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I run a dual stacked network at home using tunneled connectivity from SixXS (I live near Boston, MA, the tunnel endpoint is in NJ. This gives excellent latency performance.). With this tunneled connection came a subnet with enough IPs to last me many lifetimes. Additionally, I maintain a server with native IPv6 access including public access Jabber, NTP, and IRC. See here for more info.

IPv6 won't neccessarily get you anything you don't already have at this point, but the technology is ripe for experimenting and things work remarkably well.

I've been to nearly 5900 meters while climbing Kilimanjaro, and I can tell you the air is pretty thin up there. We obviously spent a fair amount of time adjusting, but not the timeframe on Kili is rushed and you definitely feel it. On the final day we climb at a rate of several seconds per step breathing like we were running a marathon. Very exhilarating :)

The article makes it sound like oxygen/pressurized cabin is neccessary at this altitude. It isn't. We spent our final night higher than this altitude and I never even had a headache. I assume the reason why the workers received oxygen was to assist with the heavy labor they had to do.

The pressurized cabin on the train is merely a matter of comfort for most people, although that altitude is high enough to cause problems for some people susceptible to Acute Mountain Sickness or AMS. Since the purpose of the railroad is to reach those high altitudes, I'd assume most people are somewhat accustomed to it.

Here is a picture from the crater rim of Kilimanjaro's larger peak Kibo at sunrise. The smaller peak you see is Mawenzi, and the view is towards Kenya. I would love to visit Tibet some day.

According to this Yahoo's bot is the most aggressive on my site. GoogleBot is really quite tame.

This simply isn't true anymore. I carefully report all of the spam I get from ISP customers using a script, and I can assure you Comcast users (zombies) send me more spam than any other ISP. Overall spam from ISPs probably accounts for around 50% of the spam I receive.

Also, I have Comcast at my apartment, and I know they don't block port 25 there. So, they might in some areas, but not many.

I have a cheap older tablet I picked up off eBay for about $150. It runs win98 and is good for quietly using in class; I can basically stick it in my notebook. But overall, it hasn't worked as a notebook replacement for me -- I still do all my equations and diagrams in my graph paper engineering notebooks like I used to. Maybe I just need better software, but overall it hasn't been as useful as I thought.

However, drawing in paint is fun, and I can see using it for some photoshopping. I'm not so good at doing smooth lines with the mouse, and the tablet makes sketching easy.

BUT!

All that pales in comparison to the fact that my girlfriend loves drawing on it, and the tablet form factor makes it easier to curl up with both her and it. So it stays.

So let's go over Gentoo's "support" for anything...
Gentoo runs the Linux kernel, so your support is going to be the same as any other distro that runs the Linux kernel.
In Gentoo you have to either a.) configure your own kernel; b.) use genkernel and accept the gentoo config; or c.) use genkernel and tweak the default config (genkernel all --menuconfig)
I've run Gentoo on my laptop for I don't know how long.. well I'm sure I could figure it out, but it's been well over a year. I have a howto for my laptop brant (HP ZT1150) and it's actually the link in my sig.
Here's another HP ZT1000 site, and he also runs Gentoo..
So, without trying to flame you, the "distro" support is, at least, misleading. As the support for things is generally based on the kernel you build, or someone builds for you.
The real advantages of Gentoo are it's all to easy upgrade path. I used to reinstall Linux every 4-6 months just to get the latest base system. With Gentoo I just emerge system every month or so. It's almost a drawback if you're someone who likes to wipe the slate clean and start over, as there's little reason to...

I run a very small IRC network which we tend to call Foonet IRC for lack of a better name. In the past 2 weeks, over 300 people have searched google for FoonNET and gotten our little webpage. I find this very amusing, and a fascinating real life glimpse at the trends shown in the Google Zeitgeist

I even got repeated hits from the "Bank of Taccoa"'s website, meaning the bank was not aware their servers were being hit. Needless to say, I didn't try the backdoor out on that IP...

Here is a complete list to date

I've compiled a list of IPs that have made 404 hits on default.ida. Companys like @home and speakeasy (my ISP) need to crack down on IIS users on home DSL networks and get them to install the patch. This many infected hosts is not a good thing.

• http://otter.yi.org/mirrors/spindletop/ and the PDF
• http://isomerica.net/~dyfrgi/spindletop/ and the PDF
• http://www.mattdm.org/tmp/Spindl3topAOI.PDF

Enjoy the pre-emptively created mirrors! Maybe they'll even be needed.
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• http://otter.yi.org/mirrors/spindletop/ and the PDF
• http://isomerica.net/~dyfrgi/spindletop/ and the PDF
• http://www.mattdm.org/tmp/Spindl3topAOI.PDF

Enjoy the pre-emptively created mirrors! Maybe they'll even be needed.
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This is a stereotype, but most judges i would think have no clue what DeCSS is or even the technical implications of such a ruling.

Dan
isomerica.net