[SLUG] bulk mail script

2005-08-28 Thread Alexander Else
Hi all, A task has been allocated to me to send out a mail (possibly with a word/pdf attachment) to a few hundred email addresses in an hour and a half. As i don't have a lot of time to do my homework on this one, i hope someone can point me to one or two options for a script that will do this

Re: [SLUG] bulk mail script

2005-08-28 Thread Alexander Else
Quoting Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 29/08/2005, at 9:49 AM, Alexander Else wrote: Hi all, A task has been allocated to me to send out a mail (possibly with a word/pdf attachment) to a few hundred email addresses in an hour and a half. As i don't have a lot of time to do

[SLUG] randal

2001-07-06 Thread Alexander Else
The dude is a serious party animal. 48 hours of uptime he's still going. It was 6:30 before we parted company and i was shattered.. Fell asleep on the ferry home and ended up catching a cab from back at the quay! This is a guy you want to party with. Alexander -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] Studying Programming

2001-05-13 Thread Alexander Else
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Ben Leslie wrote: I think books are great study/learning resources, not those dodgy Teach yourself language X in (24 hours | 21 days). I mean really good books :). Stoustrop for C++, Kernigan and Richie for C, Design Patterns for OOP, Knuth for algorithms, Mythical Man

Re: [SLUG] Apache question: phantom porn site?

2001-04-29 Thread Alexander Else
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Peter Vogel wrote: A strange thing has happened to my previously sleepy Apache server. Until this month, I would get a few hundred hits a month, now suddenly my log says 80,000 hits. Looking at the URLs requested, none of them relate to my site. Somehow my server is

Re: [SLUG] How to unsubscribe!!

2001-03-27 Thread Alexander Else
You are the weakest link. Goodbye. On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Ford Cheng (Leela) wrote: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Progeny RC1

2001-03-19 Thread Alexander Else
i put progeny rc1 on a toshiba laptop the other day. *really* nice installer. it did do a couple of odd things, though. i needed to boot from a floppy (anyone manage to boot from cd?) and at the end of the base install it asked me to remove the floppy on one screen, remove the cd on the next,

Re: [SLUG] Progeny RC1

2001-03-19 Thread Alexander Else
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Martin wrote: the second is "extras" ie. not necessary for a succesful install... actually that's another odd thing. after the base install it reboots and continues with the install cd and i thought it said there would be the opportunity to install from additional cds but

Re: [SLUG] Dialing through PABX

2001-03-19 Thread Alexander Else
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm just trying to get a Debian 2.1 box to dial through a PABX system. '0' gives an outside line, however I'm failing to find the place to sort this out. I'm getting no dial tone messages. Any ideas? Adding x3 to the modem

Re: [SLUG] A _really_ important question

2001-03-17 Thread Alexander Else
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Jon Biddell wrote: Hmmm. Does that LASERZONE place still exist in George St Sydney ? Nah, it closed down 4 or 5 years ago. The Manly one closed about a year later, there might be one operating in Blacktown still. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] linuxexpo

2001-03-05 Thread Alexander Else
i registered a while ago for linuxexpo and got an email about it today. it had a single line saying it was from info salons, and a word attachment with about 6 lines of text with no magical formatting or anything. should i be scared? Alexander. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] ResierFS dependancies?

2001-02-27 Thread Alexander Else
Hadn't tried beyond 2.4.0 (i should've been more specific in my post). On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Michael Covi wrote: It's in 2.4.1 and later. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ResierFS dependancies?

2001-02-26 Thread Alexander Else
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Dionysus wrote: time I got to 'filesystem support', ResierFS (which my machine uses) was greyed out, and none of the docs seemed to have anything about what other kernel options ResierFS depends on listed :- I was wondering if anyone else had come across this

[SLUG] usb webcams

2001-02-25 Thread Alexander Else
hey, from doing a few searches i can see there's support for quite a few usb webcams, does anyone have any experiences with getting these going under linux? Alexander. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ssh

2001-01-18 Thread Alexander Else
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Gregg wrote: I need to use ssh from my Linux machine to log into a SUN computer in Denmark, then start an xterm on another computer behind their firewall (on a 192.168.1.0 network). So the plan is to ssh to the firewall, then ssh to the machine on the private address

