Has anyone else noticed that the banner ad that Slashdot is running for Thawte certificates has a HUGE typo, the size of the ad? It says 'Unresricted', in large, bold, FLASHY letters... I wonder if Taco wrote it?
For some reason I couldn't even read the article, before it immediately occurred to me what a cool fucking band name High Tech Super Plow would be. I dunno why. Probably too many Guatamalan Insanity Peppers when I was younger.
Wow; you are certainly an eloquent spokesperson for your cause. I'm sure your post is going to win over most of the people who are lurking to see how this one plays out...way to look good for your company!
I think Slackware is pretty sweet. I use OpenBSD for my servers and VPN gateways, and I've grown fond of it's minimalist tendencies. Finding a Linux distribution that shares that characteristic is difficult, but Slackware is perfect in that respect. I also like the fact that they appear to be moving towards incorporating better security features than most Linux distros.
It's too bad I don't have a couple Alphas lying around the house. One of the Slackware guys has done some fascinating MP3 encoder optimizations using the Alpha, which leads me to suspect that some cool things may have been done to the OS files as well.
Thanks, that was what I had been gathering. I'm finding these gaps in my understanding of the history of Unix\Linux, and I hate ambiguity so I always seem to ask dumb questions.
OK, I am seeing this more and more, and maybe somebody out there can help explain it to me. I thought that GNU stood for, among other things, GNU's Not Unix. So why, pray tell, does everybody mention Unix whenever there is a Linux article? Are they that close, that people cannot distinguish between them? Or is it simply a matter of Linux advocates wanting to associate the OS with other highly reputable *nixes?
I ask this in all seriousness, because as a BSD and Linux user I've been giving this some consideration lately. The most major differences I've noticed between the two are the startup scripts! What other major differences exist between "Unix" and Linux? Thanks for any insights.
Although I know a lot of folks dislike Sony, I personally have had mostly good experience with their PC products. To me, this looks like a winner. Why?
Well, for one thing, the form factor is definitely going to be attractive to a certain type of people, for the same reason the iMac was appealing and the VAIO sub-notebooks have been so successful. Ain't nuthin' but a style thang, baby. The portrait view in particular seems like a great idea for web surfing.
Another strength, too, is that Sony was hopefully able to keep the cost down somewhat by going with BeOS instead of the WinTaxME or WinCe. And I also hope that Be derives a sizable profit from licensing. They've been busting their butts to put together a truly innovative OS for quite a while, and it's high time they started to receive some return on their investment. What with all the open source hooplah, Be has generally been overlooked for the slender, high-quality operating system that it is.
Anyway, I think Sony Corporation has some of the same types of problems that IBM has to deal with; the fact is, they are a huge, widely distributed "company" that has long since passed the point where you could actually look at it as one singular entity. Face it; we're not talking about some huge multinational conglomerate here; no sir, we're actually talking about one of the numerous multiple smaller companies that comprise Sony Corporation.
Sure, their view on copyright law is royally fucked. Absolutely, Memory Sticks should be banned. And, yeah, they have screwed some people over and screwed some things up, but that doesn't mean that they're not going to come up something new and cool every once in a while.
I'm just so happy that we have a choice now, I can't even bring myself to participate in the flame war. It is SO DAMNED COOL that I can run no less than six different high-quality FREE OS's on my LAN, that was mostly built from free/donated/throwaway hardware.
And who the hell even cares if "BSD is better!", or Linux is somehow 'the best' (the best what?!?), or that "You've obviously never used Solaris for any length of time if you think any free operat...blah blah frickity blah!"
If I drank, I'd grab me a Guinness and drink a toast to Linus, RMS, and any other hacker who's created something for the world to enjoy. Cheers!
Oh, nice moderating this guy down because he doesn't like electronica. How pathetic, that a valid comment goes to '-1, Flamebait' because the moderators lack the ability to distinguish subjective from objective opinion.
Oh, goodie, now I can pay another $75-100/month for 128Kbps Ricochet wireless service, which isn't anywhere near as fast as my DSL landline, for which I'm already paying $50/month. Now, if they price was reasonable I'd sign up for Ricochet service (or a competing service)in a heartbeat, but, for crying out loud, that's highway robbery.
Oh, and while I'm whining, how about the cellular plans, that let you use your cell phone with a data jack to surf under your regular plan? Those would be great, too, except the dumbasses who designed the data links used a fricking serial port, which my laptop doesn't (and never will) have! It's USB or nuthin' bay bee.
