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I looked at Devuan. It's not an option. It's an amateurish side project, from what I could see. I can't trust it to be around next month, nevermind a few years from now. At least the FreeBSD project has a mature, helpful community with a long track record of doing great work. I can trust the FreeBSD project. I can't trust the Devuan project.

Devuan has existed for 3 years, since the Exodus Declaration in November 2014.
It is supported by the non-profit organization Dyne.org.
It will be here, tomorrow, next month, next year, next decade. Believe it.

You can find the Devuan community:
- On the Dev1 Galaxy forums.
- On the mailing lists at dyne.org
- On IRC, chat.freenode.net in the #devuan channel.

Devuan is small compared to Debian, but its users are happy and eagerly awaiting the release of Devuan 2.0 (Ascii).

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##altslashdot

Oh diddly Dice, the smell of your stinking Beta is not nice.

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##altslashdot.org

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##altslashdot

Beta is soulless destruction of a great internet forum as well as Slashdot as a historical landmark during bleak times of cultish walled gardens and MBA's coding HTML and CSS.

Join ##altslashdot

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##altslashdot.org

DOWN WITH BETA

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##altslashdot

MOD DOWN OFF TOPIC

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=altslashdot

FUCK BETA

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=altslashdot

FUCK BETA

Wohoo, two minutes left, I can reply.
http://www.soylentnews.org/wik...
www.soylentnews.org/Forum/
http://webchat.freenode.net/ channel ##altslashdot.

Out.

Post this on every story that pops up, even if it's already been posted. IRC for slashdot refugees. http://webchat.freenode.net/?c...

For those who know how to use an IRC client go to #slashdot-refugees on FreeNode. If you don't, use this handy web client and join anyway. :) Commiserate and/or make plans in case this situation goes horribly wrong. :-/

Actually... I've created a channel on IRC called #slashdot-refugees (on FreeNode... there's even a web client. Some in the community might want to commiserate, discuss plans of keeping the community together into the future etc.. and a realtime medium might be a good way. It's 2am in Australia though, so although I'm in channel I won't be around for a few hours.

I've linked to the IRC channel webchat in my "welcome to the forums" post. We had a pretty good conversation there this morning about development platforms and overall site design.

SO, you cant use a web browser then? what a shame.

(There are web-based irc clients/gateways. all that's required is javascript. cf: http://webchat.freenode.net/ )

nobody uses IRC or Usenet anymore

I have dozens of friends and associates that I communicate with nearly exclusively on IRC. By nearly exclusively, I mean I might call them once every month or two, but I speak with them in IRC on a nearly daily basis. OFTC operates a ton of servers, and other outfits like freenode. Modern IRC is pretty feature rich; encryption, bouncers/relays, web-based clients, very rich native clients, and ANSI terminal clients (I use Irssi) are all supported.

Just using three degrees of separation from me, tens of thousands of people are using IRC at any given moment. Go further out in terms of separation and the number is much, much higher. Where did you get the idea that nobody uses IRC any more?

Email is a different story -- you can try to host your own mail server but it's a huge PITA to set up SPF records and whatnot to keep your outgoing mail from getting bounced.

How is one TXT or SPF record in DNS a huge PITA? It's incredibly simple. I host my own mail, along with mail for a bunch of other people and organizations. It's not that difficult, and my mail doesn't get bounced. My total involvement with my mail servers amounts to perhaps one hour per month, the total time taken to install security updates and make sure automated backups are running properly. If you don't want to invest this minimum of effort, that's fine, but please don't use the excuse that it's too difficult.

How interesting!

This morning I got sidetracked into a past code breaking challenge that involved a substitution cipher.

Sigaba seems like a 1-digit substitution cipher implemented on a complex rotor system.

Step by step !!,
We’re aware of the current use of non-free synthesis tools. But it dint mean, we're happy with.
So far the flashing process uses now free/open hardware and software, something that was not possible before.
The history don’t end here, there are very smart people working on some replacement for this missing free parts, but is Work In Progress, and requires more people to join and develop around it.

