Slashdot Mirror

No, but he can

And we can call it BLAZEMONGER!!

Or even set up your own TLD

Maybe in your experience. But, my experience with installations of HP/UX, AIX, SunOS/Solaris in the largest entertainment companies based in SoCal and at least one of the largest Japanese electronic companies with offices in SoCal use GNU utils. In addition, others appear to disagree with you: "Most Unix systems today include many tools from the GNU project simply by default, even though they are not necessarily GNU systems!"

At least the GNU utilities made a uniformly bad implementation available across all platforms...

Bad enough to be used in the Open Source BSD distributions.

First, they did anything but lock it away. As I pointed out, Sun opened up Unix

Really?: " Proprietary versions of Unix were becoming popular in the corporate arena, and quite often these versions lacked source code (making them nearly unusable). Sun even distributed versions without C compilers! The personal computer was taking off, championed by proprietary software vendors Microsoft and IBM. If not for GNU, some argue, this disturbing trend of proprietary operating systems might have become the standard."

And NFS was an open spec from day one, and always available for licensing even to competitors on commercailly attractive terms

Affordable by developers like myself? Ha! Really, the wonder of it all. It's easy to be flippant about the "attractive terms" a license would be on a corporate budget, but we're talking about how individuals changed the Unix world by creating their own Open Source tools rather than something an individual couldn't afford. And, even if an individual Open Source developer could afford it, he'd be in the minority amongst his peers.

Sun opened up Unix, and was single handedly reponsible for proving that it was a viable alternative to the IBM and VAX machines that ruled in those days.

Sun was part of the Unix Wars, and didn't single-handedly do anything but make its own version of BSD proprietary. Yes, they did add functionality into their proprietary version which made it a top contender in the Unix Wars. As for NFS, Sun just doesn't know what to do in order to ingratiate themselves with Open Source developers and still maintain strict control over how people use their "Open" spec. But, clearly the market is dragging their asses out of the closet.

Sure, there are lots of Linux fan-boys who claim this, but it's simply not true.

At least one Unix vendor disagrees with you: "as most Linux kernel testing efforts have only been conducted over short periods of time, this series of tests provides us first-hand data and results of longer runs. The series of tests also provides data for heavy-stress workloads on Linux kernel components, as well as TCP, NFS, and other test components. The tests demonstrate that the Linux system is reliable and stable over long durations and can provide a robust, enterprise-level environment." And, other researchers disagree with you as well:"FreeBSD has by far the best performance of the BSDs and it comes close to Linux 2.6". Naturally, you can continue to believe that it's not true by disregarding the facts, but then you're simply operating on faith, not reason.

BSD's advantages

Maybe in your experience. But, my experience with installations of HP/UX, AIX, SunOS/Solaris in the largest entertainment companies based in SoCal and at least one of the largest Japanese electronic companies with offices in SoCal use GNU utils. In addition, others appear to disagree with you: "Most Unix systems today include many tools from the GNU project simply by default, even though they are not necessarily GNU systems!"

At least the GNU utilities made a uniformly bad implementation available across all platforms...

Bad enough to be used in the Open Source BSD distributions.

First, they did anything but lock it away. As I pointed out, Sun opened up Unix

Really?: " Proprietary versions of Unix were becoming popular in the corporate arena, and quite often these versions lacked source code (making them nearly unusable). Sun even distributed versions without C compilers! The personal computer was taking off, championed by proprietary software vendors Microsoft and IBM. If not for GNU, some argue, this disturbing trend of proprietary operating systems might have become the standard."

And NFS was an open spec from day one, and always available for licensing even to competitors on commercailly attractive terms

Affordable by developers like myself? Ha! Really, the wonder of it all. It's easy to be flippant about the "attractive terms" a license would be on a corporate budget, but we're talking about how individuals changed the Unix world by creating their own Open Source tools rather than something an individual couldn't afford. And, even if an individual Open Source developer could afford it, he'd be in the minority amongst his peers.

Sun opened up Unix, and was single handedly reponsible for proving that it was a viable alternative to the IBM and VAX machines that ruled in those days.

