"Then there was the OpenSSH holes. I would later learn that FreeBSD has a history of remote exploits. Perhaps they should work with the team at RedHat, as RH knows how to secure their distros."
I've always been a Ford fan. Not too excited of what they've been doing lately, but I'm a loyal customer still. So does that mean that Linux is First On Race Day?
Being a BSD guy, that just sounds wrong. Wait, Linux is Dying! Ah, now that's better. Alhtough, I really shouldn't bring myself down to the *BSD trollers level. Anyway, it's good that a large organization such as Ford is switching to Open Source. It might help the Open Source community as a whole somehow.
I just hope that Ford has some good admins though, so that they don't get rooted often. Seems that they'll be using Redhat, which isn't very secure out of the box, therefore they'll need capable admins of streamlining a Redhat installation and making sure it's secure by closing off uneeded ports and stuff.
I wish Ford all the luck. I wish they'd give me an Eddie Bauer Expedition or Mach 1 too.;)
I wouldn't mind testing to see if what you say is true. Send me stuff to copy and paste and I will.;) It would be really lame to do so though. I, unlike them, have better things to do with my life.
Although, I do question. Do they troll because they fear that people become the wiser and will finally see the merits BSD software? Do they troll because they can't accept the fact that BSD software is quite good and most likely better than theirs? Or do they troll because they just can't get laid? Probably all of the above.
Have you checked out OSNews. Seems to be alot more open minded inteligent people there that actually post decent comments under BSD related news. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than Slashdot's BSD Section.
I think you mean one MORE BSD moving to 3.x, but yeah its' true what you say. There's really nothing all that exciting going on. But that can be said about the rest of the Open Source world. Nothing is all that exciting anymore. Not KDE, not GNOME, not Linux, etc. It's just the same old shit cooked up in a different way.
Hell, it's almost safe to say that there isn't much exciting going on in the rest of the computing world. Seems like things are moving kinda slow these days. I guess the only thing that I'm looking forward to these days as far as computing is the Athlon64 with a 64bit version of Windows. Why Windows? Because it's quite usable.
But, don't fear. I'll stil use FreeBSD for my servers. It's stable and easy to maintain. That's what I like most about it.
That's probably because most BSD users have given up on the Slashdot BSD section. The Slashdot BSD section is overrun by trolls and FUD.
BSD is software which can be used freely by anyone. The only way for BSD to die is for people to completely stop using BSD code, but since BSD code is used in so many other software products it really won't ever die.
It's the immaturity of some of these Slahdot readers that have made the Slashdot BSD section go down the drain. But really, you know what's really sad. That these people have nothing esle to do in their poor excuse of a life that they turn to the BSD section to spout out FUD and repeat the "BSD is Dying" troll.
Why do I come here then? Because I too have nothing better to do. Actually, I guess maybe because sometimes through all the trolls and FUD there are some good posts.
Yeah, I'm wishing they release the new Opera for FreeBSD as well. I'm using the 6.12 version without much problems.
Well no problems untill I close opera which gives me problems and then dumps core. Funny though, it doesn't do it when I'm running twm as the window manager. Anything else though, it dies.
Because Mozilla runs like shit on old hardware. Opera runs great on this old P233 that I have. Sure you might say, "well that's an old piece of shit machine." I say, "Just because it's old shouldn't render it unusable." Opera runs freaking fantastic on it. Mozilla wishes it can run that fast on old hardware.
Damn right, the BSD license is the bomb yo! I don't understand why they call it stealing. Am I stealing from someone if they hand me a gift? If so, I'm gonna stop handing out gifts at birthday parties and what not, because I don't want them stealing the gift from me.
Super-glorified station wagon? No, it's more like a super-glorified Ford Expedition.
I think I'd rather have a Ford Expedition than a Lincoln Navigator.
Especially the '03 model. The dash have been redesigned and it looks so much better. The body look sleek and hot too. I'd like one with a 5.4 Liter beast putting out 350 lbs of torque at only 2500 rpm.
Although, I think the Navigator does have a higher horsepower 32 valve version of the 5.4 Liter engine. But these are trucks where torque matters more.
The only bad thing. These suckers must drink gas like mad. And in todays 2 bucks per gallon (live in CAlifornia) fuel economy, it really must suck.
Oh yeah, I use version 6.12 and it's freakin' fantastic. It's fast even on an old Pentium II 233 with just 128 Megs of RAM on FreeBSD. And I don't just mean fast as in loading pages (which it is fast) but also it just runs fast because it's lean and mean. It weighs in at what...4 Megs or so? I don't remember exactly how big it is, but it's awesome.
Okay, this is great and all but useless for me as I run FreeBSD and not Linux. I'd like to know when the native FreeBSD version will be out.
Sure I can run the Linux binary in emnulation, but that's like a Ford enthusiast putting a Chevy engine into his Mustang. It's just not right.
Wow, just realized that might start a Ford vs. Chevy flamewar. Then the MOPAR trolls will chime in. Let's not even talk about the Jap scrap rice burners.
Okay, now this was a cool new spin on the "BSD is Dying" troll. I've haven't seen it ever posted like this.
