The default location for your mozilla profile directory is under your 'documents and settings' folder in win2k. If you make a shortcut that runs mozilla as mozilla -P %USERNAME% it will go start with a profile that matches your windows username. You might have to create the profile first, I don't remember if it starts the wizard if the profile doesn't exist. Netscape 4.x wanted to put everything under the program files directory, and I don't think you could create the profile as a non-admin user, so mozilla is much better at this. It would be nice if profiles were handled like Netscape 4.x on *NIX (preferences under home, no profiles to mess with).
I was going to mention the default null root passwd on MySQL too, until I remembered it won't allow connections from the network after install (only the local machine can connect).
A random password would be nice, or even better, disable the root account and make them start it with --skip-grant-tables to set it. I guess nothing would stop them from just running with --skip-grant-tables all the time though.
It can get pretty big quickly, that's why I made a sort of hash based on the date. Every day I get about 750 messages, but this keeps it managable. I made of tar.gz of last years mail and it was just 38 MB.
The folders get created by cron. It is the first rule, so I get a clean copy before I do anything else to it (Spamassasin, mailpost, some other custom perl/shell scripts).
For outgoing mail, I just use mutt/pine's Fcc to sent-mail. There is a third party patch to sendmail to CC all mail to another address, but that would have to be system wide.
This suggests the integration of the NNTP protocol, the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe automatically from lists and much stronger threading capability (and associated actions such as ignore or watch threads) are functions that are built in.
I built a mail-to-news gateway just for this. Mail gets fed to procmail, which looks for the recipient or some other criteria to decide which list it is, then pipes it though mailpost (included with INN). It gets threaded, and looks just like a real newsgroup. I just made up my own newsgroup names, it doesn't matter since it's just for my own use.
I could maybe also get articles posted to get sent back to the list, but I usually just use the mailing feature of my news client instead (which is PAN).
I used to prefer Netscape 4.x for IMAP on Windows, I thought it was better than Eudora or LookOut at the time. Overall Eudora was pretty good, but IMAP support was lame.
Pine has done the colouration of emails based upon criteria for years now, and it is a most useful feature that I would like to see in other email clients.
I didn't use it much, I got tired of it begging me to register. It rendered this monster 500 comment Slashdot page faster than Mozilla. The best part was how well it goes wtih OSX, some menus and drop boxes in Mozilla still look kind of plain. I think Mozilla has a brighter future though, so I stuck with it.
I'm pretty happy with the OSX version, it will not run on a UFS partition so you will need to use HFS+. There are a couple of minor UI issues, but I prefer it to opera and omniweb.
Sorry, didn't mean to knock your distro, I just meant it as a joke about the gcc in RH 7. RedHat does make a cutting edge distro, and I think they deserve credit for keeping other OSS developers moving.
Why didn't they wait until Gnome 2.0 is out? I think that would be worth delaying a release...
Knowing RedHat, I would expect them to put the development version in the final release.
That's OK though, sometimes it seems like nothing would get finished unless RedHat releases a broken version and everyone rushes to fix it. Kind of like a kick in the ass for OSS.
I think your app needs to be compiled against current kernel headers to defeat the 2 GB limit. There is no 2 GB limit in ext2 or the kernel though (I think).
Actually, if the channels.c code is used in the client progs, then isn't there still a bug? Then if ssh is setuid root, I don't remember if OpenBSD's was, then it is a root hole. If you run the ssh client as root then that would also be true.
The point is a base system should be minimal, then install networking tools if you need them.
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srm will securely delete files in Linux. rm -P in *BSD.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda might be faster.
FreeBSD has an excellent Linux compatibility mode, so most Linux commercial software will run just fine.
s/most/some/
s/will/might/
s/just\ fine//
It is good (even vmware runs) but not perfect, it is just a compatibility mode after all, a little better than wine.
The default location for your mozilla profile directory is under your 'documents and settings' folder in win2k. If you make a shortcut that runs mozilla as mozilla -P %USERNAME% it will go start with a profile that matches your windows username. You might have to create the profile first, I don't remember if it starts the wizard if the profile doesn't exist.
