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Going Alpha
by David Freeman 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

All, My web site has now gone alpha. So could I ask for people to take a look and let me know of any bugs, speiling misstakes etc... Also constructive criticism would be nice. http://freemadi.alug.org.uk/ Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Test
by MJ Ray 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

Apologies all. We seem to have had some problems with this list, so I'm trying to debug them with this test message. If you see it, all is working again.

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Brett Parker <brettp(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> writes: > > Of course, you were *told* you had to be Neo, and you've been iDunno > > for what, *weeks* now? > Erm - months, at least 2 of, afaicr... Doesn't change that it's "weeks" too... or are we running on Brett Time? Or Internet Time(tm)?

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Brett Parker <brettp(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> writes: > Erm, what for? I was just told I had to use Neo way back then, I've been > iDunno for the last god-knows-how-long :p Of course, you were *told* you had to be Neo, and you've been iDunno for what, *weeks* now? I love cognitive dissonance.

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Re: [Alug] Sending information between databases
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Andrew Savory <a.savory(a)btinternet.com> writes: > If you were exporting data and you didn't know who was going to use it, > then you might consider XML. Also, if the two databases are complex and differ, exporting to XML, doing some transformation and importing XML into the target database may have some value, but the right way to do it is to try to avoid the situation, I think ;-)

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Sending information between databases
by Ashley T. Howes 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

(This isn't a pure linux question, but I hope you can help) What is a good system for sending information between databases, with minimal human interaction? Situation is that someone has a database in one location, another person has another copy. The list of tables/fields between the 2 databases is not exactly the same, but have several tables in common. The two databases could be synched with a lot of human work, but is there a method to do this automatically - perhaps sending XML between the two? Anyone got experience in doing this sort of stuff? Ashley

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Any secret admirers
by David Freeman 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Are there any Crypto specialists on the list? Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Steve Fosdick <fozzy(a)pelvoux.demon.co.uk> writes: > I take there has been a report on this kind of activity. DOes anyone > have any details please? I can't remember which one, but I think it was Yahoo!. Basically, their advertising sales team was going out and trying to sell ad space on their web mail with the demographics and behavioural data on their users. Of course, this all came from the adverts, not from the actual emails, but the user tracking in there was active and it did tell them more than you really want known about you. It seems to me that it's only a small step to doing analysis on the actual emails to see how to market more effectively at you, and in some legislations that would be perfectly legal.

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > > Compare and contrast against Bascule. > Whats that supposed to mean? I've seen quite a few Bascules, too. > Is this a Joke I am missing or have I pissed a seira owner off who will > want revenge? Look at the IRC nickname list, recently posted here. > We have no personal privacy any way so why does it matter. We all have some privacy. It's just a case of some people are willing to give it all away very cheaply. > If people want to read my emails they are most welcome, [...] And most of mine, but damned if I want them doing it in a co-ordinated systematic manner as part of a marketing machine. > [...] Provide me witha solution which will work on any platform > on any network connection. I believe there are secure web mail sites out there.

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 12 Jul '01

12 Jul '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > People who use neo are coppy cat wannabees who thing they are haxors > etc... sorry but they are just sad people who will get nowhere, bloody > script kiddies. Compare and contrast against Bascule. Oh, and you should probably watch out for a drive-by incident with a brown Sierra any time now. > You can usually tell how long someone has been online by weather or > not they have any numbers after ther name in an email address from > places like hotmail and yahoo mail. I say that you can tell how long someone has been online by whether they know enough to avoid these dumb american web mails and the amount of personal privacy lost by using them. > Few people use the name akula, and I found out why, put two K's in it > and it becomes serb for Twat! Did you misspell that too? ;-)

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