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I woke up again and it was still the middle of the night or early morning. I was hugging my bear still. I had drooled on him some and also my tears had made his face wet a little. I felt scared and alone. I didn't want my daddy to go to jail. I started to cry. Tammy came in and picked me up and grabbed my bear and carried me back to her room without saying a word. She laid me in her bed with my bear and then got under the covers with me and kissed my forehead and whispered "I love you Tiffany." "I love you too Tammy." We laid there cuddling until we went back to sleep
Later on I woke up and Tammy was still asleep so I laid there very still and let her sleep a while. I finally started to squirm around because my diaper was becoming itchy because it was soaked and I had been laying in it all night. Tammy opened her eyes and laid on her back and stretched out and yawned. "Hi Tiffy, is that dipee all soakie wettie?" "Yes me wet." "Ok baby, give me a moment and I'll take you over to your room and change you ok sweetie?" "Otay Tam Tam."
A short while later she picked me up and carried me to my room and laid me on the changing table and changed my diaper. After that she took me to the kitchen and got me something to eat. A while later mom came out. "Good morning mommy." I said. "Good morning sweetiepie, did you sleep good last night?" "NO mommy, me woke up 2 times and I was scared and I couldn't sleep. But then Tammy came in and got me and I slept with her the rest of the night." "Aww I'm sorry baby. I didn't sleep so great either." "Me either." Tammy said as she accidentally knocked over her orange juice. "Damn it!" she yelled. "Tammy!, don't use that kind of language, you know better than that." Tammy began to cry. "Oh honey come here." Mom held her and comforted her." "I love you Tammy." Mom said to her. "I love you too mom." They both hugged for a while.
We finished eating and were just doing stuff around the house. We had overslept so it was to late to go to church. We decided that we'd go to the night service since we missed the morning.
We got a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. IT was daddy! Mom talked to him for a while then handed the phone to me. "Hi daddy. I miss you." "I know sweetie, I miss you too. So are you and Tammy taking care of your mommy while I'm gone?" "Yes daddy we are, and she take care of us too." "That's good sweetie." "Daddy, when you coming home?" "I don't know yet. Keep praying for me." "I will daddy." "Ok let me talk to Tammy too ok?" Ok. I love you daddy." "I love you to Tiffany." I handed the phone to Tammy and went back to my drawing I was working on while they talked. Then mom got back on the phone and talked a little while and then he had to go.
Mom sat down at the table and explained to us what was going on with daddy. "Ok girls, I will try to explain this all to you the way he explained it to me." We both nodded and listened to her. "Your daddy is going to court this Thursday and they are charging him with computer crimes that he committed a long time ago. He is going to plead guilty and make a deal. You see, he committed these crimes as a minor, and before a lot of computer legislation was passed. So basically, your daddy broke the law before the case work for that law was established, and it was while he was a minor. His lawyer thinks that he will spend six months n county jail and have to pay some fines. But his lawyer is going to push for leniency because he changed his life since then and now has a family and a job and has had no other violations since that time. What they may do is put daddy on house arrest for 2 years and parole for an additional 5 years. IF daddy goes to jail for six months, he would lose his job and we would really go into debt trying to pay the fine, but if daddy gets house arrest, he can still do work for his company at home since its mainly computer work. So that's what we need to pray for."
"Wow mom he really got in a lot of trouble huh?" "Yes Tammy, he sure did. Just remember that what you do wrong will come back to haunt you later. The bible even says "Your sin shall find you out." So don't think that you can hide bad things that you do because eventually it catches up to you." "Yeah you're right mommy." I said. So we joined hands at the table and prayed for dad to be safe in the jail, and for the judge to have mercy on him and for God to guide us through this whole situation and that he would be glorified through all of this." Then mom fixed us some dinner and we ate and then got ready for church.
We got into the car and mom tried to start it but it would not start. "Mom, the devil don't want us to make it to church tonight but we will make it." "You're right Tammy." "Lord, please help us start this car and help us get to church so we can praise you, and so we can seek you and so we can be with other believers and be built up. Lord we need to go to your house so please make a way for us. In Jesus' name, Amen." Mom took a deep breath, waited a moment, and turned the key. The car sputtered a bit and then kicked in and we were on our way. "Praise God!" Mom said and we all smiled as we headed down the road.
