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Best Debian Anonymous FTP Server

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 12:38 — dimmer

After attempting to configure pureftp, I gave up. The configuration is ridiculous and even after hours of monkeying I could not get it to behave as I wanted.

Then I tried vsftpd. After 20 minutes, the server is up and running just the way I want it. From what I can tell (no debian security advisories in the recent past) vsftpd lives up to its name, very secure.

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Wed, 05/02/2007 - 05:40 — Bryan

That's great, now send me my

That's great, now send me my damned login info so I can send you a file. I've been trying to get into crom!

Recent blog posts

If you want your voice to be heard, and you can't afford a lobbyist or a massive campaign contribution, you should contact your representatives:

You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into.
-Jonathan Swift

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.
-Mark Twain

Religion is regarded by the foolish as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
-Seneca

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
-Robert Anton Wilson

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.
-William Blake

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana

...Faith: that is to say, to shut one's eyes once and for all, in order not to suffer at the sight of incurable falsity.
- Nietzsche, the Antichrist

They say, 'We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it.' You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has he ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.
-William of Conches

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
-Galileo

[Christianity has made the world] a prey to the wicked, who have found men readier, for the sake of going to paradise, to submit to blows rather than to resent them.
-Machiavelli

And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways. There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about - a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
-Yossarian, in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Life is both entirely and only what you make of it.
-attributed to many, modified by dimmer

Those who believe in god grew up but still need an imaginary friend
-dimmer

SouthPark - Isaac Hayes being sensitive about religion - Chef's Theodicy (1.1MB mp3)

South Park 712 - All About Mormons (79.3MB avi) (true story)

Jesus, Family Guy style(5.8MB)

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