Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle

Durt_b1ker writes "Check this link out for a highly mobile FreeBSD computer with obligatory pics and video."

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IMPORTANT GNAA ANNOUNCEMENT, LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

GNAA Announces Remastered Version of Gayniggers from Outer Space: The Movie
GNAA Announces Remastered Version of Gayniggers From Outer Space: The Movie

GNAA Vice-President and co-founder JesuitX announced Friday that GNAA founder timecop had completed his nine-month long project of remastering Morton Lindberg's classic Danish masterpiece, Gayniggers from Outer Space: The Movie .

Said timecop, "I undertook this project so the Gay Nigger Association of America could easily spread the gay nigger seed with a crystal-clear picture and DVD-quality sound. But most of all, I do it for my gay nigg[er]s."

The previously mentioned JesuitX and GNAA high-level operator lysol were allowed early access to view the remastered version of movie. Having been already familiar with the VHS copy currently in circulation, they were in for a real treat. JesuitX was quoted as saying "In that scene where Captain B. Dick [played by Sammy P. Soloman] takes Arminass [played by Coco P. Dalbert] into the relaxing room for a conversation, the beautiful quality of the black skin, combined with the crystal clear sound made it feel like the Captain was sitting right next to me, massaging my knee, and letting me know he always has an eye on my ass. I lost complete control and starting masturbating furiously."

GNAA member l0de was also heard in background continuously saying "LOL JEWS DID WTC LOL JEWS".

Digitally Remastered version of Gayniggers from Outer Space is to be available for worldwide distribution immediately. Everyone is encouraged to download it using BitTorrent, by clicking here. You will need a BitTorrent client to download this release.



About Gayniggers from Outer Space: The Movie:

• Sponsored by Carlsberg Pilsner
• Produced by GayJack Movies
• Distributed by WorldWide GayMovies

Dino De Laurentus & Raymond Hansen Present
A Lindberg & Kaistensen Production

"The Universe. It's mighty power. It's evolutionary force, not to be stopped by anyone. In its beauty, this, this is a happy place to stay, filled with harmony and cosmic joy. A free place, where men can express themselves, and be as when they were born. All of this is, because someone cares. Because someone looks after us. When we sleep, when we play. When we act natural. This is a movie about those who risk life, and partners, to guarantee living in a wonderful and free universe. This is a movie about the Gayniggers From Outer Space. The Gayniggers come from the planet Anus, in the 8th Sun System, far far away from here. They are much, much more intelligent than any other creature in the Univerise. The most fascinating thing about them is that they, with the help of their super intelligence, and their highly developed telepathic system, Braintapping, will be able to create a world, a society, a perfect world to live in without the presence of women. A MALE ONLY WORLD."

Starring

• Coco P. Dalbert as ArmInAss
• Sammy Saloman as Capt. B. Dick
• Gerald F. Hail as D. Ildo
• Gbartokai Dakinah as Sgt. Shaved Balls
• Konrad Fields as Mr. Schwul
• Johnny Conny & Tony Thomas as The Gay Ambassador

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) m

Re:IMPORTANT GNAA ANNOUNCEMENT, LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

yes yes yes i am a GAY NIGGER!

Re:IMPORTANT GNAA ANNOUNCEMENT, LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

[21:20] haha FP
[21:20] owned.
[21:20] that was like a minute after the article went live to

Re:IMPORTANT GNAA ANNOUNCEMENT, LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

So am I you insensitive clod!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean you have to have the daemon on your back and be a hells screen prompt?

Re:So...

[Douglas Simmons]

Sort of, but whereas BSD is very secure, you'd have to be in a full leather body suit with no holes except the zipper mouth (like The Gimp from Pulp Fiction).

Hey, could someone link a Fahrenheit 9/11 .torrent? Thanks.

Re:So...

[and by]

Come on, now. Pay to see the damned movie. Whether you agree with Moore's politics or not, you will probably agree that the US could certainly stand to have some seriously different views brought to light. By paying for the movie, you'll give studios an incentive to make more politically risque films.

Re:So...

[firstadopter.com]

haha... so funny. the logging thing is kind of cool though.

Re:So...

[JPriest]

If I had to pick an operating system to power a motorcycle I am driving at 140 mph, I think I would have to pick BSD. Windows is too complex to be good at simple tasks, and Linux is too, well second rate.

Penguin on a fork anyone?

Re:So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yet apparently DRM is wrong, right?

You Slashdot zipperheads make me sick with your Open Source bullshit and you one-way morals.

Fuck you, you should get cancer and die already.

Re:So...

[Brandybuck]

Fuck you, you should get cancer and die already.

Michael? Michael Moore, is that you?

Re:So...

[UniverseIsADoughnut]

No, sounds like Mike Savage to me, just differant form of death.

Actualy your comment was just plain stupid, but your head is probably up your ass, so you'll probably never read any responses.

Re:So...

[psiphre]

the US could certainly stand to have some seriously different views brought to light

I think you misspelled "deceitful".

Re:So...

[Anonymous Coward]

ou Slashdot zipperheads make me sick with your Open Source bullshit and you one-way morals.

Step 1: go somewhere else.
Step 2: stop judging large groups of people based on a few people's statements.
Step 3: come up with your own comments instead of simply criticizing what other people say.

Re:So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you serious? Linux is far superior to BSD nowadays.

Re:So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you serious? Linux is far superior to BSD nowadays.

Are you serious? Do you have any facts to support your words?

Re:So...

[TheRaven64]

Linux is too, well second rate.

+3 Insightful.

Linux is far superior to BSD nowadays. (From a reply)

-1 Troll.

You've got to love the /. moderation system...

Re:So...

[Brandybuck]

I do read my responses. You are right though, it does sound an awful like Mike Savage. I hate that asshole as much as I hate Michael Moore. Their personalities are much the same.

Re:So...

[44BSD]

Actually, the mascot of rec.motorcycles is Chuck Rogers'"geeky", himself likely derived from/inspired by McKusick's BSD daemon.

Re:So...

[phorm]

I don't know about the "insightful" mod for the linux-bashing comment, but to bash BSD in a BSD article is well... inciting a good flaming, and thus flamebait.

Anyone want a gmail account?

[Anonymous Coward]

I have all these invites and nobody to give them to.

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[Anonymous Coward]

sure! hotmail: "fourtwentyfour" - without the quotations. Thanks.

ps: mod this ot, I was just replying... Hotmail is crap!

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod this dude +5 Helpful... I finally got a Gmail invite. =]

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[Anonymous Coward]

[OT]
Yeh, sure, taj(a)wildgardenseed.com.
Thanks,

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're still offering...
gmail.5.chewy@spamgourmet.com

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[Anonymous Coward]

OK! send invite to: Kiss.My.Ass@GoogleMailIsForPencilDicks.com

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[users.pl]

Send an invite to ialreadyhaveone@google.com

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[DonnieD701]

If you have any left, how about sending one to icon_donnied "at" yahoo "dot" com? I would love to have a gmail account!!!!

