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another startup makes the front pages of slasahdot by dick-riding a successful open source project, closing it off as best it can, and giving neither a link to the source nor direct credit. I dont see GPL anywhere on the site.

by ipv4 and ipv6, do we mean we ticked the little boxes in menuconfig before we compiled debian? because im pretty fucking sure linux has been doing both protocols since 2006.

Programmable datacenter is to google as lights out datacenter was to AOL as smart datacenter was to AT&T. its not actually meant to be an implementable technology any different than that which would be crafted by skilled engineers, architects, and programmers. Its just a neat word to gin up the stock.

'network orchestration hooks.' get ready for support contracts, strategic partnerships, and sla's, because ive never had to use them before to route ipv6, and im not sure how ill use them in the future to do so.

Almost everything from service to download requires me to log in, which certainly betrays the 'used to work at cisco' part of TFS

I'm confused. How do you execute apache if it's on a readonly and noexec partition?

As I said above, binaries are in the readonly partition and everything else is in the noexec partition.

Plus, your "leaving aside a kernel bug" seems odd, since there have been a number of such kernel bugs. The most recent was just a few days ago. http://www.debian.com/security/2010/dsa-2005

Good thing we run FreeBSD.

I'm confused. How do you execute apache if it's on a readonly and noexec partition? How about tools your server may need to exec?

You should be able to run anything in /bin.

Plus, your "leaving aside a kernel bug" seems odd, since there have been a number of such kernel bugs. The most recent was just a few days ago.

http://www.debian.com/security/2010/dsa-2005

http://www.debian.com/News/2007/20070408

I know many people who simply can't afford new PCs are are stuck running Windows 95 & 98. Is there any way to correct these? (Aside from manually tweaking the clock.)

Yes. Yes, there is.

I am concerned that distributions like debian could be hit with insecure software lawsuits. As most people know Debian (gnu/)Linux by default uses software a few versions back due to stability purposes, but sometimes they are obsolete packages that are not supported by developers of the software. If, for example a secruity hole pops up in kde 2.2 (current kde version in Woody), which is no longer supported by Mainstream distros, should the Debian organisation take the blame for using dangerous old components?

Hi, we suggest you use one of these patches to solve all your problems...

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That's that problem solved, then. Next, please!

this will result in worldwide protests.
police will have a hard time, calming down the debian-users.

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