see:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=104185&t=1255882845&page=1#comment1106414
On Monday, October 19, 2009, Steve Brorens wrote:
> Surely your EHLO is the problem. You are claiming to be "localhost"
> ... which isn't true from the receiving SMTPs
Surely your EHLO is the problem. You are claiming to be "localhost"
... which isn't true from the receiving SMTPs pov
- steve
On Sunday, October 18, 2009, Chris Downie <9...@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
> was rumoured to say:
>>As I can't even talk to smtp.wxnz.net, it's looking only to a restricted
>>IP
Another, but *much* nicer box. Not quite free - top bid is $1.50 at the moment!
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=244793102
HP Proliant ML350 XEON Server, 6 x UltraSCSI drives, 2GB RAM, AIT tape drive etc
I'm dropping it off at Family Help Trust for Adrian tomorrow.
- steve
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Steve Brorens wrote:
> IBM NETFINITY 5100 (model 8658-21y, pic at
> http://alege.net/servers/img/2224.jpg)
>
> Standard tower form factor, but bigger, heavier and louder th
I have replied off-list.
- steve
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM, T e o D wrote:
> Sorry to boter you,
>
> I think I forgot my glasses case at the library. That case is not so
> important to me like their content (I have a kidney condition and from time
> to time I need to drink some special t
Indeed, "screen" is the answer. All in all a very handy wee program. There's
a good howto for the "mutiuser' business at:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/14/1945249
- steve
On 14/03/07, Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 2007-03-13T23:
Chris was after a way to mirror an ssh session (so that a user at the remote
end could "watch and learn"). Intrigued I asked Mr G who says that
'ttysnoop' seems to do this - but it sounds a tad tricky to setup:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/honeypots/2002-q1/0107.html
In discus
Just a note to anyone else reading and contributing from within an
Outlook/Exchange system...
- Out of Office Assistant is handy, even required for many of us - and
it's quite clever
- However, it's never been clever enough to cope properly with mailing
lists - such as CLUG
This has been a lo
Quick test to see whether it's now safe to set "Out of Office" at my
end. If not I'll change to gmail completly for the list. - steve
able
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Chris,
Maia should be pretty easy to setup. Troll through their mail list
archives, and you should find some good relevant advice. This might be
one:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.virus.maiamailguard/4961/match=rbl
- steve
> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EM
I'll second this. You should be able to get things well under control
with the standard SA, as long as:
- you have the latest version you can
- invoke RBL, and Bayes:
use_bayes 1
bayes_auto_learn 1
skip_rbl_checks 0
This should be enough to get th
*Way* off topic, but
I have a couple of hours interesting work for someone, compiling and
testing an application. No code-cutting required, but really requires
someone who's experienced in writing commercial-quality apps. I'd prefer
someone in the Canterbury area.
- steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
See http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=Documentation regards the recent
support in the kernel - requires some funky stuff with a thing called
fwcutter to get it actually operating.
- steve
> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 9 June 2006 3:29 p.m.
unix way' to
Windows admin.
The Microsoft long-term plan hasn't changed, just the tactics
- steve
> -Original Message-
> From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 1:58 p.m.
> To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
> Subject
> From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:37 a.m.
> To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
> Subject: RE: On the other side...
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:32 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote:
> > Well it's a mixture of all thing
Well it's a mixture of all things from all over the place (eg Perl and
SQL) plus the whole .NET thing, but it feels *much* more like an
extension of bash, awk and friends than it does anything from the
DOS/Basic/WSH side. Really powerful piping and good regex for example
(and documentation via th
Some interesting developments on 'the other side'...
POWERSHELL (aka Monad, MSH) - See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell for an intro. Very
strong *nix flavour, and Exchange12 administration GUI's will be built
upon this - ie the CLI comes first, and the GUI sits on top in classic
*
No response from: http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/
At linux.net.nz "Lug Meetings, Canterbury" leads to:
http://www.linux.net.nz/taxonomy/view/or/14 which I think refers to a
meeting a year or more ago
- steve
_
Steve Brorens
Senior Consultant
CommArc Consulting Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTE
Sounds good regards the Xgl stuff, but just be aware:
"This is not an installable version of Kororaa, it is purely a Live
CD...
(at http://getkororaa.com/)
-Original Message-
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2006 2:39 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbur
Well, I don't think I've seen an address with a "&" in it either, but I
have seen and used and address with an % (to get email to a chap in
Antarctica!) in the Old Days.
More to the point, these are both legit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address
Having said that, it's probably Asking F
h to do both at the same time :-)
- steve
-Original Message-
From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 12 March 2006 5:02 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: More ISP genius
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:26:16 +1300
Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
I'm all in favour of bashing ISP's, but
Wesley said:
>
> What am I paying for? Where's my money going?