Now, you've probably guessed by now that I have been trying to find a good way to get wireless internet access, and you're right. But the fact is, I'm not going to sign up for a service that is too expensive, too cumbersome, and/or too redundant with my current internet service. Hope you providers out there are reading this right now, I'm curious what you think...
I'm personally very happy to see one of the brightest, most motivated, active, and honest people I know find himself in such high demand. Congrats, Bruce!
I have been working with QT lately, and it simply would not have been possible to develop free/GPL'ed software using QT without Bruce's beautifully diplomatic persuasion of Trolltech. He is a true scholar and an eloquent statesman of the first caliber.
I think most people would tell you that ActivePerl is a better (read: more established, stable, time-tested) choice on Win32 at this point, but I'm personally interested in IndigoPerl, because you might find that it does have a smaller footprint. I haven't tried Indigo yet, so that might be me blowing hot smoke. I do know that Microsoft has specifically endeavored to help ActiveState with their Perl port in the past, so that should either comfort or terrify you depending on your perspective.
Or did you mean, more like IndigoPerl? Perhaps you aren't aware that Perl has been available for Win32 systems for over four years, and that it's been ported to almost every other OS under the sun...
Can someone explain to me the reason for all these different flavors of ice cream? I like it better when there was chocolate. or vanilla. but this country's gone to hell in a handbasket since they invented strawberry.
Although there has been some indication that people are interested in running OpenBSD on machines with dual or quad processors, it appears that there are not enough resources and volunteers available to make this a reality. Although I use OpenBSD for my web server, I am by no means an expert, at this, but I'm curious nonetheless.
From what I've heard, multiprocessing support is going to be a very tricky thing to implement, because it gives rise to so many possible exploits, particularly with regards to race conditions. I also understand that it would take a remarkable amount of effort and time to rewrite much of the code base for SMP without compromising the OS's integrity.
With that in mind, what kind of resources would you need before you could seriously consider attempting dual or quad processor support? And, if you were given unlimited access to those resources, how long would it take before a -stable release would be ready? I would really like to see this feature get implemented, although I know that at this point your developer team is busy enough as it is.
I've seen/heard on the mailing list that many people had trouble receiving shipments of previous disks, because of the stringent U.S. (if you're in the U.S. or your order passed through it) encryption import/export laws. I'm not saying that excuses how you were treated, but you might want to reconsider blaming Theo (a very busy guy) and the computer store, because there may be more to the story than meets the eye.
I've been running 2.7 since the day it was released, and it's been nothing short of amazing. I wonder if I should install it on a G4 Cube, to tide me over until OS X comes out?;-)
Even with the RSA patent expiration, I still think OpenBSD is one of the best OS's around. It's just tight code, with quality man pages, and a great user base.
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Here's the ad, by the way, pretty funny if you ask me.
Has anyone else noticed that the banner ad that Slashdot is running for Thawte certificates has a HUGE typo, the size of the ad? It says 'Unresricted', in large, bold, FLASHY letters... I wonder if Taco wrote it?
2001-03-15 02:07:34
Et tu, Michael?
Oh, come on, that was hardly misused.
For some reason I couldn't even read the article, before it immediately occurred to me what a cool fucking band name High Tech Super Plow would be. I dunno why. Probably too many Guatamalan Insanity Peppers when I was younger.
Is it OK to use the 1.3 runtime instead of 1.2 like their site recommends?
Wow; you are certainly an eloquent spokesperson for your cause. I'm sure your post is going to win over most of the people who are lurking to see how this one plays out...way to look good for your company!
From 0 to /.'ed in 3.6 seconds...
Guess I'd better go find my hat and eat it...
It's too bad I don't have a couple Alphas lying around the house. One of the Slackware guys has done some fascinating MP3 encoder optimizations using the Alpha, which leads me to suspect that some cool things may have been done to the OS files as well.
Thanks, that was what I had been gathering. I'm finding these gaps in my understanding of the history of Unix\Linux, and I hate ambiguity so I always seem to ask dumb questions.
I ask this in all seriousness, because as a BSD and Linux user I've been giving this some consideration lately. The most major differences I've noticed between the two are the startup scripts! What other major differences exist between "Unix" and Linux? Thanks for any insights.
Well, for one thing, the form factor is definitely going to be attractive to a certain type of people, for the same reason the iMac was appealing and the VAIO sub-notebooks have been so successful. Ain't nuthin' but a style thang, baby. The portrait view in particular seems like a great idea for web surfing.
