[plug] Sunscreen

[Christian]

Slightly off topic but very funny...  from a Slashdot post (about MS
employees playing Linux games)

:-)

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If there was one thing I could tell MS for their feasibility studies: 

Use tcp_wrappers. The security benefits of tcp_wrappers have been proven
by Wietse Venema; the rest comes only from my own meandering experience. 

Run /sbin/lilo -U before you replace one linux distribution with
another. It helps get rid of the LI... freeze in your MBR. 

If you're going to be paranoid and deny telnet and ftp in favor of SSH,
don't send your mail passwords plaintext with POP3. 

Maybe Linux will take over the desktop, maybe it won't. Maybe
InstallShield for tarballs will be created; maybe it won't. Either way,
your Mindcraft scores are half chance -- and so are everyone else's. 

Be kind to your root partition. You'll miss it when it's gone. 

If you don't know which direction your favorite window manager will go,
don't worry. A lot of the greatest programmers I know had no idea what
they were doing at version 2.2 ... or even at 4.0.

Each day, activate a compiler flag that warns you. 

Do not read Slate Magazine -- It will only make you feel ugly. 

Accept certain truths as inevitable: USB support is dodgy, "stable"
kernels will crash, and you too will lose your CHANGELOG -- at which
point you will fantasize that when you were at version 2.2.x, USB suited
your purposes, kernels never crashed, and people read their source code. 

Read your source code. Source code is a form of nostalgia... it lets you
pick it up, parse through the comments, and audit it to make better code
in the future. 

But trust me on the tcp_wrappers. 
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If it sounds familiar, remember the fake Kurt Vonnegut chain mail about
Sunscreen...?  (If you have no idea what I'm talking about then sorry!)