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>JUST as the pyramids of Egypt were built in honour of great kings, it was
>fitting that sandy replicas were created on Weymouth beach in memory of the
>king of the castle. Fred Darrington, who became the world's most famous
sand
>sculptor, died last week aged 91. His grandson, Mark Anderson, who has
taken
>over his Dorset seafront pitch, is determined that his grandfather's name
will
>not be forgotten, despite the impermanence of his creations.
Can someone please tell me what a "pitch" constitutes? I have an idea
it is somewhat like the spots street musicians claim, but this sounds
more formal.
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Just an area of the beach by the prom where he's allowed to make his
sculptures.
Weymouth is where I spent my teenage years. My mum and one sister still live
there.
So I'm pretty familiar with the sculptures; pretty impressive, and very big.
(I think he uses some sort of armature for some bits - it's not just sand)
They usually get vandalised, though; after a lot of drinks, it obviously is
a good idea to break into the enclosure and kick all the sculptures to bits.
Then again, Weymouth is pretty run down, and attracts holiday makers of the
worst sort.
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On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 05:18 AM, Owen Byrne wrote:
> employees, and that an awful lot of
> corporations have shown that they can't keep track of billions
> upon billions of dollars.
I think we need to get away from rhetoric that implies that the
billions of dollars in hard cash, revenues, and capitalization was
"lost" somehow.
The ruling class, whether you define them as government or business
(what's the difference?) knows full well where that money is. It's
lining their pockets, buying their hobby ranches, and financing
their private jets.
Neither has any interest in the welfare of the working class.
Of course, none of this is new bits.
-Ian.
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:46:55PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> FWIW, slummerville actually has the internet- not just broadband, but
> actual broadband competition, which I gather is rare. I had ADSL and two
> cable options when I moved in.
Did you actually attempt to order the DSL? Large chunks of somerville have
advertised DSL service that can't actually be obtained. Excuses vary, from
"no available copper" to "full DSLAM", but the folks I know who've wanted
DSL around here have all failed, ending up either with ATTBB, RCN or an
honest-to-god T1.
-j
>
> Luis
>
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:48:18AM +0100, wintermute wrote:
> How unimaginably difficult is this to do?
> There are as far as I know, no Linux kernel hackers, nor distros that originate from this fair island right?
> Right.
i think there's a mailing list on linux.ie for this.
also, there's niall's work on the bbc. no, not that bbc, the bootable
business card.
kevin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aherne Peter-pahern02 [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 28 August 2002 09:29
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: [ILUG] [OT] Dell machine giving me hassle.
>
> Ok, Iknow this is blatantly OT but I'm beginning to go insane.
> Had an old Dell Dimension XPS sitting in the corner and decided to
> put it to use, I know it was working pre being stuck in the
> corner, but when I plugged it in, hit the power nothing happened.
> I opened her up and had a look and say nothing much. A little orange
> LED comes on when I plug her in but that's it, after some googling
> I found some reference to re-seating all the parts, but no change.
> The problem I'm having is that since the power supply is some Dell
> specific one, ATX block with what looks like one of the old AT
> power connectors, I cant figure out weather this is a Mobo prob
> or a PSU prob. Just to futily try and drag this back OT, I want
> to install Linux on it when I get it working. If anyone knows
> what the problem might be give me a shout.
Here is what you do.
Remove all the PCI & ISA/EISA cards.
Remove the floppy disk cable from the mobo, the ide cables from the mobo...
essentially leaving only a video card... ram and a keyboard plugged in.
Turn on the system.
If it doesn't POST then, switch it off and remove the video card.
Switch it back on ... if your mobo doesn't emit some beeps complaining about
lack of video card then.
Switch it off.
Remove it's ram.
Same procedure as above.
If you still don't have any kind of mobo beep codes then you can try as a
last ditch effort to reseat the cpu... (remembering to never ever ever power
up your system without a heatsink & fan).
If after reseating the cpu into the mobo... you still get no beep codes,
from it with just the cpu inserted into the mobo ie(no pci,*isa cards or and
no actual ide or floppy cables connected to the system)... even though you
have power... you either have a faulty motherboard or a faulty cpu.
Once you get beep codes various permutations of the above should eventually
disjunct which device it is, is causing the lack of POST.
Power On Self Test.
Bod
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On Wed 14 Aug 2002 08:42, John P. Looney wrote:
> It likely means that I was just lucky I put the failed-disk
> directive after the raid-disk one :)
Extremely lucky. The other way around would have toasted your
existing volume.
> Anyway. It's doesn't quite boot right, with /=/dev/md0 in fstab. On
> boot, I see:
In order to autodetect soft RAID volumes at boot, you need to set the
partition type on all the relevant raw disk partitions to 0xFD. I'm
not sure about the initrd stuff; as I don't use it myself.
Colm
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I apologize for not catching up to the current code in so long.
Now that I have I'm trying to resolve "breakage" and differences.
The unseen window seems to have been replaced with the sequences
window. While I appreciate the flexibility of the sequences
window, the unseen window filled an important-to-me need: It
was tiny and could be set to show on all desktops of a virtual
window manager without taking a lot of space. Since my normal
mode of operation involves two copies of exmh displaying on a
1024x768 vnc session, screen space is at a premium.
As things stand now, I have a sequences window that shows a lot
more information than I need to have handy and takes up a lot
more room than I can "spare".
I can see that I could like the new sequences window a lot for
certain operations. But I'd like a nice uncluttered, tiny
window that _only_ shows me info on my unread mail.
One possibility that occurs to me would be a button or mouse
click that "shrinks" the Sequences window to show only the
sequences in the "always show" list. And of course a way to
expand it back.
--Hal
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Hi all
I have a prob when trying to install Linux (tried RedHat, Suse) on my
laptop. I can start the install but after about 2min, the whole pc just
dies.
I know it's not a Linux prob and here is what I have encountered:
I had the same problem when installing Win on it and eventually sorted it
out by disabling the infrared port. I'm guessing this might be same prob
although I'm not sure. I am very new to Linux so it's not that easy for me
to work it out. I did manage to follow the setup procedure at one stage
(using images on disks) and it cuts out either as it's trying to verify what
CD-Rom I have or just after (hence my suspicion of the infrared port again).
can anyone help ?
thanks
Gianni
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On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 07:25, Gary Peck wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:06:18PM +0000, Angles Puglisi wrote:
> > Michel Alexandre Salim ([email protected]) wrote*:
> > Limbo beta2 ? I'm running Limbo 7.3.92 with kernel 4.2.18-5.58, is what I am running
> > an "older" version of the Limbo beta, it is it "the" limbo beta?
>
> The current version of the Limbo beta is 7.3.93 (yeah, they should
> have renamed it, but they didn't). It's in the same
> redhat/linux/beta/limbo directory on the ftp servers. Just check the
> redhat-release package to find out which version is on the server.
> Looking at ftp.redhat.com, the current one is redhat-release-7.3.93-2.
>
> If you're using GNOME2 from the beta, I'd upgrade as there were some
> important bugfixes since the first beta. The only thing to watch out
> for is that Limbo2 switched gcc to 3.2, which is once again
> incompatible with the previous gcc (v3.1 shipped in Limbo1).
Eeeek... I hope they aren't intending to release a new RH with a new gcc
which hasn't yet been released (again). Bad enough the first time, and
I'm sure it gave RedHat a lot of embarrassment.
FWIW, I've yet to compile apt on the gcc 3.2 snapshot in RawHide - apt's
C++ makes several rather poor assumptions on what iterators are, and in
addition doesn't use namespaces at all.
For non-C++ folk, this basically means it needs porting. I've got a
reasonable way along, now, and I'll send a suitable patch to Connectiva
or somewhere when I succeed - I can't find anything on Connectiva's site
itself for this.
In addition, the rpmlib stuff has changed slightly - I've not really
started on this, but it's mainly just arguments added. The rpmlib
documentation seems somewhat poor, though, unless I've missed it.
Dave.
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James Raftery wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Four of the IE nameservers are publishing out of date DNS information.
> The four listed below are publishing the IE zone from last Friday.
> They are six days behind reality.
James,
Last week, when indexing stuff for WhoisIreland.com, I noticed that
ns0.domainregistry.ie and banba.domainregistry.ie were out of synch by a
few days. The other nameservers seemed to give a current SOA at that
time. However the affected secondaries may have been using
ns0.domainregistry.ie for axfr and propagated the error.
This whole thing does seriously bring into question IEDR's decision to
outsource the technical admininstration of .ie to a company that
apparently does not even admin its own DNS. It is a nice story though -
almost as good as the time that .ie disappeared for 8 hours in July
1998.
Regards...jmcc
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Looks useful. Hopefully, they'll put up some more material soon.
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Once upon a time, rob wrote :
> I dl'd gcc3 and libgcc3, but I still get the same error message when I
> try rpm --rebuild or recompile. I do this as root, I dl'd as root also.
>
> thanks for the help, any more idea what's going on?
I've never installed source rpms with apt, but I suppose that if you get
file not found, it's because the source rpm was installed. To see if this
is the case, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ and if you see mplayer.spec,
you'll just need to do "rpm -bb mplayer.spec" to get a binary build in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
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Be sure to read the followups on
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/286228/2002-08-03/2002-08-09/1
where basically the consensus is that the article author is that this is
(1) an application problem, not a Windows problem and (2) a problem only
a certain class of poorly written applications. So, yeah, it's a new
attack, but it's not nearly as devastating an MS critique as the author
wants us to believe it is.
Luis
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:08, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
>
> I'm sure this is common knowledge already, but just in case ...
>
> http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html
>
> This paper presents a new generation of attacks against Microsoft
> Windows, and possibly other message-based windowing systems. The
> flaws presented in this paper are, at the time of writing,
> unfixable. The only reliable solution to these attacks requires
> functionality that is not present in Windows, as well as efforts on
> the part of every single Windows software vendor. Microsoft has
> known about these flaws for some time; when I alerted them to this
> attack, their response was that they do not class it as a flaw -
> the email can be found here. This research was sparked by comments
> made by Microsoft VP Jim Allchin who stated, under oath, that there
> were flaws in Windows so great that they would threaten national
> security if the Windows source code were to be disclosed. He
> mentioned Message Queueing, and immediately regretted it. However,
> given the quantity of research currently taking place around the
> world after Mr Allchin's comments, it is about time the white hat
> community saw what is actually possible.
>
>
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Martin A posted:
Tassos Papadopoulos, the Greek sculptor behind the plan, judged that the
limestone of Mount Kerdylio, 70 miles east of Salonika and not far from the
Mount Athos monastic community, was ideal for the patriotic sculpture.
As well as Alexander's granite features, 240 ft high and 170 ft wide, a
museum, a restored amphitheatre and car park for admiring crowds are
planned
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So is this mountain limestone or granite?
If it's limestone, it'll weather pretty fast.