Another strength, too, is that Sony was hopefully able to keep the cost down somewhat by going with BeOS instead of the WinTaxME or WinCe. And I also hope that Be derives a sizable profit from licensing. They've been busting their butts to put together a truly innovative OS for quite a while, and it's high time they started to receive some return on their investment. What with all the open source hooplah, Be has generally been overlooked for the slender, high-quality operating system that it is.
Anyway, I think Sony Corporation has some of the same types of problems that IBM has to deal with; the fact is, they are a huge, widely distributed "company" that has long since passed the point where you could actually look at it as one singular entity. Face it; we're not talking about some huge multinational conglomerate here; no sir, we're actually talking about one of the numerous multiple smaller companies that comprise Sony Corporation.
Sure, their view on copyright law is royally fucked. Absolutely, Memory Sticks should be banned. And, yeah, they have screwed some people over and screwed some things up, but that doesn't mean that they're not going to come up something new and cool every once in a while.
And who the hell even cares if "BSD is better!", or Linux is somehow 'the best' (the best what?!?), or that "You've obviously never used Solaris for any length of time if you think any free operat...blah blah frickity blah!"
If I drank, I'd grab me a Guinness and drink a toast to Linus, RMS, and any other hacker who's created something for the world to enjoy. Cheers!
2000-08-29 21:40:08 Sexual Harrassment at Microsoft (articles,news) (rejected)
2000-10-27 08:36:58 Hackers Break In to Microsoft's Network (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
<doublespeak> Which is not to imply that I don't love Microsoft. </doublespeak>
Oh, nice moderating this guy down because he doesn't like electronica. How pathetic, that a valid comment goes to '-1, Flamebait' because the moderators lack the ability to distinguish subjective from objective opinion.
HTTP 1.1 GET 'xyzzy'
Which always gives me a chuckle.
Oh, and while I'm whining, how about the cellular plans, that let you use your cell phone with a data jack to surf under your regular plan? Those would be great, too, except the dumbasses who designed the data links used a fricking serial port, which my laptop doesn't (and never will) have! It's USB or nuthin' bay bee.
Now, you've probably guessed by now that I have been trying to find a good way to get wireless internet access, and you're right. But the fact is, I'm not going to sign up for a service that is too expensive, too cumbersome, and/or too redundant with my current internet service. Hope you providers out there are reading this right now, I'm curious what you think...
I have been working with QT lately, and it simply would not have been possible to develop free/GPL'ed software using QT without Bruce's beautifully diplomatic persuasion of Trolltech. He is a true scholar and an eloquent statesman of the first caliber.
I think most people would tell you that ActivePerl is a better (read: more established, stable, time-tested) choice on Win32 at this point, but I'm personally interested in IndigoPerl, because you might find that it does have a smaller footprint. I haven't tried Indigo yet, so that might be me blowing hot smoke. I do know that Microsoft has specifically endeavored to help ActiveState with their Perl port in the past, so that should either comfort or terrify you depending on your perspective.
Or did you mean, more like IndigoPerl? Perhaps you aren't aware that Perl has been available for Win32 systems for over four years, and that it's been ported to almost every other OS under the sun...
Or, more than likely, IHBT.
Can someone explain to me the reason for all these different flavors of ice cream? I like it better when there was chocolate. or vanilla. but this country's gone to hell in a handbasket since they invented strawberry.
From what I've heard, multiprocessing support is going to be a very tricky thing to implement, because it gives rise to so many possible exploits, particularly with regards to race conditions. I also understand that it would take a remarkable amount of effort and time to rewrite much of the code base for SMP without compromising the OS's integrity.
With that in mind, what kind of resources would you need before you could seriously consider attempting dual or quad processor support? And, if you were given unlimited access to those resources, how long would it take before a -stable release would be ready? I would really like to see this feature get implemented, although I know that at this point your developer team is busy enough as it is.
I've seen/heard on the mailing list that many people had trouble receiving shipments of previous disks, because of the stringent U.S. (if you're in the U.S. or your order passed through it) encryption import/export laws. I'm not saying that excuses how you were treated, but you might want to reconsider blaming Theo (a very busy guy) and the computer store, because there may be more to the story than meets the eye.
I've been running 2.7 since the day it was released, and it's been nothing short of amazing. I wonder if I should install it on a G4 Cube, to tide me over until OS X comes out? ;-)
Even with the RSA patent expiration, I still think OpenBSD is one of the best OS's around. It's just tight code, with quality man pages, and a great user base.