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Preparing for the Worst in FreeBSD
LiquidPC writes "In Part I of this series,
Michael Lucas, from ONLamp.com, goes over preparing your FreeBSD computer for the worst in case of a system panic."
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The best ass in computer games is definately the chick who goes along with you in Jedi knight 2.
Unfortunately she acts like the typical chick and is completely useless (oher than showing off her nice ass).
I think I will introduce her to a special friend.
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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
Does the slashdot community which is windows user _REALLY_ have to know that ??
I dont think so.
THIS IS LAME
Bunch of pretentious assholes all trying to be clever and witty. Suck my fuckin dick.
AC's got FIRST and SECOND post here, and you dare to claim fp for you stupid fucking logged in faggots? eat shit and die. you logged in tards have to learn that you are nothing compared to the army of AC's that are willing to eat you alive. good day, ma'am.
YOU KNOW IT. YOU FEEL IT.
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
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.
*BSD is dying
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
I'm sorry, but ads are just ruining websites.
I've totally crossed a threshold now on sites
like this where the ads are taking more of my
attention than the content.
Yesterday I got an ad on Yahoo that was so
big I fell off my chair. I had to fire up
PSP and do a screen capture. It was a full
876x463 pixels.
I know this was offtopic, but the topic sucked
and I wanted to post anyway.
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Your personal favorite gerbil? I think that says it all right there.
Anyway, as a troll, I think you really spent alot more time than you should have on this troll. It really is lacking in content and features.
I appreciate the effort, but that was a poor excuse for a troll (despite the excessive length).
He is a walking heart attack waiting to happen. Hey fella, push yourself away from the keyboard and lose some lbs.
most insightful comment I have read in months
I think the elegance of the troll is the lack of excess. After all, a troll post has reached perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Nice troll, until the end where you just kinda blew it: Better luck next time.
I guess it just goes to prove the authors point.
this is an english-speaking country, the USA... why do we have to hear about countries other than the USA that may or may not speak a language other than english? (the preceeding statement was sarcasm)
you worthless fucknut.
How is this offtopic? VA Linux, er I mean Sla$hdot, posted this story specifically to generate comments like these.
I just purchased a new country home in southern Indiana.
We have about 3 acres of farmland, and I am considering getting a goat. For real, mind you. I think a goat would be a cool pet.
L'exploitation forestière du Saguenay
Au début du 19e siècle, le territoire agricole longeant le Fleuve St-Laurent devient de plus
en plus restreint. Le gouvernement essai de trouver de nouvelles terres pour accueillir les
nouveaux colons. La région du Saguenay semble tout indiquer pour cette vocation. En 1828, on
effectue une étude sur le territoire saguenéen. Cette étude conclue que la région du Saguenay est
propre à la colonisation et que le gouvernement devrait y faire des établissements. Cependant
le territoire appartient exclusivement à la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson, rendant ainsi la
colonisation impossible. Malgré toutes les batailles livrées par des colons de la Malbaie,
la région demeure fermée.
Pendant ce temps, l'Angleterre est au prise avec le blocus napoléonien qui fait grimpé le
prix du bois. Le gouvernement anglais décide donc de se tourner vers sa nouvelle colonie
pour s'approvisionner en bois. Ce fait historique constitue le point de départ du commerce
transatlantique du bois d'oeuvre. Au Québec, l'exportation des fourrures fait donc place à
celle du bois. La Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson obtient une licence de coupe de bois dans la
région du Saguenay. Quand cette dernière se voit incapable de remplir son contrat de coupe,
la Société des pinières du Saguenay, mieux connue sous le nom de la Société des vingt et un,
est formée, et achète les droits de coupe au Saguenay.
Le premier groupe d'hommes part de la Malbaie le 25 avril 1838. En chemin, ils s'arrêtent
aux Petites-Îles, à L'Anse au cheval et à l'Anse-St-Jean pour y construire des moulins à
scies. Toutefois, les deux premiers demeurent des constructions rudimentaires. Le premier
établissement permanent est celui de l'Anse-St-Jean. Puis quatorze hommes se séparent du groupe
et partent en direction de la Baie des Ha! Ha!. Là bas, ils construisent une "cabane" pour se
loger et commencent leur travail d'exploration. Finalement, le 20 octobre 1838, arrivent des
hommes, des femmes et des enfants en partance de la Malbaie. Cette date marque le début de la
colonisation au Saguenay.
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or maybe the ghosts are just the sounds of "assorted rodents, and a multitude of fish" - would've thought those were enough to make someone think any house was haunted! Makes me think of the Grim Reaper of Rats from the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels.
Video Game cheats, hints a
Today I talked to an old man who said he knew the source of these deadly little ants. According to him, many years ago the government introduced them in South Texas to control the Tomato Lice problem in southern farms. The fire ant is from South America and the amount of natural enemies there keeps their numbers in balance.
They controlled the Lice problem alright, and then keep right on going. No natural enemies and they are prolific, very prolific...they have migrated now, and over the last 3 years reached across the Red River into Oklahoma, and east to Florida. And they are spreading in huge numbers. Louisiana is infested as is Arkansas.
I have watched this menace grow in proportion and now has become a real threat. There are no more Quail, Pheasant, meadow larks, or anything else that nests on the ground. They climb into chicken nests at night and kill the chicks or attack the hen on the nest. They climb trees and kill small birds in the nest too. They are about the size of the little black ant...but so aggressive they bite on contact with flesh.
Due to the huge profits of the chemical business very little is being done to control these pests, just enough to keep them at bay from your house. Forget the pastures...they are lost. Forget the parks and the wild area's their gone too...fire ant mounds everywhere.
There is no collective Government program in place to control these ants, no wide spread eradication plan even in the works.
They can take the cold, survive the snow, and like the heat. They are heading north and east.
Anyone else heard this about their origin ?
Shut the fuck up. All you Pee Cee drones are the same when it comes to hardware. You all have penis envy. "My mhz is bigger than your mhz"
Macs archetechure STILL uses less instructions, which means that 866mhz on a Mac is equivalent to a 2.4ghz Pentium 4-- but uses less power and produces less heat.
Apple innovation is what's running the world. The PC world just copies it, and badly. BSD was an arcane, ugly implementation of DOS that was useless for the desktop, but Apple and its Darwin/Aqua project has really made it come around.
No more typing in screenfuls and screenfuls of cryptic commands to get anything done. Now it's easy. Apple moved it into the New Millenium.
now go take your WINTEL POS and boil your head in it, asshole.
preach it brotha
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. The funeral bell is tolling for *BSD. Bow your head. The parade's gone by.
Why now? Why dd *BSD fail? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD communty. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
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I dunno, but I've been told:
The Eskimo pussy is mighty cold!
For example, if it's dying?
sulli
RTFJ.
This guy is an idiot. How is a core dump supposed to help you when you can't even boot.
I woud panic if I found out I was running FreeBSD too!
Cool Quebec troll ! Got to add this one to the troll library