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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>Can't See Boot Messages Even Though RedHat 7.2 Boots OK</strong></a>
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><strong>ntfs clobbered my ext3fs!!</strong></a>
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><strong>Postfix name resolution fails, dig doesn't</strong></a>
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<br>a game of win-upsmanship
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<p>It's a party, by
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/jove/">Jove</a>!
<a href="http://ben.hartshorne.net/aargh/">aargh</a>,
<a href="http://truereality.emuhq.com/unix/index.shtml">TrueReality</a>
strikes, he's caught in a
<a href="http://www.owlriver.com/projects/trainwreq/">trainwreq</a>
and can't host.
<a href="http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man1725.htm">nice</a>
that
<a href="http://www.amanda.org">Amanda</a>
can be his backup,
<a href="http://www.muhri.net/pronto/">Pronto!</a>
The gals
<a href="http://www.vamphq.com/resources.html">Rachel</a>,
<a href="http://nadja.sourceforge.net/">Nadja</a>, and
<a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~unicorn/hacks/molly/">Molly</a>,
help her
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jumpstart/">jumpstart!</a>
<a href="http://www.coreyo.net/projects/brunhilde/index.php">Brunhilde</a>,
and
<a href="http://edna.sourceforge.net/">edna</a>
handle the
<a href="http://music.ons.ca">MUSIC</a>,
<a href="http://astwww.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de/~deparade/sonstiges/">Thomas</a>'
brother gives out directions, and with my
<a href="http://www.bestlinux.net/">Best</a>
<a href="http://www.effortlinux.com.br/">Effort</a>
I don't get lost.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.everybuddy.com/">everybuddy</a>
from the
<a href="http://www.tarball.net/postoffice/">PostOffice</a>
was there,
<a href="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/">Cyrus</a>,
<a href="http://althea.sourceforge.net/">Althea</a>,
<a href="http://ishmail.sourceforge.net/">Ishmail</a>,
<a href="http://www.fentun.com/">Fentun</a>,
<a href="http://www.vanja.com/tools/">Virge</a>,
<a href="http://www.dillivision.com/felix/">Felix</a>,
<a href="http://www.csua.net/~mjm/buffy">Buffy</a>,
<a href="http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man0139.htm">biff</a>
and their
<a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>.
The old
<a href="http://www.hpc.uh.edu/majordomo/">majordomo</a>
greeted us; the
<a href="http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/sound/Maestro.html">Maestro</a>
was in the
<a href="http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/">rosegarden</a>
by the
<a href="http://www.lilypond.org/">lilypond</a>.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/">joe</a>,
<a href="http://www.kde.org/kate/">kate</a>,
and
<a href="http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man0442.htm">ed</a>
were full of
<a href="http://vim.sourceforge.net/">vim</a>.
<a href="http://davis.sourceforge.net/">DAVIS</a>
<a href="http://and.sourceforge.net/">and</a>
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/james/">JAMES</a>
brought out the
<a href="http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/">snack</a>
tray:
<a href="http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/">sawfish</a>
and
<a href="http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/">bluefish</a>
with
<a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/sauce/">SAUCE</a>,
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/">freshmeat</a>
with
<a href="http://sal.kachinatech.com/Z/1/SPICE.html">SPICE</a>
(<a href="http://mmondor.rubiks.net/software.html">ginseng</a>,
<a href="http://oregano.codefactory.se/">Oregano</a>,
<a href="http://salt.sourceforge.net/">SALT</a>,
and
<a href="http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/PEOPLE/DOUXCHAMPS/ieee1394/coriander/">coriander</a>, using a
<a href="http://bnt.kourakos.com/~awk/tenderizer/">tenderizer</a>),
plus a
<a href="http://wgz.org/chromatic/jellybean.html">Jellybean</a>
bowl.
<a href="http://www.openje.org/jasper/jasper/docs/manuals/en/index.html">Jasper</a>
handed out
<a href="http://www.cups.org/">CUPS</a>
of
<a href="http://juicy.sourceforge.net/">juice</a>,
<a href="news:comp.os.linux.announce">c.o.l.a</a>,
<a href="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</a>,
<a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/">Java</a>,
<a href="http://www.jcorporate.com/html/products/expresso.html">Espresso</a>,
plus all the
<a href="http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html">virtual beer</a>
we could drink.
</p>
<p>
All is not
<a href="http://www.win.tue.nl/~gino/solid/">Solid</a>
in the
<a href="http://uncensored.citadel.org/citadel/">citadel</a>
though. Things got
<a href="http://zjuul.net/~jules/loco/">loco</a>
--
a <a href="http://kaptain.sourceforge.net/">Kaptain</a>
asked me into the
<a href="http://www.conferenceroom.com/products/productshome.shtml">ConferenceRoom</a>
so we could
<a href="http://www.speakfreely.org/main.html">SpeakFreely</a>.
"The
<a href="http://www.comanche.org/">Comanche</a>,
<a href="http://everythinglinux.org/Mohawk/">Mohawk</a>,
<a href="http://aurora.esi.uem.es/~alo/?action=cherokee">Cherokee</a>,
are making a
<a href="http://www.f00f.net/~bdamm/projects/martyr/index.html">Martyr</a>
of the
<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a>,
somebody's
<a href="http://www.venge.net/wagon/wagon.html">Wagon</a>
almost squished the
<a href="http://dillo.sourceforge.net/">Dillo</a>,
<a href="http://tavi.sourceforge.net/">Wikki Tikki Tavi</a>
is holding the
<a href="http://www.python.org/">python</a>
and
<a href="http://www.boa.org/">boa</a>
at bay, the
<a href="http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au/proj_linux/nighthawk.html">nighthawk</a>
and our cat
<a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/demos/">oneko</a>
are both chasing the
<a href="http://cricket.sourceforge.net/">cricket</a>,
the
<a href="http://anteater.drzoom.ch/">Anteater</a>
ate
<a href="http://www.theory.org/software/ant/">Langton's Ant</a>
and I'm afraid the
<a href="http://basilix.org/">BasiliX</a>
is about to turn them all into lawn ornaments. To top it off that
<a href="http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/apps/pimp/">pimp</a>
won't lose his
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/smirc/">smirc</a>.
<a href="http://w1.404.telia.com/~u40435244/mamamua/">Mama Mua</a>,
what a
<a href="http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/">Maelstrom</a>..."
</p>
<p>
"Don't
<a href="http://www.linuxquake.com/">Quake II</a>
much." I had a
<a href="http://www.bitrot.de/plan.html">plan</a>.
Put a
<a href="ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt">crafty</a>
<a href="http://chat.spin.de/">SPiN</a>
on it and I
<a href="http://phorecast.org/">Phorecast</a>
these
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/folk/">FOLK</a>
would avert
<a href="jcomm.uoregon.edu/~stevev/Linux-DOOM-FAQ.html">Doom</a>
and have a
<a href="http://kxl.hn.org/games.html">Grande</a>
<a href="http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man2823.htm">time</a>.
</p>
<p>
We should
<a href="http://www.definitelinux.com/">Definite</a>ly
do this again next
<a href="http://www.lls.se/~johanb/august/">August</a>.
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