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"I recall way back when Linux was smaller and faster than Windows. Dare I say it's going the other way now?" That is probably the reason why Linus is calling for an extensive period of debugging and code cleanup. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/14392 36/

Evil on a USB drive: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/25/19172 28

Just set Autorun to change the boot settings and run the drive formatter automatically.

install this handy dandy app on both machines, problem solved.

MP3 Decoding and Encoding, as well as Video Decoding and Encoding, are significantly faster in AMD64 mode than i386.

Of course, if you want proper end-to-end AMD64 software you'll need Linux.

AMD64's performance improvements are a reality on Linux, today.

Some benchmarks:
http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/05/06/09/14 13209.shtml?tid=121

Some more benchmarks, on XP!:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1 665&page=6

There are many, many, many more out there. If you're doing math-intensive things, AMD64 out performs i386. It's irrelevant whether its the larger address space or greater number of registers; either way, it works better.

Not all manuals come with products. I've written a few commercial manuals for other companies, and they were never shipped with product - they were used to help explain the product to sales reps, to marketers, investors, and potential customers.

A copy would get shipped with the product as well, but that use was ultimately incidental.

But I know what you mean, "Read the F*cking Manual" does come off as arrogant and condescending. But, on the other hand, there were a few problems:

1. He was asking the wrong forum. (obviously, from the response he got :-)
2. He didn't try to "just f*cking google it" - there are 4,700,000 responses, and the #1 hit for "start linux daemon" gives this: http://www.linux.com/guides/solrhe/Securing-Optimi zing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap3sec21.shtml, which says exactly how to do it. Why should anyone bother helping someone who can't take 10 seconds to help themselves?
3. He didn't try mousing through the menus on his linux box, or he would have come across an app that would let him manage his daemons by going clicky-clicky instead of editing his rc.d scripts or typeing apache2ctl start or httpd start (depending on distro).

Now if a complete n00b had said it, I would have just given them the shell command, and a link for further reading, figuring they're just starting out. But "years of IT experience" and not showing enough initiative to even bother to look? The person in question shouldn't be allowed near a server. They've already shown they lack the most basic problem-solving skills, as well as no professional pride whatsoever, which would have motivated them to at least try to learn a bit more about what they're working with.

I'd rather work with people who admit they don't have a clue, but are curious and motivated to learn. At least with them, there's hope for progress. But that "years of IT experience" person really ought to learn how to RTFM, or google, or at least first explore the programs already staring him in the face under the "system" and "utilities" menus if they aren't ready to make the move from "mousey-mousey" ...

Its part of the general dumbing down of the industry. For example, 15 years ago, secretaries were more efficient with a copy of wordperfect 5.1 for DOS on an old 286 with 2 megs of ram than they are today with, literally, 100 times more computing power. 10,000 percent increase in resources in cpu (20 mhz to 2 ghz), 25,000 percent increase in ram, (2 meg to 512 meg), 625,000 percent increase in disk storage (40 meg to 250 gig), and they take longer to produce a letter than they did on that old clunker. And ask them to find it a week later? Ha!

"Sun has contributed very little to the free software community. The only distros that do support Sun can only do so very weakly, due to lack of any material contributions from Sun. No hardware, no documentation, nothing."

What a load of uninformed tosh! Sun has been a big team player for years, you only have to look through the RFC's to see how much work they've done. Further the most recent thing standard they've worked on was the XML specification, Jon Bosak (a Sun guy) led the creation of it at W3C. Possibly the 2 largest players in networking were Berkley & Sun!

With regards to installing Linux on SPARC, I've never had any problems with it - perhaps you should check out the howto's? However, I'm not sure why anyone would want to run Linux on a SPARC, Solaris is (IMHO) the better OS and you can run Linux apps through BrandZ (if you can't be bothered just to recompile them).

And then there's OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, postgreSQL etc! How can you possibly say they have contributed very little?

Linux.com has been running these articles for a while now. Just search their site for "my sysadmin toolbox" and you'll get a bunch of articles from different folks. Most of the other articles are more technical in nature and some of them are from professionals that work with linux for a living.

It's actually a nice set of articles for those trying to pick up a few tricks here and there.

