Jamie Honan wrote:
i like these bits. lawyers are very silly people.
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My initial response when these appear on the list is to think that as
My initial response when these appear on the list is to think that as it
is not addressed to me, I'm not going to help with the problem. After
all,people who put that sort of warning on their messages might be more
likely to sue me if any advice I give doesn't solve their problem. Tend
to
Does anyone know of any cases where these disclaimers have actually been
tested in court. Since they are really a case of Horse - Bolted -
Stable Door my money is on them not being of much value other than as a
frightener. It might be more appropriate for a brief statement as to
copyright to be
David Fisher wrote:
My initial response when these appear on the list is to think that as it
is not addressed to me, I'm not going to help with the problem. After
all,people who put that sort of warning on their messages might be more
likely to sue me if any advice I give doesn't solve
Terry Collins wrote:
Now a list of companies that add these would be something useful - "you
mail has been rejected because we do not accept your legal
threat/requirements".
Oh...
No wonder we haven't been getting mail from Raz after filtering on "whereas"
and "recipient"...
;)
Has anyone got outlook2000 to work with wine? (I know I know, why bother
you say)
I am using the most recent wine binary and have got other win95 programs
working but none of the office2000 suite to work. I'm using RedHat 6.2 with
kernel 2.2.14. It comes up with some errors regarding dll
David Fisher wrote:
The poor sods are more deserving of sympathy with living with the embarrassment of
having this twaddle added to their mail without their consent. It is only a
matter of time before I will be so afflicted at work.
Jill, who is the sys admin for her companies research
Michael Lake wrote:
Are there any ways for Linux users to remove such attachments? Maybe
embedded HTML with
JavaScript to run at the receivers mailer perhaps? Sort of a nice virus
:-) Any ideas?
Well, you can always cut anything after the "-- ", as shown in your
signature. However, most
Hi all,
I've got webmin running on linux and I'm trying to get the APC modules
working with the latest version of powerchute for linux.
I've gotten to the point where it reads the values of the data file into a
bunch of strings which outputs to the page. Problem is that when the split
command
bunch of strings which outputs to the page. Problem is that when the split
command runs, it grabs all the data into the first string..
Here's a sample data file...
11/07/00,20:18:20,243.1,252.2,247.0,55.05,50.00,005.2,036.4, ,
...
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:59:11PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
[snip - howard's email]
[snip - the email his was replying to, in full]
Even worse, IMO, than lawyers attempting to mitigate disaster
which email is people who respond at the top of a message
without taking the time to trim it to
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:53:08AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Jill, who is the sys admin for her companies research section, now gets
this crap attached to to all her work email and has had no success in
getting this removed. She tried several departments.
Are there any ways for Linux
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:33:10PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Morning all,
It stems from some of the things going on in the Free Software world at the
moment, and the phrase, "Interoperability favours quality." I've heard this
argument used numerous times to rationalise the development of
Anand Kumria wrote:
So non-GPL won't disappear. Other bigger exampels are Bind, OpenLDAP,
OpenSSL, Apache and most MTAs (Mail Transer Agents) except Exim.
Big infrastructural projects... I decided not to mention these because I'd
imagine that the past lack of corporate acceptance of the
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:21:53AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Anand Kumria wrote:
So non-GPL won't disappear. Other bigger exampels are Bind, OpenLDAP,
OpenSSL, Apache and most MTAs (Mail Transer Agents) except Exim.
Big infrastructural projects... I decided not to mention these because
Anand Kumria wrote:
Actually I have never encountered that. Most "corporates" seem to accept
fairly quickly that the GPL is good for them because it means their
competitors, if using the same software, must also realise (a simplification,
yes) their changes.
You can see this in how most
Anyone know a generic web site to get BIOS upgrades. I need Award
V5.51G. If I go to the Award/Phoenix sites, it becomes a run around that
you have to pay for. The m'board is an old Octel that there doesn't
appear to be a site for.
Thanks in advance
Richard
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I see the email police are on patrol.
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Anand Kumria wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:59:11PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
[snip - howard's email]
Howard Lowndes wrote:
I see the email police are on patrol.