Re:Anyone want a gmail account?

[daringone]

hook me up! gmail at daringone dot net

Yes...

[Anonymous Coward]

But does it run Linu... does it wheel Linux?

Not Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, at least you won't be getting a blue screen of DEATH!

Re:Not Windows

[tuxq]

Haha! If he tries using that thing going down the road it'll be the Red Puddle of Death!

Re:Not Windows

[Mick Ohrberg]

Does it have to support SMP for a V-twin?

Chuckle.

Re:Not Windows

[sploo22]

Of course he will. Remember, BSD is dying!

Re:Not Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but you'll be dying for the next two decades...

Re:Not Windows

[sploo22]

Sheesh. Some people just can't take a joke. Remind me to use tags next time.

Deceptive Headline

[lazuli42]

FreeBSD powered motorcycle? What balderdash. This thing still requires gasoline, same as most other bikes.

Now maybe it's FreeBSD-enabled, or perhaps its computer control system is run on FreeBSD...

I understand that it's knit-picky, but sometimes slashdot headlines sound really silly.

Re:Deceptive Headline

[endx7]

I understand that it's knit-picky, but sometimes slashdot headlines sound really silly.

nitpicky.

Re:Deceptive Headline

[lazuli42]

You owe me $5 worth of karma for the beautiful setup.

Re:Deceptive Headline

[Anonymous Coward]

sometimes slashdot headlines sound really silly

It's called consistency - usually the article is fucking stupid too.

Looks like he used his motorcycle...

[mOoZik]

...to host his web site. No comments and it has already crashed. Literally.

Re:Looks like he used his motorcycle...

[focitrixilous P]

No comments and it has already crashed. Literally.

Nah, that's usually the sign of FreeBSD.

Sorry. Couldn't help that one...

Just for fun or did he have a reason?

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean if he did it simply to amuse himself I say "cool." It is a nifty project. That said is there any practical use to mounting a computer on a motorcycle? A car I could understand, but not a motorcycle.

Re:Just for fun or did he have a reason?

[tuxq]

I was thinking he re-programmed the computer for the actual motorcycle with fbsd... WTF? What's the point of this? What is he going to do? Chat in IRC going down the road?! WTF?!

Re:Just for fun or did he have a reason?

[Nasarius]

The site is Slashdotted, so I can't see what he says. But one potential use is GPS mapping.

Re:Just for fun or did he have a reason?

[Karamchand]

What's the use of this? Well, provided the correct software exists you don't need to go to your car/motorcycle dealer to get your engine chip-tuned - you just write a shell script to do this task ;-)

Re:Just for fun or did he have a reason?

[markbo]

Okay, so I actually read the article before it was slashdot'd. And while I saw all the pictures installing it, I didn't see any output devices. The bike runs BSD but what's it do exactly?

Re:Just for fun or did he have a reason?

[Johnny Fusion]

From the site:
-----
Why:
But dear god why?
The PC currently only logs videos off a helmet cam:

[IMG of CAMERA duct taped to a helemt]

Wait, before you comment about the duct tape, this was a temporary setup to
see if it would work. The camera will be mounted using velcro when its finished.
Next I will have it log tracks from my Garmin GPS V, as well as power my iPod.
Eventually I'd like to find a way for it to interconnect with the ECU to do PowerCommander like work
------

So now you know.

Re:Just for fun or did he have a reason?

[Nasarius]

I should clarify:
When I said GPS mapping, I meant tracking and recording your GPS coordinates for use later. Not real-time mapping or something.

Wait a minute...

[metalligoth]

...since BSD is dying, this is one motorcycle I'd never want to ride!

Mods: Have a sense of humor here. Seriously. I run a server with BSD at my company.

Re:Wait a minute...

[Anonymous Coward]

I know I wouldn't want a general purpose operating system like BSD actually running my bike. Of course that's not what's happening here, but still.

Re:Wait a minute...

[Anonymous Coward]

postings with moderation orders just suck

Re:Wait a minute...

[gstoddart]

Yeah, but he'll have such stability and uptime he'll never even need a kickstand again. ;-)

Re:Wait a minute...

[metalligoth]

Well, my friend, some people just have NO sense of humor these days. *sigh*

Re:Wait a minute...

[Anonymous Coward]

Fact: FreeBSD is dying

It's 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: FreeBSD is dying

Whoop de do

[Anonymous Coward]

A computer on a $RANDOM_OBJECT

Motorcycle

[g-to-the-o-to-the-g]

Perhaps the motorcycle running their webserver is out of gas?

really, what is the point of this

[the_y_man84]

I really fail to see any reason to build a machine this powerful into your motorbike, what exactly does all this processing power go towards? Or, what is the purpose of this project?

Re:really, what is the point of this

[rasz]

>kldload bktr, this loads the Brooktree driver that the PCI capture card uses

well, guess what that CAPTURE CARD is doing in his motorcycle .. mm maybe its swimming ? or perhaps making sandwiches ? ... :/

Re:really, what is the point of this

[aauu]

Did you see the reference to the camera and the brooktree driver. He is capturing video while he rides. This seems to be an extremely ornate solution to the need for a camcorder mounted on the bike. On the other hand a camcorder wouldn't be on the front page of /. like a UNIX implementation. It is possible for him to upload the video via wireless when he finds a hotspot so perhaps this is more functional than a camcorder in that respect.

We all know that motorcyles are dangerous...

[Anonymous Coward]

...they have a higher fatality rate than other vehicles.

Oh but hang on this is BSD - so it is used to DYING.

Re:We all know that motorcyles are dangerous...

[richie2000]

...they have a higher fatality rate than other vehicles.

I know you were making a NetCraft/BSD dying joke, but fact of the matter is that motorcyclists have almost the exact same fatality rate as cagers (in Sweden). The trend has gone from approximately 25 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists 20 years ago to 5-6 deaths per 1000 motorcyclists now and those are the same numbers as for cars.

Yes, I realize that the numbers for the US are drastically different (both are higher), but still. It goes to show that it does not have to be inherently more dangerous to ride a bike than drive a car.

Incidentally, the deaths for bikers show a much larger ratio of drunk rider/stolen bike than for cars, meaning that if you stay sober and on your own bike, you're actually safer than in a car - statistically speaking.

Re:We all know that motorcyles are dangerous...

[msim]

Regardless of the stats, the grandparent poster just makes me want to reach out and touch them...

With a shovel to the back of their head.
Almost akin the the temporary citizen comments i get now and then. my usual response is either to seethe in anger or outright tell them to piss off.

Speed

[fracex]

Nice, but how fast does it go?

