Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF

2007-01-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Amos Shapira wrote: I'm pretty sure it's not practical to do much with this info beyond maybe being able to more tightly bind the negative reputation of a spammer to the domain/id he used to send the spam from. Correct. And it just so happens that the creator of SPF has a startup going called

Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF

2007-01-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/01/07, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That was entirely not the point of SPF though. (rest deleted for brevity). All true, but the bottom line was that at some stage you could highly correlate between finding an SPF/senderId record and figuring that you are dealing with a spam

Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF

2007-01-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/01/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, and because I am procrastinating about doing something else, I ran a quick analysis across my mail log file to see what the extent of the use of SPF is: pass29517 neutral 30354 softfail

Re: [SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Hardy
Peter Hardy wrote: You can get the new driver from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ , and it's also packaged for ubuntu (and probably debian) as pwc-source. Install that, and you should find some documentation in /usr/share/doc/pwc-source/ that will let you build a package and install it in

Re: [SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Hardy
Ben wrote: I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance (maybe even an infra-red option) I've selected a Philips ToUCam II, which I got on eBay for $93ea. including insured shipping, since they aren't available in Australia. I have an older relative of the ToUCam, a PCVC

Fwd: [SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Brown
I've also got a Kodak one I'd be willing to donate to anyone who wants to have a crack at writing drivers for it. Last I looked nobody had had any success with it, and it won't work with dual core systems or even systems with multithreading due to some stupidness in the closed source drivers, so i

[SLUG] LinuxChix miniconference @ linux.conf.au 2007: Final schedule announced

2007-01-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
Dear all, The LinuxChix miniconf @ linux.conf.au will be held Tuesday January 16 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au, women AND men, are welcome to attend and to participate in discussion, but are asked to remember that the miniconf is women-oriented. All attendees, speakers and helpers at the L

Re: [SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-09 Thread Ben
On 1/10/07, Michael Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The 3Com Homeconnect camera is about the most awesome webcam you can get for low light, or at least it was until they were discontinued. You can still get them on eBay though. I have one you can have to test out, the CCD is a bit buggered on it

[SLUG] Re: Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-09 Thread Ben
I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance (maybe even an infra-red option) I've selected a Philips ToUCam II, which I got on eBay for $93ea. including insured shipping, since they aren't available in Australia. Apparently it should work ok in Linux, so but I'll reply ag

Re: [SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-09 Thread Michael Brown
The 3Com Homeconnect camera is about the most awesome webcam you can get for low light, or at least it was until they were discontinued. You can still get them on eBay though. I have one you can have to test out, the CCD is a bit buggered on it after shining a laser into it. On 09/01/07, Ben <[E

Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF

2007-01-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/01/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, and because I am procrastinating about doing something else, I ran a quick analysis across my mail log file to see what the extent of the use of SPF is: pass29517 neutral 30354 softfail31082 none4783 u

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
I recently blocked .jpg and .gif attachments on our server here at bong.com.au (which also serves fragfest.com.au) fortunately we dont have many users so its not a huge drama. But its great that so much spam is image spam, because adding such a rule has dropped our spam *enormously* I also have

Re: [SLUG] Sky2 module errors

2007-01-09 Thread Denis Crowdy
Solved - they have just packaged a 2.6.19 kernel and the module works fine. Internal sound happening too. Denis On 09/01/2007, at 7:21 PM, Denis Crowdy wrote: On 09/01/2007, at 2:41 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: sky2: :01:00:0: cannot assign irq 233 sky2: probe of :01:00:0 fa

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-09 Thread jam
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server > > has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped > > at the CONNECT stage. > > http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html > > > > Has anyone else notic

[SLUG] It's not too late to volunteer for linux.conf.au

2007-01-09 Thread Ben Leslie
Hi all, It's not too late to volunteer for linux.conf.au! We are currently looking for a few more people to help out as runners, front-of-house and theatre managers. If you are interested please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible. As a volunteer you get free entry into the conference an

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2007.01.10 06:19 Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped at the CONNECT stage. http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html Has anyone else noticed similar? Yes

[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Will governments grasp the nettle on spam

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:51:07AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Craig Sanders wrote: > > also, governments are pretty much all infected by the meme that ANY > > economic activity is good economic activity, and spam results in > > economic activity. while they can't actively support it, they can a

[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Will governments grasp the nettle on spam

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:23:34AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Craig Sanders wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:41:34AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > >>http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36823 > >> > >>[...] > >>CTO of SoftScan Diego d'Ambra said in a press release that "if spam > >

[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Will governments grasp the nettle on spam

2007-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:41:34AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > I commented the other day about governments having to get more involved > in fighting spam. It looks like I am not the only one with that thought. > i don't have any objection to better anti-spam laws, but i also don't think t

[SLUG] Re: [LINK] NSW steers clear of Vista

2007-01-09 Thread Adam Todd
No. More likely they didn't want to go through the sheer hell it is to upgrade thousands of workstations, take thousands of support calls and deal with hardware and other upgrades, just to install a $80 piece of software. I know I wouldn't. At 06:39 AM 9/01/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote: Gov

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-09 Thread Ben Donohue
yes as well. I have IPCop with Copfilter and I'm not sure that it's doing too much to stop it as it still ends up in the inbox. I'm having to train thunderbird to treat it as spam. Any copfilter users here who are *not* getting any spam? Ben Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just noticed that the spa

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

2007-01-09 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 2007.01.10 06:19 Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped at the CONNECT stage. http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html Has anyone else noticed similar? Yes, there has been a mass

[SLUG] Low-light webcam for 256K upstream

2007-01-09 Thread Ben
Hi, I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance (maybe even an infra-red option), that perform well on a 256Kbps upstream, with a bit of room for audio too... I guess 33Kbps for G729 VoIP should be ok, unless there's a better way to send audio with a stream. Any good Ubunt

Re: [SLUG] Sky2 module errors

2007-01-09 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Denis Crowdy wrote: > Well said Hunter - vale Hunter I believe? Yeah, a year of two ago from memory. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ I call C++ a curse on programmers everyw

Re: [SLUG] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.

2007-01-09 Thread Glen Turner
[Very, very much my personal opinion, not that of my employer in any way shape or form.] Ben Donohue wrote: > 1. I thought that numbers were supposed to be portable by law. They are. But the telcos wrote the rules :-( Your typical home number is a "geographical number" and is assigned to a re

[SLUG] Re: [coders] making a single kernel module (fwd)

2007-01-09 Thread Grant Parnell ELX
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, O Plameras wrote: Grant Parnell ELX wrote: Thanks Oscar but it's changed a lot since Red Hat 9, there's 6 releases of Fedora and I'm not even sure off the top of my head whether RH9 was even a 2.4 kernel. The process is same for Fedora or Red Hat. The whole idea is w

Re: [SLUG] Sky2 module errors

2007-01-09 Thread Denis Crowdy
On 09/01/2007, at 2:41 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: sky2: :01:00:0: cannot assign irq 233 sky2: probe of :01:00:0 failed with error -38 Ok, tracing the include path from /usr/include/errno.h through to /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h shows that an error of -38 means : #defi