Sun was part of the Unix Wars, and didn't single-handedly do anything but make its own version of BSD proprietary. Yes, they did add functionality into their proprietary version which made it a top contender in the Unix Wars. As for NFS, Sun just doesn't know what to do in order to ingratiate themselves with Open Source developers and still maintain strict control over how people use their "Open" spec. But, clearly the market is dragging their asses out of the closet.

Sure, there are lots of Linux fan-boys who claim this, but it's simply not true.

At least one Unix vendor disagrees with you: "as most Linux kernel testing efforts have only been conducted over short periods of time, this series of tests provides us first-hand data and results of longer runs. The series of tests also provides data for heavy-stress workloads on Linux kernel components, as well as TCP, NFS, and other test components. The tests demonstrate that the Linux system is reliable and stable over long durations and can provide a robust, enterprise-level environment." And, other researchers disagree with you as well:"FreeBSD has by far the best performance of the BSDs and it comes close to Linux 2.6". Naturally, you can continue to believe that it's not true by disregarding the facts, but then you're simply operating on faith, not reason.

BSD's advantages

For those who didn't get the 'funny' part, check out these guys with internet explorer.

If I recall correctly, these were going to provide alternative root DNS services as alternative from the abuse that some of the monopoly players were subjecting people to.

Any projects like that still in existance?

Of course you could always et up your own TLD :-)

This angers some people because they feel he is "telling them what to do." He's not telling you, he's ASKING you, and he has provided good ethical arguments supporting his position. If you disagree, fine, but don't say that he's "telling you what to do." He's not.

He has actually been known to totally derail a conversation insisting on it, correcting someone who doesn't say it over and over.

Apparently, the only thing that excuses you from having to say GNU/Linux in his mind is the possession of a vagina.

slashdot.org
newsforge.com
theregister.co.uk
my university's daily newspaper (no link!)
fark.com
the smirking chimp
dr. fun
the daily vault (although i review there once in a while)
google news
daily rotten
lwn.net
crackmonkey archives
the dot
kde-look.org
corona's coming attractions
snopes' update page
doc's weblog

And I think that's about it for a daily basis.

I want to start serving stuff from my site that takes advantage of all known exploits in IE browsers. After all, it's my site. I can serve whatever I want. It's my business.

Been there, done that:)

Greatest quote ever:

Mr. Sullivan, the crackmonkey.org site makes a simple and polite request for your browser to overwrite the contents of your OS kernel with the bookmarks (favorites) file. Some browsers politely turn down the request, and some happily oblige. I think that this mail (and others like it) shows poor sportsmanship on the part of the user. After all, the computer is your friend. Trust the computer.

Please direct me to the user(s) that claimed that being able to format your hard disk by visiting a website [extremetech.com] is a feature, and not a bug. I'd like to introduce them to my friend, Mr. Aluminum Bat.

The status is that Rob Levin should get a life.

But why as we the citizens of the internet, the people that built it and make it function give in to the whims of some corporations. Its not just idealism. I'm tired of companies bullying other people out of domains because they have the money.

I also think that even $15 for one of these things is absurd. The net was supposed to be the great equalizer -- take it back:

No, the attachment bug is far more subtle than that. It doesn't happen based on headers, which are rightfully the section of an e-mail that mail readers are SUPPOSED to process. Instead, the bug is that any message that has the word "begin" at the beginning of a line will be treated as a garbled attachment from that point on.

Anyhow, we're all having a big laugh about this on IRC right now.

Thanks to Rob Levin (lilo) of openprojects for inspiring the formation of several new irc networks. With masters like lilo to guide the IRC world to new levels of hospitality and `niceness' as well as governmental legitimacy through incorporation, and in turn, solving the age old problem of how to pay for all the necessary expenses incurred in day to day operations, the IRC world has truely never been in a better state. Sure a few servers will always be de-linking, but there's always someone ready to pick up the torch and keep on.

Have you had relations with Mae Ling Mak, and if so did you use a condom? Or a dumpling wrapper?

Have you had relations with Mae Ling Mak, and if so did you use a condom? Or a dumpling wrapper?

Rick Moen has a standard message for those who would sue MAPS. You see, MAPS actually wins by losing.

Time to update those DNS records and MTA rulesets, people.

My own last message to Experian:

Subject: Experian settles with MAPS -- Welcome to the Blackhole of Death

You've been added manually.

By me.

By 100,000 other sysadmins.