The submitter posted the most recent article, which happens to be more towards desktop use. There are much more appropriate examples, like this article here.

The article says Oracle compares its US$15G/yr revenue to MySQL's US$30M/yr. But as Paul Graham says, it is OK to shrink a US$30G/yr industry to US$30M/yr, if your absolute share of the new US$30M is bigger than the one on US$30G was. Or in other words, MySQL will laugh to the bank on growing from US$30M, while Oracle will strive to keep their US$15G.

Also, IBM, Oracle and Intel did not make Linux. Richard Stallman created GNU, Linus used GNU and complemented it with Linux, and now IBM, Oracle and Intel help Linus with Linux and RMS with GNU.

I wonder how long will IBM and Oracle continue think they can sell proprietary servers on free platforms, without facing significant competition from free servers too. And how long Intel think they can sell proprietary machines to run free software without facing competition from free (think 'open') hardware? Now they are winning, IBM and Oracle using GNU/Linux to face competition from Microsoft, and Intel to crush proprietary RISC (think they ignoring OpenFirmware); but how long before we are running PostgreSQL (or better yet, Rel) on some OpenCores system booting with OpenFirmware or something the like? Not on the short term, for sure, but eventually maybe it is inevitable, unless DRM forces us into a police state.

Which still has nothing to do with the original point.

...Length of time of Debian's existence and larger user base are one of the things that make your Google comparison dubious...

As pointed out in my post, to which you have just replied, there are distributions that have been around for less time than Gentoo with more requests for help, and the user base works to the larger distributions advantage. If a question has been asked already the answer is (hopefully) there.

...There are other things for other distros, for example the different users that Ubuntu attracts...

Ah, still twisting and turning.

You have to read between the lines. no you wont get exact figures here, but if one distribution was so much worse than the others it would show somewhere. But it doesn't.

...I used the Internet to establish that there existed people that had a problem with the reliability of Gentoo, not establish numbers...

But you would have if you could. I can establish there exists people that have a problem with the reliability of any distribution you care to name. 2003 seems to be a year you favour so try this. I bet this person ranted on and on how this was by far the worst distribution he had ever used. It's probably the policies, nothing wrong with apt. Something more up to date? Here you are. And of course Debian never causes people problems.

So what does this prove? Only that no distribution is immune to problems, not that they are significantly worse than any other. Numbers would do that. Surely with such an awful distribution there is a plethora of sites for you to choose from, like this one. Oh, hang on, they quite like it.

http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/02/13/1854251

Ok, a few things.

1) What's the point of this article? Linux worked on these machines when they were state of the art. Is it such a revelation that it still works on these machines?

2) Would Microsoft suggest that Linux is less suitable for a computer with 4 mb of video ram than a copy of Windows Vista or XP? The DRM alone would sap the system's resources.

3) I know that Slashdot's parent company owns newsforge, but would it have been hard to put in a direct link to the article? Here it is: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/13/18542 51

4) Geeks can now smile that yes, in deed, their operating system runs on old computers. OK, now what? What's the significance? Is it that people won't have to upgrade? Is it that they can keep their old boxes around? Surely if they still had them, they would know this already. And it won't make Windows users want to switch as they are all running their apps on shiny new(er) boxes anyway.

I think it is riduculous that the article link takes you to another OSTG page which displays no more information than the article summary. Here's a direct link to the story http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/13/18542 51

Do us a favour: post the link to TFA at linux.com, not just the link to a single paragraph at "News"forge.

This review is quite a bit more positive.

I don't know of a single distro that gives users the impression that they can or should log in as root all the time (the way Microsoft does).

Linspire does, unfortunately. See http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/05/03/3 0/1346247.shtml?tid=127 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire#Criticisms

Bah, I didn't read my preview clearly enough. I meant to link to this article.

It's interesting to see xxxBSD user/developer comparing "just written" software for BSD with ancient versions of Linux counterparts and (surprisingly) finding xxxBSD version to be better. My point being: dm-crypt.

