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Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig; after a few hours, you realize he likes it.
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Servers don't send spam. People send spam.
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At the level of bits, censorship and digital-rights management are technologically identical.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who know binary and those who don't.
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Overly complex code leads to overly complex bugs.
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If you're one in a million, there are a thousand people just like you in China.
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Graduate School is the snooze button on the alarm clock of live.
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The lack of evidence of a conspiracy does not prove that it exists.
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If at first you don't succeed, sky-diving is not for you.
How does the other half live?
Some people complain about how GNU/Linux isn't desktop-ready. It's too hard to use, the applications aren't there, it does things in silly and quirky ways... We've all heard the list. And some of us persevere anyway.
Recently, though, I've been working on-site with a client for a few weeks on a PHP project. The web app we are building is on a remote GNU/Linux server. Our desktops are all Windows XP SP2, of course. Because I need to edit the files locally but test them remotely, I need a fair bit of network transparency. Of course, Windows XP provides none unless everything is using SMB, which our production web server does not (naturally). So what setup did I have to cobble together?