Now you've got me confused. I can't remember when I did that test if I was actually booting off that disk, or booting from a boot floppy. But even if I had to boot from a floppy, I'm pretty sure I can mount what is currently/root_shadow as/.
Ok, add one other thing to my list of what I'd change if I had to do it again - I'd make sure/root_shadow was near the beginning of the drive.
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Another commenter said that [paraphrase] "a person checking doors to see if they are locked is suspicious in and of itself": it depends on who is doing the knob-rattling, and whether I know about it beforehand. Port scanning is just that, "knob-rattling."
To continue this analogy to ridiculous extremes, in the good old days when cops walked a beat, they would often walk down the street checking door knobs to make sure shops had remembered to lock up, and to make sure nobody had unlocked the door since the shop keepers had gone home. A white-hat port scanner could be placed in that category. Nobody would have objected to that cop doing that door knob checking. But if a stranger was walking down the street checking door knobs, you'd be damn suspicious, and rightly so. And anybody who port scans without without either asking my permission or having a web page up describing the purpose of their scanning is violating my privacy and will be treated like a potential intruder.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
If I had to do it over again, I'd make / a bit bigger, and maybe make another partition for/var.
My intent here was to have two 10G disks instead of one 20G disk, and partition them in a way so that if one disk failed, I could keep running essential stuff (like news, mail and the web server) on one until I could buy another. That's why each partition on/dev/hda has a corresponding partition of the same size on/dev/hdc. I have a nightly script that copies everything in / to/root_shadow (and yes, I tested that I can yank hda out of the system and boot from hdc). I also have the nightly script copy stuff into/backup_1 and/backup_2. (This is as well as backing up to tape - call me paranoid).
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I certainly agree that this is a gross and disgusting violation of my copyright. So much so, that for the first time in my 13+ year history of posting on Usenet, I'm putting an X-No-Archive header in my post.
The problem is with the 6,000+ articles of mine that are already in Deja's archives. There is no easy way to remove them. They have a nuke page, where you can laboriously type in article numbers, and reply to emails. But even if that could be automated, that would only get rid of the 3,000+ of those articles that were posted from email addresses that still exist. I have no option when it comes to the ones I posted from companies that I don't work for any more, or from companies that don't exist, or divisions of companies that disappeared in re-orgs.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I think the other point to make in this regard is that the British government doesn't so much recognize their soveriegnty as they can't be bothered to kick off a bunch of harmless eccentrics. The minute somebody dies attacking or defending this place, you can bet the Special Boat Squadron or Royal Marine Commandos will be landing in force.
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I'm not talking about all of the *other* applications.
No, what you're talking about is developers who are so completely arrogant that they assume that the majority of people who use their product will use only that product, and nothing else. Excuse me, but even if SO was as good as the developers seem to arrogantly believe it was, people will still want to use the operating system for file maintenance, backups, and a myriad of other uses.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Can somebody please explain why this thing untars into the lost+found directory? What possible advantage could there be to that? -- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
A user who learns to operate SO on a Mac will *instantly* know what to expect when they sit down in front of a Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris box running SO
BFD. They will know absolutely nothing, then, about running all the other applications on that box. I want applications that look the same as all the other applications on the same box, not applications that look the same on boxes I never use. That means that if I were a Windows user, I want applications to have a Windows look and feel, if I were a Mac user, I would want applications to have a Macintosh look and feel, and on Linux I want applications to have the Motif or QT look and feel.
Motif or QT may suck, but I want all my applications to suck in the same manner, not in a manner that poorly imitates the look and feel of the developer's favourite platform.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I find the Freesco documentation a little... eccentric? Obviously not somebody whose first language is English. (Not a flame, just an observation) The documentation leaves unanswered two important questions:
Is it possible to do port forwarding in freesco? I have a router box, but port 80 (for instance) is forwarded to another server that sits behind it, currently using ipportfw.
Does it work with ISA Plug-n-Pray ethernet cards?
