Breedcentral.com Needs To Learn About How To Foil Spammers
I have a little issue with the person running Breedcentral.com. I've mentioned this to him on the pigeongenetics mailing list but I'm guessing he doesn't actually read the messages posted to the mailing list. I think he just basically mails to the list periodically to promote his website. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I think he's running breedcentral as a "service to the hobby". So, if he reads this...you need to modify your webpage. Having mailto: links is just making it real easy for spammers to harvest e-mail addresses from your webpage.

I would like to put my contact information on his website--I don't mind helping other fanciers with birds when I can and I certainly don't mind helping novices with their questions either. But I refuse to put my contact information on his website only to have it harvested by spammers.

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Linux Installation Blues
I've been trying to install Linux on an old PC that I had given to my father-in-law and which I got back from him.  Wow, what a chore.

First, almost all Linux distributions assume one has a PC with a BIOS that will allow you to boot from the CD-ROM.  No dice in this case.  Luckily one of my friends at work really knows his stuff when it comes to Linux and he asked some folks he knows and they came up with a utility to allow one to boot from the floppy but then have it boot from the CD-ROM.

Then there's the issue of the hard drive.  I had a 500 MB hard drive in the box.  That's way too small for a modern Linux distribution.  So I got a much larger hard drive.  I think it's 20 GB but I honestly can't remember.  At any rate, again, the BIOS can't grok the hard drive geometry. 

Ah well, I guess I didn't want to work with Linux as much as I thought I did anyway.




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