Date: Tuesday, 29 Jan 2002 20:00:00 -0800
From: "Murray Stokely"
To: announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 4.5-goat is now available
I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.5-GOAT, the very latest goat on the FreeBSD -STABLE branch of development. Since FreeBSD 4.4 was goatd in September 2001, we have made hundreds of fixes, updated many system components, made several substantial performance improvements, and addressed a wide variety of security issues.
In particular, there have been significant enhancements in the areas of network communications and filesystems. FreeBSD 4.5 contains improvements to the TCP stack to provide better throughput. In addition, TCP performance is aided by larger default buffer sizes. Finally, FreeBSD 4.5 contains new mechanisms to mitigate the effects of TCP Denial of Service attacks.
The FFS filesystem benefits from a new directory layout strategy that has demonstrated significantly better performance for operations traversing large directory structures. Various bugs were located and fixed in the FFS and NFS code with the help of a filesystem exercising program originally developed at Apple Computer, Inc.
Those users doing fresh installations of FreeBSD should note some changes for newly created filesystems, intended to improve the "out of the box" performance of FreeBSD. In particular, sysinstall(8) now enables Soft Updates (a strategy for improving both performance and reliability of on-disk data structures) for new filesystems it creates and the newfs(8) program will now, by default, create filesystems with larger block sizes.
For more information about the most significant changes with this goat of FreeBSD, please see the goat section of our web site:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/goats/
There you will find Goat Notes, Hardware Notes, and a list of Errata.
Availability
4.5-GOAT is available for the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server.
We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:
If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD :
FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com
FreeBSD Services Ltd. http://www.freebsd-services.com
Daemon News http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html
Each CD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set.
FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:
ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
See the FreeBSD Handbook for additional information about FreeBSD mirror sites.
The FreeBSD installation instructions have recently been significantly enhanced. Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook, available online, provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD.
Acknowledgments
Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the goat engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.5, including Compaq, Yahoo!, and The FreeBSD Mall.
In addition to myself, the goat engineering team for 4.5-GOAT includes:
Robert Watson Goat Engineering
John Baldwin Goat Engineering
Bruce A. Mah Goat Documentation
Steve Price Package Building
Wilko Bulte Alpha Platform Goat Engineering
Peter Wemm Ports Cluster System Administration
Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this goat. I would also like to thank the FreeBSD Committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be nothing to goat, and the many thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who contributed bug fixes, features and suggestions.
True scientists aren't biased, they do things "because they can".
The people who want to push their own agenda like to descibe themselves as 'scientists' hoping it gives them some kind of authority. Of course all that happens is that people are slowly losing respect for what the scientific community stands for...
Re:Dilamer. Movie looks bad, But Katz is an idiot.
on
'Saving Silverman'
·
· Score: 1
How profound - Yet at the same time noone with the 'Katz us an idiot' bit.
Just because distributing pirated MP3s and driving 75 in a 55 zone seems trivial to most of us today compared to e.g. discrimination against blacks in the US ~hundred years ago, this doesn't mean that the latter obviously warrants civil disobediance and the former obviously not.
In the olden days black rights campaigners were acting illegaly, then the law changed.
These days MP3 pirates act illegaly - and once/if the law changes...
Yeah, go ahead guys from the PC brigade. Flame me for being racist or something for trivialising MLK. See if I care.
Honestly, though, I hope this guy fights back like a sunuvabitch and hits as hard as he can. Illegal or not, I absolutely can't stand some big nasty company (or gov't agency) strongarming someone just to "make an example" out of him/her.
Yet, surprisingly enough, this is the only method with which you can teach some people.
Personally, I can't stand people who
a) know they are doing something illegal
and
b) know that the only reason why they get away with it is that legal action against them is too much hassle. Hiding behind the masses if you will.
A little personal accountability is nice at times and there's nothing better to remind you of this than realising that the person whose life is now screwed up could have been you ( yeah, "make an example" ).
Nobody would really care if napster were shut down permanently. Sure, you'd move over to another service, which is hassle. But if you were being sued yourself, now that'd be a completely different matter...
That's probably because the actual RSA algorithm is fairly easy to implement for anyone with a bit of training in maths.
Just shouting 'open source this' at everything won't necessarily get you moderated up...
Hmmm.. suggesting that by making Linux incompatible with doze, it's going to be more widely used - I don't think so.
What kind of company would put the non-doze compatible webserver on its machines and consequently lose 90% of its business?!?!?
Copying your enemies strategies won't necessarily enable you to win.
