In case you weren't aware, a new Flash player for GNU/Linux has been released too. It's recommended that you upgrade to this version if you're going to use Mozilla 1.2. Unfortunately, audio seems to be broken (at least for me under Mandrake GNU/Linux 8.1).
I've filed a bug report with Macromedia about this. Keep it in mind if you upgrade.
Procmail phone filters are a good idea, but
even *better* would be to have the ability
to/ignore people in real life. Not "pretend
they are not there" ignore, but "completely
disappear from all of your senses" ignore.
That would be something.
/ignore thisannoyingperson!*@* all
I usually check the listings on the Village
Voice website (http://www.villagevoice.com./) and
NYCApartmentRentals (http://www.nycapartmentrentals.com./).
For good
general information on renting an apartment (what
documentation you'll need, etc.),
have a look at this site:
I would change the "cd/usr/src" line to
/home/youruser/kernel or something similar (I
use "/home/spencer/tmp/kernel" on my systems).
The files under/usr/src/linux are part
of the C library distrobution, and should
only change when the library changes. They should
never be affected by the kernel version.
Take a look at line 59 of the README file
in the kernel source distrobution.
We are experiencing a problem with.home.com
as well. Frequently, mail sent to.home.com
users gets bounced back, saying that our domain
is currently in their email blacklist. I
contacted them by phone, and was told to
send email to their mailblock account. I did,
and received a message a few days later saying
we should _not_ be in their blacklist, that
there was no record of any abuse, and that perhaps
we were making a mistake.
Sure enough, we were able to send mail
to their users again. Then, a few days later,
it happens _again_ - we wind up back in their
blacklist. I contacted them almost two
weeks ago and have yet to receive any reply.
In the meantime, we are unable to send mail
to.home.com users.
Perhaps not all their mail servers are using
what I would imagine to be a "global" blacklist
(they have something like a dozen mail exchangers),
and our domain has somehow wound up
in one or more of the local mail servers' blacklists.
We have a bunch of penguin boxes, all but one of
which have had some problems hardware-wise.
First, we ordered two 2U units, to replace
our aging Pentium nameservers.
They were
partitioned fine, and I liked that they had put some effort into the initial security setup (commenting out almost all services from inetd.conf, which is always on my new machine setup TODO).(Of course, they all use the same key for the drive bay(s)).
Within a month, the master
nameserver machine mysteriously failed. All we
did was halt it, and power off the machine (we
were recabling a bit in the back of the rack).
It never came back up. The disk activity
light would stay on, and you'd get a black screen,
with signal still going to the monitor. We
read their FAQ's (we did that before we bought
the machines, actually) and they said the usual
cause was a loose PCI video card. These machines
had onboard video. We figured it was bad memory.
We went through the troubleshooting procedure
with their technical support department
(which is excellent-fast and very responsive)
and he came to our conclusion. We sent them back
the box, and they sent it back
about a week later, we redid it, and have had no
problems with it since.
About a month
and half later, the slave nameserver died,
and showed the _exact_ same symptoms as the
master. We did the drill again, got it back,
and have had no problems since (again).
We
figured they were just unlucky (both got
installed with failing memory).
The most recent machine we got from
them was one of their 4Us. It shipped
with a failing drive (out of 3). They Fed-exed us
one next-day. Also, the fan failure switch seemed
to have some problems (it would keep popping
out, and the machine would "beeeeeeeeeeeeep!!").
even though nothing seemed to be wrong with the
fan. (It hasn't done that lately, though).
No other problems with that box.
Their
one other problem (which really gets me)
is their turnaround time, it takes
forever for their boxes to ship. 2-4 weeks
is not good turnaround time. Granted, they may be
swamped with orders, but they should consider
bulking up on their staff/onsite hardware (so boxes get through their burn-in queue faster).
Compared to other "big" vendors (we have systems
from Sun [direct] (Sparc), Rave computing (Sparc), Dell (Intel), and NIS (Sparc) (among others)) their hardware reliabilty
record is poor (I've never had a box from
any of those companies have a hardware problem
that fast, and from Sun and Rave, like, never).
Once their systems DO work, they're great. Their
prices are quite good, and their support is
top notch.
They just need to beat on their systems
more before shipping, and get them shipped faster.
Now, our next set of boxes are most likely going to be from VA, because from the people I've talked
to, their support/hardware reliability is
excellent. I don't know about their
turnaround time. But their prices seem good.
We're also considering some
Intel Linux boxes from Rave now that they sell
systems with it installed (we've only bought
Sparcs running Solaris from them).
