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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more <STRONG>SCARY!</STRONG></I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">The Back Page</font></H1>
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<H3 ALIGN="center">Cracking Slackware Linux</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By Iron
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<STRONG>
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Sir,
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I have just read your articles. It is really
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interesting and that's why i dare to send you this
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email. Sir, can you tell me any way to enter(hack)
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into slackware linux (through any program or
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shellscript whatever).
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Sir, I am eagerly waiting for your reply. Please send
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me the reply as quick as possible.
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> [Iron]
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<P> Choose your favorite reply.
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<LI> Push the 'Hack' button on your keyboard.<P>
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<LI> Sir, are you stoned or were you always this way?<P>
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<LI> Real hackers wouldn't have to ask.<P>
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<LI> Start by cracking something simple, like DOS 3.0.<P>
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<LI> The square pegs go into the square holes, and the round pegs go into
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the round holes.<P>
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Hi, you've reached the Linux Gazette Answer Gang....
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Linux ::::::::: a modern operating system not much like any of:
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--- DOS -- Windows -- Solaris -- MacOS -- alien starships ---
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... except occasionally, an ability to run on the same hardware.
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Gazette ::::::: published more regularly than "almanac." In our case:
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--- a monthly web-based magazine, home: www.linuxgazette.com
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Answer Gang ::: Not the "lazy college student's UNstudy group"
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--- nor the "hey d00dz help me cRaK my neighBoorZ klub"
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</PRE>
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<H3 ALIGN="center">Small sharp tools vs Bloatware</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By John Karns, Iron, Ben Okopnik
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> [John]
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<P> On several occasions I've read mention of the unix philosophy where each
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program concentrates on doing a few things and doing them well. Thus
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MTA's don't generally handle POP'ing, etc. The example given of Eudora,
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Netscape and Outlook are phenomena of a different OS. In the case of
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Netscape, its roots were closely tied to unix, but most of the development
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was targeted for users of the other OS - and its unfortunate that some of
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the ISP's are designing their configurations assuming that virtuall all
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subscribers will be using that platform.
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> [Iron]
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<P> And don't forget how much Netscape Mail changed the landscape. Prior to
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Netscape, most Unix people read mail from shell accounts, and the local
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machine had its own sendmail. Windows users depended on mail gateways
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between Internet and their Novell/Windows/Vines/whatever network, so they
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as users never had to configure anything. Of course, there were a few
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POP users here and there, but relatively few. Then Netscape Mail
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appeared, and suddenly ISPs and LANs were faced with large numbers of
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e-mailing users on Windows boxen that didn't have their own mail transport
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agent, so they had to rely on an upstream POP/SMTP server. Nowadays, it's
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just assumed that most users will connect this way. (Well, *most* users
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use Hotmail or one of the other webmail services....)
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<P> There's a fascinating book <EM>Digitopia</EM> that talks about how
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computerization has changed our society a lot more than people realize, because
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of the human mind's tendency to adapt to new situations and forget how things
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used to be. The author points out that each time a new Playstation or software
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update comes out, people get excited and then bored, but they forget that the
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new version is causing the same about of excitement and boredom as the previous
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version did. We think about Netscape 2 now and wonder how people could have
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been excited about such a crappy application, but that's because we're
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forgetting what the situation was like then.
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<H3 ALIGN="center">AOL knights</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By Iron, John Karns, Ben Okopnik
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> [Iron]
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<P> AOL became the biggest [ISP in the US]
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through a massive marketing campaign, sending millions of "try me out"
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CDs.
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> [John]
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<P> .. and before those, floppies. I used to receive at least one of those in
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the mail every week. I remember a humor piece circulating on the 'net
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along the lines of "Creative uses for AOL floppy disks", which was quite
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funny.
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> [Ben]
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<P> Heh. A FoF has made a <EM>suit of armor</EM> out of the CDs. There's also some
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fascinating stuff you can do with them after microwaving... Very useful,
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that AOL. <grin>
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<H3 ALIGN="center">The two sides of a VPN</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By Jim Dennis
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Do both sides of a VPN [Virtual Private Network] need special hardware to make
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a secure connection or can one side have nothing but an internet connection and
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the other side handle all the VPN stuff?
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> [Jim]
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<P> I know this is going to come across as a flame; but I have
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to observe that this question is so clueless that I'm truly
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befuddled as to what sort of muddled thought process could
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lead to this question.
