Janina and all: While we're listing out all of the system critical applications which should not be trusted to proprietary OS's and applications, let us please not forget voting and election machinery. Adam and other blind folks I have spoken to loved being able to enjoy a secret ballot and an audible console during this last election. Even so, the truth is that running every machine on Windows CE and proprietary software, with no paper audit trail generated has created the largest blow to the transparency and integrity of our elections since Tammany Hall or the Dodge County Georgia voting dead. Just two quick links on this subject, if I may: http://www.voterchoice.org/auditableballots.php http://www.ajc.com/print/content/epaper/editions/today/metro_f374110b4109b0310050.html For those of you spending hours deleting messages, you might consider adding the following lines to your .procmailrc file in your home directory: :0 * ^X-MailScanner: Found to be clean /u/h/hesco/mbox-sobig.f I handled hundred of those spammy messages before talking with my sysadmin, Cameron Spitzer. Cameron said he was seeing perhaps a thousand a day come through his box. In the hour or two since installing this latest recipe to my .procmailrc script, it has effectively diverted nearly a hundred fifty sobig.f generated messages. On another subject, I noticed today that Cameron is credited in the LILO mini-HOWTO as a contributor. I had occasion to read it because today I finally installed my new-used 2.5 gb drive on my Win98 box and today successfully got lilo running making this machine a dual boot (Debian Woody / Win 98) box! Been planning to do this for months. Finally got the hardware and a few minutes to get it installed when I got home last night. The only three reasons I still ever fire up my Windows these days are: (1) All of my email archives are in Eudora .mbx files still; (2) MySQLFront is as convenient as myphpadmin; (3) Adobe Acrobat will concatenate .pdf files generated by Open Office into a single document. After getting a hardware modem installed here and converting my email archives, that will leave Acrobat as the only reason to keep the Win98 installation. At any rate, I'm going to need lots more disk space really soon. I've filled that old 8.4 gb drive that win98 is on. When I can afford a new drive, I intend to mount it on /var, copy all my old files over from the windows installation, figure out how to use WINE and leave Win9x behind. -- Hugh Esco At 03:09 PM 8/23/03 -0400, you wrote: >All very true, Jude, however we can't blame them if the responsible >officials at power companies and railroads continue to use such junk. >Rather, we need to call those officials and the government regulators >who oversee them to account for making such poor choices. > >It's time to demand more responsible decisions from our governments. > >jude dashiell writes: > > From: jude dashiell <dashielljt at gmpexpress.net> > > > > Believe it or not, because Microsoft by their email standard attaches an > > additional Re: toa message whenever it's answered this virus proliferation > > will be impossible to stop. By now the virus messages are going through > > the net with two Re: prefixes on them and continued circulation through > > the internet will only add more. > > > > -- > > ----- > > Microsoft; mismanagement, and stupidity are all weapons of mass > destruction. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