As in contrast the GNU compiler was no developed in a free/libre system from once. All require transition, and support, keep that mind :-)
If you are interested please join our irc channel #milkymist at freenode and tell us how you can help:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=milkymist

About the secrecy part i recommend you to read this interesting thread, worth take the time to read it, and scape from misinformation that is very common those days:
http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2010-September/005369.html

You are right, Really Very few components from Opencores, actually Wishbone core is a modified version from the conbus core from opencores. But some cores developed by the main developer during the process, like the navre cpu and hpdmc controller we're published in opencores as well. Feel free to ask more questions here or at the IRC Channel at Freenode #milkymist also follow the development of the project by github A Quick Webchat link for IRC Chat here too: http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=milkymist

Assuming you're on Mediacom try going to http://freenode.net/asdfasdfasdfasdf You will not get freenode's default 404 error. You will get redirected to Mediacom even if you're opted-out. This is exactly how it works for me. I've been complaining to them for months.

While I am not sure TFA will succeed with someone determined to be a troll, these things might:

http://freenode.net/philosophy.shtml
http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml
http://freenode.net/catalysts.shtml

tl;dr: Kindness, understanding and trying to make them see that people on the receiving side are people too can work wonders.

While I am not sure TFA will succeed with someone determined to be a troll, these things might:

http://freenode.net/philosophy.shtml
http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml
http://freenode.net/catalysts.shtml

tl;dr: Kindness, understanding and trying to make them see that people on the receiving side are people too can work wonders.

While I am not sure TFA will succeed with someone determined to be a troll, these things might:

http://freenode.net/philosophy.shtml
http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml
http://freenode.net/catalysts.shtml

tl;dr: Kindness, understanding and trying to make them see that people on the receiving side are people too can work wonders.

Just a quick addendum: You can catch us on IRC, too. We're #opengameart on irc.freenode.net. Here's a web link:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opengameart

I'm in and out of the channel during the work day, but it's a pretty active place, so there's always someone around.

There are also plenty of Firefox vulnerabilities out there, they just don't get national headlines like IE does. Here's a current one.

This is not a exploit in firefox. This is a vurnabillity in some IRC servers. The Freenode people agree. They are moving to a new IRCd.

I experienced the same issues. Unfortunately, anyone running a Tor exit node goes on the list of active Tor exit nodes, which is visible to anyone.

As you said, many sites will block your IP if you are on this list -- maybe not explicitly because you are a Tor user, but perhaps based on blacklists they rely on third parties to come up with. The problem was first brought to my attention when my girlfriend complained she couldn't watch videos on NBC.com. I also noticed that The Pirate Bay did not seem to accept torrent uploads from Tor exit nodes.

However, the most annoying issue was that irc.freenode.org no longer allowed me to connect. They address Tor here, encouraging people to use their hidden service. Unfortunately, after following their instructions it did not work, and an email for help received no reply (yes, I could have/should have done more to contact the staff for help -- whatever).

I'm down for the struggle, but putting me on a public list of proxies so I can be, as you said, effectively blackmailed is not a good recipe for encouraging participation.

If you want to experiment with darknets and avoid being blacklisted, check out I2P. While you can reach the Internet at large via a few exit proxies, I2P is really meant to be self-contained.

Tech:
I, Cringley http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/rss2.xml
Freedom to Tinker http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?feed=rss2
Freenode staffblog http://blog.freenode.net/?feed=rss2
Gentoo Monthly Newsletter http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/rss.xml
Xaprb (MySQL) http://www.xaprb.com/blog/feed/atom/

Games:
Cruise Elroy ("Intelligent discussion of video games") http://cruiseelroy.net/feed/
Jonathan Drain's D20 Source http://d20.jonnydigital.com/feed
Socratic Design http://socratesrpg.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Stephen's Weblog (NDS homebrew) http://blog.akkit.org/feed/
StupidRanger http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stupidrangercom
Zero Punctuation http://www.escapistmagazine.com/rss/articles/editorials/zeropunctuation
Zelda Reorchestrated http://www.zreomusic.com/feed/
Used to read The Escapist, quite enjoying the magazine format, but seven or so articles all on the same day each week became too much (once a month please!). The format has changed since then, it just isn't the same.