Netscape 4.x wanted to put everything under the program files directory, and I don't think you could create the profile as a non-admin user, so mozilla is much better at this.
It would be nice if profiles were handled like Netscape 4.x on *NIX (preferences under home, no profiles to mess with).
They release security updates as packages too, I installed one for glibc this year on 8.0.
I was going to mention the default null root passwd on MySQL too, until I remembered it won't allow connections from the network after install (only the local machine can connect).
A random password would be nice, or even better, disable the root account and make them start it with --skip-grant-tables to set it. I guess nothing would stop them from just running with --skip-grant-tables all the time though.
I used to be a projectionist, and was able to see EP1 before everyone else, without the crowd for free :)
I do sysadmin work now, and did not skip for EP2. I did see it right after work though.
Gross, kind of reminds me of that sendmail/mailwrapper mess.
uucp is out of 5.0 I think.
/Users/chris/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default/gt on n5yl.slt
I was sure that was a bug the first time I saw it.
I use this in procmailrc:
:0c
`date +%Y`/`date +%m`/copies.`date +%Y%m%d`
It can get pretty big quickly, that's why I made a sort of hash based on the date. Every day I get about 750 messages, but this keeps it managable. I made of tar.gz of last years mail and it was just 38 MB.
The folders get created by cron. It is the first rule, so I get a clean copy before I do anything else to it (Spamassasin, mailpost, some other custom perl/shell scripts).
For outgoing mail, I just use mutt/pine's Fcc to sent-mail. There is a third party patch to sendmail to CC all mail to another address, but that would have to be system wide.
I built a mail-to-news gateway just for this. Mail gets fed to procmail, which looks for the recipient or some other criteria to decide which list it is, then pipes it though mailpost (included with INN). It gets threaded, and looks just like a real newsgroup. I just made up my own newsgroup names, it doesn't matter since it's just for my own use.
I could maybe also get articles posted to get sent back to the list, but I usually just use the mailing feature of my news client instead (which is PAN).
I used to prefer Netscape 4.x for IMAP on Windows, I thought it was better than Eudora or LookOut at the time. Overall Eudora was pretty good, but IMAP support was lame.
I do wish mutt did this by itself. It can use POP or IMAP without fetchmail, it seems like a double standard that it can't do SMTP (pine can).
I just want the search to also be able to search message bodies as well...
$ grep -10 somestringoftext ~/mail/saved-messages
mutt can do this too:
/ ~b somestringoftext
Mutt can do this, and much more :)
I didn't use it much, I got tired of it begging me to register. It rendered this monster 500 comment Slashdot page faster than Mozilla. The best part was how well it goes wtih OSX, some menus and drop boxes in Mozilla still look kind of plain. I think Mozilla has a brighter future though, so I stuck with it.
I'm pretty happy with the OSX version, it will not run on a UFS partition so you will need to use HFS+. There are a couple of minor UI issues, but I prefer it to opera and omniweb.
Sorry, didn't mean to knock your distro, I just meant it as a joke about the gcc in RH 7. RedHat does make a cutting edge distro, and I think they deserve credit for keeping other OSS developers moving.
Knowing RedHat, I would expect them to put the development version in the final release.
That's OK though, sometimes it seems like nothing would get finished unless RedHat releases a broken version and everyone rushes to fix it. Kind of like a kick in the ass for OSS.
gtk-gnutella is really good.
It runs, but changes you make there mean nothing, you have to use netinfo stuff.
You can drop a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d, but the base system will probably still use the current system.
/etc/rc just did things necessary to boot (mount disks, bring up network) then allow the user /etc/rc.local.
I wish
to start daemons from
Some might not think init.d is very sane, but it can do anything.
I think your app needs to be compiled against current kernel headers to defeat the 2 GB limit. There is no 2 GB limit in ext2 or the kernel though (I think).
I like the periodic table idea, and using subdomains also seems like a good idea. Maybe TXT records too, if it's worth the trouble.
The point is a base system should be minimal, then install networking tools if you need them.