If you are interested in Linux 2.6 encrypted partition, use dm-crypt together with cryptsetup tool. It's much safer than AES loop and:

• it allows to use encryption algorithms in CBC mode;
• uses published linux kernel crypto API, which means that you can use any cipher known by kernel;
• because of the above, if kernel has hardware support for some crypto algo, dm-crypt uses it automagically: I have a very low power VIA Epia MicroITX board (soon to be replaced by even lower power Nano ITX board by Epia) serving as my home fileserver. The processor, VIA Nehemiah is disgustingly slow at it's 800MHz, but it has VIA Padlock crypt engine doing AES in hardware -- access speed on encrypted AES256-CBC partition is indistinguishable from the speed on the same non-encrypted disk, and a lot higher than on my Pentium M 1.6GHz notebook with Blowfish (i.e. the fastest-yet-quite-safe) dm-crypt partition.
• because it uses Crypto API, you can use any new safer or faster algo, whether it's done in software or hardware, as soon as there is crypto api driver for it (crypto using GPU anyone? ;)
• with existing cryptsetup tool you can create encrypted swap partition with random key taken from /dev/random; and since some platforms (e.g. VIA Epia, but also chipsets from Intel, AMD and others) have true hardware random generators with Linux drivers, I wish a lot of luck to someone trying to recover passwords from my swap device ;)
• while existing key generation method is not as kosher as described PKCS#5 PBKDF2 or multifactor solutions, cryptsetup is just a userspace tool controlling kernel space diskmapper virtual disk engine; you can write your own tool and initialize your dm-crypt partitions any way you want;

OK, I'm tired, go read the links and you'll be much wiser and better informed than after reading TFA ;)

Robert

Obviously the submitter didn't RTFA, so here are some real links: Here Here and here

"Microsoft has sold more Windows Server software than Linux."

wait, Microsoft is selling a Linux distribution now?

(or maybe, Linux is selling Windows server now?)

That's because you're hanging out with the wrong kind of geeks.

You have to hang out with the guys that geek out on getting laid.

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I use Ubuntu currently (GNOME-based), but I saw an article (http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/21/2223 230) yesterday about KDE-based GoboLinux (http://www.gobolinux.org/), which sounds like it incorporates some neat ideas (for example, it re-organizes the standard directory hierarchy to be more intuitive for deskop users). I've used Kubuntu (4.10 and 5.04), but have found they never seem to be quite as stable as Ubuntu. I haven't tried Kubuntu 5.10 yet, though.

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dollars to do so. The American Council on Education (ACE) filed an appeal with the circuit court last week against the new rules that Carnegie Mellon Chief Information Officer Joel Smith referred to as "definitely an overkill."

Under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994, telephone companies must pay to maintain their systems so that federal agents can easily obtain wiretaps. The most recent orders under this act, issued by the FCC, asks that institutions providing Internet access also reengineer their systems accordingly within the next 18 months. Carnegie Mellon is one such institution. With a subpoena and the flip of a switch, federal officials could have access to e-mail accounts and online information of any student at compliant universities.

"The Department of Justice wants 24/7 access, whenever they need it, and they want remote access. We find that too extremely burdensome in terms of money, staff, and technology," said Maureen McFalls, Director of Government Relations for Carnegie Mellon and the coordinator of Carnegie Mellon's response to this issue. According to an ACE press release, the cost to universities could be upwards of $7 billion, or at least $450 extra on each student's tuition bill.

"Burdensome is really the best word for the new rules," McFalls added.

"Colleges and universities have a long history of working with law enforcement agencies pursuing criminal investigations and are proud of our working relationship," said Sheldon E. Steinbach, ACE vice-president and general counsel, in the same press release. "When you evaluate efficiency versus the incredible cost of compliance, we just dont think it makes a lot of sense."

According to the new rules set forth under CALEA, federal agencies want to be able to access a private institution's network from almost any location at almost any time. Currently, universities take special precautions to make this kind of remote access very difficult, in order to prevent online crime.

"We do recognize the need to be in compliance and cooperate with law enforcement," said Smith, "but it happens very rarely that they need this kind of access, here or nationally." According to a report from Educause, a nonprofit organization that deals with online issues in higher education, there were 3468 wiretaps ordered by local, state, national, and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts in 2004. The report also stated that the number or wiretaps on campuses is extremely small.

So how is Carnegie Mellon's administration reacting to these new proposed regulations? The school plans "to work through the appropriate channels for the University to make our views known, just as a matter of fact, that it would be very costly for every student in every college," said University Provost Mark Kamlet.

