Re: what about ip's
On approximately Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:06:15AM -0400, David Smith wrote: > i've had cable connectivity with charter.net for more than 1 year. until > yesterday i've never had need of an email acct there. i planned on using the > address at charter when the spam at my top-10 acct became unbearable. when i > finally got my log-in info for the charter acct. i logged in and to my > surprise there were already more than 200 spams waiting for me. > > my first assumption is that charter sells their users email addresses. does > anyone on this list know how an unused email address that has never been > used can have spam without the ip giving the address out? > >From a lot of the spam I get at my charter.net account it seems to be that spammers just use some sort of dictionary and add that on the front of popular domain names. Somebody probably wrote a Perl script and sold it on Ebay! -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org -- | They that can give up essential liberty Linux, the choice -o) | to obtain a little temporary safety deserve of the GNU generation/\ | neither liberty or safety. _\_v | -Benjamin Franklin
Re: graphical installer?
On approximately Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:22:50PM +0200, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any plans for the graphical installer? I know, > it isn't needed, but I think it would be nice step for > beginners - for example automatically search and install > modules for ethernet/whatever - or easy configuration > for printer :-P Of course I'm not a beginner :-P > There was an article posted yesterday on www.debianplanet.org about the progress of the graphical installer. Looks like we will be seeing something soon. -- Linux, the choice| All articles that coruscate with of a GNU generation -o) | resplendence are not truly auriferous. Kernel 2.4.20-pre4-ac2 /\ | on a Athlon-XP _\_v | |
Re: Kernel 2.5.69 problem
On approximately Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:08:02PM -0400, Victor Torrico wrote: > > I compiled and ran the debian kernel-source-2.5.69 package. It boots OK, > however, none of he modutil functions work. I keep getting the following > error message: "QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" whenever I try things > such as insmod, lsmod, or depmod. I suspect the source for this was omitted > from the source package. Used latest kernel-package for the compile. > > Help appreciated. > > Victor > > Running all latest SID packages on i386 machine. > # apt-get install module-init-tools -- Josh McKinney| Webmaster: http://joshandangie.org -- Linux, the choice| They that can give up essential liberty of a GNU generation -o) | to obtain a little temporary safety deserve Kernel 2.4.20-ck6/\ | neither liberty or safety. on a Athlon-XP _\_v | -Benjamin Franklin
Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')
On approximately Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:29:09AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:52:45PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > > You notice this on ext2 when an inode has been corrupted. There's a 50% > > chance the immutable bit may have been set, leading people to wonder why > > they can't delete the file even as root. > > > > I don't know whether reiserfs has such a bit though. > > reiserfs has no such immutable bit. It may very well be that your reiserfs is corrupted. I had the same sort of errors happen to me. Maybe check your syslogs and see if there is any strange errors from reiserfs. Josh -- Linux, the choice | It's the thought, if any, that counts! of a GNU generation -o) | Kernel 2.4.9-ac1 /\ | on a i586 _\_v | |
