Network Traffic Peaks Out
Friday, September 3, 2010, 12:24 PM

Peaking out on our bandwidth at school. I'm working on getting a 5 MB connection. It's never enough!

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Happy B-Day Linux Aug 1991
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 09:18 AM
From:torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI <From%3Atorvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI> (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroup: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: 1991 Aug25, 20578.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki.

Hello everybody out there using minix-

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big
and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has
been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like
any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS
resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem
due to practical reasons)among other things.

I've currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that i'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus Torvalds torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi


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new policies regarding the use of email
Friday, August 20, 2010, 09:42 AM
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:39:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: Leif Johnson <leif@paisd.net>
To: PAISD NOTICE <paisd@paisd.net>
Subject: Network Notes

Colleagues:

I'm updating the paisd.net mail server to accommodate an email archiving system. Most of this work will occur after business hours to avoid interruption
of services to our users. But please note that email may be off-line for short periods during the weekend.

Also note the new policies regarding the use of email, and other electronic media including social networking in the employee handbook (see pages 33-37).

Wishing you the best year ever at PAISD -LJ

Sincerely,
Leif Johnson
Tech Office (361) 749-1200 x. 211
Classroom (361) 749-1200 x. 316
Cell 361 332-1852
http://blog.paisd.net


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Sendmail Auto BCC
Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 03:26 PM
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:15:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Leif Johnson <leif@paisd.net>
Reply-To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List <satlug@satlug.org>
To: satlug@satlug.org
Cc: tecsig@listserv.tcea.org
Subject: [SATLUG] Sendmail Auto BCC


I'm considering adding a Barracuda Email Archiver to our school network. In order for this to work I will need to setup journalling (MS Exchange terminology). I'm using sendmail and I hear the sendmail equivalent is "auto bcc."

Can someone offer me some advice on how to setup auto bcc in sendmail?
My sendmail version is a bit archaic: sendmail-8.13.8-1.fc5.

Sincerely,
Leif Johnson
Port Aransas ISD
Tech Office (361) 749-1200 x. 211
Classroom (361) 749-1200 x. 316


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Excessive Email Load
Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 02:09 PM


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Mail Relaying Denied
Monday, June 14, 2010, 09:55 AM
When changing network IP configuration make sure to edit your Sendmail Access DB or mail will start bouncing and the phone will start ringing with complaints.

Example 28-1. Configuring the sendmail Access Database

cyberspammer.com 550 We do not accept mail from spammers
FREE.STEALTH.MAILER@ 550 We do not accept mail from spammers
another.source.of.spam REJECT
okay.cyberspammer.com OK
128.32 RELAY
10.10. RELAY
10.10 RELAY

The trick I left out was I kept putting in a training dot

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Funding Year 2010.
Friday, June 11, 2010, 04:38 PM
Funding Year 2010. USAC will release FY2010 Wave 4 Funding Commitment Decision Letters (FCDLs) June 15. This wave will include commitments for approved Priority 1 (Telecommunications Services and Internet Access) requests at all discount levels. As of June 11, FY2010 commitments total just under $530 million.

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Random Server Reboots?
Thursday, June 10, 2010, 06:55 AM
[leif@amberjack ~]$ last -22 :grep reboot 
reboot   system boot  2.6.27.21-170.2. Thu Jun 10 04:24        (03:12)    
reboot   system boot  2.6.27.21-170.2. Thu Jun  3 07:48         (6+23:49)   
reboot   system boot  2.6.27.21-170.2. Wed Jun  2 23:23         (7+08:14)   
reboot   system boot  2.6.27.21-170.2. Wed Jun  2 23:22         (7+08:15)   
reboot   system boot  2.6.27.21-170.2. Wed Jun  2 23:13         (7+08:23)   
reboot   system boot  2.6.27.21-170.2. Tue Jun  1 09:23         (8+22:14)   
reboot   system boot  2.6.27.21-170.2. Fri May 28 12:33         (12+19:03)



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Email Document Recordkeeping
Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 01:20 PM
Records managers at Travis County, Texas, are publicly debating how to draft retention policy for the e-mail of over 4000 users. The county is subject to many confusing state directives and standards on records retention.

