I have to say I am sad to see so many negative reactions to djb and his software.
I'm not sure where the accusations of arrogance against Bernstein come from. I've never met the guy but having studied his code I would say, if anything, his programming style exudes humility. He doesn't trust client software, he doesn't trust the standard libraries and he doesn't trust himself. I think if you look closely at his "style" (for want of a better word) you will find a lot worth emulating.
Personally, I still use qmail and tinydns on my own boxes, where appropriate. At work I don't have any problem recommending his software either and have used qmail for projects relaying over 8 million messages a day without issue. Saying it "doesn't scale" is, in my opinion, untrue. Or at least misleading.
> I propose the following: God doesn't care about which bodily fluids you share with which people, or whether the government issued you a license to do it or not. God cares about whether you are doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is the whole of the law.
If you think I'm letting my girlfriend stick anything up my arse, you can fuck right off.
Si
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> Sorry, I'd just thought everyone had heard about Design Patterns long ago. > Seems a bit like publishing a book review on the KJV Bible or something.
The KJV Bible??? Okay, let me guess... Knuth, Joy and Van Jacobsen got together, right?
Qmail is good for this sort of thing. By default, a user receives everything at username-*@domain.com.
So, I subscribe to amazon with username-amazon@domain.com, slashdot with username-slashdot@domain.com etc.
You can then control the delivery location of mails to these recipients using.qmail-amazon and.qmail-slashdot files in your home directory and have a.qmail catch-all.
This comes in handy for filing mailing-lists away, filtering out spam etc. Its also interesting to see who's sold you down the river to spammers, I recently started receiving spam to username-bsdtoday@domain.com... bastards!
Cheers, Si
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How about using a bit of simple logic. Here's how I (and I guess the vast majority of people) use google -
1) enter search phrase 2) browse results 3) click on results that "look" reasonable 4) if its not reasonable, go back to the results 5) it it is reasonable, don't go back to the
results
... if google knew which links I'd clicked on they would have just taken advantage of a free "moderation" (of sorts).
What's more, if they knew for a given search query which result was the *last* one I had clicked on, in the vast majority of cases they would know which one I thought was most relevant.
Technically, I think this could be accomplished by making all links redirect via google (so they know what I've clicked on) the link would include some unique identifier for my search query (making it unique even amongst people who have entered the same search terms/phrases) and an identifier for the individual link I have clicked on.
Stuff this data in a database and then use it as a basis for rating the links (with the last "hit" by timestamp being rated more highly than the others).
well, it would appear that, at the time of posting, this will be the only non-troll-y, un-stupid comment attached to this article (imho).
come on my fellow freebsders, hit reply and lets show the world that we are happy with our lot (and of course, happy to try other OSen on occasion).
personally, i came to freebsd from a purely professional angle as the result of working with sunos 4, then on to bsd/386 [bsdi] (1.1, i still have the source cd) and now to the pure joy that is freebsd 4.4-stable.
i don't use ports, packages (and i've tried debian and apt-get) or anything like that. i like the whole "incremental improvement" buzz of downloading source and patches and installing them myself. hell, i even like breaking open the occasional header file and inserting a "#include or somesuch.
i can't believe i'm the only one.
si
(ps, excuse the lower case, but my shift button has broken and i can't be bothered to use the left one for anything but brackets)
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I have to say I am sad to see so many negative reactions to djb and his software.
I'm not sure where the accusations of arrogance against Bernstein come from. I've never met the guy but having studied his code I would say, if anything, his programming style exudes humility. He doesn't trust client software, he doesn't trust the standard libraries and he doesn't trust himself. I think if you look closely at his "style" (for want of a better word) you will find a lot worth emulating.
Personally, I still use qmail and tinydns on my own boxes, where appropriate. At work I don't have any problem recommending his software either and have used qmail for projects relaying over 8 million messages a day without issue. Saying it "doesn't scale" is, in my opinion, untrue. Or at least misleading.
Anyway, djb, I for one salute you!
Si
"upside down"... "into the past"...
Laugh? I nearly shat my pants.
Your post is proof positive that Tuesdays are better that Mondays.
slb
> Or try to sell it, claiming it is a pair.
Arf arf. Claim it's a pair of apples?! But that's nothing like an... oh nevermind.
dunno about surgery, but all those hours hammering the joystick at Daley Thompson's Decathlon have made me a formidable masturbator.
The 1500m was a real stamina builder.
Si
Dunno. But I have just spent 60 of your US dollars on a T-shirt and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE CD set from http://www.freebsdmall.com/.
Heck. These guys have kept me in a job for 6 years and its been all the more bearable owing to the technology they've put in my hands.