We got to the church and took our seat. After we sang for a while we had prayer requests and praise reports and so on. Mom stood up and asked for prayer for our family. They had us come forward and they laid hands on us and prayed that God would bless our family and work out our situation and be with my daddy. Then we went back to our seat and we heard the preacher's sermon. He was talking about hard times and how God always sustains his own people. He mentioned how God had saved the three Hebrew children from the fiery furnace. And how he had led the Jews through the wilderness to the promised land. He tied it into how God still helps us each today on our life's journey. And how sometimes we go through the wilderness but God has good things waiting for us up the road a bit. God really used that sermon to speak to our family that night. Even at the young age of eight, I still was able to understand the message because the Holy Spirit always allows us to understand the things of God.
After that we went out to eat with a few other people from the church and we had a great time. By the time I got home I was very sleepy. Tammy changed my diaper and got me ready for bed. I had already had a bath before we left so I was all ready to go to bed. Tammy and mom both tucked me in tonight. It made me feel very secure and I was glad that they did that. I held my teddy bear and I went to sleep.
I woke up early Monday morning and had to go poo, so I went in my diaper and laid there for a while. I started to get uncomfortable so I cried like a baby for someone to come change me. Mom came in and hugged me and checked my diaper. "Oh now I know hwy you're crying silly, you got a pooper doper didee." "Yep mommy it yucky!" "Ok sweetie, I'll change you. Its almost time for you to get up and get ready for school anyway." Mommy gave me breakfast. Tammy was not feeling well so she wasn't going to school today. I went to her room and sat on her bed. "Hi, me hope you get better." "Thanks, I don't really feel sick, but I just don't' feel like doing anything if eel tired and sort of dizzy and I feel hot too." "Well that sounds to me like you are sick. But anyway I hope you get better soon." I hugged and kissed her and left.
I got to the bus stop and Laura and Emily were there. They both gave me hugs and said hi to me. I told them what my mom had told Tammy and I yesterday about my dad. They were glad that it wasn't real bad. We got to school and during class some kids started to tease me. I began to cry immediately. Most days I could take it but today I was just to emotional because of everything going on with my family. The teacher sent two kids to the office and she hugged me and got me to stop crying. I couldn't really concentrate on anything.
By the end of the day I had cried in class like two times and I couldn't do my work either. The teacher sent a note home with me to my mom saying that I should probably stay home for a couple days because of how everything was affecting me. I think that's what Tammy was feeling this morning too. The feeling that she just couldn't go through school and think about other stuff. I could relate to that too.
As we were going home on the bus I threw up on Laura. "Eww yuck!" she screamed. I started to cry. Emily held me while Laura stood up and took off her coat which I threw upon. "I sorry Laura." "oh it's ok, I'm sorry I yelled at you." The bus driver stopped the bus and came back there to see what was going on. I calmed down some but then some kid said something to me and I started to really cry and I threw up all over Laura again, this time all over her shirt and down her pants and onto the floor. "Ewww, this is like SO GROSS! Tiffany!" I just pushed Emily out of the seat into the isle and ran down the isle. I tripped and fell. I laid there just screaming and crying and kicking my feet. I even pooped in my diaper. I just lost all control I just felt so helpless. The bus driver told all the kids to shut up. Instead of stopping she drove faster to get to my stop so that I could get off.
A couple other kids came up to me and helped me off the floor. I couldn't stand up and so they helped me into one of there seats. Laura was crying because I threw up all over her and Emily was just in shock. One girl who was sitting next to me asked me. "Did you go poopoo in your diaper?" I blushed and nodded and started to cry again. She hugged me. "Don't throw up on me ok." "I wont." I laid my head on her shoulder as she rubbed my back. She wasn't even one of my friends. I hardly even talked to her, but I was glad she was being nice to me.
A moment later we were at my stop and Emily came up to get me and help me off the bus. Laura came behind us. All the kids were like "Eeww!" when they saw how much I threw up on Laura. We got off the steps and went over to my house. Emily knocked on my door. Laura stood in the yard crying still. I was just in shock now I wasn't crying or talking. My mom came out and took in this whole scene. "Oh my goodness. Honey are you ok?" She asked me. I just had a blank stare on my face. Then her attention turned to Laura. "Honey what happened to you?" "Tiffany threw up all over me." "Oh my goodness I knew I should have kept her home today. She's really upset about her dad." Emily told my mom about the note my teacher had for her and my mom reached into my back pack and got it. She looked at it and then sighed. "Emily, can you do me a favor, and take Tiffany into the her room and get her clothes off her accept for her diaper. I'll be in in a minute ok?" Emily nodded and took me into the house.
