I have not been able to find anything to help me configure Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 to allow my linux box through. I thought I had it working once, but I can't remember what I did. I tried setting the SOCKS proxy up as well , to no avail. Not sure if it is me, or if this really isn't possible. Can someone advise?
*gasp*
Do you realize that doing that is illegal?
I guess next you are going to tell me that you made copies of friends' cassettes and played those in your car too??
or *egads* copied or downloaded movies you didn't purchase?
And here I thought 90% of slashdot were impeccable freedom fighters, incapable of abusing our wonderful system?
Agreed. Mike clearly stated, quite boastfully in the newgroup before he even sent the file that Patrick obviously didn't read the FAQ because it was an impossible task. so who's frauding whom? He believes a task to be impossible, and alludes quite obviously to it, then sets up a challenge to meet it?
Come on, Mike, in my opinion you were just trying to make fools of people and maybe make a quick buck on the side. As you obviously were positive this was an impossible task, then you had no intentions of paying $5000, though I can't really speculate, you probably would propose the challenge whether you even had the $5000 or not. Then when he actually used your own rules and resolved the challenge in a way you didn't see coming, you quickly turned lawyer in an attempt to scare him from even trying to collect.
He met the challenge that you yourself called impossible. Pay up (assuming you even can)
Personally, I thought 'Heroes Quest' II was great, and Enjoyed I. I did play III (Was it in 3 that they were forced to change to Quest for Glory?') But of course I loved all of the old Sierra games. (Remember Sierra-on-Line?) Multiplayer Red Baron was great. I wasted much time there.
This brings up a good point.. Is there possibly a good time for "spam"? I think so. In this case, I would look at a mass email to *.juno would kind of be like spam civil disobedience.
Gun Control.
That is the first watershed event that comes to mind that would be capable of calling Americans, at least, to arms, as it were. It is ridiculous and it's going to get worse before it gets better. I feel like the more and more I hear and read about the way the steering committee that runs this country is continuing a trend of security through obscurity and copy protection because of fear of public knowledge. And that is essentially what it all boils down to. Don't tell us anything that you don't want us to hear, and we will sit around like good little serfs and eat our porridge, hot or cold.
I am glad there are people in this community watching and communicating the truth, it is quite refreshing. And as far as the Boston Tea Party or Bastille Day, you are definately not the only one who feels the way you do about all of this.
Hmm, I, like most of you, find this revolutionary and hopeful, but the report is just a wee bit fishy. firstly, her colleague admittedly doesn't essentially believe it, saying that there is probably another explanation. Couple it with the company Tristem, which has been opened for this specifically, is owned by the good Dr's husband. Perhaps this is all just circumstantial, but it also sets off a little red capitalist flag that says to keep fraud in mind...
Problem with a revote to me is the fact that that would make the president of the united states decided by a handful of floridians. This leaves lots of room for underhandedness. Dont pretend these candidates wont spend ALL resources and pull out all stops to try and slide the popular vote in that county
I am 25, born and raised in the U.S. but have never voted, probably for the same reason many of my peers haven't. Frankly, I don't want to vote for either of the 2 major party candidates, but I will vote this year. I have realized, as I believe many others have, that if you don't vote, you forfeit your right to bitch about how things turn out in your own country.
I still don't like either of the candidates presented to me basically 24/7 on all major networks. They are both different sides of the same basic viewpoint. No new ideas, no shattering beliefs, just arguments over how much of the population of the US is 1%, really? who cares?
I have no real political agenda, or any specific viewpoint that can be categorized by a 'party', but my 'agenda' is basically what I think everyone's should be. Live and let live. I received an email today that brought up a very good idea, and I figure this is as good a place as any to give it some attention. Slashdot is a voice unto its own...
Subject: Third Party Coalition------------between Hagelin & Nader, etc., ----------------THE KIDS WILL HELP
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:35:41 +0200
Add Addresses
Friends and Beloveds,
PLEASE "CATCH THIS VISION!"
This is important!! Please read and forward it to everyone immediately!! Thanks!!
Question??
Are there some "activists" INSIDERS in the USA that can get busy and get both
Ralph Nader and John Hagelin--to sit down and work out a "last-ditch" friendly, powerful "coalition party" NOW--in the last week or so of this election??
