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10 Best Security Live CD Distros
Ant writes to tell us Darknet has a summary of the ten best LiveCD distributions dealing with security. With links to download and a little information about each one." An great overview of some handy tools, some you know and probably a few you don't.
"An great"?
How difficult would it have been to change this to "A great"?
I'm guessing very as it didn't happen.
Don't know about security though. But since Xgl is fairly new I wouldn't trust it in a server.
do we really need articles of which is best? its all basically like comparing apples to oranges, and usually just results in a bunch of die hard freaks boasting how/why one is better than the rest. why not just point out the pros, and cons, and be done with it, let the end user decide which s/he thinks is better.
All Free as in beer and speech.
Too lazy to create a sig...
If you are marketing yourself as a serious news outlet for technical news, then being sloppy with punctuation and grammar is not really something that looks good for your image.
TheHustler
http://www.elmarko.org/ - Useless bilge
http://www.asylum-games.co.uk/ - Co-Founder
I was hoping he was joking.
If you are marketing yourself as an intelligent person, then posting comments about spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors is not something that "looks good for your image"(??).
My personal feeling is that a mature intelligent person would send an email pointing out the error. Posting such in the article is rude, off-topic, whining which, in reality, is much worse for Slashdot than the original errors.
The errors are meaningless, harmless, will cause no loss of life, will cause no one to skip the article, and otherwise have no significant impact on anyone's life.
If they were really significant, you would stop coming to slashdot because of them. Instead, you post about them for attention. (or to humiliate them into becoming better? Is that what your parents did?)
Personally, I feel that grammar Nazi's have serious personality issues causing them to prove superiority by complaining about harmless slip-ups. Seriously folks, humans make errors. Pattern recognition characteristics of human beings can cause one to read right past serious spelling errors with noticing.
For example (I may be wrong, not being an English student), but the parent post has a missing comma.
Everybody makes mistakes. Lame, insecure grammer Nazi's point them out by posting in the article, making Slashdot less than what it could be.
If, in real life I called you a stupid lame-ass karma loosing jerk who can't think good, would you respond by pointing out my grammatical errors, or kick my ass? Get real, it's the information that counts.
Next time, see if you can just send an email to point out the errors and prove you aren't just doing it for attention.
thedletterman - Sorry about the above flame. I misread your comment - obviously you did notice. That does make you the odd one out though...
I bet you expected a +5 funny for that. You wish your comments were as hot as me.
I guess it depends on the customer. You might be in pr0n/fethish business.
what is this "tube girl" you speak of?
It makes your pompous, patronizing tone much less effective when you spell "grammar" as "grammer".
Boys from the City. Not yet caught by the Whirlwind of Progress. Feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.
fizzle bar to dog taco lick? .NET's C++ variant isn't reall C++ because it lacks features A, B, & C. [ I have forgotten the specifics at the moment.]) Why can they understand that computer programming requires an inflexible syntax, but think humans can communicate without any rules at all?
Couldn't understand that? Perhaps it is because it was gibberish. Perhaps had we agreed on some basic rules of communication it would have been intelligible. But then that would make us "grammar nazis" wouldn't it?
It drives me mad when people insist "don't need no grammer, us talk reel gud neway". Perhaps, for the moment. But without any rules for communication whatsoever we have no way to communicate at all
Worse still, the same people who whine about grammar (or often "grammer") nazis are the same people who exceptionally rigid about programming language syntax. (eg. A discussion in the recent past insisted
Boys from the City. Not yet caught by the Whirlwind of Progress. Feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.
And before someone brings up the argument "You forgot the 'are" between 'who' and 'exceptionally', you ain't got no grammer nohow neither so shut up!", I know that the word was omitted. It was not intentional.
Boys from the City. Not yet caught by the Whirlwind of Progress. Feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.