>
Well in this case clearly it's partly funding a spam filter. As well as
this newsletter, it sounds like you had quite bit of *actual* spam
stopped, something you'd have had to do yoursel
Wait till you tell here how to get help...
man head
man bash
man tail
man top...
-Original Message-
From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 27 February 2006 4:15 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Humourous unix commands
I was teaching my daughte
(... or a new fast one, as long as it's very cheap :-))
Looking for cheap old machine to hack about on in console and Fluxbox. Must
have a working screen and reasonable keyboard and either working Ethernet or
working PCMCIA but:
- sound not important
- modem not important
- happy to run
Christopher said:
>Aunty would say: Not of broardcastable quality.
>I say: Don't waste your time or bandwidth on this vacuuous rubbish.
Yup, Aunty/BBC would not approve, but there have been interesting
interviews on LugRadio in the past with Miguel de Icaza, Mark
Shuttleworth and others. Podcas
fastmail.fm is very good
- steve
-Original Message-
From: Robert Himmelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 7:16 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Gmail invitation
Robert Fisher wrote:
>On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:40, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Progging OSS for $$ -
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/31/1959220&from=rss
- steve
=
This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc
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No.
I'd say that without SP2 your XP box will be probably infested with
spyware which looks like you're 'being attacked', but none of that
generally goes looking to spread like a virus or worm to other machines
on the network.
Any windows worms you've got will try to spread - but can't bother a
(following some discussion of how fast and useful the 'locate' command
is for finding files, and how 'updatedb' might need to be run to find
more recent files...)
Personally I find it easier to remember:
locate // finds files from the index
locate - u // ref
Well, if you like AS400's there's a trailer-load of AS400 bits at a 2nd
hand place down a side-road near SmithsCity Market - lock for a
roller-door opposite "Hop Yick" chinese merchant. $30 the lot I think
Two PCG's too - the *original* 4.77MHz screamers from IBM, with built-in
cassette ports
Christopher Sawtell said:
> ...I'd not try to install Gentoo on anything much slower that a 600MHZ
P/III.
> ...I wouldn't do this just for the sake of it, there would have to be
a
> compelling reason...
No compelling reason other than nostelga for The Gentoo Way wrt updates
(my work
machine has
hassett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2004 2:17 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Perl upgrade question...
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:01, Steve Brorens wrote:
> I've got a quite a few very similar RH9 boxes doing useful stuff which
> is dependant on Perl.
>
&g
( from the src.rpm file for your current
version.)
that way you would end up with a custom compiled rpm that you could
install and remove in the usual rpm manner.
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:01:36 +1300
Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've got a quite a few very similar
I've got a quite a few very similar RH9 boxes doing useful stuff which
is dependant on Perl.
It would be nice to upgrade Perl, but having done this in the past from
source and ended up with two versions (/usr/bin/perl and
/usr/local/bin/perl)
and library problems I'm keen to do it A Better Way t
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:03, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> > For example, the UTF-8
> > encoding allows me to write ellipsis (…), en-dashes (–) and
> em-dashes
> > (—) which are impossible to create otherwise.
>
> Not to be picky, but (OK. I am being picky. But you brought it u
Title: Message
Having some problem getting a parallel printer
running.
It's a Epson Stylus
480. On a test temporary Knoppix/HDD
install I had it running on this machine -
did a test print, but now that
I've done the 'real' install of Mandrake 10 it won't go...
Kernel is
standard mdk
Typically you'll not have direct access from the Internet, but instead
be hitting some sort of router/firewall running NAT as the 'target' end.
Unless you've specifically setup the mapping (aka "pinhole") of the
22/ssh to the internal box's ssh/22, you will be trying to logon to the
router/firewall
No worries, with all the benefits of Open Source comes a fearsome amount
of choice/confusion at times and it can be a trial finding the right bit
of info.
Let me know how you get on...
- steve
PS: This 'walkthough' is based on RH but there's an active team
producing alternative versions for ot
Jamie,
Beware that a lot of the material on this topic tends to assume that
you're running a Linux/Unix email system. For the 'gateway in front of
Exchange' that you need, you should find the following link to be about
as good as it gets.
http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/spamfilter.html
Filetab!? I've only maintained and converted some very small stuff from
it, but it's *different*. Quite a nice approach for some things. Pushing
the Google-button, I find it's available for Linux (if you really want
to relive the old days) and used for projects this this one:
"...been written ov
This sort of approach works very well (I too use an RDP client on Linux
for 99% of my work at work!). It allows a local Linux, but you'll tend
to be up for Windows server licences, TS CAL's, Office licences etc -
and popping Citrix on top just adds more cost.
So, yes, its fine and a better way to
Robert asked:
>
> ...Why did my last post have [SPAM: 3000] added to the subject line?
