Re: Favorite Repository for Mysql 5 on CentOS

2006-04-19 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 19, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Jordan Gunderson wrote: I need to install mysql 5 on a new CentOS server, but none of the default yum repositories resolve the dependencies nicely. I've also looked at a few 3rd party repositories, but all with similar results. Does anybody have a preferred

Re: CentOS 4.3 spam filtering

2006-04-19 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 19, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote: This will most likely tell you there are a few things you need to install before MIMEDefang can be built. Those can either be 'yum install'ed, installed via CPAN, or you can do what I do: cpan2rpm. cpan2rpm is great but unfortunately it

Re: CentOS 4.3 spam filtering

2006-04-19 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 19, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Chris Carey wrote: I realize that I can run whatever I want if I choose to manually install it. Since CentOS has a package management system, isn't it preferable to go with a package that is actually in the repository? It would seem this would be easier to maintain.

Re: CentOS 4.3 spam filtering

2006-04-19 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 19, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Chris Carey wrote: PLUG, For years my servers have been running Debian, and I use a combination of Sendmail with MimeDefang and SpamAsassin for mail filtering. Umm. I hear a combination of Sendmail with MimeDefang and SpamAssassin works for that. :P It IS s

Re: DNS registrars?

2006-04-13 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 10:21 PM, Steve wrote: Wow I must be seriously out of the loop, last time I checked Godaddy was using some loud mouthed DJ. On 4/12/06, Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, what are your moral reasons against Godaddy? Because they are to big? I think you

Re: SSH hank attempts��bad?

2006-04-12 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: Yeah, I just love it when I can't log in to my own machine! It's just great. It's not uncommon for me to ssh into my own machine 10 or more times in a 60 second period. I know people that do twice or thrice that. I can see a few scenari

Re: SSH hank attempts��bad?

2006-04-12 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Chris Carey wrote: On 4/12/06, Blake B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree with that completely. But I like simplicity. I just use rate-limiting, I get maybe 2 or 3 attempts at SSH on port 22 a day. With this method they give up very quickly. sudo iptab

Re: SSH hank attempts��bad?

2006-04-12 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Chris Carey wrote: If you want a very nice dynamic port blocker , try Port Scan Attack Detector (PSAD) http://www.cipherdyne.com/psad/ Though, you could spend your whole life fighting this losing battle. My opinion is to set your security in place, and forget abou

Re: Database Dilemma... Please help.

2006-04-06 Thread Blake B.
On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Nick Barker wrote: The question is how wide are your rows and how well do you index. Personally I find this the biggest issue on speed with any database. Good luck finding someone that has 100 million records. I cannot help you there. Craigslist has 100,000,000 ro

Re: Ultimate PVR?

2006-03-30 Thread Blake B.
On Mar 30, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Mitch Anderson wrote: It was ignorant, you assumed all the TV that one would record with a DVR is wasteful, you also assume that the time spent watching tv would be better spent elsewhere(say the library?). I record shows all the time. And I sit down to watc

Re: Ultimate PVR?

2006-03-30 Thread Blake B.
On Mar 30, 2006, at 6:12 AM, Daniel C. wrote: On 3/29/06, Scott Paul Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's pretty normal for one of our roommates to be watching a show in the living room, me watching another in my room, and a third going on in my other roommates room. Doesn't anyone eve

Re: What's the deal with Swing?

2006-03-29 Thread Blake B.
It cracks me up that the posts in a thread concerning java are some of the most verbose that I've read on this list in years. I guess if you're used to coding like that, writing like that comes naturally. Not that this is a bad thing, just humorous. (to me) -Blake On Mar 28, 2006, at 11

Re: Tomcat and Servlets

2006-03-20 Thread Blake B.
On Mar 20, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Dennis wrote: I've done quite a bit of work creating tools that can be used rapidly for jsp/servlets. I have form validators and language tags that replace struts stuff (so you don't have to reload the whole app when you change something.. instead things just w

Re: need help on SATA

2006-03-03 Thread Blake B.
Umm... SATA support has been available in 2.4 since around 2.4.13. I'm sure someone has a kernel RPM available for 2.4.31 (the latest) in RH9 somewhere. -Blake On Mar 3, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Michael Halcrow wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 06:40:08AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: Don't user RH