Re: recording wavs

2003-09-24 Thread Squabsy
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:48:42 -0500, "Michael Hipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Squabsy wrote: > > Yes I noticed that and was going to have a play with it myself. > > Can you set the bit rate and the hz from the command line ? > > Yes. It has several of the most common options. There is a companion

The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread David A. Bandel
FYI, For those of you who are interested, the spammers are winning. Yet another RBL is shutting down (blackhole.compu.net). They are being forced to shut down due to massive attacks on their servers by spammers. Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you know anyone wh

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: I'm really stumped & frustrated now. My PC is a similar spec to yours Michael (but with a K6 processor) but my recording, even using this sox rec, still hangs after 7 mins and creates a 2gb wav file with 7 mins of music then 100 (approx) mins of d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d I was beginn

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Chris Kassopulo
> "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you > know anyone who has a company that grosses more than 100 million a year > and an influential politician in their pocket, they need to start > lobbying hard to stop spam a

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Chris Kassopulo wrote: > > "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you > > know anyone who has a company that grosses more than 100 million a > year > and an influential politician in their pocke

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-24 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote: > I'm really stumped & frustrated now. My PC is a similar spec to yours > Michael (but with a K6 processor) but my recording, even using this sox > rec, still hangs after 7 mins and creates a 2gb wav file with 7 mins of > music then 100 (approx) mins of d-d-d-d

Re: email attack

2003-09-24 Thread Chris Kassopulo
> Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My email these days consists almost entirely of worms, especially if > measure d in number of bytes, not number of individual letters. It is > really bad. Ditto here. I don't know how earthlink's pipes can handle it. I'm getting one every two m

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David A. Bandel wrote: | FYI, | | For those of you who are interested, the spammers are winning. Yet | another RBL is shutting down (blackhole.compu.net). They are being | forced to shut down due to massive attacks on their servers by spammers. | | Mo

RE: email attack

2003-09-24 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Chris, > I'm on modem and it's impossible to keep my mailbox from > filling without staying on line 24/7. Your ISP should be able to help you set up a filter that will throw it out before it gets to your mailbox. If not, you might look for a more helpful ISP. There is no excuse for passing ex

Re: email attack

2003-09-24 Thread Chris Kassopulo
> Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm on modem and it's impossible to keep my mailbox from > > filling without staying on line 24/7. > > Your ISP should be able to help you set up a filter that will throw it out > before it gets to your mailbox. If not, you might l

RE: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
> > Heard this morning that the governor of California, yes that one, > > passed some legislation making it illegal to send spam to > or fro that > > state. A penalty of up to one million is possible. > > > > Hey, it's a start. > > Yup, the law takes effect on January 1. Any California > res

Re: email attack

2003-09-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003, Chris Kassopulo wrote: > > Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm on modem and it's impossible to keep my mailbox from > > > filling without staying on line 24/7. > > > > Your ISP should be able to help you set up a filter that will throw it out > >

Re: email attack

2003-09-24 Thread dep
quoth Bill Campbell: | Hmmm. I thought I heard an Earthlink advertisement on the goddam | noisy box just recently that was touting their ability to eliminate | spam and ``viruses'' from their customer's e-mail. what were they gonna say? that their founder is in the slammer for being a swindler?

PDF Viewers?

2003-09-24 Thread Robert E. Raymond
Hi all, A class I'm taking requires that my PDF viewer be able to view comments that the instructor places inside the PDF file. Acrobat Reader 6 in Windows works just fine at viewing these comments (which appear usually as tooltips when I hover over them, or highlighted areas), but nothing in Lin

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread burns
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:45, David A. Bandel wrote: > Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you > know anyone who has a company that grosses more than 100 million a year > and an influential politician in their pocket, they need to start > lobbying hard to stop spam and p

it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread dep
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at reassuring its enterprise users that Linux is the right choice for their businesses, Hewlett-Packard Co. today is announcing that it will

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread James McDonald
David A. Bandel wrote: FYI, For those of you who are interested, the spammers are winning. Yet another RBL is shutting down (blackhole.compu.net). They are being forced to shut down due to massive attacks on their servers by spammers. I understand that nothing can be done if you saturate the

sendmail relay deny

2003-09-24 Thread Swapana Ghosh
Hi We are using sendmail-8.10.2-C1 in our cobalt raq-4r server. For few of our domains, if we don't use the full domain name in the /etc/mail/access file then it is coming *relay deny*. Where as for all our domaina we are mentioning the ip address in the relay and it is working fine.

