Exim and Spam Filtering
by Michael Zarozinski
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a good Spam filter that hooks into the Exim MTA?
I'm looking for something that is updated regularly but doesn't require
much of my time.
Thanx in Advance,
Michael Z
12 years, 8 months
Not A Lixnux Question, But
by Mims Research
Hi all,
My organization is considering submitting an application to the FCC for
a non-commercial full power radio station. An FCC window for
applications will open sometime in early 2007.
I need an engineer who has the resources and willingness to help us with
this. I know there is mapping of spectrum involved and I know we must
submit engineering data to the FCC with our application. I just don't
know any engineers who can do this, so I thought I'd toss it out here.
Our agency is a non-profit PEG station located in Athol, Massachusetts.
We need to find alternatives to communications because the future of
cable access television is constantly in jeopardy. I can explain more if
you like.
Any resources you might be able to offer would be great. We do have a
small stipend we can offer, so it's not a totally freebie job. But we
really do need someone who knows how to do *this* and who would be
willing to guide us through the process.
Thanks for your ideas,
Marie MacDonald
Athol, Mass.
mimsresearch(a)gmail.com
12 years, 8 months
Xandros/Debian newbie question
by Andrew Perry
Being a trusting fellow and having faith in Tux
magazine in particular, I decided to spend $60
on Xandros 4 Desktop Linux, based on a review in the
Septmeber issue.
>From the review it appeared that Xandros was like a
better version of Freespire/Linspire: even more useful
software like RealPlayer out of the box, better
documentation and support, and at least as easy to
ise. Whatever software wasn't included directly in the
distro, I figured, would be available with one or two
clicks from Xandros networks- or at least from Debian.
Problem is, there seems to be very little software
available from Xandros networks (maybe 50 packages),
and my 4 year old daughter's favorite software
gcompris is not available. (By the way, she's going to
get her own computer soon, and she says she would
never run Windows, only Linux.)
Xandros warns you against selecting any other
repository other than their own, yet I
(recklessly?)selected the "unsupprted debian site" as
a second repository- but with no luck - still no
gcompris and few choices. I wonder if I'm doing
something wrong.
Any ideas ? (Thanks in advance. You guys are great!)
-Dr. Andrew B. Perry
Assistant Prof. of Mathematics, Springfield College
263 Alden St., Springfield MA 01109
Work Phone (413)748-3193
12 years, 9 months
Truecrypt and Backups
by Mike
Hi there,
These two topics are completely unrelated. I was going to mention this
tonight but it slipped my mind...
A) I was curious if anyone is or has use(d) the truecrypt file system
(truecrypt.org). If so do you have any recommendations or possible
alternatives. I am thinking of using truecrypt for a partition on a USB
thumb drive.
B) Backups -- Giving finite resources/knowledge what software do people
use to do full backups? Simple is better. And drive images are an option.
I'm actually proxying this question for someone not on this list.
Any insight is useful.
Thanks,
Mike
--
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin
12 years, 9 months
Re: [Wlug] Please attend this Wednesday's WLUG, and bring your friends
by Mike
Doug,
Thanks for the talk tonight. I had mentioned to you a tool named Ant. I
figured I'd follow up and give you some more info.
Ant can be found at: http://ant.apache.org/
As I had mentioned Ant has some similarities to 'make'. Here is an example
of an build.xml file that can perform an XML Transformation.
<project default="transform">
<target name="init">
<input message="Input XML: " addproperty="input"/>
<input message="Output XML: " addproperty="output"/>
<input message="Style: " addproperty="style"/>
</target>
<target name="transform" depends="init">
<echo message="Transforming ${input} to ${output} with ${style}"/>
<xslt style="${style}" in="${input}" out="${output}"/>
</target>
</project>
Hope that is useful.
Cheers,
Mike
<quote who="douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com">
> Hi All:
>
> Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at
> this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative,
> innovative. Something different, without being annoying.
>
> Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization,
> web design, XML, SVG, etc.
>
> During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and
> make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping
> to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this
> topic it will be better.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug_______________________________________________
> Wlug mailing list
> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
>
--
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin
12 years, 9 months
Re: [Wlug] Wednesday's WLUG - noob question on XML editor
by d.maly＠ieee.org
This stuff is new to me, so wanted to dabble a bit before the meeting.
