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<H4>Visible Changes</H4>
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LG underwent a bunch of changes this month, some visible and some not. The
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most visible change is the spiffy yellow issues table on the
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<A HREF="../index.html">Front Page</A> and the
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<A HREF="../lg_issues.html">Site Map</A> page (formerly known as the Index of
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All Issues page). Another visible change is that several files have been
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renamed and symlinks removed:
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<LI> lg_frontpage.html is gone, replaced by index.html.
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<LI> All lg_toc##.html -> index.html.
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<LI> All issue##.html -> TWDT.html. (Going back as far as issue 77.)
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<LI> All issue##.txt.gz -> TWDT.txt.gz. (Going back as far as issue 77.)
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<LI> All symlinks are removed except the "current" link.
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</UL>
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This has a few implications for readers:
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<OL>
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<LI> If you bookmarked the home page of your favorite mirror as lg_frontpage.html,
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you must change the bookmark to index.html or just use the site name:
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<STRONG>http://www.linuxgazette.com/</STRONG>.
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<LI> You can continue to bookmark the current issue as
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<STRONG>http://www.linuxgazette.com/current/</STRONG>
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and it will update each month. This is also useful if you want to
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download the current issue to your palmtop each month.
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<LI> You can access the TWDT versions each month from a persistent URL:
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<STRONG>http://www.linuxgazette.com/current/TWDT.html</STRONG> or
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<STRONG>http://www.linuxgazette.com/current/TWDT.txt.gz</STRONG>.
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<LI> Windows users can stop complaining that symlinks don't unpack from
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tarballs on DOS filesystems, because there are no more symlinks! (Except
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one.)
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<LI> The Front Page is reformatted and somewhat less verbose. More on the way.
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<LI> If you have been downloading the FTP tarballs, you have a few obsolete
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files now. The disk space is minimal, but if you're obsessed with having
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a perfectly clean directory, delete it all and download lg-base.tar.gz
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and your favorite issues again. Downloading lg-base-new.tar.gz each month
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only updates and adds files, it doesn't delete obsolete files.
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</OL>
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Remember, starting with issue 83, you can click the author's name at the top of
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any article and go to that person's Author page, which has links to all their
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articles in LG, their most current contact information, and sometimes a bit of
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random information and a picture too.
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<P> The mirrors took a bandwidth hit this month as the files were moving
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around, but the files have all settled down now. There will be another big
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shuffle sometime when we convert the 649 old GIFs to PNG/JPG, but that's such a
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big job I don't know when we'll be able to do it. Not just to convert the
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files -- that can take five minutes with ImageMagick's <TT>convert</TT>
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program, <TT>find</TT> and a small shell script -- but we also have to (1)
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decide whether image.png or image.jpg is smaller/looks better for each image,
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(2) change the IMG links in all the HTML files, (3) not use transparency, and
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(4) look at all the pages on various browsers. Any volunteers?
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<P> For next month, I want to refine the navigation links between articles and
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between the global pages.
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<P> There is one change which will affect only a couple mirror administrators.
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Next to the existing search links, there is a commented link the mirror site
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can replace with a link to their own search engine. The comment format has
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changed, and I noticed one misspelling in it ("ENDN" instead of "END"). So
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mirror administrators with local LG search engines will have to adjust their
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scripts. There may be further adjustment when the navigation links get
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refined.
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<H4>Invisible Changes</H4>
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The scripts I use to generate LG have been largely rewritten. Configuration
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information is now mostly in YAML (.yml) files. <A
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HREF="http://yaml.org/">YAML</A> is a text-readable data serialization format,
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inspired by XML but simpler, and automatically converted to native types
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(string, int, float, list, hash, boolean, null, date, etc). It's still in its
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early development stage (the language spec and types are just being finalized
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now), but the preliminary Python parser <A
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HREF="http://wiki.yaml.org/yamlwiki/PurePythonParserForYaml">PyYAML</A> works,
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and there are also parsers for Perl, Ruby and C. Here are a couple article
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entries for this issue, in <STRONG>data/issues/084.yml</STRONG>:
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---
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key: arndt
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author: arndt
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title: Office Linux -- Feedback
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key: bradley
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author: bradley
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title: Adding Plugin Capabilities To Your Code
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</PRE>
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"key" is a unique (within the issue) identifier for the article. "author" is a
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link to their Author entry, which is a file in rfc822 (mail message) format.