It's bandwidth and traffic though... and it's all free for us, so we
shouldn't abuse it. Those lawyery bits are enough entropy-power for the
server, we don't need to add to it. ;)
[ Everything on this list is multiplied by...
http://www.ping.be/bios
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Richard Blackburn wrote:
Anyone know a generic web site to get BIOS upgrades. I need Award
V5.51G. If I go to the
I agree. I just get peeved by the public displays of rudeness of
some ppl.
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
It's bandwidth and traffic though... and it's all free
Found some doco un split which shows it using:
split(/,/)
thanks.
-Original Message-
From: Ken Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 1:07 AM
To: Sydney Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Perl help with Webmin module
bunch of strings which outputs to the
\begin{Andrew Dick}
Has anyone got outlook2000 to work with wine? (I know I know, why bother
you say)
I am using the most recent wine binary and have got other win95 programs
working but none of the office2000 suite to work. I'm using RedHat 6.2 with
kernel 2.2.14. It comes up with some
Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
b) Will non-GPL-compatible software disappear into obscurity as
developers find software that *can* be integrated, included and hacked
upon within strong GPL projects?
No, there will always be authors (e.g. raster) who want to recognised
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I agree. I just get peeved by the public displays of rudeness of
some ppl.
And your messages with the entire 30 or 40 line missive attached to the
end and a one or two line comment at the start aren't rude?
Sorry Howard - I regard your posting
This thread is a joke now.. I won't quote it, but lets just say I am one
of the people that has deleted it, and continued to do so. How about we
ease up.
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Hi all,
I have been trying to add an ordinary user to the group lp to give him access
to the printer when using pdq. I never had any trouble doing this when I used
Redhat, by editing /etc/group but this doesn't seem to work on Debian (woody).
What am I missing here?
David
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SLUG -
David Fisher wrote:
I have been trying to add an ordinary user to the group lp to give him access
to the printer when using pdq. I never had any trouble doing this when I used
Redhat, by editing /etc/group but this doesn't seem to work on Debian (woody).
What am I missing here?
usermod? Then you don't even have to use vi! :D
Check out it's manpage, given that usermod --help is pretty terse. Remember
that you also have to re-login for changes to have effect.
- Jeff
Success. Thanks, Jeff. I suppose I just wasn't doing it right.
Anyway, what's wrong with
David Fisher wrote:
Anyway, what's wrong with vi? (Evil grin, exits stage left, hoping has
left new holy war behind him)
Hah - nothing, I'm just being a pain. :) I'm using vim right now to type up
this message, only the host I'm on won't allow me to use my favourite little
vi trick,
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
Hah - nothing, I'm just being a pain. :) I'm using vim right now to type up
this message, only the host I'm on won't allow me to use my favourite little
vi trick, 'gqap'.
When you type it over a paragraph, it lines it up, pulls out the space, and
makes it purdy. :) It
Well, setting TCP_NODELAY in telnet certainly improved things and got rid
of the 200 ms delay between packets, but I still have a problem in that
the packets are still going:
DATA1 - ACK1 - DATA2 - ACK2 ...
only now the delay is only the length of the circuit latency, which is
still
\begin{Howard Lowndes}
Well, setting TCP_NODELAY in telnet certainly improved things and got rid
of the 200 ms delay between packets, but I still have a problem in that
the packets are still going:
DATA1 - ACK1 - DATA2 - ACK2 ...
only now the delay is only the length of the circuit
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 04:49:44PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Well, setting TCP_NODELAY in telnet certainly improved things and got rid
of the 200 ms delay between packets, but I still have a problem in that
the packets are still going:
DATA1 - ACK1 - DATA2 - ACK2 ...
Sounds like you've
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:23:21PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
DATA1 - DATA2 - ACK1 - ACK2 ...
So why is this not happening, or am I misunderstanding here?
what you want is a nagle algorithm ;)
Not at all. What he wants is Delayed ACK.
if you want to combine the writes on your end, you
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 03:20:22PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
usermod? Then you don't even have to use vi! :D
I don't like the way usermod handles adding users to groups.
ie if jeff already belongs to group video and games
and you want to add gnats to that list you have to do:
usermod -G
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Scott Howard wrote:
TCP_CORK is yet another example of Linux bloat.
No, quite the opposite.
The purpose of TCP_CORK is so that applications using sendfile() don't
get hammered by Nagle, which would otherwise need to be handled by
bloating the sendfile() implementation
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