Tag slides are not how security issues are tracked in FreeBSD. True, they are used when last minute changes are needed before a release. However, branches are made with every major release, and security fixes are applied to those branches. If you track the RELENG_4_6 tag, you will get all the security patches for 4.6.x. These branches are often maintained for a year or more, even after newer releases have come out. So, to answer the previous posters' question about how to track FreeBSD 4.6 + ports, here is a cvsup file to use:
Linus is unlikely to change his mind about dump being a stupid program, because the concept of dump is just plain broken.
What's broken about incremental backups? When you run a datacenter that needs 10TB of data backed up every night, you're going to have a hard time doing that with dd/cpio/tar. Incremental and/or differential backups are the only way to go. Now, you can debate the merits of dump using the raw device and bypassing the buffer/cache, but the idea of dump is not wrong.
Btw, FreeBSD dropped raw devices two years, and its' dump still works. Also, unified buffer/caches are not all they're cracked up to be.
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I can't get 2.4 stable with my pure scsi system (hdd, cdrom, etc). Using a 2940U2W. It bombs when installing Drake 8.2. Slackware 8.1 will go on (with segfaults in the package install) but you can't compile a thing with it.
Care to give details? Do you have a console log by chance? I'm slowly taking on maintenance of this driver, so please feel free to contact me with these kinds of problems. My email is available from my URL.
Was anybody asking for HP's open endorsement? Perens was going to be doing this as an individual on his own time, not as a representative of HP. Couldn't the company simply have abstained from involvement?
Good point. However, you tend to loose your anonymity when you are high-profile. Whether Bruce Perens was going to do this on his own time and own dime isn't really relevant, because people will still say, "That's Bruce Perens of Linux and HP fame." I can imagine some high-level exec, maybe even Ms. Fiorina, getting a call about it the next morning from someone saying, "Do you know what your employee did yesterday?" Innevitably, HP would take heat for it. It's the consequence of being high-profile. I'm sure that Linux Torvalds, Alan Cox, etc, all share that burden too.
And yes, the original submitter was asking for HP's endorsement.
"I wish HP had given him their blessing on this, but I guess they have to worry about shareholders first..."
Written by someone who does not seem to be employed in the corporate world. How can you possibly expect any company to openly endorse a law-breaking event? Sheesh!
There's a version of Alice's Restaurant that I have on MP3 where Arlo talks about exactly this. He claims that during the Carter Inauguration, Chip Carter pulled him aside and noted that they had found an LP of 'Alice's Restaurant' in the library. Arlo goes on to joke, "So, how many things can you think of that are 18 1/2 minutes long?".
So, what exactly is so different about the basic plot structures here? Split personality/dark and brooding hero whos powers seperate him from those he wants to be with? Maybe you're confusing whiney with brooding. Mark Hammil couldn't brood his way out of a paper bag, but he sure knew how to whine.
Hero doesn't get the girl? Yeah, remember Return of the Jedi? Ummm, Mary Jane wasn't Peter's sister. Peter could have had her, but chose not to. Luke couldn't have Leia, period.
Never shirks on duty to the common good, even though it may cost him everything he holds dear? Yup, got that too. Maybe you mean the Orphan Hero thing... Oh wait, Star Wars has that, too.
What was Luke's motivation? Was it to avenge the deaths of his aunt and uncle? Was it to seek enlightenment from Obi-Wan? No, it was to meet the pretty girl that he saw in R2D2's hologram image. Oh please!
Spider-Man might not be high literature, but it has infinitely more depth than the pulp trash that is Star Wars.
The one feature I've been waiting for the most isn't quite there -- kernel-land threads.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Threads that exist entirely in the kernel have existed for some time now. If you're talking about kernel-scheduled userland threads, then yes, they are not quite there yet. Note that this is different than linux threads, which are just forked processes that happen to share the same address space. FreeBSD can do that too, and in fact has a 'linux-threads' package.
You obviously didn't read the article. "You have to have slipping between the egg and the surface," advises Moffatt. "If you tried this on a hard rubber table it wouldn't rise."
While your explaination is partially correct, you missed the whole point of the article.
You obviously haven't heard of Ultra Distance running. My former boss is heavily into it, and has done a few 100 mile races in under 24 hours. 100 miles, through the central Rockies, with 11,000 feet of elevation climb. Totally nuts. 141 miles might be a stretch, but not by a whole lot.
The Atlas IV is conspicuously absent from Lockheed's website. It was definitely more cool looking than the II or III, but it's success rate hovered pretty close to 0%.