>
The headers give a clue:
X-Spam-Score: 3.167 (***) MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37
X-PMAS-Software: PreciseMail V1.0-01
X-PMAS-HDR-DATE_WARNING: Date header
Interesting link, but it's not clear what their reason is for this suggestion:
"...On larger systems, you should consider Redundant Array of
Independent Disks (RAID) or mirrored disk units, for better
performance at high altitudes."
Personally I'm happy to have server
David said:
> ...So long as you allow _any_ data (even de-encapsulated over say a
> userspace TCP relay) to pass between the Internet and your PC, there
> is a way it can be used to compromise you. Dropping ports makes it
> marginally harder, but not hard enough for the truely motivated.
>
> A
Thanks, but it turned out to be a conflict/misunderstanding between
SpamAssassins settings and those in amavisd-new - which might be a fine
product but has horrible config file...
- steve
-Original Message-
From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 5 September 2003 4:13 p.m.
T
I'm just in the process of tweaking this, and noticing that every once
in a while I get an 'odd' result like this:
--snippet
SpamAssassin report:
This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attached
along with this report, so you can recognize or
Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 2:31 p.m.
To: linux users
Subject: Re: "tar: Error exit delayed..." ?
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:26, Steve Brorens wrote:
> I can't untar a file ( thingumy-tar.gz) - instead I'm getting:
>
> "tar: Error exit delayed from previou
CTED]
Subject: Re: "tar: Error exit delayed..." ?
I had this when tar was trying to extract a symlink to a fat volume
(which don't support symlinks), otherwise the operation seemed to
succeed.
/cb
Steve Brorens wrote:
>
> I can't untar a file ( thingumy-tar.gz) - in
Title: "tar: Error exit delayed..." ?
I can't untar a file ( thingumy-tar.gz) - instead I'm getting:
"tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors"
Yes, I did initially type it incorrectly, but why does this muck things up from that point onward? Any 'tar' command now comes up w
A whiteboard's as much technology as I can handle :-)
- steve
-Original Message-
From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:05 p.m.
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Short talk this Wed
Thanks Steve and John.
We will take you up in those offers.
S
logo mousepads she's selling as part of her Young Entriprise
Scheme...
-Original Message-
From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 25 July 2003 1:11 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Meeting format this Wed?
Steve Brorens wrote:
>
> There's a m
Title: Meeting format this Wed?
There's a meeting this coming Wednesday?
What format?
- steve
http://www.commarc.co.nz
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LPI lists Polytech and Electec - the latter responded first - as below.
--snippet-
Hi Steve,
We can provide the following on-line Linux testing through VUE Testing
Services:
117-101 DPKG: LPI Level 1 exam 101 DPKG
117-101 RPM: LPI Level 1 exam 101 RPM
117-102 L
I think this idea has merit. LPI seems the most appropriate cert for
those 'in the business'. Self-study only goes so far, and commercial
courses are typically fairly expensive/inconvenient, so a more
'lightweight' approach seem like A Good Idea...
- steve
--
I woul
A couple of things that people would generally expect in a Linux:
vim
mc
With Gentoo you only get what you explicitly ask for of course. If
people get all of KDE/Gnome etc compiled up then maybe they wouldn't
miss these, but some may want a pure text setup. Also might be handy i
Thanks for those who helped get me up and running with my USB mouse.
In the process I learnt a lot about menuconfig and modular kernels!
Had a moments panic this morning when my system refused to run X at all,
but putting a few lines like:
usbmouse
hid
input
into /etc/modules.autoload to l
As Brad said:
"The first install session is the killer, after you have your "daily
use" apps installed, the compile time issue kinda drops away"
...but a key difference between Gentoo and 'std' distros is that you
start a minimal install and add the apps you want - rather than getting
pretty
Just got myself a very nice Linux mousepad, pretty much like the one at:
http://www.cafeshops.com/linuxlogo
A Young Enterprise Scheme group from Catherdral College is doing a range of different
mouspads including a 'Tux"/Linux - see them at South City Mall on Saturday at 10am -
2pm.
- s
1 - csawtell is quite correct, Kate is specifically designed for
working with text files and shouldn't muck them up - and is
definatly not the culprit here
2 - Matthew Gregan correctly spotted the cause - dumb user error
...but, quite unrelated to this, I intend to force myself
From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2003 2:22 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parse error in /etc/make.conf ?
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:08:44AM +1200, Steve Brorens wrote:
> (a) What's wrong with these, and (b) How could they have got cob
Well, things are working again (whew!)
I'm not sure what the ultimate cause of this 'bad' make.conf was, but
here's the lines (scattered throughout the file) that I needed to rem
out to get things working again.
(a) What's wrong with these, and (b) How could they have got cobbled?
