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<p>Hi Mom!</p>
<p>(I couldn't resist)</p>
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Hello everyone and once again welcome to the world of The Answer Gang.
We had around 500 messages come through, the peeve of the month seems
to be a few people overdosing on their sense of humor, and in case anyone
was curious... my printer works fine these days.
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<p>
I'm sure some people are going through Spring Cleaning. In my case I'm
cleaning up my hard drive. I got a much, much bigger one and used my
new distro installation as an excuse to perform the reorganization at the
same time. This effectively turned an afternoon's task into a couple of
days of juggling bits and an occasional adventure throughout the month to
correct one or another facet of the installation.
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At this point all my virtual hosts work, and I've finally gotten over how much
easier elm is than mutt because I'm successfully using hooks to make the silly
thing much brighter about what folders to save things to. For my style of
folder reading this is perfect! Now all I have to do is whap those "elm2mutt"
people for writing a converter that doesn't work if elm is already gone and
you only have the aliases left. Sigh.
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In fact I'm planning to leap feet first into the new development cycle over
at <a href="http://www.lnx-bbc.org/">LNX-BBC.org</a>. Nick has this cool
new build system and when we're done the thing really will be able to make
world on itself, I think.
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<p>I'm pleased to see that kernels are settling down to some pretty usable
stuff. Soon I'll be able to trust it on ultrasparc and maybe update our
production server. Meanwhile, a nice solid 2.2.x kernel for us, yes indeed.
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<p>That's one of the things I like best about Linux, actually. Nobody holds
a gun to your head and says that you have to use the latest and bleed all
over that bleeding edge. If your sound or your pcmcia card just doesn't work
right under the new stuff - great, stick with what works. Userland is a
seperate thing, you can upgrade it by some fairly small parts most of the time.
Of course glibc is a tangled mess, but then, it pretty much always was...
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<p>Later this month (Memorial Day weekend, for those of you who follow US
holidays) I'll be running the Internet Lounge at
<a href="http://www.baycon.org">Baycon</a>, a science fiction convention.
It'll be a nice tribute to how well older systems hold up with Linux under
the hood. If you happen to be in Northern California around then, feel
welcome to drop on by.
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<p>See y'all next month, folks!</p>
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