And the Comics:
xkcd comic & blag
Penny Arcade
and no feed, but 8-bit Theater

And a number of various personal feeds

Slashdot I just check every few hours, I can be assured there is going to be a new article to read

Too bad the rest of the Office doesn't work

freenode generally blocks all tor connections to our normal servers. We have two systems for TOR access in place:

A normal hidden access node at mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion , which currently does not accept any new connections. Established connections are not affected.

A GPG-TOR system where every user has his or her own iline which can be accessed at 5t7o4shdbhotfuzp.onion . As you can generate throwaway keys, this keeps anonymity while allowing for accountability. This is the preferred access method and not affected by the TOR block.

You can find more information here or in #freenode on irc.freenode.net.

Richih
freenode staff

I encourage you to read about disk partitioning and then try to install Windows yourself. You'll see that the Windows installer is light years behind many GNU/Linux installers. Most users from the mass market are unable to install Windows themselves, and some times even to configure it properly through the control panel, not to say be able to work with Windows through its command line interface, and would of course be powerless to navigate in its predecessor, MS-DOS, even if they had to do that in order to save their lives! However, I'll agree that most OS installers out there, and not only GNU/Linux's, could be significantly improved in terms of user interface. But the fact is that an OS installer isn't supposed to teach you the basics. If you can't acquire this knowledge yourself, then you need to find a computer technician, knowledgeable friend, or member of the open-source community to do that work for you. I'm sure there are many GNU/Linux fans near you that would be happy to come and help you install any distro for you, even for free. The good thing with GNU/Linux and other similar systems like BSDs is that it's supported by a helpful community whose members don't need to call each other friends in order to offer some help, and this is also a good way to make our communities grow and teach new members the values of volunteerism, copyleft, etc that made GNU/Linux possible. So, for every question about GNU/Linux you have, your best option is to contact your local LUG (Linux User Group), usually through their mailing list, or join a GNU/Linux IRC chat channel (eg on Freenode) while you are doing an installation.

The bad news: It may be difficult to jump onboard a specific project (particularly one as complex as Linux or Firefox) solely as a technical writer. Documentation ranges from extremely technical (as in code comments) to quite understandable (as in FAQs on websites). In my experience, the more technical documentation is left for the developers and the more understandable documentation is left for the admins.

The good news: If you're creative, you'll find a fulfilling way to help. If you're only interested in supporting a particular project, you could find its official discussion channel and work your way up to being a channel operator. If you're interested in the movement as a whole, you could contribute to a more generic (non-project-specific) documentation site. Many such sites even have author's guides where you can RTFM about WTFM (Writing The Firkin' Manual).

Good luck!

after a few days in forums, i was told i had to recompile it.

...The point is to create (or buy and free, in this case), a complete MMORPG gaming system. It's the MMORPG version of the Unreal Engine, for comparison's sake.

So the game wasn't that great. It's open source now, get a group of people together (a la Legend of the Green Dragon), and make a new world system based in the engine.

So it might take several servers and people to run the system. Set it up distributed, get someone to contribute the services of their 3DNS server somewhere, and now not only are you distributed, but you have geographical load balancing.

Commenters are talking about this as if the idea that a group of people on the IntarWebs can't democratically organize a large distributed server environment and keep it running the latest code and staffed with admins. I wouldn't mention that to the people at all of the various irc networks, who have been doing exactly that for years, you might discourage them and make them shut down networks that have been running for longer than a decade.

And even if the whole Massive part of the game doesn't take off, who's to say specialty environments won't crop up, with admin tools and pre-formed game world content, a la AD&D or GURPS Modules and Expansions, letting players run actual 3D immersive campaigns on a single server somewhere for relatively small groups of people. For that matter, the idea of online 3D Battletech with the whole army of people that I used to play with years ago, instead of going through all the work to build huge tables, seems like a pretty fun concept.

