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To save you over ONE-THIRD of a million dollars, I'll take some drastic measures.
Briefly: http://linux-blog.org/ , hosted by devnet, and http://www.lobby4linux.com, hosted by helios, have been pumping a scheme to drive the Linux community to donate $350,000 to this site: http://tux500.com/ to get a Linux-sponsored car into the Indianapolis 500 race by memorial day. As of 3:55 AM 4/17/07, the donation meter stands at $5,160 and change... a figure I'm not too certain about since it's a static image (right-click on it!).
Recognize this meter?
Well, if you go to tux500 and right click the meter and pick save, the browser will offer to save this STATIC IMAGE as "thermo,php"! Because it's fake like everything else about these scam artists!
In my last post, I say the story appear everywhere around me at once, and joined many commenters on many sites in wondering if this was for real. I posted that, just asking a question, and forbid helios and devnet to post while the rest of us think it over. No, I didn't mention names... I made sure they knew who they were. Of course, one of them immediately had to come and squawk, so that made up my mind to dig deeper, and deeper, and deeper...
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Penguin Pete's Blog, your source for FUD
If any of you read Penguin Pete’s last two blog entries [1] [2]...you’ll find two of the most FUD filled posts about YALB on the web. He’s on the warpath...for no reason at all and has begun a smear campaign against me here. I haven’t done anything to attack him personally...yet that’s exactly what he’s done with his latest blog entries. Pete claims I’m a partner with the tux500.com project and that helios from Blog of helios and I are perpetuating this as a scam across the web. Let’s get some facts on this topic immediately:
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