Re:Speed

[XBruticusX]

According to this usually reliable site, Motorcycle USA pre mods he can depend on around 120 hp, which translates to at the least 140MPH on the street.

What about safety?

[thewiz]

Look, I'm all for putting computers in everyday objects, but how does this guy use his computer? I'd rather he keep both hands on the handlebars than trying to ride and use the computer.

I hope he remembers to wear a helmet to prevent head crashes!

Re:What about safety?

[Anonymous Coward]

RTFA!

Watching a live slashdotting

[Twid]

Heh, I've never watched a friend get slashdotted live. Ben's trying to move the gallery links off to a static page right now! :)

18:27 <@toast> ben: your machine can't hold up :(
18:27 <@ben> go to slashdot
18:27 <@toast> oh wait, it's on /. front page
18:27 < twid> toast: nope
18:27 <@toast> omfg you got mentioned on slashdot you are so cool!
18:27 <@ben> yes.
18:27 <@ben> its the top hit
18:27 <@ben> on the front page
18:27 < twid> OMG BEN
18:27 <@toast> ben: CAN I BE YOUR FRIEND?!?!
18:27 < twid> omg the site is down already
18:27 <@toast> ben: your server lasted for like 3 seconds, GOOD JOB :)
18:27 < twid> hahahahah
18:27 <@ben> last pid: 47359; load averages:
28.51, 20.60, 9.57 up 11+00:33:58 18:23:52

Re:Watching a live slashdotting

[Anonymous Coward]

OMG! like, for sure!

Re:Watching a live slashdotting

[Anonymous Coward]

omfgwtfbbqHI2U!!!!!!!!11

Re:Watching a live slashdotting

[Twid]

omg get on the LOLLERCOASTER!!!!!!!!11eleven

We don't talk like that in real life. Well, ok, sometimes.

Re:Watching a live slashdotting

[Toast]

FWIW the reason the box died so quickly was due to gallery and uberperformanceful PHP. Once he got the images on a static page apache happily served up 40mbps. We have a NetScreen firewall in front of the box and it hasn't even blinked yet. 3% CPU usage and less than 1% of the sessions used. Is this the best slashdot has to offer? :(

Re:Watching a live slashdotting

[1110110001]

It's not PHP. It's bad written PHP code not meant for high load. You could write such code in every language. BTW mmcache helps a lot if PHP is to slow for you.

b4n

Re:Watching a live slashdotting

[kinzillah]

way to pimp netscreen.

hugs

Raising Hell

[karniv0re]

How long before the FreeBSD Hell's Angels start a war with the Linux Banditos?

Re:Raising Hell

[Kurt Russell]

I owned a 77' Kz1000, that bike ran like a raped ape! I got drunk and traded it for a harley sportster. What a major mistake, that bike was a pile of dung. The Banditos out of Corpus Christi, Texas did me a favor by stealing that pile. I think we sould cut the guy a break he's a biker and a nerd.

Nerds tinker it's what we do. :-)

FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle

[dj245]

The site is toast, but presumably the bike is still petrol powered but has a computer on board.

Unless of course the system writes to /usr/propulsion on a continous basis...

Re:FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle

[Anonymous Coward]

you mean /dev/propulsion

Developer laments: What Killed FreeBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

The End of FreeBSD

[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

Re:Developer laments: What Killed FreeBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh, yeah, funny thing about that...
Mike Smith now works for Apple, who's OS is based on BSD.
Check it out: http://www.lemis.com/~grog/msmr.html

Start Up

[davidmandle]

What happens if the computer is on while he starts his bike? When a car starts, the radio goes silent while the engine cranks over. What happens to the powersupoply to the computeR?

Re:Start Up

[kfg]

When a car starts, the radio goes silent while the engine cranks over.

Maybe you should try kick starting your car.

KFG

Re:Start Up

[Ribald]

It does that on a car because it's generally hooked to a circuit that gets disconnected when the starter is energized, so the starter has the most power possible.

Hook it to the right circuit, and it will still get power, though maybe not enough to keep the DCPS from dropping offline. Depends on its design, the kind of battery on the bike (usually small), starter draw and cranking time...

He might manage to keep it going, but those batteries _are_ pretty small...

--Ribald

Re:Start Up

[HoneyBunchesOfGoats]

The soluion to that problem is to put a sufficiently large capacitor in parallel with the voltage source.

Re:Start Up

[bcmm]

Er, actually, my family have a small boat. And the lights don't go out when the starter fires, they dim. The only reason they don't crash is that light bulbs are not delicate electronic components that like a nice stable supply.

Re:Start Up

[Shanep]

The soluion to that problem is to put a sufficiently large capacitor in parallel with the voltage source.

Practically speaking, how large a capacitor are you going to get!? I have some massive 50,000uF 50V caps, that wouldn't last so much as a second if I tried to draw a constant amp from it.

You would be better off with a similar sized battery.

If you bothered to RTFA

[Anonymous Coward]

You would of noticed the section where he talks about "video loss due to power failure" and instalation of the PCI video capture card.

Woot!

[kuzb]

This is a great way to ensure that you get mercilessly slashdotted back in to the stone age - make a post that doesn't give any real information besides a link to a site.

*BSD is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

It is official; Netcraft 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

Wait...

[dysprosia]

Does this mean FreeBSD beat NetBSD to a motorcycle port? "Of course it runs NetBSD...except if it's a motorcycle"?

This has been tried with MacOS X.

[UncHellMatt]

Unfortunately whenever they'd start the motorcycle it would bounce uncontrollably.

AOL maybe

[Alien54]

but then, there are those commercials with overpowering motorcycles with AOL High Speed technology. In that case, I'd rather run the bike on NT. but ....

Let's face it, You don't want an OS that crashes running a motorcycle.

Here's a Copy 'n Paste:

[karniv0re]

I grabbed it seconds before it went down. Here's a copy 'n paste of the technical specs for the computer:

Technical:
Wait you said it ran UNIX, what exactly did you mean?!
The PC itself runs FreeBSD 5.2.1, the best operating system in the world, let the flames begin.
Custom modifications made to it:
/etc/rc: Added fsck -y before mount/check filesystem line. This ensures no 'unable to fsck press enter' problems.
/etc/fstab: Added 'sync' option to / FS. Causes all writes to be unbuffered. Helps prevent video loss from a power failure.
/etc/rc.local: Contains two lines: kldload bktr, this loads the Brooktree driver that the PCI capture card uses
streamer -o mjpeg.avi -f mjpeg -i Television -t 3:00:00, this program is part of XawTV and is what records the video off the camera/capture card to disk
More info on the Brooktree driver which comes installed by default.

