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  1. Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The RMS Tour Rider

    I recall reading this on varlinux many years ago (unfortunately, the internal link is now gone, but Stallman's list was probably pretty similar, maybe a couple pages shorter than it is today).

    Please refer to the #1 free software OS as "GNU/Linux", and please don't call it "open source"...

  2. Re:I tend to agree by mikesmind · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Unrelated to Typing?

    There's a discussion about this over at VarLinux where weight training is said to be the answer. It makes sense!

  3. Re:Oh, it'll all blow over... by phillymjs · · Score: 1 · on Another Serious MSIE Hole

    I mean, cheezus, it's only software - it's not like people are getting killed in poor quality cars or anything.

    No, nothing's happened like that yet. But things are heading that way.

    And shitty software has already killed a few people.

    ~Philly

  4. Mitigate damages by bstadil · · Score: 3, Informative · on SCO's Real Motive... A Buyout?
    The open-source community, however, won't be be given an opportunity to remove any offending code and replace it with new material, he said. Instead, damages will continue to be sought.

    As pointed out earlier (Here,Hereby a few people you can't do that. PERIOD.

    You have a DUTY to mitigate damages. Failing that you will collect ZIP.

  5. Re:stable vs. unstable by awptic · · Score: 3, Informative · on Debian 2.2r5 Released

    I've run into this same problem with libpng on my system running debian unstable, I found an article discussing a fix at www.varlinux.org
    To summarize what needs to be done though:

    rm -f /usr/lib/libpng.so.3
    ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.2.0.1.12 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3

    I just did an apt-get upgrade a few minutes ago and it undid this, I haven't noticed any problems yet so maybe they've already fixed this issue.

  6. Petreley's Apache Redirect by wytcld · · Score: 2 · on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net
    From varlinux.org, just in case you have redirects enabled in Apache:

    [F]or those of you using Apache, here's one way you can redirect these nimda probes just like you could the Code Red probes. All the requests vary, but they seem to include a call to one or more of the following somewhere in the string: cmd.exe, root.exe, or Admin.dll. You can't count on these appearing at the beginning or end of the string, so you have to match it anywhere within. I just took the simplest approach by matching either .exe or .dll.

    So if you want to redirect such requests to Microsoft support, for example, you might use the following:

    RedirectMatch ^.*\.(exe|dll).* http://support.microsoft.com

    Since you're using Linux or some other Unix-like operating system (I presume), it's unlikely you need to serve up any pages that include the strings ".exe" or ".dll", so this shouldn't interfere with the normal operation of your site.

  7. Re:No response from LinuxToday? by Myddrin · · Score: 4, Interesting · on LinuxToday Astroturfing Explained
    I'm a regular poster on LT.

    There is a petition going around. The idea is to try and put some pressure on the LT staff to put out some answers. To date it's had little effect. We've had a very hard time getting the normal outlets to take notice of us.

    Many of them feel that this story should die.

    Other think that it's not really a story, that it's not important.

    And still others seem to think that the community needs to be "protected."

    It's linked at the bottom of Paul's article, but I'll include it here too.

    LT Petition