Meanwhile my mom took Laura behind the house to the back yard. "I'm gonna spray you down with the hose is that ok?" Laura nodded. My mom soaked her real good then took off her clothes accept for her cloth diaper. "Don't worry sweetie, I'll even change your diaper for you, just come on inside ok?" She nodded and fallowed my mom into the house. My mom threw her clothes in the washer and got them going then came to my room where Emily had just finished undressing me and I was laid on the changing table with Emily standing next to it talking to me. My mom came over and cleaned me up and gave me a new diaper then she got Laura to hop up on the table and she changed her diaper too. "Emily, do you need a diaper change?" Emily nodded. "Come on up here then sweetie." Emily got on the table and had her disposable diaper changed. Mom put Laura's and my diaper in the wash too.
Now all three of us were in disposable diapers and mom got Laura a set of clothes. Then she called Laura & Emily's mothers to tell them what was going on and asked if they could stay for a while because it would probably help me. I was still quiet though. I went to the living room and all three of us laid on the floor in our diapers and clothes and cuddled. I was starting to feel better. I apologized to Laura bout what happened on the bus. She hugged me and said it's ok. She and Emily knew I was going through some traumatic times with my dad being away in jail.
We had dinner and Tammy got up and joined us. We told her all that happened and she hugged me too. "Tomorrow you two can lay in bed all day together and relax. Maybe the next day too. I want you two girls to not get stressed out like Tiffany did today. Ok?" "Ok mommy." I said. "Yeah mom, thanks." Tammy said. We finished eating and we all 5 watched cartoons on TV and then mom took Laura and Emily home.
Tammy got me my bath and then got me ready for bed. "When I get ready to go to bed, do you want me to come get you so you can sleep with me tonight?" "Yeah, me like that." "Ok, I'll do that then." She tucked me in and kissed me good night. Sometime later on when I was half asleep Tammy came in and got me and took me to her room. We got settled in and I fell to sleep in no time.
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[ed. note: in the following text, former FreeBSD developer Mike Smith gives his reasons for abandoning FreeBSD]
When I stood for election to the FreeBSD core team nearly two years ago, many of you will recall that it was after a long series of debates during which I maintained that too much organisation, too many rules and too much formality would be a bad thing for the project.
Today, as I read the latest discussions on the future of the FreeBSD project, I see the same problem; a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.
FreeBSD used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.
So I'm leaving core. I don't want to feel like I should be "doing something" about a project that has lost interest in having something done for it. I don't have the energy to fight what has clearly become a losing battle; I have a life to live and a job to keep, and I won't achieve any of the goals I personally consider worthwhile if I remain obligated to care for the project.
Discussion
I'm sure that I've offended some people already; I'm sure that by the time I'm done here, I'll have offended more. If you feel a need to play to the crowd in your replies rather than make a sincere effort to address the problems I'm discussing here, please do us the courtesy of playing your politics openly.
From a technical perspective, the project faces a set of challenges that significantly outstrips our ability to deliver. Some of the resources that we need to address these challenges are tied up in the fruitless metadiscussions that have raged since we made the mistake of electing officers. Others have left in disgust, or been driven out by the culture of abuse and distraction that has grown up since then. More may well remain available to recruitment, but while the project is busy infighting our chances for successful outreach are sorely diminished.
There's no simple solution to this. For the project to move forward, one or the other of the warring philosophies must win out; either the project returns to its laid-back roots and gets on with the work, or it transforms into a super-organised engineering project and executes a brilliant plan to deliver what, ultimately, we all know we want.
Whatever path is chosen, whatever balance is struck, the choosing and the striking are the important parts. The current indecision and endless conflict are incompatible with any sort of progress.
Trying to dissect the above is far beyond the scope of any parting shot, no matter how distended. All I can really ask of you all is to let go of the minutiae for a moment and take a look at the big picture. What is the ultimate goal here? How can we get there with as little overhead as possible? How would you like to be treated by your fellow travellers?
Shouts
To the Slashdot "BSD is dying" crowd - big deal. Death is part of the cycle; take a look at your soft, pallid bodies and consider that right this very moment, parts of you are dying. See? It's not so bad.
