Another installment.  A light response; was getting warmed up.  I’m interested in rational discourse instead of everyone assuming that everyone believes in what they do; maybe get people to think critically about their own opinions a bit more.

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Oy vey.  Bush should learn what a slippery slope argument is.  That’s what he used to convince himself that allowing _any_ stem cell research could lead to eugenics ala Brave New World.  And I thought Jesus told him it was evil…  Well, now we know why he isn’t opposing In Vitro fertilzation since it apparently is not related to anti-abortion kind of sentiments (every embryo is sacred, every embryo is good).

For the home user out there without an IT department or computer science degree it is unfortunate that the software industry has put such a buggy, generally insecure, high-maintenance headache of a machine on the market they call a computer.

I noticed that one of the throw-away email addresses I registered years ago for sony style product registration and accessories is now receiving spam.  Was sony compromised or did they have an insider sell their addresses?  Who knows…  I know that I didn’t give it out to anyone…

I have been wrestling with my dspam configuration on Ubuntu for quite some time and think I finally got it set up the optimal way. It took building a custom modern dspam package myself, with the help of a kind soul who built a custom package for Debian etch.

What a great find!  “A Guide to Seattle’s Free Wireless Coffee Shops”  They even have them categorized by neighborhood and even ones that are open late (it is annoying how much stuff in Seattle seems to close early…)

Wow, I haven’t been paying close enough attention.  Fortunately the problems with smbfs were bothersome enough for me to do some research and find that it is no longer maintained and that cifs is much more stable.  Most of the arguments are directly mappable between the two so migrating is a cinch.

From Risks Digest 24.82