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Date: Not supplied
At the OS X conference, Cory told me about a book called "The Life and Death of
the Great American Cities," by Jane Jacobs. This Metropolis Magazine comic
strip, by Ben Katchor, seems to resonate with what Cory told me about the book
-- that cities die because mixed used areas are changed into single use areas.
Link[1] Discuss[2]
[1] http://metropolismag.com/html/content_1002/ben/ben_a.html
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/16/H/uUSrEeEuxYWe
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> Subject: Re: Digital radio playlists are prohibited?!
> From: James Rogers <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 25 Sep 2002 12:52:15 -0700
>
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 01:19, Rohit Khare wrote:
> > Anyone heard of this law before?
>
>
> Absolutely. More accurately, it is part of the RIAAs "regulation" for
> broadcasting music under their auspices. This is actually part of the
> default statutory license the RIAA is compelled to issue. You can try
> and establish your own contract with each of the individual publishers
> in addition to the writers, but that is a Herculean undertaking in its
> own right. The details are really gross and complicated.
Perhaps the stations cannot publish digital playlists, but you can get
them from www.starcd.com anyway. They use some sort of
listening and recognition technology to identify the music played
on over 1000 US radio stations.
Jeff;
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URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html
Date: 2002-09-12T23:03:40-08:00
If you've been in Los Angeles for long enough to read this sentence, chances
are you've spent more time stuck in traffic than you would care to consider.
That annoying fact of Southern California life is only going to become more
annoying and more of a factor with time, which is the point of "Car Trek,"
tonight's edition of "By the Year 2000" at 7:30 on KCET (Channel 28) [which]
also looks at the phenomena of "carcooning" in which...
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:06:18PM +0000, Angles Puglisi wrote:
> Michel Alexandre Salim ([email protected]) wrote*:
> Limbo beta2 ? I'm running Limbo 7.3.92 with kernel 4.2.18-5.58, is what I am running
> an "older" version of the Limbo beta, it is it "the" limbo beta?
The current version of the Limbo beta is 7.3.93 (yeah, they should
have renamed it, but they didn't). It's in the same
redhat/linux/beta/limbo directory on the ftp servers. Just check the
redhat-release package to find out which version is on the server.
Looking at ftp.redhat.com, the current one is redhat-release-7.3.93-2.
If you're using GNOME2 from the beta, I'd upgrade as there were some
important bugfixes since the first beta. The only thing to watch out
for is that Limbo2 switched gcc to 3.2, which is once again
incompatible with the previous gcc (v3.1 shipped in Limbo1).
gary
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A little tidbit for those who still believe in science by opinion poll...
Cheers,
RAH
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/printer.jsp?CID=1051-072302B
Just Ask the Experts
By Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon 07/23/2002
In 2001 the National Science Foundation surveyed 1,500 people nationwide
and found that 77% believed that "increased carbon dioxide and other gases
released into the atmosphere will, if unchecked, lead to global warming
..." Yet half of those polled believed that humans and dinosaurs co-existed
on Earth, despite the scientific fact that the dinosaurs went extinct tens
of millions of years before the earliest hominids appeared. Worse, only 22%
of the respondents understood what a molecule - for example, carbon dioxide
- is.
As in the case of the belief by many that dinosaurs and early humans
co-existed, public opinion does not change the actual facts about the
material world. Such a poll measures nothing more than the degree of public
ignorance about scientific matters.
Most people get news stories about science and technology developments from
television. And after more than a decade of being fed what-if stories about
global warming from human activities, no wonder most people "believe" that
global warming "will" occur. However, on the anxiety scale, only 33% "worry
a great deal" about global warming, a worry that ranks at 12 out of 13
environmental concerns. The top environmental fear, shared by 64% of those
polled, was polluted drinking water.
So What Do We Know?
Concerning the latest understanding on human-made global warming, here are
three points we know from the science:
1. The surface record of temperature from thermometers show widespread
warming in the 20th century compared to the 19th. There was one period of
warming early in the 20th century, the second after the 1970s. Ecosystems
have responded to this widespread warmth, not seen since ca. 800 - 1200 C.E.
But the cause of global surface warming cannot be associated with
human activity without additional information. Some media reports point to
ecosystem responses of 20th century warmth (e.g., mountain glacier retreat)
and unjustifiably claim the responses owe to man-made causes. But mountain
glaciers receded during the past period of warmth around 1,000 years ago,
and advanced during the unusual cold of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300 - 1900
C.E.). Both those climate shifts occurred naturally, before the increased
concentration of human-made greenhouse gases in the air.
# All computer simulations of climate say that in order to conclude
that the surface global warming trend is human caused, the surface warmth
must be accompanied by an equal or larger warming trend in the air from one
to five miles in height. Measurements made by satellites and verified from
weather balloons show no meaningful human-made warming trend over the last
two or even four decades. Thus, the recent warming trend in the surface
temperature record cannot be caused by the increase of human-made
greenhouse gases in the air.
# The computer simulations are not reliable as tools for explaining
past climate or making projections for future trends.
Future Shock: The Scenarios
When it comes to future scenarios, consider what the experts actually say
about potential climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change writes in its Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
(2000), "Scenarios are images of the future or alternative futures. They
are neither predictions nor forecasts." Further, "The possibility that any
single emissions path will occur as described in the scenario is highly
uncertain," and finally, "No judgement is offered in this Report as to the
preference for any of the scenarios and they are not assigned probabilities
of occurrence, neither must they be interpreted as policy recommendations."
Forecasting future societal conditions and energy use often amount to
little more than unconvincing guesses. Jesse Ausebel at Rockefeller
University in April 2002 critiqued the U.N. IPCC's " ... 40 energy
scenarios, with decarbonization, or carbonization, sloping every which way
and no probabilities attached. ... It is a confession that collectively
they know nothing, that no science underlies their craft, and that politics
strongly bias their projections."
Nonetheless, such a guess about the world's energy future forms the first
step in making a 100-year prediction of global warming. That first
uncertain forecast - future energy use - used as input in the climate
simulation surely compounds the uncertainty in the next step, the climate
forecast.
Inability to predict the future should not be surprising. The climate
simulations upon which predictions are based yield unreliable results
because, as outlined above, the results are incompatible with measurements
of how the climate has changed in the last few decades.
Complete Speculation
On May 24, 1994, Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of
Meteorology at MIT, testified to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, "The claims about catastrophic consequences of significant
global warming, should it occur at all, are almost completely speculative.
Not only are they without any theoretical foundations, but they frequently
involved assuming the opposite of what appears to happen."
Despite years of solid work by climate specialists, the output of computer
simulations remains undependable, owing to the extraordinary complexity of
the natural world. Thus, on May 1, 2001 Lindzen testified to the Senate
Commerce Committee about the long-standing inability of computer
simulations to deliver results that resemble reality, even in the cases
where good measurements are available:
"For example, there is widespread agreement [among climate scientists] ...
that large computer climate models are unable to even simulate major
features of past climate such as the 100 thousand year cycles of ice ages
that have dominated climate for the past 700 thousand years, and the very
warm climates of the Miocene [23 to 5 million years ago], Eocene [57 to 35
million years ago], and Cretaceous [146 to 65 million years ago]. Neither
do they do well at accounting for shorter period and less dramatic
phenomena like El Ninos, quasi-biennial oscillations, or intraseasonal
oscillations - all of which are well documented in the data, and important
contributors to natural variability."
Lindzen explained the failure of computer simulations simply in May 2000:
"The point I am making is that it is a fallacious assumption that the
models have everything in them, and will display it, and somehow the rest
is just technical uncertainty. There are things they literally don't have."
This punctuates the popular notion that averaging output from computer
results will somehow, miraculously, give a scientifically appropriate
result.
Think Locally
Now, on top of the unreliable forecasts of global warming -- which rest on
"highly uncertain" forecasts of future economic and social conditions and
un-validated climate simulations -- come the forecasts of local impacts, in
order to make the case for relevancy to people. Increased storminess is one
prediction of the outcome of human-made global warming found in the popular
media, which would be where most people learn about the issue.
The idea that storminess increases with human-made global warming defies
expert opinion. David Legates, an expert hydrology researcher, testified in
the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on March 13, 2002:
"Ascertaining anthropogenic changes to these extreme weather events is
nearly impossible. Climate models cannot even begin to simulate storm-scale
systems, let alone model the full range of year-to-year variability...
Clearly, claims that anthropogenic global warming will lead to more
occurrences of droughts, floods, and storms are wildly exaggerated."
The U.N. IPCC Third Assessment Report concurs, "[T]here is currently
insufficient information to assess recent trends, and climate models
currently lack the spatial detail required to make confident projections.
For example, very small-scale phenomena, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes,
hail and lightning, are not simulated in climate models (Summary for
Policymakers, p. 15)."
A group of extremely relevant experts, the American Association of State
Climatologists, recently summarized the state of climate simulations:
"Climate prediction is complex with many uncertainties ... For time scales
of a decade or more, understanding the empirical accuracy of such
predictions - called "verification" - is simply impossible, since we have
to wait a decade or longer to assess the accuracy of the forecasts. ...
climate predictions have not demonstrated skill in projecting future
variability and changes in such important climate conditions as growing
season, drought, flood-producing rainfall, heat waves, tropical cyclones
and winter storms. These are the type of events that have a more
significant impact on society than annual average global temperature
trends."
On the facts of human-made global warming, should one believe television or
the experts?
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Gary Lawrence Murphy:
>This is for the whitelist fans: Can someone please tell us why the
>following extremely frequent spam header pattern would _not_ pass a
>whitelist test? The letter itself is most certainly spam/viral and
>was most certainly not sent by me, but I see no way you might tell that it
>was not, nor can I see how I might charge the sender with fraud for having
>'impersonated' my account. .. My uneducated guess is that all they need to
>jump expensive whitelist
>walls would be buckshot a spam-laden Klez ..
There are several issues here.
(1) For reasons that have nothing to do with
commercial advertising, we need email software that
prevents virus attacks a la Melissa and Klez. We
simply can't continue down the path where every
script kiddie with a grudge or political agenda can
cause millions or billions of dollars worth of
damage.
(2) Very likely, email practices will evolve to the
point that digital signatures are the standard way
to recognize the sender of a message. Sabotaging
your machine or otherwise compromising your private
key will be the only way that someone can forge a
message from you. I don't see any reason that email
software that automatically uses digital signatures
for contact management and whitelisting would be
any more expensive than existing email clients.
Unless Microsoft manages to get a defacto monopoly
on it.
(3) I think identity theft should be made a felony,
with very stiff penalties, for reasons that have
nothing to do with spam. No, obviously, simply
parading around with a sign that says "I'm George
Bush" is not identity theft. On the other hand,
I think using a virus to compromise someone else's
private key should should fall into that category.
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:53:16PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> The setup is as follows:
> I develop a piece of code using PHP 3.0.9 which is, to
> my knowledge, GPL.
php's license is completely irrelevant to this. think about it.
solaris releases their system which includes /bin/sh. their license
is very restrictive and they retain the rights to their whole system.
but they don't own every shell script ever written by solaris admins
around the world.