Of course, BSD is not dying. But at least this troll was amusing.
Sad part though, I don't work or live that far from Compton. Interesting how Los Angeles suburbs are though, you cross the street and you can be in shit-town, cross another street and you're in Beverly Hills.
I've been waiting for this release for awhile now. Thanks to you guys for all your hard work!
Now I can finally upgrade my 4.6.2-RELEASE box to 4.8-RELEASE. Ugh...but my uptime.:( I have like over 180 days or so. Oh well, uptime isn't everything. Security is though.
Well, I wish you all a happy CVSup'ing, or whatever is you do to upgrade.
Dude, you're probably trying to funny or sarcastic, but...
You can run Linux on it in what's called an LPAR. You can actually multiple installations of Linux on it. So, it's quite possible you can build a Beowulf cluster. Although, probably the most expensive one in the world.
That was exactly my problem. I learned C, Perl, C++ first so the fixed field format thing really turned me off. I like free format and stuff. I'm just too damn stubborn. Although, I guess it's getting better. RPGLE add more free format stuff like EVAL statements and stuff. But, ewwwww.
You do savsys's on every weekend? Do you make that many changes to the AS/400. I was told that's only ncessary when major changes or devices changes are done.
Basically, all of our necessary stuff is stored in one library which is backed up daily. I do that manually. The source libraryis also backed up which is done automatically.
We don't have a tape library, just the single loader 3570 which is why I do the backup manually, but it only takes about 10 minutes.
Can you believe, we only have about 60 gigs in the whole system. Using about 15 4 Gig drives. lol I think we're about at 70% capacity. We have a model 620 which was upgraded to a 720.
My boss does really well at not spending too much on the AS/400 and using it as well as possible. Although, it would be cool to upgrade to a new box. I'd like a 270 just to play with.
how can you find it hard to remember? It's pretty easy. Most things start with WRK, or CFG, or DSP. If you don't know the rest then type WRK* and it will give you a list to choose from. Simple.
Having said that, I wouldn't want to do any AS/400 work now - but probably more because I don't like a typical AS/400 user (brick and mortar businesses not focused on technology) than the system itself.
Why is that? They really aren't focused on technology. My boss is like that. It's annoying. Just recently do we have T-1 internet access, a server, a firewall, etc.
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No, no, no, no. This was the funniest line.
"Then there was the OpenSSH holes. I would later learn that FreeBSD has
a history of remote exploits. Perhaps they should work with the team
at RedHat, as RH knows how to secure their distros."
This really has to be modded up as humorous.
Fine, then hack mine.
I've always been a Ford fan. Not too excited of what they've been doing lately, but I'm a loyal customer still. So does that mean that Linux is First On Race Day?
;)
Being a BSD guy, that just sounds wrong. Wait, Linux is Dying! Ah, now that's better. Alhtough, I really shouldn't bring myself down to the *BSD trollers level. Anyway, it's good that a large organization such as Ford is switching to Open Source. It might help the Open Source community as a whole somehow.
I just hope that Ford has some good admins though, so that they don't get rooted often. Seems that they'll be using Redhat, which isn't very secure out of the box, therefore they'll need capable admins of streamlining a Redhat installation and making sure it's secure by closing off uneeded ports and stuff.
I wish Ford all the luck. I wish they'd give me an Eddie Bauer Expedition or Mach 1 too.
I wouldn't mind testing to see if what you say is true. Send me stuff to copy and paste and I will. ;) It would be really lame to do so though. I, unlike them, have better things to do with my life.
Although, I do question. Do they troll because they fear that people become the wiser and will finally see the merits BSD software? Do they troll because they can't accept the fact that BSD software is quite good and most likely better than theirs? Or do they troll because they just can't get laid? Probably all of the above.
Have you checked out OSNews. Seems to be alot more open minded inteligent people there that actually post decent comments under BSD related news. It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than Slashdot's BSD Section.
I think you mean one MORE BSD moving to 3.x, but yeah its' true what you say. There's really nothing all that exciting going on. But that can be said about the rest of the Open Source world. Nothing is all that exciting anymore. Not KDE, not GNOME, not Linux, etc. It's just the same old shit cooked up in a different way.
Hell, it's almost safe to say that there isn't much exciting going on in the rest of the computing world. Seems like things are moving kinda slow these days. I guess the only thing that I'm looking forward to these days as far as computing is the Athlon64 with a 64bit version of Windows. Why Windows? Because it's quite usable.
But, don't fear. I'll stil use FreeBSD for my servers. It's stable and easy to maintain. That's what I like most about it.
That's probably because most BSD users have given up on the Slashdot BSD section. The Slashdot BSD section is overrun by trolls and FUD.
BSD is software which can be used freely by anyone. The only way for BSD to die is for people to completely stop using BSD code, but since BSD code is used in so many other software products it really won't ever die.
It's the immaturity of some of these Slahdot readers that have made the Slashdot BSD section go down the drain. But really, you know what's really sad. That these people have nothing esle to do in their poor excuse of a life that they turn to the BSD section to spout out FUD and repeat the "BSD is Dying" troll.
