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OpenBSD Hackathon
A secretive reader contributes: "Once again, almost all of the OpenBSD developers got together for a full week of intensive coding. Pictures from the hackathon are available for people who want to see how the developers of this fine OS look like. Theo de Raadt announced on the mailing list: 'There is a reason why such a flurry of commits is happening. Once again, we are doing a hackathon; this time in Calgary, for a full week leading up to usenix. Thus far, 32 people have arrived, and are hacking away in a hotel conference room, working on various things, but more people are still flying in from around the world ...'"
Here's proof it aint! hahahahahahaha!!
I dunno -- if it weren't for the parts wrapped in plastic I'd be sure it's actually "chair collapses under weight of OpenBSD hacker".
Also, of interest "drahn" on a TiBook. Looks like Apple's really making some inroads in the Unix world. OpenBSD doesn't really run on that, does it?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I've been watching the CVS commit logs since the beginning of this event - number of bugs getting fixed and new features being added is very impressive.
I especially like that more and more daemons loose their setgid and setuid privileges - great step towards improving the security.
It works VERY well. The cvs-update-and-compile method of system maintenance is astonishingly useful. I love everything about OpenBSD.... except one.
There is no SMP support. There is a cvs branch for SMP development, but after a year the only thing it does is RECOGNIZE the second CPU. It doesnt actually do anything with it.
So, I'm about to build a new server, SMP, and I have two choices. I can run OpenBSD on one CPU hoping for the day I can reboot and have the second fire up, or I can run Gentoo linux, which has all the cvs-and-compile chocolaty goodness of BSD, but will do SMP.
FreeBSD has smp. I believe NetBSD has smp. Darwin has SMP. OpenBSD doesn't. With SMP hardware so cheap (At least on the i386 side) it's ludicrous that it's not in there.
I'm taking bets that the site showing "Pictures from the hackathon" won't get Slashdotted. Who's in?
- Bill
...If OpenBSD continues like this we will see new buzzwords emerge in the underground and ThinkGeek selling tshirts that say "Got Nobody?"
symetrix. We are building a religion, a limited edition.
Put this on the frontpage, please. Thank you.
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For what it's worth, this was not much but a re-post
;-)
of a mail from Theo de Raadt, the OpenBSD leader,
to the "misc" mailing list.
The remaining few hackers were either representing
OpenBSD (and BSD in general) at the German LinuxTag
in Karlsruhe (Wim Vandeputte, the "leader" for Europe,
and (more unknown) Christian Weisgerber and me...
And one was unable to get a passport from the
French authorities - seems as they are jealous
to the German bureaucracy
My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And
Where's all the chics?
Theo's comment suggests that commits to the core CVS are being done during this event - that's an impressive application of technology, if so. I wonder how this is funded. Still, you have to admire the singlemindedness of the team.
I'm noticing a lot of Mountain Dew in those pictures, so that inspired me to ask:
Did somebody smuggle a shitload of the stuff from the states, or are hackers working while drinking a beverage with no caffiene or alcohol?
For thoses that don't know, Canadian laws prohibit adding caffiene to any fruit flavoured drink (ergo MD here has no caffiene).
God save our Queen, and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf Forever!
Pilsner!
couldn't have said it better myself
If they could get away with it?
I don't know about Canada, but the US FDA doesn't seem to have much of a problem with Nico Water being sold. It is touted as a supplement rather than a drug, which has anti-tobacco groups up in arms.
That doesn't really make sense to me, because it truly is a healthier alternative to smoking, and virtually eliminates the possibility of second hand smoke. If you really wanna strech, perhaps a truckload of this stuff could dump into some groundwater, or you might accidentally spill a bottle on somebody leading to dermal absorption - but those idiots should give it a rest. It is even labeled against sale to minors.
If they really need something to protest about, why aren't they protesting the fluoride water whive I've seen for sale. This shit is actually targeted at children, and it never got FDA approval either. Tabacco is carcinogenic because of the other hundred some toxins - while nicotine can be dangerous, it is far less toxic than the industrial waste known as fluoride. That fluoride products can be marketed to children is criminally irresponsible, especially in light of the "Camel Joe" fiasco.
I look at the pics posted and I see myself in there. You know, slightly overweight, facial hair, balding a bit, staring at a damn console, and loving it. Geeks are sad, yet I am one.
Canada has a homeland security too?? or are you forgetting this is in Calgary?
Not really...
but we do have Privacy Commissioners that get press, and give government and corporations shit from time to time. Now if they only had teeth
Dude Your teeth need fluoride and YES I now it is most tooth pastes but You don't ingest any of it. Vitam A can kill you if you take to much. ADA if you don't get enough fluoride your Teeth will decay. However I wonder If the HIGH amount of fluoride in most US teeth pastes is good for you.
Thank you for the link. Although you probably won't see this response as an AC, I will respond because you bothered to use a link.
As stated in the article, fluoride is naturally occuring. As a result of industrialization, there is now more fluoride in the environment (air, water and foods) then any recomended minimum set by the FDA. Note that the FDA has not done any studies on the effects of Fluoride since the WWII era, when nuclear weapons factories started producing the flouride byproduct.
As stated in the first paragraph of the ADA article, Flouride only occurs in counpounds. Naturally occuring fluoride which is good for the teeth is better called "Calcium Fluoride". Why does the ADA recommend just "fluoride" even after admitting that there is no such molecule? So that they can get paid off by industries who can now easily dispose of their toxic wastes, specifically "Sodium Fluoride" and "Potassium Fluoride".
Vitamin C is water soluble, so that excess ascorbic acid can fairly easily be expelled from the body as liquid waste, making it very difficult to take a harmful dose. Vitamin A is fat soluble, and like many dieters can attest, it is much more difficult to excrete excess fat. If too much Vitamin A builds up before the body can properly excrete it, that too can be harmful. Sodium Fluoride harms your organs at much lower dosages, and build up in your bones. Bone matter tends not to be excreted, so fluoridosis is a cumulative danger. The very bones and teeth that (Calcium) fluoride was supposed to protect instead become mottled and brittle. Hell, why do you think it is so important not to ingest toothpaste?
Your body need to ingest nutrients systemically to utilize them beneficially. Topical toothpaste applications are minimally harmful if swallowing is minimized. Adulterating the water supply on the otherhand, is insidious exploitation of misinformation that directly harms public health.
Lift Kit
you know when i read things like this it kind of makes me wonder which really is better linux/*bsd i mean linux has the commercial side over BSD but when you strip it down which one really is better ? i mean i am a linux junkie, never used BSD but this makes me wanna go get openBSD 3.1 just for fun...... only thing is i cant find any ISO's too download
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