> The piece of code runs on my server and is an integral part of a system
> that I have developed for a client. I did not recieve payment for this
> particular piece of code but I did recieve payment for the system. My
> client now wants to use a different service provider but keep my code.
> Do I have a right to claim intellectual property rights for my little
> piece of code that he did not pay me for or do I have to give the
> client the code under the GPL.
i doubt it. and i suspect it would cost more to litigate then you
would get.
kevin
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URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000231.html
Date: 2002-10-09T22:50:35-08:00
My Tivo has been picking up the Twilight Zone for the last few weeks. I have to
say, I'm really enjoying it. It reminds me of the old ones. It's good to have
it back on the air....
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Oh yeh one more thing. None of this would explain why the signatures
for sample-spam.txt from spamassassin is registered on honor but not apt
or fire.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rose, Bobby
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 9:54 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Razor-users] What's wrong with the Razor servers now?
Thanks that helps. There's still so little info on TES and those of us
here since RazorV1 know how it works. I did set my min_cf to "ac-100"
which I thought would be zero.
So the way you are suggesting that it works now is that everyone has a
trust level of 1 and have to work their way up. Your trust level
increases when someone nominates the same message as spam. This must
have been the new changes made at the beginning of the week unless the
changes dumped everyone's trust level. Now here come the questions...
What engine signature does TES look at? Does it have to be the same e1
signature or does it use the e2 or e4 signatures. How many people have
to nominate the message before everyones rating increases? How many
revokes decreases someones rating? Does a single revoke decrease the
rating of everyone that nominated the message? If a newby reports a
message that has already been reported does their trust level
immediately go up? In the case of revoking, does someone with a trust
level of 1 have the capability to revoke a message submitted by multiple
people with higher trust levels?
-----Original Message-----
From: Vipul Ved Prakash [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Razor-users] What's wrong with the Razor servers now?
Bobby,
Couple of things:
If you are not a trusted reporter, your reports will not have an
immediate effect. It takes a bunch of trusted reporters to bump up the
confidence of a signature to a point where it is considered to be spam.
This might be frustrating initially, but as the number of trusted users
grows the time delay between nominations and determination will become
shorter. Of course, it's a lot more frustating for people to have their
legit mail filtered out due to incorrect reporting.
Also, for the purpose of testing, I'd suggest making your min_cf (in
razor-agents.conf) to 0. min_cf defaults to the server recommended
average confidence, which at the moment is 1. Setting min_cf to 0 should
return true for whatever you submit (as long as it was not revoked by a
trusted user).
apt/fire sync with honor every 5 minutes, so you'd have to wait for a
_maximum_ of 5 minutes before signatures propagate.
cheers,
vipul.
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:51:21PM -0400, Rose, Bobby wrote:
> This is still happening. Nothing that I report is being registered at
> all. I have confirmed that this also affects the Cloudmark Outlook
> plugin. If I block a message from Outlook using Spamnet then run it
> against the folder containing the message that was reported then
> nothing happens.
>
> On the unix side, I've tried different cloudmark servers, different
> identies, report from different systems, etc without an effect. I did
> find that sample-spam.txt from Spamassassin is only registered on
> honor.cloudmark.net and comes back positive from it and it only so
> it's clearly not sync'd with apt or fire.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rose, Bobby
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 1:32 PM
> To: Patrick
> Cc: ML-razor-users
> Subject: RE: [Razor-users] What's wrong with the Razor servers now?
>
>
> I'm sure others have thought of that. Probably the only way to
> prevent that is to include the host in the report/revoke
> authentication.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 12:33 PM
> To: Rose, Bobby
> Cc: ML-razor-users
> Subject: RE: [Razor-users] What's wrong with the Razor servers now?
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Rose, Bobby wrote:
>
> > Well at least it's been confirmed. I can say for cetain that it
> > started on Monday since that was when I noticed a huge drop in stats
> of messages
> > that were tagged as being in razor. And I know it was fine on
> Friday.
> > It may have something to do with the upgrades on the servers that
> > Vipul mentioned. If TES is going to decide on what gets registered
> > and what doesn't then razor-report should provide some debug info
> > about the refusal. You are correct about the need for more info on
> > TES, but it probably won't happen for fear of circumvention.
>
> <INSERT RANT REGARDING SECURITY THROUGH OBSCURITY>
>
> On the way into work I thought of some fairly easy ways to circumvent
> what I imagine the current trust model to be based on individual users
> blindly submitting reports and checking results.
>
> It's hard to imagine others haven't as well, as I'm not too bright.
>
>
> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> /\
> /\/\/\
> Patrick Greenwell
> Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong
> answers
>
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
> \/\/\/
>
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Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
> Don't like SuSE's product licensing? Write your own distribution. You
> can even grab most of what you need _from SuSE_. All you have to do is
> heed the licensing terms on the individual pieces.
<snip>
How unimaginably difficult is this to do?
There are as far as I know, no Linux kernel hackers, nor distros that originate from this fair island right?
Right.
Yes it might be very,very difficult and subject to abject failure
in sticking together a distro.... call it Dolmen Linux (or other),
no doubt the packaging system would be one of the first places
such a suggestion would stumble.
Some (like me) favouring a FreeBSD style ports system others favouring
a Debian style system and others still favouring *rpm style packaging.
That said other *LUG have done interesting things like making blackbox.
Perhaps making a distro would be ..... umm.... fun.
Just a pseudo random thought.
I'm only laughing on the outside
My smile is just skin deep
If you could see inside I'm really crying
You might join me for a weep.
<<At your service Madame>>
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The usual crud. Why do morons ranting and beating their chests in the
National Review (or similar rags) merit FoRKing?
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URL: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=59390
Date: Not supplied
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=59390
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URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8423196,1717/
Date: 2002-10-01T08:34:09+01:00
[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/ncbuy.gif ([NCBuy])]
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On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 09:20, Owen Byrne wrote:
> In my experience, this is classic "American" behaviour, and I don't
> think its on the increase outside of the US of A.
In my experience, this protest behavior is really only an issue in
"ultra-liberal" coastal cities, which is where I normally live. It is
part of the culture and that behavior is viewed as acceptable.
For comparison, contrast this with the character of the arguably more
serious protests against Federal government abuse in the inter-mountain
West. They have a very different idea of what constitutes acceptable
protest practice. Those protests remain largely civil and polite, if
heated and aggressive, and those involve a far greater percentage of the
local population. And unlike 99% of the liberal coastal city protests
I've seen, the people protesting in the inter-mountain West are actually
facing immediate dire consequences from the activities they are
protesting and are strongly motivated to protest in a manner that gets
results. Some of their tactics, such as the practice of many businesses
and restaurants in northern Nevada to not give service to anyone known
to be in the employ of the BLM and related agencies, have been very
effective at forcing dialog. I don't recall anyone characterizing their
protests as impolite, rude, or violent, but then they have more to lose.
-James Rogers
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mr. FoRK" <[email protected]>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Lawrence Murphy" <[email protected]>
>
> >
> > f> What about a situation where you don't directly ask/talk to the
> > f> bot, but they listen in and advise/correct/interject/etc?
> >
> > Do you do that? Do you hear two people at the next table say "I'm
> > going to Seattle tomorrow" and you just /have/ to lean over and
> > interject compulsively to tell them what you know about Seattle's
> > weather?
>
<joke>Oh, please, quit with all that StopEnergy(tm)</joke>
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I don't see why not John, but I'd sure backup my data first ;--)
So I suppose you could setup half of the raid1, copy your partitions across,
vi lilo to append the new device labels, /dev/md0 instead of /dev/hda...
re-run lilo, then raidhotadd /dev/xxx /dev/md0 [or is that the other way
around?]
I have never tried this so this could be bollix, I have setup root-raid
systems but during install time, I have had drive failures on my
"production" systems at home and successfully re-built the raid many times.
IMHO linux software raid is extremely good.
When are we going to have a pint?
CW
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I've a running system, and I want to set it up so that the disks are
mirrored. I'll win a little more read speed, and a lot more reliability.
However, the RAID_HOWTO just mentions RAID 1 and RAID 0 on a machine
that's new. They don't mention anything about an existing setup. Is it
possible to setup disk mirroring on a running box ?
Kate
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Rogers" <[email protected]>
> As I've said before, American
> Indian Reservations are quite possibly the only place on the planet where
> you can find trailer park shantytowns where every household is bringing in
a
> six-figure income. I wish I could be exploited like that.
Got bits?
(and I bet you probably /are/ being exploited, but you just don't know by
whom...)
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URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,8723999,215/
Date: 2002-10-10T03:26:52+01:00
*Society:* Blair brokers Whitehall deal on trusts borrowing private cash.
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:28:05AM +0100, Satelle, StevenX mentioned:
> When I was in school they pushed Irish down my throat. I developed a hatred
> for Irish. I did French for 3 years and German for 6 months, I could
> (almost) hold a basic conversation. I am proud of the fact that I don't know
> one word of Irish.
Sad, that.
I felt like that till recently, but now wish that it wasn't rammed down
my throat like worming tablets. If they hadn't, it is very possible I'd be
an Irish speaker.
John
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URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381139,215/
Date: 2002-09-30T03:05:04+01:00
No retreat on PFI, unions are warned.
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Quoting Nick Murtagh ([email protected]):
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 19:26, Rick Moen wrote:
>
>> NON-freely redistributable apps (in boxed sets):
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> SAP database
>
> The same one as provided on www.sapdb.org?
> Which is released under the GPL/LGPL?
Looking at http://www.sapdb.org/history.htm , it seems that SAP went
open-source some time in 2000, so my information likely was correct
at the time I compiled that list.
In addition, please note that, just because a company decides to go open
source with a codebase as of some new release version, that doesn't make
all versions ever released open source retroactively. A licence
attaches to a _copy_ of a creative work. So, if there was a
proprietary, non-redistributable copy in SuSE boxed sets, it's still
proprietary and non-redistributable -- unless SAP AG decided to mail out
a separate permission grant for it.
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Nova Nova wrote:
> bass and treble settings do not seem to have any affect on the sound.
Look around for a "Tone" toggle. Toggle it.
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I guess the first question here should be does anyone have some
updates to the PGP code in EXMH that I should know about?
My current problem is that if I get a PGP signed message, I first
get a button that reads:
"Check the signature with GnuPG"
If I punch the button, and I dont have the signature on my keyring
then I get a message saying just that, and the message:
"Can't check signature: public key not found"
along with a button with the inscription
"Query keyserver"
If I punch the button then EXMH just hangs. Forever.
If instead of punching the button, I go out to the keyserver myself
and then try the message again, everything works, so it SEEMS that it
must be the code that goes out to the keyserver.
Anyone else with this problem?
This is EXMH v2.5 and tcl/tk 8.4a4
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:51:18AM -0600, Scott Wunsch mentioned:
> On Thu, 08-Aug-2002 at 11:31:01 +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> > I've installed Redhat 7.3 on a raq3's disk. But fscked if I can get the
> > kernel in /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 to boot. It's insisting pulling the
> > kernel from ... somewhere else. The old cobalt kernel.