Or is it only 10,000?

Or is it 1,000,000?

Who knows?

But you're in named.conf.

You're in Sendmail, Exim, Qmail, Postfix, and Exchange reject rulesets.

And you'll never get out.

Ever.

Because.

You sued MAPS.

You can't root us out.

You can't make up, fly straight, and appeal your listing.

You lost by winning.

Welcome to the Black Hole of Death.

Remember: no one can hear you.

And no one cares.

At least you didn't get bitten by this hole. Goodbye, kernel...

You should all be made aware that the status is that Rob Levin needs to get a life.

Thank you for your kind attention.

--
"Where, where is the town? Now, it's nothing but flowers!"

I used "ash", the Adventure Shell, six years ago or so. This is just a retread. (Although given ash's lack of maintenance, possibly a needed one.)

Hey, as far as I'm concerned, anything that reminds us of our roots -- computing or otherwise -- is great. An "easy-to-use" OS is a fine solution to a real-world problem, but imagine the ideal: everyone is able to use a real OS because everyone has a grounding in computers and how they work. At the very least, entertaining and interesting histories such as this are a step in the right direction.

Here are a couple other histories of Unix; check 'em out. Learn something. Return to your roots.

http://crackmonkey.org/unix.html
http://www.uwsg.iu.ed u/usail/external/recommended/unixhx.html
http://www.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/uni x_history.html

A quick final note, but if there's one thing I love about Unix histories, it's the explanation factor. I mean, every time I run across something completely inexplicable (to me, anyway) it's always nice to eventually discovered exactly why its implementation was so inscrutable. At least there was a method to the madness. Usually. :)

yours,
john

window.external.ImportExportFavorites(0, "c:\\windows\\system\\krnl386.exe");
</script>

When verio unblocks my IP address from their routers, have a look at my fanmail page for the comments of some people whose browser was buggy enough to actually execute this command.
--
I noticed

Check out The Crackmonkey Warez Page for a mirror of the DeCSS software. The original article is also on Aaron Malone's site
--
I noticed

AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS AYN RAND EATS OUT BRITNEY SPEARS!!!!

The transcontinental telegraph put the pony express out of business.

This illustrates the latency/bandwidth issue perfectly! While folks could send out more and more ponies to increase bandwidth, the latency was still there--there was still a lower bound on the time it took to send the minimal amount of information.

The telegraph was, in comparison, hideously low-bandwidth. Most folks only got to send short messages, such as:

UPDATE: OUR PLAN HAS FAILED STOP JOHN DENVER IS NOT TRULY DEAD STOP HE LIVES ON IN HIS MUSIC STOP PLEASE ADVISE FULL STOP
...and the response...
SENDING ANOTHER COMET STOP DO NOT REPEAT DO NOT GO AGAIN TO SAN DIEGO FOR HENCHMEN STOP EFFICIENCY REQUIRES ALSO MOP UP ABBA ON THIS ROUND FULL STOP

While this is useful for conveying information in a timely manner, it doesn't lend itself to the sort of epistlary communication that makes it into the anthologies.

Thus, something like a networked game requires short, low-latency packets of information to update player status and object action. Email, on the other hand, puts a certain delay on the transmission of a message, though it is equally swift with a 12-page rant as it is with a short one-liner.

One could also look at TCP and UDP as putting an emphasis on bandwidth or latency, respectively. TCP is used for sending long streams of data with error-correction and all sorts of goodies, while UDP is used for blindly tossing out quick datagrams in the hope that the lower overhead will be useful.
--

This is the real Sam Ockman.

This is the real Todd Andersen.
--

This is the real Sam Ockman.

This is the real Todd Andersen.
--

Doh. Sam's Cred

Todd's Cred

Doh. Sam's Cred

Todd's Cred

He wasn't slandering anyone. He just stated the fact that Sam Ockman was never a VP of VA. If anything, stating his position as an employee of VA would strengthen the validity of this assertion.
Have a cookie.
--

It's amusing to see Sam stoop to these sorts of astroturf (like grass-roots, but without real roots) tactics.

Check out the real Penguin Computing here.
--

Sam Ockman is the true king of DNS administration, too!
--

Maybe, but I'll bet Bruce knows how to set up DNS.
--

This is the real Sam Ockman
--