...exactly the same kind of thing Adequacy.org does, only in reverse. They actively discriminate against Free Software and Open Source users in deference to Windows users. This is despite the fact that their site uses and is running on Free and Open Source software. And, like crackmonkey.org, it's their site; they can do whatever they want with it, but at least Nick's not a hypocrite.
I don't have much sympathy for folk complaining about the use of the 'firewall bypass protocol'. Firewalls are like chastity belts, they are mainly bought by people who intend others to wear them and suffer their inconveniences. They are also like chastity belts in that they tend to be less effective than the purchaser imagines.
So, I should just let all the spammers, script kiddies and hackers (not crackers; I mean HACKERS) just break into my computer whenever they wanted. Do you understand ANYTHING about security?
> init 1
mount -u/
mount -a -t ufs
swapon -a
cd/usr/src
> make installworld /usr/sbin/mergemaster -v
cd/dev &&/bin/sh MAKEDEV all
cd/usr/src/release/sysinstall
make clean
make all install
> reboot
Usually I do a 'shutdown now' instead of an 'init 1'. The above after the 'init 1' will remount your UFS slices; rather important if/usr is one of them.:)
Do the above after the 'make installworld' to update/etc,/dev and/stand BEFORE you reboot to multi-user mode.
The above if from the excellent article, among many, from Dan O'Connor's website; FreeBSD Cheat Sheets.
Can't say I'll miss Solaris x86. Had a few nice things (Java 1.2, CDE, Palm syncing with CDE apps), but the hardware support was very spartan. No SB Live support, ATA66 didn't work. Plus, it just seemed to lumber along with a lot of disk IO (on an Athlon 500 w/ 256M RAM). Software was OK but "mature"; Staroffice 5.2 (make Emacs look svelte), a lot of free & open source stuff (GCC, old Gnome, old KDE, etc). I get all of that and more from FreeBSD; well, except CDE, but there's XFCE.:)
A moment of silence, please, for Solaris x86. R.I.P.
This'll blow my karma to hell, but, hey, you only live once.:P
Granted IPv6 isn't technically vaporware since it DOES exist and *BSD and Linux support it. But, really, outside your own private network, who's using it? Any of the major ISPs? Don't think so.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking it. It just that if it's so much better than the IPv4 we've all been using, why isn't it being widely used? And don't tell me that new technologies take time to be implemented widely. Hell, P2P/Napster took off like teenage girls to an N'Sync concert, and IPv6 was around before then.
The LZW algorithm, which is used to encode GIF images, is patented, and the patent owner (Unisys) tries to get people to pay if they sell software with a GIF encoder in it.
IIRC, LZW is only used for the compression of GIF images, not the actual encoding. There has been a GIF library alternative, libungif, available for some time now. It lets you programatically work with GIF images sans LZW. If you have to work with GIFs, check it out. Otherwise, like you said, PNGs are much better.
So poison the people, cut the corners. Market forces will stop you, if you really need to be stopped.
Unless you're Microsoft, then it's OK.:)
Sorry, had to get an anti-MS statement in here somewhere. I need the karma.:)
I got the same email. Last Friday I got another email announcing the switchover along with a link to their website where I could download their "wonderful" software. They even called me at home, no pun intended, to see if I got it. The guy at the other end was relatively clueless, but it was a human being at least.
I don't disagree with you at all. @Home's service is/was great. Before I had Charter, it was AT&T @Home and TCI before that. When Charter took over AT&T Cable's customers here, they inherited AT&T's contract with @Home. I have no doubt they would have rather had all the cable internet customers on Pipeline from day one.
Maybe I should start buying lottery tickets and hitting the casinos to get money for a T1.:)
Charter Communications, aka That OTHER Evil Empire(TM), already switched us over from @Home to Charter Pipeline. So far, so good. It's up, anyway. Thanks to OpenBSD, I don't need their interesting but useless Weendoze software. BTW, if you decide to use their software, don't. You can't uninstall it save via reinstalling Winduhs.
Unfortunately, DSL was not much of an option since I'm 18,000 feet from the CO. Oh, well. It still beats dial-up.
>>> I like PIM's, but myself I stick to a file-o-fax. It doesn't crash or lose data, and is easy to read, never runs out of batteries and is portable. I don't see what advantage a computer would bring, it would tie me down and lose data
Computers don't run out of ink.:) Seriously, having your schedule/task list/address book on a computer, or PDA for that matter, isn't necessarily faster than pen and paper, but it does allow more things to be done with the information that's on it.