Parts:
Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard
256MB RAM
1Ghz P3 Coppermine CPU
PW-200 DC PSU
ITPS voltage regulator/ignition integrator 40GB HD
ATX extender cable
Brooktree based capture card(I believe this one was made by AverMedia, didn't come with docs)
Sun Camera
The Capture card and Camera came from the best surplus store known to man WeirdStuff. If you live in the Bay Area, they are a great place to visit.
Extra Bright LEDs for checking HD and Power status, in the sun.
Jumper connectors to plug cat5 cable into reset button/hddled/pwled on motherboard
I buy all my electronics parts from the coolest parts store in the world HSC

Cables:
Long RCA for camera
Long cat5, runs LED and reset button leads up to dash
Cat5 for ethernet to download video
Garmin GPS V cable, to log GPS routes on the PC
ATX extender cable, needed to put the DC PSU somewhere other than directly attached to the board

Hi There!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a loser who's reading slashdot on a friday night while all the cool kids are out partying and getting laid!

why would i want a subject?

[compwizrd]

guess you have to be a member of the wheel group to mount it.

FreeBSD, homosexuality, and the images of Satan

[Anonymous Coward]

Satan is found in his symbols, his daemon symbols of bondage. Daemon bondage can be brought about when an individual is possessed, oppressed, or is in rebellion towards God (sins of the flesh). It takes God's discernment to determine which of these is producing the bondage in an individual's life.

The Bible makes it clear that there are daemons, or evil spirits, in the world that interfere in people's lives (Ephesians 6:11-19). Evil forces, or powers, influence and control the minds of individuals, bring sickness and cause undesirable behavior, inability to function normally, and even suicide. As a result of these forces, people can become a danger to themselves as well as others.

What Scripture Says

"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee" (Deuteronomy 18:10-13).

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against daemons, principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wickedness in high places" (Ephesians 6:12).

"... there met him two possessed with daemons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.... And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out,t hey went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters" (Matthew 8:28b, 32).

"There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them with which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one" (Acts 5:16).

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (Galatians 5:19-21).

Indications of Daemon Activity

The following areas may help you to recognize your need for being released from daemonic oppression, possession or bondages of the flesh (sin):

1. Compulsion to abuse animals or people;
2. Sexual perversion and immorality (homosexuality, molestation,etc.);
3. A compulsion to abuse your body (drugs, alcohol, gluttony, abuse or misuse of other substances, etc.);
4. Seeking spiritual knowledge through Eastern religions and other counterfeit religious groups (TM, Yoga, humanism, etc.);
5. Involvement in occult practices (fortune-telling, BSD, Satanism, etc.);
6. Mental distress or oppression (anxiety, fear, anger, disorientation, etc.);
7. Psychological disorders (split and multiple personalities, paranoia, etc.);
8. Physical disorders may be daemon caused (Matthew 9:32, 33);
9. Lack of freedom or joy in the Lord (spiritual bondage);
10. Inability or constant refusal to repent of sin, though you know you are sinning (rebellion).

See Bible passages under References/Homework and in a Bible dictionary and concordance for examples of the above. If you are having difficulty in discerning your problem, please seek help from a local pastor, elder or Christian counselors who will help you to discern your need and can counsel and pray with you.

What Is God's Answer?

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set a

Length of post

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Nice to see Slashdot is now writing for the people who lack reading skills. With the site being slashdotted a little more text to explain WTF was going on with the article rather then "here read this" would of been nice

bad analogy

[Douglas Simmons]

So you think this isn't powered by FreeBSD, or at least that to say so would be balderdash. But do you remember how back in the day at the bottom of websites there were all those Powered by Apache/BSD/(whatever) logos?

By the logic you're using, those websites weren't powered by Apache, they were powered by the Generel Electric coal power plant a few miles away. So nit-pick this, buddy. Parenthetically, I'd consider laying off the thesaurus... Balderdash... who says that.

BTW, someone link a Fahrenheit 9/11 .torrent please.

Re:bad analogy

[lazuli42]

By the logic you're using, those websites weren't powered by Apache, they were powered by the Generel Electric coal power plant a few miles away.

Of course. Didn't you check my previous comments to see me complaining about that very thing in past Slashdot threads?

Balderdash... who says that.

At the minimum, avid fans of the Balderdash family board game. Of course.

Article Text

[distroJunkie]

You've reached bike.owns.com! This page is about my motorcycle:

2003 Kawasaki Z1000
Beware, the following was created with vi *:)
Jump to:
Specs
Modifications
Links
How
Technical
Parts
Pictures of the bike
Pictures of the computer installation
Videos
Contact
Specs:
Displacemen t 953cc
Fuel capacity 18 litres (4.0 gallons)
Dry weight 198 kg (437 pounds)
Horsepower 116@rear wheel.

Modifications:
The How and Technical section include information about the biggest modification I've done. Heres the small stuff:
* Bosch compressed air horns:
* PIAA Fog Lights:
* CRG LS bar end mirrors:
* Renthal bars, I also had them anodized to match the forks, and stock bars. PK Selective did the anodizing. They did a great job, I love them.
* Corbin seat:
* A fender eliminator, I can't remember what brand, but it doesn't matter because you don't want it. It didn't fit very well, and uses zipties.
* KisanTech H4 headlight modulator, they call it a 'pathBlazer'. No pic, its a blinking light for pete's sake.
* Sprocket Specialists 42 tooth rear sprocket, no pics.
I no longer ride on the Bridgestones that came with the bike, I tore them up in about 3000 mi. I ride on D208 race pull offs now, *duck*.
I also use synthetic oil(Silkolene)
As of 6/22 the bike has 14,800 mi on it, and is 7 months old.

Links:
Official Kawasaki Z1000 page
Page dedicated to parts/pics of Z1000s
Cool Motorcycle forum Onyerbike Z1000 page

How:
So, why did I create a whole webpage about my motorcycle?
It runs UNIX!

I removed the charcoal can, and cut out most of the plastic casing to install a Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard in the tail section. I cut off the rest of the case except for the bare minimum required to bolt in a PCI card on the riser, and all 4 motherboard mounting screws.

I've upgraded the CPU to a P3 Coppermine 1Ghz and added 256MB of RAM. Beneath the 'case', or whats left of it anyway is a 40GB Seagate hard drive.

To make it work with the bike I had to buy a 'PW-200' DC-DC PSU from http://www.mini-box.com/.
I also picked up an ITPS from them as well, it handles voltage regulation and startup/shutdown of the PC.
I bought these as a combined unit on eBay from a seller named 'audioforge'. Shipping was very fast, and he was very nice to deal with. I'd recomend him to anyone.
He said he hopes to have a website up soon.
You can see the ITPS in this picture. It's the small board mounted beneath the case.
The PW-200 can be seen here. It's the small board the ATX connector plugs in to.
If you are wondering what the big red can is, it drives these.

