The irony is that Slashdot gets paid by microsoft to display that ad on slashdot through doubleclick.
Man, I clicked that ad until I was blue in the face. I loved the irony of it. Hey malda! I just made you some more cash! Woohoo! Billy is paying for it:)
sed -e s/CURRENT is now having a big overall nouw ith/CURRENT is now having a big overhaul with/
I need more coffee...
Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today?
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FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
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· Score: 5, Insightful
You forgot one:
The ability to make your own custom releases
Seriously. I have several custom ISO's I made for myself for easy deployment of boxes. They all cvsup after install, and then install a ream of ports suited to the purpose of the machine. Like a webserver, database server etc. Complete with a scripted sysinstall! It's very easy to do. "make release" is my bitch:)
Boot from the CD, partition/label, go have coffee and return to a machine ready to deploy. I love it.
Re:Still no CARDBUS support yet?
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FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
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· Score: 5, Informative
FreeBSD has cardbus support, but you'd have to dare to run the CURRENT branch. CURRENT is now having a big overall nouw ith the recent additions of the new KSE threading and GEOM, so I'd just wait for a bit until everything in CURRENT dampens out a bit.
You are absolutely right. If I had mod points I would have shoved you up to +5 Insightful already, but I don't. Oh well...
For the people who still think in computerspeak: An answering machine is like a spamassassin equivalent to the phone system. You rarely get false positives, and it's usually right on the money to weed out telemarketer calls. It's got the best AI behind it, namely a human screening the calls.
Why do need need such a registration in the first place? For a place like slashdot with all the discussion going on it makes sense. For a flimmin' newspaper it doesn't. I'm not blocking their ads or anything, and I might even click when I see something that is of interests, but they won't get my identity from me.
Know that I do allow a cookie to be set when I get there, so I don't have to poison their databases any more then I have to when I get there (again). If somehow the cookie gets lost (because I'm on a spring-cleaning spree in my $HOME or something), then I generate a new one.
Actually, the main reason I use that auto-registration thing is because I'm too friggin lazy to think up fake info.
Why do they _need_ to know who and what I am? I don't block their ads, so they still get ther fscking revenue. Heck, I even click on some ads if I see something interesting. I read their crappy stories, and they get their fucking ad-exposures (and maybe even clickthroughs). Sounds like a fair deal to me.
So they don't get to know who or what I am, boo fucking hoo.
This is called electronic civil disobedience. There are already tons of ads on the nyt site, so they'll get their money from advertising anyway. I simply refuse to let them have my info.
So we work around their silly registration bullshit, and populate their databases with all kinds of bullshit. That'll teach 'em:)
I am using it right now. Version 3.0.8 (KDE 3.1beta2). It works fine.
Its the same speed as Galeon, uses 23MB on my system (which is only 2 less than Galeon), doesn't do applets very well (try one - it loads it out of the browser), doesn't do tabbed browsing yet in most major releases, and will hardly do DHTML well at all.
Konq is more than a browser. It actually groks many more media types and acts as a decent file manager as well. So it's a little bigger. Yeah well, it does a lot more. Applets work fine. I haven't seen one fail yet. DHTML support is actually good too. When did you last try Konq? If you are talking about the 2.2.2 konq, you are right. the 3.x konq is a whole different ballpark.
And it has all the features it needs. Even tabbed browsing in the KDE 3.1 beta's.
Why not switch to some *nix and use KDE? Konqueror is a full featured browser that can handle Netscape and its own plugins, has tabbed browser, is fast, doesn't advertise, has pop-up control, supports java applets, and has so far rendered everything correctly I have thrown at it.
And best of all, it's FREE (beer and speech)
I think we actually do have a browser worth it's salt.
This guy is using speech software. I'll bet he gets lots of "spacer.gif" or "image.jpg" that crummy webdesigners put into the IMG alt tags just to 'comply'. I can imagine that's pretty irritating too.
Re:educational value
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LFS 4.0 Released
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Also symlinks do have a very small effect in speed and usually take up 4k per symlink depending on your choice of file system.
This "problem" has a simple solution. If the slack from symlinks bothers you that much, why not move to a extent-based filesystem like XFS? I use it on most my LFS and Gentoo boxes, and it works like a charm.
