>Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS.Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI
hmmmmmmm... if i remember correctly, it _wasnt_ that FreeBSD went out of busness, it was a MERGER between FreeBSD and BSDI. Get your facts right, dickhead.
Why are you making off-topic posts?
This artile was about a book released dealing with some aspects of FreeBSD, not that "*BSD is dying".
You need to learn to be less of a wanker. Stick to your Linux, weenie.
Microsoft have never bothered to be correct in any of their press releases/statements/notices etc.
Any way, why would they remove/invalidate by updating their originally incorect report, which could potentially gain them customers? All it takes is a complete F*** wit in management to say "Duh.. Microsoft said blah blah blah... therefore, it MUST be true!!"
Any one who reads this report, and believes it deserves everything they get.
All I can say is that if Microsoft didn't have so much money to spend on lawyers, they would have had about 50,000 law suits just for slanderous remarks such as these.
I'm sure Microsoft realise that they will not be able to convert any one who knows anything about servers, networking, stability, security, performance (need i say more??) to convert to their "Piece of Crap"(tm) OS.
All I wanna know is when will they start a "FreeBSD Myths" page? I wanna know what they have to say about an OS that is widely used for high performance servers. A good example of this is ftp.cdrom.com. Go ftp to it and check the stats it gives u at login! I'd like to see a M$ box perform that well on identical hardware!
I'm sure that any one with 1/2 a clue that has posted here reasises this. The media in general (yes, CNN, this includes you) has replaced the term 'cracker' with 'hacker'. In the true sense, a hacker is some one who 'hacks' software to make improvments or make it do extra stuff.
Apart from that, 'hacking (cracking) back' is plain stupid. As has already been said, it can start a chain reaction and cause havoc.
If you use Port Sentry or something with the ability to perform an action apon detection, the best thing you can do is log the time, date and IP address where it originated, and contact the ISP and the authorities. You could go one step further, and write a script for port sentry to execute, that would, based ont the IP address, find the ISP, and automatically send off an e-mail to webmaster( or root or whatever)@${ISP} which would say something like "One of your users has started a portscan against" me etc etc etc...
Use your imagination. There are far better things to do than to launch an attack back at them. Isn't the potential of getting the little 'script kiddie' arrested far more satisfying? I know i would rather have the little bastard in jail than still out there, cracking other people's machines.
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apt is good, but... there is nothing that even comes close to FreeBSD's ports collection.
>Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS.Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI
hmmmmmmm... if i remember correctly, it _wasnt_ that FreeBSD went out of busness, it was a MERGER between FreeBSD and BSDI. Get your facts right, dickhead.
Why are you making off-topic posts?
This artile was about a book released dealing with some aspects of FreeBSD, not that "*BSD is dying".
You need to learn to be less of a wanker. Stick to your Linux, weenie.
Microsoft have never bothered to be correct in any of their press releases/statements/notices etc.
Any way, why would they remove/invalidate by updating their originally incorect report, which could potentially gain them customers? All it takes is a complete F*** wit in management to say "Duh.. Microsoft said blah blah blah... therefore, it MUST be true!!"
Any one who reads this report, and believes it deserves everything they get.
All I can say is that if Microsoft didn't have so much money to spend on lawyers, they would have had about 50,000 law suits just for slanderous remarks such as these.
I'm sure Microsoft realise that they will not be able to convert any one who knows anything about servers, networking, stability, security, performance (need i say more??) to convert to their "Piece of Crap"(tm) OS.
All I wanna know is when will they start a "FreeBSD Myths" page? I wanna know what they have to say about an OS that is widely used for high performance servers. A good example of this is ftp.cdrom.com. Go ftp to it and check the stats it gives u at login! I'd like to see a M$ box perform that well on identical hardware!
I'm sure that any one with 1/2 a clue that has posted here reasises this. The media in general (yes, CNN, this includes you) has replaced the term 'cracker' with 'hacker'.
In the true sense, a hacker is some one who 'hacks' software to make improvments or make it do extra stuff.
Apart from that, 'hacking (cracking) back' is plain stupid. As has already been said, it can start a chain reaction and cause havoc.
If you use Port Sentry or something with the ability to perform an action apon detection, the best thing you can do is log the time, date and IP address where it originated, and contact the ISP and the authorities. You could go one step further, and write a script for port sentry to execute, that would, based ont the IP address, find the ISP, and automatically send off an e-mail to webmaster( or root or whatever)@${ISP}
which would say something like "One of your users has started a portscan against" me etc etc etc...
Use your imagination. There are far better things to do than to launch an attack back at them. Isn't the potential of getting the little 'script kiddie' arrested far more satisfying? I know i would rather have the little bastard in jail than still out there, cracking other people's machines.