Re: BigNews

2001-06-26 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:59:45AM -0700, BigNews wrote: > English: > > http://www.faluninfo.net/ > > Chinese: > > http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/6/14/12083.html Sorry, gnucash folks. I was trying to do something else at the same time as moderating the non-member posts and I let this

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2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
FYI. --linas - Forwarded message from Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-PGP-Fingerprint: BD81 4071 CB8C A0A3 79A9 0319 C793 7A8F B147 9E55 Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finance-quote-devel] Finance::Quote v1.06 ava

Re: initializing currencies ??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:18:48PM -0700, Dave Peticolas was heard to remark: > On 26 Jun 2001 00:56:51 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > What's the right way to initialize the list of iso currencies? > > When I just call gnc_book_load() from a stand-alone C program, > > it gets a parse error, becau

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:40:07PM -0400, Mattias Hembruch was heard to remark: > Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:53:57PM -0400, Mattias Hembruch was heard to remark: > > > > > > Thanks. I was going to try that anyway as soon as I get another machine up > > > and running..

Re: sql & gnucash

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
ccing the mailing list ... On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:54:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to remark: > > One thought would be to try to build an alternative to QIF/OFX/IFF, > and _DO IT RIGHT_. Easier said than done. (actually, IIF doesn't look that bad; just underdocumented). > Note t

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level encryption? -derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > It should ... but that depends very much how you set up hba.conf > If you marke a certain host (such as yourself) trusted, then clearly > it won't behave the same w

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:26:06PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level > encryption? The postgres documentation recommends setting up ssh to port-forward the postgres port. And if you already know ssh, this seems to be

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:26:06PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > > Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level > > encryption? > > The postgres documentation recommends setting up ssh to port-forward=20 > the postgr

Re: sql & gnucash

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > One posibility is OTP -- open trading protocol. This was issued > by a small company some 3 years back. Don't know if its dead or allive. > It seemed to be designed specifically for communicating the transfer of > 'stuff' from one vendor to another,

post-it notes

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
I was sitting here, thinking, 'you know what gnucash really needs? post-it notes!' It would be pretty cool to stick one onto some transaction; every time you opened the register, there it would be, a big fat post-it stuck to the transaction, scrolling with it. It screams out 'hey you need to

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:00:14PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:26:06PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > > > Does postgres' internal network functionality include network-level > > > encryption? > >

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Derek Atkins
True, I agree with you that key management is hard. However, SSH is not the answer. Think about what it means to require SSH with port forwarding: a) you cannot easily have multiple connections going at once (because you cannot have multiple port-forwarders on the

Re: sql & gnucash

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:12:21PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > > > One posibility is OTP -- open trading protocol. This was issued > > by a small company some 3 years back. Don't know if its dead or allive. > > It seemed to be designed

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:56:34PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > True, I agree with you that key management is hard. However, SSH > is not the answer. OK, yep. > I still maintain that a self-contained end-to-end encryption is the > way to go. We can use an RPC (be is SOAP/CORBA/

Re: Remote Postgres access??

2001-06-26 Thread Alan Orndorff
> Thus I claim that the 'right' implementation would be a kernel module > (so that its not breakable even if the root shell has been compromised, > which is something lomac protects against). The kernel module would > work with some appropriate set of authentication mechanisms to > verify the trus