My first actions as president would be (In no particular order):
1. Reestablish the office of science and technology that Newt Gingrich threw out. Staff it with respected professors serving for a term of one year. Ask them to produce a yearly report on all things related to science and technology.
2. Establish a universal health care option for everyone under the age of 16.
3. Do a Kennedy-style throwing down of the gauntlet regarding alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles. This is it. No more screwing around. Let's get serious about getting off of oil.
4. Sign Kyoto. Let's get serious about the environment while we're at it.
5. Disband fox news. Let's restore some semblance of journalistic integrity to this country.
6. Ban all mention of God in the public arena. No exceptions. Religion has no place in government.
7. Convene a congressional study for the immigration problem.
8. Permanently pass the assault weapons ban that Bill Clinton pushed through congress (and W allowed to expire). We do not need teens with Kalashnikov's running around our malls any more.
9. Bar anyone associated with K-street from approaching the White House grounds. Marine guards ordered to shoot on sight.
10. Ask the UN to invade and occupy the "holy land". Throw everyone out, disband the state of Israel and make religious "amusement parks" and historical markers that the faithful may visit.. but no one settles there.
11. Begin a phased withdrawal of all American Military forces from Iraq to bases in Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Let the chips fall where they may. Maintain a strong force in the area and strike at any targets deemed a threat to national security.
Just to throw in one more home fileserver config for the sake of information..
My server is an old thunderbird core Athlon machine running at 1.33 GHz / 1 Gb RAM / Abit KT7-A RAID mainboard. I am not using the onboard RAID chip. Right now, I have Fedora core 4 on a 40 Gb drive and a 120 Gb drive for storage. I run a web server and print server (Shared printer on this box is usable to any other computer on my network). I've got a bunch of shared folders on the 120Gb drive shared via samba for my windows machines (Movies/Music/Documents/etc..). There is no keyboard, mouse or monitor on it.. just a network cable and power cord. I can open terminals on the windows machines using X-Win32 (or some other equivalent product).
On top of all that, I also use Octave and Sage on this linux machine and there is no degradation in performance. This arrangement has served me well for the past three years. I am considering implementing RAID 5 on this machine just to support possible gigabit ethernet and fast file transfers when I get a home theatre PC in the near future (and to ad some redundancy). The OS will remain on a separate 40 Gb drive though. RAID 5 will be for storage only.
This thing just sits in my closet and hums away..
God I love linux.
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My first actions as president would be (In no particular order): 1. Reestablish the office of science and technology that Newt Gingrich threw out. Staff it with respected professors serving for a term of one year. Ask them to produce a yearly report on all things related to science and technology. 2. Establish a universal health care option for everyone under the age of 16. 3. Do a Kennedy-style throwing down of the gauntlet regarding alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles. This is it. No more screwing around. Let's get serious about getting off of oil. 4. Sign Kyoto. Let's get serious about the environment while we're at it. 5. Disband fox news. Let's restore some semblance of journalistic integrity to this country. 6. Ban all mention of God in the public arena. No exceptions. Religion has no place in government. 7. Convene a congressional study for the immigration problem. 8. Permanently pass the assault weapons ban that Bill Clinton pushed through congress (and W allowed to expire). We do not need teens with Kalashnikov's running around our malls any more. 9. Bar anyone associated with K-street from approaching the White House grounds. Marine guards ordered to shoot on sight. 10. Ask the UN to invade and occupy the "holy land". Throw everyone out, disband the state of Israel and make religious "amusement parks" and historical markers that the faithful may visit.. but no one settles there. 11. Begin a phased withdrawal of all American Military forces from Iraq to bases in Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Let the chips fall where they may. Maintain a strong force in the area and strike at any targets deemed a threat to national security.
Just to throw in one more home fileserver config for the sake of information.. My server is an old thunderbird core Athlon machine running at 1.33 GHz / 1 Gb RAM / Abit KT7-A RAID mainboard. I am not using the onboard RAID chip. Right now, I have Fedora core 4 on a 40 Gb drive and a 120 Gb drive for storage. I run a web server and print server (Shared printer on this box is usable to any other computer on my network). I've got a bunch of shared folders on the 120Gb drive shared via samba for my windows machines (Movies/Music/Documents/etc..). There is no keyboard, mouse or monitor on it.. just a network cable and power cord. I can open terminals on the windows machines using X-Win32 (or some other equivalent product). On top of all that, I also use Octave and Sage on this linux machine and there is no degradation in performance. This arrangement has served me well for the past three years. I am considering implementing RAID 5 on this machine just to support possible gigabit ethernet and fast file transfers when I get a home theatre PC in the near future (and to ad some redundancy). The OS will remain on a separate 40 Gb drive though. RAID 5 will be for storage only. This thing just sits in my closet and hums away.. God I love linux.