e I should know, or any other
advice anyone has? Thanks in advance for any pointers anyone can give me.
--Kai MacTane
--
"Playing dead and sweet submission,
Cracks the whip
any other
networking setting, or installed any of various pieces of software.
Facetious answer: Because you moved the mouse. :)
--Kai MacTane
--
"Before you slip into unconsciousness,
iend to boot in single-user mode a couple of days
ago when she was dealing with an ailing system. She didn't say anything
like "What's that?"; her reaction was, "Oh, yeah, that might help here.
I'll try
x27;
>always strikes me as insulting.
>Given that layman doesn't seem to be in common usage either,
>I didn't want to mangle it. If anyone has a better idea for
>a name
Non-geeks? Non-techies?
--Kai MacTane
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t;. "Wo-men" were female and "wer-men" male. The "wer" in "wer-man"
is cognate with the Latin "vir", which also means "man" (in our current
sense of "adult male human").
Somewhere along the way, English "man" got ad
l* the little details.
It's also extraordinarily instructive to look at the preceding chapter,
"Changes in Default Words and Images", which has many fabulously cogent and
incisive things to say about gender defaults in language and thought.
I highly recommend both chapters (and
of a back door in its IIS webserver that could affect
>hundreds of thousands of websites worldwide [1].
>[very big snip]
>[1]
><http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/entrepreneur.html?s=smallbiz/articles/20010
>514/microsoft_ackno>
That's the same URL
r five minutes, stick a boot floppy in the
drive, smack Ctrl-Alt-Del twice, and quickly change my root password to
whatever they wanted.
But I know that none of them even _want_ to. In many ways, relying on
people's complete lack of desire to harm your system can be a m
me and this list. Thank you.
--Kai MacTane
--
"A spark has passed between us, now
A momentary recognition..."
e at all. Thank you!
--Kai MacTane
--
"Hey, sister Moonshine, hold me 'til the break of dawn,
Hold me long,
Hold me hard,
Hold me 'til the shadows fade away..."
can be useful for security and various other things, but has no impact
on performance.
--Kai MacTane
--
"You wear guilt/Like shackles on your feet;
Like a halo in reverse
r Agent (Sendmail, Qmail, etc.)
MUA = Mail User Agent (Pine, elm, mutt, Eudora, Outlook, etc.)
Typos (and thinkos) happen to the best of us. But I wanted to make sure
that got cleared up.
--Kai MacTane
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make all
those names be symlinks to the one script. But I have no clue how to do
that in C.)
--Kai MacTane
--
"Doom. Gloom. Angst. Despair. Tragedy."
ssary to figure out what this problem
is (and possibly even how to fix it).
In essence, Unix assumes that the user is at least a little bit of a DIYer,
and it assumes that the sysadmin is *very much* so.
I hope that knowledge -- of that basic stance difference between Linux and
end-user OSes -- is
Unfortunately, you probably can't get all your business partners to send
you .rtf instead of .doc. (But if you could, it would really cut down on
Word macro viruses!)
--Kai MacTane
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oing this.
(Which may mean that the EU law is going to get lobbied against, heavily,
by businesses in the near future... but doesn't help the original poster at
the moment.)
--Kai MacTane
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And of course, I sometimes wonder if I just think our system is basically
okay because it's what I've been taught since I was just a wee tot. So,
thanks for the outside input, James. It really does help.
requests?
1) Please don't Cc: people who are already on the list (specifically
including me; I want nothing to do with this thread any more).
2) Please move this thread to issues only; it no longer seems approp-
riate on techtalk.
Thank yo
distressingly many in the US these
days, and you think they'll make your life hell for simply expressing your
situation, then you might just want to skip straight to step 2.)
(Note: I don't assume that you're in the US; there are screwy employers
like that in other countries, too. It
#x27;s First Amendment rights!
--Kai MacTane
--
"When the clouds pull apart/And the Moon changes phases,
In the quiet, secret p
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