It's very simple: put what should be in your User-Agent header intothe Referer header instead. The next time I read my Referer logs,you're sure to provoke me into spasms of teeth-grinding irritation.I can only conclude that people pulling this stunt are attemptingadvertising through other people's public Referer logs.

(For bonus points, fetch my syndication feeds without any attemptat conditional GET .)

Today's offender is the 'Strategic Board Bot', run by strategicboard.

Ignoring DHCP, there are three ways to supply an IP address when you'reusing Kickstart to set up machines automatically:

1. put a network line in your Kickstart file. You need to give all ofthe information (--hostname, --ip, --gateway, --netmask, --nameserver)and also use ' --bootproto static '.
2. put the information on the kernel command line, with ip=, gateway=,netmask=, and dns=. Non-DHCP is assumed

There's a famous folk-rule on Usenet and mailing lists to the effectthat a spelling flame usually has at least one spelling mistake itself.There seems to be a related rule on the web, which I will put this way:

Websites that boast about validating often don't.

(The corollary is that a certain amount of people agitating for validweb sites don't have valid web sites.)

Now, HTML validation is certainly picky (arguably morepicky than spelling), but I'd

There's a really simple two-part recipe for failing to create usefulubiquitous services at universities. It goes like this:

1. come up with an important service that should be ubiquitous.
2. fund it by charging its users.

The moment you start charging people for things at a university, youenter into a competition for their money. People start asking 'whyshould we spend money on this?' and 'why should we pay you for this?'and 'is this the best use for this money?'