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Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

nelz — Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:22 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:22 am

Ah right. Most lists either dump or bounce non-subscriber posts.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

A-Wing — Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:32 pm

Author: A-Wing

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:32 pm

It used to have a public web archive and spam bots picked up the ML address via that. None of the spam posts make it to the list as anything posted by a non-subscriber is flagged for moderation, but 99.9% of the time this is spam.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

nelz — Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:12 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:12 pm

Usenet was superior, before the spam got out of control. but without the subscription control, it's impossible to prevent.

How can spammers post to your LUG ML? Is it open-posting? Or are some of your members spammers?

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

A-Wing — Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:31 pm

Author: A-Wing

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:31 pm

Although I have to manually filter 20-30 spams a day on my LUG's mailing list admin panel. I do prefer them to forums but they take getting used to. I personally think Usenet is superier to both but hardly anyone uses it anymore.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

ZebCarnell — Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:05 am

Author: ZebCarnell

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:05 am

Yeah it just seems to get like that after a while to me. Specially when people keep sending help messages with no details.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

nelz — Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:58 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:58 am

Only if they allow all and sundry to post without subscribing, but the same problem afflicted this forums. i can't remember the last time I saw spam on a mailing list.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

ZebCarnell — Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:20 am

Author: ZebCarnell

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:20 am

I use quoting when I can. That helps. I dont like mailing lists too much. It seems to turn to spam after the 254th email.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

nelz — Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:16 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:16 am

If you read it in its context of a reply to A-Wing's question, it makes perfect sense. When dumped in with other posts, it's less clear. Another reason I prefer mailing lists to forums.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

ZebCarnell — Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:04 am

Author: ZebCarnell

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:04 am

Oh I thought you were Talking about Xen.... you have it all in one paragraph without mentioning VMware lolz.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

nelz — Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:18 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:18 am

I know. Like I just said, I use it all the time

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

ZebCarnell — Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:58 am

Author: ZebCarnell

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:58 am

VMware has suspend as well . It would be good if VMware had DirectX support included. Then gamers could have Windows Running on Linux if they wanted to play their fave games that havent yet been made for Linux. But then there is always Cedega.
Is there another VM program that has DirectX support?

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

nelz — Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:45 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:45 am

I use it to run Linux on Linux most of the time. Xen is not suitable for distro testing as it requires modified kernels. It also has the great advantage that you can suspend a running machine, much like suspending a laptop, so firing up a particular distro to check something is much faster. I have around a dozen VMs suspended and ready to fire up in a few seconds, only one of them is Windows.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

Andy — Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:16 am

Author: Andy

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:16 am

Ho hum - ATI driver support is available from livna.org - have a look at fedorafaq.org for more details.

I've used it and it is painless... UT2004 seems to fly

Andy

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

A-Wing — Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:10 am

Author: A-Wing

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:10 am

nelz wrote:

Win4lin only runs Windows, so it's not really an alternative to VMWare/Qemu except for that one task.

What other use would you have for VMWare workstation? to run Linux on Linux most people would use Xen or Linux Vserver.

Re: Fedora Core 4, Not Flamebait, Honest!

M-Saunders — Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:03 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:03 am

Bochs development appears to be stalled, although I haven't checked the mailing lists. From what some hobbyist OS devs have said, though, Bochs may be slower but it's better for debugging.

M