To the bulk of the FreeBSD committerbase and the developer community at large - keep your eyes on the real goals. It's when you get distracted by the politickers that they sideline you. The tireless work that you perform keeping the system clean and building is what provides the platform for the obsessives and the prima donnas to have their moments in the sun. In the end, we need you all; in order to go forwards we must first avoid going backwards.
To the paranoid conspiracy theorists - yes, I work for Apple too. No, my resignation wasn't on Steve's direct orders, or in any way related to work I'm doing, may do, may not do, or indeed what was in the tea I had at lunchtime today. It's about real problems that the project faces, real problems that the project has brought upon itself. You can't escape them by inventing excuses about outside influence, the problem stems from within.
To the politically obsessed - give it a break, if you can. No, the project isn't a lemonade stand anymore, but it's not a world-spanning corporate juggernaut either and some of the more grandiose visions going around are in need of a solid dose of reality. Keep it simple, stupid.
To the grandstanders, the prima donnas, and anyone that thinks that they can hold the project to ransom for their own agenda - give it a break, if you can. When the current core were elected, we took a conscious stand against vigorous sanctions, and some of you have exploited that. A new core is going to have to decide whether to repeat this mistake or get tough. I hope they learn from our errors.
Future
I started work on FreeBSD because it was fun. If I'm going to continue, it has to be fun again. There are things I still feel obligated to do, and with any luck I'll find the time to meet those obligations.
However I don't feel an obligation to get involved in the political mess the project is in right now. I tried, I burnt out. I don't feel that my efforts were worthwhile. So I won't be standing for election, I won't be shouting from the sidelines, and I probably won't vote in the next round of ballots.
You could say I'm packing up my toys. I'm not going home just yet, but I'm not going to play unless you can work out how to make the project somewhere fun to be again.
= Mike
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I woke up again and it was still the middle of the night or early morning. I was hugging my bear still. I had drooled on him some and also my tears had made his face wet a little. I felt scared and alone. I didn't want my daddy to go to jail. I started to cry. Tammy came in and picked me up and grabbed my bear and carried me back to her room without saying a word. She laid me in her bed with my bear and then got under the covers with me and kissed my forehead and whispered "I love you Tiffany." "I love you too Tammy." We laid there cuddling until we went back to sleep
Later on I woke up and Tammy was still asleep so I laid there very still and let her sleep a while. I finally started to squirm around because my diaper was becoming itchy because it was soaked and I had been laying in it all night. Tammy opened her eyes and laid on her back and stretched out and yawned. "Hi Tiffy, is that dipee all soakie wettie?" "Yes me wet." "Ok baby, give me a moment and I'll take you over to your room and change you ok sweetie?" "Otay Tam Tam."
A short while later she picked me up and carried me to my room and laid me on the changing table and changed my diaper. After that she took me to the kitchen and got me something to eat. A while later mom came out. "Good morning mommy." I said. "Good morning sweetiepie, did you sleep good last night?" "NO mommy, me woke up 2 times and I was scared and I couldn't sleep. But then Tammy came in and got me and I slept with her the rest of the night." "Aww I'm sorry baby. I didn't sleep so great either." "Me either." Tammy said as she accidentally knocked over her orange juice. "Damn it!" she yelled. "Tammy!, don't use that kind of language, you know better than that." Tammy began to cry. "Oh honey come here." Mom held her and comforted her." "I love you Tammy." Mom said to her. "I love you too mom." They both hugged for a while.
We finished eating and were just doing stuff around the house. We had overslept so it was to late to go to church. We decided that we'd go to the night service since we missed the morning.
We got a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. IT was daddy! Mom talked to him for a while then handed the phone to me. "Hi daddy. I miss you." "I know sweetie, I miss you too. So are you and Tammy taking care of your mommy while I'm gone?" "Yes daddy we are, and she take care of us too." "That's good sweetie." "Daddy, when you coming home?" "I don't know yet. Keep praying for me." "I will daddy." "Ok let me talk to Tammy too ok?" Ok. I love you daddy." "I love you to Tiffany." I handed the phone to Tammy and went back to my drawing I was working on while they talked. Then mom got back on the phone and talked a little while and then he had to go.
