And idiots wrap their cars around trees too. Ecstasy can be quite benign if done in moderation and with a good head on your shoulders. None of the 'dangerous' illegal drugs out there seem so bad if you know how to handle yourself.
Sounds a lot like taking heroin (which happened to me accidentally) for the first time, except it's quite pleasant.
It's a long story, but I acidentally snorted about three doses-worth of the stuff on the beach one day. It was sold to me as something else and I was too reckless to care back then. My favorite quote from that day is:
"Dude, we didn't just take K, that was something else, like crushed up Percocets or something" (percocet is a nartotic)
Probably means Gentoo-1.4 built March 13th. Still, bad naming, I mark my gentoo stage builds and portage snapshots like so:
stage1-20040309.tar.bz2 stage1-20040313.tar.bz2 stage1-20040313-mpd1.tar.bz2 etc.
using ISO-format datestamps like that in filenames is a godsend for anyone who does multiple builds of stuff, they line up nicely no matter what OS you're using to browse the files.
I'm amazed at what people use for MOST things. I always aim to use the lightest-weight app and format to get the job done right. Everyone else, it seems doesn't really understand that notepad is lighter and more compatible than MSWord.
We've got some really twisted stuff in-house though, our 'printer list' to keep track of printers and their queues, IPs, and other info is a word document with embedded excel. Editing the printer list is a total nightmare, you click on a line and the embedding kicks in causing everything to 'morph' into excel mode. I plan on replacing it with a plaintext file.
I'm perplexed why everyone and their mother wants to use MSWord for plain-text, I wouldn't use Word for anything that didn't NEED the advanced features like WordArt or change tracking.
I've recently volunteered to write some documentation for the department, and I'm naturally using HTML, because I -KNOW- that every client machine can render it properly and I can embed images, movies, sound, and animation.
The nearest casino to me is out-of-state and I can see that. It's sad to go t a convenience store on Friday in Rhode Island, there's lines of folks just DYING to buy $120 of scratch cards or Powerball tickets.
It really is bad for the economy as a whole, all that money could have been put to much better use than the gambling industry, it could have gone to building or buying houses, reducing the 'bankrupty tax' we all have to pay on credit and loans, or just into consumer goods that keep retailers and manufacturers in business.
Oh well. America is about 'freedom to' and not 'freedom from.' I just wish the population was overall more intelligent.
What I'm worried about is what happens when we go a decade or so 'forgetting' our rights and there's a backlash. I really don't want America to polarize overnight ino a situation where 'joe sixpack' becomes 'joe six-shooter' and we're all killing each-other over decades of pent-up denial.
I can honestly see that happening too, just read 'The Handmaid's Tale' and get a good idea of what we could be heading into with this 'consumer apathy.'
No to mention that most server services on properly-configured *NIX boxes don't run as root, they run as a user with '/bin/false' as shell and write access to nowhere.
You compromised my Apache box? alright, have fun doing nothing except controlling apache until I notice and reboot, or the service is auto-restarted (every day for sanity).
There are exceptions, but it's a hell of a lot better than Windows where it seems the entire world is running as 'system' except the stuff on your screen, which runs as you.
They insist that "all machines need virus protection", fair enough.
But I have 200 Macs booting fully locked-down systems that store ALL user data on the Windows servers. It seems to me that since the users can only write to their home folder, and that's protected by the server's antivirus, I should be alright except for exploits, and I can push patches across the network for that.
But management insists that I include an AV client, which adds costs and slows the machines down a bit. We haven't had any Mac pick up a virus since the days of OS 8, the AV logfiles are totally clean. I can't see how anyone can justify the $30/seat cost of AV software when there's 'no problem' and the servers are scanning the only user-writable areas anyway.
I do this too. I work at a school and commute 40 miles from Providence to Boston. I've found that the commute is worst from 7:30-8:30am, so I aim to get to work at 9:00am. I leave at work 6:00pm, giving me a nice 'quiet hour' after everybody else leaves to do preparation for the next day and organizational stuff.
There's another guy in my office who gets here at 7:00am and leaves at 3:00pm. He gets his 'quiet hour' before the day starts.
As long as yourr boss is someone who is a reasonable person you can get something like this set up, you can make an argument that you're more productive and happier with an hour on either side of the day to work in peace.
Well this isn't really moving THE kernel into flash, it's moving A kernel into flash. The LinuxBIOS kernel 'skips' the fluff that the typical BIOS handles, inits what it has to, and then it executes a 'real' kernel from a disk or network location.