> http://www.gurulabs.com/rgh-cobalt-howto/index.html
>
> The Cobalt systems have some neat firmware boot code that will read the
> ext2 filesystem and find the kernel itself... if you put it exactly where
> they expect it.
Alas, I've been following that howto, and it doesn't seem to work. It
could be because i'm using ext3 for the rootfs though.
Kate
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I had posted previously about the 2.4 kernel using iptables I ran nmap
against. The IPID sequence generation was all zeros. Someone said this was
indicative of earlier kernels but was fixed about 2.4.5 version. Since I'm
running the latest what is causing this? I ran nmap against a 2.2 kernel
using chains and it had better results than the stock 2.4 kernel.
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Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:27:57AM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
>
>
>>>Well, here's a solution using seq and sed - IMHO its a rather dim solution
>>>and it definitely dies if STRING contains / (and probably has other ways to
>>>die too) and a bash loop would certainly be faster, but you know how to do
>>>it with loops :-)
>>>
>>>PREFIX=seq -s "" $NUMBER|sed "s/./$STRING/g"OA
>>
>>clever. A bit more robust is:
>>#first param is number of
>>#times to repeat second param
>>#
>>#e.g. quote=`repeat 3 '> '`
>>repeat() {
>> seq -s , $1 | sed "s¬[0-9]\{1,\}[,]*¬$2¬g"
>>}
>
> But it's such a crap colution anyway, why would you want to make it more
> robust ?
>
Give yourself credit :-) it's a nice solution,
with just 2 lightweight processes. The same thing
coded in shell loops wouldn't be nearly as elegant
and not as scalable to boot.
Pádraig.
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[Jeremy Hylton]
> I think one step towards deployment is creating a re-usable tokenizer
> for mail messages. The current codebase doesn't expose an easy-to-use
> or easy-to-customize tokenizer.
tokenize() couldn't be easier to use: it takes a string argument, and
produces a stream of tokens (whether via explicit list, or generator, or
tuple, or ... doesn't matter). All the tokenize() functions in GBayes.py
and timtest.py are freely interchangeable this way.
Note that we have no evidence to support that a customizable tokenizer would
do any good, or, if it would, in which ways customization could be helpful.
That's a research issue on which no work has been done.
> The timtest module seems to contain an enormous body of practical
> knowledge about how to parse mail messages, but the module wasn't
> designed for re-use.
That's partly a failure of imagination <wink>. Splitting out all knowledge
of tokenization is just a large block cut-and-paste ... there, it's done.
Change the
from timtoken import tokenize
at the top to use any other tokenizer now. If you want to make it easier
still, feel free to check in something better.
> I'd like to see a module that can take a single message or a collection of
> messages and tokenize each one.
The Msg and MsgStream classes in timtest.py are a start at that, but it's
hard to do anything truly *useful* here when people use all sorts of
different physical representations for email msgs (mboxes in various
formats, one file per "folder", one file per msg, Skip's gzipped gimmick,
...). If you're a Python coder <wink>, you *should* find it very easy to
change the guts of Msg and MsgStream to handle your peculiar scheme.
Defining interfaces for these guys should be done.
> I'd like to see the tokenize by customizable, too. Tim had to exclude
> some headers from his test data, because there were particular biases
> in the test data. If other people have test data without those
> biases, they ought to be able to customize the tokenizer to include
> them or exclude others.
This sounds like a bottomless pit to me, and there's no easier way to
customize than to edit the code. As README.txt still says, though, massive
refactoring would help. Hop to it!
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Owen Byrne writes:
> [quoting http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-shi2.htm]
> *SHIVER MY TIMBERS*
>
> /From Tad Spencer/: "Please could you tell me where the phrase /shiver
> my timbers/ originated?"
>
> This is one of those supposedly nautical expressions that seem to be
> better known through a couple of appearances in fiction than by any
> actual sailors' usage.
>
> It's an exclamation that may allude to a ship striking some rock or
> other obstacle so hard that her timbers shiver, or shake, so implying a
> calamity has occurred. It is first recorded as being used by Captain
> Frederick Marryat in /Jacob Faithful/ in 1835: "I won't thrash you Tom.
> Shiver my timbers if I do".
It seems implausible to me that "shiver" here means "to shake"; I don't
recall seeing the word used transitively in that sense, and web1913
lists that sense as "v. i.", or intransitive. The transitive sense of
"shiver", which we no longer use but which people used widely in the
1800s (web1913 doesn't even list it as archaic or obsolete), means
"to shatter into splinters, normally with a blow".
Shivering a boat's timbers, of course, leaves you with no boat.
(Shivering some of them, which will happen if you hit a rock hard enough,
leaves you with a sinking boat.)
So, "Shiver my timbers if I do," can be reasonably interpreted as a more
vivid way of saying, "May I die suddenly if I do." The interpretation
suggested by Quinion, "May my boat be damaged," neither makes as much
sense in context nor obeys the normal rules of grammar.
I've sent a copy of this to Quinion.
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Make sure you rebuild as root and you're in the directory that you
downloaded the file. Also it might complain of a few dependencies but
you can get these at freshrpms.net, except for gcc3, which you can find
on your Red Hat cd, Red Hat ftp, or rpmfind.net.
After you rebuild the source rpm it should install a binary rpm in
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386. With all dependencies met, install mplayer
with 'rpm -ivh mplayer-20020106-fr1.rpm' and you should be good to go.
One last thing, you will need the win32 codecs, I found them on google,
create a directory /usr/lib/win32 and place the codecs in there.
Good Luck!
Lance
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 23:44, rob bains wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just installed redhat 7.2 and I think I have everything
> working properly. Anyway I want to install mplayer because I heard it
> can play quicktime movs. I apt-get source mplayer and dl'd it to
> /usr/src.
>
> I tried to just rpm --rebuild mplayer-20020106-fr1.src.rpm,
> then I get ; mplayer-20020106-fr1.src.rpm: No such file or directory.
>
> Any help or a link to some document would be appreciated, Thanks
> -rob
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> I've found Micromail in Cork quite good:
play247.com seems to be a good site for dvd's. prices are in sterling,
but they have free shipping. plus they're selling buffy season 5 dvd's
for £10 less then blackstar...
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The US Military is planning on equipping Gulf troops with two-way translators:
Palm-sized devices with speech-recognition and automated translation. Tried
speech-to-text lately? How about Babelfish? Boy, is this technology ever gonna
suck: "Take he to that chemistry arm vegetable." Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks,
Nat[3]!_)
[1] http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast/10/06/handheld.translator.ap/
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/eXMNyidbgPL
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http://ana-www.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/PDF/PR_whitepaper_v2.pdf
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On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 11:48 AM, Robin Lynn Frank wrote:
> If I were a spammer, I'd simply set up a server, send out my
> spam with the
> Habeus headers and continue till I was reasonably certain I'd
> been reported.
> Then I'd simply reconfigure the server and reconnect to a
> different IP. As
> long as no one can establish my connection to the web sites my spam is
> directing people to, I'm home free.
Uh... the reason is simple. Habeas runs something called the
"Habeas Infringers List", and if you use their trademark without
their permission, you'll end up on it. Then, when you send spam
with the misappropriated header, users of SA (2.40 supports
this) will tag your mail as spam, rather than let it through.
This may be done independantly of your IP address, so be
prepared to constantly change domain names, and move your
servers as fast as you send spam.
Also, that little haiku is a copyrighted work, so not only CAN
Habeas sue, they MUST sue to protect their copyright. And since
it's a trademark as well, that's a double-whammy. Habeas has
some pretty high-powered legal people, who will gladly go to
town on violators.
The whole point here is to give them the legal leverage they
need to put spammers out of business, and not only block mail
from them, but allow through the things that really AREN'T spam.
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>David asked:
>> My wife noticed something odd. The nearly-full moon was about 30
>> degrees above the horizon. There was a notable glow on the horizon,
>> except under the moon. The moon seemed to be in a column of darkness
>> that was about three times the apparent width of the moon. We could see
>> the column over its entire length as a strip of sky darker than the sky
>> around it.
>>
>> Any of you ever see this? Do you have any idea what could have caused
>> it? I suspect it's due to some pecularity of the visual system, but
>> have no clear idea.
Bill Jacobs:
> I'm surprised to not find this phenomenon in Corlis. I could have sworn I
> saw it there. He does have the somewhat similar dark sky between a rainbow
> and a secondary bow. I personally have seen a rainbow enclosing a
> semi-circle of darker sky.
>
> I know I've read about pillars under the Sun and Moon elsewhere,
> but I can't recall if they were reportedly dark or bright. I do know
> these sorts of things are supposed to be quirks of optics not of the
> visual system. I'm sorry I haven't got any answers, but a search
> through some books on atmospheric optics ought to turn a few hints up.
Some links:
comprehensive
http://www.meteoros.de/indexe.htm
Atmospheric Light Phenomena
http://www.auf.asn.au/meteorology/section12.html
interesting observational stuff from the prior millenium including pix
(click 1997 / colour plates)
http://www.ursa.fi/ursa/jaostot/halot/ehp/index.html
more pix, many of which flip to negative to highlight details (hover cursor)
http://idefix.taide.turkuamk.fi/~iluukkon/taivas/valok/88.html and
subsequent links
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In addition, one bit of anecdotal evidence from a conversation in
1984! in San Fransisco is hardly enough to extrapolate 500 to 3k.
This is the only quote I could find relating to promiscuity in
homosexual men.
"I think people feel a certain invulnerability, especially young
people, like this disease doesn't affect me. The publicity about the disease was very much the kind where it was easy to say, "That isn't me. I'm not promiscuous." Promiscuity, especially, was a piece where people could easily say, "Well, I'm not. Promiscuous is more than I do." If you have 300 partners a year, you can think you're not promiscuous if you know somebody who has 500. So it's all relative, and it was easy to feel that that isn't me."
You could find hets who have the same kind of partner volume. BFD.
This kind of random generation of numbers that leads the nutty
religious bigots (as you mentioned earlier).
Grr. Bits damnit. Now, I must go brief.