>>> But my main gripe is the interactivity of the new PIM's, like Outlook Express in Office XP. They allow one's data to be inspected by one's superior, and make for an invasion of personal space by the hierarchy at work.
It being a M$ product not withstanding, I rather like the idea of my boss(es) being able to check my tasks and my progress without having to bug me with meetings and phone calls, and just let me work.
>>> One of my girlfriends Joselle had to cancel a date with me because her boss inserted a work appointment at the same time, without notice, and she had to obey.
Sorry to hear that, but that's what bosses tend to do.
>>> The only way to be truly provate and control your schedule is to have it written down privately. Computers allow for the domination of one's calendar by the digital elite.
I disagree. Collaboration, like this, is necessary to be more efficient in the workplace. Your boss(es) having the ability to check your tasklist and schedule can alleviate confusion and conflicts that would only lead to more stress for you and everyone else. Really, it's a good thing.:)
Or better yet, if we could only convince Apple to do the same thing! This would free Apple's OS division to aggressively market their products to all OEMs. Imagine if all the owners of x86 boxes out there had the option to install OSX instead of Windows.
I know this has been debated before, but I still think it makes sense.
And been done before, from a hardware standpoint anyway. Then Steve Jobs came back and ended the whole thing. Really, if Apple had any intention of doing this, they would have done it a long time ago.
Be that as it may, Apple's hardware and software are rather tightly integrated, IMHO. Separating the two would be rather difficult; not impossible, but Mac users would not get the feeling of the system as whole. I have used Linux, *BSD and Windows on my PCs, but have not felt like the thing's a complete system like I have when I used a Mac. Am I talking myself into getting a Mac? Been tempted, but no.
So, while I think Apple spinning off the OS would be a good thing for PC users, it would not be so good for Mac users.
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If we put a baby pig on every airline flight then all suicide terrorists would abort their missions as they would not want their souls to go to hell.
Or just serve pork chops for the in-flight meal.:) No wonder they're all pissed at us; we like pork.
Netcraft Confirms: *BSD is dying
I confirm that this is the same tired-ass old post you've been giving us all along. The word is originality; look it up, toad.
Here's a survey. We're about to elect ruler of the world. The three candidates are 1) Bill Gates, 2) Larry Ellison, or 3) Scott McNealy. Who do you pick?
Even better. What if you were on trial for murder, and any one of the above was your court-appointed attorney?
KISS THE ELECTRIC CHAIR HELLO, BABY!
i first started runnning it back in july 1995, 2.0.5. i'll tell you right now, *IT'S SHIT*.
You were six then, right? I suppose the first Leeeeeeeeeeeeenux kernels were "SHIT" too.
what this guy is saying is true, but you bsd lewsers refuse to admit it.
The only thing I'll admit to is that I can't tell which of you the bigger retard.
(Remainder of post snipped 'cause it's sofa king lame)
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*BSD is dying
So is Linux. It's just a fucking kernel. BSD is a real OS. Deal with it!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers.
If IDC told you to jump off a cliff for your precious Linux kernel, would you do it? Please say yes, then follow through.
Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
If Netcraft told you to fly an airplane into a skyscraper, would you do it?
*BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by
failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin
comprehensive networking test.
Oooh. Sys Admin magazine. I'm so impressed. The word is 'Tuning'; look it up!
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future.
And you don't have to be Islamic to be a terrorist. Your point?
The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak
future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because
*BSD is dying.
Then so is GNU/Linux and every other Open Source, Free, WTFE (what the fuck ever) OS out there.
Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink
flows like a river of blood.
Speaking of blood, have you spilled yours yet?
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
You're kidding, right?
OpenBSD leader Theo (blah, blah, blah, yackety, schmakety,...) BORING! Can't you do better than parrot the typical bullshit on Usenet? Get a fucking life, please?
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI BZZT! FreeBSD is not a business.
who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead,its corpse turned over to another charnel house. BZZT! Non-sequitor. Your facts (sic) are uncoordinated.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share.
I can get anyone to kiss my ass and tell the world how sweet it is. So what?
*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.
So is Linux.
If *BSD is to
survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers.
So is Linux.
*BSD continues to decay.
So does Linux.
Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time.
I use it and will continue to use it, therefore I AM GOD!
For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
For all practical purposes, you are still a braindead, fucking toad.