If things move to LinuxBIOS you won't be flashing every time a new kernel is released, you'll be installing kernels normally, and instead of GRUB the LinuxBIOS will handle 'bootloading'.
moving THE kernel into flash isn't practical, my kernels are typically about 2MBytes, today's flash on most PCs is about 2Mbits (512KB). The typical full-kernel would have NO CHANCE of fitting into there.
What this does, essentially, is give us something much like OpenFirmware for x86 machines, it's a full 32-bit protected system from the second you hit the power button, and it can initialize and configure much more 'native' info to the full kernel that it loads subsequently. Pairing this with a 16MB DiskOnChip would be excellent though, if you'r system fails you could boot to the DOC (with a small system onboard) and repair the main drives, or change configs, or chroot into the 'real' system and get something done.
wow, that's so out-of-line with how things really work that it hurts.
First off: Nobody's 'ramming OGG' down anyone's throats.
and now to the beefier point:
If there was an official RFC posted and a standard written there wouldn't be anyone 'unsatisfied with the "openness" and "freeness"' with it because it would be a FREE AND OPEN STANDARD.
I'm sure KDE, GNOME, Apple, and maybe even MS would be more than happy with a simple standard for little stuff like this. Is it too hard to cache thumbs in a hidden '.thumbsDB' file with a string of filenames, MD5 sums, and PNGs?
As long as we're on the subject, the same should be done with folder views, if I want my network home folder to appear as a date-ordered decending list shouldn't ALL operating systems pick up on it? Shouldn't there be a small hidden.ViewSettings file with an extensible-but-backwards-compatible format for viewing settings?
I think it'll have more implications for things like SAMBA and Apple's Active Directory plugin. There might be an issue with SAMBA though, if there are 'strings attached' to the published documents, as there are in the USA. It could be suicide to include code influenced by MS' forced-published documentation if they had any chance whatsoever to rescind the rights to it.
to some extent, yes, but I've seen improved app launch times from 'defragging' my reiserfs '/' partition (tar the files, reformat, untar to same place). This leads me to believe that there is, in fact, a structured 'closest to the top' file placement scheme in reiserfs. in any case, having the swap as a file inside '/' as opposed to a partition far away on either side of it seems optimal in 2.6, given that you only have one drive to work with.
Even with multiple drives, running swap and '/' on the fast one might be advantageous, my drive has an 8MB buffer, and most writes to swap are much smaller than that, while an old 2GB drive likely has only a 512K buffer. If there's 4MB that the kernel wants to page out it'll go at 'wire speed' to the bigger drive, while the older 'dedicated' drive might have to swallow it in chunks as it commits.
The real question is why should we worry about swap optimization AT ALL. I've got a 320MB system and it's never used more than 15MB of swap, and the activity on the swap was absolutely minimal. My 'bigger' systems almost never page out. You're much better off just making a smallish swapfile inside your filesystem and not having to deal with any more partitions than you need, the small amount of sanity this affords you should greatly outweigh the 'half-second over three weeks' of difference it makes in performance.
only if your files are spread evenly throughout the entire disk. I know most of MY disks are only using 2-3 GB of the 40-80 available.
The exception is the 'storage' drive on the server, and that's only holding files, not serving as a swapper or system volume.
I've had the best luck in 2.6 with using a swapfile instead of a partition, and making the swapfile with 'dd' and 'mkswap' after the base system is installed and before I lay down all the other stuff. That places the swapfile close to the most-used application files and towards the outer end of the disk. I use a 512MB swapfile on all of my machines, most have 512-1024MB RAM and since I've been doing things this way I've only ever used about 3MB of swap (linux pages out unused stuff after a while).
2.6 has a system whereby it can use a swapfile just as efficiently as a separate partition (it bypasses the filesystem layer to access it?).
Uh, sorry, it looks like the 'XMMS2' project isn't really at all related to the original XMMS, they may have swiped the code and started reworking it for GTK2, but it doesn't look like they'll ever actually release anything. The project doesn't appear to have released any files, is run by one guy, and has been listed in 'alpha-quality' for a long time now.
Ahh, there also appears to be another XMMS2 project, hosted by the XMMS developers, that project has very little code to show right now and is plannning a 'what features do we want' meeting IN AUGUST 2004. They'lll be building a winamp3 clone, I guarantee it, it'll be overkill.