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(I could use YAML for it, but rfc822 is really convenient for this particular
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object.) "title" is, um, I think you can guess what that is....
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<P> The article header/footer, TOC, Front Page, Site Map, etc, are generated
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from <A HREF="http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/">Cheetah</A> templates. Cheetah
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is a free software project I've been a developer on for the past 1 1/2 years.
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It's a string template system for Python. Cheetah has been generating the LG
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Mirrors page for several months.
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<P> There's a shared "lg" module that reads all the configuration files into
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a data structure and pickles it out to a cache file for fast reading. (Or
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actually cPickles it, which is a thousand times faster.) Then the script
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"article" takes the article entry and author(s) entry and puts the
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header/footer in the HTML file in place, deleting the previous header/footer
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if present. The "authors" script is more complicated because it has to make
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each Author's page as well as the author index, TAG bios index, and
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previous/next links for each. It also searches through the articles data
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to generate the links to all the articles published by each author.
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<P> I'm close to having TWDT automated, which I'm very happy about. No more
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manually creating that d*%n thing manually and then having to edit three files
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(the original, TWDT.html and TWDT.txt.gz) when an article needs a correction.
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Soon I'll be able to change just the original and then run <TT>twdt</TT> and
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have it automatically regenerate those two files. Well, almost. Heather
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generates the TAG column lg_answer and TWDT.lg_answer.html simultaneously from
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her mailbox files, and she tells me 'twould be difficult to generate
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TWDT.lg_answer.html from lg_answer. So for TAG corrections I'll still have to
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edit three files.
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<IMG ALT=":(" SRC="../gx/dennis/unsmily.gif" WIDTH="25"
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<a name="wacko"></a>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Wacko Topic of the Month</font></H3></center>
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<H4>Rick Moen</H4>
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The moving correspondent writes; and having writ moves on. Nor all your
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piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your
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tears wash out a word of it.
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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what does this mean?
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<H4>Dan Wilder:</H4>
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Time wounds all heels?
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<H4>Rick Moen:</H4>
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The correspondent<BR>
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You seek alas is not here.<BR>
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Endless others exist.
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You step in the stream,<BR>
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But the water has moved on.<BR>
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Your penpal is gone.
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<P>
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Error messages<BR>
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Unfold across the monitor.<BR>
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Glist'ning like the snow.
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<a name="nottag"></a>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Not The Answer Gang</font></H3></center>
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<P>
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<blockQuote>
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From
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From: Mike Orr
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</blockQuote>
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<P><STRONG><IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" ALT="(?)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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>
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I'm writing a script for school and I'm having a bit of trouble. The problem
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is as follows: it must accept a from a user and display the squares of all
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the numbers starting from 1 to that number, as follows:
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1 square = ___
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2 square =___
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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n square = ___
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</STRONG></P>
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<blockQuote><IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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> [Iron]
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Did you have a Linux question? If so, you forgot to include it.
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</blockQuote>
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<blockQuote>
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You didn't mention which programming language you're using, but it doesn't
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matter. We're unlikely to answer questions that can be discovered by simply
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reading a tutorial for that programming language.
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</blockQuote>
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<blockQuote>
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See <A HREF="../tag/ask-the-gang.html"
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>http://www.linuxgazette.com/tag/ask-the-gang.html</A>
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for the kinds of questions we're willing to answer.
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</blockQuote>
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<blockQuote>
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</blockQuote>
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From: "Guy" <<A HREF="mailto:guy@gmnow.net"
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>guy@gmnow.net</A>>
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<blockQuote>
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See now... I answered a sendmail question! <EM>Smile</EM>
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</blockQuote>
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<blockQuote>
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That tells you I do lurk, until I see a message I can answer!
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From: Iron
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</blockQuote>
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<blockQuote>
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Aww, somebody's trying to crack my Webware site. Sorry I don't
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have any files for you, buddy.
