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  1. Re:Maybe I'm paranoid BUT on The Short Life And Hard Times Of A Linux Virus · · Score: 1

    You left off the homeless people who find perfectly good pizza in the trash.

  2. Re:It's one of those special 486 machines on The Short Life And Hard Times Of A Linux Virus · · Score: 1

    Find the CMOS battery recharge jumper and pull it. When the CMOS runs out of juice it factory resets. Or, if you are lucky, there is a jumper for CMOS password, pull it and you are home free.

  3. Re:Wouldn't that be against the GPL? on Corel Linux Only For 18 and Up · · Score: 1

    Using find /usr/src/linux/ -type f -exec grep -il $FSCK {} \; where $FSCK is set to fsck's original name gets you:

    /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/cmd640.c
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/sunhme.c
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h
    /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/tgafb.c
    /usr/src/linux/fs/binfmt_aout.c
    /usr/src/linux/lib/vsprintf.c

  4. Please elaborate... on Ask Slashdot: Perceptions of Red Hat Software · · Score: 1

    I started with slackware simply because it was the easiest one for me to download an install. Everything was seperated into nice big packages with clearly defined goals (Hey all I really need to download is A, AP, X, XAP, and maybe D). When I got a real job and could afford CD-ROMs I went to Linux Central and ordered every distribution they carry. I have intalled all of them (Slackware 3.6, Red Hat 5.2, SuSE 6.0, TurboLinux 3.0, Mandrake 5.3, Openlinux 1.3) but Debian 2.1 (I tried, but it will take me a good, solid weekend to figure out dselect, and so far I haven't had a weekend free). The easiest to install from CD-ROM were Red Hat 5.2 and Mandrake 5.3 (Mandrake is merely Red Hat plus KDE with a little smoothing to make KDE work better). Currently I am using Mandrake 5.3. SuSE 6.0 felt wrong. I can not explain it, I just did not feel right. OpenLinux 1.3 was nice but slow on my machine. I really did not give TurboLinux 3.0 a chance. Slackware was okay, but I love kpackage too much now to go back to tgz. All of this said, if I had to do an install on a machine with a 28.8 modem, and I did not have a CD-ROM of linux handy, I would download Slackware and install.

  5. how to count? on American Programmers are Slackers · · Score: 1

    find /m7/dev -name *.ec -exec wc -l \;
    This tells me (well after adding it up it told me) there are 27,247 lines of code in my devel directory. Of course I use the modified Allman method of coding c

    if (X=Y)
    {
    }

    dbschema -f all -d dbname | wc -l
    returns the count of lines in all of the stored procedures (14,990), but how do I count the time and effort in building a 300+ table database?

    How do I count all of the code that has been scraped/rewriten? Is a comment a line of code?

    Sigh.