-BB
EL>> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, CDale wrote:
>>> I agree w/ ya Tom. That kind of thinking is SO idiotic. Sure, gays
EL>> So how many of your hetero friends had >3 k lovers?
bmn> So Eugen, how many of your homo friends have -had- 3k lovers?
bmn> In fact, thats a general question for FoRK proper.
bmn> Do you know anyone, outside of meybee Wilt Chamberlin and a few of the
bmn> gang-bang porn queens who -have- had even 1.5k lovers?
bmn> Eegads, if you're hypothesizing numbers like -that- Eugen, you at
bmn> least owe it to FoRK to back that shit up.
bmn> Otherwise we're liable to assume rampant unfounded homophobia and that
bmn> would just be a lose.
bmn> Just a quick assumption here. I'm not a math geek or anything, but
bmn> assuming 1 lover every day, that would be like at least one lover
bmn> everyday for 8 years and some change. I don't know about you, but
bmn> very very few of us are -that- lucky (or even close to that lucky)
bmn> and after awhile, even the sexaholics get bored and have to mingle
bmn> something new into their weekends. You really are assumiing that the
bmn> homosexual population is a) that large in a given area (The meccas
bmn> might qualify, but try finding that kind of homosexual population in
bmn> say, Tulsa, Oklahoma or Manchester, NH (Tho Manchester does have quite
bmn> a few nifty gaybars, but thats a different story) b) that bored/sex
bmn> obsessed/recreationally free to pursue sex that often, with that many
bmn> partners or that they'd even WANT that many partners.
bmn> Qualify yourself, or at least lower your outrageous numbers.
bmn> =BB
>>> are promiscuous, and so are hets, but I betcha gays are more
>>> AIDSphobic than hets, generally speaking....
EL>> The virus load issue is orthogonal to the fact. Bzzt. Switch on your
EL>> brain, you both. I was mentioning that a subpopulation outside of the sex
EL>> industry is/used to be extremely promiscuous, about two orders of
EL>> magnitude higher than average.
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:34:23 +0200, Matthias Saou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I stand corrected :-)
> The thing is, I hadn't used gconf-editor yet... and it's exactly what I
> feared, old "not so good" memories are coming back : It looks exactly like
> a GNOME RegEdit :-/ Oh well.
> I still hope that the few missing features I'm still looking for will be
> added in the next 2.0.x releases, like for example being able to have the
> panel always under *all* other windows (if you know how to do that, I'm
> really interested! ;-)).
>
Ya know, I was thinking the same thing. But there's at least two main 'opposing thumbs' between regedit and gconf:
1. GConf is written in English, not symbol tables; you can actually READ what the heck you're looking at.
2. Because it's better-considered, it should be more sound; when the registry gets a wrong value, you may not be able to boot....if GConf is scrogged, you can still have all the underlying power of the OS to keep things running....just call up WindowMaker (or whatever) for the next session until you get it worked out.
It took me a while to warm up to it...but I *do* like Gconf...
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>>>>> "K" == Kragen Sitaker <[email protected]> writes:
K> Planning battle tactics; for this reason, the intelligence
K> press reports, spy satellites have had 1-meter resolution for
K> many years.
The military already have these spy satellites; they are basically
Hubble pointed the other way, so I doubt they will be a big enough
customer of this service to justify a next-generation wireless
network rollout for the rest of us.
K> Finding an individual vehicle in a city might occasionally be
K> possible with 1-m images and might occasionally also be worth
K> the money.
My car is only just over 1.5 meters across and maybe 3 meters long, so
that means roughly six pixels total surface area. You might find a
16-wheeler this way, but how often do people misplace a 16-wheeler
such that it is _that_ important to get old images of the terrain?
Since they can't send up aircraft to update images in realtime every
time, how is this different from just releasing the map on DVDs? Why
wireless?
I thought of the common problem of lost prize cattle, but there again,
will there really be business-case for creating a hi-res map of
wyoming on the fly instead of just doing what they do now and hiring a
helicopter for a few hours?
K> For small areas you have legitimate access to, it's probably
K> cheaper to go there with a digital camera and a GPS and take
K> some snapshots from ground level. Aerial photos might be
K> cheaper for large areas, areas where you're not allowed --- or,
K> perhaps, physically able --- to go, and cases where you don't
K> have time to send a ground guy around the whole area.
I can see lower-res being useful for Geologists, but considering their
points of interest change only a few times every few million years,
there's not much need to be wireless based on up-to-the-minute data.
I expect most geologists travel with a laptop perfectly capable of DVD
playback, and I also expect the most interesting geology is in regions
where the wireless ain't going to go ;)
I don't mean to nit-pick, it's just that I'm curious as to (a) the
need for this product that justifies the extreme cost and (b) how we'd
justify the ubiquitous next-generation wireless network that this
product postulates when we /still/ can't find the killer app for 3G.
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Bill Stoddard wrote:
>
> Wishful thinking. People are just bigger dickheads now.
nah, they've always been this way.
> Culture is changing and it is becoming acceptable to get in
> peoples face and shout them down when you disagree with them.
culture changing, yeh. 'those who fail to learn from history..'
what does it tell you when a market chain is named 'bread and circus'
and no-one twigs?
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exmh has a funky cut/paste model that is essentially all my fault.
The middle click sets the insert point. If you hate that, go to the
Bindings... Simple Edit preferences window and de-select
"Paste Sets Insert".
>>>George Michaelson said:
>
> I am a (tv)twm user. when I snarf text into my mouse cut buffer, and then
> attempt to inject it into the exmh input windows for comp/repl, the
'point'
> is often an apparently random place in the text pane, not where I think I
> have current flashing cursor.
>
> I usually wipe out any of To:/Subject:/<random body> with the text. Its
> often not even beginning of line denoted, ie its an unexplicable number
> of char spaces in to the text where it inserts,
>
> What am I doing wrong in either X, WM, shell, EXMH which is causing this?
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> t/db_based_whitelist.Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated at
> ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 1. Use of bare << to mean <<"" is
> deprecated at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 6. Unquoted string
hmm, could you check your installation? those chars aren't in my
version at all.
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> Or you could let me write one for you? Mind you ...... I know an
> awful lot about you! ;-))
Oh, that could be interesting!
>
> Yes, I like that starlet look, but I think you should come out from
> behind that bike too and let us see what you are wearing. looks
> pretty innerestin'
That bike is all that's between me and my modesty. The other photos are not
for public consumption. :-)
> Fel
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*Media:* Move could lead to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation being outvoted on
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Angles Puglisi ([email protected]) wrote*:
>Also, they are developing rapidly in their CVS and looks like their next version
>of alsaplaer will be pretty cool, but I have no idea when it will be ready.
ahh, oops they just released. -/
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I thought the mounds were along the southern Mississipi -- and the
operating theory is that the diseases spread ahead of white explorers
and got them before the whites even showed up.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Gary
> Lawrence Murphy
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:26 PM
> To: Robert Harley
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Al'Qaeda's fantasy ideology: Policy Review no. 114
>
> >>>>> "R" == Robert Harley <[email protected]> writes:
>
> R> Well IIRC, Cortez arrived in 1519, and DeSoto was born circa
> R> 1500. You do the math.
>
> Ah, I suppose so. If it wasn't DeSoto ... then who was it that landed
> in Southern Florida to be greeted by great cities of millions of
> mound-dwellers who had completely vanished by the time Cortez arrived
> to kill as many as he could?
>
> --
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Errr... not to be pedantic or anything, but this is called "omit one
testing" or OOT in the literature IIRC. Helpful in case you're searching for
additional information, say at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ for instance.
David LeBlanc
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In a message dated: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:03:57 CDT
Ulises Ponce said:
>Thanks Tony, but I think doing it using component files will get a .signature
>by default, but I have many diferent signatures and I want to insert one of
>that signatures using a keyboard command. So for a message I will insert a
>signature, but for another message I will insert a different signature.
>
>Is it possible? I am using sedit for my messages.
Ahm, if you don't object to using a mouse for such things, exmh has
the ability to insert different sigs on demand. Create a bunch of
different sig files, all beginning with .signature, and at start up,
exmh will load them all. In the Sedit window, you'll see a Sign...
menu item which will allow you to select between each of the listed
.signature files for *that* e-mail. You can actually use several if
you'd like (though I don't remember what Preferences... option allows
for this).
However, the signature gets added on send, not inserted directly into
the existing Sedit window prior to composition.
I currently have 6 different sig files I can choose between.
Additionally, if a .signature file has the execute bit turned on,
exmh will attempt to execute the file and use the stdout of the
script as your signature.
I hope this helps some.
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Once upon a time, Daniel wrote :
> > And yes, I accept patches/comments/suggestions about all those spec
> > files!
>
> Sure thing :)
Cool :-)
> I've added to the spec some flags to remove OSS and ISA-PNP support at
> build time if one wishes to, so is's possible to do a
>
> rpmbuild --recompile <rpm> --without oss --without isapnp
OK, I'll add this.
> Also, having the kernel compiled by me, I have no kernel-source package
> installed. I've added a flag "kernsrc", that also can be used
> --without, to remove the dependency for kernel-source at build time. It
> would be nice to check the correct kernel include files actually exist
> (/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/*.h), though; however, I'm
> a beginner in RPM building -- is it possible to BuildRequire for a file
> not provided by a package at all? I've googled a bit, and found no way
> to do that.
Requiring a file that isn't part of an rpm is not possible, no, except
maybe by stopping the build process if it isn't found... but that's errr...
ugly!
And I really think that for people who installed a kernel from sources, the
easiest is to install the alsa kernel drivers from source too...
> I was also considering adding some sort of flag for the --with-cards
> option in alsa's ./configure, but don't know how to do that. Only found
> out about --without from your first alsa-driver.spec, and existing RPM
> docs don't help much.
This would be a tricky one since to use the "--with <name>" feature of
rpmbuild, I think you'd need to add individual handling of each and every
card :-/
> Oh, and one more thing :). At first I've installed the first version of
> alsa-driver for 2.4.18-10, although I don't have that kernel, to supply
> the dependency for the rest of the alsa rpm's, and compiled the modules
> from source. It created the /dev files and all.
That's what the "alsa-driver" is there for, create all the base files
excluding the kernel drivers. What I would suggest for dependency reasons
it to install an "alsa-kernel" for the original kernel (you've kept it,
right? ;-)) and install ALSA modules from source for custom kernels built
from source.
> Then wanted to make my own rpm for 2.4.19, so now I'm trying to rpmbuild
> the alsa-kernel package. Removed all alsa rpms, and tried my spec:
>
> rpmbuild --ba alsa-driver.spec.mine --without oss --without isapnp
> --without kernsrc
>
> But I get this:
>
> ==[long successful compile snipped]=====================================
> RPM build errors:
> File listed twice: /dev/adsp
> File listed twice: /dev/amidi
> Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> /etc/makedev.d/00macros
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound
> ========================================================================
>
> Oh, and I think I've forgot to mention, I'm running beta-null :).
Indeed : The rpm 4.1 snapshot in (null) has a few new features among which
having the build fail when files are present in the build root but not
listed in the %files section. I should remove them manually as part of the
build process... or maybe the new "%exclude /path/to/file" in the %files
section would do, but I don't know how older versions of rpm would handle
it. On my (null) build system, I've simply set the variable :
%_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0
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An influential think tank warns that "regime change" could disperse weapons
stockpiles into the murky world of global terrorism
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RAH quoted:
>Indians are not poor because there are too many of them; they are poor
>because there are too many regulations and too much government intervention
>-- even today, a decade after reforms were begun. India's greatest problems
>arise from a political culture guided by socialist instincts on the one
>hand and an imbedded legal obligation on the other hand.