Mom sat down at the table and explained to us what was going on with daddy. "Ok girls, I will try to explain this all to you the way he explained it to me." We both nodded and listened to her. "Your daddy is going to court this Thursday and they are charging him with computer crimes that he committed a long time ago. He is going to plead guilty and make a deal. You see, he committed these crimes as a minor, and before a lot of computer legislation was passed. So basically, your daddy broke the law before the case work for that law was established, and it was while he was a minor. His lawyer thinks that he will spend six months n county jail and have to pay some fines. But his lawyer is going to push for leniency because he changed his life since then and now has a family and a job and has had no other violations since that time. What they may do is put daddy on house arrest for 2 years and parole for an additional 5 years. IF daddy goes to jail for six months, he would lose his job and we would really go into debt trying to pay the fine, but if daddy gets house arrest, he can still do work for his company at home since its mainly computer work. So that's what we need to pray for."
"Wow mom he really got in a lot of trouble huh?" "Yes T
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Hardware Specifications
866 MHz or 1 GHz Processor
128, 256, or 512 Megabytes of High-Speed SDRAM
40, 60, or 75 Gigabytes of Fully Protected Storage
Hot-Swap Fault Tolerant RAID-1 Array
Backup entire server data including operating system with convenient third hard disk
Dual Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Software Specifications
DataHive DHUX 2.0 Operating System
DataHive Hive Manager Administration Software
Network Firewall and Address Translation Single-click router allows you to forward data from one local area network to another Single-click firewall supports automatic discovery of network services to enable or disable protection of your server and network Single-click network address translation to allow or disallow internet access to computers on your local area network Support for port mapping to servers on your local area network Virtual Private Networking Support for secure PPTP VPN connections to Windows, MacOS, or UNIX systems Ability to link multiple DataHive servers together for secure file or application access using IPSEC Cross-Platform File Sharing Support for Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, NFS, and FTP Windows NT Domain support for Microsoft networks with the ability to act as a Primary Domain Controller, support for local and roaming profiles Authentication via user, server, or domain Security and ownership on file, directory, and share objects Support for WINS protocol for name resolution Support for multiple network shares available via Windows, MacOS, NFS, or FTP Access control via user, group, IP address, computer name, or network E-Mail Server Supports popular mail protocols including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and Webmail Supports multiple e-mail domains on one machine Access control via IP address, network, or domain Web Server Host multiple domains using virtual hosting via IP address or domain name Includes support for hosting secure sites such as e-commerce store fronts using SSL for secure communications Write dynamic content for your web sites using CGI applications, or scripting languages such as Perl or PHP Proxy Server Ability to cache viewed data for later viewing, saving bandwidth and processing power on your network and internet connection Content control via complete or incomplete domain-names Access control via IP Address, network, or domain Database Server Includes MySQL RDBMS Database server Support for web or network applications as well as legacy Windows ODBC applications Support for MySQL clients on Windows, MacOS, UNIX, as well as ODBC drivers, Microsoft Access, and Web Applications including Perl and PHP Backup and/or restore selective databases via web interface Access control via IP Address, network, username and password Domain Name Server Support for record caching and lookup from internet root servers Support for hosting zones as primary or secondary server Support to add or delete A, MX, PTR, and CNAME records via a simple, convenient interface DHCP Server Automatic configuration of local area network computers and/or VPN clients in the same IP address pool Configured by default for a new small business network DataHive Reseller L-Series a few new faces and many of the old going over the same tired arguments and suggesting variations on the same worthless schemes. Frankly I'm sick of it.
FreeBSD used to be fun. It used to be about doing things the right way. It used to be something that you could sink your teeth into when the mundane chores of programming for a living got you down. It was something cool and exciting; a way to spend your spare time on an endeavour you loved that was at the same time wholesome and worthwhile.
It's not anymore. It's about bylaws and committees and reports and milestones, telling others what to do and doing what you're told. It's about who can rant the longest or shout the loudest or mislead the most people into a bloc in order to legitimise doing what they think is best. Individuals notwithstanding, the project as a whole has lost track of where it's going, and has instead become obsessed with process and mechanics.
So I'm leaving core. I don't want to feel like I should be "doing something" about a project that has lost interest in having something done for it. I don't have the energy to fight what has clearly become a losing battle; I have a life to live and a job to keep, and I won't achieve any of the goals I personally consider worthwhile if I remain obligated to care for the project.
Discussion
I'm sure that I've offended some people already; I'm sure that by the time I'm done here, I'll have offended more. If you feel a need to play to the crowd in your replies rather than make a sincere effort to address the problems I'm discussing here, please do us the courtesy of playing your politics openly.
