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Yamaha and UFOsAnswered By Ben Okopnik, Mike Orr, Heather Stern
I wanted to ask if you service yamahe music equipment.
[Ben] Hey, LG does mention "Yamaha" a dozen times in past issues (the sound card, obviously). Maybe the guy was getting desperate and trying every source... That is pretty wild, though. I'm still waiting for "Dear Earthlings: I just installed Windows on my UFO, and now I can't get back in..."
You may want something more well-tuned to your saucer once you have that going.
According to my research (slim pickings, most of our movies about aliens don't describe their software, but one notes you are able to run some of our virus software), apparently your native operating system most closely resembles something here called "MacOS". This is at least part of the problem, nearly any earthling knows that the MacOS and Windows vendors are at war with each other.
Unfortunately MacOS is proprietary so getting you a working copy without getting some Earth hardware to go with it, may be a problem, esp. if you have no Earth currency aboard.
Fortunately, we Linuxers can recommend either Yellow Dog Linux or LinuxPPC 2000 , as well as Debian. I can't say which will have the fastest install - a Mac-using friend highly recommends the first... Debian is highly available so you should be able to reach a mirror site no matter which of our land masses you are presently nearest. To save you time the web link you need is http://cdimage.debian.org/ftp-mirrors.html. Normally they discourage getting ISO images directly like that but, they expect you to have a stable system to fetch. I hope you will have no problems whatsoever creating discs ... By the way, most earthlings don't understand the funny messages generated by those blue screens either. Luckily I can assure you they don't help fix the problem...
RFC 3092 muses on the etymology of 'foo' and 'bar'. Among other things, it says the "wildly popular" Smokey Stover comic strip of the 1930s by Bill Holman "featured a firetruck called the Foomobile that rode on two wheels."
The RFC also has a table of which other RFCs mention "foo", "bar" or "fubar".
Rory Krause and I came up with this one:
the sysadmin's dance: do the Buggy Boogie.
CueJack is a Windows application that lets you scan a products with a :CueCat scanner, then displays a web page with "alternative information" about the product's company. As you can guess, the "alternative information" is stuff the company doesn't want you to know. "This could be information about corporate abuse, boycotts against the company, even how much money the company is making, their corporate image as presented to shareholders, etc." Courtesy Slashdot.
Miscellania: The program was renamed from CueHack because another program already had the same name. The author is working on a Linux version but says there are technical difficulties.
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[ Your Editor got an obnoxious phone call at home recently from one of these machines. The recorded message said, "Please hold until a representative can get to you." Click!Subject: BOUNCE linux-questions-only@ssc.com: Message too long (>40000 chars)
It's nice to know the TAG spamfilter is working.-Mike.]
Regarding the Nigerian money scam in last month's Not Linux.
I've been receiving faxes the same as this for a few years at work, the scam is worse than it looks: they *have* been succesful on several occaions - all UK (if not world) banks know not to let their customers get involved.
What basically happens is A N Idiot agrees to the deal, signs the papers and money appears in his/her account. A N Idiot then transfers most of the money to another account (the scammer's). The money coming into the account then never arrives - originating bank denies knowledge or whatever - A N Idiots bank ha's, in the mean time, sent the money to another bank. The first thing the bank does is debit A N Idiot's account... A N Idiot is holding the can for an awful lot more money than they thought they'd ever see.
Holding the can for more money than you thought you'd ever see is probably better than holding the can for the first million you've just made and is all you have because if you're 999,000 away from paying back 1,000,000 they aren't really going to try to get it back but if you're nearly their they'll clean you out then lock you up.
These scammers are real bastards, if I didn't know it happened I wouldn't believe people could be so bad to other people.
Anyway, I just thought I'd let you know that this scam has worked and how it worked (roughly and AIUI).
Keep up the work with the gazette.
From: James Suttie
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:36:48 +0100
keep up the good work with Linux Gazette - here's one of many links to the African spam scam! http://www.state.vt.us/atg/NIGERIA.htm
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[Wow, something that's actually relevant to LG -Mike.]
Happy Linuxing!
Michael Orr
Editor, Linux Gazette, gazette@ssc.com