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  1. End of an Era, Infomagic's web page is kaput! by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 1 · on Buy Lindows, Get Fedora and Mandrake Too?
    It is InfoMagic and the web site was http://www.infomagic.com/. I just visited there and there was a web page placeholder. I guess you cannot buy the Linux CDs any more?

    It was great for people who could not download the ISOs, or did not have access to a CD Burner to make them if they did. IIRC they also had a subscription to their CD set for newer CDs.

    Ah, well at least I still have my memories of them.

  2. Mirrors for Xfree86 by Adrian+Voinea · · Score: 5, Informative · on Xfree86 4.2.0 Out

    Here's a nicely formatted list of mirrors for you lazy bastards ;)
    Let's make the slashdot effect on xfree86.org a little more bearable :)
    ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/mirrors/xfree86
    ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/XFree86
    ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86
    ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/XFree86
    ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/XFree86
    ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/XFree86
    ftp://mirror.sftw.com/pub/XFree86
    ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/XFree86
    ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86
    ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/mirrors/xfree86

  3. Re:also.. by WWWWolf · · Score: 2 · on EvansData can't tell BSD from Linux

    I have to wonder what "Debian GNU Linux - Infomagic or Loki" is supposed to mean.

    CD vendor? InfoMagic sells Debian CDs, and I think I've heard that LokiGames does/did, as well (though I'm not sure).

  4. Re:java plugin by Mazzella! · · Score: 1 · on Netscape Communicator 4.72 Released

    The Java plugin has been available for a little while. However, many websites still use the <applet> tag instead of the
    <EMBED
    type=application/x-java-applet;version=1.1
    java_docbase=file:///none
    width=123 height=123
    code=whatever.class>
     Use Javascript to probe for the plugin, if it exists then print the embed tag, otherwise print the applet tag.
    You can get the plugin here or off of http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html

  5. Mirrors by dsplat · · Score: 2 · on XFree86 3.9.18 Today, v4.0 in March
    When their server couldn't talk to be, it gave me the following list of mirror sites. Typos introduced into the list in converting it to HTML are mostly my fault. However, Slashdot is fighting me on the lists a little bit, introducing spaces in my end tags.


    US



    Europe



  6. Better writing than I could ever do on the subject by Demona · · Score: 1 · on The Public & The Internet: Open Forum
    Stop School Shootings: Hand Out More Guns

    Burning of the schools not too far away

    It's the government schools, stupid

    "You treat children as slaves, and you're surprised when they despise you and your institutions? You lock them up in cages, and act surprised when they kill their keepers?" [As well as their so-called "peers"]

  7. Better writing than I could ever do on the subject by Demona · · Score: 1 · on The Public & The Internet: Open Forum
    Stop School Shootings: Hand Out More Guns

    Burning of the schools not too far away

    It's the government schools, stupid

    "You treat children as slaves, and you're surprised when they despise you and your institutions? You lock them up in cages, and act surprised when they kill their keepers?" [As well as their so-called "peers"]

  8. Better writing than I could ever do on the subject by Demona · · Score: 1 · on The Public & The Internet: Open Forum
    Stop School Shootings: Hand Out More Guns

    Burning of the schools not too far away

    It's the government schools, stupid

    "You treat children as slaves, and you're surprised when they despise you and your institutions? You lock them up in cages, and act surprised when they kill their keepers?" [As well as their so-called "peers"]

  9. Freedom...yeah, right. [RATM] by Demona · · Score: 1 · on The Public & The Internet: Open Forum
    "Home schooling" and "unschooling" aren't that difficult. If you don't know how to teach a subject, you help your child find someone who can, and locate sources they can use to learn on their own, or with you and/or their siblings. The single greatest legislative achievement to make this more practical for "the masses" is to remove the compulsory attendance laws.

    See

    http://www.sepschool.org/faq.html, the Separation of School and State FAQ.

    If you peruse misc.education.home-school.misc on Usenet, you will find that increasing numbers are finding how rewarding this approach can be, for themselves and their children.

    I would urge you also to read "Let's Blackmail the Young into Doing Good" at http://www.infomagic.com/liberty/vs99 0414.htm for a somewhat related rant. Relevant quote:

    "...it's nice when young people learn how good it can feel to help others, out of the goodness of our hearts. But the lessons learned by slave laborers -- shirking, sabotage, resentment, and escape -- are quite different."