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  1. Re:what about the already born human clones? by Anna+Mouse+Cowherder · · Score: 1 · on Cloned Animals Show Grave Health Problems
    Jeez, this is going to be bad news for all the people who are having their pets cloned.

    I mean, what's the point in my getting a clone of my boa constricter (Richard the Third - not because of his lineage but because he's my third boa), if it's not going to live as long as the original?

    Also, I wonder what the return policy will be like for professional cloning services, if it turns out I wasted my money on a lemon?

    Food for thought.

  2. Doh! by dragonfly_blue · · Score: 1 · on Slashback: Dyn-O-Mite!, Paper, Sploits

    Looks like it's time to update my OpenBSD boxes... well, I still think they do a damn fine job over at OpenBSD.org. And, I'd like to emphasize, I'm a bit more concerned about a remote intrusion than, say, one of my cats 'sploiting chpass to get to my root account. heh.

  3. OpenBSD by karma+kameleon · · Score: 1 · on Slashdot Database Compromised!

    They shoulda used OpenBSD like Junebug does. Secure by default, locked down like a 13th century 16-year-old damsel's chastity belt.

  4. Mmmmm....OpenBSD by dragonfly_blue · · Score: 3 · on The World's Most Secure OS (?)
    I've been running it on my web server for Zarakas and Dragonfly Dynamix and my other domains for most of this year. I don't use X or anything, so it runs PHP, MySQL, SSL, and Apache just fine with a P-133 and 32 (!) MB RAM.

    For administration it's so nice to have SSH installed by default, so I don't have to worry about some kiddie on my LAN running a port sniffer on my telnet session. It's also kind of nice that it never crashes unless I do something particularly stupid (which I think I have thus far avoided, oh except for that time when I didn't have a swap partition.)

    Theo is certainly a character. His work speaks for itself.

    The mailing lists are just the way they should be; interesting, very technical, very easy to offend, and really amazingly helpful.

    I've also been pleased with the fact that IPSec is built right on in there, so when the time comes for me to play with VPNs, I'm already 90% of the way there.

    Now, whether or not I'd call OpenBSD user-friendly or easy to use, that's a different story. I guess I feel pretty good about having a Unix-y/BSD box around that makes me learn more CLI stuff every once in a while.

  5. Speaking of licensing issues, here's mine. by dragonfly_blue · · Score: 3 · on Slashback: Buzzwords, Fruit, DIY
    Speaking of licensing issues, my web site was put together using a GPL'ed PHP package. The collection of scripts, as well as PHP, the dev language, fall under Open Source licenses. I installed the software about a week ago.

    Since installing the package and configuring it, I have already had visitors ask me for the source, which I gladly provided of course. However, I provided them the source to the original package, --not-- the altered PHP scripts (which incidentally contain sensitive information such as my MySQL database name and password.)

    My main concern is this; if I use this software to create a web site, and it is GPL'ed, I do not want to redistribute the exact files that are in my HTML directory, for obvious reasons. Am I in violation of the GPL, if someone decides they want to enforce it? Are they subsequently entitled to a tarball of my web site root directory? If they are, there is no possible way I can continue using this package, and therefore could not continue to support Open Source for this project. :-(

    I have already find a few minor bugs and have been submitting them back into the CVS tree, so I'm still contributing to the development of the package; however, some people are now talking about the GPL being modified to encompass web sites being made with Open Source tools. If the GPL is changed to encompass web sites as opposed to binary distributions, could mean some serious problems for me.

    Any advice that anyone has about this matter would definitely be something I would appreciate. Thanks!

  6. Re:You know they're organized, right? by dragonfly_blue · · Score: 1 · on The Cathedral And The Bizarre
    Well, it's certainly interesting that my "troll" has sparked so much interesting debate. If anything, your petty little meta-comments, which of course add nothing to the discussion, only add to the status of this particular thread. For that, I thank you, sir. ;-)

    P.S. If you're interested, there is a parallel discussion thread to this topic over on Junebug. But then again, I'm not sure that I want you mucking up my server.

  7. Slash Code by dragonfly_blue · · Score: 1 · on BSDI Acquires Telenet System Solutions
    This might be off-topic, but hey.

    OK, so I am going to be installing the Slash code to run a portion of my web site. My major question of the day (Or at least my Major 4:00 AM Question of the Day) is:

    Can I run the Slash code on a *BSD? If so, does it require any special considerations?

    What does Slashdot use for their server OS? They credit Debian and Red Hat on the Slash Code Site, but I haven't seen what they are using. I'd really be interested in finding out what distro it is, not because I'd necessarily use it, but because it might help me decode the Slash documentation. I've run Caldera, Mandrake, and SuSE before, but I'm willing to try others of course.

    Anyway, I was also considering running OpenBSD or FreeBSD as my web server OS for Dragonfly Dynamix, but then I decided in the car today on the way home that I wanted to run the Slash code...

    Anyway, I know this is slightly off-topic, but I at least nailed the right forum. Right? Guys? Right?

    *gulp*

    *Watches Karma plummet...*

    =P