My question is: what's your favorite editor for XML?
My past experience with HTML has been with Mozilla editors in Windows,
and I find them to be adequate (and free).
Thanks,
Doug Maly
> Hi All:
>
> Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at
> this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative,
> innovative. Something different, without being annoying.
>
> Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization,
> web design, XML, SVG, etc.
>
> During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and
> make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping
> to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this
> topic it will be better.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
12 years, 9 months
Looking for a new system
by John Stoffel
Guys,
I've been looking around for a new system at home, basically to act as
a file server (NFS, Samba) and backup server using Bacula. It also
needs to run http and mysql and other daemons as needed.
I'd like to get at least a pair of 250gb drives to mirror them for
storage, with LVM volumes on top. And of course room for expansion to
another pair of drives down the line.
But I'd like it smallish and quiet as well. Oh yeah, it needs to have
a PCI slot for a SCSI controller, since my tape drive is SCSI for
backups.
Desires:
- small
- cheap
- quiet
- low power
- boots without a keyboard/mouse needed at all
- onboard video (don't really need it at all)
- PCI slots for expansion
- four 3.5" drive bays internally
- SATA ports on board
- AMD or VIA EPIA
- 1Gb of RAM or more.
I've looked at the Via EPIA style systems. Just not sure if they have
enough oomph for what I want.
The other thought is to just take my old Dell Precision dual cpu Xeon
550mhz box and make that my main server, holding all my data, etc.
It's got the drive bays, and PCI slots and scsi controller all in
there already. I could add in some SATA controllers for the new disks
without a problem. And it would continue to hold my ISA 8-port serial
card. And it's got the memory for what it would be doing pretty much
as well.
Then I'd just get a new system for my desktop with a much smaller disk
drive.
Systems I've looked at:
- bare bones AMD x2 on ebay.
- VIA Epia Nanoscale dual CPU box
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7109201579.html
- buying a dell from their closeouts
Any comments?
John
12 years, 9 months
need to test notebook
by Gregory Avedissian
A friend of mine just got a used notebook computer, but it has no AC
adapter, and the battery is dead. He'd like to test it out before he
invests any significant money into it. I'm wondering if anyone has an AC
adapter for a Dell Inspiron 18000 and would be willing to bring it to the
meeting, so we can see if this thing will fire up. And does anyone know of
a good place to get used parts locally (like an AC adapter)?
Thanks,
Greg
12 years, 9 months
noob question on Altova XMLSpy
by d.maly＠ieee.org
I'm trying to install Altova XMLSpy, following instructions at
http://www.altova.com/support_platform_linux.html
and saw the comment:
"Copy the complete 2006 Relewase 4 installation directory from Windows
to the Linux partition (this avoids any installer-related issues); this
should be an installation where you have already requested/purchased and
entered a key-code, because the key-code request mechanism doesn’t
currently work under WINE."
so I guess I follow the rules and enter the key-code I have in hand
using Windows to enter the key-code, then "Copy the complete 2006 ..."
etc etc
Any better ideas?
Doug
12 years, 9 months
REMINDER: WLUG Meeting THIS WED Oct 11th 7PM
by Andy Stewart
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HI gang,
This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held
THIS WED Oct 11th, 7:00 PM in the Access Grid Room on the WPI campus in
Worcester, MA USA.
At this meeting, our guest speaker will be WLUG member Doug Aker. The
topic will be Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
=== Abstract ===
How an average programmer, after discovering SVG, used zLinux, perl,
XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript and, above all, SVG to create an interactive
browser-based application to visualize client-server connections. See
how Doug's odyssey into open languages led him through the lands of
information theory, graph theory, set theory and data visualization.
Find out why his wife and kids run out of the room whenever he starts
talking about SVG.
Like you, Doug has sat and snoozed through many slide presentations, and
vows *not* to make this yet another PowerPoint-like affair. Please
attend. Doug is comfortable with large crowds.
Doug Aker has been doing application and tech support work at Verizon
Communications for 21 years.
===End Abstract ===
After the meeting, we'll adjourn to the Tech Pizza restaurant on
Highland Street for pizza, soda, and more tech talk!
See ya there!
Andy
- --
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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