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    ext3 external journaling

    I recently purchased two hard drives. One is a 36GB Raptor, and the other is a 320GB. Now, I have up to this point been using ReiserFS and XFS. I haven't had any of the horror stories happen to me, but I figure it's about time I gave ext3 another go. I noticed that ext3 can put its journal...
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    YA"WhatCardShouldIGet?"T

    Last month, I was able to secure an Opty 165 before they went OOS everywhere and jumped in price. Now that I had finally obtained a processor, I could begin to assemble a new machine, some of whose parts I had been keeping in storage for nearly a year, waiting until AMD dual core was a good...
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    Why would updating the FTP daemon knock out the mail server?

    This is a Gentoo server that has been mostly handed over to my care. I needed to change some USE flags from what the server was originally configured for, but before I could, I had to clear some blocks, one of which was the introduction of an "ftpbase" package as a dependency for vsftpd...
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    Request for comment

    Discuss: PVP-OPM
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    Hey, remember that Broadcast Flag thingee? It's not dead yet.

    From the EFF: If you know anything about riders, you know how fatal a blow this would be to us.