Comic jargon... Now you know how those poor "computer-illiterate" people feel when they suffer the onslaught of sysadmin war stories:)
AFAICD (can decypher) it's about two comic artists fussing about comic characters.... But hey, since I haven't read a decent comic for more than 5 or 6 years, I'm totally out of it. I used to be a rabid Spiderman fan, but I've lost touch:(
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Man, I clicked that ad until I was blue in the face. I loved the irony of it. Hey malda! I just made you some more cash! Woohoo! Billy is paying for it :)
*big grin*
But on topic, if they tracked her down, how 'bout a real photo of this person? Just for comparison's sake.
It looks like MS is trying to do a "save my face" operation here by spinning the story by (of course) a MS PR person.
Heck, I already run FreeBSD all over the place here. Now I'm sticking to it. Hubba hubba.
That should be fun to watch :P
Old people with large beards?
Hmm.... That Ritchie guy sure is sexy. Donchathink? ;-)
Thanks a lot buddy! *grmbl*
sed -e s/CURRENT is now having a big overall nouw ith/CURRENT is now having a big overhaul with/
I need more coffee...
Seriously. I have several custom ISO's I made for myself for easy deployment of boxes. They all cvsup after install, and then install a ream of ports suited to the purpose of the machine. Like a webserver, database server etc. Complete with a scripted sysinstall! It's very easy to do. "make release" is my bitch :)
Boot from the CD, partition/label, go have coffee and return to a machine ready to deploy. I love it.
CURRENT is going to rock when it goes STABLE.
do you really need a mean(1)? Just be negaitively nice :)
about 106 kb/sec here in holland as well... That's about the max my mxstream ADSL will give me :)
Mplayer can play quicktime just fine :)
For the people who still think in computerspeak: An answering machine is like a spamassassin equivalent to the phone system. You rarely get false positives, and it's usually right on the money to weed out telemarketer calls. It's got the best AI behind it, namely a human screening the calls.
The DHTML page didn't work, like you said. But you test for browsers in the javascript. When I asked Konq to pretend to be MSIE, it did work.
Oh, I use the latest Konq from the KDE 3.1 beta's
Why do need need such a registration in the first place? For a place like slashdot with all the discussion going on it makes sense. For a flimmin' newspaper it doesn't. I'm not blocking their ads or anything, and I might even click when I see something that is of interests, but they won't get my identity from me.
Know that I do allow a cookie to be set when I get there, so I don't have to poison their databases any more then I have to when I get there (again). If somehow the cookie gets lost (because I'm on a spring-cleaning spree in my $HOME or something), then I generate a new one.
Actually, the main reason I use that auto-registration thing is because I'm too friggin lazy to think up fake info.
So they don't get to know who or what I am, boo fucking hoo.
So we work around their silly registration bullshit, and populate their databases with all kinds of bullshit. That'll teach 'em :)
I am using it right now. Version 3.0.8 (KDE 3.1beta2). It works fine.
Its the same speed as Galeon, uses 23MB on my system (which is only 2 less than Galeon), doesn't do applets very well (try one - it loads it out of the browser), doesn't do tabbed browsing yet in most major releases, and will hardly do DHTML well at all. Konq is more than a browser. It actually groks many more media types and acts as a decent file manager as well. So it's a little bigger. Yeah well, it does a lot more. Applets work fine. I haven't seen one fail yet. DHTML support is actually good too. When did you last try Konq? If you are talking about the 2.2.2 konq, you are right. the 3.x konq is a whole different ballpark.
And it has all the features it needs. Even tabbed browsing in the KDE 3.1 beta's.
And best of all, it's FREE (beer and speech)
I think we actually do have a browser worth it's salt.
This guy is using speech software. I'll bet he gets lots of "spacer.gif" or "image.jpg" that crummy webdesigners put into the IMG alt tags just to 'comply'. I can imagine that's pretty irritating too.
This "problem" has a simple solution. If the slack from symlinks bothers you that much, why not move to a extent-based filesystem like XFS? I use it on most my LFS and Gentoo boxes, and it works like a charm.
Just a little nitpick. I suppose you never paid attention during biology :)
Because you're a freak of nature?
nah, just kidding... I seem to have that "property" too. It's a great party trick. Especially when some shmuck tries to copy it :)
As long as people with pacemakers stay away from my bulk eraser :)
(seriously, my bulk eraser even has a warning sticker that warns about it)
AFAICD (can decypher) it's about two comic artists fussing about comic characters.... But hey, since I haven't read a decent comic for more than 5 or 6 years, I'm totally out of it. I used to be a rabid Spiderman fan, but I've lost touch :(