*BSD is dying
And so are you. Enough of your rattling, toadie boy. Your words are tiresome, your arguments are weak, and your relevance in this discussion is nonexistant. AWAY WITH YOU! BE GONE!
Microsoft Research the first research lab started by a computer company???
This is so obviously false, that it's hard to imagine someone would dare to post it to, of all places, Slashdot. It's harder to imagine that Slashdot passed it along.
Microsoft is not a computer company. Microsoft is a software company. Read the article.
Of course there were research centers before 1991. In particular there was the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, which pioneered the windows-based interface expanded upon by Apple and MicroSoft.
Xerox is not a software company. Read the article.
[snipped for relevance]
Next thing you know, some Microsoft shill will be claiming that MS invented the Internet, 5 years ago.
Then Dateline would admit on national telvision that, indeed, they rigged explosives to Smirk's gas tank to make him burst into flames just like they did with those pickup trucks awhile back. Perhaps not the best example that could be used.:)
BTW, Slashdot isn't biased, just the people who post here.
You have the freedom to do what you want, but you don't have the freedom to restrict the freedom of others.
Then, you don't, really, have the freedom to do what you want.
"I'm a rational anarchist. I'll happily accept any rules that you feel are necessary for your freedom. But I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Copyright is nothing but a government granted monopoly.
I believe you may be confusing copyright with patent. Be that as it may...
For instance, what if it was found that better music would be created if only people with masters degrees in composition (or licensed students) were allowed to create music. Think of how much crappy music wouldn't get made if you
needed 6 years of school and a license before you could strum an A chord! Is this a legitimate type of coercion? Think!
For that matter, what if it was found that better doctors would be created if only people with doctorates in medicine (or licensed practitioners) were allowed to practice medicine. Think of how many crappy operations wouldn't get made if you needed (n) years of school and a license before you could perform brain surgery! Is this a legitimate type of coercion? Think!
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...exactly the same kind of thing Adequacy.org does, only in reverse. They actively discriminate against Free Software and Open Source users in deference to Windows users. This is despite the fact that their site uses and is running on Free and Open Source software. And, like crackmonkey.org, it's their site; they can do whatever they want with it, but at least Nick's not a hypocrite.
More power to ya, Nick.
I don't have much sympathy for folk complaining about the use of the 'firewall bypass protocol'. Firewalls are like chastity belts, they are mainly bought by people who intend others to wear them and suffer their inconveniences. They are also like chastity belts in that they tend to be less effective than the purchaser imagines.
So, I should just let all the spammers, script kiddies and hackers (not crackers; I mean HACKERS) just break into my computer whenever they wanted. Do you understand ANYTHING about security?
mount -u
mount -a -t ufs
swapon -a
cd
> make installworld
cd
cd
make clean
make all install
> reboot
Usually I do a 'shutdown now' instead of an 'init 1'. The above after the 'init 1' will remount your UFS slices; rather important if /usr is one of them. :)
Do the above after the 'make installworld' to update /etc, /dev and /stand BEFORE you reboot to multi-user mode.
The above if from the excellent article, among many, from Dan O'Connor's website; FreeBSD Cheat Sheets.
...US$999 last time I heard.
:)
Can't say I'll miss Solaris x86. Had a few nice things (Java 1.2, CDE, Palm syncing with CDE apps), but the hardware support was very spartan. No SB Live support, ATA66 didn't work. Plus, it just seemed to lumber along with a lot of disk IO (on an Athlon 500 w/ 256M RAM). Software was OK but "mature"; Staroffice 5.2 (make Emacs look svelte), a lot of free & open source stuff (GCC, old Gnome, old KDE, etc). I get all of that and more from FreeBSD; well, except CDE, but there's XFCE.
A moment of silence, please, for Solaris x86. R.I.P.
This'll blow my karma to hell, but, hey, you only live once. :P
Granted IPv6 isn't technically vaporware since it DOES exist and *BSD and Linux support it. But, really, outside your own private network, who's using it? Any of the major ISPs? Don't think so.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking it. It just that if it's so much better than the IPv4 we've all been using, why isn't it being widely used? And don't tell me that new technologies take time to be implemented widely. Hell, P2P/Napster took off like teenage girls to an N'Sync concert, and IPv6 was around before then.
Oh, fuck it! Who wants pie?!
The LZW algorithm, which is used to encode GIF images, is patented, and the patent owner (Unisys) tries to get people to pay if they sell software with a GIF encoder in it.
