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    WTB: SSD for $15 shipped

    +1
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    DHCP and IPv6

    I use radvd to do this. My /etc/radvd.conf with TWC ip address x'd out: interface eth1 { AdvSendAdvert on; IgnoreIfMissing on; prefix 2606:a000:xxxx:xxxx::/64 { AdvAutonomous on; DeprecatePrefix on; }; }; Clients on the network then get IPv6 via...
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    “TrueCrypt is not secure” official SourceForge page abruptly warns

    I bet the US Government paid off / threatened truecrypt devs to close shop. The Snowden interview tonight is probably going to highlight the usefulness of truecrypt.
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    OpenSolaris, illumos, OpenIndiana, NexentaOS, SmartOS and OmniOS

    Until the vendor-locked hardware becomes obsolete...
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    OpenBSD too paranoid? (moved from Battlefront)

    http://www.pcbsd.org/
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    Remote X11

    The more popular way is to use something called nx / freenx. It works over SSH and is like RDP or VNC. You get a full window of the remote computer or server. You need to run the server part on the remote machine, and then launch the client part for your client...
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    Ubuntu 13.04 on a Lenovo T430 - a mini review, and good experience

    Cool. I'm on a T430s with Debian wheezy - it rocks! :P
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    WTB i7-870 or other lga 1156 CPU

    Looking for i7-870 CPU or other LGA 1156 i7 CPU to buy,
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    Redhat 5.x Desktop impressions?

    Red Hat 5 is fine, IMO. It uses the current ESR version of Firefox. Make sure to add the epel repository for more goodies http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
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    qemu.org, virtualbox.org down?

    A new marketing technique from vmware? :)
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    Looking for good Linux hosting

    + linode
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    Good Little Text editor?

    A lot of people like kate. It's a kde app.
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    Any reccmendion on what software should be installed for new users?

    Dropbox, skype, picasa are others I recommend for Windows converts. :)
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    Hackers trying to get in

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    Wordpress sites: any way to head off malware posts automatically?

    - bad behavior with a http:BL Access Key. This works pretty well. I once had someone contact to say when trying to reach my blog he saw a friendly page, 'sorry, your network is serving up malware as detected by projecthoneypot and this site is unavailable via the network you are on'. Turns up...
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    GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support

    One more plug for hover.com - they are great. No hosting, just registrar with a nice interface.
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    Only 1 apache process as root

    That's normal,
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    WineHQ (AppDB and Bugzilla) hacked

    Their login page is over http for another grrrrr.... http://appdb.winehq.org/account.php
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    Why should I use Ubuntu?

    Ubuntu server LTS has longer supported security updates than debian stable, if that matters. LTS is five years, I believe? I'm weird and use ubuntu server for this reason. :)
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    Unity: +/- 4 months later. Whatchoo think now?

    To me it appears that Ubuntu is going for the grandma home users and unfortunately leaving the geek crowd to look for other options.