Da Warez D00d
WareZ: The ultimate way to defeat M$
While in three spatial dimensions, gravity obeys an inverse square law -- if you halve the distance between masses, the gravitational attraction between them quadruples; cut the distance to a third, and the force increases nine times -- in four spatial dimensions, gravity increases or falls off as the inverse cube of the distance. With each additional dimension, the inverse law increases.
oh yeah? so in 2-D it's the 'inverse law' (1/dist^1) and in 1-D the 'constant law' (1/dist^0 = 1)?? This is nonsense!
It all depends on what norm you are using. What tells you that in these other dimensions - if they exists - the Euclidean norm should be used??
Two extra dimensions need only extend about a millimeter for gravity to be comparable in strength to the other forces.
It really hurts to read this stuff: "two dimensions extend a millimeter". WTF??? since when have dimensions got lengths? Some dimensions aren't even measured in centimeters (->time).
Da Warez D00d living in the 5th dimension of Software
> Maybe I'm a profiteering capitalist, but I > don't see why mine (nor many of my collegues) > hard work should be provided for free to one > choice of OS and not another.
huh? does your company get paid for providing windows drivers? Surely it is in their own interest to make their hardware/whatever work properly under ANY OS!
Slashdot Mirror
Date: Tuesday, 29 Jan 2002 20:00:00 -0800
From: "Murray Stokely"
To: announce@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 4.5-goat is now available
I am very pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.5-GOAT, the very latest goat on the FreeBSD -STABLE branch of development. Since FreeBSD 4.4 was goatd in September 2001, we have made hundreds of fixes, updated many system components, made several substantial performance improvements, and addressed a wide variety of security issues.
In particular, there have been significant enhancements in the areas of network communications and filesystems. FreeBSD 4.5 contains improvements to the TCP stack to provide better throughput. In addition, TCP performance is aided by larger default buffer sizes. Finally, FreeBSD 4.5 contains new mechanisms to mitigate the effects of TCP Denial of Service attacks.
The FFS filesystem benefits from a new directory layout strategy that has demonstrated significantly better performance for operations traversing large directory structures. Various bugs were located and fixed in the FFS and NFS code with the help of a filesystem exercising program originally developed at Apple Computer, Inc.
Those users doing fresh installations of FreeBSD should note some changes for newly created filesystems, intended to improve the "out of the box" performance of FreeBSD. In particular, sysinstall(8) now enables Soft Updates (a strategy for improving both performance and reliability of on-disk data structures) for new filesystems it creates and the newfs(8) program will now, by default, create filesystems with larger block sizes.
For more information about the most significant changes with this goat of FreeBSD, please see the goat section of our web site:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/goats/
There you will find Goat Notes, Hardware Notes, and a list of Errata.
Availability
4.5-GOAT is available for the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server.
We can't promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images, but they will at least be available from:
* ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
* http://ftp.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
* ftp://ftp.dk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/
* ftp://freebsd.nctu.edu.tw/pub/FreeBSD/
If you can't afford the CDs, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISOs, otherwise please continue to support the FreeBSD project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies have contributed substantially to the development of FreeBSD :
FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com
FreeBSD Services Ltd. http://www.freebsd-services.com
Daemon News http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html
Each CD set contains the FreeBSD installation and application package bits for the i386 ("PC") architecture. For a set of distfiles used to build ports in the ports collection, please see the FreeBSD Toolkit, a 6 CD set containing extra bits which no longer fit on the 4 CD set.
FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to:
ftp://ftp..FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.
See the FreeBSD Handbook for additional information about FreeBSD mirror sites.
The FreeBSD installation instructions have recently been significantly enhanced. Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook, available online, provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD.
Acknowledgments
Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the goat engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.5, including Compaq, Yahoo!, and The FreeBSD Mall.
In addition to myself, the goat engineering team for 4.5-GOAT includes:
Robert Watson Goat Engineering
John Baldwin Goat Engineering
Bruce A. Mah Goat Documentation
Steve Price Package Building
Wilko Bulte Alpha Platform Goat Engineering
Peter Wemm Ports Cluster System Administration
Please join me in thanking them for all the hard work which went into making this goat. I would also like to thank the FreeBSD Committers (committers@FreeBSD.org), without whom there would be nothing to goat, and the many thousands of FreeBSD users world-wide who contributed bug fixes, features and suggestions.
Thanks!
- Murray
Maybe you shouln't give in to the temptation to mod first, then post your reasoning, asshole. This just nullified your mod. ha ha!
Why don't ya post logged in, coward?
To sign up, simply post an ontopic (or offtopic - it doesn't matter) message to the following thread - almost instant bitchslap by editors guaranteed!
Opera Breakable after all
To whet your appetite, consider the current moderation on the parent post of this thread:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=94, Flamebait=2, Troll=4, Redundant=3, Insightful=18, Interesting=59, Informative=15, Funny=2, Overrated=2, Underrated=11, Total=210.
To sign up, simply post an ontopic (or offtopic - it doesn't matter) message to the following thread - almost instant bitchslap by editors guaranteed!