I'm not a developer, but it can't be rocket science to port something like XMMS to GTK2, can it? I think that people are probably trying to throw in a bazillion new features (non-square windows, transparency, arbitrary button shapes/locations, etc.) and it's keeping a simple port from happening.
I've been using XMMS since 1999, and people have been wanting a GTK2 version for at least two years. Projects like 'beep' are cool, but I think they're a bit overkill, I just want a dirt-simple winamp2 clone, but I'd like it to be built against modern libraries so I don't have to install a whole slew of libs just for my simple media player.
I started back in the 2.0 days with a debian install, getting X up and-running took three days for a newbie back then. I learned SO MUCH though, from the basic filesystem layout to text editors, the init system, building and installing a kernel, and package management.
I'd suggest starting with Gentoo, you'll learn a lot about how and where things are in Linux if you follow the installation instructions well. Gentoo installs today somewhat resemble that Debian install I did backintheday.
I'd like the thumbnail cache to be cross-platform and open. Why on earth can't someone publish a simple RFC for thumb caches. If bill broses his home folder on Windows, the generated thumbs should work for KDE/GNOME/OSX and whatever else, it's just common sense and it would be an 'everybody wins' sort of thing.
What was it called? Citizens, the US arm of RBS, was rolling out 'Centerpoint' IIRC when I left. I recall it being a real PITA to get working right, but it replaced about ten legacy apps that had to be bought before, so it was a 'good thing'.
There's a mainframe backend in Medford, MA and East Providence, RI, but the VAST majority of the middleware and ATMs run XP. I know, I was the guy installing XP machines on the desks of the processing centers.
The ATM network is slowly making a transition from OS/2 to XP, the desktops are already there, the majority of the internal servers should be Win2003 by now, they were transitioning from Netware as I left. The 'legacy' OS/2 systems doing check processing and lockbox ops have all been replaced by new HPQ Windows systems.
I also read in the RBS 'look back at 2002' brochure that RBS/Europe has also centralized on Windows XP for all but the mainframe operations.
The 'feel' inside RBS and Citizens is VERY pro-windows, the Active Directory migration gives everyone an excuse to get a flat-panel P4 with oodles of RAM and a better server backend. (the old Novell backend was 350MHz PII machines with full-height 9GB hard drives).
Um, the way Finder window settings work is btoring the window's configuration in hidden '.DS_Store' files. The files oly get updated if you DON'T SELECT ANY ICONS. Open a window, set it to look the way you want it, close it, and open it again, it should 'remember' your settings.
First thing I do on any system is command-shift-a to/Applications and set up columns, close it, and command-shift-u to Utilities and do the same.
If this doesn't work the.DS_Store file might be locked out to you, it happens sometimes if you browse as root or an admin. Drop to terminal, kill the.DS_Store file in the offnding directory, and go set iy up again.
I work at a k-12 institution, it's the first time I haven't had to sign an NDA and non-compete. It feels VERY good to put 'Copyright 2004 Marc XXXXXXX' at the beginning of any script I write. If they burn me I can always 'pull' all my scripts (and they hold the place together) and watch them flail.
Granted, after the thing works and is 'finished' I put a 'generic' version in my public folder under the GPL, but don't think anyone I work with can turn the 'generic' scripts back into working 'customized' apps that they need.
I agree wholeheartedly. Disinfecting things is a very short-term way to win the 'battle' but lose the 'war'. The more we disinfect things, the weaker our immune systems will be, and the stronger the bacteria will get.
See, I KNOW better; I really think the people purchasing all this anti-bacterial stuff are totally screwing the rest of us by arming the next generation of superbugs. I really think that you should have to have a prescription to buy any of it, or there should be a HUGE tax on non-medical supplies of the anti-bacterial agents.
I'm actually very sensitive to anti-bacterial agents. I didn't realize that showering with A.B. Dawn would fuck me up so bad, I just liked it because it cured my acne.
Anyway, now I have to steer completely clear of anything anti-microbial because I killed most of the natural bacteria that keep your body working. Every day I start by eating a serving of plain yogurt, that seems to be working to slowly repair me.
I was 17 and had an ulcer because my body couldn't properly process most foods. It's been four years of chronic pain from overexposure to Anti Bacterial chemicals.
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And idiots wrap their cars around trees too. Ecstasy can be quite benign if done in moderation and with a good head on your shoulders. None of the 'dangerous' illegal drugs out there seem so bad if you know how to handle yourself.