From a technical perspective, the project faces a set of challenges that significantly outstrips our ability to deliver. Some of the resources that we need to address these challenges are tied up in the fruitless metadiscussions that have raged since we made the mistake of electing officers. Others have left in disgust, or been driven out by the culture of abuse and distraction that has grown up since then. More may well remain available to recruitment, but while the project is busy infighting our chances for successful outreach are sorely diminished.
There's no simple solution to this. For the project to move forward, one or the other of the warring philosophies must win out; either the project returns to its laid-back roots and gets on with the work, or it transforms into a super-organised engineering project and executes a brilliant plan to deliver what, ultimately, we all know we want.
Whatever path is chosen, whatever balance is struck, the choosing and the striking are the important parts. The current indecision and endless conflict are incompatible with any sort of progress.
Trying to dissect the above is far beyond the scope of any parting shot, no matter how distended. All I can really ask of you all is to let go of the minutiae for a moment and take a look at the big picture. What is the ultimate goal here? How can we get there with as little overhead as possible? How would you like to be treated by your fellow travellers?
Shouts
To the Slashdot "BSD is dying" crowd - big deal. Death is part of the cycle; take a look at your soft, pallid bodies and consider that right this very moment, parts of you are dying. See? It's not so bad.
To the bulk of the FreeBSD committerbase and the developer community at large - keep your eyes on the real goals. It's when you get distracted by the politickers that they s
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nice! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 05, @12:50PM (#3645847)
It sure looks slick. If VA Linux made something this nice on the outside and inside (BSD), they probably wouldn't be facing bankruptcy.
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent 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 fittingly 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. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
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 wll be among OS dilettante 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 dying
W A S H I N G T O N, June 5 -- Former President Clinton's new dog is named "Seamus," ABCNEWS has learned.
Clinton told a crowd of well-wishers the dog's name as he petted a chocolate Labrador retriever puppy in Northern Ireland today. He is there to dedicate the William J. Clinton International Peace Center in Enniskillen.
Seamus is still at the Wild Goose Kennels in Federalsburg, Md.
Clinton plans to take him home to Chappaqua, N.Y., in a few weeks.
The puppy was born in early February, a month or so after his old dog, Buddy, was killed by a car. Seamus is Buddy's great nephew.
Clinton still tells people how much he loved Buddy and how much he misses him.
The last time Clinton got a new dog, the Washington press corps competed vigorously to be the first to report the puppy's name. White House aides successfully had some sport with a few prominent journalists, who broadcast incorrect names. In this case, sources assure ABCNEWS that the new dog is indeed named "Seamus."
The Clinton center will focus on peace-building and religious reconciliation in Ireland and overseas.
Looking at the rest of their product line, I think you'll agree that they'll thumbs-up any piece of crap that's (A) BSD-related and (B) they can charge a premium for on their site.
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BS are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this domed 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.
cool
Ever wondered why DID *BSD fail so bad??? Why did it have to go to GRAVE? Was it the pisshead developers who later went to Apple? ..who later got some cash and laughed at those stupid *BSD (l)users? Why am I stomping the head of that daemon mascot with my army boots? Why will I beat up every *bsd luser is see?
Hi! I will arrange *BSD funerals! You are all invited to this PARTY!
*BSD is dying. Jordan is HOMO!
Don't want one.
That shitty piece of fuck looks like xbox!
helicopter crash
dead flesh stinking charred flesh
freebsd death
Reminds me of a NeXT cube
Reminds me of a casket because (alltogether now)
BSD IS DEAD!
exactly.
Too bad webbies don't have any training in journalism or ethics. Here is a clue. You don't offer up as a "review" advertisements for a product your selling. It is dishonest and against the rules of legitimate journalism. Daemon news has made a habit of these ethical lapses. If Daemon news is listening - it's time to get your ethics together.
By Chinese Karma Whore, Version 1.0
Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.
Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.
These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.
As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.
Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.
The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.
I think that this thread has the highest ratio or trolls to real posts, ever.
That being said, I think this box looks great and I'm an avid BSD user.
that+looks+cool
Common sense is not so common.
Hey, you fucknut! It is just you and I am not a bot you fucking dumbass! It is just you, because *BSD community IS YOU AND 2 OTHER FELLAS!!! *BSD is DEAD you fucknut! Haha! May I beat you up at some party?? Please wear a *BSD shirt and I might just do that.
