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Just to chime in here but I've been using Crunchbang lately too and find it a nice choice. I've wanted something stable and lighter that I use as my "desktop/host" and then do all my dev work in Virtualbox or KVM vms.

FYI, the latest ISO now uses SLim instead of GDM.

Thanks for sharing about rcconf. I'd never heard of that Debian tool before.

Thank you for your words and your service. I too was in the enlisted ranks spending 6 1/2 years in the Army in Combat Arms (Scout) and Special Operations (PSYOP) and then was granted early discharge to start fall semester at UNC in 1997.

The article does a great job with the mention of accepting diversity. Understanding ethnocentrism was one of the fundamental teachings from PSYOP and enlightened me in ways like nothing else.

Codeslush's words ring true and reflect what I would say regarding another poster's comments about capitalizing on skills. The Army allowed me to capitalize on life. My sacrifices were miniscule for what I think I gained with my service. We are fortunate that military service today in the U.S. is voluntary and as such is a very personal choice that is often misunderstood by many (even friends and family).

Be a generalist and open to any opportunity. If you are good at what you do and are dependable you'll make great connections with all ranks whether their enlisted or officer(commissioned/non-commissioned or warrant). And if you really excel there will be plenty of opportunities to work directly for (and yes with) O-6s and higher and see an entirely different military. If you're able and willing, the world by way of the military can be simply amazing.

I have always been a techie and still remember being playfully bashed for carrying around my Sharp 286 laptop after rotation back to staging at Hohenfels in Germany. The next hot startup, the successor to Geocities -> Friendster -> Myspace -> Facebook and the next bubble will be waiting for you to provide your date of birth and phone number whenever you're ready. Social media will still be around and solutions will still need to be solved. What won't wait for you is your youth and the opportunities that are tied to it.

I would choose the same path all over again today if I was 18 (or even 30) and wondering about what life might have in store for me. Toujours Pret!

Would it be possibly to also identify sites that share your information?

A great example: facebook.com Does not sell your private information.

But they obviously do share information and while this is apparent to most users, how many sites practice the same and users are not aware of it?

Also, any plans to capture change in privacy policies over time? Often times, site owners do not proactively notify users when their policies or legalese has changed.

It is meant to be used mostly as a configuration tool for the monitoring host. If the developer has recently updated/deployed then they are probably working on the site and can ensure monitors.txt is available.

I think Zed has found a great place to call home as I just realized he's created his own brand with LxTHW. I can envision LxTHW having a bright future with a lot of great topics awaiting his "Programming, Motherfuckers" attitude and amazing productivity.

Has anyone taken his teaching his online course?

Thank you for the link. I stick to my original question though and the reason is that I'm not in favor of domainers or "domaining as a business."

This is innovation?

"Also today, professional domain name trader Winged Media, based in Australia but now with an office in the US, announced a $3 million investment from the Carnegie Innovation Fund."

Tv(with no Nielsen surveys/monitoring), phone(with no dinner marketing calls) and mail(with no catalogs or AOL cds) works wonderfully. Let me pay for my services and be a hermit. I understand not everyone wants to pay for services and having that choice is great. Not everything has to be social.

"Trusted and Dependable" and "Bank grade AES-256 bit encryption"

Does that mean client-side encryption yet? Businesses are expected to use this without it?

Any comments from Dropbox staff here?

Am I the only one who's never heard of Klout until now? To me, they've failed at their own service.

So for an individual, Klout just reaffirms one's ego and then rewards with special opportunities for consumerism?

Truecrypt is not an option for the majority of users. You've gone from a slick user experience to one of..."Why not just keep things on my USB stick again?"

These are solved problems as evidenced by other providers like Spideroak and Wuala where encryption happens by default on the client's device.

At the very least, Dropbox can offer this as an option. With the recent funding, if they are planning to offer business plans...surely encryption will be default there at least?