Re: [clug-talk] Presentations and the Bazaar

Thank you Mark, for coming to the rescue here to address Ellen's actual question. Most excellent. Mel On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 00:13 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Ellen Mably wrote: > >When open office tries to finish a word for me, occasionally it's what I > > w

Re: [clug-talk] port 25

I spoke to Shaw last week as valid emails from our business accounts were being rejected by companies - Upon further troubleshooting, we found that their complete netblock had been listed on Spamhaus. They were frantically working on getting themselves delisted - not sure if they managed. Th

[clug-talk] Great vids on Linux, computers and hacking

I have been watching YouTube videos posted by http://hak5.org/ They cover things like packet sniffing, manipulations and other security things. They do case mods and review programs for Linux and other less popular OS's. Lost edu-tainment for nerds. http://www.youtube.com/user/Hak5Darren -- Ea

Re: [clug-talk] port 25

Thanks for the information Martin. We dropped our static ip about a year ago, like Gustin, haven't hosted a server for 2-3 years now. The issue I have is not advance notification that this is happening. Anyone doing this in Fortune 500 company would have been fired but then who are we anyway

Re: [clug-talk] port 25

I have a Shaw business class connection with static IPs and didn't haven't any issues at all. I do periodically get notices when they are doing maintenance work that may cause an outage for me. Or when they change my static IPs (I got a couple months notice last time this happened). For the

Re: [clug-talk] port 25

I was only using SSl/TLS on some but have now gone that route as a matter of practice which I should have done anyways. There are still a couple that I have not control over and have set smtp to relay through one of the other accounts that does support SSL/TLS. It works - any implications in

[clug-talk] Creating a DBF?

So I've found all sorts of tools and tips that let me connect to a DBF file (a table file) and convert that data to another format (csv, postgres, mysql, etc.). That's great, that's part one of my project. But, how do I CREATE a DBF file from Linux? Preferably from a command prompt. The pro

Re: [clug-talk] Creating a DBF?

There are some c and perl libraries so you may need to roll your own. The other option is to try and get Foxpro running under wine. I have some friends who work at a company that still uses that format and has a lot of in house Linux experience. I'll get back you if I find anything else. On Mon,