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Critical Linux exploit in the wild 14 0 (5/19/2013 7:58:32 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Just a little heads-up... http://ostatic.com/blog/critical-linux-exploit-in-the-wild "If you run servers that provide shell accounts, it’s time to take some preventive measures. At least it is if you are... TomB

My very last COLA posting... 3 27 (12/31/2012 2:30:05 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy ....for this year! Have a very happy new year, y'all!!! -- If we could perpetually do blowjobs to every guy on earth, we would own the world. And at the same time have our hands free. ~ Samantha ... TomB

Btrfs to the test... big time. 19 12 (12/17/2012 8:47:54 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I talked before about how I migrated to btrfs for my general data storage, where I have three raw devices (sdb, sdc and sdd) in one big RAID-1 (both data and metadata) storage pool. Because my storage pool... TomB

Suse says "Btrfs ready to rock" 217 48 (12/8/2012 7:56:57 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/677226-suse-linux-says-btrfs-is-ready-to-rock "Matthias Eckermann, senior product manager at SUSE Enterprise Linux, says that Btrfs is ready for prod... TomB

A beginner's guide to btrfs 36 12 (11/30/2012 8:38:57 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.howtoforge.com/a-beginners-guide-to-btrfs And this is just a "beginner's guide"... An amazing filesystem to make GNU/Linux even better and more versatile. -- Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead. ~... TomB

Proprietary software on GNU/Linux: good or bad? 137 20 (11/28/2012 5:48:44 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/open-source-community-up-in-arms-over-proprietary-software-for-ubuntu/3998 "Always remember, everything has its place. Now, it turns out, closed source software h... TomB

Booting GNU/Linux on UEFI machines. With a little help from Microsoft. Very little... 21 16 (11/21/2012 6:21:29 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.zdnet.com/linux-foundation-support-for-booting-linux-on-windows-8-pcs-delayed-7000007673/ "Specifically, "The first time I sent the loader through, it got stuck (it still is, actually). So I sent... TomB

Is Android Linux? 5 22 (11/11/2012 8:40:10 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.androidcentral.com/ask-ac-android-linux "While trawling through the Internet today I came across the Linux Foundation's page, and my eyes were pulled to their top story. Now this is nothing new,... TomB

I'm really into technology. What's Foursquare built on? 2 18 (11/8/2012 6:32:38 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Yet another highly popular web-based service built on GNU/Linux and open source technologies: "Because of our pretty insane growth, we’ve designed our entire software stack to be as flexible and scalable a... TomB

Raspberry Pi... 100 37 (9/24/2012 5:53:07 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy ....is in the house! I'm flashing my class 6 8GB SD card as we type and will boot this nice little computer shortly. Play time! I'm planning to go with a custom Gentoo install in the near future by the ... TomB

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G+ Advocacy discussion 18 2 (5/18/2013 1:51:37 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy They keep talking about how distros should be more diversified and not all be just minor variations of each other. Hmmmm, much as I have been saying that distros should be more diversified and offer more c... usenet2 (34126)

Critical Linux exploit in the wild 14 0 (5/19/2013 7:58:32 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Just a little heads-up... http://ostatic.com/blog/critical-linux-exploit-in-the-wild "If you run servers that provide shell accounts, it’s time to take some preventive measures. At least it is if you are... tommy.bongaerts (5318)

Snit posts decent article on Linux Advocates 137 11 (3/30/2013 9:15:11 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.linuxadvocates.com/2013/03/standardization-as-road-to-more-choice.html Not that I agree with it, and not that it doesn't contain some of the usual Snit derisive innuendo and buzzwords ("unifie... OFeem1987 (708)

New module =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98libc=E2=80=99?= in systemd git 2 7 (4/1/2013 10:36:27 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/010062.html We figured to complete the systemd project we were still lacking an email program[1]. In order to get this off the ground ... OFeem1987 (708)

Blink? But why not just use WebKit 17 5 (4/4/2013 2:24:46 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Google is making a fork of WebKit... called "Blink". But why? Why not continue to use WebKit? It is not as if Apple owns and controls WebKit. Oh. LOL! Gotta love how timely this is after Lusotec an... usenet2 (34126)

Creepy or tomB can you please correct this site 21 5 (4/7/2013 2:36:22 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/HowToBuildInDebianFromSource Very specifically "./configure". Please go tell them they're idiots and dont understand Linux as well as you too do. LOL! ... hadronquark (20916)

If this was MS 101 8 (4/16/2013 9:02:21 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy ----- Fair-trade officials in Taiwan are looking into reports that Samsung paid people to criticise rival HTC online. Samsung is alleged to have hired students to post negative comments ... usenet2 (34126)

You may be a herd member if... #2 1 0 (5/24/2013 3:41:50 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy A list of irrational / unsupportable beliefs the herd members hold to or, at best, refuse to denounce: * MS has secret deals to stop OEMs from selling Linux pre-installed. * Apple claims to have invented t... usenet2 (34126)

'Round the clock Snot 19 7 (5/1/2013 1:14:59 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Over 700 posts this month in COLA alone, an average of 24 posts per day... But he works at a regular job, yep, uh huh... :-P ... sitting (4456)

Linux kernel error messing up virtual machines? 20 0 (5/22/2013 7:15:17 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy That is the claim in the G+ Linux Advocacy group. Funny how we never see such claims in COLA. I respect Dietrich that he admits he had to try three different solutions just to try to find a virtual mac... usenet2 (34126)