Subject: Re: News Item: MonarchComputer.com and Linux Journal to Give Away ULB 2003 - msg#00914

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I dont want this! KC Linux Users Group -- to unsubscribe send mail to majordomo-3DadQFcgQnvYtjvyW6yDsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Enter without the quotes in body of message "unsubscribe kclug"

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Re: OT: Driving a car -> Voting Machines

Jim Herrmann wrote: For all the low down on voting machine irregularities and ballot tampering, check out http://blackboxvoting.com/. I've got a really bad feeling about 2004. When they control the voting machines and the media, our democracy is doomed, which I think has already happened. Open source software voting machines with a printed paper trail is the only way to proceed with electronic voting. There. That brings it on topic. Jim, why didn't the voting machines make a bigger part of the issue than the "hanging chads". Actually this is the first I've heard of them being used in the last pres. election. I agree w/ the need for auditable voting machines, for getting the contract to a more competent company etc. There needs to be audits performed by the GAO on whatever firm is chosen. That stuff about controlling the media swings both ways. I've heard more accusations of the left controlling the media than the right. Me, I'm way over here in the back 40. I pick and choose who I vote for. I don't really trust all the conspiracy theorist about Diebold trying to 'fix' the election, but I do believe the stuff about the incompetence of the repairmen and troubleshooters. I read some of the docs at that college site posted to slashdot. Plain and simple, the machines were put out too soon. "It's in beta testing? Ship it!" I also believe in the innate stupidity (I know it sounds harsh) of people. Sure the ballot in FL might have been a little confusing, but you have to read the blasted thing and I believe you can ask the election officials to clarify the ballot if necessary. Just imagine the ballot for the CA governor recall. They had about 130 people on there and had to randomize the names, almost needed 2 cards to get all the choices on there. What a nightmare for the election commission. I'm surprised they had the counts as soon as they did. --------------------------- Somewhere there is a village missing an idiot. KC Linux Users Group -- to unsubscribe send mail to majordomo-3DadQFcgQnvYtjvyW6yDsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Enter without the quotes in body of message "unsubscribe kclug"

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Re: News Item: MonarchComputer.com and Linux Journal to Give Away ULB 2003

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 07:18 pm, Brian D wrote: > Yeah, but did you check out the specs on this beaut? > That is one KICKA** computer! Dual 2GHz AMD opterons! > 4 36GB 10K SATA HDs! 128MB 8x AGP Video! It's a > monster! It's $5,000.00. For that I can buy a decent car. KC Linux Users Group -- to unsubscribe send mail to majordomo-3DadQFcgQnvYtjvyW6yDsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Enter without the quotes in body of message "unsubscribe kclug"

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Fun stuff . . . MP3 playing

You know, the obvious things can be such a pain . . . such as my little MP3 experiences. I finally (after a year) moved the Linux player to it's final destination. All that's left is to get an UPS and I need to drill some holes to get my patch cable routed a little better to the home stereo. This is my little "random play jukebox" command: mpg123 -g 40 -z -@ files.lst This sets my hardware gain to "40" and randomly plays files from my files.lst. To build my files.lst I just do this: find *.mp3 > files.lst KC Linux Users Group -- to unsubscribe send mail to majordomo-3DadQFcgQnvYtjvyW6yDsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Enter without the quotes in body of message "unsubscribe kclug"