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I'm a pilot, and when I was first learning to fly I got motion sickness a lot. I got over it as I became more confident and less overwhelmed by all the new stuff I was learning. Now I get motion sickness when I'm flying with a "hood", a view limiting device used to simulate flying in non-visual "instrument" conditions while your instructor is still in visual conditions and can watch for other aircraft. But I'm fully confident that I'll get over that as well, once I'm not overwhelmed by trying to fly in a new way while studying the approach plate, tune the radios and get the plane set up for the approach while the turbulence is throwing me around.
I also sometimes get "monitor" sickness. I used to get it playing Quake 2, especially when playing it with software rendering. Getting a Voodoo II card was a major improvement. I think that supports the previous poster's theory that it has to do with the lag between doing something and the effects of that action getting rendered.
However, if I want to get so sick that I have to lie down for a few hours, I only need to watch my daughters play Team Fortress Classic. I don't know exactly what it is, but I suspect it's because I'm not in control so I'm not "ready" when the viewpoint whips around. I can watch for about 15 minutes and then I'm so sick I have to lie down for hours. This is worse than a 3 hour instrument flying lesson.
So sorry, I have no great insights as to how to cure it, but I would guess that a fast video card and bearing with it until it goes away might be the only things that will help.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I know the current version of Crisp is a commercial product with expensive licensing, but a long, long time ago an early version of it was posted to comp.sources.unix. Maybe you could dig up that version and use it?
Or maybe you should retrain your fingers to use vim, you won't regret it.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
15 years ago I was highly in demand because I knew Fortran and I was a Civil Engineer. 10 years ago, I was highly in demand because I knew C and Oracle and Xt. 5 years ago, it was C++ and Motif. Now, I'm getting job offers every few weeks because I'm an experienced Java programmer. Probably next year or the year after the demand for XML or something else will be ramping up, and I'll be there.
But I'm not valuable to my employers because I've followed the trends, but because my engineering degree and 18 years of experience acts as written proof that I know how to solve problems. And that's what it's all about - solving problems.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I haven't looked at it in a long while, but Gamelan used to be a pretty comprehensive archive. It only had one major flaw - it mixed in commercial stuff and "freeware" together, and it was hard to find just open source or whatever.
Another archive was JARS. Again, I don't think they really made much differentiation between stuff you could buy and stuff whose source code you could look at.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
...so why are we expecting it to follow an implementation?
Their record on confirming strictly to simple RFCs is abysmal. When they try and talk SMTP or some network standard like that, you end up with something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike what the standard requires. So every other vendor then has to add hacks and work-arounds for Microsoft's deficiencies.
Given that they can't get things like de jure standards right, what makes you think they are going to follow an innovation from the open source world well enough to make it a de facto standard?
More likely they will look at the idea and implement something quite different that does the same thing in a totally proprietary manner.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Go ahead. Write a bash script. But you would have to be a COMPLETE idiot to run an unknown shell script, or any unknown application, recieved in e-mail. You certainly wouldn't get this kind of instant mass destruction.
Need I remind you of all the email viruses that spread precisely because people were complete idiots, and ran unknown applications recieved in email. Take the HAPPY99.EXE virus, for example. My mother (admitted, a bit dim when it comes to computers) got this one, in spite of having been warned numerous times not to click on these things.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
The problem isn't just that email is too versatile, but that people are too damned stupid. I could send a malicious linux binary via "mutt", and some idiot somewhere would be stupid enough to execute it. -- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Re:Better idea - encrypt the data
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A Java Ring was a device that you wear on your finger, which contains a small Java chip and some tiny amount of non-volatile memory. You plug it into a receptacle and the receptacle would power it and exchange data. The reason for having processing power in the ring, rather than just memory, is so the ring can do things like MD5 hashes, which allow the private key to remain private inside the ring. Don't ask me for details, since I'm a neophyte when it comes to encryption.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Better idea - encrypt the data
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Use a Java Ring or other physical device to hold the decryption key. That way they might lose the laptop, but they won't lose the data.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I'm pretty sure this only applies to the newer technology Zaurus models, most of which were never sold outside of Japan.
I had the older technology Zaurus ZR5000, and then a ZR5800, but gave it to my wife and bought a Visor because of the piss-poor selection of software. It had really nice built-in apps, but almost nothing available from third parties. And Sharp had been promising a software-only SDK real soon now since 1993 or so when I bought it. It had a lot of promise, with that decently big screen, QWERTY keyboard, serial port and PCMCIA card slot. Unfortunately it mostly never got beyond the "promise" stage.
-- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I use Linux 90% of the time. One of the three computers I use on a daily basis - one at work, two at home - is dual boot, and I boot in into Windows to:
play games
watch quicktime movies
visit web sites that were written by morons who think that if it works with IE on Windows, then it doesn't matter if it works anywhere else.
Other than that, I use Linux. I prefer the user interface for reading email, Usenet news, and developing programs.
If Quicktime and other browser plugins worked properly under Linux, I'd use the Windows partition even less.
On a somewhat related rant, I fervently wish somebody would develop a web browser that emphasizes performance and stability. Mozilla had a great opportunity to get rid of the bloat and crap that have made Netscape almost unusable over the years, but instead they concentrated on mind candy like "skins". If Netscape 6 Preview 1 and M14 are any indication, stability and performance are even worse than Netscape 4.72, and that's saying something! -- A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I have the domain xcski.com. I've had it for years, and I got it because I used to be an avid cross country ski racer. I've never used it to promote cross country skiing or anything like that, because bad knees have kept me off my skis for years now.
Every few months I get some little mom and pop ski shop asking me for my domain. I tell them that there's no way I'd give it up for less than $20,000. Partly this is because I don't want the hassle of moving all my stuff over to another domain, and partly it's because I was really boned by the Toronto Sun Publishing Company when I gave my previous domain, canoe.com to them for the promise of theatre tickets that they never gave me.
Some of these companies are shocked at how much I want, and others (generally the more savvy ones) understand.
But I don't want to be accused of domain squatting - I have this domain because I use it, not because I want to sell it for megabucks.
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Now you've got me confused. I can't remember when I did that test if I was actually booting off that disk, or booting from a boot floppy. But even if I had to boot from a floppy, I'm pretty sure I can mount what is currently /root_shadow as /.
/root_shadow was near the beginning of the drive.
Ok, add one other thing to my list of what I'd change if I had to do it again - I'd make sure
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
To continue this analogy to ridiculous extremes, in the good old days when cops walked a beat, they would often walk down the street checking door knobs to make sure shops had remembered to lock up, and to make sure nobody had unlocked the door since the shop keepers had gone home. A white-hat port scanner could be placed in that category. Nobody would have objected to that cop doing that door knob checking. But if a stranger was walking down the street checking door knobs, you'd be damn suspicious, and rightly so. And anybody who port scans without without either asking my permission or having a web page up describing the purpose of their scanning is violating my privacy and will be treated like a potential intruder.
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It's not perfect, but it's mine: /backup_1
/backup_2
/home
/opt
/root_shadow
/tmp
/usr
/usr/home
/usr/local
/var/spool
/var/tmp
/var.
/dev/hda has a corresponding partition of the same size on /dev/hdc. I have a nightly script that copies everything in / to /root_shadow (and yes, I tested that I can yank hda out of the system and boot from hdc). I also have the nightly script copy stuff into /backup_1 and /backup_2. (This is as well as backing up to tape - call me paranoid).
/dev/hda1 101075 83487 12369 87% /
/dev/hda10 4408138 1827348 2352669 44%
/dev/hdc10 4423964 4023975 171049 96%
/dev/hda5 1981000 1255590 622998 67%
/dev/hdc5 1981000 619979 1258610 33%
/dev/hdc9 99507 72393 21975 77%
/dev/hda8 101075 2195 93661 2%
/dev/hdc6 991000 767770 172026 82%
/dev/hda6 1981000 420730 1457858 22%
/dev/hda7 995115 98461 845248 10%
/dev/hdc1 1981000 206648 1671941 11%
/dev/hdc7 99507 306 94062 0%
If I had to do it over again, I'd make / a bit bigger, and maybe make another partition for
My intent here was to have two 10G disks instead of one 20G disk, and partition them in a way so that if one disk failed, I could keep running essential stuff (like news, mail and the web server) on one until I could buy another. That's why each partition on
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I certainly agree that this is a gross and disgusting violation of my copyright. So much so, that for the first time in my 13+ year history of posting on Usenet, I'm putting an X-No-Archive header in my post.
