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I dunno who said this works on iMac's, but I think they're lying. If I explicitly boot the kernel (bf=/tftp/netbsd), it loads, and the first thing it does is say 'USB Not found' -- considering that the iMac is -based- around USB, it's not going to work all that well..

False advertising? 8-)

--Rob

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one guy making $80,000 a year (or more). That guy can smugly laugh at the people working there how they need him to set things up for them, but they also laugh at him how he is a huge geek with no life.

Hurm. You seem to think that there's something WRONG with that. I dunno about you, but I like getting paid twice what my Boss gets, and getting to play with big motherfucking computers all day.

I see absoloutely nothing wrong with that.

*shrug*

--Rob

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A few questions.. Why are the datestamps on all the files May 11?

Am I looking in the wrong spot? I went happily to my usual mirror (ftp2.au.netbsd.org), thought there was some NetBSD secret that files are hidden for 2 months before being put on show? Anyway....

I have an iMAC (as mentioned above), and I'm trying to get the bastard to boot. Not being at all new to bootp, and extremely comfortable with it, I've fired it up, and set up a root filesystem, etc. This is where the clues are needed.
The page here hints slightly that I need the file /usr/mdec/ofwboot.elf as the actual bootloader (That's kinda useful, having the network loader packaged up inside the install. Sigh) - BUT, it's not there. Not at all. There's a file there that's called 'ofwboot', which I thought would be the one, but it seems like the Mac's OF doesn't like it as it says 'unrecognized Client Program format' (case exactly as displayed). I had a quick search through altavista and found precisely zero hits on 'ofwboot.elf' and zero on the message above.

Help?


--Rob
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Well, my main mail/web server running 2.0.35 was up for 220 days (until 24 hours ago, when a hardware failure took out the root/usr drive). I haven't used NetBSD (see, I got it right that time 8-) yet, so, we'll see what happens.

But, on that subject, the open source Unices are getting to the very-low bug level, and they're getting quite hard to crash from a software perspective.

I'd be looking more at what you want to do - AFAIK, the *BSD's have more emphasis on network throughput (ref: ftp.cdrom.com), whilst linux supports everything under the sun 8-)



--Rob
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It's called a Thinko 8-)

--Rob

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I recently bought and iMac, and, of course, put Linux on it. (Yellowdog, if anyone cares). Now that FreeBSD run's on it, it may be a good incentive to play with it, as I don't have any non-important machines on which I can mess around.

Cool.

--Rob

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> Mesa in Bombad Troubles.

*chortle*.

--Rob

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This looks like a Vigenere Cipher...

I know they are very weak ciphers but it still looks familiar...

Here... link away

http://www.achiever.com/freehm pg/cryptology/vig.html

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/h ttp/html/people/muth/Cipher/

http://cw.oaktree.co.uk/crypt/vigen ere_doc.html

http://sh akti.trincoll.edu/~rmorelli/FYSM122/Cryptograms/Cr yptogram8.html


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Bun-Bun Rules!
90% of day read /.

I'm thinking of the 'Seven Minute Red Plague'(??) in _The_Diamond_Age_

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Bun-Bun Rules!
90% of day read /.

What's the point of persuing something if you can't catch it??

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Bun-Bun Rules!
90% of day read /.

Isn't taxes something like 52% when everything is all added up? ouch! I think I pay 28% or something

And most Americans do know how good we have it, we just want it better... it's our right, so there :)


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Bun-Bun Rules!
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Odd. UF still makes me smile every so often. So far, I'm waiting for the current storyline's payoff.

And as for published web-comics, how about both Sluggy Freelance, and Kevin and Kell, comics I read daily. In fact, K&K has two volumes out (working on a third soon), and Sluggy is currently printing their second volume.

It's just that I'd like to see more and better UF; a book gives me that opportunity. And since it'll be sold primarily in bookstores, rather than online, I'll have the chance to look it over before I take it to the counter.

A comparison to Calvin & Hobbes brings up an interesting point. One of Watterson's [the cartoonist of Calvin & Hobbes] big problems was restling with those limitations and trying to push the newspapers to break free. UserFriendly, Sluggy Freelance (and Red Meat, et other online comics) are made for the web, and yet they all stick to the traditional formats.

The great thing is that those compendium-type books were given names like 'The Essential Calvin and Hobbes' by their writer since they were clearly anthing but.


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sorry, but Pokey was no where near as funny as userfriendly and Sluggy Freelance

IMHO User Friendly has its moments, but Sluggy Freelance is funny far more often. Then there's Helen, an amusing and different take on the BOFH.