Why do I come here then? Because I too have nothing better to do. Actually, I guess maybe because sometimes through all the trolls and FUD there are some good posts.
s/can/can't/
You fuck-tard, you can ripoff something that's already free. What a dumbass.
Yeah, I'm wishing they release the new Opera for FreeBSD as well. I'm using the 6.12 version without much problems.
Well no problems untill I close opera which gives me problems and then dumps core. Funny though, it doesn't do it when I'm running twm as the window manager. Anything else though, it dies.
Because Mozilla runs like shit on old hardware. Opera runs great on this old P233 that I have. Sure you might say, "well that's an old piece of shit machine." I say, "Just because it's old shouldn't render it unusable." Opera runs freaking fantastic on it. Mozilla wishes it can run that fast on old hardware.
Nah, Alan Cox is too busy sucking Linus' dick to be bent over that often. :)
Damn right, the BSD license is the bomb yo! I don't understand why they call it stealing. Am I stealing from someone if they hand me a gift? If so, I'm gonna stop handing out gifts at birthday parties and what not, because I don't want them stealing the gift from me.
Super-glorified station wagon? No, it's more like a super-glorified Ford Expedition.
I think I'd rather have a Ford Expedition than a Lincoln Navigator.
Especially the '03 model. The dash have been redesigned and it looks so much better. The body look sleek and hot too. I'd like one with a 5.4 Liter beast putting out 350 lbs of torque at only 2500 rpm.
Although, I think the Navigator does have a higher horsepower 32 valve version of the 5.4 Liter engine. But these are trucks where torque matters more.
The only bad thing. These suckers must drink gas like mad. And in todays 2 bucks per gallon (live in CAlifornia) fuel economy, it really must suck.
Oh yeah, I use version 6.12 and it's freakin' fantastic. It's fast even on an old Pentium II 233 with just 128 Megs of RAM on FreeBSD. And I don't just mean fast as in loading pages (which it is fast) but also it just runs fast because it's lean and mean. It weighs in at what...4 Megs or so? I don't remember exactly how big it is, but it's awesome.
Okay, this is great and all but useless for me as I run FreeBSD and not Linux. I'd like to know when the native FreeBSD version will be out.
Sure I can run the Linux binary in emnulation, but that's like a Ford enthusiast putting a Chevy engine into his Mustang. It's just not right.
Wow, just realized that might start a Ford vs. Chevy flamewar. Then the MOPAR trolls will chime in. Let's not even talk about the Jap scrap rice burners.
Okay, now this was a cool new spin on the "BSD is Dying" troll. I've haven't seen it ever posted like this.
Of course, BSD is not dying. But at least this troll was amusing.
Sad part though, I don't work or live that far from Compton. Interesting how Los Angeles suburbs are though, you cross the street and you can be in shit-town, cross another street and you're in Beverly Hills.
Yes!!
I've been waiting for this release for awhile now. Thanks to you guys for all your hard work!
Now I can finally upgrade my 4.6.2-RELEASE box to 4.8-RELEASE. Ugh...but my uptime. :( I have like over 180 days or so. Oh well, uptime isn't everything. Security is though.
Well, I wish you all a happy CVSup'ing, or whatever is you do to upgrade.
Maybe I'm biting on troll bait, but you do realize that FreeBSD 5.0 has been released right?
That's probably due to the microcode. There's a layer between the hardware and the OS which made that posssible.
Dude, you're probably trying to funny or sarcastic, but...
You can run Linux on it in what's called an LPAR. You can actually multiple installations of Linux on it. So, it's quite possible you can build a Beowulf cluster. Although, probably the most expensive one in the world.
That was exactly my problem. I learned C, Perl, C++ first so the fixed field format thing really turned me off. I like free format and stuff. I'm just too damn stubborn. Although, I guess it's getting better. RPGLE add more free format stuff like EVAL statements and stuff. But, ewwwww.
You do savsys's on every weekend? Do you make that many changes to the AS/400. I was told that's only ncessary when major changes or devices changes are done.
Basically, all of our necessary stuff is stored in one library which is backed up daily. I do that manually. The source libraryis also backed up which is done automatically.
We don't have a tape library, just the single loader 3570 which is why I do the backup manually, but it only takes about 10 minutes.
Can you believe, we only have about 60 gigs in the whole system. Using about 15 4 Gig drives. lol I think we're about at 70% capacity. We have a model 620 which was upgraded to a 720.
My boss does really well at not spending too much on the AS/400 and using it as well as possible. Although, it would be cool to upgrade to a new box. I'd like a 270 just to play with.
how can you find it hard to remember? It's pretty easy. Most things start with WRK, or CFG, or DSP. If you don't know the rest then type WRK* and it will give you a list to choose from. Simple.
Having said that, I wouldn't want to do any AS/400 work now - but probably more because I don't like a typical AS/400 user (brick and mortar businesses not focused on technology) than the system itself.
Why is that? They really aren't focused on technology. My boss is like that. It's annoying. Just recently do we have T-1 internet access, a server, a firewall, etc.