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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:answerguy@ssc.com">answerguy@ssc.com</a><BR>
LinuxCare,
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<p><a href="#tag/greeting"
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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<dd><A HREF="tag/2.html"
><strong>
Using a 286 as a Serial Terminal
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<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
><img src="./../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
alt="(?)" border="0"
><strong>What's wrong with internal modems?</strong></a>
<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
><strong>Error starting recompiling process?</strong></a><dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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Deleting Files and UNIX Permissions
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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Recompiling Kernel to Support CD-ROM
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<dt><A HREF="tag/8.html"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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fvwm95-Wharf: xterm comes out black?
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<dt><A HREF="tag/9.html"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
><strong>Another "No Login" Problem: A little tip</strong></a>
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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Modem Multi-link PPP: EQL
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<dt><A HREF="tag/11.html"
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How to Create a New Linux Distribution: Why?
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Seeing Stars During Login
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Setting up a Personal/Home LAN
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<dt><A HREF="tag/15.html"
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Essay Quiz
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<dt><A HREF="tag/16.html"
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Overactive diald
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<dt><A HREF="tag/18.html"
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Another Lost Soul
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<dt><A HREF="tag/21.html"
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<dd><A HREF="tag/21.html"
><strong>Secure Shutdown from the Console</strong></a>
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Dear Bill,
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Thanks for the offer letter. Of course, I'll take that promotion.
I'd love a senior marketing position at Microsoft's sunny Seattle
campus.
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I'll be happy to help MS focus on its core competencies (making mice,
joysticks, keyboards, and the exciting new "Talking Teletubby (TM)"
line of toys. It's definitely the best thing since "Teddy Ruskin
(TM)" and the "Cabbage Patch (TM)" dolls.
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(I have some interesting strategic proposals for dealing with the
Mattel and Fisher-Price problems, but we'll discuss them when you
meet me at SeaTac next week. Not that they're anti-competitive or
anything like that! But be sure to "secure delete" this e-mail after
reading it. Too bad you don't have that new "one-time reader" code
integrated into Outlook (TM) yet. We're still stuck using that old
Norton code)
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
I agree with your assessment about software. That's definitely
passe. We'll only have a couple more years before those Linux geeks
completely eat our lunch. Believe me, after this prolonged
undercover assignment that I've been on I know all about Linus'
subversive plan. BTW, thank Paul for starting that company to hire
Linus. I would have hated to go to Helsinki and attempt the
infiltration during one of their winters. I'm sure he was right to
put that down here in the Silicon Valley; the ploy might have been a
little too transparent if we'd put it up in King county.
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It's too bad that MSN has been such a flop so far. How are the AOL
acquisition plans going? I still think you should set up a European
shell to do that. If Daimler-Benz can buy Chrysler than I don't see
why we can't have British Telecom come in and nab AOL.
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Luckily MSNBC is doing pretty well, and should be ripe for the Senate
elections in 2002. We definitely have to finish our diversification
out of software before then, since I don't think we can string out
the W2K delays much longer than that.
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By the way, we should fire that red bearded freak that's been
ghostwriting "The Answer Guy" for me. He's actually been HELPING our
customers put Linux on OUR computers and I heard that he said some
choice personal things about YOU. I even heard he got access to some
of our internal memos and is planning on leaking them to "Obi Wan
Raymond."
(<A HREF="http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/98dec/19981203.html"
>http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/98dec/19981203.html</A>)
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After those "Halloween" fiascos I'd hate to see an "April
Fool's Document...."
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<center><H4>Previous "Answer Guy" Columns</H4></center>
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<A HREF="../issue13/answer.html">Answer Guy #1, January 1997</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue14/answer.html">Answer Guy #2, February 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue15/answer.html">Answer Guy #3, March 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue16/answer.html">Answer Guy #4, April 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue17/answer.html">Answer Guy #5, May 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue18/lg_answer18.html">Answer Guy #6, June 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue19/lg_answer19.html">Answer Guy #7, July 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue20/lg_answer20.html">Answer Guy #8, August 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue21/lg_answer21.html">Answer Guy #9, September 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue22/lg_answer22.html">Answer Guy #10, October 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue23/lg_answer23.html">Answer Guy #11, December 1997</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue24/lg_answer24.html">Answer Guy #12, January 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue25/lg_answer25.html">Answer Guy #13, February 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue26/lg_answer26.html">Answer Guy #14, March 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue27/lg_answer27.html">Answer Guy #15, April 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue28/lg_answer28.html">Answer Guy #16, May 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue29/lg_answer29.html">Answer Guy #17, June 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue30/lg_answer30.html">Answer Guy #18, July 1998</A><br>
<A HREF="../issue31/lg_answer31.html">Answer Guy #19, August 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue32/lg_answer32.html">Answer Guy #20, September 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue33/lg_answer33.html">Answer Guy #21, October 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue34/lg_answer34.html">Answer Guy #22, November 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue35/lg_answer35.html">Answer Guy #23, December 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue36/lg_answer36.html">Answer Guy #24, January 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue37/lg_answer37.html">Answer Guy #25, February 1998</A><BR>
<A HREF="../issue38/lg_answer38.html">Answer Guy #26, March 1998</A><BR>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/ssc.copying.html"
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 39 April 1999</H5>
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