The fact that such a beast could be released to the public is a good thing, even if you didn't like what the front end (Ryzom) was; the backend is what's important here. It's like the Unreal engine - there's a lot of games using it. Some of them suck, some of them are pretty good, but the content, and the engine to support the content, are two separate things. Yes, the bad (in the opinion of some people) content comes with it, but so does the engine that will let people drive whatever content they want.

I suggest gaining some experience in free open-source software development. Goto high-priority projects assisted by GNU, or goto Savannah. Get an IRC account at FreeNode and meet other hackers.

Then, I suggest investing about $400 per year on a Safari subscription. This is a site where you can legally read O'Reilly IT e-books. It will come handy if you have a PDA, like HTC Universal with a 3G broadband connection for reading Safari while you commute (note: Here in Europe we commute by taking a taxi, riding a bus, or using a train, if you are in North America most probably you won't be able to use a PDA during commuting as you ought to drive, unless you are in New York City where mass transit is similar to Europe).

Finally, focus on the fundamentals. What's a queue and how it differs from an array? What is a relation? What is a finite state machine? What is a Turing machine, and what is a hypercube?

Armed with the fundamentals, assisted by a good e-books site like Safari, and practising on open-source projects, you will become a hacker in no time.

A caveat: Try to understand what kind of company your employer is. Do they pass the Joel Test? Do they have good Management and do they use Software Engineering methodologies, and if not why not? Many companies are just hiring a bunch of underpaid engineers, put them in a noisy environment, and tell them to write code all day. This is a recipe for bugs! Good companies act on bugs proactively, via test-driven development, etc.

Another important thing you must achieve is the state of flow, coding in the zone, or hack-mode. It is, in fact, more important to be able to achieve flow easily rather than have advanced degrees in computers.

irc.freenode.net blocks tor because there's a dedicated tor hidden service for freenode. freenode has been very accommodating towards tor.

christel ok, im going to go +m for a moment
christel and we will try answer some of the questions you've asked after a minute of silence
christel Ok, first off, this is not a hoax
christel Rob was riding his bike on tuesday when he was hit by a car, he has spent the last few days at the neuro trauma ICU at a local hospital
christel where he has been in a coma
christel the news reached us this morning that Rob passed away early today
beu to repeat for those just joining us, this sadly is not a hoax; Rob was riding his bike on tuesday when he was hit by a car, he has spent the last few days at the neuro trauma ICU at a local hospital... news reached us this morning that Rob passed away early today
christel Rob is survived by wife Debbie and son Benjamin
christel and we ask that you all respect their privacy at this difficult time
christel Robs funeral is most likely to be monday afternoon, although we have yet to get confirmation as Debs is waiting to hear from the MEs office that it can go ahead as planned
christel and for those local, wishing to show their respects at his funeral, we ask that you email staff@freenode.net and we will try direct you as we can
christel We will take some questions now and try answer them in channel, it would be appreciated if those with questions message beu, and we will answer on channel
christel thank you
christel the first question we've had is "What happens to freenode?"
beu to answer the "who verified this?" question, members of freenode staff have been in contact with Rob's family over the past few days
christel it is Debs wishes that freenode keeps running as close to normal as possible, and we will be working with the PDPC board to ensure that the network keeps running
beu we are currently formulating an announcement and hope to have it online soon, in addition to an online "book of condolences"
christel it has also been asked why lilos client is still connected
christel i am sure you will all agree that at this point in time, we feel uncomfortable killing his client and find the mere idea rather morbid
christel Robs nicknames will be quarantined to prevent abuse.
christel A lot of people have asked how they can help
christel Debs requests has been that people who knew Rob could donate to PDPC in his memory, or those wishing to make a more general contribution could give something to a bicycle safety campaign in their area.
beu this question is cropping up a *lot*: yes, sadly rob did indeed pass away this morning, no, this is not a hoax
christel we will also try to coordinate so that we can get some things together for Debs and Benjamin, but at this point in time she has no particular wishes in that regard. Those wishing to help his family however, are encouraged to get in touch with us per email (again staff@freenode.net) and we will try connect you with those in the area that are coordinating support.
christel "Should lilo's fellow Jews sit shiva for 30 days as is tradition?"
christel I am not jewish, and I dont know much about jewish traditions, so i will leave that up to each and every one of you individually
christel "Where, as in city and state, would the funeral be?
christel Rob lived in Houston, Texas and the funeral will be held there
christel "was lilo wearing a helmet and was the car driver responsible? if they are responsible will they be charged?"
christel lilo was not wearing a helmet, we are unsure at this point about what will happen wrt the driver of the car
beu we are working on making a formal announcement on http://freenode.net/, and are currently setting up an online "book of condolences". our current eta is: soon.
christel from what we know, it was a hit and run
christel and the driver has not yet been found
beu Rob passed away on the morning (texas time) of Saturday 16th 2006
christel Any other questions?
beu where Rob is Rob Levin, who most of us knew as lilo
christel I am recieving a lot of priv messages, and I am afra