Technical:
Wait you said it ran UNIX, what exactly did you mean?!
The PC itself runs FreeBSD 5.2.1, the best operating system in the world, let the flames begin.
Custom modifications made to it: /etc/rc: Added fsck -y before mount/check filesystem line. This ensures no 'unable to fsck press enter' problems. /etc/fstab: Added 'sync' option to / FS. Causes all writes to be unbuffered. Helps prevent video loss from a power failure. /etc/rc.local: Contains two lines:
kldload bktr, this loads the Brooktree driver that the PCI capture card uses
streamer -o mjpeg.avi -f mjpeg -i Television -t 3:00:00, this program is part of XawTV and is what records the video off the camera/capture card to disk
More info on the Brooktree driver which comes installed by default.
Parts:
Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard
256MB RAM
1Ghz P3 Coppermine CPU
PW-200 DC PSU
ITPS voltage regulator/ignition integrator
40GB HD
ATX extender cable
Brooktree based capture card(I believe this one was made by AverMedia, didn't come with docs)
Sun Camera
The Capture card and Camera came from the best surplus store known to man WeirdStuff. If you live in the Bay Area, they are a great place to visit.
Extra Bright

Re: New Mirror

[Anonymous Coward]

Mirror (Semi, still trying to wget): http://tmorton.dyndns.org/~taj/bsd-bike/bike.owns. com/

Man attaches computer to an object. Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is what passes for news here? Maybe I'll submit a story on how I'm gonna attach a Gameboy to my scrotum.

Re:Man attaches computer to an object. Wow.

[Inthewire]

Don't try to patent it.
I've got video of prior art.

Microsoft!

[firstadopter.com]

Let's just say this will crash less than those Microsoft OS cars. lol

FreeBSD - Born to be Wild

[bXTr]

Getcha kernel runnin
Head out on the highway
Hackin for adventure
and whatever comes our way

BORN TO BE WILD!

Re:FreeBSD - Born to be Wild

[Anonymous Coward]

So close.

Everyone knows it's "Bourne to vee eye".

Sure it runs UNIX, but...

[dulles]

is he hosting the website on his motorcycle? With 802.11?

Sigh

[Anonymous Coward]

Why does slashdot keep posting articles about a dying OS?

Gates and Balmer Overdrive

[StuWho]

Bourne 2 Beos Wireless Interface Linux Distribution

Records from a webcam taped to his helmet !

[TheUncleBob]

Really, no joke, theres a pic of the camera, I've never seen so much duck tape!
I'm sure theres an easier way - video camera mounted on bike perhaps?

We geeks do enjoy reinventing the wheel the hard way.

Re:Records from a webcam taped to his helmet !

[snellgrove2]

"Wait, before you comment about the duct tape, this was a temporary setup to
see if it would work. The camera will be mounted using velcro when its finished."

it says on the site. :)

Re:Records from a webcam taped to his helmet !

[bcmm]

Duct tape. Not duck tape. Although the two Ts run together a bit.

Re:Records from a webcam taped to his helmet !

[randomencounter]

Don't be too sure of that.
There is a brand of duct tape called "Duck Tape", and it is one of the more common brands out there.
I'll bet lots of people find this confusing ;)

That's a shame...

[Nimrangul]

You know it's a shame they used a Motorcycle. You see, it's official now; Motortrend confirms it, Motorcycles are dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered cyclist community when Kawasaki Motors Corp confirmed the motorcycle marketshare has dropped yet again, now down to less than 18 percent of Americans owning a motorcycle. Coming on the heels of a recent Motortrend survey which plainly states that motorcycles have lost marketshare, this news serves to confirm what we've known all along. Cycling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent frontal impact test.

You don't need to be David Hasselhoff to talk about motocycling's future. The piss is on the snow: cycling faces a dark future. There won't infact be any future at all for cyclists because the industry is dying. Things are looking very bad for cycling. As many of us are already aware, motorcycles continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a moon cycle.

Harley-Davidson is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of the Easy Rider generation. The sudden and unpleasent departures of long time Harley users Ricky L. Phillips and Gerald Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Motorcycling is dying.

... Ok, I'll stop now.

Re:That's a shame...

[Anonymous Coward]

My God, what do you have against motorcycles? Where is this bitterness from? Have you never ridden one? You know someone who got hurt/killed on one? Are you one of those guys who bought one, put a hundred miles on it and got rid of it?

Motorcycles scare a lot of people. No shame in that, it certainly requires courage to ride, and even courage to let a loved one ride. Motorcycles are not dying. Anyway, by your reckoning, cars are dying, to be replaced by SUVs. (SUVs account for 50% of all vehicles sold in the states right now. I get 60mpg on the highway on my Yamaha 650. I think those SUV buggers have to stop and fill the tank between stop signs.)

Re:That's a shame...

[Nimrangul]

Supposed to be a joke, for you see whenever there is a post about any BSD there are dozens of "BSD is dying" posts.

I thought I would mock the people that post them by making one of my own.

The part that should have made it relatively obviously a joke was my David Hasselhoff and piss in the snow parts, not to mention there being a couple of the BSD trolls already made.

Re:That's a shame...

[Anonymous Coward]

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered cyclist community when Kawasaki Motors Corp confirmed the motorcycle marketshare has dropped yet again, now down to less than 18 percent of Americans owning a motorcycle

Come to London. Motorcycles are exempt from the congestion charge (which is like an automatic 5 pound toll for entering central London) and sales for motorcycles and scooters are way up. Since the congestion charge is considered a huge success, you can assume it will be adopted in other large cities, including the center-of-the-universe there.

Re:That's a shame...

[MajorDick]

Hmm I hope this is a joke ?

What is losing massive market share are the large road slugs that the Japs have tried to pump out in volume to drown the Harley, they are nice pretty but well theyre not a Harley, there are a LOT of reasons for the harley mystique, 1 is its TOTAL lack of technological dependece. I can but a new Harley, throw in an aftermarket cam, heads, swap the carb and tinker with it to my hearts desire. Try that with a Jap bike....yeah right.

That said I am not a fan of any of those large bikes, what is however gaining ground are the smaller utility bikes, like the japanese sold like nuts in the late 60's and early 70's oddly many of those bikes are being imported and sold en-masse from China, heck I just bought my sone one for christmas, a 50cc electric start monoshock , brand new for $450 DELIVERED !

Motorcycles are far from dying, far from it , take it from someone who has been on 2 wheels since he was 9 , personally I could care less who rides and who dosent, I ride for myself.

Cycling has had its ups and downs in the 20's and 30's there were an absurd amount of compaines making bikes, only the strong and luck survived, the 50's were the same as the 70's as the early 90's as now.....Cycling dosent DIE its tastes just change from time to time.