Nice theory and all, but s/India/France/g and the statements hold just
as true, yet France is #12 in the UN's HDI ranking, not #124.
>Since all parties must stand for socialism, no party espouses
>classical liberalism
I'm not convinced that that classical liberalism is a good solution
for countries in real difficulty. See Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel for
Economics) on the FMI's failed remedies. Of course googling on
"Stiglitz FMI" only brings up links in Spanish and French. I guess
that variety of spin is non grata in many anglo circles.
R
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URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html
Date: 2002-09-12T17:08:46-08:00
The Oracle of Google can answer multiple choice questions amazingly well ...
Who is the author of Perl?, What family lives next door to the Simpsons?. As
the author points out on the about page; this thing would be really useful in a
"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" type contest. =)...
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Quoting Eamonn Shinners <[email protected]>:
> Hi guys,
> I'm looking for help on this one. I have a server with SME5.5 installed
> - used to be e-smith. It's based on RH7.1, has a 3c507 NIC, and is
> connected to a hub. Also connected to the hub are a laptop and
> workstation, both with RH7.3 . The server supplies DHCP amongst other
> things.
> The problem is interruptions in the network. If I ping the laptop from
> the workstation, or the other way around, there are no problems, i.e.
> shows up as 0% loss. If however I ping the server from the laptop or
> workstation, it will do a few packets, anywhere from 3 to 20, and then
> stop responding, it will start again after a little while.
If this is new behaviour in a previously working network, what did you do to it?
Test the cables by switching which machine has which.
Test the hub ports by switching cables around.
Run ifconfig on the server - any errors and what kind they are.
Test the network card... by replacing the thing!
Seriously, if the server has a PCI slot free, something like a Realtek 8139
based card costs less than 20 euro. The design is a couple of generations later
- more memory, less cruft, no *FSCKING* dos config utility, no jumpers on the
card and it's PCI.
Ronan.
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Date: 2002-10-06T18:12:46+01:00
Back when 64KB was more memory than any computer would ever need, there was a
time when memory managers didnt exist. But gradually, new computer systems
came out with larger amounts of memory and designers discovered ways to eat up
RAM faster than any system could dish it out. This discussion is based on
Tiburon's experiences in writing and rewriting the memory manager for Madden
NFL 97 to Madden NFL 2002.
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Date: 2002-10-08T03:31:01+01:00
Tony Blair to hold crisis summit with Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble in
Downing Street today.
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OPWV and a bad moon rising.
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>
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[IMG: http://www.craphound.com/images/escherlego.jpg] Lego enthusiasts have
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and Descending," pictured here), using Lego! Link[1] Discuss[2] (_via MeFi[3]_)
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Hi everybody!
I'm writing a web application in java (tomcat + jsp/servlets + database
access with postgreSQL).
This will be released under the GPL and will eventually be useful as a
framework for other web applications.
The application main focus is e-commerce, but not limited to that.
I would like to use some form of cryptography to protect data on the
database, but I have some problem figuring out the right approach.
Above all, how to store passwords and keys in a shared web server.
A problem that I was unable to solve is how to store keys for
encryption/decryption. The api that I'm using is the jca (jdk1.4.x),
and the methods of saving generated keys in keystores fails always.
I can serialize the object, and store in the database, but this is not
the most secure approach: this key is needed to decrypt data in the
database, but the database is accessible from the web application.
Assuming that I can find a good and secure place where to store the
database password, I can use a different database with different
user... Argh... to complex and doesn't really solve the problem.
Where I can found good documentation about this topic?
There is another approach that I would share with the list, something I
thought that can be of bit interest, but probabily wrong and insecure.
After all, I'm a real beginner in secure programming, and I'm here to
learn methods and technics.
First of all, I need a secure way to keep database passwords secure, so
I have to keep them separate from the main server. The right approach
could be using a small java bean application that run as normal user
(not tomcat, so it is not shared with other web services or, worst, the
nobody user), that has no shell login, but has a default home directory
or a place where it can hold passwords and keys.
The web application could then open an ssl connection (could be done in
the init method at server startup) to get database passwords. The small
bean could check via code signature/rmi/whatever else that the source
is the right one, and handle all the database connections, or give the
db connection/password to the main web application.
In this way, we solve the problem of keeping the keys and passwords in
shared directories, and also, an attacker should get root/bean user
account to read data. This is not perfect, and works only if your
provider gives the opportunity to configure a separated java
application (that means, really, another server running in the
background).
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Mario Torre
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Lacking a DOS boot disk, I just looked for a different way to do it
yesterday. You can use
lilo -u /dev/hda
Sourced via google search "remove lilo" which returned
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q315224&
Much handier if you only have tomsrtbt or something similar.
jr
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Subject: [ILUG] removing lilo
> hi,
> i recently had to wipe linux from my pc but forgot to restore the original
> MBR (NT). Anyone know how i can do this? linux is entirely gone and no
boot
> floppy. formatting the entire disk doesn't do it either.
>
>
>
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Installing Perl 5.8.0 on Mac OS X 10.2
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Hello People,
I am new to SA but (2) problems I do have.
I run SA from my own home for personal use and it seems to work but I see this
in my procmail log:
<cut>
procmail: Executing " ~/bin/SpamAssassin/spamassassin -P -c ~/bin/SpamAssassin/rules"
dccproc: not found
dccproc: not found
<cut>
Can someone enlighten me on why I get that? FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE, SA-2.3.0
Secondly, I've tested (now on Three boxes) SA for site-wide usage but I believe I am
missing something major because I've also had my setting checked/verified.
The problem is that the site-wide setup does NOT seem to work. Why?
1. I have my local.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin
2. I have spamd running, and mail delivery logs show that all e-mails are
being passed thro SA.
My local.cf contains:
ENABLED=1
OPTIONS="-F 0"
#
rewrite_subject 0
report_header 1
defang_mime 0
required_hits 7.0
report_header 1
use_terse_report 1
subject_tag **SPAM**
wash ('tty') ~ 337 -> exim -bt [email protected]
[email protected]
deliver to enginngware in domain runjiri.co.ke
director = spamcheck_director, transport = spamcheck
However when I check the mail delivered to this mailbox, SA has _not_ added any headers
to it.
PERTINENT: I also run a Virus Scanner called DRWEB via Exim's system filter and the rules
that I have applied are:
if not first_delivery or
$received_protocol is "drweb-scanned" or
$received_protocol is "spam-scanned"
then
finish
endif
Some enlightenment would bail me out, I believe.
Thanks
-Wash
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Date: 2002-10-01T05:31:18+01:00
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Hiya folks,
I'm currently running RawHide, since I had the brilliant idea that, by
using APT, it might actually be practical to keep up with the
developments.
However, APT seems to want a recompile - its sometimes leaving the RPM
database in need of a db_recover - and gcc 3.2 seems to require a closer
adherence to the standard than the C++ in APT was written for.
This is a bit of a bummer.
Does anyone know if there's a latest version I could try which might
work, or whether I should simply do the porting myself? (I've made a
start, but there's a fair amount of work to do.)
If this works out, I might start a repository for the freshrpms compiled
on vLatest RawHide, for my own purposes and anyone else who's
interested.
Dave.
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:21:22PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> My 17" CRT monitor having drowned in a flood (10cm squared of burned
> circuit board URGH!) , I'm thinking of a 15" LCD as a replacement.
> What with me going to the continent and all next week, I might wait and
> buy one there (for a reasonable price (Dave Neary! Any good sources?)).
Conor - it's a rather large continent - people might need to know where you
are going to suggest sources. And if you're buying abroad, make sure you get
to test it - many places won't have facilities for you to do that.
> Question is: CAn I just plug in _any_ lcd monitor and expect it to work?
> Are there special incantations needed for XFree86 to work. Needless to
> say, it'll be a bit difficult to bring it back to the shop once I'm home
> in Dublin and find it doesn't work!
Any monitor should just work - they all have VGA connectors and any half
decent brand will be know about by XFree setup programs in modern
distributions. However, if you have the budget (insurance paying for the
dead monitor, perhaps ? - and WHERE was your monitor that it got caught in a
flood ?) getting a monitor with a DVI input is best. Of course, you'll need
a DVI out video card then, too. DVI provides a much better picture than VGA
because it removes the analog stage - basically DVI gives you a direct
connection from video ram pixels to monitor pixels - the best pictures I've
ever seen on a computer is on my notebook screen at 1400x1050 (which doesn't
use DVI, but an internal connection which has the same effect). Brand wise,
I like Iiyama a lot and I think they may have a Europe wide warranty.
Niall
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UW Email Robot said:
> What is MIME?
I know what MIME is godammit ;)
> Since MIME is only a few years old, ...
a *few*? Time to update pine-robot-blurb.txt on
docserver.cac.washington.edu, I think.
Has anyone figured out what's up with this? Does someone out there think
that FoRK needs some MIME tutoring?
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Problem with spamtrap
/home/yyyy/lib/spamtrap.sh: /home/yyyy/ftp/spamassassin/spamassassin: No such file or directory
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:04:44PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> does Spanish still count as a foreign language in America?
> :)
yep, that's what i learned as it seemed more useful then the other
choice: french. and that's what seems to count as "internationalisation":
support of spanish.
> Watch out for the political indoctrination at these irish language
> schools, when i was teenager they had use marching saluting the flag
> singing the national anthem and the college anthem. Presumably they treat
> adult learners with a little more dignity and dont send them home for a
> minor outburst of English in emotional circustances despite having better
> Irish than half of the other people there.
if i go to a class, i'm there to learn. if they throw in anthems or
politics, i'll take what i can learn from that and i'll take in a new
perspective, but i'll only do that with my critical thinking cap on.
just like i do when i watch mass media. and yes, from the one irish
course i took in dublin, they do the national anthem. which is fine
really - i started off each day in school in america with the pledge of
allegience (with the under god bit in it which annoyed my dad to no end).
if that sort of thing didn't stick at the age of five, i severely doubt
it will stick now.
> Just to mention open source software agus gaeilge, OpenOffice could do
> with having an Irish ispell dictionary converted to work with it.
> Abiword already has irish spell checking and a few of the interface
> strings translated (was about 85% about 18 months ago but it has drifted
> to some horribly small percentage).
and see, that would be my retort to any overly zealous irish speaker.
there's a huge opportunity for a fully irish computing environment in
free software. and yet i don't see much action from official irish
organisations. the reason mandrake and some others have the irish
support they have is because of individuals like donnacha.
kevin
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Ciaran Mac Lochlainn stated the following:
>
> SoloCDM wrote:
>
> > Liam Bedford stated the following:
>
> <edit>
>
> >> fdisk /mbr will restore a dos MBR.. it'll leave the partitions
> >> alone.
>
> >> linux fdisk and deleting all partitions will actually leave LILO in
> >> the MBR though.
>
> > While I am in Linux, the following message is the output when I
> > execute fdisk /mbr, even though the drive is in read and write mode:
>
> > Unable to open /mbr
>
> > The mbr is on a separate drive -- not related to the Linux drive.
