Re: email failure

2014-01-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:08:48PM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: > | From: "Joe Zeff" ...snip... > | > | Why do you think you deserve compensation, what do you think would be > | fair and how would you enforce it? > | -- > > Getting rid of the asshole would be a good start Excel

Re: OT: procmailrc question

2014-01-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:38:50PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 07Jan2014 22:04, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I am new to making my own procmail recipes and am a bit stumped with > > this one. > > > > I use sylfilter as my spam-filtering tool: this tool is available at > > http://sylpheed.sraos

Re: NetworkManager

2014-01-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 01:24:09PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: ...snip.. > > I wish there were an alternative to NM > which worked as well as the old Windows "Connect to". Wicd ...snip... -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 05:16:58PM +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor sent: > > I swear if EVER I find the person who invented spam?...I'm gonna hit > > him with a whiffle-ball bat! LOL! > > And we'll be cheering, too. > > On a whim, I once googled spa

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 04:00:02PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor wrote: > > On 12/30/2013 08:48 AM, Tim wrote: > >Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Mihamina Rakotomandimby sent: > >>SPAM is very subjective. > >>I saw users subscribing to several newsletters for an event (say XMas) > >>and then i

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: snip... > > It's not uncommon for SpamAssassin to catch 400-700 a *day*. When really > bad new campaigns start up, sometimes it can go over a thousand. Usually, > only 5-10 get through, whereupon I feed 'em to sa-

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:41:40AM +1030, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> I've always considered having to check your spam for false positives to > >> make having anti-spam filtering a waste of time. > > Heinz Diehl: > > It depends. I've been receiving about 30 spam emails daily, on > > average. A quick lo

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

2013-12-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:13:24PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: ...snip.. > > > Yes Joachim this is EXACTLY what I was looking for!..Thank you so > much! My Inbox seems to be growing every day with more and more > spam. I literally spent a whole hour and a half ...JUST add

Re: evince

2013-12-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:20:17AM +0100, poma wrote: > ...snip.. > Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus > nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Those pompous lessons really paid off. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being r

Re: Why some say "rpm hell"

2013-12-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 02:43:50PM +0530, AP wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:40 AM, David wrote: > > > Ya'll have seen the AP is gone yet the thread goes on and on? :-) > > Because the name "g" is mental deficient. What you wrote has nothing to do with what you quoted. -- Bob Holtzman You

Re: Why some say "rpm hell"

2013-11-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 01:32:11AM +1030, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 28 November 2013, g sent: > > let out one point. > > > > if you will note; > > > > X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer > > > > is also a thread breaker. > > I think that one may just be due to a bad webmail client. Some o

Re: is something wrong with email server?

2013-11-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 02:30:44AM -0600, g wrote: > > > On 11/28/2013 11:47 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > <> > > >One would normally try a search before asking on a list. > > 'ap' is not _normal_. ;=) I know but he's like heroin. You can't

Re: is something wrong with email server?

2013-11-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:41:09PM +0530, AP wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > Check this how this list's archive: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-November/thread.html > > > You can clearly see the breakage you are causing: All of your

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:33:41AM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 11/24/13 09:30, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:29:19AM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > >> > >> But wrong nevertheless. It conflates two quite distinct ideas, blurs &g

Re: Writing English.

2013-11-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:29:19AM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 11/23/13 10:17, inode0 wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > >>Just read some stuff on this list about "spins", a concept which had > >>not previously impinged itself upon my consciousness. So I went and >

Re: Why some say "rpm hell"

2013-11-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 08:46:07PM +0530, AP wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:21 PM, g wrote: > > [crap] > > as in usage as a _noun_, which is defined at; > > This is really shameful to have people like you.. Pot meet kettle. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agen

Re: good bye -> Fwd: list-moderation -> Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:08:47PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > > To you it's rude, to me blunt. This will never be resolved as it's a > > matter of individual taste,

Re: good bye -> Fwd: list-moderation -> Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:23:27AM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > HI > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > > The problem, of course, being that idiots seldom appreciate their idiocy > > unless it's pointed out to t

Re: good bye -> Fwd: list-moderation -> Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:22:03PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > BTW, the moderator(s) seem to confuse bluntness with rudeness and/or > > combatitiveness. For my part, I appreciate bluntness.

Re: good bye -> Fwd: list-moderation -> Re: KDE without gnome-shell?

2013-11-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:34:05PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > well, you even do not find it worth to answer and continue not release posts > > if you would act honest and practice what you preach you would have written > an answer within the last two days and even a "please unsubscribe now" wou

Re: OT: Upgrading to Newer Laptop

2013-10-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:05:14PM +1300, Rolf Turner wrote: ...snip... > P. S. Based on my experience, ***don't*** buy a Toshiba! Want to expand on that? My stepdaughter has a satellite that I'm thinking of taking over and installing one of the linux distros. -- Bob Holtzman Yo

Re: Problems booting Fedora 19 with UEFI

2013-09-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 01:40:29AM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: ...snip... > > If it was anything but liveusb-creator, it might not have done the > necessary magic to make UEFI boot work properly. Grab it from > https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ and try remaking

Re: USB memory stick - where?