The problem is with the 6,000+ articles of mine that are already in Deja's archives. There is no easy way to remove them. They have a nuke page, where you can laboriously type in article numbers, and reply to emails. But even if that could be automated, that would only get rid of the 3,000+ of those articles that were posted from email addresses that still exist. I have no option when it comes to the ones I posted from companies that I don't work for any more, or from companies that don't exist, or divisions of companies that disappeared in re-orgs.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I use Netterm. It's got some bugs, and it doesn't support ssh, but the xterm emulation is excellent.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I think the other point to make in this regard is that the British government doesn't so much recognize their soveriegnty as they can't be bothered to kick off a bunch of harmless eccentrics. The minute somebody dies attacking or defending this place, you can bet the Special Boat Squadron or Royal Marine Commandos will be landing in force.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I'm not talking about all of the *other* applications.
No, what you're talking about is developers who are so completely arrogant that they assume that the majority of people who use their product will use only that product, and nothing else. Excuse me, but even if SO was as good as the developers seem to arrogantly believe it was, people will still want to use the operating system for file maintenance, backups, and a myriad of other uses.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Can somebody please explain why this thing untars into the lost+found directory? What possible advantage could there be to that?
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
A user who learns to operate SO on a Mac will *instantly* know what to expect when they sit down in front of a Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris box running SO
BFD. They will know absolutely nothing, then, about running all the other applications on that box. I want applications that look the same as all the other applications on the same box, not applications that look the same on boxes I never use. That means that if I were a Windows user, I want applications to have a Windows look and feel, if I were a Mac user, I would want applications to have a Macintosh look and feel, and on Linux I want applications to have the Motif or QT look and feel.
Motif or QT may suck, but I want all my applications to suck in the same manner, not in a manner that poorly imitates the look and feel of the developer's favourite platform.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I find the Freesco documentation a little ... eccentric? Obviously not somebody whose first language is English. (Not a flame, just an observation) The documentation leaves unanswered two important questions:
Is it possible to do port forwarding in freesco? I have a router box, but port 80 (for instance) is forwarded to another server that sits behind it, currently using ipportfw.
Does it work with ISA Plug-n-Pray ethernet cards?
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
It is back up now. :)
Wanna bet?
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I'm a pilot, and when I was first learning to fly I got motion sickness a lot. I got over it as I became more confident and less overwhelmed by all the new stuff I was learning. Now I get motion sickness when I'm flying with a "hood", a view limiting device used to simulate flying in non-visual "instrument" conditions while your instructor is still in visual conditions and can watch for other aircraft. But I'm fully confident that I'll get over that as well, once I'm not overwhelmed by trying to fly in a new way while studying the approach plate, tune the radios and get the plane set up for the approach while the turbulence is throwing me around.
I also sometimes get "monitor" sickness. I used to get it playing Quake 2, especially when playing it with software rendering. Getting a Voodoo II card was a major improvement. I think that supports the previous poster's theory that it has to do with the lag between doing something and the effects of that action getting rendered.
However, if I want to get so sick that I have to lie down for a few hours, I only need to watch my daughters play Team Fortress Classic. I don't know exactly what it is, but I suspect it's because I'm not in control so I'm not "ready" when the viewpoint whips around. I can watch for about 15 minutes and then I'm so sick I have to lie down for hours. This is worse than a 3 hour instrument flying lesson.
So sorry, I have no great insights as to how to cure it, but I would guess that a fast video card and bearing with it until it goes away might be the only things that will help.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I know the current version of Crisp is a commercial product with expensive licensing, but a long, long time ago an early version of it was posted to comp.sources.unix. Maybe you could dig up that version and use it?
Or maybe you should retrain your fingers to use vim, you won't regret it.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
15 years ago I was highly in demand because I knew Fortran and I was a Civil Engineer. 10 years ago, I was highly in demand because I knew C and Oracle and Xt. 5 years ago, it was C++ and Motif. Now, I'm getting job offers every few weeks because I'm an experienced Java programmer. Probably next year or the year after the demand for XML or something else will be ramping up, and I'll be there.