>
> fdisk /mbr is a DOS command - if you are in Linux you will be running
> Linux fdisk, which doesn't have the /mbr option. The Linux equivalent
> of "fdisk /mbr" is "lilo -u /dev/hda" (unless John Reilly was making
> that up yesterday - I haven't tried it!)
Thanks!
In the past I tried "lilo -u /dev/hda" and it wouldn't work -- an
original copy of the MBR must be in /boot directory for it to work.
Which is exactly what I didn't have. The installation of Linux
Mandrake didn't afford me that luxury.
Also, I'm glad you cleared up the fdisk issue. I know better now --
previously I was under the impression that fdisk had a hidden switch.
This is obviously not the case.
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September Haiku
Freezing my ass off
Air conditioning on high
heats small apartment.
Cindy, in Mississippie
P.S. this one's for you, geege.
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Paul Chvostek wrote:
>
> I can tell I'm not the only one without air conditioning. ;-)
>
> Maybe I'll move to Canmore. <sigh>
>
> p
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:37:08PM -0400, Swerve wrote:
> >
> > moo hahahaha.
> >
> > i need a smoke.
> >
> > stop this heatwave.
> >
> > bring on winter.
> >
> > bring on fall.
> >
> >
> > Swerve, shut up.
> >
> > bye.
>
>
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Making a mesh on the move
A new way to give us fast mobile net access spells further trouble for 3G,
reports Peter Rojas
Peter Rojas
Thursday August 29, 2002
The Guardian
Imagine being able to surf the net at speeds faster than DSL from
anywhere, at any time - you could watch a live video webcast while waiting
for the bus, email photos to your friends while sitting in the park, or
download the MP3 of the song that's playing in the pub before it finishes.
This is the vision of a high-speed wireless internet paradise that the
third-generation (3G) mobile phone companies have been promoting for
years. 3G services are just beginning to be rolled out, but a new
technology called mesh networking promises to deliver on this vision
sooner and more effectively than the mobile phone companies could ever
dream.
Two companies, US startup MeshNetworks and Moteran Networks of Germany,
are each developing their own competing version of mesh networking.
Instead of the current hub-and-spoke model of wireless communications,
with every device connecting to an overburdened central antenna, any time
"mesh-enabled" devices - mobile phones, PDAs, laptops - are in close
proximity to each other, they automatically create a wireless mesh
network. Every device in the area acts as a repeater or router, relaying
traffic for everyone else. Traffic hops from person to person until it
reaches the nearest internet access point, reducing the need for central
antennas, and improving wireless coverage.
As the number of mobile phones soars, and wireless PDAs, laptops, and
other devices begin to crowd the spectrum, this approach to wireless
networking may be inevitable.
Mesh networks also have several other advantages over 3G wireless
networks. While 3G operators roll out mobile services that offer users
connection speeds of up to 144 kbps (roughly three times faster than a
dial-up modem), Moteran and MeshNetworks are able to offer connection
speeds of up to 6Mbps, over a hundred times faster than dial-up. The
technologies they use include Wi-Fi - the emerging standard for high-speed
wireless networking also known as 802.11b. A similarly short-range
protocol called UltraWideBand, which is poised to succeed Wi-Fi, is even
faster and could, by 2005, approach 400 Mbps.
The range of a typical Wi-Fi network is generally too limited to be of
much use when travelling around a city. Mesh networks get around the
problem of coverage by having every device in the network relay traffic.
Even though the range of any individual device is relatively small,
because (in theory) there will be so many users in the surrounding area,
connections will be faster and better than that of a standard 3G wireless
connection.
Because mesh networks use Wi-Fi, the equipment and infrastructure needed
to create them is cheap and readily available. Instead of building
cellular phone towers that often cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, all
that is needed to get a network going are wireless access points (around
£100 now) placed strategically around town to relay traffic, and the
proper software. Existing laptops and PDAs can be mesh-enabled by
software.
It also means that anyone could set up their own mobile phone network.
Unlike with 3G cellular, the part of the spectrum that Wi-Fi operates on
is unregulated in the US, Britain. The mobile phone companies are none too
pleased about this, especially since many of them spent billions of pounds
acquiring 3G licences.
All that's needed are cheap relays and mobile phones equipped to connect
to the network. With every additional customer that signs up coverage gets
better, instead of getting worse, as is the case with mobile phone
networks.
But things get very interesting when you realise that when you have
high-speed internet connections everywhere, and everyone's laptops, PDAs,
and mobile phones are connected together at blazingly fast speeds, sharing
music, movies, or whatever else becomes ridiculously easy. When
UltraWideBand hits, all of this will just accelerate.
At 400Mbps, copying a pirated copy of the Lord of the Rings from the
person sitting across from you at the cafe would take about 15 seconds.
Sooner or later, playgrounds will be filled with kids swapping files of
their favourite songs, movies, and video games.
But the first mesh networks are not likely to be available to consumers.
MeshNetworks has no plans to offer its own high-speed wireless service.
Instead the company plans to sell its technology to others, such as cities
that want to provide wireless internet to police, fire, and public works
employees, or businesses that want to establish wireless networks on the
cheap. Moteran has similar aspirations for small businesses and for
enterprise networks.
The first place average users may use the technology is when it is
incorporated into vehicles, enabling motorists to access the internet at
high speeds, which both companies see happening soon.
When will you be able to wander around town with a 6Mbps connection in
your pocket? It's too soon to say, but just as broadband internet service
was initially available only to businesses and universities, eventually
someone will see the profit in bringing mesh networking to the masses.
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> resulted in mostly short-duration relationships and single-parented,
> dysfunctional kids (not enough of them too boot, so to keep our
> demographics from completely keeling over we're importing them from places
> with mostly silly and antiquated ideas).
>
> At least from the viewpoint of demographics sustainability and
> counterpressure to gerontocracy and resulting innovatiophobia we're doing
> something wrong.
There was a fascinating article in the Economist 1-2 weeks back (the issue
with a pregnant-looking Statue of Liberty on the Front) that stated that
even for the native US population, fertility had jumped in the last decade
and a half. I think the current figure for the US is a little over 2, but
not quite the ~2.1 of replacement rate. Combined with the very fertile
non-native population, the article implied the US was going to have a
significant increase in population over earlier predictions. As well, the
population would overall be more youthful, with associated implications for
being able to fund social programs, military spending, consumer spending,
etc.
Europe did not show the same increase in fertility.
Some actual data for the US are here:
http://www.census.gov/population/pop-profile/2000/chap04.pdf
Part of:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/profile2000.html
- Jim
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URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/03.html#when_an_engineer_flaps_his_wings
Date: 2002-10-03T01:31:51-05:00
Remember that saying from chaos theory about how when a butterfly flap its
wings, it can cause a hurricane a month later halfway around the world? As
several people have already noted, Google has made some major changes in their
most recent update. The weblogging community was hit hard (for instance, I used
to be the #1 "mark"[1]; I am now #6). The changes appear to be the result of an
attempt to stop two phenomena: explicitly selling ads based on PageRank[2], and
Google bombing[3].
Specifically, Google is now apparently cross-checking link text with the linked
site, and discounting or ignoring links whose text does not appear in the
linked site. This all but kills off Google bombing. Searching for "go to hell"
[4] no longer takes you to microsoft.com[5]; searching for "talentless hack"[6]
no longer finds ohmessylife.com[7], although it finds a lot of people who were
previously participating in the Google bombing. No definitive word yet on
whether Google is actively penalizing such sites.
Unfortunately, the algorithm tweaks necessary to stop these two techniques have
caused a wide range of collateral damage, apparently coming down hardest on
medium-to-large sites that had previously been doing everything right (as far
as page structure, link structure, accessibility, and general honest hard work
putting together a usable and useful site). The Webmasterworld forums are alive
with complaints and speculation:
- New update, pagerank death?[8]
- September 2002 Google Update Discussion - part 1[9]
- Let's find out what happened - Sept 2002 Update - pt. 2[10]
(Side note: amongst the confusion, it has been suggested that Google is no
longer indexing ALT text in images. I can confirm that this is absolutely
false. Searching diveintomark.org for "gimli"[11] finds my entry of July 29[12]
, where "Gimli" is mentioned only in the ALT text of an image.)
Regardless, Google's search results in general appear to be significantly
degraded in many key areas. The forums are full of people complaining that spam
sites, doorway pages, and obvious cloaking attempts, which Google used to be so
good at filtering out, are now popping up in top spots with disturbing
frequency. Nobody in the forums wants to talk about which keywords they're
tracking, so I tried to find my own concrete example of crap search results. It
didn't take long.
- Searching for reservation hotel[13] brings up an empty sub-page[14] of a
hotel reservation company in Italy[15] as the first result. This seems
unhelpful, and unlikely to be relevant to the average US-based consumer (and
Google absolutely knows I'm in the US based on my IP address).
- Searching for news observer nc[16] (the News & Observer is a Raleigh, NC
newspaper) does find The News & Observer[17], but it also finds an Internet
betting spam page[18] at #7 and a non-existent page[19] at #9.
- Searching for eminem[20] gives us two generic portal pages, a non-existent
site, and a site that redirects to a site that continuously redirects to itself
(I am not making this up). And this is just on the first page. Good thing I
didn't care that much about Eminem to begin with, because Google just isn't
that helpful.
Many people in the Webmasterworld forums are now suggesting that AllTheWeb.com
[21] has better search results overall. Just as a single comparison, their
results for "eminem"[22] do appear to be much more relevant. Is this the
beginning of the end of Google's reign?
[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=mark
[2] http://www.pradnetwork.com/affiliate.htm
[3] http://uber.nu/2001/04/06/
[4] http://www.google.com/search?q=%22go+to+hell%22
[5] http://www.microsoft.com/
[6] http://www.google.com/search?q=talentless+hack
[7] http://www.ohmessylife.com/
[8] http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/5646.htm
[9] http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/5688.htm
[10] http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/5723.htm
[11] http://www.google.com/search?q=gimli+site%3Adiveintomark.org
[12] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/07/29.html
[13] http://www.google.com/search?q=reservation+hotel
[14] http://www.venere.it/home/italy.html
[15] http://www.venere.it/
[16] http://www.google.com/search?q=news+observer+nc
[17] http://www.news-observer.com/
[18] http://www.linkslsgolfworld.com/king-arthur-knight-of-the-round-table.htm
[19] http://www.nando.net/nt/nao/
[20] http://www.google.com/search?q=eminem
[21] http://www.alltheweb.com/
[22] http://www.alltheweb.com/search?query=eminem
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:21:58PM -0700,
Patrick <[email protected]> is thought to have said:
> Today's error(received multiple times) was:
>
> Jul 23 21:16:39.288680 report[98557]: [ 2] Razor-Agents v2.12 starting
> razor-report ./jobspam
> Jul 23 21:16:46.597147 report[98558]: [ 1] razor-report error: reportit:
> Error 213 while authenticating, aborting.