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<PRE>
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HTTP404: /favicon.ico
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HTTP404: /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=2614&STRMVER=4&;CAPREQ=0
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HTTP404: /MSOffice/cltreq.asp?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=2614&STRMVER=4&;CAPREQ=0
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From
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From: "Benjamin A. Okopnik" <<A HREF="mailto:fuzzybear@pocketmail.com"
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>fuzzybear@pocketmail.com</A>>
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</blockQuote>
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<blockQuote>
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:14:29PM +0200, denis k?llner wrote:
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</blockQuote>
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<P><STRONG><IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" ALT="(?)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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>
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Hi
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i've download your software (lcdproc) and buyed me a display,
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</STRONG></P>
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<blockQuote><IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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> [Iron]
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I'm not sure who the "you" in "your software" would be, unless one of
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the Answer Gang wrote "lcdproc"...
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</blockQuote>
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<blockQuote><STRONG>
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i've connect the display to my LPT-Port how it is in your picture, but it
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doesn't work!!
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</STRONG></blockQuote>
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<blockQuote>
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Oh, <EM>of course</EM> we instantly recognize the exact problem! Thank you for
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such a precise description.
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</blockQuote>
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<STRONG>
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I need to know about Linux operating system- kernel.
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So can u please help me to find some informations about Linux kernel. can
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u ple. answer to the below questions ? need good details !!!
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</STRONG>
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<P><STRONG>what is a Linux kernels?
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</STRONG>
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<blockQuote><IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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> [Neil Youngman]
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That's the tasty bit inside the Linux shell.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<STRONG>
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what function do they perform?
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</STRONG>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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If you crack a Linux shell you can eat the kernel. Also you can grow new
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Linux trees from it.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<STRONG>
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how important are they?
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</STRONG>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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They are very important if you're stuck on a desert island and they are your
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only source of food.
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<P> P.S. We don't do your homework for you.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<H4>Ben Okopnik:</H4>
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Oddly enough, that was
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one thing that the Russians _didn't_ claim for themselves... I guess
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they figured that inventing the radio, the light bulb, and the airplane
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was enough for anybody. :)
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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So how do the Russians claim those things? I thought Marconi was Italian.
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<A HREF="http://www.alpcom.it/hamradio/marconi.html">http://www.alpcom.it/hamradio/marconi.html</A>
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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Uh-uh. Popov, not Marconi.
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<A HREF=""http://www.russiajournal.com/is/columns/columns168-How-the-Russians-invented-the-radio.html>http://www.russiajournal.com/is/columns/columns168-How-the-Russians-invented-the-radio.html</A>
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<P>
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I learned that stuff in school; with a lot of Russians of the previous
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generation (mine was already too cynical), it was an article of faith.
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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When I was taking Russian in high school (1983), there were a few students
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who had travelled to Russia. One said he'd gotten into an argument with
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somebody over whether Pepsi was an American or a Russian invention.
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<H4>Ben:</H4>
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<laugh> *That* one, I knew for myself. Pepsi's first plant in Russia was
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built in Moscow, about a kilometer away from where I was going to
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school. At least they started building it; I left Russia just before
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they finished it. But I'd have no problem believing your friend about
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having had the argument.
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<H4>Neil Youngman:</H4>
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<PRE>
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LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
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LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE
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</PRE>
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These symbols are familiar to us Scandihoovians, and are used to signify
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"This word cannot be pronounced by Americans."
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<H4>Ben Okopnik:</H4>
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<laugh> And by us Russkis, too - in KOI8, those come out to be upper and
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lower case "soft signs". Personally, I think the above description
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should be replaced with yours... sorta:
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<PRE>
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CAPITAL LETTER NOT PRONOUNCEABLE BY AMERICANS
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SMALL LETTER NOT PRONOUNCEABLE BY AMERICANS
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</PRE>
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<STRONG>
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Please make a new artical about Brazil because I am doing a report on it and
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please type it on Yahoo.com Please DO NOT send e-mails here
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</STRONG>
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<H4>Heather Stern:</H4>
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Oh my, another homework assignment. Please do not send emails showing
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that I'm trying to cheat, to an account I share with my folks. Besides
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then they'd realize I don't even know how to spell "article" much less
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think of a topic for one on my own.
