Simple:

1. Require all passwords to be Yubikey OTP passwords on any login prompt.
2. Refuse access, and only give them the logs manually.
3. When they shut your server down and open it up to yank the drive, hit 'em with a breach of lawsuit.
4. ????
5. PROFIT!

Depending on how capable your card is (decent 7-series NVidia or a good ATI), you may want to hit up HotHead Games and Penny Arcade Adventures' On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (both episodes). This is a good 3D "It's your turn when you act first before anyone else" game, well worth $15 for each episode, and plays very well in Linux. Just turn off Compiz/Beryl; it interferes with anything 3D.

First of all, FAT is patent encumbered and Microsoft's willing to go to court to protect it; so that's out. That includes the old UMSDOS file system Linux had at one time.

Someone needs to make a good file system that matches FAT, but is more extensible. A good choice is ext2 now... if we dropped a few things that wouldn't work nicely. Like device nodes, pipes, and Unix sockets. Like ownership, since it's assumed that the person mounting the system would own the files on it, along with groups. Simply access restrictions; they wouldn't apply.

This will simplify the structure a bit, which is a nice bonus and could let it be put on floppies. In other words, it's a light, anonymous, extended file system. LAEFS.

I got an .h file. Anyone want to help develop it as a FUSE driver?

All of this makes me think of what could be an Acme Instant Sentry. You throw a toolbox over, it rights itself, builds up a bit, and in seconds you got a limited capacity automated sentry. If there's room, just add a speaker and program it to say "Hell-looooooooo-hoooooooo? Can-you-come-over-here? There-you-are." *ratatatatatatatatatatat!*

actually now go around and start yelling at the top of our lungs "THEY FOUND THE TAPES!!!!!"

It's mainly chatter, so if you could fit it in a few gig with some nice compression.

Someone forgot about the battery powered Cradelpoint systems. They're at http://www.cradlepoint.com/ and aren't tied to one system or another: You provide a USB dongle for it. It provides everything else. The PRS300 or the CTR350 has been around for years now.

I've bought a small Shuttle K45 system, adding my own Intel chip and extras in there. Cost about $450 for my setup. About to put VMWare Server on it. I'll let you know how it works out.

My guess is that Oppenheim's barred from negotiations. RIAA has to send in the head of each record company, or it's contempt of court.

No, really! Even with a 16 gig SSD card, Gentoo works great after all the configuration. I sped up the compile by pushing my 900A to 2 gig, compiling on the RAM disk, and setting up the initial config on a VMWare virtual PC.

Facebook Privacy Change Sparks Federal Complaint

For those who don't like long reads: Promises aren't enough. EPIC wants it reversed, and is filling a Federal Trade Commission complaint.

"Along w/MAD going quarterly after issue 500, our dental plan has been eliminated-so my idea of getting my missing tooth replaced is on hold!"

--- From http://twitter.com/AlfredENeuman (and I do have it from a good authority that it is the real Alfred E. Neuman.

Grab a Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro, and slap Linux on a laptop. Plug in, tune in a station with Kaffeine, and note it down. Then get VLC configured to multicast that channel to the classrooms.

No need to kill the T1, when you can get digital TV of it for free.

The only other way is to have VLC multicast a smaller stream that won't choke the T1.

A bit of research through the Consumerist (just bought by Consumers Union, yay!) reveals that AirTran fouling up like this is nothing new.

Couldn't the lawyer request Facebook give up the goods on the couple?