Roundtable July 2014

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8 discussions

IBM "clicky" keyboards
by Adam Thompson 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Enough people have wondered/asked/complained to me about this that I'm posting this now as a public service. IBM Model "M" keyboards are still available, *NEW*, today. They are expensive, but they are the original design that you can use as a melee weapon. The catch is that they don't say "IBM" or even "Lexmark" on them. They are available for purchase from the manufacturer, Unicomp, who can be found online at http://www.pckeyboard.com/. You can also find some vintage NIB units from time … [View More]

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SpamAssassin false positives on DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q?
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

I mentioned this problem at the last round-table session, but didn't get a solution, so I thought I'd post it here, just in case anyone has any suggestions to offer. I'm still seeing a whole bunch of false positives in SpamAssassin, since an update was installed in mid-September on a CentOS 5.7 system, for a rule called DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q, which is only supposed to be triggered when the "Date:" header has a date that is 4 days to 4 month ahead of the date in the "Received" header that … [View More]

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big scanner
by Trevor Cordes 27 May '15

27 May '15

Does anyone have big (like tabloid or bigger) scanner they want to sell? Even an ancient SCSI or parallel one might be ok. I just want *big*. Do they even make scanners bigger than legal or tabloid?

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ARIN on the Road, Sept 11, 2014
by Bill Reid 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

ARIN and the Manitoba Internet Exchange are pleased to invite you to join us at: *ARIN on the Road: Winnipeg, Manitoba* Thursday, 11 September 2014 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM, Beers and Peers 4:30 - 6:00 PM CDT Register at: https://www.arin.net/winnipeg The agenda for this event includes sessions on ARIN services, the status of IPv4 and IPv6 adoption in the region, current ARIN policy developments, ARIN technical services, an IPv6 tutorial and more. Lunch will be provided by Epic Data Centre and … [View More]

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Re: [RndTbl] 1U Dells available. - UPDATE
by Sean Cody 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

There has been a pretty great response to this offer! All the 860's have been purchased/accounted for. There are still some 850's left ($75). If you would like them/one email noah(a)complexgames.com ! -- Sean

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Re: [RndTbl] permanent email address
by JD 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Non-permanent, but worth considering, especially if you'd like to 'coddle' your respondents over to your new email address: Ask your current ISP how much they charge to keep your current email address 'alive', while you 'sleep' your other network services subscription 'for a while'. The ones I am familiar with range from a coupla bux or so .. commonly $5/month. You should then, at least, be able to access the Old stuff via WebMail. They can direct you to their help pages on how use your … [View More]favourite browser to work that kind of email. I don't happen to like WebMail much. So I would also ask ISP if they allow you to make POP connections from outside their network. If that goes well, then you want them to tell you how 'secure' your login authentication will be. Some POP logins still send parts of your login info 'in the clear' - leaving you as easy pickins for man-in-the-middle sniffers. If you like their security, then you can run an email client like Thunderbird. It can be set to fetch from more than one host, to common inbox, or to separate folder hierarchies. If you elect to run an email client on more than one station, no matter the client, I would suggest you find the checkbox called "Leave mail on server", and do that on ALL clients. This allows a wide window of time for you to fetch on each machine; with none of them doing their fetching, then telling the upstream email server "I'm the boss of all this email, and I've got my copy of it all, so Delete everything up 'til Now." Should even one client be set to NOT leave mail on server, your other stations will not be able to be synch'd - they would be missing certain emails, deleted by the bossy station on its last fetch. These methods can buy you time to study your various options in committing to a long-term 'permanent' email address. Once you've established the New email address, make sure to set your ReplyTo when using the Old email - set it to refer to the New addy. Separately (again, once a new addy is established), you can also ask your Old ISP if they can work the old, tried&true .forward ("dot forward"), where Old-addressed email continues to 'arrive' at your Old email host, but is re-directed to whatever you've set up as your New email. These approaches can be helpful during the transition to a new email, and will allow you numerous opportunities to nudge your respondents to update their address books. Most people need more than a few proddings to actually go into their own addressbook, and edit/update their entry on You. After 'enough' attempts, some will still just go into their existing emails From you, and do a Reply, because .. well .. just because people are like that. Your clever setting of the New ReplyTo will eventually be 'in' the old emails they will reach for, and that's the best we can do, for folks like that. Eventually, you retire the old account, and if anybody gets upset at their 'bounce' msgs .. you can blame it on their own .. naahh .. blame it on me. smiles, John D _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 12:00 -0500, roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca wrote: > Send Roundtable mailing list submissions to > roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > roundtable-owner(a)muug.mb.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Roundtable digest..." > Today's Topics: > > 1. permanent email address (Dan Martin) > 2. Re: permanent email address (John Lange) > 3. Re: permanent email address (Hartmut W Sager) > _______________________________________________ > Roundtable mailing list > Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable [View Less]

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1U Dells available.
by Sean Cody 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

ComplexGames is moving back downtown and has some 1U dell's they'd really like to not move. They have PE850's ($75) and PE860's ($100) and they should even have the rails with them (at least that's what I remembered when I last saw them). They probably won't come with the gray Dell cover bezel (I don't remember seeing them last I was there). The PE850s (and the 860 with the Xeon 3060) are most likely SATA disks and the 860's most likely SAS disks (though SATA 'should be compatible' if the … [View More]

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permanent email address
by Dan Martin 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

I was going to switch internet providers recently, then I realized that I would have to change my email address and notify dozens or hundreds of people. Is there a [cheap] way to get a permanent email address? I seem to recall getting a .mb address in the early days of internet. I then used a university address and subsequently used an email address from providers. Is there a way to look up this old email address (if it exists?) Dan Martin GP Hospital Practitioner Computer Scientist … [View More]

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Roundtable July 2014