Slashdot Mirror
War Driving With The Kids
burntfungus writes "War Driving on Vacation with your kids. A drive from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo's Gum Alley (yes, it's bubble gum on the wall), then on to San Francisco. Hundreds of 802.11b Access points available for mapping with Netstumbler. Some in the middle of nowhere."
I AM A FISH!
This post probably won't be first..... Infact, I KNOW IT WON'T BE
first
dedicated to perdida.
I love you! You are the cutest girl troll in the world!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
I'd rather be out GeoCaching. Safer, legal (well no one can arrest you for hacking at least), and there's treasure to be found!
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
(shit - grammer)
Your sig is spelled wrongly. You have confused "you're" meaning "you are" with "your" meaning belonging to you.
Other tips:
They're - they are
There - that place, over there
Their - belonging to them
And if you don't want to be spammed for God's sake, don't use pathetic obsfucation of your email address on a public forum
Whoop-de-doo! General aviation pilots have been doing this for years on various handheld and panel-mount GPS and LORANs with and without the maps, and, yes, have integrated these units with moving maps on their laptops. People who drive Mercedes have had this option available for at least a couple of years now.
Frankly, you can do the same trip-planning and navigation with a map and an odometer with a trip meter. Why is this such a big hairy deal?
YOUR = Something that belongs to you!!
YOU'RE = You are!!!
IT'S NOT THAT HARD!!!