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<P> Not that this has much to do with Linux of course.... but there are a
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lot of Linux users in Brazil; IIRC Conectiva is quite popular.
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<P> I don't think Yahoo has a mirror of Linux Gazette, but searching there
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for "Brazil" would net you a better chance of good information than
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visiting Linux Gazette would, anyway.
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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There's a Brazilian tattoo parlor across the street from my house that
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just opened up. It's very bright green.
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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Your question really boils down to: "We have one program (but we won't tell you
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which one) that leaves some files behind when it exits. Please tell us where
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the files are and how to delete them."
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<P> Every program is different. I have no idea what *that* program does,
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whatever it is. I can guess from the word "view" that it's a database
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application, but that's only a guess. Why don't you tell us?
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Subject: Music break
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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Bizet, The Pearl Fishers (les pe^chers de perles),
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"Je crois entendre encore". Highly recommended.
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<H4>Breen Mullins:</H4>
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I'm fond of "Au fond du temple saint" from the same opera, myself.
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<P>
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-- Breen, without quite the high notes to sing that baritone line.
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<a name="spam"></a>
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">World of Spam</font></H3></center>
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<P> <HR> <P>
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<P>
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Subject: The Punk Kittens Have A Song For You! *LOL*
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<P> Punk Rock Kittens *NEW* LOL!!
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<H4>Iron:</H4>
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I didn't make up this stuff about punk kittens, honest!
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<P> I can just see Heather editing TAG with punk kittens wandering around the
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room....
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<H4>Heather:</H4>
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Let's see, we have BlueCat, and GreyCat and robotfindskitten and....
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Anyway, it'd never work. Crystal won't put up with other cats in the
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house.
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Subject: Customized Warez CD's
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<PRE>
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Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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PFRBQkxFIGNlbGxTcGFjaW5nPTAgY2VsbFBhZGRpbmc9MCB3aWR0aD03MjUg
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Ym9yZGVyPTA+DQo8VEJPRFk+DQo8VFI+DQo8VEQgc3R5bGU9IkZPTlQtU0la
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</PRE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
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[Looks like a Klez worm to me. -Iron.]
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</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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Howdy from South Texas! Let's partner together and make some money.
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Click the link to learn more.
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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A few people have posted their attempts to lead the Nigeria Scammers on a
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wild goose chase.
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<UL>
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<LI> <A HREF="http://www.haxial.com/fraud/mikeaba.html">http://www.haxial.com/fraud/mikeaba.html</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/">http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="http://www.brianwizard.com/work/nigerian_419.htm">http://www.brianwizard.com/work/nigerian_419.htm</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa/naffpub.pdf">http://www.state.gov/www/regions/africa/naffpub.pdf</A> (PDF)
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</UL>
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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Hi, I couldn't help but notice your web site has portions a little "under
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construction" -- I was wondering if you'd like some help getting the graphics,
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navigation, and higher end java features together?
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Features you might want to include are:
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<UL>
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<LI> profile signups for people that come to your page
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<LI> eNewsletter facility
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<LI> a database driven design -- so to change your content - you work with the
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database - not HTML
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</UL>
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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If you want to jump-start your site's success (and I mean really BLAST it into
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orbit!) then this could very well be the most important message you will ever
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receive.
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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I have just received this amazing web based email and you have just
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gotta check this out. It blows hotmail, yahoo and all other web based
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email away.
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Basically it's email with graphics, really snazzy like customising your
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phone but much better.
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If you go to XXXXX you can see what I mean.
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The graphics look great fun and they cost no more than what you
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pay for mobile ringtones and graphics.
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You can reserve your name right now by simply pre registering
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an account.
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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<PRE>
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--------------------------------------------------------
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DOWNLOAD THIS WHITE PAPER AND LEARN...
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--------------------------------------------------------
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* The Hacker Profile
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* Common Hacking Tools - The Hacker's Toolkit
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* Top 10 Ways to Secure Against Attack
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* Seven Questions to Test Your Security
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</PRE>
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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We are looking for anti-virus and anti-hacker software.
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<H4>Faber Fedor:</H4>
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And what, pray tell, is "anti-hacker software"?
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<H4>Jay Ashworth:</H4>
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Software that makes hackers run away and not want to work on
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the box. You know: Windows.