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread Shawn L Johnston
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 17:20, dep wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 > > SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at > reassuring its enterprise users that Linux is the right choice for > their businesses, Hewl

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at reassuring its enterprise users that Linux is the right choice for their businesses, Hewlett-Packard Co. today is announcing tha

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:16:59 +1000 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David A. Bandel wrote: > > >FYI, > > > >For those of you who are interested, the spammers are winning. Yet > >another RBL is shutting down (blackhole.compu.net). They are being > >forced to shut down due to massive a

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:16:12 -0700 Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Heard this morning that the governor of California, yes that one, > > > passed some legislation making it illegal to send spam to > > or fro that > > > state. A penalty of up to one million is possible.

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread dep
quoth Shawn L Johnston: | On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 17:20, dep wrote: | > http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801, | >85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 | > | > SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at | > reassuring its enterprise users that Linux is the right

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:45:32 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, > > IP addresses of countries like China and Brasil who only care about spam > when it concerns their own citizens. > My current pounding is coming from Panama. 8-) -- -

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:16:59 +1000 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that nothing can be done if you saturate the pipe. But > wouldn't stateful inspection and some rules to say `when x number of > connections occur from y host in z time' cause the firewall to drop the >

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003, James McDonald wrote: >David A. Bandel wrote: > >>FYI, >> >>For those of you who are interested, the spammers are winning. Yet >>another RBL is shutting down (blackhole.compu.net). They are being >>forced to shut down due to massive attacks on their servers by spammers. >>

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: ... > >Most legislators aren't stupid enough to turn themselves into criminals. Say What! A couple of Mark Twain quotes are on point: Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. There is no distin

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread bof
David A. Bandel wrote: Most legislators aren't stupid enough to turn themselves into criminals. They don't need to. To quote Mark Twain, "American has no native criminal class, except possibly Congress." BOF ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Underscores in Postscript fonts

2003-09-24 Thread Joel Hammer
Maybe I am just missing something obvious, but, is there an easy way to get underscores in your typical postscript font, like Times-Roman? Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/li

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Joel Hammer
There must be a sleezy lawyer somewhere who could sue SOMEBODY to get these windows machines off the net. How about the ISP's who let these things onto the internet? Maybe pass some tough pollution laws. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: sendmail relay deny

2003-09-24 Thread Andrew Mathews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Swapana Ghosh wrote: | Hi | |We are using sendmail-8.10.2-C1 in our cobalt raq-4r server. For few | of our domains, if we don't use the full domain name in the /etc/mail/access | file then it is coming *relay deny*. Where as for all our domaina

Displaying octal numbers in bash

2003-09-24 Thread Joel Hammer
I understand that bash will do arithmetic in octal if you prefix the constant with 0. So: a=05 b=017 c=$((a*b)) echo $c yields 75 This is the correct answer, but it is in decimals, not octals. Is there a way to make echo display octal? Thanks, Joel ___

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:44:07 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dep wrote: > > http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85288,00.html?nas=PM-85288 > > > > SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - In a bold move aimed at > > reassuring its enterprise users tha

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread dep
quoth Alan Jackson: | SCO's stock plummeted today. Most investors figured it out too, even | after SCO had a press release putting a sickeningly positive spin | on it. Sickening like you feel after a chilidog and the roller | coaster. mmm . . . chilidog. -- dep Whatever law is after, it

Re: Displaying octal numbers in bash

2003-09-24 Thread Tom Wekell
Joel Hammer wrote: I understand that bash will do arithmetic in octal if you prefix the constant with 0. So: a=05 b=017 c=$((a*b)) echo $c yields 75 This is the correct answer, but it is in decimals, not octals. Is there a way to make echo display octal? Thanks, Joel More arithmetic? echo $((8#$

Re: PDF Viewers?

2003-09-24 Thread Ian Stephen
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:23, Robert E. Raymond wrote: > Does anyone know of a viewer in Linux that supports these comments, Dunno if (in Linux) it supports these comments, but how 'bout Adobe Acrobat Reader http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Under "Platform" choose "Linux"

Re: it just gets weirder

2003-09-24 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:25:13 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoth Alan Jackson: > > | SCO's stock plummeted today. Most investors figured it out too, even > | after SCO had a press release putting a sickeningly positive spin > | on it. Sickening like you feel after a chilidog and the roll

Re: Displaying octal numbers in bash

2003-09-24 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
While on the octal front, anyone know how to get the date command, when used with format specifiers, NOT to prefix a number with a zero? I use it in a Makefile to put a time stamp in a C program, but the leading 0 forces the compiler to think it is octal. So, this month '09' is not accepted. Offend