Sounds a lot like taking heroin (which happened to me accidentally) for the first time, except it's quite pleasant.
It's a long story, but I acidentally snorted about three doses-worth of the stuff on the beach one day. It was sold to me as something else and I was too reckless to care back then. My favorite quote from that day is:
"Dude, we didn't just take K, that was something else, like crushed up Percocets or something" (percocet is a nartotic)
Probably means Gentoo-1.4 built March 13th. Still, bad naming, I mark my gentoo stage builds and portage snapshots like so:
2
stage1-20040309.tar.bz2
stage1-20040313.tar.bz
stage1-20040313-mpd1.tar.bz2
etc.
using ISO-format datestamps like that in filenames is a godsend for anyone who does multiple builds of stuff, they line up nicely no matter what OS you're using to browse the files.
I'm amazed at what people use for MOST things. I always aim to use the lightest-weight app and format to get the job done right. Everyone else, it seems doesn't really understand that notepad is lighter and more compatible than MSWord.
We've got some really twisted stuff in-house though, our 'printer list' to keep track of printers and their queues, IPs, and other info is a word document with embedded excel. Editing the printer list is a total nightmare, you click on a line and the embedding kicks in causing everything to 'morph' into excel mode. I plan on replacing it with a plaintext file.
I'm perplexed why everyone and their mother wants to use MSWord for plain-text, I wouldn't use Word for anything that didn't NEED the advanced features like WordArt or change tracking.
I've recently volunteered to write some documentation for the department, and I'm naturally using HTML, because I -KNOW- that every client machine can render it properly and I can embed images, movies, sound, and animation.
The nearest casino to me is out-of-state and I can see that. It's sad to go t a convenience store on Friday in Rhode Island, there's lines of folks just DYING to buy $120 of scratch cards or Powerball tickets.
It really is bad for the economy as a whole, all that money could have been put to much better use than the gambling industry, it could have gone to building or buying houses, reducing the 'bankrupty tax' we all have to pay on credit and loans, or just into consumer goods that keep retailers and manufacturers in business.
Oh well. America is about 'freedom to' and not 'freedom from.' I just wish the population was overall more intelligent.
What I'm worried about is what happens when we go a decade or so 'forgetting' our rights and there's a backlash. I really don't want America to polarize overnight ino a situation where 'joe sixpack' becomes 'joe six-shooter' and we're all killing each-other over decades of pent-up denial.
I can honestly see that happening too, just read 'The Handmaid's Tale' and get a good idea of what we could be heading into with this 'consumer apathy.'
No to mention that most server services on properly-configured *NIX boxes don't run as root, they run as a user with '/bin/false' as shell and write access to nowhere.
You compromised my Apache box? alright, have fun doing nothing except controlling apache until I notice and reboot, or the service is auto-restarted (every day for sanity).
There are exceptions, but it's a hell of a lot better than Windows where it seems the entire world is running as 'system' except the stuff on your screen, which runs as you.
I've got similar management issues at my work.
They insist that "all machines need virus protection", fair enough.
But I have 200 Macs booting fully locked-down systems that store ALL user data on the Windows servers. It seems to me that since the users can only write to their home folder, and that's protected by the server's antivirus, I should be alright except for exploits, and I can push patches across the network for that.
But management insists that I include an AV client, which adds costs and slows the machines down a bit. We haven't had any Mac pick up a virus since the days of OS 8, the AV logfiles are totally clean. I can't see how anyone can justify the $30/seat cost of AV software when there's 'no problem' and the servers are scanning the only user-writable areas anyway.
I do this too. I work at a school and commute 40 miles from Providence to Boston. I've found that the commute is worst from 7:30-8:30am, so I aim to get to work at 9:00am. I leave at work 6:00pm, giving me a nice 'quiet hour' after everybody else leaves to do preparation for the next day and organizational stuff.
There's another guy in my office who gets here at 7:00am and leaves at 3:00pm. He gets his 'quiet hour' before the day starts.
As long as yourr boss is someone who is a reasonable person you can get something like this set up, you can make an argument that you're more productive and happier with an hour on either side of the day to work in peace.
Well this isn't really moving THE kernel into flash, it's moving A kernel into flash. The LinuxBIOS kernel 'skips' the fluff that the typical BIOS handles, inits what it has to, and then it executes a 'real' kernel from a disk or network location.