I own a rare Honda (yes there is such a thing) it was one of only 1200 made and mine was the ONLY one with this color it was special ordered and one of the last 10 off the assy line. I also own a rice rocket a newer FZR600 . I dont own and never will any road hogs, my GPZ1100 and ELR were my only beasts .

Know a little about what youre talking about before you parrot "Cycling is dead"

UNLESS It was a joke and in that case it was very funny indeed

Re:That's a shame...

[psiphre]

FWIW:
the parent was satirizing the Netcraft confirms it "BSD is dying" troll. it WAS meant to be a joke.

on an unrelated note, power to the bikers. those on two wheels truly shall inherit the earth (after gas prices are too outrageous for anyone to drive on four wheels anymore).

Re:That's a shame...

[MajorDick]

Lol, well let me tell you a little about that, bikes get good gas mileage on the highway , my CB500TR gets about 50 mpg, my FZR about 35-40, in the city ? forget it I've never really checked but I swear my FZR gets about 10 in the city, I had a GPZ1100 granted it was 150 horse fuel injected J motor with aftermatket cams and pistons it REALLY did get 10 in the city and never more than 25 on the highway. gas stations become an all to often sight when you can only carry a couple of gallons, although I am sure being 6'2" and 260 lbs dosent add to the aerodynamics.

As I said as a joke it was a good one :)

Re:That's a shame...

[Shanep]

I am sure being 6'2" and 260 lbs dosent add to the aerodynamics.

Your weight takes power when you accelerate and your frame takes more and more power the faster you go. It's your frame that contributes to the aerodynamic drag, not your weight.

BSD Postmortem -- Anatomy of a Failure

[Anonymous Coward]

When it comes to the subject of operating systems, most of us can agree on at least one thing, and that is the simple plain truth that *BSD is dying. But the deeper question is why? Why did *BSD fail?

Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personae?

The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. That hope is long gone, replaced by an inconsolable despair. A mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

I found Jesus...

[Anonymous Coward]

turns out he *LOVES* it in the butt.

juice it up!

[swimfastom]

"40GB HD" Imagine the potential if it had a larger hard drive, say 160GB. Users could hook up a small LCD screen in between the handle bars and watch divx movies! Or listen to mp3's. All this, in addition to recording course turns via GPS!

Re:juice it up!

[alvin]

well i'm not sure i'd want to watch divx movies while riding but hey, clarion or alpine could go into the business of making helmet-back lcd's... so at least your pillion will stop asking 'are we there yet?'

chronicling bad riding habits

[b-lou]

The first video i watched shows this guy squeezing by a car waiting to turn left like he's a bicyclist, not a motorcyclist. Bad, bad, habit. That's the sort of behavior that entices car drivers to open doors as you pass with only six inches clearance.

Save that video. it's going to be excellent footage for the MSF on what not to do if you'd like to have a long life of motorcycling.

Re:chronicling bad riding habits

[Emperor Tiberius]

His driving is pretty bad, he almost hit that one Mercedes, only to cut another vehicle off. Although, he could just be doing a few stunts for the camera.

How does this make it to slashdot?

[sproketboy]

Are we extra bored this week?

Posting this on the web shows...

[DieByWire]

that he's not mature enough to be ashamed of his driving. Flame me if you've ridden for 20 years accident free.

Re:Posting this on the web shows...

[lp-habu]

Flame me if you've ridden for 20 years accident free.

Anyone who has done anything for 20 years accident free has had a mortifyingly dull existence.

Re:Posting this on the web shows...

[Anonymous Coward]

But he might dent his big ugly BMW cruiser if he doesn't drive like he's in a Volvo :(

Re:Posting this on the web shows...

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed. It was mildly entertaining, for a while, particularly the endless wait at the traffic light, but later, after he cut around cars not once, but twice, my thought was "What an ***hole!". I suppose the whole "look at me, I modded my bike and put up a webshite" is a big hint about this guy's personality, though.

Connecting to the ECU

[carcosa30]

This would be totally fatuous were it not for the plans he mentioned of hooking the computer up to the bike's engine control CPU. I don't know enough about that sort of thing to know if there's any point to it. Possibly overclocking your engine to a dangerous degree when you need to go very fast, but why...?

Pretty neat nonetheless. Computer controlled neon lights, et cetera...?

Re:Connecting to the ECU

[Anonymous Coward]

A friend of mine (a mechanic) did something similar with his Corvette. He was able to dynamically control the ignition timing and the fuel system. He had very aggressive settings for racing, but very mild settings for the rest of the time, improving his drivability.

Re:Connecting to the ECU

[catch23]

This is nothing too new. You can get a PowerCommander device that does this for more of the newer fuel-injected bikes (like my 2003 yamaha r6)

You can put a setting on the power commander to make flames come out of your exhaust if you really wanted to, but why go through the trouble? most people get the power commander so that the power output is more linear since some bikes only reach their full power band around the 10,000 rpm range which is much less used in normal street usage. Manufacturers build the bike for track usage, and usually don't keep in mind that 80% of the bikes are never going to be on the track.

from the is-there-anything-BSD-can't-do? dept.

[britneys 9th husband]

I can think of something BSD can't do. Die. Despite the fact that BSD has been in the process of dying for years now (thanks trolls for reminding us), it still manages to hang on and even get stronger and stronger.

Fact: *BSD can't die.

people who lack reading skills

[Anonymous Coward]

"...the people who lack reading skills."

I'm sorry, but I have to do this.

"...rather then" should be "...rather than"
"here read this" should be "here, read this"
"would of been" should be "would have been"

FreeBSD Is Dying ! !

[Anonymous Coward]

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *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: FreeBSD is dying

Wow! Imagine...

[WarMonkey]

a Beowulf cluster of these! :)

Re:Wow! Imagine...

[Anonymous Coward]

Done. :)

Re:Wow! Imagine...

[msim]

damn, you fergot to mention
"May possibly not be worksafe" :P
Now i gotta get onto the proxy ;-)

I'm working on something similar

[Chairboy]

I'm in the planning phases of doing something like this with my Bandit 1200.

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t =2 7133

For the interface, I plan to fabricate a fighter plane style MFD to replace my gauges, and also do the video logging that he does, except using a camera built into the fairing. I've done video on bikes before, and vibration is a big problem, so among other things, I'm hoping to find or adapt some video stabilization code.

I've already got a computer in my car, the only things I'm waiting for before I start buying is:
1. Nano-ITX Epia motherboard (4.7" squared)
2. An LCD screen that's daylight readable and affordable.

For power supply, I'll use an Opus 90 (this guy should have used the Opus 150, it has a shutdown controller built in) like the one in my car.

Fixed link using makeashorterlink

[Chairboy]

Whoops. Maybe the lameness filter should be 80 chars?

http://makeashorterlink.com/?N246317A8

Re:Fixed link using makeashorterlink

[TheRaven64]

One of the interesting features about HyperText Markup Language (some would say the defining feature) is that it supports hypertext. Did you know, for example, that with the addition of an <a /> tag you can provide a link that people can just click on, rather than having to copy a URL to the address bar.