# PS1=\[\033[0
pile alsa-driver,
but it will take longer and will produce drivers for every sound card
known to alsa, but theres not too much problem with that unless you are
tight for room or time.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:16:29 +1200
Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Following the docs I d
Following the docs I did the following:
env ALSA_CARDS="cs46xx" >> /etc/make.conf
...but this seems to have mucked up make.conf, because I now get
messages like this:
steves-tp root # emerge -p alsa
!!! Invalid token (not "=") \033
!!! Parse error in /etc/make.c
> ...OK, First things first:-
>
> How many people on the list would be seriously interested in this?
> The number interested will define the location of the venue.
> Note that you _must_ have a linux compatible network card installed in
your
> machine for this idea to even totter into the real
Count me in as a helper and/or installer (depending on how my own
install goes over the next week or so!)
-Original Message-
From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2003 9:58 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: Op
Hmm, intrigued, so had a peek at http://docushare.xerox.com. Looks nice,
but Mr Google says it's likely to be about $10k to get started, which is
probably more than PvH was expecting...
-steve
-Original Message-
From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
Hmm, I'm using the "one computer" demo/free arrangements (for just one
computer!), and don't seem to have got any sort of notification that
this was about to end.
These 'series of emails' - have they been sent to all RHN subscribers,
or ist this just a rumour?
- steve
PS: My feeling is that th
OK, installed RH 7.1 some while back (it was already old then) on a
little server box, got the free RHN subscription, and ran up2date every
month since. The first one took a looong while, but since then they've
been reasonably quick...
So, do I have an "up-to-date linux system"?
It still report
I have a good perl installation and then add perl-Curses, Bastille and
Bastille-Curses:
rpm -ivh perl-Curses-1.05-10.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh Bastille-2.0.4-1.0.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh Bastille-Curses-module-1.3.0-0.9mdk.i386.rpm
All this is following the best advice I could find... b
Tuesday, 11 February 2003 01:10
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Problems updating a kernel...
>
>
> Steve Brorens wrote:
> >
> > By the way, this whole business of multiple filesystems and
> having to
> > preset the sizes is A Real Pain for users used
his requirement?
> -Original Message-
> From: David A. Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 10 February 2003 09:28
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Problems updating a kernel...
>
>
> Steve Brorens wrote:
>
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks
hich I have a full set of CD's),
taking care to go down the text-only path...
> -Original Message-
> From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 10 February 2003 06:14
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Problems updating a kernel...
>
>
I run RHN up2date on a box and had in the past set it to auto-update
even the kernel, and confirmed that it did (even tho there are,
apparantly, many who'd consider that a bit brave...
Now, today I noticed that my /var/log/up2date says that it couldn't
update lilo properly:
[Mon Feb 10 12:39:21 2
Hmm, methinks that that "like to check your media?" option was added to
resolve this very problem - presumably quite a few people having
problems...
I'd like to do at least one install from my shiny new 7.3 before
shelling out for an updated set. BTW if I install 7.3 then Up2date
including the ker
Interested to see Linux on a nice new box I started an install of 7.3
over XP...
I suspect the CDROM drive (or my CD's, tho should be good) are slightly
'off' because I got a problem on CD1. Ejected the CD, wiped it on my
sleeve and off we go again.
Same thing happened while installing Fonts or
Vik, you said:
> ...Forget up2date and use apt-get instead. Get apt-get from
> http://freshrpms.net and...
Well, maybe. I did some reading on this whole rpm/apt thing a while
back, but while it may be fine for many people, for me, and this
particular box:
1 - It's more work, for no obvious be
/usr etc)
>
> from the root dir, and then working your way into the bigger
> directories, repeating until you find wheat is taking up all
> your space.
>
> Is /tmp getting big perhaps?
>
> I think the problem with uninstalling X and all that it
> depends on, otther p
I have a small box used for network tasks. Runs RedHat and altho it has
X installed I use only via SSH so all the X stuff could go.
Its registed with RHN and I do an up2date --update every week or two.
So, here's my problem:
- the up2date had some problems - probably related to disk space on \
Someone who's putting in some time on this is Bruce Simpson of Aardvark.
Doesn't look like he's got to the Linux bit yet tho... (see
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pvr/)
- steve
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeremy Bertenshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 0
> -Original Message-
> From: Ryurick M. Hristev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 15 March 2002 09:44
...
> I don't know why these permissions were designed the way they are.
> Maybe ~25 years ago (somebody may correct me on the date) this wasn't
> considered a big issue (computer
> >BTW I'd go so far as to say that the Windows (NT/W2K/XP/.NET) NTFS permission
> > structure is overall far superior to Linux , BUT the
>
> How exactly ?
Far more granular for one, but the most obvious from an admin perspective is that it
easily allows me to setup this sort of thing:
Because it won't take off on the desktop - if it does it will (sfvlw)
BTW I'd go so far as to say that the Windows (NT/W2K/XP/.NET) NTFS permission
structure is overall far superior to Linux , BUT the problem is not
generally the architecture; instead it's the attidude of *both* the vendor and
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