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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:34:37 -0500
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-07, Rick spake thusly: And open source software...
Gotta start somewhere. :-) Unfortunately, I don't want to destroy the microprocessor by popping the lid off Or had that occurred to you? :-)
I'll have to see if I can get my PROM burner to read, though at this point it's probably a lot easier just to buy a new one. Pop the PROM, read it, disbuttemble it, make sure it's all good, put it back in.
(Or burn a Linux version on a new PROM. It's been done.)
Don't forget to check your keyboard. Someone might have slipped in an extender in there, with RF capability broadcasting to a bug.
(It's been done. Not to me, fortunately.)
Look, you cook your trolls your way... :-P I happen to like 'em fried.
In any event, "trust but verify". At least I have the "verify" option. Can you use a disbuttembler? Would it be much use?
Lots of little firecrackers. They make very pretty pock marks. Lots of pretty pock marks. See, there's a hole!
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Indeed. But different enbreasties merit different levels of trust. That would work for the wash cycle, but would come...
I wouldn't know; I'm not in that area, although we might feel some of the repercussions.
Just look at www.distrowatch.org.
Hey, *I* didn't make up those logos. (Not that mine is any better; it's a smoke wisp in front of a gear. But then I never could draw.)
-- It's still legal to go .sigless.