Re:Fixed link using makeashorterlink

[antdude]

Chairboy, how about just using HTML tag like here? ;)

BTW, nice bike! I hope to see it soon.

Bikeshed?

[Brandybuck]

But what color is the bikeshed?

Re:Bikeshed?

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL! The sad part is that very few of the moderators even know what that reference is to. I think that it is the funniest of all the comments. For those of you that lack understanding, here is what the bikeshed is referring to.

The website is back up - the videos are shocking

[klasikahl]

Watch the gas->home video and go about 1/3rd through it, and watch this guy pass on the dotted white lines while driving on the freeway with cars on either side of him. He weaves right in between cars with 1 foot of clearance on each side at speeds close to 60-70mph... This guy is nuts!!!

Re:The website is back up - the videos are shockin

[klasikahl]

Oh wow that's not the end of it... He also passes cars on one-lane exit ramps and roads.

I wouldn't post those videos if I were him

[Yonder Way]

This guy epitomizes an inconsiderate motorcycle rider. He's cutting people off, running red lights, passing people on the inside during a turn. Riders like this make it that much harder for responsible riders to get along with the cars on the road.

Re:I wouldn't post those videos if I were him

[Polo]

Now you got me curious, and I watched all the videos.

I just didn't see it the way you did. He didn't seem to be speeding, he didn't run any red lights (although I might have seen a pause on red), and as for passing people -- "lane sharing" is legal in california. It's pretty much accepted that motorcyles pass cars on the freeway and pull up to the front of intersections. I expect to someone from another state it would be something to get used to.

Re:I wouldn't post those videos if I were him

[shrewmy]

"He didn't seem to be speeding"

Every other car was just going unusually slow? :) At first I just attributed it all to the stop-motion-like of the video, but once he hit traffic it was more apparent. There wasn't one car he overtook without ease.

(Moreso to the OG post:)
I wouldn't say he did anything "road-rage-worthy" though I only did skim through the 19meg video.

I don't really consider a bike changing lanes in front of me when I'm in my car "cutting me off" as they aren't the ones that try and squeeze their car in between you and the car in front of you, then when they finally get over slam on their breaks because they're too close to the car in front of them. Usually when they get over they're way ahead of you a few seconds later.

There's truely some a-hole motorcycle drivers out there but I doubt this qualifies as one of them. And this is coming from someone who's had some pretty bad 'road rage'.

Re:I wouldn't post those videos if I were him

[Yonder Way]

Something like that would be grounds for a big fine and probably loss of license in Pennsylvania.

Re:I wouldn't post those videos if I were him

[edinho]

You can be totally legal, or arguably legal, and can still ride like an ass. This guy rides like an ass.

Overtaking in a turn, into a parking lot with people walking around, maybe grabbing a prime parking spot. Lane splitting and squeezing just to get ahead of a queue that is three vehicle deep. These actions tend to annoy cagers. I am a daily motorcycle rider, and I would have sighed and shook my head if I had seen any rider doing that. He does no one no favor.

Cheers,
e.

obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

• I, for one, welcome our new FreeBSD-wielding, biking overlords!
• Imagine a Beowulf Hell's-Angel cluster of these!!
• Yeah, but can it run Linux?

The hard drive will break

[vegetasaiyajin]

He should change the hard drive for a flash memory based drive. The vibration and outdoors ambient will break it. The same applies to the CPU fan. He should go with a low power CPU that can be cooled with only a heatsink.

Re:The hard drive will break

[Taurim]

There is not a lot of vibrations on an inline 4 cylinders like this Kawasaki.

If it were a Harley, he should not only use a solid state drive but he should also glue the CPU to the socket :-)

a lot of states that's 100% legal (on a bike)

[caveat]

"lane splitting" is legal in quite a few states (no, i'm not going to check...i do know it's ok in NY, it'd be insanity to ride the LIE otherwise). it's usually pretty safe to split two cars side by side, since the drivers won't go swerving at each other; trying to zigzag through a passing situation is much stupider, i knew a kid who got pasted on the LIE when the guy in the left lane cut right (in front of the other car) a little earlier than he was expecting...i guess the fall didn't hurt him that badly, but the bumper-to-bumper traffic going 45, well, that was a different story...

Re:a lot of states that's 100% legal (on a bike)

[NivenHuH]

I concur.. it's completely legal in California and most of the drivers on the road are aware of it.. they move out of the way/realize that you're going to be pulling on side of them..

Re:a lot of states that's 100% legal (on a bike)

[mec]

What's legal in California is:

The traffic is moving 15 mph or less.
The delta between you and the traffic is 15 mph or less.
You don't cross the white line (you are sharing the lane).

That's what it was the last time I checked the California Vehicle Code. Yes, I used to ride motorcycles in California. Yum!

It's been a while though, so the laws may have changed.

Re:a lot of states that's 100% legal (on a bike)

[ross.w]

Legal or not, it's 100% stupid if the traffic is moving. Plenty of people have been cleaned up doing this.

You knew it was coming....

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we make a beowulf cluster of motorcycles? You could keep computing seti units with a power outage...

Dimensions of the setup..

[NivenHuH]

It would be nice to have the physical dimensions of the setup so I might be able to fit a similar setup in the back of my bike.. :D

So, this would be a...

[mpthompson]

Unixycle?

Ouch! There goes my karma...

That's nothing...

[bugmenot]

I mounted a Sun Fire E25K server that I had laying around the house on the back of my motorcycle to listen to my mp3 collection. It's a little bit harder to keep my balance, but I'm getting used to it.

Congrats!!

[Anonymous Coward]

this is the first BSD article I've seen in a while where "the motorcycle is DIEING!!!" wasn't the first post....I think we've entered a new era in slashdot history!

Santa Clara.

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets hope he has eyes in the back of his head around Santa Clara (I live there too) ... what with all the Indians and Asians terrible driving.

Before I get flamed, I ride a bike a hekuva lot, and I've noticed that if someone does some stupid driving then around here the chances are it's an Indian and Asian.

I call it how I see it.

wow

[jr748]

now everyone can watch you be a dick and cut off cars like every other biker.

Re:wow

[zmollusc]

It's even better! Now the cops can see the dangerous illegal manouvres of the car that killed you.

So it's ethanol based then?

[SuperKendall]

After all, it's powered by kernels...

Looks familiar

[Anonymous Coward]

Some dude I once knew named Hiro Protagonist had one of these---he called it a bios (built-in operating system).

There's a name for guys like this...

[tokabola]

When I was a Military Police we had a name for guys who rode like this. We called them STATISTICS.