I'm not sure if you're arguing or agreeing with me. With only one PCI slot, it's not suited for the home-desktop, where people might want to add a IEEE 1394 card and a DSL card. You are basically repeating everything I said...
Only one PCI slot makes it less interesting as a desktop motherboard, and it certainly is not meant as a server motherboard. It does, however, look promising in the appliance area.
I've had friends on welfare, and have witnessed their transportation woes in trying to deal with either the expense of vehicle ownership, or the very poor local mass transit system.
Why do you keep insisting that 'poor' is equivalent to 'welfare' or 'homeless'? Poor could mean driving an 82 Toyota to an $8 job, and just barely breaking even at the end of the month. I find your tone elitist and condescending.
I'm too lazy to look up the link, but as we all know, Earthlink is a front for Scientology. Everyone who thinks of AOL as the evil empire, might want to read up on Scientology.
Wow, you cared enough to look at my bio. If feel so.... emotional. Well, if you want to get technical, I develop for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Netware, and sometimes Solaris, Unixware, and OpenServer. I write both open source drivers and closed source applications. You can go to my webpage and look at my work to determine whether I know my stuff or not.
Firstly, the lifecycle time of the kernel is down to a few days instead of years - secondly things do evolve - just look at the progress of the VM (either one). First attempt didn't get it quite right, so then there are some patches and things get a bit better, but something else is bust (etc etc). This seems quite close to the breeding approach (but is only one of a number of parallel directions for the kernel).
I certainly mean no disrespect to AA or RVR here, but the VM is one place very design would have been very usefull, and evolution has been very traumatic.
Yes, Windows changes. Just like most software (TeX being the exception), it must change. But it does not succeed because of evolution. Countless polls have been taken where people say, basically, "I don't give a rats ass about all the new shiny gizmos in the latest version of Windows. I wish they would just fix the bugs." But you know what, people still buy it.
If Linux wants to be like Windows, that fine. Windows stands for 'good-enough' and mediocrity.
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Tag slides are not how security issues are tracked in FreeBSD. True, they are used when last minute changes are needed before a release. However, branches are made with every major release, and security fixes are applied to those branches. If you track the RELENG_4_6 tag, you will get all the security patches for 4.6.x. These branches are often maintained for a year or more, even after newer releases have come out. So, to answer the previous posters' question about how to track FreeBSD 4.6 + ports, here is a cvsup file to use:
*default host=cvsup14.freebsd.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_6
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
ports-all
Linus is unlikely to change his mind about dump being a stupid program, because the concept of dump is just plain broken.
What's broken about incremental backups? When you run a datacenter that needs 10TB of data backed up every night, you're going to have a hard time doing that with dd/cpio/tar. Incremental and/or differential backups are the only way to go. Now, you can debate the merits of dump using the raw device and bypassing the buffer/cache, but the idea of dump is not wrong.
Btw, FreeBSD dropped raw devices two years, and its' dump still works. Also, unified buffer/caches are not all they're cracked up to be.
I can't get 2.4 stable with my pure scsi system (hdd, cdrom, etc). Using a 2940U2W. It bombs when installing Drake 8.2. Slackware 8.1 will go on (with segfaults in the package install) but you can't compile a thing with it.
Care to give details? Do you have a console log by chance? I'm slowly taking on maintenance of this driver, so please feel free to contact me with these kinds of problems. My email is available from my URL.
Was anybody asking for HP's open endorsement? Perens was going to be doing this as an individual on his own time, not as a representative of HP. Couldn't the company simply have abstained from involvement?
Good point. However, you tend to loose your anonymity when you are high-profile. Whether Bruce Perens was going to do this on his own time and own dime isn't really relevant, because people will still say, "That's Bruce Perens of Linux and HP fame." I can imagine some high-level exec, maybe even Ms. Fiorina, getting a call about it the next morning from someone saying, "Do you know what your employee did yesterday?" Innevitably, HP would take heat for it. It's the consequence of being high-profile. I'm sure that Linux Torvalds, Alan Cox, etc, all share that burden too.
And yes, the original submitter was asking for HP's endorsement.
"I wish HP had given him their blessing on this, but I guess they have to worry about shareholders first..."
Written by someone who does not seem to be employed in the corporate world. How can you possibly expect any company to openly endorse a law-breaking event? Sheesh!
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT /usr/src -name "*.[ch]" -type f -print |xargs cat
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find
201511526:
g u x , ; m l d f p
c e i a o h r t s n
q ' y . j z k b v w
Notice the de-emphasis of the 'g' key
There's a version of Alice's Restaurant that I have on MP3 where Arlo talks about exactly this. He claims that during the Carter Inauguration, Chip Carter pulled him aside and noted that they had found an LP of 'Alice's Restaurant' in the library. Arlo goes on to joke, "So, how many things can you think of that are 18 1/2 minutes long?".
