Wallet is a Kerberos-based secret management tool. It works well for me.

How do ProtoMechs fit into this picture?

$40? I believe that I am in. Thank you!

I still have my Roland MT-32, and would love to use it for those old DOS games that support it. Can anybody suggest how I'd go about doing that in DOSBox?

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The original Tron was pretty poor *as a movie*, but nevertheless I enjoyed it, and continue to enjoy it today. What it really came down to, though, was that the movie was *extremely* metaphorical, and that those metaphors made sense in the context of computing at the time. (And in fact those metaphors hold up today, which is what makes the movie so much fun to watch today.)

The new Tron: Legacy didn't actually try to play with metaphors. It used the old ones from time to time, and it threw in some Unix and open-source allusions here and there (inappropriately, I might add), but other than that it just spent its effort on making things look pretty.

As a side-note: my reading of the movie is that the central theme of the movie is that open-source is good, but that the GPL is bad. And Clu is Richard Stallman. My review (which doesn't go into that in detail, admittedly) is here.

Usenet will never die until the last news server goes down; it'll just fade away.

Even "fading away" is a little pessimistic. Usenet still has too many benefits for real discussion - consistent interface, a wide variety of tools, killfiles, newsrcs, universal access through the flood-and-fill protocol, spam fighting, the wide variety of cultural forces that Usenet introduced - and the world is slowly coming around to accept them in other protocols. Even if another article were never transmitted via NNTP/UUCP, the lessons of Usenet will be taught to the next protocols - or, if not, then the lessons will be re-learned after they are poorly implemented a few more times.

Me, I hope that a smaller (read: binary-free) Usenet might lead to a resurgence of popularity, as people realize that they can easily pull down a full feed of the text groups to their private machines and share them to the world, just like any web server in the world. It's a *little* quixotic, sure, but not insanely so.