lilo is i=levin@freenode/staff/pdpc.levin * Rob Levin
lilo using irc.freenode.net http://freenode.net/
lilo is away: Whoops, I've stepped away. For URGENT freenode help (channel flooding, trolling users, network problems or access issues), please email my pager at 4iiygyvs@freenode.net . It's my job and I'm happy to respond. For ROUTINE issues, please see http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#gettinghelp .... Please take a look at my personal blog when you get a chance: http://spinhome.org/ .... Thanks!
lilo is identified to services
lilo End of /WHOIS list. :/

lilo is i=levin@freenode/staff/pdpc.levin * Rob Levin
lilo using irc.freenode.net http://freenode.net/
lilo is away: Whoops, I've stepped away. For URGENT freenode help (channel flooding, trolling users, network problems or access issues), please email my pager at 4iiygyvs@freenode.net . It's my job and I'm happy to respond. For ROUTINE issues, please see http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#gettinghelp .... Please take a look at my personal blog when you get a chance: http://spinhome.org/ .... Thanks!
lilo is identified to services
lilo End of /WHOIS list. :/

* [lilo] (i=levin@freenode/staff/pdpc.levin): Rob Levin
* [lilo] #gaim ##freebsd
* [lilo] irc.freenode.net :http://freenode.net/
* [lilo] is away (Whoops, I've stepped away. For URGENT freenode help (channel flooding, trolling users, network problems or access issues), please email my pager at 4iiygyvs@freenode.net . It's my job and I'm happy to respond. For ROUTINE issues, please see http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#gettinghelp .... Please take a look at my personal blog when you get a chance: http://spinhome.org/ .... Thanks!)
* [lilo] is identified to services
* [lilo] idle 27:16:23, signon: Thu Sep 7 08:14:39
* [lilo] End of WHOIS list.

Note: ## instead of # for channels means that it is a help or 'about' channel.

Actually, this is a new way of doing things on freenode from about a year ago or so. Channels with only one # denotes an official channel for the project, where core developers often hang out and help, having project meetings and so on. Examples are #docbook, #svn and #mediawiki. Channels starting with "##" are unofficial channels for a project, used for helping out for this specific software/distro/whatever, for example ##linux. More info about this here.

I have found the IRC channels on irc.freenode.net to be a superb source of good Linux support. #gentoo is friendly, knowledgeable, clean, and decent.

Take Freenode - an IRC network dedicated to various sorts of community tech support (and, well, general community collaboration for sites like Wikipedia and such). A notable bias towards open-source projects and technologies, admittedly, but the same idea applies.

So what's Qunu got over IRC then? A fluffy little search-engine? :P

What the hell is a "news" page for on http://www.freenode.net/ if you're not going to put, "WARNING: Do not identify with a password on IRC right now!!" on the page. The last news posted is from early May!

