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Debian 2.2r5 Released
Debian potato has been updated to 2.2r5. See the press release for info on what has changed - mostly bugfixes, of course, since this is the stable distribution.
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July 30, 1996 Web posted at: 8:40 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess.
"We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue," Clinton said during a White House news conference.
But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, doubted that the Senate would rush to action before they recess this weekend. The Senate needs to study all the options, he said, and trying to get it done in the next three days would be tough.
One key GOP senator was more critical, calling a proposed study of chemical markers in explosives "a phony issue."
Taggants value disputed Clinton said he knew there was Republican opposition to his proposal on explosive taggants, but it should not be allowed to block the provisions on which both parties agree.
"What I urge them to do is to be explicit about their disagreement, but don't let it overcome the areas of agreement," he said.
The president emphasized coming to terms on specific areas of disagreement would help move the legislation along. The president stressed it's important to get the legislation out before the weekend's recess, especially following the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park and the crash of TWA Flight 800.
"The most important thing right now is that they get the best, strongest bill they can out -- that they give us as much help as they can," he said.
Hatch blasts 'phony' issues Republican leaders earlier met with White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta for about an hour in response to the president's call for "the very best ideas" for fighting terrorism.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting and said, "These are very controversial provisions that the White House wants. Some they're not going to get."
Hatch called Clinton's proposed study of taggants -- chemical markers in explosives that could help track terrorists -- "a phony issue."
"If they want to, they can study the thing" already, Hatch asserted. He also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, said it is a mistake if Congress leaves town without addressing anti-terrorism legislation. Daschle is expected to hold a special meeting on the matter Wednesday with Congressional leaders.
original story: here
MacOS X is where it's at, baby.
Snurfbuggle!
--perdida
Oh yeah, apt-get. ;)
Anyone have trouble with the current Woody boot disks? I tried installing that (wanted reiserfs support) on a Compaq DL360 yesterday too. It froze during boot and just put lines on the screen. I tried disabling frame buffer at the boot prompt...but that didn't help.
I ended up putting on Potato and doing a very painless upgrade..and then using ext3.
No word about ELMO and the easter egg / time bomb ?? I think it is COOL.......you get FREE features by keeping your 'toy'. I don't have one but ehh, strange that it could keep track of the date......
WTC casualties: ~3500
Afganisthan ONLY CIVIL (no terrorist) casualties: 4000
No comment...
Someone else has first post, but I have "first fisting".
Now excuse me while I wash my hands.
Ok, Debian Potat 2.2r5 is more important than afganistan people's life...
Having much bad grammer and speling is having i being ac! Topic is off! `zig` are cool!
was hidden under strong 1 BIT ENCRYPTION! It is written in GPL (not the licence, the GNU PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
Its called GNU Penis and it is a free program to control your penis, just type in
/f4/4t5/ 54954
/dev /. -++
:)
$ mknod -p penis
to create a symbolic connection to your penis through the dev system! (dick, willy and cock work too)
I found a 360k floppy disk with "linux 0.01" on it, i did the following commands to compile "gpenis"
$ rdr94 -k -39 -gn
$ g3el 458 -495
$ push -aux -2 -dev of=/dev/penis
I tried
$ gpenis -urinate, -u
I pissed my self!
$ gpenis -goat, -g
An erection similar to "the giver" @ goatse dot C X
$ gpenis -erect , -e
Erection
$ gpenis -cum, -c
Obvious
$ gpenis -point_towards_linus_torvolds_ass, -ptlta
Points to the penguin masters gaping hole!
So there you have it, all the power of your penis from the command line! I bet you could automate sex with a shell script
R0B malda and the slashdot team have already downloaded it so get it now!
DOWNLOAD (tar.gz)
Negative moderation is flawed. It is obviously unhelpful for one
moderator to mod something down as "redundant" if another moderator
has already modded the post up as "informative" earlier.
The "flamebait" label and to a lesser degree the "troll" label are all
also used continuously to moderate down posts which are clearly
on-topic and which make valid points but which the moderator in
question disagrees with.
I think that slashcode needs to be rewritten to separate negative and
positive moderation points. Each moderator receiving moderation points
will get AT MOST one negative point per batch of points, and there
will only be a 50% chance that the moderator will even receive this
one negative moderator point.
The system can work with positive moderation only; users can read at
+3 or +4 to see only the best posts. I already feel like I've missed
many informative, helpful posts -- including many that were
*previously* modded up -- because others have seen fit to mod them
back down, usually (in the case of "flamebait" and "troll") because
they disagree with them, often because (in the case of "redundant")
they just apparently have moderator points to burn before they run out
of time.
Negative moderation should be very, very rare on a system like this
one; to do anything else is to stifle the free exchange of ideas.
I invariably meta-moderate all negative mods as unfair.
Lots of thing on the main distros are sucking hard.
Lesbian - The 'stable' is too old. The development slow and the releases weird. Too many people involved. "2 heads is a monster".
Snackware - Good distro that does not evolve more than enough. Install GUI still text. New package tools is a real mis-step and buggy. 1 man developing. Gets less and less used.
Red Mat - Bloated. RPM will complain of anything you try to remove. Ah... and you can't sell it as "Red Hat Linux" anymore.
Mandrake - The purple Red Mat. Shipped with several alpha pre-beta packages and serious bugs. White CD's sites warning about buying 8.1 coz of a block bug in the installation.
Coconectiva (coco is 'shit' in portuguese) - Firstly was a Red Mat translation. The guys went crazy and split each package in 10 pieces each, result, over 6000 packages. Apt-get copied from Lesbian.
Caldera - They're not Microsoft but still getting there!
LFS (Linux From Scratch) - Just an educational project. Not really a distro.
Beehive, Pea nut, Ice Linux and others - Underground distros that will never offer significant advantage over the others above.
*BSD - Not enough popular. Won't run several hardware components too.
Thatz it folks!!! The Unix world.
apt-get remove anonymous-coward :)
hehe.
On the other hand, you have fingers