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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Most people find it incredible to believe they could
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actually write their own ebook in as little as 7 Days...
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But people just like you do it all the time... because they
|
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know the secrets to getting their own ebook into their
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computer and out on the web where people can buy it as
|
|
quickly as possible.
|
|
|
|
<P> What you should expect from this mini-course...
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|
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<P> Today we'll give you the single, *most powerful* element in
|
|
the ebook writing process...
|
|
|
|
<P>Then we'll send you 3 more emails (one every 2 days)
|
|
where we cover:
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<P>Email 1 - Creating an Idea and Writing your eBook quickly
|
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|
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<P>Email 2 - Publishing Your eBook so *everyone* can read it
|
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|
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<P>Email 3 - Selling Your eBook and making money!
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|
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<P> So you see Answerguy we have a lot
|
|
of ground to cover... let's get started!
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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Excuse the intrusion, somehow your email made its way into my database.
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I in no way wish to offend or be a bother to anone. If you would be so
|
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kind as to reply with remove in the subject line, your email address will
|
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be deleted from my files,
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<HR NOSHADE WIDTH="80%%"> <!--*********************** -->
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Dear Sir/Madam, I am a Private Investigator based in Europe. A group of
|
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Government Officials from an African Country contacted me with a Proposal. I
|
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am to Make contact with you and state their offer, if your Interest is
|
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Genuine, you will be contacted for your Account details to which will be
|
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transferred the sum of $33,600, (Minus the Interest, handling and tax
|
|
clearance charges, which Will be offset by Us & Deducted from the
|
|
transferred sum) to a nominated Bank account in the Cayman Islands. I don't
|
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think I need to spell out the importance of Secrecy in this Matter considering
|
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the amount involved.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
|
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[The interesting thing about this scam is not the measly amount they're
|
|
offering ($33,000 instead of $33,000,000 -- as the message just before
|
|
this offered), but the fact that it comes with a text attachment
|
|
containing 1230 e-mail addresses, several being Linux Gazette authors
|
|
and other famous Linux personalities. Oops, I think their harvesting
|
|
software made a mistake. Did they run it in reverse? The funniest
|
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address is "billsux@microsloth.com"; I bet he's just waiting to invest.
|
|
Here's an excerpt: -Iron.]
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</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<PRE>
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Email
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gazette@ssc.com
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linux-questions-only@ssc.com
|
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Heather Stern <star@starshine.org>
|
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Michael Conry <michael.conry@softhome.net>
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tag-request@ssc.com
|
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Shane Collinge <shane_collinge@yahoo.com>
|
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Matteo Dell'Omodarme <matt@martine2.difi.unipi.it>
|
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Paul Evans <pevans@catholic.org>
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Mark Nielsen <info@gnujobs.com>
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Ben Okopnik <ben-fuzzybear@yahoo.com>
|
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billsux@microsloth.com
|
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sponsor@ssc.com
|
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webmaster@linuxgazette.de
|
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ftp@be.easynet.net
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Doc Searls <doc@ssc.com>
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Contact Us <info@osdn.com>
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ShadowDragon <brian.smithSPAM@SUXshadoweb.net>
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ASCIIMan <jsaNOSPAMboe@artifexREMOVETHIS.org>
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linux-questions-only@ssc.com
|
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postmaster@aol.com
|
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Username@Host
|
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needbulkisp@yahoo.com
|
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MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com
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550MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com
|
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gnu@gnu.org
|
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email us <weblocal@linux-mandrake.com>
|
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click here <tony@eastmont.net>
|
|
Ben Okopnik <fuzzybear@pocketmail.com>
|
|
marketing@elinux.com
|
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you@email.address
|
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info@suse.com
|
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support@suse.it
|
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suse@suse.de
|
|
announce@en.tldp.org <announce-subscribe@en.tldp.org.NOSPAM>
|
|
-unsubscribe@en.tldp.org
|
|
esr@thyrsus.com
|
|
debian-user@lists.debian.org
|
|
mirrors@debian.org
|
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security@debian.org
|
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sales@nostarch.com
|
|
webmaster@kernel.org
|
|
ftpadmin@kernel.org
|
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</PRE>
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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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