The Open Source Lab currently hosts some of Freenode's north american servers.

How about this ?

But I guess that would just time out...

Heh. As a full-time developer of the related technology, I'm glad the mention of Verse survived into the blurb!

Verse is a low-level data model, network protocol and programming API for dealing with distributed applications involving 3D graphics and audio. It is completely open and distributed under a BSD license so you can use it in any kind of application.

For details, see the top-level Uni-Verse site (toplevel page about the current research project). If you're a developer, perhaps heading directly to the Verse pages is more interesting. You could also check out the specification for the Verse core technology. Or why not just surf the CVS and read some code? :)

If you have questions, you could drop by #verse on FreeNode, or use the mailing list. More developers would certainly not hurt.

On the Slashdot/RSS thing, RSS is getting quite a reputaton for really unpleasant surge loads. Something we're factoring in to anything we doing relation to RSS, designing for caching. Not really a surprise if Slashdot has had to do some tweaking.

We were suffering a bit today from the combination of Slashdot, Wired News (Wikipedia Becomes a Way of Life) and Spiegel Online with an overloaded image server. Image server was bouncing around 100% utilization, kept some pages in the queue too long and that hurt overall apache capacity. We've seen far worse and we're getting rid of that bottleneck. As a temporary measure we've asked people to remove some pretty but not content images from a few places. Won't last long, though.

On the fund-raising side, the drive ended early after exceeding its $75,000 target. It's currently at around $95,000 probably with some data still to arrive, close to reaching $100,000, my initial thought of a target. Really good news for those of us doing the capacity and reliability work but it'll take a few months for it to be visible. Thanks to everyone here who helped!

Anyone who wants to spend a bit of money on another useful project might consider sending a bit to Freenode.net, the IRC host. Among other things they host our channels, including our offsite 24/7 IRC NOC and a superb MySQL channel, regularly inhabited by MySQL employees. Providing good service to lots of other open source projects.

It's easy to complain about "all this begging for money"---but where is it? The nonprofit org that runs freenode has a fundraiser once a year to raise a small salary and some incidentals, but nobody even knows it's going on unless they look at the website or see it on some channel topic.

i mainly use gallery 1.4.x - http://gallery.sf.net/ - and WordPress - http://wordpress.org/ - to create my photoblog. i host them on the same server and subdomain so its easier to reference.

a sample page can be found at http://scaturan.negimaki.com/blog/index.php/archiv es/2004/08/27/weekend-sleep/

both scripts are VERY easy to setup. ideally, you only need Apache's mod_rewrite, a mySQL account, lots of webspace and netPBM to get it up and running. altogether, the setup takes less than 5 minutes. but that's if you know what you're doing. read the docs.

if you have questions, feel free to join the #WordPress or #gallery IRC channels on irc.freenode.net - http://freenode.net/

We have a room on the irc.freenode.net servers called #cassini which is available to all who are interested in the Cassini project. Here you will find a wide range of interests discussed, from the informal to the most scientific details of the mission. Some of the Cassini staff have shown interest in participating to further support the project's public interest so don't be surprized to meet them there.

We also support the ' Maestro ' program which is the Public-Outreach software created for the Mars Exploration Rover Project from JPL . As a result, we helped maintain the #maestro room (also on freenode.net) which is still in operation today.

With such high interest building as Cassini-Huygens approaches orbital insertion and the Phoebe flyby, we expect a bigger rush in the next weeks. Join in and share the experience!

If you are not sure how to do 'IRC' there are many good primers online to help and you can visit http://freenode.net for details about connecting as well as links to assist you to set things up to chat online.

See all "/.'ers" there... ;^)

Pandelirium
http://www.pandelirium.net irc.freenode.net
#cassini
#maestro
#pandelirium

Writing from an LTSP 133 Mhz 32 RAM terminal that acts like a P4!

You can visit the irc channel to talk about it :)

I translated the latest install doc to
spanish and I love LTSPing :)