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Comment Re:My favorite PC blunder (Score 1) 806

You can use a USB flash drive when installing Vista as well.
My Intel DP35DPM board came with the AHCI/Matrix RAID driver on a floppy. Too bad it didn't even have a connector for a floppy drive (and XP didn't want to load it off my USB floppy drive).
Ended up having to use nLite to merge it into the install media.

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Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences 366

Afforess writes "'Proxy servers are an everyday part of Internet surfing. But using one in a crime could soon lead to more time in the clink,' reports the Associated Press. The new federal rules would make the use of proxy servers count as 'sophistication' in a crime, leading to 25% longer jail sentences. Privacy advocates complain this will disincentivize privacy and anonymity online. '[The government is telling people] ... if you take normal steps to protect your privacy, we're going to view you as a more sophisticated criminal,' writes the Center for Democracy and Technology. Others fear this may lead to 'cruel and unusual punishments' as Internet and cell phone providers often use proxies without users' knowledge to reroute Internet traffic. This may also ultimately harm corporations when employees abuse VPN's, as they too are counted as a 'proxy' in the new legislation. TOR, a common Internet anonymizer, is also targeted in the new legislation. Some analysts believe this legislation is an effort to stop leaked US Government information from reaching outside sources, such as Wikileaks. The legislation (PDF, the proposed amendment is on pages 5-15) will be voted on by the United States Sentencing Commission on April 15, and is set to take effect on November 1st. The EFF has already urged the Commission to reject the amendment."

Comment Re:looks like it still loses history (Score 4, Informative) 459

I did exactly as you said, and at the new login I had the commands from A,B,C (in that order) in history.
Here's what it looks like:

  996  echo AAA # A
  997  history|tail # checking history on B
  998  echo BBB # B
  999  history|tail # checking history on C
1000  history|tail # checking history on C, again
1001  history |tail # new login

This is:
GNU bash, version 3.2.33(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

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