Psychology Today officially confirms: Slashdot is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Slashdot community when recently Psychology Today confirmed that Slashdot lowers the IQ of its readers by at least 20%. Coming on the heels of the latest Government survey which plainly states that Slashdot has lost more brain cells of its readers, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Slashdot is completely eliminating the brain power of its readers, as further exemplified by the number of juvenile and idiotic Troll postings and goats.ex postings.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Slashdot's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Slashdot because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose any informative value to the community as more and more Trolls post meaningless and off-topic comments, rather than posting anything showing any form of intelligence.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Cowboy Neil states that there are 700,000 users of Slashdot. How many intelligent posts are there? Let's see. The number of intelligent posts on Usenet versus the number of intelligent posts on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 100 to 1. Since the number of posters on Usenet is estimated at about 7 million, it follows that the users of Slashdot are about 1/10th as intelligent as the average Usenet user. Statistics show that the average IQ of a Usenet user is approximately 130, thus indicating that the IQ of the average Slashdot poster is approximately 13. This is well below the intelligence of the average housefly, and probably also reflects the average age of those posting on Slashdot.
All major surveys show that Slashdot users have steadily declined in intelligence. Slashdot is very sick and Slashdot's long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among immature low-IQ children. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
I hate it when that happens.
you+are+lame
Slashdot confirms: BSD is not Dieing. BSD is dead.
mr. hemos: captain malda, i have determined that napster stories are bringing in three to five hundred comments a piece! think of the banner revenues!
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captain malda: captain to engineering!&n bsp;&nbs p;
engineer roblimo: engineer roblimo here, sir.
captain malda: mr. roblimo... crank out some more napster stories!
engineer roblimo: but captain... the trained monkeys can't take much more! they're pulling them out of the queue as fast as they can!
captain malda: not fast enough, mr. roblimo!
engineer roblimo: we need more submissions!&n bsp;
captain malda: damnit, roblimo, just make something up!
lieutenant jamie: captain, we're receiving a transmission from an unidentified source.
captain malda: patch it through!
osm(over speaker): i want to open-source natalie portman's firm teen buttocks and pouting teen breasts!
helmsman emmett: captain... look!&nb sp;
an aibo approaches the compound. 
lieutenant jamie: captain, the transmission is coming from the aibo!
captain malda: helmsman emmett... moderate it down: -2, flamebait!
helmsman emmett applies the moderation. the aibo pauses but keeps approaching.
osm (over speaker): your feeble moderation points are no match for the power of my modified aibo!
captain malda: engineering, we need more power in the moderation system!
engineer roblimo: but captain... the moderation system is at maximum power!
captain malda: i don't want excuses, roblimo... give me that power!
the aibo begins to move forward, a large antenna rises from the nose.
captain malda: mr. roblimo!
the antenna starts to glow.&nb sp;
captain malda: mr. roblimo!!  ; nbsp;
the antenna glows brighter.  ; nbsp;
engineer roblimo: captain! i have jerry-rigged the moderation system! i converted it to a bitchslap system!
captain malda: helmsman, fire!&nb sp;
helmsman emmett presses the fire button. just as an enormous comment begins transmitting through the speaker...
osm (over speaker): star (as in hot young actress) wars. a story of tender love. it is a period....
the transmission is terminated by the bitchslapping. captain malda relaxes.
captain malda: good work mr. roblimo!
mr. hemos: captain, sensors have detected that yeoman portman was beamed off the ship... into the aibo!
captain malda: lieutenant jamie, open a channel.
captain malda: osm! return yeoman portman at once!
yeoman portman (over speaker): blow it out your ass, dork! i want a real man! an open-source man! a man that knows how to caress my firm teen buttocks and suckle my pouting teen breasts! not a boy who has bad dreams and shits a lot!
osm (over speaker, clearly ecstatic): hahahahahahahahahahahaha! i took a bitchslapping for natalie portman! hahahahahahaahahahahahahaha! come natalie, i will take you to quicktrip and woo you with a vegetarian burrito. i will then take you to see the buffalo and touch you.
yeoman portman (over speaker): oh, open-source man! how my innocent teen heart has yearned for the tender touch of your open-source hand!
osm and yeoman portman (over speaker): hooray!
captain malda: cut that off!
the aibo turns and disappears. transmissions continue beaming from the aibo and are broadcast over the speaker.
captain malda: what the hell is the matter with that guy?!
dr. katz: damnit, rob, i'm a teen-angst zealot, not a psychiatrist!
captain malda (clearly infuriated): engineering!! where the hell are those napster stories?!!