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davel
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response 25 of 43:
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Feb 14 23:48 UTC 2002 |
Happens to me way too often. Someone asks about a potential bug, I agree that
it's potentially serious & that I'll fix it, & on looking at the code discover
that I thought about it when I wrote the thing in the first place.
Senior moments ...
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srw
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response 26 of 43:
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Mar 6 05:42 UTC 2002 |
There is even a link to the web uptime on Grex's home page under "also cool"
so it has not been hiding in a corner.
OK - I have solved another problem that may be of interest to our users from
Europe. A grexer asked if I would install timezone info for Estonia.
You see, very few people ask for time zone info to be installed. Back in 1998
I added info for India becasue we have so many Indian users, and it came up.
As a result of such a low interest level, Grex still mostly has only the zone
info that came with this ancient OS (1994). A lot of improvement has gone into
the data files of more modern unix OSes since then. I went to an OpenBSD box
(my own) and scarfed a data file for europe, and compiled it. THen I installed
the Europe subdirectory of time zone files, so not only do you get Estonian
time if you want, but nearly every other known time zone in Europe.
To see what European times zones we have, look in
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Europe
To set Estonian time specify the TZ environment variable
for csh/tcsh use
setenv TZ Europe/Tallinn
for bash/ksh/sh use
TZ=Europe/Tallinn; export TZ
These can go in your dotfiles (.login or .profile) if you want it to be like
that all the time. Programs that are time-zone-enlightened will report all
times in YOUR time zone instead of Grexs.
Users outside europe may find their time zone somewhere in
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo
but if not, send mail to staff amd we'll try to get you what you need.
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keesan
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response 27 of 43:
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Mar 6 14:47 UTC 2002 |
I continue to be amazed at all the work staff puts in behind the scenes.
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jmsaul
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response 28 of 43:
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Mar 6 15:05 UTC 2002 |
I just got spam at my cyberspace.org address. That's interesting, because
I never use the address for anything -- occasionally someone on Grex emails
me at it, but that's the extent of it. It isn't on webpages or anything like
that.
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remmers
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response 29 of 43:
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Mar 6 17:12 UTC 2002 |
You should forward it, with all headers, to uce@cyberspace.org.
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jep
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response 30 of 43:
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Mar 6 17:30 UTC 2002 |
re #26: "...time if you want, but nearly every other known time zone in
Europe."
Are you implying there are time zones which have yet to be discovered?
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jmsaul
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response 31 of 43:
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Mar 6 18:43 UTC 2002 |
Re #29: Unfortunately, I deleted it. I'll do that next time, thanks!
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remmers
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response 32 of 43:
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Mar 7 01:52 UTC 2002 |
Re #30: Yes, the twilight timezones.
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jhudson
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response 33 of 43:
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Mar 7 03:50 UTC 2002 |
Every once in a while, it seams that some spammer downloads
/etc/passwd and enters all addresses into the system.
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davel
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response 34 of 43:
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Mar 7 13:20 UTC 2002 |
Do you (or does Marcus) really want all spam I get through Grex? I can send
a bunch of the more recent stuff. I didn't know this before.
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remmers
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response 35 of 43:
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Mar 7 22:21 UTC 2002 |
Yes, Marcus is the person who looks at the uce stuff. I think he
wants all the data he can get his hands on.
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mdw
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response 36 of 43:
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Mar 7 22:54 UTC 2002 |
(Don't send it to me, though. Send it to uce. Please.)
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davel
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response 37 of 43:
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Mar 8 14:00 UTC 2002 |
Understood. I just forwarded the batch that was waiting for me this morning.
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jhudson
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response 38 of 43:
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Mar 9 05:26 UTC 2002 |
I will get a good laugh when spammers send e-mail to
uce@cyberspace.org
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gelinas
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response 39 of 43:
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Mar 9 05:28 UTC 2002 |
They apparently have; Marcus had occasion to mention that a few months back.
:)
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davel
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response 40 of 43:
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Mar 9 15:30 UTC 2002 |
You think they spend any time checking out what accounts they send to?
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gull
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response 41 of 43:
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Mar 11 16:42 UTC 2002 |
In fact, some places create accounts specifically to be "spam bait".
The idea is to create an account that shouldn't be getting any mail,
then blacklist anyone who sends to it.
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jazz
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response 42 of 43:
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Mar 11 16:45 UTC 2002 |
Ever seen "web poison"?
Really neat concept - automatically generated HTML pages containing
nonexistent e-mail addresses and links to other automatically generated HTML
pages ...
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malymi
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response 43 of 43:
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Mar 12 09:41 UTC 2002 |
re #30: certainly, since timezones are political
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