I personaly feel that both John Hagelin and Ralph Nader are "big enough" in their hearts,
souls and minds to SEE THE GREATER PICTURE--and to respond from their "heart of hearts"
center (where God dwells within us)!! Love for our country IS THE ANSWER...
In my opinion--when these two outstanding candidates--will sit down--and genuinely, soul-fully
trancend the personal desire to be the US President--(responding to the greater soul
desire) in knowing through uniting parties or "forces"--they will actually be able to TURN-THE-TABLES on the MEDIA--and cause a sudden ON-RUSH OF ENOUGH NEW VOTERS--so that either one of them could (would) win this election!! I repeat----SO THAT EITHER ONE OF THEM--can(will) win this election!!
Once seated together--they can "draw straws, toss dice" or self-lessly offer the Presidency
to the other one--(who is obviously also so very qualified as an honest Presidential candidate!!)
This tinmely, needed ACT of brotherly unity WOULD MAKE NEWS-- WORLDWIDE--and would certainly create a NEW REVOLUTION in political thinking and most of all--could, ( would) break the age-old hold of the now FALSE representative (sold-out) Republican/Democrat two-party system in our USA!!
This new SACRED allegiance could seat either Nader or Hagelin--and seal their destiny as our shining new USA President...
Look what the Czechs did!
We can do it too!!
The other magnificent candidate could run as Vice President--or have a choice of some active
role in the new Presidential Cabinet!!
THIS CAN BE DONE!!
Some of the other smaller independent parties might quickly "catch the vision" and join
in our sudden rousing, jubilant, yet peaceful, world-changing revolution!!
The "kids" of all ages would help!!
This would also spark a genuine grass-roots movement for non-voters to
vote again--AND THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD would move to get their
mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends to vote for this New Powerful
Coaltion...
Ralph and John can give the coalition party a new name--like FREEDOM-LIBERTY PARTY
or any coalition name of their choice!!
Please pass this email along and along--until this message gets into the hands of both of these
fine human souls...and an "eleventh hour" DIVINELY INSPIRED Presidential coalition is
then swiftly formed!!
WE CAN DO IT!! So be it--and so it is!! "
The bottom line is that Nuclear power is extremely safe compared to every other form of power we have available. Three mile island and Chernobyl not withstanding.
Heh, oh, those two, notwithstanding...heh, and the atom bomb isn't dangerous either, Hiroshima notwithstanding.
Hell, next thing you know they will be trying to tell us that the earth is NOT the center of the universe with everything revolving around it!! I knew we should have never trusted that Copernicus guy.
Re:Buy it at elgrande.com for 13.65$
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Ok. If God is omnipotent, then he must be able to create a stone so large that he cannot lift it. But if he cannot lift the stone, he cannot be omnipotent. But if he is omnipotent AND omnipresent then he would BE the stone he created so therefore he could just move himself. Normal physics laws can hardly apply..
<EM>Any sufficiently passable quote is indistinguishable from the real quote.</EM>
How contradictory.. now the gun is the scapegoat.
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people are just psychopathic, whether it be genetic or a mental illness, some people have an inbuilt desire to hurt and to kill.
Well said, I completely agree. But what good does taking away our right to bear arms? Of course children should not have guns, if that is all you're saying I agree. But if you are trying to say that removing our right as adults to own guns you are way off.
If, as you said, some people are just evil, then without guns would they be any less evil? of course not. They had guns, it made it easier for them to kill unarmed students, but they could easily have found other means..chlorine bombs? Sure, now we illegalize chlorine and coca cola. What if they decided just to steal a bulldozer and plow through the cafeteria? illegalize bulldozers?
My point is, some people are just plain evil. Whether it was at birth, through upbringing, or they just simply snapped for some unknown reason, it was done, they were evil, and they no longer live. Speculation does nothing but brainwash and sell newspapers.