If things move to LinuxBIOS you won't be flashing every time a new kernel is released, you'll be installing kernels normally, and instead of GRUB the LinuxBIOS will handle 'bootloading'.
moving THE kernel into flash isn't practical, my kernels are typically about 2MBytes, today's flash on most PCs is about 2Mbits (512KB). The typical full-kernel would have NO CHANCE of fitting into there.
What this does, essentially, is give us something much like OpenFirmware for x86 machines, it's a full 32-bit protected system from the second you hit the power button, and it can initialize and configure much more 'native' info to the full kernel that it loads subsequently. Pairing this with a 16MB DiskOnChip would be excellent though, if you'r system fails you could boot to the DOC (with a small system onboard) and repair the main drives, or change configs, or chroot into the 'real' system and get something done.
wow, that's so out-of-line with how things really work that it hurts.
.ViewSettings file with an extensible-but-backwards-compatible format for viewing settings?
First off: Nobody's 'ramming OGG' down anyone's throats.
and now to the beefier point:
If there was an official RFC posted and a standard written there wouldn't be anyone 'unsatisfied with the "openness" and "freeness"' with it because it would be a FREE AND OPEN STANDARD.
I'm sure KDE, GNOME, Apple, and maybe even MS would be more than happy with a simple standard for little stuff like this. Is it too hard to cache thumbs in a hidden '.thumbsDB' file with a string of filenames, MD5 sums, and PNGs?
As long as we're on the subject, the same should be done with folder views, if I want my network home folder to appear as a date-ordered decending list shouldn't ALL operating systems pick up on it? Shouldn't there be a small hidden
I think it'll have more implications for things like SAMBA and Apple's Active Directory plugin. There might be an issue with SAMBA though, if there are 'strings attached' to the published documents, as there are in the USA. It could be suicide to include code influenced by MS' forced-published documentation if they had any chance whatsoever to rescind the rights to it.
to some extent, yes, but I've seen improved app launch times from 'defragging' my reiserfs '/' partition (tar the files, reformat, untar to same place). This leads me to believe that there is, in fact, a structured 'closest to the top' file placement scheme in reiserfs. in any case, having the swap as a file inside '/' as opposed to a partition far away on either side of it seems optimal in 2.6, given that you only have one drive to work with.
Even with multiple drives, running swap and '/' on the fast one might be advantageous, my drive has an 8MB buffer, and most writes to swap are much smaller than that, while an old 2GB drive likely has only a 512K buffer. If there's 4MB that the kernel wants to page out it'll go at 'wire speed' to the bigger drive, while the older 'dedicated' drive might have to swallow it in chunks as it commits.
The real question is why should we worry about swap optimization AT ALL. I've got a 320MB system and it's never used more than 15MB of swap, and the activity on the swap was absolutely minimal. My 'bigger' systems almost never page out. You're much better off just making a smallish swapfile inside your filesystem and not having to deal with any more partitions than you need, the small amount of sanity this affords you should greatly outweigh the 'half-second over three weeks' of difference it makes in performance.
only if your files are spread evenly throughout the entire disk. I know most of MY disks are only using 2-3 GB of the 40-80 available.
The exception is the 'storage' drive on the server, and that's only holding files, not serving as a swapper or system volume.
I've had the best luck in 2.6 with using a swapfile instead of a partition, and making the swapfile with 'dd' and 'mkswap' after the base system is installed and before I lay down all the other stuff. That places the swapfile close to the most-used application files and towards the outer end of the disk. I use a 512MB swapfile on all of my machines, most have 512-1024MB RAM and since I've been doing things this way I've only ever used about 3MB of swap (linux pages out unused stuff after a while).
2.6 has a system whereby it can use a swapfile just as efficiently as a separate partition (it bypasses the filesystem layer to access it?).
Uh, sorry, it looks like the 'XMMS2' project isn't really at all related to the original XMMS, they may have swiped the code and started reworking it for GTK2, but it doesn't look like they'll ever actually release anything. The project doesn't appear to have released any files, is run by one guy, and has been listed in 'alpha-quality' for a long time now.
Ahh, there also appears to be another XMMS2 project, hosted by the XMMS developers, that project has very little code to show right now and is plannning a 'what features do we want' meeting IN AUGUST 2004. They'lll be building a winamp3 clone, I guarantee it, it'll be overkill.
I'm not a developer, but it can't be rocket science to port something like XMMS to GTK2, can it? I think that people are probably trying to throw in a bazillion new features (non-square windows, transparency, arbitrary button shapes/locations, etc.) and it's keeping a simple port from happening.
