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ping storm
by plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

I get lots of ping storms on my firewall log. Is this new virus pinging too or is it something else. Peter -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Learning PHP
by sidneyshapiro-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

> > There's a group of people meeting to learn PHP Thursday nights at 6pm > down at St. Christopher House at Ossington & Dundas. I'm sure you'd be > welcome to drop in and ask questions there. > > St. Chris has a computer program at that locaation that is working > towards developing a Linux/Open Source learning centre - they currently > have five or six computers that will be available for a linux conversion > in a couple of weeks so anyone interested in participating might want to > pay them a visit and talk to the coordinator Randall. > > Here's their web page: > http://www.bangthedrum.net > > I've got current versions of Libranet and Xandros that I could contribute > to this. Is there a number I could call them at? Thanks, Sidney -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Am I still on the TLUG list?
by robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Gregory Pleau wrote: > I?ve actually resorted to HOTMAIL of all things to get my mail. > Maybe you should get one of those linux.ca email accounts and forward it to > your Symcraptico address... ? That might get around the filter (haven't > tried it myself). Talking to the person who manages the box the mailing list runs on (sorry, forgotten your name :) it really doesn't sound like a filter, more like a networking problem. The symptoms as related to me so far agree with previous incarnations of pmtu problems I've seen. Rob > <SARCASM> > I?m sure it?s another ?improvement? to protect me from myself, or they got > tired of supporting Linux users on their help desk. > </SARCASM> > > - Greg > Just setting up auk-nord-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org now.... > > -- > The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org > TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns > How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml > -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Am I still on the TLUG list?
by robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mike Fisher wrote: > Hi folks, > If you see this pop up on the TLUG list please send me a short > reply saying you can see it, YES will do nicely. > I stopped receiving TLUG list email some time ago and am trying to find > out the reason. My anti-spam feature at Sympatico is turned off so it > shouldn't be that whatever Sympatico are doing. > Cheers, > Mike Fisher Hi Mike. This is a known problem. Those with email addresses on Sympatico & Rogers have been advising of problems for some weeks. I believe they are looking into it. I suspect it may be related to path MTU discovery but without a proper investigation it is hard to say. To the powers that be: I've been diagnosing network problems for more than a decade so if I can provide any help tracking down the problem please feel free to ask. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Am I still on the TLUG list?
by gregory.pleau-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

>>>> mikefisher-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org 20/08/2003 12:12:41 pm >>> >Hi folks, >??????? If you see this pop up on the TLUG list please send me a short >reply saying you can see it, YES will do nicely. >I stopped receiving TLUG list email some time ago and am trying to find >out the reason. My anti-spam feature at Sympatico is turned off so it >shouldn't be that whatever Sympatico are doing. Yes it is Symcraptico. I have not received a single piece of TLUG on any of my six Symcraptico addresses. And apparently I'm not alone. I?ve actually resorted to HOTMAIL of all things to get my mail. Maybe you should get one of those linux.ca email accounts and forward it to your Symcraptico address... ? That might get around the filter (haven't tried it myself). <SARCASM> I?m sure it?s another ?improvement? to protect me from myself, or they got tired of supporting Linux users on their help desk. </SARCASM> - Greg Just setting up auk-nord-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org now.... -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Am I still on the TLUG list?
by Alain-ZUEtzF2Y1zYAvxtiuMwx3w＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Yes I received this. Alain >>> mikefisher-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org 20/08/2003 12:12:41 pm >>> Hi folks, If you see this pop up on the TLUG list please send me a short reply saying you can see it, YES will do nicely. I stopped receiving TLUG list email some time ago and am trying to find out the reason. My anti-spam feature at Sympatico is turned off so it shouldn't be that whatever Sympatico are doing. Cheers, Mike Fisher -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Inputing Chinese
by rfk-MwcKTmeKVNQ＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Does anyone have any experience with inputting Chinese characters on Linux? My wife Catherine is from Taiwan and has been using W2K with Chinese and was quite happy with it. Her computer had a weird problem and I had to reinstall the OS so I thought I would put on RH 8.0. Her demands were that it had a web browser - easy, a program for watching TV - Xawtv (took some work but I got it), and finally that she be able to input in Traditional Chinese for chat. The documentation for this in English is quite sparse, I understand that Xcin can do the job but I can't figure out how to use it. If I don't get this soon, I'll have to put Windows back on her computer. Thanks for any assistance. Best, Robert Margueretta St. Toronto -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Am I still on the TLUG list?
by mikefisher-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

Hi folks, If you see this pop up on the TLUG list please send me a short reply saying you can see it, YES will do nicely. I stopped receiving TLUG list email some time ago and am trying to find out the reason. My anti-spam feature at Sympatico is turned off so it shouldn't be that whatever Sympatico are doing. Cheers, Mike Fisher -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Question re: Qmail and disk quotas
by robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Kevin Cozens wrote: > If the user goes over quota and exceeds the grace period, they will no > longer be able to create new files until they get back under the soft quota > limit. If an account goes over quota for longer than the grace period how > will this affect their incoming mail? Will qmail still deliver their mail > in to their account or will it be bounced? Can't speak specifically for qmail, but I have seen this situation with another MTA. The mail bounced with a 5xx series error (this is a permanent failure), basically "User over quota". You may like to look at RFCs 2821 & 2822. This is distinct from a situation in which the filesystem is full which would normally fail with a 4xx error (transient failure). In this case remote MTAs will continue to attempt delivery as they would in any other case when delivery was prevented. > I don't have a user anywhere near their quota limits yet. I'm just checking > on expected behaviour. I'd suggest creating a test user, setting a low quota, forcing it over the soft limit and mailing the account to actually cause the condition to occur. A test user is valuable for this sort of thing. When not in use for testing the account should be locked. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Learning PHP
by kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w＠public.gmane.org 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

At 02:32 AM 08/20/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Does anyone know of a good course to learn PHP from absolutely nothing? >Before anyone tells me to RTFM, I would like to learn from someone else >and ask questions :) A course would be one way to learn PHP. Do you need one? It would depend on your background. If you have used Perl and/or C in the past then you may be able to pick up one of those "Teach Yourself PHP in X Days" type books. I have been programming a long time (over 20 years) and have used a variety of languages. A decent reference text is all I need to pick up the specific syntax of a new language and to learn what are the available built-in library routines to do various things. I went through the first 8 hours of an "...in 24 hours" book on PHP in about 1 hour and another 2 hours for the next several "hours" in the book. Picking up a book can be much cheaper than most formal courses and you can go at your own pace. It will depend on how much programming background you have, if you have used languages with similar syntax, and if you can pick things up from books easily (some people can't). YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary before someone asks. :-) -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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