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Keep in mind that I am no expert or anything, but I just like to rant on rootkit, so forgive me. this is just my 2cents (take it for what its worth): Rootkits are a major pain in the ass. If you have gotten a rootkit or you strongly suspect it and you want to do some investigating, don't shutdown or...

I donno. I wouldn't want a machine with 512 megs of ram in it if it was brand new. I wouldn't mind having one though. If money is tight then I'd at least make sure that if you got 512 megs of ram that there would be a open slot for upgrading more ram later. And keep in mind that if you let it your G...

The thing I realy like most about it is that I can type commands and such. Every function has a 'long-command' or 'short-command' (or something like that). So you can hit alt-x (or m-x, were m is for 'meta') and then do tab complition to help you remember commands and such. Doing scripting and repea...

Lucent was part of AT&T. The more electronical/technological stuff. Lucent was AT&T's equipment manufacturer, was spun off and generally went to crap. It was one of those tech darlings of the 90's that ended up rolling snake eyes. Alcatel is a french company that does about the same sort of stuff. T...

Realise this about this case: Microsoft has appealled to the Supreme Court on the validity of this lawsuite. Basic it stems around weither or not 'software' is a computer componate. You see in the patent they are fighting against is patent violations that they've done _outside_ the US were US patent...

I am a recent convert from Vim to Emacs. I'll tell you why: 1. For the life of me I can't remember all the little Vim-isms 2. Being kicked into 'visual mode' when trying to copy text out of command-line vim.. 3. I donno. I am bizzare. I always hated Emacs before because the ctrl-key combo is just in...