I know lots of people who smoke weed, and are very good programmers/Administrators..etc(and for that matter doctors, lawyers, congressmen, presidents...)There is no proof that Marijuana causes permanent brain damage. And my educated opinion is that alcohol is far more dangerous than pot. Although this is probably not the right place to demonstrate why I feel marijuana should be legal, your statement is off-base. Sure, I will agree, lots of pothead conversations go similarly to that, but have you ever sat down and listened to a bunch of drunks chit-chatting? It isn't much (if any) better. Also, someone mentioned BSD users who they've met that smoke pot, I'd bet a dime to a dollar at least some of the BSD creators did it, too. After all, Berkeley is most known for its pot smoking, acid dropping hippy culture, isn't it?
As part of Project Monterey, UnixWare 7 was recently updated to include Linux binary application compatibility.
This looks good, not only are they somewhat unifying Unix, but they are expressing that they are going to have inherent linux binary support. T
Countersue MS because of how he was caught?
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The Melissa Syndrome
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Step back for a moment from the issue of the virus itself.. This guy sits down, playing with VB, and writes a neat little virus. It may have been his first realization of how "powerful" VB can be. He may have just learned how to write a macro and figured a simple exploit... So he writes it, mails it off to a friend (Maybe to test it?), who mails it to a friend, etc etc.. wow it worked!
But he was caught... how?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I am under the impression he was caught because of a string of code, undocumented, added to every word/excel document that takes a user's registration code and system settings and generates a unique id which is then sent out with everything he writes! Hmmm, that sounds, wow, a hell of a lot like the virus he himself may or may not have written, EXCEPT it was written into commercial software by a multi billion dollar corporation with the guise of Information Security
If that's not the ultimate irony, I am not sure what is.
I for one, believe murder to be worse then rape. I will consent(pardon the pun) that there are varying degrees of each that would weigh judgement either way a bit, but for the most part, murder is a worse crime.
I know a girl very well who was raped when she was 15. It wasn't date rape, they hadn't met on the internet, she knew him. It was the worst kind of rape, incest. It went on for nearly a year, until she confided in a friend about it, he had brainwashed her to a point, but not enough to cloud her own sense of right and wrong. This was 8 years ago, she still remembers it, it still haunts her in nightmares on occasion, but she has learned how to deal with it. She knows it was not her fault. (Though she didn't know this at first) She can freely talk about it and help others. It never goes away, it is there forever, but she, and many DO become productive, emotionally stable people. (Assuming any of us are truly emotionally stable)
...murder...It is for good, it happens, you are dead, noone can truly grasp the implications of death as we don't know what happens when we die. Faith can tell us, many with more faith then I will say they know, but noone really knows. I have seen people die, a best friend, stabbed to death at the age of 12, and there are others I'm sure who have known those who were murdered.
Ask my raped friend's parents if they wished she were dead, ask her if she felt it would have been better if he killed her. For years she might've felt that way,but not now.
Then ask my dead friend's parents, ask his friends, ask anyone that knew him if he would have been better to have been a rape victim instead..
Wow, I never would have guessed. Besides the fact that if indeed a transposed digit can cause a rocket to crash, (Which I suppose theoretically can happen) wouldn't there again be an army of trained proofreaders and syntax checks out of the wazoo just because of this?
If this has happened more then once due to a typographical error, please cite instances, I, for one, am interested to know that this is accepted with multi billion dollar equipment taxpayers pay for.
I am a relative Linux Newbie And therefore to a certain extent representative of part of the new "Linux faction". First, admittedly this discussion is really obtuse, since there are much much bigger fish to fry then whether or not Linux is GNU/Linux, but IMO the XFree86/GNU is an interesting parallel.
I think what it boils down to is whether or not Linux could exist without The GNU utilities. Admittedly, being a newbie, I do not know for certain, but I believe that yes, it could. I use emacs almost daily, and gcc just as much, but I am sure there are alternatives, and I am sure there are people who do not need any of the GNU utilities.
Therefore, GNU is simply a part of Linux, just as XFree86 is a part of linux. Linux runs just fine without XFree86.
Besides, with GNU being such an integral part of the OS, why does it need to be touted at every mention? Surely, if we use GNU utilities daily, we read the titles, and know how much we rely on these utilites just because we are users of Linux.
...And if we don't, then we don't need them, and they don't deserve the hype.
