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The Masses Were Waiting in Line for the Linux Based OpenMoko Phone Today.
Ooops! Silly me! That was the Apple iPhone 4G *not* the open source OpenMoko phone. BTW what ever happened to the OpenMoko? You know, the phone the Linux freetards proclaimed as the iPhone killer? Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! Linux fails once again. ... 1 Jul 2010 11:03

comp.os.linux is bogus, dropping it
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:03:37 -0500 Ohmster <root(a)dev.nul.invalid> wrote: I could not find the group anywhere in the sort list of available newsgroups, and even giganews shows no new posts after May 25th. Is the comp.os.linux newsgroup dead? Been dead since 2005 timeframe. You have to select a sub-group... 28 Jun 2010 03:00

[slrn] comp.os.linux is bogus, dropping it
I am having serious problems with Fedora 12 and compiz. System updates broke compiz by the third one, over a year ago, and no one can fix it, including me, so I posted to alt.os.linux and comp.os.linux. I see my post in alt.os.linux, but not comp.os.linux on giganews with Xnews. On nntp.aioe.org, which is my N... 25 Jun 2010 12:03

Script needed to pull URLs out of desktop shortcuts
Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in news:slrnhptne1.3cu.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:22:00 +0000 (UTC), Bit Twister wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:24:20 -0500, Ohmster wrote: I have no idea of how to extract a list of URLS out of these desktop shortcuts o... 25 Jun 2010 12:03

Throw out my parallel port flatbed scanner?
clone4crw <clone4crw(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:1b801ad9-4e41-4c8e-a7e8- 84ae9726a695(a)e7g2000yqf.googlegroups.com: http://picasaweb.google.com/clone4crw/ScannerBulbLamp?feat=directlink There's a few pics of it if you're still interested Sorry about the very late reply. That is so freaking cool, I love it!... 25 Jun 2010 12:03

Fedora 12 - compiz ruined by updates
I have a home server with Fedora 12 on it. Old hardware: Pentium III, 800Mhz Coppermine, 1.5Gb SDRAM GeForce 6800 400Gb IDE hard drive FQDN on Comcast cable Internet It really works great as a server and my desktop is gnome and I like it a lot. I installed compiz-fusion as one of my first tweaks, loved it, ... 5 Jul 2010 13:17

techradar says win7 has killed the linux desktop
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:43:04 -0400, One Shot, One Kill wrote: it has to be alive first before it can be killed and the linsux desktop was born dead. Has Windows 7 killed Linux on the desktop? By Adam Oxford2 hours ago People don't just like Windows 7, it's the anti-Vista: loved fo... 21 Jun 2010 16:53

IPtables - forwarding question (take 2)
Ok. Lessavanutha go. ;) Assuming dnsmasq is configured properly (it works fine), and assuming aliens are not disrupting anything else... I've got (stripped back to related bits) these firewall details... # === SERVER === # IPT="/usr/sbin/iptables" NIC_LAN="eth1" PORTS_DHCP="53,67,68,4567" $IPT ... 18 Jun 2010 09:06

IPtables - forwarding question
How do I set up a stateful filter for a client machine? ATM I can restrict things to the local network, but as traffic is all local network to the client until the router box masqerades it, the client can still reach through the router box and out to the web, and the reverse is true also. I'm looking for ... 15 Jun 2010 03:14

compiled apache module doesn't show.
Even after restarting apache with "apachectl -k stop/start" a compiled mod_proxy module does not appear when I obtain a listing using "apachectl -l" This is a RH Linux 4 box, uname output is: Linux boxname 2.6.18-92.1.17.0.2.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 05:20:06 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux First I did: ... 10 Jun 2010 08:51