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  1. Re:Woody on Debian 2.2r5 Released · · Score: 1
    I seem to have had very good luck with this in my /etc/apt/source.list

    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

    deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

    Then the following commands...

    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade -u --fix-missing
    apt-get dist-upgrade -u --fix-missing

    (Had to force some packages but only a hand full)

    I first added "testing" to the list then upgraded and dist-upgraded. After that was done added the "unstable" lines and did the same. I haven't had any problems keeping "stable", "testing", and "unstable" in my source.list...

    Only issue was the last few days there were some libpng3 and libqt2 issues that broke icons and some other things under KDE, but most of that is fixed now...

  2. Re:I got mugged on How Did You Become a UNIX Administrator? · · Score: 1
    Well for me I lucked out and meet Krow when I was in College.

    I was hacking around on the VAX system there and had the Admin at the time yelling at me for playing with "sysgen" (been a while so forgive me if I forget the right program). I then asked Krow about what I was doing and well that started the trip towards becomming a Sys Admin.

    Krow showed me the great wall of VMS book in the CS lab. Soon I was missing classes and more offen my meals in the Caf. Which Krow got a kick out of, tricking me to stay latter by showing me a new app or hack in the system. Eventually the VMS machines were being replaced with new Sun 10's. Soon I was installing the Univ. first Sun.

    In our free time Krow was playing and writing drivers for NetBSD (or was it FreeBSD?) I was playing with this new player on in the land of OS's, Linux. Downloading floppies and then eventually getting it on a CD from Yggdrasil 's Fall 1993

    I still wasn't part of the CS depatment till someone figured out that I just need afew more science programs...years latter...with a two degrees under the belt I left with a BS in CS and one in Communications (Film Production)

    Thats now years ago and I'm still working with Krow. Been teaming up from job to job (or tricked into it)...

  3. Type of Aircraft and Tech info. on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1
    I found a site listing the different planes that crashed today.

    Boeing 757-200
    Boeing 767-200

    Lots of stock pictures of the planes and details about the types of planes...

  4. Re:Beware of departure from original statement on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 1

    I also need training in words spelling correctly before I hit submit. *ugh*

  5. Re:Beware of departure from original statement on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 5
    Are we really to believe that nobody was available for 48 hours?

    Everything failed at about 7AM Sat. Dave was at Exodus between 8:30 - 10:30AM Sat (didn't look at the log book when I got there). Kurt arrived shortly after that I belive (again I didn't look at the log book). I arrived there around 11:40AM. Sat.

    And yes my battery was lose on my Nextel. Just takes a little pressure upwards to lossen the batter on the i1000plus I have. The batter doesn't fall out, just loss enought so it lose contact and turns the phone off.

    I have now taped the battery in place!

    Yazz Atlas

  6. Re:Thank you. on Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage · · Score: 1
    Well I'm off to get training as soon as I can with Cisco and Foundry.. I never really played with any Cisco hardware, usely it was someones else job or done once before I arrived.

    Yazz Atlas

  7. Re:The smart user uses encryption. on How To Really And Fully Wipe A Hard Drive? · · Score: 1
    I currently uses BestCrypt for linux. Its really easy to install. But is not Rubber Hose proof!

    Taken off the http://www.rubberhose.com/

    Rubberhose transparently and deniably encrypts disk data, minimising the effectiveness of warrants, coersive interrogations and other compulsive mechanims, such as U.K RIP legislation. Rubberhose differs from conventional disk encryption systems in that it has an advanced modular architecture, self-test suite, is more secure, portable, utilises information hiding (steganography / deniable cryptography), works with any file system and has source freely available. Currently supported ciphers are DES, 3DES, IDEA, RC5, RC6, Blowfish, Twofish and CAST.

    For thoses that don't know about the software you can read about it here.

    PS:I never post to /. This is a first! back to getting the new /. DB built...

  8. Re:You sure are law-abiding, Rob. :) on DeCSS Source Mass-Posted to Usenet · · Score: 1

    LiViD just doesn't work with everyones laptop DVD. Wish it worked on the HP 4150B laptops...