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I have not been able to find anything to help me configure Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 to allow my linux box through. I thought I had it working once, but I can't remember what I did. I tried setting the SOCKS proxy up as well , to no avail. Not sure if it is me, or if this really isn't possible. Can someone advise?
*gasp* Do you realize that doing that is illegal? I guess next you are going to tell me that you made copies of friends' cassettes and played those in your car too?? or *egads* copied or downloaded movies you didn't purchase? And here I thought 90% of slashdot were impeccable freedom fighters, incapable of abusing our wonderful system?
Agreed. Mike clearly stated, quite boastfully in the newgroup before he even sent the file that Patrick obviously didn't read the FAQ because it was an impossible task. so who's frauding whom? He believes a task to be impossible, and alludes quite obviously to it, then sets up a challenge to meet it?
Come on, Mike, in my opinion you were just trying to make fools of people and maybe make a quick buck on the side. As you obviously were positive this was an impossible task, then you had no intentions of paying $5000, though I can't really speculate, you probably would propose the challenge whether you even had the $5000 or not. Then when he actually used your own rules and resolved the challenge in a way you didn't see coming, you quickly turned lawyer in an attempt to scare him from even trying to collect.
He met the challenge that you yourself called impossible. Pay up (assuming you even can)
Personally, I thought 'Heroes Quest' II was great, and Enjoyed I. I did play III (Was it in 3 that they were forced to change to Quest for Glory?') But of course I loved all of the old Sierra games. (Remember Sierra-on-Line?) Multiplayer Red Baron was great. I wasted much time there.
This brings up a good point.. Is there possibly a good time for "spam"? I think so. In this case, I would look at a mass email to *.juno would kind of be like spam civil disobedience.
Special Note
It looks like the site is currently being slashdotted. We don't know how it will hold. Sorry if it's very slow or down for a while.</em>
Gun Control. That is the first watershed event that comes to mind that would be capable of calling Americans, at least, to arms, as it were. It is ridiculous and it's going to get worse before it gets better. I feel like the more and more I hear and read about the way the steering committee that runs this country is continuing a trend of security through obscurity and copy protection because of fear of public knowledge. And that is essentially what it all boils down to. Don't tell us anything that you don't want us to hear, and we will sit around like good little serfs and eat our porridge, hot or cold. I am glad there are people in this community watching and communicating the truth, it is quite refreshing. And as far as the Boston Tea Party or Bastille Day, you are definately not the only one who feels the way you do about all of this.
Hmm, I, like most of you, find this revolutionary and hopeful, but the report is just a wee bit fishy. firstly, her colleague admittedly doesn't essentially believe it, saying that there is probably another explanation. Couple it with the company Tristem, which has been opened for this specifically, is owned by the good Dr's husband. Perhaps this is all just circumstantial, but it also sets off a little red capitalist flag that says to keep fraud in mind...
Problem with a revote to me is the fact that that would make the president of the united states decided by a handful of floridians. This leaves lots of room for underhandedness. Dont pretend these candidates wont spend ALL resources and pull out all stops to try and slide the popular vote in that county
I am 25, born and raised in the U.S. but have never voted, probably for the same reason many of my peers haven't. Frankly, I don't want to vote for either of the 2 major party candidates, but I will vote this year. I have realized, as I believe many others have, that if you don't vote, you forfeit your right to bitch about how things turn out in your own country.
I still don't like either of the candidates presented to me basically 24/7 on all major networks. They are both different sides of the same basic viewpoint. No new ideas, no shattering beliefs, just arguments over how much of the population of the US is 1%, really? who cares?
I have no real political agenda, or any specific viewpoint that can be categorized by a 'party', but my 'agenda' is basically what I think everyone's should be. Live and let live. I received an email today that brought up a very good idea, and I figure this is as good a place as any to give it some attention. Slashdot is a voice unto its own...
Subject: Third Party Coalition------------between Hagelin & Nader, etc., ----------------THE KIDS WILL HELP
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:35:41 +0200
Add Addresses
Friends and Beloveds,
PLEASE "CATCH THIS VISION!"
This is important!! Please read and forward it to everyone immediately!! Thanks!!
Question??
Are there some "activists" INSIDERS in the USA that can get busy and get both
Ralph Nader and John Hagelin--to sit down and work out a "last-ditch" friendly, powerful "coalition party" NOW--in the last week or so of this election??