2013-09-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:57:39PM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:38:05PM +0200, ppq wrote: > > > Am 20.09.2013 14:35, schrieb Timothy Murphy: > > >If I install a memory stick in a Fedora-19 laptop, > > >is there a simple command that will tell me > > >where it is on

Re: "Enable JavaScript" preference checkbox has been removed in Firefox

2013-08-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 03:53:03PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: ..snip.. > > smart people never built websites which are unuseable without JS > JS is nice for additional features and comfort but only a fool > builds a ordinary website which doe snot work without JS Don't try counting

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird Aug releases

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 05:04:56PM -0400, David wrote: > On 8/8/2013 4:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 08/08/2013 01:34 PM, David wrote: > >> I can certainly agree with not following the Daily/Nightly, Alphas and > >> Betas but the official(s) IMHO should arrive more quickly. > > > > The people doin

Re: unstable libreoffice

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:44:07AM +0200, lee wrote: > Robert Holtzman writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:51:04PM +0200, lee wrote: > >> Martin Skjöldebrand writes: > >> > >> > Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora

Re: unstable libreoffice

2013-07-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:51:04PM +0200, lee wrote: > Martin Skjöldebrand writes: > > > Is anyone else seeing a horribly unstable Libreoffice in Fedora 19? > > I decided against using it quite some time ago because even simple > things like mailmerge didn't work, and trying to program somethin

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

2013-07-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:44:26AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: snip... > > hint: if would really be the asshole you think i would not need > to post anything and help others because the ratio seeking > and giving answers in my case is 1:1000 over years > preach what others

Re: Etiquette and changing of threads

2013-07-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:55:15PM -0300, Fernando Lozano wrote: > Hi Reindl, > > first: my intention is *not* to start another epic thread > > > > since i am always the unholy prick here after i lose patience > > maybe others should also reconsider *not* hijacking threads by > > Thanks for clarif

Re: Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

2013-07-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:48:35PM +0930, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 10 July 2013, Rejy M Cyriac sent: > > +1 > > > > I have learnt to just gloss over the unimportant parts of his mail, > > and focus on the vast amount of good information that he shares with > > the community. Live and le

Re: Fwd: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

2013-07-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:12:12PM +0200, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - Message original > Sujet: Re: rant of the day: installing fedora > Date : Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:54:28 +0200 > De : François Patte > Organisation : Universi

Re: How to mount a external USB drive automatically

2013-05-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:53:07PM -0500, Anthony wrote: > I have an external USB drive that is always connected to my computer. > When I log in, it shows up on my desktop (unmounted) and all I have to > do is click on it to mount it. It mounts to > > /run/media/anthony/Storage > > But I want to

Re: "hackers"

2013-05-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:01:13PM +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 10:40pm on Wednesday, May 01, 2013 (UK time), > richard.vicker...@gmail.com scrawled: > > > > Richard, you appear to keep sending emails to the list with the text > portion containing no content. I appreciate that this may be

Re: "hackers"

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:17:53AM -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: .snip. > > Ignore and move on? Would you say the same thing if we, the state, threw > you in prison for the use of the term? Civil society already does. Case in > point: use of the term "my account has been

Re: "hackers"

2013-04-24 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:20:05PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > | I tend to think the 'hacker' vs. 'cracker' distinction is lost to history in > | the mainstream today. > \-- > > Continuing to educate the masses is the only w

Re: ZDNet Recommends Linux

2013-04-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:20:01PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 11.04.2013 21:14, schrieb Joe Zeff: > > On 04/11/2013 11:55 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> sarcasm on mailing lists without smileys or whatever indication > >> is pretty dumb - there is not "but" and no "if", it is dumb > > >

Re: About that installer...

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:32:08PM +1000, Dan Irwin wrote: snip > Linux distros need to learn to not cater for novices. If you can't > partition, you shouldn't be running Linux. I've been beating the drum about this for years. It's not just partitioning. The various OSs

Re: Use existing Partition without formatting when installing F18 ?

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Oncaphillis wrote: > Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition /dev/sda1 > between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems to be possible > to format partitions before you can add it to the installation. > > Any trick around this ?

Re: /run directory

2012-12-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:49:24PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > Just started trying out fc17 after a long time away from Red Hat/Fedora. > > > > I have been trying to figure out the logic behind mounting removable > > media in the /ru

/run directory

2012-12-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
Just started trying out fc17 after a long time away from Red Hat/Fedora. I have been trying to figure out the logic behind mounting removable media in the /run/media directory or, for that matter, the function of /run. The only thing I've found was in the release notes where it mentions it with n