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IRC in the Dog House?
Emperor Tiberius asks: "It seems more and more dedicated server companies are turning tail to the idea of hosting IRC machines. Hosts like Rackshack are adding 'no-IRC' rules to their AUPs at the risk of having one's server unplugged. Why is IRC (the once applauded chat medium) being thrown to the dogs? Some might say the horrendous botnets written for the protocol are a part of the problem. However, if we were to shut down the IRC protocol. Isn't it theoretically possible the botnet authors would just migrate to a different protocols like Oscar/AIM, ICQ, ICB, Jabber, just to name a few? If so, how would we manage the problem? Would we shutdown all ICB servers, and cut-off the ICQ network? Are we trying to kill off the problem in the wrong way, or is there a compromise to keep IRC alive, and keep botnets away?"
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Me and Sherelle are going to the Silverado to meet up with some of the guys from the football team (yes, Greg will be there and I have the coolest boot cut jeans to wear with my phat boots!). I think Em will be coming too, she usually does. Actually, it's kinda awkward already this year with Emma and parties and get-togethers and stuff. Me and Em will always be BFF, but some people I know find her kind of annoying. I don't, but other people invite me to parties and not her. I usually try to find ways to bring her, but she can be kind of a 3rd wheel, it's true. It's just that she likes to go where I go. Sherelle and her are pally, so it's usually not a problem. It only gets weird when Sherelle's boyfriend Bobby is around cuz he's one of the ones who doesn't like hanging with her. Maybe he would like Emma better if she had a guy and there were 6 of us? No matter what happens, the truth is that those 2 are my girlies 4 life. There really isn't much I can't say 2 either of them or do 4 them without saying n e thing...so I just have to figure out the rest and not get hung up on who's w/who. EMMA 9/11 Sometimes I feel so insecure and I feel like people are talking about me behind my back. I can tell when people are only joking around but sometimes it really bothers me. Out of all my friends sometimes I know I am the one people pick on the most. They don't mean what they say but sometimes I just get tired of it. I feel jealous because all my friends seem so happy. Everyone's already got a boyfriend or girlfriend, or they're hooking up with someone. I mean my friends deserve it, but I do too. TERESA Sept 16 late Dear Diary, Every time I see people on TV kissing or I hear about the cute little things boyfriends have done for my friends, I get soooo jealous! No one has ever really gone out of their way for me, but I would love for it to happen! Then again I haven't really ever had a long relationship. Maybe someday. It's partly my fault because I do have trouble settling down with one guy and even if I end up with a good guy he usually screws me over. Oh well, I get so impatient with guys. All the good ones are taken! Like Kevin, who is totally one of my closest friends. People always have said that we would make an awesome couple and we've agreed more than once to try to work things out, but it has never worked, and that upsets me a lot because in my eyes he is the closest thing to perfect. KEVIN 9/16 mad late I can't sleep and maybe I'm just being paranoid but I feel like everything inside me is getting ready to explode like all at one time and I dunno what I'm supposed to do except sit here and wait for it to explode. All I can think about is Adina, but also it's like a picture of the end of the world inside my head. I don't know why I am feeling all apocalyptic and sh**, but I just am. Sometimes I think that writing in my diary is just such a stupid thing to do and it gets boring or just annoying cuz I think I should be talking about my views in here and not just the day-to-day sh**. But then again the days are going by and so much is happening it's all a part of those same views. I feel like I have my own idea about how life should be and how I should act. Sometimes I think it's all because of what happened to my sister Lena. I get all weird and angry because she died so young. I was just a little kid and she was 16, but I miss her and I get angry at how unfair everything is. Like how I feel about religion. I have this whole shpeel about it cuz I believe in God and heaven and all that, but I just don't understand sooo many things about how life is and why life is. I've witnessed and experienced a lot of traumatic times in my own life (like Lena) and I don't understand sometimes how there is a God. How can he just be sitting back most of the time watching us suffer as human beings--die, fight, and basically do everything that destroys the world? It's like why are there so many people with misfortunes and disabilities if he is all powerful? Why not make all people happy? To me this whole life just seems like a sick game sometim
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *Linux is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *Linux community when recently IDC confirmed that *Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Linux because *Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Linux. As many of us are already aware, *Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Red Hat is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Linux developer Linus Torvalds only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: *Linux is dying.
woof, woof, woof woof! -n
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*Linux you grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate.
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way.
You'll admire all the numberbook takers,
Thugs, *Linux pimps and pushers, and the big money makers.
becuase your stupid ?
becuase your stupid ?
Christ man! You misspelled "because" and "you're."
I am a *Linux user
and I try hard to be brave
That is a tall order
*Linux's foot is in the grave.
I tap at my toy keyboard
and whistle a happy tune
but keeping happy's so hard,
*Linux died so soon.
Each day I wake and softly sob
Nightfall finds me crying
Not only am I a zit faced slob
but *Linux is dying.