I personaly feel that both John Hagelin and Ralph Nader are "big enough" in their hearts,
souls and minds to SEE THE GREATER PICTURE--and to respond from their "heart of hearts"
center (where God dwells within us)!! Love for our country IS THE ANSWER...
In my opinion--when these two outstanding candidates--will sit down--and genuinely, soul-fully
trancend the personal desire to be the US President--(responding to the greater soul
desire) in knowing through uniting parties or "forces"--they will actually be able to TURN-THE-TABLES on the MEDIA--and cause a sudden ON-RUSH OF ENOUGH NEW VOTERS--so that either one of them could (would) win this election!! I repeat----SO THAT EITHER ONE OF THEM--can(will) win this election!!
Once seated together--they can "draw straws, toss dice" or self-lessly offer the Presidency
to the other one--(who is obviously also so very qualified as an honest Presidential candidate!!)
This tinmely, needed ACT of brotherly unity WOULD MAKE NEWS-- WORLDWIDE--and would certainly create a NEW REVOLUTION in political thinking and most of all--could, ( would) break the age-old hold of the now FALSE representative (sold-out) Republican/Democrat two-party system in our USA!!
This new SACRED allegiance could seat either Nader or Hagelin--and seal their destiny as our shining new USA President...
Look what the Czechs did!
We can do it too!!
The other magnificent candidate could run as Vice President--or have a choice of some active
role in the new Presidential Cabinet!!
THIS CAN BE DONE!!
Some of the other smaller independent parties might quickly "catch the vision" and join
in our sudden rousing, jubilant, yet peaceful, world-changing revolution!!
The "kids" of all ages would help!!
This would also spark a genuine grass-roots movement for non-voters to
vote again--AND THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD would move to get their
mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends to vote for this New Powerful
Coaltion...
Ralph and John can give the coalition party a new name--like FREEDOM-LIBERTY PARTY
or any coalition name of their choice!!
Please pass this email along and along--until this message gets into the hands of both of these
fine human souls...and an "eleventh hour" DIVINELY INSPIRED Presidential coalition is
then swiftly formed!!
WE CAN DO IT!! So be it--and so it is!! "
Teach people how to fight? pshaw, people are born knowing how to fight, and do it daily, globally. That's like teaching people how to eat.
The bottom line is that Nuclear power is extremely safe compared to every other form of power we have available. Three mile island and Chernobyl not withstanding. Heh, oh, those two, notwithstanding...heh, and the atom bomb isn't dangerous either, Hiroshima notwithstanding.
Hell, next thing you know they will be trying to tell us that the earth is NOT the center of the universe with everything revolving around it!! I knew we should have never trusted that Copernicus guy.
Holy Shinola! God has an ISBN number???
Ok. If God is omnipotent, then he must be able to create a stone so large that he cannot lift it. But if he cannot lift the stone, he cannot be omnipotent. But if he is omnipotent AND omnipresent then he would BE the stone he created so therefore he could just move himself. Normal physics laws can hardly apply..
Paraphrase, Rephrase..close enough, eh?
<EM>Any sufficiently passable quote is indistinguishable from the real quote.</EM>
people are just psychopathic, whether it be genetic or a mental illness, some people have an inbuilt desire to hurt and to kill.
Well said, I completely agree. But what good does taking away our right to bear arms? Of course children should not have guns, if that is all you're saying I agree. But if you are trying to say that removing our right as adults to own guns you are way off.
If, as you said, some people are just evil, then without guns would they be any less evil? of course not. They had guns, it made it easier for them to kill unarmed students, but they could easily have found other means..chlorine bombs? Sure, now we illegalize chlorine and coca cola. What if they decided just to steal a bulldozer and plow through the cafeteria? illegalize bulldozers?
My point is, some people are just plain evil. Whether it was at birth, through upbringing, or they just simply snapped for some unknown reason, it was done, they were evil, and they no longer live. Speculation does nothing but brainwash and sell newspapers.
I know lots of people who smoke weed, and are very good programmers/Administrators..etc(and for that matter doctors, lawyers, congressmen, presidents...)There is no proof that Marijuana causes permanent brain damage. And my educated opinion is that alcohol is far more dangerous than pot.
