You should come on over to Hacker News if you're looking for what Slashdot used to be circa 1998... http://news.ycombinator.com/

I agree with you... the comments were the big draw, and mostly it's "herd mentality" on /. any more.

OK, point taken, and I'm taking a look at Niven's shortstory collections on Amazon now, and 'Crashlander' as well.

Thanks for the help!

Thank you for this writeup... I wasn't aware of the 'Known Space' works by Niven and wow they look interesting.

I'm heading over to Amazon now to grab a Kindle copy of 'Ringworld' (I think that's the first novel one should read in the series in order to avoid spoilers to the prequels/sequels - right?)

Right. For the database schema update after you upgrade FOG, when you use the web interface you don't get redirected to the 'schema update' page. Minor bug, that would require an admin to run mysql and pipe in the database schema update script. Not really that big of a deal...

What's your point exactly?

From a completely different source, I heard that the original description of the compromise, namely "One of the so-called 'admins', who really ought to have known better, set up a tunnel from a personal VPS to an internal machine which had no internet-accessible address -- just the tunnel" - did in fact happen as described. Duplicated, shared SSH keys led to this massive compromise (here's a hint: don't do that. build individual keys for individual servers, or at least build separate "groups" of keys for groups of servers, so that one compromise doesn't lead to hundreds of VPSs getting compromised).

I would say that either you're being misinformed, or you're spreading misinformation.

Also your signature is incorrect... edlin is loosely based on Unix ed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)#Features

A more accurate statement would be "Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us VMS" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler#VMS )

"Congress bumped up against the deadline mainly because of the stubborn resistance from a single senator, Republican freshman Rand Paul of Kentucky, who saw the terrorist-hunting powers as an abuse of privacy rights. Paul held up the final vote for several days while he demanded a chance to change the bill to diminish the government's ability to monitor individual actions. The bill passed the Senate 72-23."

- from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/26/politics/main20066686.shtml

Here's to that... I've been reading more and more about Scientific Linux as a replacement for CentOS.

You need safe mode with networking, not just plain old "Safe Mode" guys!

Well... get a 'geekier' circle of friends...

I've actually pointed out the brown bottle thing, to two different 'circles' of friends. One group called me a nerd and gave me shit about it, the other group nodded and found it interesting, then the conversation shifted to brewing techniques.

Guess which group was my wife's circle of friends and which group was my circle :)

I'm not /really/ old school, but I get it ( I didn't cheat by Googling either) :)

From what I remember when I read about this, back in the day lpd used to report that a printer was on fire if it was reporting a bad status

Just wanted to comment that these were great posts man... really interesting, eye opening stuff.

Where do you get your info? I'm interested in reading the websites or books you've read, where you were able to build such a comprehensive, informed list.

I've been waiting on iotop for a while too... see this comment I made: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239654#c2 back in September of last year.

Argh.

What's a measly 72 months between friends? :)