So, what exactly is so different about the basic plot structures here? Split personality/dark and brooding hero whos powers seperate him from those he wants to be with?
Maybe you're confusing whiney with brooding. Mark Hammil couldn't brood his way out of a paper bag, but he sure knew how to whine.
Hero doesn't get the girl? Yeah, remember Return of the Jedi?
Ummm, Mary Jane wasn't Peter's sister. Peter could have had her, but chose not to. Luke couldn't have Leia, period.
Never shirks on duty to the common good, even though it may cost him everything he holds dear? Yup, got that too. Maybe you mean the Orphan Hero thing... Oh wait, Star Wars has that, too.
What was Luke's motivation? Was it to avenge the deaths of his aunt and uncle? Was it to seek enlightenment from Obi-Wan? No, it was to meet the pretty girl that he saw in R2D2's hologram image. Oh please!
Spider-Man might not be high literature, but it has infinitely more depth than the pulp trash that is Star Wars.
Apple's anti-Linux commercials. (Sending all other UNIXes to /dev/null)
But.... Linux Is Not UniX
They hired three, but we are officially paid to work on Linux. We just 'prototype' our work on FreeBSD =-)
Btw, the name that you are thinking of is Justin Gibbs.
The one feature I've been waiting for the most isn't quite there -- kernel-land threads.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Threads that exist entirely in the kernel have existed for some time now. If you're talking about kernel-scheduled userland threads, then yes, they are not quite there yet. Note that this is different than linux threads, which are just forked processes that happen to share the same address space. FreeBSD can do that too, and in fact has a 'linux-threads' package.
You obviously didn't read the article.
"You have to have slipping between the egg and the surface," advises Moffatt. "If you tried this on a hard rubber table it wouldn't rise."
While your explaination is partially correct, you missed the whole point of the article.
You obviously haven't heard of Ultra Distance running. My former boss is heavily into it, and has done a few 100 mile races in under 24 hours. 100 miles, through the central Rockies, with 11,000 feet of elevation climb. Totally nuts. 141 miles might be a stretch, but not by a whole lot.
The Atlas IV is conspicuously absent from Lockheed's website. It was definitely more cool looking than the II or III, but it's success rate hovered pretty close to 0%.
I'm not sure if you're arguing or agreeing with me. With only one PCI slot, it's not suited for the home-desktop, where people might want to add a IEEE 1394 card and a DSL card. You are basically repeating everything I said...
Only one PCI slot makes it less interesting as a desktop motherboard, and it certainly is not meant as a server motherboard. It does, however, look promising in the appliance area.
I've had friends on welfare, and have witnessed their transportation woes in trying to deal with either the expense of vehicle ownership, or the very poor local mass transit system.
Why do you keep insisting that 'poor' is equivalent to 'welfare' or 'homeless'? Poor could mean driving an 82 Toyota to an $8 job, and just barely breaking even at the end of the month. I find your tone elitist and condescending.
Hmmm... from looking at the moderation scores, I'm suspecting that some Slashdot readers are Scientologists themselves. I pity them.
I'm too lazy to look up the link, but as we all know, Earthlink is a front for Scientology. Everyone who thinks of AOL as the evil empire, might want to read up on Scientology.
Wow, you cared enough to look at my bio. If feel so.... emotional. Well, if you want to get technical, I develop for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Netware, and sometimes Solaris, Unixware, and OpenServer. I write both open source drivers and closed source applications. You can go to my webpage and look at my work to determine whether I know my stuff or not.
you'd think people would examine the job someone did at thier previous job before offering them a new one.
What you mean like the job GW did in Texas? This guy should fit right in.
Firstly, the lifecycle time of the kernel is down to a few days instead of years - secondly things do evolve - just look at the progress of the VM (either one). First attempt didn't get it quite right, so then there are some patches and things get a bit better, but something else is bust (etc etc). This seems quite close to the breeding approach (but is only one of a number of parallel directions for the kernel).
I certainly mean no disrespect to AA or RVR here, but the VM is one place very design would have been very usefull, and evolution has been very traumatic.
Yes, Windows changes. Just like most software (TeX being the exception), it must change. But it does not succeed because of evolution. Countless polls have been taken where people say, basically, "I don't give a rats ass about all the new shiny gizmos in the latest version of Windows. I wish they would just fix the bugs." But you know what, people still buy it.
If Linux wants to be like Windows, that fine. Windows stands for 'good-enough' and mediocrity.