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  1. Re:Unfortunately, Yes on Oracle To Finish Linux Makeover This Year · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could always do an export DISPLAY=my.desktop.host.name:0.0 and have X transmit the graphics across the network to your terminal. That's the way I installed Websphere App Server (Installshield Graphical Java-based installer) on one of our headless servers anyway...

  2. Reply from BBC Business News Editor on BBC Links Linux To MyDoom · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dear Sir

    Thanks for your e-mail.

    I have noted the points you made - as well as the vigorous debate on Slashdot.org about this article.

    Well, Stephen Evan's weekly "stateside" column is not a news story, but an analytical look at major events and business trends in the United States.

    It is, of course, debatable whether MyDoom/Novarg/Shimgapi was written just to bring down the SCO website, or whether the installation of spamming tools on numerous computers was an additional - or even the main - motive.

    That was not the point of Stephen's article.

    In his piece he wanted to draw the attention of BBC News Online's audience - many of whom are unlikely to know the ins and outs of the Open Source debate - to the rapid spread of Linux as a commercial application, SCO's attempts to cash in on this fact, and the deep anger that SCO has caused within the Linux community through its legal actions.

    Stephen is not the first to draw the link between MyDoom and SCO's actions over Linux - plenty of others have done that before, including virus experts.

    Regards,

    Tim Weber
    Business Editor
    BBC News Interactive - www.bbc.co.uk/businessnews

  3. Re:grudge match! on Computer Control Implants for the Paralyzed · · Score: 1

    Hawking vs Davros?

    vs isn't quite the right word....

    b3ta has the answer...