"We are going to review the AAU [Association for American Universities] and ACE actions and perhaps take our own if we feel that we may have something different or more important to say than t

This OS seems like it is much more suited for server applications - where if one process fails, it doesnt crash the system.

Gee, that sounds familiar?

Forgot the link to the article...have included all relevants links in this one.

Linux.com ran a story about web development tools.They approach it as "web development tools for Linux," but most are available for win32 and OS X. I have almost no experience with commercial web development tools (except when trying to tidy up their ugly code). I use content management systems/wikis/etc. where possible (so others can add content & no one need worry about the code or an editor) & a text editor () when not. That being said, Bluefish, Quanta, and Nvu are all nice. All of these options are discussed in the article, as is Screem, which I haven't seen first-hand.

Old hacker? heck I started on Linux with Yggdrasil ... I've been running Linux ever since!

I figured there would be some chest-puffing in this thread ("Well, I started with Linux in nineteen-ought-three..."). Lots of people started with Yggdrasil: it was available on CD-ROM at computer shows when dial-up ruled the land. You are not a unique snowflake.

You seem to have a problem with the "old hacker" as mentioned in the article. Here is a hint: the definition of "hacker" != "Linux user". Yes, there are hackers that run Linux; not all Linux users are hackers. There are also plenty of old hackers who have never touched Linux. You should read this.

As an aside, here is a link to the printer-friendly version of the article.

You might wanna read the review on Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger, while you download the ISO.

I see these attacks all the time on all Internet facing servers.

On the other hand, I think returning at least one potential employer's PDF file with my changes in it got me an interview recently. I'm pretty sure they switched over to PDF to slow the flood of IT applicants somewhat, but by using the techniques described in this article I simply filled out their PDF and e-mailed it back to their recruiter a few minutes later. It was an awkward process, but it worked.

There's an insane amount of bitching about how terrible the job market is, how inane and shortsighted HR departments are, blah blah blah.

If that's all true, then those business are ripe for being raped of their marketshare. Start your own business!

It takes virtually NOTHING to startup a company these days... a 1U server of commercial quality runs less than $1,000, hosting can be had for about $100/month and the Operating System is free...

Give yourself a few months worth of beans and/or working part-time, sleep on a couch with a cheapie computer borrowing the DSL service from a neighbor's wifi connection, and you can do a startup for next to NOTHING.

Why aren't you doing it? If YOU are in charge, you can't be fired. If YOU are in charge, you'll be able to use sensible HR policies to get the really good ones, too.

So why are you here whining on Slashdot about how horrible it all is???? If it's half as bad as you claim, you have the opportunity to become RICH!!!!

PS: I'm quite familiar with the startup routine - I haven't had a "job" in some 15 years, and have started quite a few businesses, successfully fed, clothed, raised, and home-schooled my family of 5 kids in one of the more economically depressed counties in California.

Startups can be thrilling! Pull up your sleeves, and don't just "think outside the box", throw the box out altogether. You'd be amazed at what you can accomplish if you:

1) Find something people will pay for,

2) Deliver that something as efficiently as possible, cost-effectively, and with a smile,

3) Wash, rinse, repeat. Before you know it, your clients are almost friends, and do most of your sales work for you by giving referrals...

Contact me if you're curious... I'd be happy to offer my experience to anybody who is serious.

We've got that. Just try this, thisthis, or, if all else fails, this.

Sounds like some other OS I am using :)

I recently read this article on extended attributes, which was a decent introduction for me.

As far as getting automatic handling of xattr's as sets... I think this is one of the main reasons why Reiser4 was made to accept plugins.

Re path syntax: Shouldn't "/directory/file//xattr" work well enough without stepping on anyone's toes? Perhaps something similar could be applied when accessing sets: "//set1//set2".

this should help a bit

Two cheap computers set up to failover will provide higher reliability for lower cost than this hypothetical "real piece of hardware" you describe.

You keep getting hit by zombie machines?

Liberal Arts zombies? Are you sure they're not dogs?

(And, as always, the best answer to your question may come from Google. Linux.com | A Linux firewall primer.)