IIRC, LZW is only used for the compression of GIF images, not the actual encoding. There has been a GIF library alternative, libungif, available for some time now. It lets you programatically work with GIF images sans LZW. If you have to work with GIFs, check it out. Otherwise, like you said, PNGs are much better.
So poison the people, cut the corners. Market forces will stop you, if you really need to be stopped. :) :)
Unless you're Microsoft, then it's OK.
Sorry, had to get an anti-MS statement in here somewhere. I need the karma.
I got the same email. Last Friday I got another email announcing the switchover along with a link to their website where I could download their "wonderful" software. They even called me at home, no pun intended, to see if I got it. The guy at the other end was relatively clueless, but it was a human being at least.
:)
I don't disagree with you at all. @Home's service is/was great. Before I had Charter, it was AT&T @Home and TCI before that. When Charter took over AT&T Cable's customers here, they inherited AT&T's contract with @Home. I have no doubt they would have rather had all the cable internet customers on Pipeline from day one.
Maybe I should start buying lottery tickets and hitting the casinos to get money for a T1.
Charter Communications, aka That OTHER Evil Empire(TM), already switched us over from @Home to Charter Pipeline. So far, so good. It's up, anyway. Thanks to OpenBSD, I don't need their interesting but useless Weendoze software. BTW, if you decide to use their software, don't. You can't uninstall it save via reinstalling Winduhs.
... R.I.P.
Unfortunately, DSL was not much of an option since I'm 18,000 feet from the CO. Oh, well. It still beats dial-up.
@Home
> MacOS X does this trick natively.
Mac OS X only runs on Apple hardware. Why should I pay several thousand dollars for new hardware just to run your OS.
... If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that would come along would destroy civilization.
>>> I like PIM's, but myself I stick to a file-o-fax. It doesn't crash or lose data, and is easy to read, never runs out of batteries and is portable. I don't see what advantage a computer would bring, it would tie me down and lose data
:) Seriously, having your schedule/task list/address book on a computer, or PDA for that matter, isn't necessarily faster than pen and paper, but it does allow more things to be done with the information that's on it.
:)
Computers don't run out of ink.
>>> But my main gripe is the interactivity of the new PIM's, like Outlook Express in Office XP. They allow one's data to be inspected by one's superior, and make for an invasion of personal space by the hierarchy at work.
It being a M$ product not withstanding, I rather like the idea of my boss(es) being able to check my tasks and my progress without having to bug me with meetings and phone calls, and just let me work.
>>> One of my girlfriends Joselle had to cancel a date with me because her boss inserted a work appointment at the same time, without notice, and she had to obey.
Sorry to hear that, but that's what bosses tend to do.
>>> The only way to be truly provate and control your schedule is to have it written down privately. Computers allow for the domination of one's calendar by the digital elite.
I disagree. Collaboration, like this, is necessary to be more efficient in the workplace. Your boss(es) having the ability to check your tasklist and schedule can alleviate confusion and conflicts that would only lead to more stress for you and everyone else. Really, it's a good thing.
Who woulda thought Larry Ellison was the anti-christ!? I was sure it was Bill Gates. DAMMIT!
Or better yet, if we could only convince Apple to do the same thing! This would free Apple's OS division to aggressively market their products to all OEMs. Imagine if all the owners of x86 boxes out there had the option to install OSX instead of Windows.
I know this has been debated before, but I still think it makes sense.
And been done before, from a hardware standpoint anyway. Then Steve Jobs came back and ended the whole thing. Really, if Apple had any intention of doing this, they would have done it a long time ago.
Be that as it may, Apple's hardware and software are rather tightly integrated, IMHO. Separating the two would be rather difficult; not impossible, but Mac users would not get the feeling of the system as whole. I have used Linux, *BSD and Windows on my PCs, but have not felt like the thing's a complete system like I have when I used a Mac. Am I talking myself into getting a Mac? Been tempted, but no.
So, while I think Apple spinning off the OS would be a good thing for PC users, it would not be so good for Mac users.
If we put a baby pig on every airline flight then all suicide terrorists would abort their missions as they would not want their souls to go to hell. :) No wonder they're all pissed at us; we like pork.
Or just serve pork chops for the in-flight meal.
Netcraft Confirms: *BSD is dying
I confirm that this is the same tired-ass old post you've been giving us all along. The word is originality; look it up, toad.
