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Proposed Usenet Death Penalty for Australia's Largest ISP
supine writes "David Ritz has issued a request for discussion on applying a Usenet Death Penalty to Australia's largest ISP, Bigpond (and it's parent company Telstra)." This brought back to memory the time when AOL was facing similar charges.
fuck the war.
I keep on getting server errors and blank pages.
what is the square root of one third?
ALG: sqr ( 1 / 3 ) =
7 keystrokes
3 1/x sqr
3 keystrokes
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 will 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
They broke the code!
Off with it's HEAD!!!
retribution from a 'higher power' for letting the kid die from an asthma attack 'cuz their techs were too lazy to go out and fix a faulty line in the bush? PS - I could do with some punctuation.
Why the fuck does my spit smell like sour cream?! I ate chicken soup for dinner!!! UGH
You'll come crawling to us for help after your country has been made an Islamic state and everyone who didn't convert to Islam has been stoned. Whether we'll help or not isn't written in stone, because after all, we aren't the world's policemen.
In reality, you shouldn't worry, because it benefits American directly for the rest of the world to not be an Islamic state with most of the world's resources and a near infinite supply of suicide bombers at their disposal. We'll step in and stop them long before that happens.
Hey, it's not Americans, it's Bush. I'm American; I don't hate the world, I don't oppress anyone, and I don't like when ANY gov't does something bad.
And I hate people like you that think killing is the answer.
It's all part of the new subscription deal. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
The guy from my ISP (blueyonder) who came to install teh cable modem at least knew about Linux and told me what to do to get my linux box online (although it was already set up for DHCP, so it worked anyway). ISPs who send out people without explaining differences between operating systems they might expect to find at a customer's site are going to come across as unfriendly to the customer.
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believe that Adolf Hitler was a saint.
Well, why I do not want my fellow countrymen dieing, I certainly would not mind if the parent poster join the ranks. If we are going to lose a few, I say lets throw out the trash.