Re: [SLUG] Telnet timeout

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Else
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Marty wrote: Quick question: How do you increase the timeout value for telnet? Not too sure what you mean. If you mean you're telneted onto a machine and it logs you out with a message like "auto-logout" then you can unset the auto-logout environment setting or set it

Re: [SLUG] presentation packages

2000-11-09 Thread Alexander Else
Thanks to those who replied publically and privately. Alexander. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] presentation packages

2000-11-07 Thread Alexander Else
Hi, Looking for a linux app to do presentations with. Found MagicPoint on freshmeat, does anyone have any opinions regarding this package or have another recommendation? Alexander. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Synchronous network ?

2000-09-23 Thread Alexander Else
At 17:44 23/09/2000 +1100, you wrote: How about having the nodes in a cycle, where each one transmits, after which the next one either transmits data or a "I'm here but no data to transmit", so the next one could. snip Are there drivers to perform this ? What would be involved in writing such

Re: [SLUG] available ip addresses..

2000-09-19 Thread Alexander Else
for finding out if an IP is taken before you have routing to that subnet. It can also ping MAC addresses directly. -- Alexander Else Internet Operations Technician UUNET Asia Pacific Network Services Phone: +61 2 9434 5475 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] ipchains

2000-08-28 Thread Alexander Else
1032 and going to port 53 on the ISP's end. What have I missed?? regards, Linz -- Alexander Else http://cyberchrist.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] CONFIGURING SLACKWARE TO RECEIVE (RAS)

2000-08-22 Thread Alexander Else
o answer. I suppose that's redundant given that George has said they're looking to get to a password prompt (but others have covered that point already). -- Alexander Else http://cyberchrist.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] OT: various news stories

2000-08-22 Thread Alexander Else
to spam people whose .com.au domains are close to renewal and have them renew through them (the third party). Looks like a bit of pre-emptive customer aquisition prior to introduction of new registrars some time next year. -- Alexander Else http://cyberchrist.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] OT: Musical Interns Mock MS

2000-08-20 Thread Alexander Else
a cappella group that sings Microsoft parody songs like "Sue Me Baby One More Time." http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38220,00.html -- Alexander Else http://cyberchrist.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Apache is the longest

2000-08-10 Thread Alexander Else
I was telnetting to port 80 and doing HEAD requests manually :) Now THAT is an unfortunate turn of phrase (8-) *ARGH*! I didn't see that one coming :P please, do i even need to try with this one? Alexander. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

[SLUG] No clue?

2000-07-22 Thread Alexander Else
Freshmeat article about the declining average clue level of linux companies. Just a fun read. http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/07/22/964324799.html -- Alexander Else http://cyberchrist.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Hyperterm Equivelent in Linux

2000-07-20 Thread Alexander Else
At 21:41 20/07/2000 +1000, Angus Lees wrote: i just keep triggering BREAKs when i plug/unplug serial cables and start/quit terminal programs - and they cause the whole machine to freeze until you wire it all up again and type "go". Plugging or unplugging a serial cable shouldn't send breaks,

Re: [SLUG] Email Programs - specifically, EUDORA

2000-07-15 Thread Alexander Else
At 17:42 15/07/2000 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an Eudora-equivalent or, preferably, a Linux version of Eudora (yes, I have asked Qualcomm, but no reply as yet). Eudora and SecureCrt are the two reasons i've mostly using windows at home these days on my main machine.

RE: [SLUG] Re: OT car stories

2000-07-15 Thread Alexander Else
At 20:19 15/07/2000 +1000, Marty wrote: Ashfield, Chatswood Seaforth - happens about the same frequency in all 3 locations (though at Ashfield I had it garaged most of the time). my stereo was ripped off two weeks ago while i was parked in hunters hill. Happened again last night, this time

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat Slagging

2000-07-12 Thread Alexander Else
Ok yes I'm lame, that was not meant to pollute the list. My appologies. All flames heartily accepted. Alexander. At 22:15 12/07/2000 +1100, Alexander Else wrote: heya, i'll send you the same thing i send david sainty, since i'm not really interested in pursuing this on the list (it's just