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Well I have a Linksys WUSB12 wireless USB stick for access. As far as I can tell it's not supported under Linux at all (bummer). Any hints?

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I ran into the same disparity myself.

Depending on your version of Mozilla or Firefox, the solution is to either set your X11 DPI to a higher value, or in the browser's preferences change the Display Resolution to a higher value.

Interestingly, Firefox defaults to 112dpi on my iBook, but only 75dpi on an unmodified Xandros or Knoppix install.

Changing the X11 DPI seems to work consistently for QT apps; with GTK stuff like Mozilla your milage may vary.

Things you might consider:

Kubuntu Live CD (Info at Kubuntu.org)
Games Knoppix (Although the 0.2 release is accidentally missing a file manager. Also, the 0.2 version is not a "upgrade" of 0.1 - it has a different list of games, though they do overlap.)
Linux Live Game Project

All three of these are based on KDE, and so should be relatively familiar-looking for a Windows user. If you are comfortable enough with "Mac-like" theme, you can also try:

Ubuntu Live CD (Info at Ubuntulinux.org)

All of these are live CDs, which means that you can boot into them and try them out to your heart's content, without harming your existing windows installations. Those 5 CDs (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Games-Knoppix 0.1 and 0.2 and LLGP) are what I give out to people to try out linux... Because there are games, they don't feel like it's so scary...

In order to get used to the command line (if that is one of your goals) the following may be useful:

The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface? (an alternative perspective on the "scary" command line)
and
The CLI Series at Linux.com (Start at the last one on the last page "alias cat and pipe meet grep" and work your way up at your leisure.)

You may want to read and/or contibute to GrokDoc:
GrokDoc

Things you might consider:

Kubuntu Live CD (Info at Kubuntu.org)
Games Knoppix (Although the 0.2 release is accidentally missing a file manager. Also, the 0.2 version is not a "upgrade" of 0.1 - it has a different list of games, though they do overlap.)
Linux Live Game Project

All three of these are based on KDE, and so should be relatively familiar-looking for a Windows user. If you are comfortable enough with "Mac-like" theme, you can also try:

Ubuntu Live CD (Info at Ubuntulinux.org)

All of these are live CDs, which means that you can boot into them and try them out to your heart's content, without harming your existing windows installations. Those 5 CDs (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Games-Knoppix 0.1 and 0.2 and LLGP) are what I give out to people to try out linux... Because there are games, they don't feel like it's so scary...

In order to get used to the command line (if that is one of your goals) the following may be useful:

The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface? (an alternative perspective on the "scary" command line)
and
The CLI Series at Linux.com (Start at the last one on the last page "alias cat and pipe meet grep" and work your way up at your leisure.)

You may want to read and/or contibute to GrokDoc:
GrokDoc

When you have a crime to investigate, and you have no suspects, where do you start? Obviously you begin by looking at the person or persons who have the most to gain by perpetrating the crime.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/

When you have a crime to investigate, and you have no suspects, where do you start? Obviously you begin by looking at the person or persons who have the most to gain by perpetrating the crime.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/

An interesting article on ZDNet on Documentation is good, but source code is better

Good documentation practice from Linux.com.

Pretty well documented, too.

I repalced Astaro with m0n0wall, and have most of the features I used - minus some of the application proxies.
I have a tor installation on the box - easy to set-up with privoxy, after i added Perl to the m0n0 mix (big as the rest of the distribution!)

There are some add-ons, too.

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Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.

From linux.com:

Linux is an operating system.

From wikipedia:

The term Linux strictly refers to the Linux kernel, but is commonly used to describe entire Unix-like operating systems (also known as GNU/Linux) that are based on the Linux kernel combined with libraries and tools from the GNU project. Linux distributions often bundle large quantities of software with the core system.

Yes, Linux can make use of a paging file. You can create a large file and use mkfs to create a swap partition on the file.

You can then mount this file as a swap partition. You can make a fstab entry to mount this file at boot up as a swap partition.

Please see this URL:
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/0 2/2250257&tid=129&tid=42/

http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/MP3-CD-Burning/dao- burning.shtml/

The "generate_toc.sh" dissappeared in 1.1.7 or so but is available on the net: http://darkoli.free.fr/linux/generate_toc.sh

- Peder