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I’ve been a happy Rackshack customer (now EV1Servers.net) for over two years now. I’ve recommended them to all my friends that need cheap, reliable, unmanaged dedicated servers (power and network has been rock solid, current uptime going on 308 days [that was when I did the remote Red Hat to Debian conversion]). Reading this on /. made me pretty sad: SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee

jasonhamilton writes “EV1Servers.net has been identified as a Linux licensee, giving them the dubious title of being the first dedicated hosting company to have a licence agreement with SCO.
Rather than ‘eliminating uncertainty from our clients’ hosting
infrastructure’, as Robert Marsh (CEO of EV1Servers) claims, some users
of EV1 appear to be somewhat upset.”

Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be recommending them anymore. While I wasn’t planning on moving (and can’t really spare the time), I probably will be looking into it when I get a chance.

Of course, that means hanging around and doing searches through at WHT, hearing the horror stories, and deciding which is least horrific.

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As traditional when putting off work, I’ve gone digging through crap. This time, we’ve turned up an old homepage. Wee.

Of course, it had an ugly disclaimer slapped on it (thank you Board of Trustees), but nothing a little LayoutFooterOff couldn’t take care of.

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Creating a good web-app interface for laptop retreival could be a good afternoon project…

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Frank Boosman takes apart Orson Scott Card’s ridiculous arguments against gay marriage

In the first place, no law in any state in the United
States now or ever has forbidden homosexuals to marry. The law has
never asked that a man prove his heterosexuality in order to marry a
woman, or a woman hers in order to marry a man.

Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her
husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the
law. And, in fact, many homosexual men have done precisely that,
without any legal prejudice at all.

Ditto with lesbian women. Many have married men and borne children.
And while a fair number of such marriages in recent years have ended in
divorce, there are many that have not.

So it is a flat lie to say that homosexuals are deprived of any
civil right pertaining to marriage. To get those civil rights, all
homosexuals have to do is find someone of the opposite sex willing to
join them in marriage…

This is so nonsensical, it’s amusing. Card to gays: “You can marry! Just not each other! What’s the problem?” Does he actually believe this?

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Keeping the Sword of Righteousness, and Other Sharp Objects, Away From Mentalfundalists – hilarious deconstruction of stupid, bigoted editorial.

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” Revelation 20:12

Uh huh. How about this one:

Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
— I Corinthians 14:34-35 (NIV)

How many times do you think Susan Sanford has been disgraceful in church? Do you think she ran this by her hubby?

Like many others, I’ve been pretty aghast at the idea of a constitutional amendment designed to explicity deny rights to a certain group of individuals. That’s about the most ‘unamerican’ thing that I can think of. (secondarily, as a states right issue, it’s a bad idea as well)

See also: women’s suffrage, civil rights movements