Re: Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 07:33:46PM +, Tom Insam wrote: >oooh, challenge! If anyone's still in need of a copy of 42.zip, I'm happy to supply it on request. :-) Roger

Re: Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Chris Benson
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:43:17PM -, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > It has certainly caught everything that's been thrown at it here (about 1 in > > 650 of our incoming messages is infected). XXX has a non-8.3 filename, is perl-5.6.1.tar.gz (didn't this

Re: rate-limiting disk i/o

2002-03-20 Thread Chris Benson
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:06:21AM +, David Cantrell wrote: > [NB - posted to two mailing lists, careful with them replies] Responding to London.pm only ... > Can anyone think of a way of 'nice'ing a process so that it doesn't hammer > the disks? nice only affects scheduling, but we *reall

Re: Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Tom Insam
At 18:43 20/03/2002 +, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >It has certainly caught everything that's been thrown at it here (about 1 >in 650 of our incoming messages is infected). oooh, challenge! Tom :> In hindsight, it's too bad they weren't able to take advantage of it. :> It wouldn't look very

Quiz Team

2002-03-20 Thread Dave Cross
Now that ORA have apparently sent out all of the acceptance emails for our TPC proposals, it might be a good time to start thinking about our TPC quiz team (assuming that there will be a quiz this year). Are all of last year's competitors going to be there? Do you want to take part again? Is the

Re: Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Jonathan McKeown
--On Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:31 + Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The > > Bollocks alert! Bollocks alert! > The above statement cannot be

Re: Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Mark Rogaski
--tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An entity claiming to be Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: :=20 : This message is to simply warn you that your virus checking system may be : infected wit

Re: Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Alex Gough
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > And in another time, Some Software wrote: > > > > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The > > Bollocks alert! Bollocks alert! > The above statement cann

Re: Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
This message is to simply warn you that your virus checking system may be infected with exaggerated claims. . On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:09:00PM -, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > I suppose it makes sense that the virus-checker is as simple-minded as the > software it seeks to protect (and yes, I d

Virus protection?!

2002-03-20 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I suppose it makes sense that the virus-checker is as simple-minded as the software it seeks to protect (and yes, I do, $DEITY help me, know what they think they are protecting against), but this made me giggle: > From: Email Virus Scanner [mailto:postmaster@xx] > Sent: 20 March 2002 15

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-20 Thread Leo Lapworth
> Perhaps that tells you something about heavily "designed" sites. I didn't > make any special effort to make my sites search-engine-friendly, they just > turned out that way because they weren't built by some overpaid crack > monkey with three-quarter-length khaki trousers and an amusing T-shirt

Re: Search Engine listings - getting them up!

2002-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:06:44PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:23:16PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > > I've been asked to get a company in to help improve > > > our search engine ranking (which no one has even > > > consid

rate-limiting disk i/o

2002-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
[NB - posted to two mailing lists, careful with them replies] Can anyone think of a way of 'nice'ing a process so that it doesn't hammer the disks? nice only affects scheduling, but we *really* need to limit a process to just FOO% of disk i/o, or at least make it wait if another process wants th