As in "87% of all motorcycle fatalities are caused by reckless riding" or " So far this year we've scraped 14 motorcyclists off a bumper"

Re:There's a name for guys like this...

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish more people knew about these stats. This guy rides like he's going to die, but mostly it's absent minded car drivers and bikers who don't leave themselves an "out"

In this area (Northern CA) I see it all. Women on cellphones doing makeup while doing 90 on the freeway. Guys reading the paper, shaving and drinking lattes.

I'm from the UK originally (8 years ago) and I'm disgusted by the level of driving skills here. Based on skill the speed limit should be 10mph on the freeways.

If I were in charge I'd make some changes, here's my 10 points.

1. Ban the phones, you SHALL use a handsfree set. $1000 penalty and points and have your phone disconnected. Thou shalt learn !

2. Stiffer driving tests. If you're warm blooded and can make it to the DMV you've already passed here in CA. Make sure they really can control a car.

3. Recurring 5 yearly tests, make sure they've retained what they've supposedly learnt. Test has minimal cost, no excuse there.

4. Don't give kids cars or bikes, make em go on courses and prove they are safe to be out before letting them loose.

5. Don't give people big bikes, build em up gradually through smaller bikes before giving the liceneses for larger capacity bikes.

6.If you don't have insurance, you're getting suspended for two years. 50% of california drivers don't have insurance, this sucks because it means I have to carry uninsured motorist insurance of my own. Why isn't the law enforced ? $3000 fine. If you can't pay your wages are garnished and your car used as (part) payment of the fine. If you are caught again (see 7) then you go to jail for 6 months.

7. Random stops, yes, random. If you're not drunk, on drugs and have insurance what are you worried about ?

8. Variable speed limits. Slow the traffic in peak times (advise people to stay in lane) and speed it up when it's quiet. Speeding during peak times gets you a fine of $1000

9. Have an regular state sponsored vehicle check every year. This would include a brake check, tire check and suspension check. I'm amazed how many people have bald tires and the back wheels are bouncing off the road on the freeway. Car taken off road if not road worthy. Cars on the road in bad condition can be impounded, max fine $3000. Educate the dumb about car condition.

10. Red Light cameras, lots of them, until it gets through to people that red means stop on your side, it also means it's green on the other side, meaning go... I see too many mid intersection crashes just because someone decided they could "make it"
Max fine $3000, If it's more than 2 seconds red, your car is taken away from you too.

Ok, I said 10, but here's 11.

11. Get rid of the commuter lane. It doesn't work. Never saw the sense in shutting down a lane during peak hours. It seems no-one cares about it here anyway.
I know it's supposed to encourage ride sharing, but it has failed. Get over it.
It also creates a hazzard. When traffic is stopped in the other 3 lanes and the commuter lane is moving at 80mph, I consider this unsafe. People pull out. I also see that all the time.

Re:There's a name for guys like this...

[Anonymous Coward]

I see you've listed 11 reasons why you wouldn't be in charge.

Re:There's a name for guys like this...

[tokabola]

The 87% figure was specific to Ft. Carson at the time (it's in Colorado Springs, Dad Driving Capitol of the World) and most of those accidents were partly the cars fault too. The fourteen is what I remember, vaguely, meant to make my point, not be definitive.
As an MP (and later a cab driver) I drove a lot (ussually 8 to 12 hours/day) for ten years, in US, Korea, and Germany. I agree on a lot of points but think the fines are excessive for first offenses. Flat out opposed to random stops, Police abuse their autority enough as it is, I should know.
Variable speed laws are a Bad Idea, as many accidents are caused by difference in speed as are by difference of direction, and Some people will always "fudge" the clock, same as they "fudge" red lights.
Most states aslready have a "two hands on the wheel", it's just not enforced. Neither is the "slower traffic keep right" law.
All for the vehicle inspections. I've known people who drove for months with broken power steering or only emergency brakes.
And yes, it's far to easy to get a liscense in this country.

Re:The website is back up - the videos are shockin

[jm92956n]

Lane splitting at 60mph is nothing; I've done it on my motorcycle at higher speeds.

There were two videos floating around the web at one point that would amaze you if you think this guy is dangerous. One was taken by a guy who owned a Ferrari F50 (their last generation supercar). He approached speeds close to 200mph on public roads. The other was of a guy on a motorcycle who drove the outer loop around Paris in 18 minutes. He passed trucks like they were standing still. Rumor has it he died on a subsequent attempt.

I'm unable to find a link to either at the moment. Maybe someone else has one?

FP

[flamelord]

fourth poosst. wohooo!

no

[peterjm]

I asked a cop about this (who was in process of pulling me over b/c my plate would sometimes hide itself, who knew?). You're not going to find, "splitting lanes" or "lane splitting" anywhere in the ca. vehicle code. It's considered sharing a lane, and there are no defined rules. You could get a ticket for going 5 mph faster than surroudning traffic if the cop felt you were being unsafe.

but, if you can find something, i'd be more than happy to eat my words. This was just what the cop told me when I asked him directly if splitting was legal.

Re:no

[potat0man]

http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/answers.html

It's not a link to the law. But chp.ca.gov is pretty close ;). I wonder if you could reference this if you were taken to court for it...

Re:no

[peterjm]

probably, but it's still up to the cop as to what consitutes safe and prudent.

E450 on a Goldwing?

[stripyd]

How long before someone combines two recent /. posts and sticks an E450 in their goldwing's top box to play MP3s?

bungeeing a bbc micro to my Triumph has always worked for me...

Re:E450 on a Goldwing?

[msim]

how about no.

I was thinking along the lines of a E10k ;-)

Can I Run Panther Too?

[Anonymous Coward]

Or would I have to settle for Carbon and Core Services?

Firewall

[PsychoAlienDog]

This brings new meaning to "stay behind a firewall". I wouldn't close all of the ports though, you need some ventilation, you don't want to get carbon monoxide poisoning.

Cant believe Slashdotters are skipping THIS

[Provocateur]

just because it's BSD.

You know what this means? That our motorcyclist has to drive cross country, fighting crime and solving mysteries with the aid of his deck. And for continuing adventures for one season, he has to pursue the M$ Bus of Mi$information, going by tips from strangers about bus sightings. Can anyone here say, Hassellhoff?

Re:The website is back up - the videos are shockin

[msim]

do a search for ghostrider or ghostrider 2, in divix it is about 700meg.

I've heard similar rumors, but they are just that until proven

DARPA Challenge

[Performaman]

As I remember, one of the contestants for the DARPA challenge was/is a motorcycle/dirt bike with a dual Athalon-64 driving it.
All this guy needs now is Kismet and a wireless card.

worst linux story ... ever

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet fucktard michael thinks this is a real article.

After all, he seems to nbe labouring under the misapprehension that he's a real journalist and a decent human being.