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dARTH'S bLOG: The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster

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http://www.manualy.sk/archivsecurity/source/

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The Register has a story
How computers make kids dumb. This is just one of a number of stories [see links on story page] about how technology in general, and computing in particular is destroying society.

Ref: luddite - definition by dict.die.net

Ref: Luddite: Definition from Answers.com

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Slashdot.org has a dicussion about a
Homemade EVDO/WiFi Mobile Access Point. The details are on the projects pages: EVDO StompBox Project

This project includes a wireless EVDO to 802.11 router.

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The LAPD, the FBI and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it.

The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The ATF goes in. After learning that the rabbit has formed a militia and is using the woods as cover, they call in the US Marshals who while trying to serve a warrant have some agents killed and injured; some by rabbits and some by errant friendly fire. The Marshals readjust the rules of engagement to include, "Shoot on sight anything with long ears."

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: 'Okay, okay, I'm a rabbit, I'm a rabbit.'

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garbage.com.home

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The English-to-American Dictionary

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Finally found what appears to be a fix for that annoying habit Windowz has of making the user *Click* to move the input focus between windows on the screen.

* Windows NT/2000/ME/98/95 version (1.33) at microsoft.com

* The XP version from Microsoft

* Both versions are available from Annoyances.org - Download TweakUI

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A couple interesting notes about Cygwin, X, and SSH, today.

Problem 1: The BadWindow X-client Crash

First off, we had a problem with Gnu Emacs (not Xemacs or other, non-Gnu Emacs - don't know if the problem exists with others) and Cygwin X when the Emacs was running on a remote host and displaying on the X-server of a local workstation. The X server is Cygwin's, and the remote Emacs is installed on a Linux system. The connection was mude using OpenSSH.

As it turns out, this is a problem between SSH and X, not (as was first suspected) a problem with the Window Manager or Cygwin-X / Windows interaction. It is not an Emacs problem either, and from the reports we found on the Inernet concerning this, it is not unique to Gnu Emacs under X, either. That is, this could affect any X application - not sure why it doesn't appear to affect XTerm, but it may be because the Emacs was run as a child process of the XTerm.

The Workstation has:

* Windows 2000 Professional Workstation
* Cygwin
* X (x11.org)
* FVWM
* Gnu Emacs
* OpenSSH


Fix for Problem 1:

Found a fix (together with a description of the problem) in a posting on RedHat.com support site.

The post there suggests a fix involving a change to the change to the SSH configuration files, which we were loathe to do, so we (using arcane knowledge gained from intense study of manual pages) opted for the alternative solution (which occurs further down in the post, from a later response to it) - which suggestion is to use the -Y parameter to ssh instead of the -X parameter as was tradtional.

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