RE: Yahoo's DMARC policy sucks

2014-04-21 Thread ChasM
  Hiya, I got the same message (from PLUG) that Mike got: Your membership in the mailing list PLUG-discuss has been disabled due to excessive bounces But I'm not using Yahoo, and I always switch to text-only in HotMail. Still, I had to re-instate my PLUG list status here:

RE: Blender Site Offline?

2014-01-15 Thread ChasM
@lists.phxlinux.org Subject: Re: Blender Site Offline? Am 14. Jan, 2014 schwätzte ChasM so: moin moin, Blender's site comes up for me. I'm on better than average bandwidth :), but the site seems fine. It also comes up fine from elsewhere. I'm getting the same IP from dns. Check traceroute or mtr

Blender Site Offline?

2014-01-14 Thread ChasM
Anybody know why www.blender.org is a sad site? charles@EleetCheesyStuff ~ $ ping www.blender.org PING www.blender.org (82.94.226.104) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- www.blender.org ping statistics --- 47 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 46332ms It's been offline for days

RE: OT: Excess files

2013-12-09 Thread ChasM
Win-XP shouldn't have IIS cabinet files. IIS is Microsoft web-server software (and ugly). The i386 folder is an abbreviated version of the Windows installation CD. But something in there is pretending to be an IBM OEM installation. Find, install and run Malwarebytes, please. Sometimes the

RE: Debian Boot Problem

2013-10-28 Thread ChasM Marshall
kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0) Usually this is a GRUB issue: One of these; /boot/grub/menu.lst   (used first) /boot/grub/grub.conf  (used if menu.lst is missing), still specifies the wrong initrd, or the wrong kernel. The kernel upgrade can change

RE: Samba - The bane of my existence (smb.conf)

2013-08-22 Thread ChasM Marshall
Workgroup is just a default Windows network name that harks back to the netbios days. But because you are not SERVING Linux files you don't need SAMBA. Ignore the bane. If SAMBA is requesting a password, it won't matter. If the NAS box is requesting a password, something is weird. You said it

RE: OT: Thuderbird on Win7 - cannot remove folders from trash

2013-06-25 Thread ChasM Marshall
Keith, I haven't used Win 7 yet. But don't they call it the Recycle Bin? You might try Start Run cmd Then navigate to the recycle bin. It's a hidden system folder. The attrib command used to be useful in identifying open files. attrib *.* When they are open, the system won't normally

RE: Arizona Internet Speed Test

2013-05-09 Thread ChasM Marshall
Seems like ATIC is anti-FOSS. I no longer trust Flash except in very rare cases, when I can multi-boot (into Win 98...) (-: Chas.M. :-) Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:06:24 -0700 From: plug-discuss...@stcaz.net To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Arizona Internet Speed Test

RE: Are Social Networking Sites Reducing Activity on This List?

2013-05-07 Thread ChasM Marshall
PLUG mail list is darkening? When was the last time ... Restaurants had NO pictures on their menus? (-: o_o ^_^ 7_7 _ v_v L_L _ o_o :-) I dunno about 16th-century Peruvian fishmongers, but they might have their own YouTube Channel, providing they have oppose-able thumbs. [The

RE: Port Scanning the entire internet

2013-03-24 Thread ChasM Marshall
I would hope Gen. Keith Alexander might read this. Excellent research. (-: Chas.M. :-) From: eric.c...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:50:59 -0700 Subject: Port Scanning the entire internet To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org Interesting read -

RE: What's wrong with Windows 8?

2013-03-17 Thread ChasM Marshall
If you still have an Apple IIgs: By this time, the floppy drive(s) will refuse to work. The internal power supply needs a simple repair. Built by Sony, I've diagnosed a the single faulty capacitor that all IIgs' have. Inside the PS box on the white circuit board is one very small 1 microfarad

RE: Slackware vs the others

2013-01-10 Thread ChasM Marshall
Slackware is GREAT ! I'm a fan since distro v.4 I have only ever had ONE (common) weird experience with it. After trying to incorrectly install tainted nVidia drivers ... the X server would bomb, and I'd be dropped into command line mode. I kinda expected that, but the keyboard layout also

OT: MindGuard

2012-12-22 Thread ChasM Marshall
I kinda like the license terms: http://zapatopi.net/mindguard/mgpl.html (-: Chas.M. :-) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:53:01 + From: crawford.rainwa...@linux-etc.com To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org Subject: Re: PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 90, Issue 21 Eric and company: Ironically