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OpenBSD Packet Filter Changes Syntax Language

Posted by timothy on from the aber-selbstverstaendlich dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As seen on this article on the OpenBSDJournal, Henning, one of PF main contribuitors writes: 'After much discussion we made a hard decision: we will change pf syntax from English to German.' So, what are the implications of this? And why the change? Read on."

29 comments

  1. Oh great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How am I going to remember all the freaking acronyms?

    I mean, what are the equivalent German acronyms for:

    tcp = T?
    ip = I?
    ssh = S?
    http = H?
    ftp = F?
    etc

  2. No comments? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So no one's even bothering to comment on todays "stories" anymore? I don't blame you!

    Not only the first post... but ONLY POST! :P

  3. Bd: PaketcFilter OpenBSD �ndert SyntaxcSprache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ein anonymer Leser schreibt ", wie auf diesen Artikel auf dem OpenBSDJournal, Henning, eins gesehen von Leistungsfaktorhauptcontribuitors schreibt: ' nach vieler Diskussion trafen wir eine harte Entscheidung: wir ändern Leistungsfaktorsyntax von englischem zum Deutschen.', So sind was die Implikationen von diesem? Und warum die Änderung? An gelesen.",

  4. Does this mean by leviramsey · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I'll have to say "Scheisse!" when I ficken up my firewall's configuration?

    1. Re:Does this mean by Mitchell+Mebane · · Score: 1

      As a proud student of the German language, I qould like to point out that the proper way of writing that is Scheiße.

      --

      The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
      --Aristotle
    2. Re:Does this mean by usotsuki · · Score: 1

      Depends. Some people are trying to get others to write the ß as ss.

      -uso.
      I didn't try to, but somehow I managed to get a fr1st ps0t on another topic *g*

      --
      Dreams, dreams, don't doubt dreams, dreaming children's dreaming dreams. Sailor Moon SS
  5. Re:Bd: PaketcFilter OpenBSD �ndert SyntaxcSprache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Mein Duestch ist vaid.

  6. Oh my! by bplipschitz · · Score: 1

    Sorry,

    Ach du lieber!

    Exschuldigen Sie. . .

  7. Help me here... by Polo · · Score: 2, Funny


    But what would be the new syntax for filtering on the new ipv4 security bit?

    1. Re:Help me here... by ctucker · · Score: 3, Funny

      I understand that one of the big reasons for this change is that a lot of the German developers were dissatisfied with the "keep state" modifier. The new pf interrogates suspicious packets in an unspecified location on the motherboard, or maybe a foreign motherboard, where packets have fewer rights. In any case, for maximum security, change everything that says "keep state" to "Unterhaltpolizeizustand".

      --

      --
      My other computer is your IIS server.
    2. Re:Help me here... by almeida · · Score: 2, Informative

      Aha! Good question. The IPv4 security bit will not be implemented on OpenBSD because IPv4 support has been dropped. Todd Fries says, "It is too hard to get IPv4 addresses, we're switching to IPv6 tomorrow."

      (This post is a day late, of course, so just pretend it's still the 1st.)

    3. Re:Help me here... by chrisseaton · · Score: 1

      No! Fools! This will be the new troll! Don't you realise what you're doing?

  8. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    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

    1. Re:*BSD is dying by Synic · · Score: 1

      how many times are you going to post that, dorkwad? get a life...

    2. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heh. Presumably he'll keep posting it while stupid Americans like you keep replying.

    3. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13525&cid=2354 1

      According to slashdot search... first ever.

  9. Es ist ein Hoax! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wie Sie Herren sind!

    Ihre ganze Unterseite sind gehören uns. Sie sind auf der Weise zur Zerstörung. Sie haben keine Wahrscheinlichkeit zu überleben bilden Ihre Zeit.

    1. Re:Es ist ein Hoax! by mirabilos · · Score: 1

      I had a _hard_ time parsing this as AYBABTU, and
      I'm a native speaker...

      Get a life ;-)

      --
      My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)
    2. Re:Es ist ein Hoax! by bplipschitz · · Score: 1

      --
      Wie Sie Herren sind!

      Ihre ganze Unterseite sind gehören uns. Sie sind auf der Weise zur Zerstörung. Sie haben keine Wahrscheinlichkeit zu überleben bilden Ihre Zeit.
      --

      Translation: All your Sudetenland belong to us.

  10. Wenn ist das Nunstr�ck git und Slotermeyer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

  11. *BSD is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LIVING!

  12. IN SOVIET GERMANY by yerricde · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Germany, DDR dances on YOU!

    --
    Will I retire or break 10K?
  13. Elegy for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Elegy For *BSD

    I am a *BSD user
    and I try hard to be brave
    That is a tall order
    *BSD's foot is in the grave.

    I tap at my toy keyboard
    and whistle a happy tune
    but keeping happy's so hard,
    *BSD died so soon.

    Each day I wake and softly sob
    Nightfall finds me crying
    Not only am I a zit faced slob
    but *BSD is dying.
  14. hmm german by horcy · · Score: 1

    kartoffel salat met bratwurst und pommes...

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    Check my site: http://pixel.pagina.nl
  15. Logo in French by dfgdfgdfg · · Score: 1

    I remember in 3rd grade (1988 or so), we had computers that had the programming language Logo in french. It was "av" for "avance" instead of "fd" for "forward", etc...

    --
    -- 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Sc3 de4: 4.Se4: Sd7 5.Sg5 Sgf6 6.Ld3 e6 7.S1f3 h6 8.Se6:
  16. Woohoo... by divide+overflow · · Score: 1


    Man, it's like a Baghdad aircraft hangar in here...last one out turn out the lights.

    At least now I know how to flush out german-speaking nerds.

  17. OPEN letter to BSD frontman THEOO DERAADT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    STOP BEING SUCH AN ASSHOLE!!!!
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    asdfwer wet45624t6 k;jipyu89 faggot
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  18. *BSD is dead and deader by the second... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why wait for the end. Get a plastic bag and save your soul now.

  19. The Elegy for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Elegy For *BSD

    I am a *BSD user
    and I try hard to be brave
    That is a tall order
    *BSD's foot is in the grave.

    I tap at my toy keyboard
    and whistle a happy tune
    but keeping happy's so hard,
    *BSD died so soon.

    Each day I wake and softly sob
    Nightfall finds me crying
    Not only am I a zit faced slob
    but *BSD is dying.