I believe this is fixed (or at least there's a workaround in place to try
again) in 2.125
> I really like the concept of Razor but I find myself wondering if it's
> really a good idea for the developers to be passing off what appears
> to be alpha-quality software as production-ready....
And where does it say production-ready? http://razor.sourceforge.net says at
the top of the page:
June 13, 2002 - Vipul's Razor v2 released! The first beta of Vipul's Razor
v2 is now available for public download.
Likewise Vipul's announcement post about v2 to this list states that it is
beta in the first sentence.
Tabor
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>>>"Kevin Oberman" said:
> It did for me, but I am not willing to say it is not a tcl/tk issue as
> other apps seemed to work OK for cut and paste and Tk does its
> clipboard stuff a bit differently than most toolkits. So I'm not
> about to place blame. Just reporting my experience.
One more salvo on X and cut/paste. X specifies at least two *mechanisms*
for cut/paste, but as usual mandates no *policy*. Windows and Macintosh
have a slightly different mechanism and one uniform policy. I'm quite
sure that Tk implements all PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections accurately.
The PRIMARY selection is the one that is tied to the visible selection
on your X display. The CLIPBOARD selection is the one with the explicit
Copy step, and is the same as what you have on Windows and Macintosh.
However, exmh throws in support for the cutbuffer mechanism, which is
another archaic mechanism supported at one point (perhaps still today)
by versions of emacs. Exmh has a policy that tries to unify all these
mechanisms under one umbrella, and by all reports it is not that great.
I would encourage folks to play with those 10 lines of code in
Text_Selection and report what works well for them. We may come up
with 8 lines that work for everyone, or perhaps introduce yet another
setting that lets folks choose between a few useful models. Of course,
that's an admission of policy failure, but I'm willing to do that.
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"Adam L. Beberg" wrote:
>
> So, who has done RSA implementation before?
> Having a typo-I-cant-spot problem with my CRT...
>
> - Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
> http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
> [email protected]
>
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Done a ton of them, both with and without their
stuff. With is definitely easier.[1]
Greg
[1] http://www.endeavors.com/PressReleases/rsa.htm
Endeavors Technology and RSA Security Form Strategic Partnership to
Enhance SSL Performance in Secure, Enterprise-Scalable P2P Computing
Endeavors Technology and RSA Security combine their respective peer-to-peer Magi Enterprise
Web collaboration and RSA BSAFE® software for SSL users to instantly extend security and improve performance
of
desktop and corporate data sharing, and Web interaction between workgroups inside and across corporations.
Irvine (CA) and Cambridge (UK), September 12, 2002 - Secure web collaboration software leader Endeavors
Technology, Inc. today
announced a technology sharing and marketing agreement with RSA Security Inc. the most trusted name in
e-security.® This strategic
partnership is aimed at extending the security and improving the performance of the standard SSL security
protocol used by every e-based
desktop, laptop and server.
Under the terms of the agreement, RSA Security's trusted security tools are embedded into Endeavors
Technology's award-winning Magi
Enterprise software product. The combined solution enables IT managers and users to simply extend security and
encryption to every
Magi-enabled device for the direct device-to-device sharing and interaction of corporate data and workflow
between workgroups within and
beyond the enterprise.
Secure collaboration between desktops and corporate systems calls for enterprises to build complex and costly
network infrastructures. This
combination of technologies from the two companies eliminates both overheads, and also the need for specific
security tools for each desktop
application such as Microsoft Project. With Magi's secure RSA Security-based peer environment, collaboration
can now be rapidly, easily and
securely extended across all devices and company firewalls, and workgroups can interact with colleagues,
partners and clients without concern
in compromising corporate information. This brings true Internet scaling to corporations needing to interact
highly securely with strong
encryption and authentication across firewalls.
"In these challenging times, there can be no compromise in safeguarding corporate data and knowledge," says
Bernard Hulme, chairman and
CEO of Endeavors Technology. "Embedding RSA Security encryption software into Magi products provides IT
managers with added
assurance, speed and cost savings, and a proven security net to accelerate the deployment of business-centric
peer-to-peer computing"
Endeavors Technology joins the RSA Secured® Partner Program. The program is designed to ensure complete
interoperability between
partner products and RSA Security's solutions including RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication, RSA
ClearTrust® Web access
management, RSA BSAFE® encryption and RSA Keon® digital certificate management.
The strategic partnership paves the way for Magi Enterprise to bear the RSA Secured brand on product packaging
and advertising, be listed in
RSA Secured Partner Solutions directories, and have RSA Security's out-of-the-box, certified interoperability.
It will also lead to joint
marketing and promotional activities between the two firms, mutual field sales engagement opportunities on
joint accounts, and 24x7 worldwide
business continuity support.
"Endeavors Technology is taking a leadership role by providing the highest-level of security in its enterprise
products and streamlining the
deployment process for IT managers," says Stuart Cohen, director of partner development at RSA Security. "By
combining our products,
enterprise customers have a solution that provides encryption and authentication across firewalls."
About Magi
Magi Enterprise 3.0, an award-winning web collaboration system, transforms today's Web into a highly secure
inter- and intra-enterprise
collaboration network. For the first time, enterprises can implement ad-hoc Virtual Private Networks for
collaboration very rapidly and
affordably without disrupting existing applications, networks or work practices. Magi Enterprise 3.0 does this
by effectively transforming
unsecured, "read-only" Web networks into two-way trusted and transparent collaboration environments, through
the use of such features as
cross-firewall connections, advanced data extraction, an intuitive graphical interface, and universal name
spaces generating "follow me URLs"
for mobile professionals.
About RSA Security, Inc.
RSA Security Inc., the most trusted name in e-security, helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations
for e-business through its RSA
SecurID two-factor authentication, RSA ClearTrust Web access management, RSA BSAFE encryption and RSA Keon
digital certificate
management product families. With approximately one billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide,
more than ten million RSA
SecurID authentication users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven
leadership and innovative technology to
address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the online economy. RSA Security can be
reached at
www.rsasecurity.com.
About Endeavors Technology, Inc.
Endeavors Technology, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of mobile computing and network infrastructure vendor
Tadpole Technology plc
(www.tadpole.com), which has plants and offices in Irvine and Carlsbad (California), and Cambridge, Edinburgh,
and Bristol (UK). For further
information on Endeavors' P2P solutions, call 949-833-2800, email to [email protected], or visit the company's
website
www.endeavors.com.
Copyright 2002 Endeavors Technology, Inc. Magi, and Magi Enterprise are registered trademarks of Endeavors
Technology, Inc. RSA, BSAFE, ClearTrust, Keon, SecurID, RSA Secured and The Most
Trusted Name in e-Security are registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security Inc. in the United States
and/or other countries. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their
respective companies.
© 2002 Endeavors Technology, Inc., 19600 Fairchild, Suite 350, Irvine, CA 92612, phone
949-833-2800, fax 949-833-2881, email [email protected].
All rights reserved; specifications and descriptions subject to change without
notice.
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URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/02.html#reunion
Date: 2002-10-02T09:43:36-05:00
_Leslie Harpold_: This Too, Shall Pass[1]. “There's a rumor that my
possessions and I will be reunited in about a week.”
[1] http://leslie.harpold.com/presents/000077.html
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URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#i_mean_why_not
Date: 2002-10-01T00:06:36-05:00
_Kevin Fanning_: Hallmark vs. Successories[1]. “At Successories you were
mostly left alone. There'd be brainstorm meetings to come up with new topics to
tackle ("Howsabout 'Diligence'?" "No I think we did that one already, didn't
we?") but mostly you could just hang around, bang away at whatever ideas you
had, show your manager what you were working on, and he/she'd give you
feedback, encouragement, tell you to keep at it, point to the poster of
Stick-to-it-iveness on their wall (Yes, we had our own brand of Successories
posters hanging everywhere. I mean why not.) and give you the thumbs up.”
[1] http://www.whygodwhy.com/archive/000071.html
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Once upon a time, Harig, wrote :
> >
> > The workaround is to pass an extra argument to configure as follows :
> >
> > %configure --program-prefix=%{?_program_prefix:%{_program_prefix}}
> >
>
> This works when you are defining a switch that %configure
> does not already define, but how can we override an
> existing switch?
Well, %configure doesn't define "--program-prefix=", so that's why it
works. Maybe you thought that was an example, but no, it's the exact syntax
to use as a workaround ;-)
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Just for your information, I have an apt-repository for RH 7.3 at
http://utelsystems.dyndns.org
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:47:39PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > I know this is not strictly a 'Linux' issue but any help would be appreciated
> Microsoft has very much made this a Linux issue - it has attempted to imply
> that any company using GPL software must make everything it owns public and
> it must be true - that nice man from Microsoft wouldn't lie, would he ?
but that's just stupid. microsoft s/w covers a subset of applications
that are under the gpl. there are gpl word processors, there's a
microsoft wp; there are various language compilers and interpreters under
the gpl, microsoft has their visual compilers. and so on. and just
like the gpl apps, the microsoft apps are distributed under a license.
that license says lots of things, and there are various licenses used by
microsoft, but in a nutshell they all pretty much say: you can't copy,
distribute or modify their s/w; you can't sell it multiple times.
so does anyone think that applies to their wp documents or their visual
c++ code?
kevin
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> > Tom said:
> >
> > The question then becomes, why is knowledge sharing such a difficult
> > thing in organizations?
And Owen replied:
> Well, IMNHO, its because companies do not reward knowledge sharers. When
I don't work in this area, but I have a suspicion that many people
suspect projects for "knowledge management" and "knowledge sharing" as
attempts to eliminate their jobs, or at least their importance. If "the
organization" knows all the things I know, why does it need me?
This should actually be easy to test experimentally: compare the results
of having someone call up and say, "Can you show us how to do X for this
project we're working on?" with those of having someone summoned by a
knowledge management project to explain how to do X for the knowledge
archives.
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> From: Chris Garrigues <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:12:16 -0500
>
> > From: "J. W. Ballantine" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:51:31 -0400
> >
> > I CVS'ed the unseen/Sequences changes and installed them, and have only one
> > real issue.
> >
> > I use the unseen window rather than the exmh icon, and with the new code
> > I can't seem to be able to. How many unseen when when I have the main window open
> > is not really necessary.
>
> hmmm, I stole the code from unseenwin, but I never tested it since I don't use
> that functionality. Consider it on my list of things to check.
Well, unfortunately, I appear to be using a window manager that doesn't
support the icon window.
However, I did fix some bugs in the related "Hide When Empty" functionality
which may solve the issue. You may need to remove "unseen" from the "always
show sequences" to make this work. If so, let me know so I can put that in
the help window for "Icon Window" as it already is for "Hide When Empty".
Chris
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ok, so if i was in the uk for a wekk, how might i configure my laptop to
dial in to a freebie isp? redhat's internet connection wizard actually
has settings for uk isp's, but freeserve is the only one i recognize
and it doen't seem to work.
has anyone here done this?
kevin
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