I've been using XMMS since 1999, and people have been wanting a GTK2 version for at least two years. Projects like 'beep' are cool, but I think they're a bit overkill, I just want a dirt-simple winamp2 clone, but I'd like it to be built against modern libraries so I don't have to install a whole slew of libs just for my simple media player.
I started back in the 2.0 days with a debian install, getting X up and-running took three days for a newbie back then. I learned SO MUCH though, from the basic filesystem layout to text editors, the init system, building and installing a kernel, and package management.
I'd suggest starting with Gentoo, you'll learn a lot about how and where things are in Linux if you follow the installation instructions well. Gentoo installs today somewhat resemble that Debian install I did backintheday.
I don't think XMMS is being actively developed, they release a bugfix or so every blue moon.
Someone should pick it up and whip up a GTK2 version though, if just for sanity's sake.
I'd like the thumbnail cache to be cross-platform and open. Why on earth can't someone publish a simple RFC for thumb caches. If bill broses his home folder on Windows, the generated thumbs should work for KDE/GNOME/OSX and whatever else, it's just common sense and it would be an 'everybody wins' sort of thing.
What was it called? Citizens, the US arm of RBS, was rolling out 'Centerpoint' IIRC when I left. I recall it being a real PITA to get working right, but it replaced about ten legacy apps that had to be bought before, so it was a 'good thing'.
Well not in the AMERICAN branch of RBS, Citizens.
There's a mainframe backend in Medford, MA and East Providence, RI, but the VAST majority of the middleware and ATMs run XP. I know, I was the guy installing XP machines on the desks of the processing centers.
The ATM network is slowly making a transition from OS/2 to XP, the desktops are already there, the majority of the internal servers should be Win2003 by now, they were transitioning from Netware as I left. The 'legacy' OS/2 systems doing check processing and lockbox ops have all been replaced by new HPQ Windows systems.
I also read in the RBS 'look back at 2002' brochure that RBS/Europe has also centralized on Windows XP for all but the mainframe operations.
The 'feel' inside RBS and Citizens is VERY pro-windows, the Active Directory migration gives everyone an excuse to get a flat-panel P4 with oodles of RAM and a better server backend. (the old Novell backend was 350MHz PII machines with full-height 9GB hard drives).
Um, the way Finder window settings work is btoring the window's configuration in hidden '.DS_Store' files. The files oly get updated if you DON'T SELECT ANY ICONS. Open a window, set it to look the way you want it, close it, and open it again, it should 'remember' your settings.
/Applications and set up columns, close it, and command-shift-u to Utilities and do the same.
.DS_Store file might be locked out to you, it happens sometimes if you browse as root or an admin. Drop to terminal, kill the .DS_Store file in the offnding directory, and go set iy up again.
First thing I do on any system is command-shift-a to
If this doesn't work the
Expect a BIG 'investment' from Microsoft or a spawnling entity for XFree86 soon, I guess.
I work at a k-12 institution, it's the first time I haven't had to sign an NDA and non-compete. It feels VERY good to put 'Copyright 2004 Marc XXXXXXX' at the beginning of any script I write. If they burn me I can always 'pull' all my scripts (and they hold the place together) and watch them flail.
Granted, after the thing works and is 'finished' I put a 'generic' version in my public folder under the GPL, but don't think anyone I work with can turn the 'generic' scripts back into working 'customized' apps that they need.
I agree wholeheartedly. Disinfecting things is a very short-term way to win the 'battle' but lose the 'war'. The more we disinfect things, the weaker our immune systems will be, and the stronger the bacteria will get.
See, I KNOW better; I really think the people purchasing all this anti-bacterial stuff are totally screwing the rest of us by arming the next generation of superbugs. I really think that you should have to have a prescription to buy any of it, or there should be a HUGE tax on non-medical supplies of the anti-bacterial agents.
I'm actually very sensitive to anti-bacterial agents. I didn't realize that showering with A.B. Dawn would fuck me up so bad, I just liked it because it cured my acne.
Anyway, now I have to steer completely clear of anything anti-microbial because I killed most of the natural bacteria that keep your body working. Every day I start by eating a serving of plain yogurt, that seems to be working to slowly repair me.
I was 17 and had an ulcer because my body couldn't properly process most foods. It's been four years of chronic pain from overexposure to Anti Bacterial chemicals.