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BSD For Linux Users
noackjr writes "Matt Fuller posted among his rants a great introduction and explanation of BSD For Linux Users: 'It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. I have a few theories on why that is, but that's not really relevant. I think a lot of Linux people get turned off BSD because they don't really understand how and why it's put together. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb.'"
So, where does that put OS X users? They seem to have the first half of the first sentence and the last half of the last sentence...
God bless the slashdot fool who knows nothing of the subject matter they are discussing and yet perfectly willing to give an opinion based only in their own delusions.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
BSD = Black Spiral Dancer
Slashdot = The Wyrm when Gehenna & the Apocalypse arrive!
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."- Friedrich Nietzsche
CSS is great, when used correctly, especially for professionals and large sites.
Some advantages of css:
- sitewide changes by changing 1 file
- ability to play with changes, in real-time, by using one of the several css-switching/editing plugins, without affecting other users
- complete control over fonts, colors, spacing, etc
- seperation of data from presentation, which leads to:
- ability to change the presentation based on the output device (browser, printer, tele-type, etc)
- (MUCH) smaller pages which leads to:
- faster loading pages
Not every site should use CSS, but it is a nice technology to have, quirks and all.
No shit.
Plato seems wrong to me today
I think this is a great example of mis use of dynamic web pages to store static data.
Ike
The problem with the BSD approach is that it doesn't see copyrights (the right to restrict what people copy) as a restriction on peoples freedoms. It's sorta like saying I believe I should have the freedom to restrict other peoples speech, but if you don't want to restrict other peoples speech - that's OK too. Where the GPL is more like saying, "I'll use my power to restrict your speech when you use your speech to restrict others" In fact, in the information age, we minus well be discussing free speech like this because in the eyes of the internet there is no difference between copyright content and free speech content. You either half to have the power controll all of it or none of it.
Speaking of things dying...would the Gnu/Hurd kernel be considered dead? or being born? I've toyed with it and its hardly good for anything that I could see. There is even a bug that if you press a key while boot messages are going by it will freeze. I mean Hurd has been around since 1990 so its old enough to be dying, but the thing is it never matured and is still slowly being worked on, so is it being born? I would like to see more work on this. If SCO does somehow win (I know they won't, I don't need to hear it a million times) in some other parallel dimension, I would hope most developers would flock to Hurd. I know BSD is more developed, but I disagree with the license personally. Yes technically it gives you more freedom, but I think it may be over kill.Anyone on slashdot regularly use Hurd?
Regards,
Steve
P.S. for those coders who haven't looked at it, the Hurd source, while not highly developed, is pretty beautiful to handle and work with.
While this suggestion is actually done in humor, I've been compiling a list of ideas to improve the current HTTP protocol, and such a suggestion (slightly modified) is actually worth looking at. Basically, it would be a "I'm returning an error because things have blown up here, please use any cached content even if it has expired" code, to allow caches to continue to serve "stale" content even if it otherwise have been purged.
On a side note, the company I work for has a product designed to help handle such surges in traffic, check out http://www.netscaler.com/
Whah... offtopic when
a) the referenced article can't be retrieved
b) None of the messages posted were actually about the differences between Linux and BSD, but were primarily about not retrieving the page, BSD vs. Linux evangelizm, etc.
Guess I'll have to adjust how I moderate to knock down posts instead of elevating those that provide real information.
I've never understood why people think that's significant.