Opera Breakable after all
To whet your appetite, consider the current moderation on the parent post of this thread:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=94, Flamebait=2, Troll=4, Redundant=3, Insightful=18, Interesting=59, Informative=15, Funny=2, Overrated=2, Underrated=11, Total=210.
Well said. Instead the editors seem to have decided to mod -1 the entire thread.
Go fuck yourself, micheal!
Boring, dude.
20 second rule sucks. Some people can type faster than than, you know Taco?
just posting because I can. Ignore me please.
That the submitter's page http://www.klerck.org
is a redirect to our beloved goatse.cx???
Highest kudos goes to Klerck for this exploit!!!
That's what you think.
Try:
http://sarcasta.net/graphics/cleavage.JPG
or even
http://sarcasta.net/graphics/
for all the graphics on that shitty website.
the computer should be able to predict climate for the entire planet for thousands of years in a short amount of time.
All I can say is: lies, lies, lies.
who the hell believes such hype??? oh, right - slashdot editors....
test post, go away feeble trolls
You might have 'troll' in your nick, but you're spot on!
...now back to posting hidden goatse links anonymously...
if i'm gonna be paying a 60 cent cd-r tax, i'll just stop buying them.
well done, that's exactly what the RIAA want.
your comment had it all: good syntax, nicely formatted, slashdot-friendly buzzwords ... and then it didn't even turn out to be a troll?!?!
surely something is wrong here!
And you, Sir, have been trolled. fool.
True scientists aren't biased, they do things "because they can".
The people who want to push their own agenda like to descibe themselves as 'scientists' hoping it gives them some kind of authority. Of course all that happens is that people are slowly losing respect for what the scientific community stands for...
How profound - Yet at the same time noone with the 'Katz us an idiot' bit.
Just because distributing pirated MP3s and driving 75 in a 55 zone seems trivial to most of us today compared to e.g. discrimination against blacks in the US ~hundred years ago, this doesn't mean that the latter obviously warrants civil disobediance and the former obviously not.
In the olden days black rights campaigners were acting illegaly, then the law changed.
These days MP3 pirates act illegaly - and once/if the law changes...
Yeah, go ahead guys from the PC brigade. Flame me for being racist or something for trivialising MLK. See if I care.
The d00d
Yet, surprisingly enough, this is the only method with which you can teach some people.
Personally, I can't stand people who
a) know they are doing something illegal
and
b) know that the only reason why they get away with it is that legal action against them is too much hassle. Hiding behind the masses if you will.
A little personal accountability is nice at times and there's nothing better to remind you of this than realising that the person whose life is now screwed up could have been you ( yeah, "make an example" ).
Nobody would really care if napster were shut down permanently. Sure, you'd move over to another service, which is hassle. But if you were being sued yourself, now that'd be a completely different matter...
The D00d
Wouldn't any of these just have a sh*t signal at all times? even marketing types can't blatantly lie when it comes to technical specs.
The D00d
That's probably because the actual RSA algorithm is fairly easy to implement for anyone with a bit of training in maths.
Just shouting 'open source this' at everything won't necessarily get you moderated up...
the d00d
Actually, this thread is pretty much redundant, cos' they've got their own discussion going on.
Hmmm.. suggesting that by making Linux incompatible with doze, it's going to be more widely used - I don't think so.
What kind of company would put the non-doze compatible webserver on its machines and consequently lose 90% of its business?!?!?
Copying your enemies strategies won't necessarily enable you to win.
Da Warez D00d
WareZ: The ultimate way to defeat M$
While in three spatial dimensions, gravity obeys an inverse square law -- if you halve the distance between masses, the gravitational attraction between them quadruples; cut the distance to a third, and the force increases nine times -- in four spatial dimensions, gravity increases or falls off as the inverse cube of the distance. With each additional dimension, the inverse law increases.
oh yeah? so in 2-D it's the 'inverse law' (1/dist^1) and in 1-D the 'constant law' (1/dist^0 = 1)??
This is nonsense!
It all depends on what norm you are using. What tells you that in these other dimensions - if they exists - the Euclidean norm should be used??
Two extra dimensions need only extend about a millimeter for gravity to be comparable in strength to the other forces.
It really hurts to read this stuff: "two dimensions extend a millimeter". WTF??? since when have dimensions got lengths? Some dimensions aren't even measured in centimeters (->time).
Da Warez D00d
living in the 5th dimension of Software
> Maybe I'm a profiteering capitalist, but I
> don't see why mine (nor many of my collegues)
> hard work should be provided for free to one
> choice of OS and not another.
huh? does your company get paid for providing windows drivers?
Surely it is in their own interest to make their hardware/whatever work properly under ANY OS!
Da Warez D00d