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<P> The basic question, "do both sides of a VPN need special hardware?",
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is flawed. Neither side of a VPN needs special *hardware*.
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Both sides of a VPN connection need "special" (and interoperable)
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hardware *or* software.
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<P> The remainder of the question is the muddled part: "... can one
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side have nothing but an internet connection".
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<P> That's almost like asking, "Do both ends of a phone conversation
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need to have phones, or can one end do all the phone stuff and
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on the other end have nothing but a wire?"
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<H3 ALIGN="center">Bad Boy</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By Thomas Adam, Iron, Ben Okopnik
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> [Thomas]
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<P> Damn,
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<P> This e-mail was sent as in-line HTML.
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<P> Hey Heather....don't look at me like that. There's no
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need to shoot the "message-forwarder/replier"
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<IMG ALT=":)" SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" WIDTH="20" HEIGHT="24">
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> [Iron]
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<P> Ben's the one who usually looks at people menanicingly.
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He's our honorary "bad boy" because he's a KGB spy.
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<P> [Note to US FBI: Hi there! I see you're monitoring our
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e-mail. That Carnivore program sure is something, hey?
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That comment about Ben being a spy was a joke. Later doodz.]
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> [Thomas]
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<P> Surely "linux-questions-only" means just that? So
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where does psychology enter into it??
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> [Iron]
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<P> Obviously the address was harvested by a program and no human
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ever saw it. The most outrageous pieces of spam, off-topic
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questions or homework questions we ridicule on linux-questions-only
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or tag-admin, and then I publish them anonymously in Not The Answer
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Gang on the Back Page.
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> [Ben]
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<P> </me lowers KGB-issue shades><BR>
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<glares at Mike menacingly>
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<PRE>
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# Special Carnivore-disabling code. Does a DoS on the government's
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# computers which expend all their cycles trying to break the code...
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ISTHAY ISWAY OTNAY ETHAY ESSAGEMAY YOUAY'ERAY OOKINGLAY ORFAY
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<H3 ALIGN="center">Streaming</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By Iron, Ben Okopnik
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<STRONG>
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Hi Ben!<BR>
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P.S.: You don't happen to stream the courses you give, do you ? Would
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be really interesting...
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-Robos
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> [Iron]
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<P> A stream-of-consciousness rendering of Ben's mind? Now, that's scary.
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<P> Maybe in a thousand years somebody will be channeling that Ben Okopnik
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wisdom....
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> [Ben]
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<P> You have discovered my secret plan!
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<P> Damn. *Another* good idea down the drain. Back to the CAD program...
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<H3 ALIGN="center">Ambassador</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By Ben Okopnik, Iron
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> [Ben]
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<P> ... head is still spinning from Heather's explanation of how DNS works (I
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think I've got it, though!) which she was gracious enough to give me while I
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was out there on the Left Coast,
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> [Iron]
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<P> We've got quite the little network going. I met Heather and Jim last
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March. Now you've met Heather. When I get back to England next
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year, maybe I'll meet some other TAG ppl.
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> [Ben]
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<P> Hey, what with me travelling all over the country for work (mostly
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California, lately, but I just got a class in Atlanta and one in North
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Carolina), I could be the LG ambassador.
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<H3 ALIGN="center">Life on a boat</H3>
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<p align="right"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><strong>Answered By Ben Okopnik
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</strong></FONT></p>
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> [Ben]
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<P> It didn't help that Ricochet went down,
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and that my boat was hauled out in an area of Maryland where the hoot owls
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trod the chickens and TCP/IP packet routing is done by snails in their
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spare time. I've got a Merlin PCMCIA card now (<gag> 19200bps, when
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Ricochet was up to 128k...), and this gives me at least <EM>some</EM>
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connectivity. Certainly e-mail access, which is what's needed.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Football
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</H3>
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(Or as Irving Welsh would say, "Fitba".)
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<P> The Register
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<A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22385.html">pokes fun</A>
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at an
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<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18516-2001Oct18.html">article</A>
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in the Washington Post,
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which tongue-in-cheekly says Baltimore Ravens' coach Brian Billick
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blames his team loss October 14 on "the Linux operating system".
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<P> Happy Linuxing!
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<P> Mike ("Iron") Orr<br>
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Editor, <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/"><i>Linux Gazette</i></A>, <A
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HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</a>
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Copying license <A HREF="../copying.html">http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html</A><BR>
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