My account was un-frozen immediately after my last journal entry. Over the last Month, I've gotten to moderate at least 3 times. Isn't that a little bit much? Could my 'karma' possibly have dipped so low? I still say my lockout was bullhonkey - and I did indeed have several extremely valuable things to say at the time. Too bad that specialized knowledge was just flushed down the net-toilet. Oh well. Apparently my karma is excellent now...which it has always been...but now I am more than excellent...I am regular moderator. Silly me. I think I'm getting paid back for my time off with more slashdot work.

I'm still waiting for my post restriction to be up. Seriously, I have 3 flaimbait moderated posts...in the last 6 months...and I am banned from posting.

Two posts were related, and only clarifying a position...and definitely did NOT meat any of the 'flamebait' moderation reasons from the help files (which I did recently read for the first time in several years).

One post was definitely flameworthy, as I was complaining about how stupid it was that a campus newspaper article about stupid college pranks got onto slashdot. Really, we all did wonderful pranks with nebulous legality in college, none of them is national/world news.

Assuming you have access to a firewall of some sort, you can knock them down there for everybody, or you can also block all of these on a single local machine.

Ad servers, though many, are easy to find. List (and instructions) of major global ad servers:
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

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Oh my gosh. this must be the strangest thing I can imagine. Sure, there have got to be lots of people in microsoft that read slashdot...so they know the general feeling about them in here. Are they trying to dull the blade of the sword that will kill them? Honestly, Microsoft...the end is coming for you. Linux and MAC will both remove you from your throne. Stolen copies of longhorn in india? I think that will be the biggest market deployment you will have for longhorn. Honestly...in two years from now when you want to release longhorn...remember what happened when windows 95 came out? Made everything from 1993 look pretty lame. In two years, Linux will make windows look pretty lame.

Think about this: the (free registration)The Jerusalem Post reports that

"The government debt remained at 102 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the first half, much higher than both the OECD average of 76% and the European Union average of 72%" -Israel

Good business? Heres the USA's Debt Clock and some graphs that show the USA's debt was only around 60%(look at the one on the bottom)...which is better than those other astronomical numbers. Makes me glad I am not constantly at war.

Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed is a great book, and I reviewed it. Learned a lot. Am playing quite a bit...and now it is going on slashdot. I am excited. Get down. I am geeky.

I am super excited to start puting together a new system. I want dual monitors, a sweet video card, and a big fat box that glows and pulsates. That might be too much to ask though. The wife might vote all that down in commitee and just stick me with a new game. I think I want MOO3. :)

There has been a lot of posting about Linux on the XBox, but I am much less adventerous and way too cheap to buy a brand spanky new xbox. But Simcountry has an incredibly in depth and hopelessly nerd centric game that I can play with the glories of Opera/IE/Netscape. They simulate an entire world right down to each country's roadmap and social security payments...and they do it on linux. It takes almost 12 full hours of processing to make each world go thru one month of activity. I wonder where they fell on this list of favorite linux games. All servers are dual processor units running everybody's favorite free operating system:linux. You can see how it all works. And see me.

> Simcountry has now been officially notified that I would like to post on slashdot about their incredibly in depth and hopelessly nerd centric game. I messaged the webmaster and asked if he thought that they could handle the onslaught of a /.ing. They run 4 servers that simply turn numbers and actually run the game(one for each 'world')...and 2 servers for admin/user validations and page formations. All servers are dual processor units running everybody's favorite free operating system:linux. You can see how it all works.