But I'm not valuable to my employers because I've followed the trends, but because my engineering degree and 18 years of experience acts as written proof that I know how to solve problems. And that's what it's all about - solving problems.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I haven't looked at it in a long while, but Gamelan used to be a pretty comprehensive archive. It only had one major flaw - it mixed in commercial stuff and "freeware" together, and it was hard to find just open source or whatever.
Another archive was JARS. Again, I don't think they really made much differentiation between stuff you could buy and stuff whose source code you could look at.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
...so why are we expecting it to follow an implementation?
Their record on confirming strictly to simple RFCs is abysmal. When they try and talk SMTP or some network standard like that, you end up with something that is almost, but not entirely, unlike what the standard requires. So every other vendor then has to add hacks and work-arounds for Microsoft's deficiencies.
Given that they can't get things like de jure standards right, what makes you think they are going to follow an innovation from the open source world well enough to make it a de facto standard?
More likely they will look at the idea and implement something quite different that does the same thing in a totally proprietary manner.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Go ahead. Write a bash script. But you would have to be a COMPLETE idiot to run an unknown shell script, or any unknown application, recieved in e-mail. You certainly wouldn't get this kind of instant mass destruction.
Need I remind you of all the email viruses that spread precisely because people were complete idiots, and ran unknown applications recieved in email. Take the HAPPY99.EXE virus, for example. My mother (admitted, a bit dim when it comes to computers) got this one, in spite of having been warned numerous times not to click on these things.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
The problem isn't just that email is too versatile, but that people are too damned stupid. I could send a malicious linux binary via "mutt", and some idiot somewhere would be stupid enough to execute it.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
A Java Ring was a device that you wear on your finger, which contains a small Java chip and some tiny amount of non-volatile memory. You plug it into a receptacle and the receptacle would power it and exchange data. The reason for having processing power in the ring, rather than just memory, is so the ring can do things like MD5 hashes, which allow the private key to remain private inside the ring. Don't ask me for details, since I'm a neophyte when it comes to encryption.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Use a Java Ring or other physical device to hold the decryption key. That way they might lose the laptop, but they won't lose the data.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Why would you *not* want a wheel mouse? These things are great, whether it's scrolling a long page in Netscape or switching weapons in Quake3.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I'm pretty sure this only applies to the newer technology Zaurus models, most of which were never sold outside of Japan.
I had the older technology Zaurus ZR5000, and then a ZR5800, but gave it to my wife and bought a Visor because of the piss-poor selection of software. It had really nice built-in apps, but almost nothing available from third parties. And Sharp had been promising a software-only SDK real soon now since 1993 or so when I bought it. It had a lot of promise, with that decently big screen, QWERTY keyboard, serial port and PCMCIA card slot. Unfortunately it mostly never got beyond the "promise" stage.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Other than that, I use Linux. I prefer the user interface for reading email, Usenet news, and developing programs.
If Quicktime and other browser plugins worked properly under Linux, I'd use the Windows partition even less.
On a somewhat related rant, I fervently wish somebody would develop a web browser that emphasizes performance and stability.
Mozilla had a great opportunity to get rid of the bloat and crap that have made Netscape almost unusable over the years, but instead they concentrated on mind candy like "skins". If Netscape 6 Preview 1 and M14 are any indication, stability and performance are even worse than Netscape 4.72, and that's saying something!
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Beta? Phinn? Shouldn't that be "Freaking freeloading Canadians"? You guys are out of practice.
I have the domain xcski.com. I've had it for years, and I got it because I used to be an avid cross country ski racer. I've never used it to promote cross country skiing or anything like that, because bad knees have kept me off my skis for years now.
Every few months I get some little mom and pop ski shop asking me for my domain. I tell them that there's no way I'd give it up for less than $20,000. Partly this is because I don't want the hassle of moving all my stuff over to another domain, and partly it's because I was really boned by the Toronto Sun Publishing Company when I gave my previous domain, canoe.com to them for the promise of theatre tickets that they never gave me.
Some of these companies are shocked at how much I want, and others (generally the more savvy ones) understand.
But I don't want to be accused of domain squatting - I have this domain because I use it, not because I want to sell it for megabucks.