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Linux devotee tries to spread the word (Link 'repaired')

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 13 comments
SiliconValley.com; By Mike Cassidy
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Larry Cafiero is sitting in his cluttered office in the Santa Cruz Mountains looking nothing like a revolutionary. Friendly bearded face. Casual blue jeans. Comfy work shirt with the little penguin logo. Yeah, penguin logo. See, Cafiero is a Linux guy. Maybe you know one — or a Linux woman. Maybe you know that to love Linux is to live Linux — that you don't just use free and open-source software, you embrace it and evangelize it. Some more than others.

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I can't access this article

it seems to want to go to this urls

https://secure.lxer.com/registration/?

with the following QueryString parms

rPage=login

&url=http%3A%2F%2Flxer.com %2Fmodule%2Fnewswire%2Fview%2F108762%2Findex.html&eRightsSessionExpired=true&forced=true
weird, I tested it multiple times before posting it. I am not sure how it got to be broken. anyone have any ideas?
I'm getting the same thing as TA. It happens whether I'm logged in or not.
Thanks techiem2.

I will give it some time, but if no one can access the article and we cannot find a link that works, I will pull the article from the newswire.
Try this:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_10470746

This link seems to always work. If not, you can go to http://www.siliconvalley.com and click on the link on the left stating "Cassidy: Linux devotee tries to spread the word"

[Although I just tried the link on the LXer.com front page a couple of minutes ago and it worked.]

That works, thanks Larry.

Good article, I hope many other communities/people use this as a jumping off point. The Felton effort should help energize all of us.

the link did change, this is what it was

http://www.siliconvalley.com/opinion/ci_10470746?nclick_chec...

this is the one you just gave me Larry,

http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_10470746?nclick_check=1

ok, so now they both work??

I don't get it
The links appear to be intermittent. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. When they don't, I get a DNS page from OpenDNS (who I have set as my DNS provider) instead. I'd guess there's an intermittent DNS problem with siliconvalley.com.
Just changed 'check=1' to 'check=0' in the link because it didn't work for me. Now it does, and I hope it does for everybody else.

Reposted it to a later 'time/date' so people for whom it failed can try to read it again.

go Larry!

The world needs more Larry Cafieros!
> The world needs more Larry Cafieros!

+1
Larry, Larry, Larry...

Now we have an example, so its up to us to step-up.
Awwww, thanks guys and gal :-)

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