The Travis officials (Steven Broberg and Shawn Malone) have assembled a web site and blog to explain the issues and solicit public input. The officials outline three options, roughly being:

1. Continue the status quo, where each employee stores, deletes and/or categorizes e-mail without clear, modern guidance from management on how this should be done. Under this approach, some employees store a lot, and some store less. Some print “important” e-mails and place them in a file cabinet; others do not.

2. Train each employee to rigorously review each e-mail and decide its retention status (i.e., destroy quickly; OR place in category X so it can be retained for a certain period; OR place in category Y so it can be retained for a different period; and so on). New technology, such as artificial intelligence, may be on the horizon to facilitate this option. This is what I have previously called the
make-a-decision style of e-mail records management. The Travis officials call this the bucket approach . . . each e-mail fits into a bucket (i.e., a category to which are assigned rules for retention, destruction and so on) and a way must be found to put the e-mail into the right bucket. The officials note that some learned commenters have advocated the bucket approach, but the officials have appealed to the commenters to bring forward a good example of the bucket approach working in practice. See video at the bottom of blog post.

3. Keep all e-mail “indefinitely” (spam excluded). Related to option #3 is what Broberg & Malone call the haystack approach to e-mail records management. Rather than trying to place each e-mail into category X or Y so it can be found and managed as though it were a sheet of paper, the haystack approach simply keeps copious volumes of e-mail and then relies on search engines to find particular e-mails when they are needed, such as for e-discovery or an investigation.



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Texas e-Plan System
Friday, June 4, 2010, 06:37 AM
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:47:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Texas e-Plan <webmaster@sedl.org>
Reply-To: blitke@sedl.org
To: Leif Johnson <leif@paisd.net>
Subject: Texas e-Plan System Updates

[ The following text is in the "X-UNKNOWN" character set. ]
[ Your display is set for the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
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Dear Leif Johnson,

The Texas e-Plan system will be down for maintenance and upgrades this Saturday, June 5, 2010. We plan to complete this update between 12:00pm (noon) 5:00pm. Please make appropriate plans for our e-Plan system to be off-line during this time.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. Every precaution has been taken to ensure a smooth transition during this upgrade but please let us know of any problems/issues you may encounter after our upgrades have been completed this Saturday.

Brian Litke
SEDL Web Administrator

This is an automated message from the Texas e-Plan system.
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Tech Plan <eplan@esc12.net>.



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Network Notes
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 08:16 AM
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:11:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: Leif Johnson <leif@paisd.net>

Teachers and Staff:

In your preparations for the Summer break please remember to store all PCs and other electrical hardware up off the floor. This will protect our equipment in the event of a storm surge. It is also wise to turn off your computers and toggle the power/surge protector.

The network will be up and running all summer though there will be brief down-times of certain services as we upgrade server software and install new equipment.

It is a good idea to print out your cumulative grade page from Gradespeed and submit that to your campus Secretary as a part of your checkout process.

If you have a special technology related request please let me know. I can't promise you the world, but we will make every effort to assist you with your needs.

Backup, Backup, Backup. Once bitten, twice shy. If you've lost valuable data in the past you know what this means. Please make back up copies of any data that you need to save. Hard drives DO NOT last forever. Make multiple backups and save them.

But most of all thanks for all the wonderful things you do in your classrooms with our students & have a great summer.

Sincerely,
Leif Johnson
(361) 749-1200 x. 316
http://blog.paisd.net




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Mount Chimborazo
Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 10:33 AM

Due to the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere and has an equatorial bulge, the highest point on the planet furthest from its center is Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador not Mount Everest, which is merely the highest peak above sea-level

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