Wow - where have you been. OpenBSD has been shipping a "release song" for as long as I can remember... Many of them are funny, most of them cover rather serious topics - none of them are works of art that should ever be played in public.
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Man that's piss funny.
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QuantumG
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· Score: 4, Funny
Gotta love the way the Theo fish just goes nuts at the end and starts yelling at everyone. Someone needs to make a blowfish cartoon where other fish get into morally dubious situations and the Theo fish just comes in and tells em they're all idiots and if they don't contribute to his project then this'll be the last release.
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Re:Its a trick, its COUNTRY!
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T-Ranger
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· Score: 5, Funny
My name is su(1). How do you do?
Now you're gonna die.
I don't understand your surprise. Some software companies even have their own music videos.
On a more serious note, I somewhat repulsed that a person would find a project release song repuslive. The repulsion is what I'd expect from the PHB sort. To me, having a song illustrates wonderfully the difference between Free Software/OSS communities and the corporate world. In the one world, creativity is stifled because creativity is often inefficient and non-productive, while in the other, creativity (the human spirit) is the entire purpose.
Even worse, when the corporate world does take on theme songs, they are geared towards mind-control. Take, for example, this old IBM company song:
IBM, Happy men, smiling all the way.
Oh what fun it is to sell our products night and day. IBM, Watson men, partners of T.J. In his service to mankind-that's why we are so gay.
(yes, sung to "Jingle Bells")
There are, of course, counter-examples on both sides, but the tendencies are clear.
If every OS had a song...
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numbware
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· Score: 3, Funny
... the Windows song would just be the windows error "ding" sound over and over again for about 10 minutes.
ps; the BSD song is something different. not good. not bad. just different
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Re:Living in the past...
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Homology
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· Score: 4, Informative
The ipf code with the new license did not enter the OpenBSD cvs repository, so your link to the cvs repository shows the old license. Darren Reed later changed his license again, but then it was too late : OpenBSD had it's new packet filter pf (as op OpenbSD 3.0).
The author of ipf (Darren Reed) is regularly on the openbsd mailing lists, and quite often it's just gripe. This whole issue has become quite personal, jugding from the posts.
Re:Living in the past...
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QuantumG
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· Score: 3, Funny
That's cause Darren Reed is an idiot and Theo don't tolerate idiots.
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Re:Living in the past...
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tedu
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· Score: 3, Interesting
exactly. the license was thought to be acceptable. then darren said, "no, actually you can't modify ipf." so, oh shit, rip it out. it doesn't matter whether it changed or not. unacceptable is unacceptable. you don't go "oh, we were breaking the license yesterday, so who cares? we'll just continue on the same way." you fix the problem.
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Huh. I kind of expected it to be provided in sheetmusic format.
"Derp de derp."
Wow - where have you been. OpenBSD has been shipping a "release song" for as long as I can remember... Many of them are funny, most of them cover rather serious topics - none of them are works of art that should ever be played in public.
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them
Gotta love the way the Theo fish just goes nuts at the end and starts yelling at everyone. Someone needs to make a blowfish cartoon where other fish get into morally dubious situations and the Theo fish just comes in and tells em they're all idiots and if they don't contribute to his project then this'll be the last release.
How we know is more important than what we know.
My name is su(1). How do you do?
Now you're gonna die.
On a more serious note, I somewhat repulsed that a person would find a project release song repuslive. The repulsion is what I'd expect from the PHB sort. To me, having a song illustrates wonderfully the difference between Free Software/OSS communities and the corporate world. In the one world, creativity is stifled because creativity is often inefficient and non-productive, while in the other, creativity (the human spirit) is the entire purpose.
Even worse, when the corporate world does take on theme songs, they are geared towards mind-control. Take, for example, this old IBM company song:
(yes, sung to "Jingle Bells")
There are, of course, counter-examples on both sides, but the tendencies are clear.
ps; the BSD song is something different. not good. not bad. just different
I'm going to go create my own technology news site, with blackjack and hookers. You know what? Forget the news site.
The ipf code with the new license did not enter the OpenBSD cvs repository, so your link to the cvs repository shows the old license. Darren Reed later changed his license again, but then it was too late : OpenBSD had it's new packet filter pf (as op OpenbSD 3.0).
The author of ipf (Darren Reed) is regularly on the openbsd mailing lists, and quite often it's just gripe. This whole issue has become quite personal, jugding from the posts.
That's cause Darren Reed is an idiot and Theo don't tolerate idiots.
How we know is more important than what we know.
exactly. the license was thought to be acceptable. then darren said, "no, actually you can't modify ipf." so, oh shit, rip it out. it doesn't matter whether it changed or not. unacceptable is unacceptable. you don't go "oh, we were breaking the license yesterday, so who cares? we'll just continue on the same way." you fix the problem.
- SMP support on OpenBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/amd64 platforms.
- tcpdrop(8), a command to drop TCP connections.
- A generic IEEE 802.11 framework has been added.
- Improved support for USB 2.0 (ehci(4)) controllers.
- ... and more.
See http://www.openbsd.org/36.html-- Sig down