mention or two of Linux root
kits, I decided to get a little smarter about my online time.
Firstly I installed firehol (firehol.sourceforge.net) and set up a simple firewall for
my ppp0 line, basically "run no services, allow only requested pa
> I believe that Ximians email product connects to
> an exchange server.
The Ximian Connector for Exchange plugin for Evolution is not free
(around US$25 per), but does offer full exchange connectivity via the
OWA and WebDav (so these must be turned on at the Exchange end). This
will also maintai
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 12:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Having used, installed and cofigured exchange quite a bit in the past I can
> tell you that you are wrong on most counts below.
:-) I take it you've done this in a business setting.
> You can create individual PSTs from each user
Not for
There are some excellent programmes out there to allow you web access to your
mail. If for instance you place your mail on one good machine then even
piddly P75's can handle what is required to get web mail working. This would
also allow you to manage things from one server , would allow roaming
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:57, you wrote:
> Forget Gentoo IMHO, unless you are very patient and very skilled.
I'm neither, yet I find that Gentoo gives me everything I need from a Linux
install. Now that Gentoo has all the popular application programs available
in binary form, and the genkernel scri
> Anyone use either Tripwire or AIDE?
Aide doesn't seem to have been maintained in some 2 years or so. It
tends to segfault in some situations, I think it's when it can't open a
file for checksumming, or when there's an I/O error on one file. It
could do with some obvious improvements to its user
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:13, you wrote:
> With all the talk about converting users from windows to linux I feel
> that I should put in my $0.03 worth (more inflation).
> My first installation attempts were fruitless due to defective discs
> and then I had email connection problems caused by a
Basically you've got the choice of two camps, you can go the KDE way or
the Gnome2 way.
Seeing as how you're already using RH9, and presumably familiar with its
configuration tools - stick with it. I've heard mixed things about
RedHat, personally I'm a Debian fan.
Rather that simply setting up on
Tripwire is good, a bit of a pain to start with, but once you get it all
sorted, it's sweet. I have a Tripwire scan that runs everynight and emails
me the result. I too have no reason to suspect I've been hacked, but I
like to know whenever anything changes.
Also don't forget about Snort. I haven'
Hay, this is a really good answer. Any chance we can put it on the CLUG
home page (with the other two that are there?) --- who does this? I've
forgotten, but have ccd it to the right address (hopefully).
Tim W
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Sascha Beaumont wrote:
> Basically you've got the choice of two
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:57, you wrote:
Forget Gentoo IMHO, unless you are very patient and very skilled.
I'm neither, yet I find that...
C'mon Chris. You *taught* Linux at a local tertiary institution.
That requires large amounts of both skill *and* patience.
Probably m
There is a tool called emerge that can export all mail boxes from an
Exchange server to a PST. I used it about a year ago to migrate mail
boxes from one Exchange server to another.
I have a love hate relationship with Exchange, as a POP3/IMAP/SMTP
server it is the pox! For collaboration it is the
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:57, you wrote:
Forget Gentoo IMHO, unless you are very patient and very skilled.
I'm neither,
LMAO!! Thanks Chris...that made my day. =)
yet I find that Gentoo gives me everything I need from a Linux
install. Now that Gentoo has all t
>I retract my statement earlier about "festering.." How about "simply
totally unsuitable for schools" ?
Please, elaborate.
>I've never had any training on how to use exchange server - its too
expensive. Do you see the problem? At least with >>>an imap server
running on a linux box I can ask
What do you mean by "more elegant solution"? I don't think it can be
done as a one-liner. Someone else correct me if I am wrong.
Ross Drummond wrote:
I am attempting to fashion myself a backup script.
If I point tar at a directory it tars subdirectories which I don't want. I
have come up wit
"taught"? ...as in doesnt do this any more?
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:05, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:57, you wrote:
> >
> >>Forget Gentoo IMHO, unless you are very patient and very skilled.
> >
> >
> > I'm neither, yet I find that...
>
> C'mon C
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:48, you wrote:
> "taught"? ...as in doesnt do this any more?
As in at that particular intsitution, yes; in general no.
I'm going to display my skill-set to a small class of postulant devotees at
the OSTC next month. I'm looking forward to it.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christoph
We find ourselves in a similar boat then... Good that you decided to
continue teaching...and especially in a field that so desperately
requires more, good teachers.
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:06, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:48, you wrote:
> > "taught"? ...as in doesnt do th
Andy George wrote:
We find ourselves in a similar boat then... Good that you decided to
continue teaching...and especially in a field that so desperately
requires more, good teachers.
Yet pays them so poorly.
Cheers,
Carl.
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 13:53, Sascha Beaumont wrote:
> Basically you've got the choice of two camps, you can go the KDE way or
> the Gnome2 way.
Rubbish - I'm using gnome apps and kde apps and my window manager
happens to be twm, with wdm as a login manager.
Linux is not "choose KDE or gnome and y
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:14, Marc Archbold wrote:
> >I retract my statement earlier about "festering.." How about "simply
> totally unsuitable for schools" ?
>
> Please, elaborate.
Okay - after scraping up the money to buy a licence there is no
continual fund for calling expensive external peopl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 13:53, Sascha Beaumont wrote:
>> Basically you've got the choice of two camps, you can go the KDE way or
>> the Gnome2 way.
>
>Rubbish - I'm using gnome apps and kde apps and my window manager
>happens to be twm, with wdm as a login manager.
>
>Linux
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:20, uttam wrote:
>
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am uttam from india and living in CHCH now.
>
> On 14 Aug I attended the CLUG meeting at sydenham but i could not meet
> many of you.
>
> Lately i realised an anotther problem in my computer that is with the
> sound
>
> (n
greets
more on sco vs a_better_world, this time from the man himself.
link to print- therefore eye friendly(?) - version :
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=49608,00.asp
it's not very long but worth a read, best bit -
Torvalds: Hey, until they can be bothered to show something
Thanks for all your comments.
I don't want to start wars amongst our selves about which solution is
the best, just try to get a feel for the way I should approach things.
I am so disillusioned with MS, I have been using local MSCE people who
know far less than I do. They charge over $90 per hour an
I am setting up an internal web server on a rh8 machine.
Is there a recommended way to build a site, in terms of:
whether pages are stored in var/www/html;
whether pages are stored elsewhere, with symbolic links
the manner in which files are uploaded; ie do I create a user whose home
directory is
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 15:45, CF wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 13:53, Sascha Beaumont wrote:
> > Basically you've got the choice of two camps, you can go the KDE way or
> > the Gnome2 way.
>
> Rubbish - I'm using gnome apps and kde apps and my window manager
> happens to be twm, with wdm as a logi
I use Mozilla Composer to create my site and gFTP or Sitecopy to upload
it:-
Sitecopy
man page...
http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/cygwin/man-sitecopy.html#lbAB
.sitecopyrc.
site mysite
server fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz
username ***
password ***
local /home/robert/webpage_new
Hi there,
David Mann wrote:
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Yes it is true. Some distros have an installation that makes
climbing K2 seem like a picnic! A linux distro that is simplified
massively just for home use is urgently required to capitalise
on the current doubt people must feel about Windows.
Or
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