Although this is probably not the right place to demonstrate why I feel marijuana should be legal, your statement is off-base. Sure, I will agree, lots of pothead conversations go similarly to that, but have you ever sat down and listened to a bunch of drunks chit-chatting? It isn't much (if any) better.
Also, someone mentioned BSD users who they've met that smoke pot, I'd bet a dime to a dollar at least some of the BSD creators did it, too. After all, Berkeley is most known for its pot smoking, acid dropping hippy culture, isn't it?
As part of Project Monterey, UnixWare 7 was recently updated to include Linux binary application compatibility.
This looks good, not only are they somewhat unifying Unix, but they are expressing that they are going to have inherent linux binary support. T
Step back for a moment from the issue of the virus itself.. This guy sits down, playing with VB, and writes a neat little virus. It may have been his first realization of how "powerful" VB can be. He may have just learned how to write a macro and figured a simple exploit... So he writes it, mails it off to a friend (Maybe to test it?), who mails it to a friend, etc etc.. wow it worked!
But he was caught... how?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I am under the impression he was caught because of a string of code, undocumented, added to every word/excel document that takes a user's registration code and system settings and generates a unique id which is then sent out with everything he writes! Hmmm, that sounds, wow, a hell of a lot like the virus he himself may or may not have written, EXCEPT it was written into commercial software by a multi billion dollar corporation with the guise of Information Security
If that's not the ultimate irony, I am not sure what is.
I for one, believe murder to be worse then rape. I will consent(pardon the pun) that there are varying degrees of each that would weigh judgement either way a bit, but for the most part, murder is a worse crime.
I know a girl very well who was raped when she was 15. It wasn't date rape, they hadn't met on the internet, she knew him. It was the worst kind of rape, incest. It went on for nearly a year, until she confided in a friend about it, he had brainwashed her to a point, but not enough to cloud her own sense of right and wrong. This was 8 years ago, she still remembers it, it still haunts her in nightmares on occasion, but she has learned how to deal with it. She knows it was not her fault. (Though she didn't know this at first) She can freely talk about it and help others. It never goes away, it is there forever, but she, and many DO become productive, emotionally stable people. (Assuming any of us are truly emotionally stable)
...murder...It is for good, it happens, you are dead, noone can truly grasp the implications of death as we don't know what happens when we die. Faith can tell us, many with more faith then I will say they know, but noone really knows. I have seen people die, a best friend, stabbed to death at the age of 12, and there are others I'm sure who have known those who were murdered.
Ask my raped friend's parents if they wished she were dead, ask her if she felt it would have been better if he killed her. For years she might've felt that way,but not now.
Then ask my dead friend's parents, ask his friends, ask anyone that knew him if he would have been better to have been a rape victim instead..
To quote a man wiser then I..
Time heals all wounds
Wow, I never would have guessed. Besides the fact that if indeed a transposed digit can cause a rocket to crash, (Which I suppose theoretically can happen) wouldn't there again be an army of trained proofreaders and syntax checks out of the wazoo just because of this?
If this has happened more then once due to a typographical error, please cite instances, I, for one, am interested to know that this is accepted with multi billion dollar equipment taxpayers pay for.
Do you really deserve it?
I am a relative Linux Newbie And therefore to a certain extent representative of part of the new "Linux faction". First, admittedly this discussion is really obtuse, since there are much much bigger fish to fry then whether or not Linux is GNU/Linux, but IMO the XFree86/GNU is an interesting parallel.
I think what it boils down to is whether or not Linux could exist without The GNU utilities. Admittedly, being a newbie, I do not know for certain, but I believe that yes, it could. I use emacs almost daily, and gcc just as much, but I am sure there are alternatives, and I am sure there are people who do not need any of the GNU utilities.
Therefore, GNU is simply a part of Linux, just as XFree86 is a part of linux. Linux runs just fine without XFree86.
Besides, with GNU being such an integral part of the OS, why does it need to be touted at every mention? Surely, if we use GNU utilities daily, we read the titles, and know how much we rely on these utilites just because we are users of Linux.
...And if we don't, then we don't need them, and they don't deserve the hype.