By the way, it should be noted that Netcraft itself is running Apache on FreeBSD.
Here's a survey. We're about to elect ruler of the world. The three candidates are 1) Bill Gates, 2) Larry Ellison, or 3) Scott McNealy. Who do you pick?
Even better. What if you were on trial for murder, and any one of the above was your court-appointed attorney? KISS THE ELECTRIC CHAIR HELLO, BABY!
Makes me ashamed to be an Oracle DBA.
Kill the wabbit,
kill the wabbit,
kill the wabbit,
kill the wabbit
-- performed to the music of Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
*bsd is FUCKED.
Same bullshit, different hole
i first started runnning it back in july 1995, 2.0.5. i'll tell you right now, *IT'S SHIT*.
You were six then, right? I suppose the first Leeeeeeeeeeeeenux kernels were "SHIT" too.
what this guy is saying is true, but you bsd lewsers refuse to admit it.
The only thing I'll admit to is that I can't tell which of you the bigger retard.
(Remainder of post snipped 'cause it's sofa king lame)
Time again for the Toad Enlightment Program
*BSD is dying
So is Linux. It's just a fucking kernel. BSD is a real OS. Deal with it!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers.
If IDC told you to jump off a cliff for your precious Linux kernel, would you do it? Please say yes, then follow through.
Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
If Netcraft told you to fly an airplane into a skyscraper, would you do it?
*BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
Oooh. Sys Admin magazine. I'm so impressed. The word is 'Tuning'; look it up!
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future.
And you don't have to be Islamic to be a terrorist. Your point?
The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying.
Then so is GNU/Linux and every other Open Source, Free, WTFE (what the fuck ever) OS out there.
Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Speaking of blood, have you spilled yours yet?
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
You're kidding, right?
OpenBSD leader Theo (blah, blah, blah, yackety, schmakety, ...)
BORING! Can't you do better than parrot the typical bullshit on Usenet? Get a fucking life, please?
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI
BZZT! FreeBSD is not a business.
who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead,its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
BZZT! Non-sequitor. Your facts (sic) are uncoordinated.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share.
I can get anyone to kiss my ass and tell the world how sweet it is. So what?
*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.
So is Linux.
If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers.
So is Linux.
*BSD continues to decay.
So does Linux.
Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time.
I use it and will continue to use it, therefore I AM GOD!
For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
For all practical purposes, you are still a braindead, fucking toad.
*BSD is dying
And so are you. Enough of your rattling, toadie boy. Your words are tiresome, your arguments are weak, and your relevance in this discussion is nonexistant. AWAY WITH YOU! BE GONE!
Microsoft Research the first research lab started by a computer company???
This is so obviously false, that it's hard to imagine someone would dare to post it to, of all places, Slashdot. It's harder to imagine that Slashdot passed it along.
Microsoft is not a computer company. Microsoft is a software company. Read the article.
Of course there were research centers before 1991. In particular there was the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, which pioneered the windows-based interface expanded upon by Apple and MicroSoft.
Xerox is not a software company. Read the article.
[snipped for relevance]
Next thing you know, some Microsoft shill will be claiming that MS invented the Internet, 5 years ago.
And RedHat invented Linux.
Then Dateline would admit on national telvision that, indeed, they rigged explosives to Smirk's gas tank to make him burst into flames just like they did with those pickup trucks awhile back. Perhaps not the best example that could be used. :)
BTW, Slashdot isn't biased, just the people who post here.
All the aforementioned browsers run on other OSes, but they are called *Linux* browsers. Sure, makes sense to me.
You have the freedom to do what you want, but you don't have the freedom to restrict the freedom of others.
Then, you don't, really, have the freedom to do what you want.
"I'm a rational anarchist. I'll happily accept any rules that you feel are necessary for your freedom. But I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Copyright is nothing but a government granted monopoly.
I believe you may be confusing copyright with patent. Be that as it may...
For instance, what if it was found that better music would be created if only people with masters degrees in composition (or licensed students) were allowed to create music. Think of how much crappy music wouldn't get made if you
needed 6 years of school and a license before you could strum an A chord! Is this a legitimate type of coercion? Think!
For that matter, what if it was found that better doctors would be created if only people with doctorates in medicine (or licensed practitioners) were allowed to practice medicine. Think of how many crappy operations wouldn't get made if you needed (n) years of school and a license before you could perform brain surgery! Is this a legitimate type of coercion? Think!
Any you can be my first patient! Feel lucky?