Here is a article that I found this morning that really hits home with me so I thought that I would pass it on to you folks to take a look at and see what you think, Baldy.

I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend among Linux users of late, myself included, that has begun to bother me enough to necessitate writing this short article. What is this trend? It’s a general loss of the Linux skillsets that so many of us senior users have gained over the years. Newer users to Linux might not see this problem just yet as they’re just getting into Linux and haven’t built up the skillsets we currently have. Thus they are not in a position to lose anything, but rather gain many necessary skills.

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I never thought I would see the day when a hard drive manufacturer would go from indifferent to outright stupid all with one drive release. Apparently, it has happened. It seems that Seagate has opted to forgo compatibility for anyone other than Linux users and that’s a real shame, as I have always been a satisfied Seagate user. And as you might suspect, based on where this article is appearing, I happen to be a full-time Linux user.

Sending A Very Strong Message. I don’t really understand what Seagate expects to do here, other than a flurry of negative articles like this one about their otherwise good products. It’s a shame, yet Seagate has made their bed, now they will have to deal with the consequences of their choices.

Now if you happen to need a new hard drive I’m sure that you will do just as I plan on doing and that is making sure that the name on the box will not be Seagate, the company led by fools, Baldy.

“Mark Dowd’s paper “Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the ActionScript Virtual Machine” has alarmed researchers. It points out techniques that promise to open up a class of exploits and vulnerability research previously thought to be prohibitively difficult. Already, the small but growing group of Information Security experts who have had the chance to read and digest the contents of the paper are expressing an excited concern depending on how they are interpreting it. While the Flash vulnerability described in the paper[PDF] has been patched by Adobe, the presentation of a reliable exploit for NULL pointer dereferencing has the researchers who have read the paper fascinated. Thomas Ptacek has an explanation of Dowd’s work, and Nathan McFeters at ZDNet is ‘stunned by the technical details.’”