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Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory
An anonymous reader writes You may or may not remember this, but before the advent of reliable search engines, web listings used to be a popular way to organize the web. Yahoo had one of the more popular hierarchical website directories around. On Friday, as part of its on-going streamlining process, Yahoo announced that their 20-year-old web directory will be no more: "While we are still committed to connecting users with the information they're passionate about, our business has evolved and at the end of 2014 (December 31), we will retire the Yahoo Directory."
Yes, they do.
Your beard doesn't go grey and doesn't grow that long unless you're damn good at survival.
And I've been hearing that *BSD is "dying" for decades now! This sure is one prolonged death. In reality, FreeBSD isn't dead. It's thriving and getting more and more real UNIX lovers every day.
I think it's good that Debian and the other distros are switching or have already switched to systemd. Let them suck up all of the shitty sysadmins, shitty Ruby on Rails devs, and all of those kinds of maggots. Let real UNIX lovers move to FreeBSD. That's how it should be.
That's the whole purpose of fucking up linux, to move everyone to BSD, so the innovative spirit of thousand of coders working for free can be tapped by companies like Microsoft. There is nothing Microsoft hates more in this world than the GPL which requires that if you use their sourcecode, you have to release your sourcecode too. With BSD you can take the sourcecode, put it into your thing, then sell the product without having to release your additional sourcecode. For instance Apple OS X is BSD based Unix. They could not base it on Linux, of course, else they'd have to release their sourcecode. I'm a big fan of public domain, but when it comes to Unix I've used mostly Linux simply because of the richness in applications and features, compared to the relatively application poor BSD. If anything I've become a collector of old computer from near 2000-2004, which are fast enough for my needs, and run Windows 2000 and Linux kernels 2.4 and 2.6 under 2.6.30 just fine, and eventually I'll be fully off line, off the Internet with most of my computing, but I might purchase a bleh, no fun, computing appliance, like a tablet, simply to check email, maybe Slashdot and Craigslist, unless these sites go megaheavy on the bloat and crap that bogs everything down and consumes major amount of electricity with that massive waste of a garbage vomit code getting thrown at it by today's "software geniuses."