I don't know if I've ever heard that sentiment expressed so clearly and succinctly. Whoever coined that phrase is a wise and clever individual. If it's your own, I applaud you. +5

Am I the only one, or did anybody else read that headline and wonder why someone would want returned to them a dog that went through a wood chipper? (Waiting for the ASPCA to call...)

Then you must hate Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) - they're only at version 0.11, so they're less than half as advanced as MythTV.

:P

How soon we forget...there have been two presidents that have been impeached. The first, Andrew Jackson, was impeached in 1868. If only I could remember that second guy...

Wait! I got it! It was Clinton! Obstruction of justice and perjury, correct? Not exactly glowing words to use for the person that occupied the most powerful office on earth for a time. Heck, he couldn't even understand what the meaning of "is" was. And too bad - we had a good streak of 130 years going and he had to go screw it up.

Yes, I know Nixon was facing impeachment, but he wasn't impeached, and close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. I think it's funny (and sad) how people cherry pick from one side of the aisle or the other when slinging mud. I'm not going to argue with you, but not because you're right (because you obviously are not). It's because, as a liberal, you're likely to not understand or be able to follow a logical argument anyhow, I'm tired of typing, and I don't feel you're worth the bits. All presidents have flaws and all presidents have scandals, and trying to paint Demoncats with a nicer brush because they're Demoncats is nonsensical (and don't deny that is your intention, as it clearly is).

Good night, and good evening. Alaska is is a beautiful state, BTW.

By far the worst was the XYZ Affair, back even before we came up with clever names for scandals.

Sorry - I guess "overzealous nuts in the Bush regime" was meant not as inflammatory but as a totally benign comment that reflected *in no way* the deeper feelings of the poster on this subject. That's what I get for reading words and trying to understand their meaning like a normal person, I guess.

You two can discuss this at your next Obama Fanboy party - I think this month's shindig is at Bill Ayer's house, on the corner of Socialism Park Drive and Partisan Way (but watch out, that's a rough part of town).

And yes, now I'm just being mean... ;)

I'm sure you probably meant big "R" Republicans, right? I just think it's funny that you'd choose to highlight instances that occurred under the watch of Republican presidents and none under Democrats, as though all Democrat presidents were boy scouts and all Republican presidents were akin to Hitler's child-abusing step-brother (citation needed). The only thing "insightful" about your post is how blatantly obvious your political bias extends.

When I worked at a major U.S. university, we used software called DeepFreeze from http://www.faronics.com/ that did exactly what you think it would do - caused a machine to be "frozen" (meaning no changes could be made) and if anything bad DID happen, a reboot made everything go back to normal. There are administrative options where you can freeze and unfreeze machines remotely (for patch installation, etc), you can "unfreeze" certain parts of the filesystem so files and whatnot can be saved, etc. Might be worth looking in to.

It's pretty handy and not too costly. Also, for our implementation it was great that it was a software solution and not a hardware one, as we didn't want to have to go out and physically touch each of our machines (spread across remote campuses and computer labs, and numbered into the thousands).

-chmod