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In case you weren't aware, a new Flash player for GNU/Linux
has been released too. It's recommended that you upgrade to this version if you're
going to use Mozilla 1.2. Unfortunately, audio seems
to be broken (at least for me under Mandrake GNU/Linux 8.1).
I've filed a bug report with Macromedia about this. Keep
it in mind if you upgrade.
Procmail phone filters are a good idea, but /ignore people in real life. Not "pretend
even *better* would be to have the ability
to
they are not there" ignore, but "completely
disappear from all of your senses" ignore.
That would be something.
/ignore thisannoyingperson!*@* all
Heh. A non-Verizon, non-Covad(guessing) backed
DSL provider in the NYC area? Can users run
servers? If so, please plug.
I usually check the listings on the Village
Voice website (http://www.villagevoice.com./) and
NYCApartmentRentals (http://www.nycapartmentrentals.com./).
For good
general information on renting an apartment (what
documentation you'll need, etc.),
have a look at this site:
http://www.nofeelandlords.org/
I would change the "cd /usr/src" line to
/usr/src/linux are part
/home/youruser/kernel or something similar (I
use "/home/spencer/tmp/kernel" on my systems).
The files under
of the C library distrobution, and should
only change when the library changes. They should
never be affected by the kernel version.
Take a look at line 59 of the README file
in the kernel source distrobution.
We are experiencing a problem with .home.com
.home.com
.home.com users.
as well. Frequently, mail sent to
users gets bounced back, saying that our domain
is currently in their email blacklist. I
contacted them by phone, and was told to
send email to their mailblock account. I did,
and received a message a few days later saying
we should _not_ be in their blacklist, that
there was no record of any abuse, and that perhaps
we were making a mistake.
Sure enough, we were able to send mail
to their users again. Then, a few days later,
it happens _again_ - we wind up back in their
blacklist. I contacted them almost two
weeks ago and have yet to receive any reply.
In the meantime, we are unable to send mail
to
Perhaps not all their mail servers are using
what I would imagine to be a "global" blacklist
(they have something like a dozen mail exchangers),
and our domain has somehow wound up
in one or more of the local mail servers' blacklists.
We have a bunch of penguin boxes, all but one of which have had some problems hardware-wise. First, we ordered two 2U units, to replace our aging Pentium nameservers.
They were partitioned fine, and I liked that they had put some effort into the initial security setup (commenting out almost all services from inetd.conf, which is always on my new machine setup TODO).(Of course, they all use the same key for the drive bay(s)).
Within a month, the master nameserver machine mysteriously failed. All we did was halt it, and power off the machine (we were recabling a bit in the back of the rack). It never came back up. The disk activity light would stay on, and you'd get a black screen, with signal still going to the monitor. We read their FAQ's (we did that before we bought the machines, actually) and they said the usual cause was a loose PCI video card. These machines had onboard video. We figured it was bad memory. We went through the troubleshooting procedure with their technical support department (which is excellent-fast and very responsive) and he came to our conclusion. We sent them back the box, and they sent it back about a week later, we redid it, and have had no problems with it since.
About a month and half later, the slave nameserver died, and showed the _exact_ same symptoms as the master. We did the drill again, got it back, and have had no problems since (again).
We figured they were just unlucky (both got installed with failing memory).
The most recent machine we got from them was one of their 4Us. It shipped with a failing drive (out of 3). They Fed-exed us one next-day. Also, the fan failure switch seemed to have some problems (it would keep popping out, and the machine would "beeeeeeeeeeeeep!!"). even though nothing seemed to be wrong with the fan. (It hasn't done that lately, though). No other problems with that box.
Their one other problem (which really gets me) is their turnaround time, it takes forever for their boxes to ship. 2-4 weeks is not good turnaround time. Granted, they may be swamped with orders, but they should consider bulking up on their staff/onsite hardware (so boxes get through their burn-in queue faster). Compared to other "big" vendors (we have systems from Sun [direct] (Sparc), Rave computing (Sparc), Dell (Intel), and NIS (Sparc) (among others)) their hardware reliabilty record is poor (I've never had a box from any of those companies have a hardware problem that fast, and from Sun and Rave, like, never). Once their systems DO work, they're great. Their prices are quite good, and their support is top notch. They just need to beat on their systems more before shipping, and get them shipped faster.
Now, our next set of boxes are most likely going to be from VA, because from the people I've talked to, their support/hardware reliability is excellent. I don't know about their turnaround time. But their prices seem good. We're also considering some Intel Linux boxes from Rave now that they sell systems with it installed (we've only bought Sparcs running Solaris from them).
11:47pm up 62 day(s), 6:13, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 0.98, 0.92 Um, ding?