Cheers,
Si
ps. *all* proceeds from sales at freebsdmall.com until September 13th go to freebsd. so now's an even better time to cough up 8-)
> I'm not Seth.
Fuck off, Seth.
> Quote: "I now see KDE taking the lead in polish and professionalism on the desktop".
Yes, the kde internationalization team have done a truly fantastic job.
Oh... *polish*...
I'll get my coat.
Si
> I propose the following: God doesn't care about which bodily fluids you share with which people, or whether the government issued you a license to do it or not. God cares about whether you are doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is the whole of the law.
If you think I'm letting my girlfriend stick anything up my arse, you can fuck right off.
Si
> Sorry, I'd just thought everyone had heard about Design Patterns long ago.
> Seems a bit like publishing a book review on the KJV Bible or something.
The KJV Bible??? Okay, let me guess... Knuth, Joy and Van Jacobsen got together, right?
Gimme gimme gimme 8-)
Si
> Would you really want to try to repair a broken system without ls?
... does the job nicely 8-)
Pah! You pansy!
% echo *
Si
> "Redheads are likely to experience more pain from a given stimulus and therefore require more anesthesia to alleviate that pain."
Huh? I can't think of anything more likely to *induce* pain than listening to that man-faced, pop-singing gasbag, Anesthesia.
Si
at least to me
I was only guessing 8-)
Si
> Sooo, exactly how many hydrogen atoms are in a handful anyway? My first guess would be in the ballpark of "A hell of a lot more than 50k".
I'm guessing you wouldn't have much of a hand left if you were to test that assumption 8-)
Si
> so if I stick lights on it (LEDs along a vane), maybe that will warn any flying creatures off.
I can just see the 4 foot pile of moth choppings waiting for you in the morning 8-)
Si
> no doubt the City of York is where most Meteorites land.
What's the City of York got to do with anything?
Or are you under the false impression that North Yorkshire and York are the same?
Si
This seems to have taken the PNG people by surprise
as well. Here are the specs of their "lossy" format -
http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/spec/jng.html
Looks heavily based on JPEG to me. I wonder how this
will affect the MNG image format (of which JNG is
a part)?
Cheers,
Si
> There are plenty of times I'm using the computer when
> I'd rather speak to it than move my eyes or my hands.
nudge nudge, wink wink... me too 8-)
Si
Qmail is good for this sort of thing. By default, a user receives everything at username-*@domain.com.
.qmail-amazon and .qmail-slashdot files in your home directory and have a .qmail catch-all.
So, I subscribe to amazon with username-amazon@domain.com, slashdot with username-slashdot@domain.com etc.
You can then control the delivery location of mails to these recipients using
This comes in handy for filing mailing-lists away, filtering out spam etc. Its also interesting to see who's sold you down the river to spammers, I recently started receiving spam to username-bsdtoday@domain.com... bastards!
Cheers,
Si
How about using a bit of simple logic. Here's how I (and I guess the vast majority of people) use google -
1) enter search phrase
2) browse results
3) click on results that "look" reasonable
4) if its not reasonable, go back to the results
5) it it is reasonable, don't go back to the
results
... if google knew which links I'd clicked on they would have just taken advantage of a free "moderation" (of sorts).
What's more, if they knew for a given search query which result was the *last* one I had clicked on, in the vast majority of cases they would know which one I thought was most relevant.
Technically, I think this could be accomplished by making all links redirect via google (so they know what I've clicked on) the link would include some unique identifier for my search query (making it unique even amongst people who have entered the same search terms/phrases) and an identifier for the individual link I have clicked on.
Stuff this data in a database and then use it as a basis for rating the links (with the last "hit" by timestamp being rated more highly than the others).
Of course, I've already patented this 8-)
Si
The most interesting project for me is xvid -
http://www.videocoding.de
... based on the opendivx code and GPL.
Doom9 have a comparison up here -
http://www.doom9.org/codecs.htm
Looks very promising.
Si
well, it would appear that, at the time of posting, this will be the only non-troll-y, un-stupid comment attached to this article (imho).
come on my fellow freebsders, hit reply and lets show the world that we are happy with our lot (and of course, happy to try other OSen on occasion).
personally, i came to freebsd from a purely professional angle as the result of working with sunos 4, then on to bsd/386 [bsdi] (1.1, i still have the source cd) and now to the pure joy that is freebsd 4.4-stable.
i don't use ports, packages (and i've tried debian and apt-get) or anything like that. i like the whole "incremental improvement" buzz of downloading source and patches and installing them myself. hell, i even like breaking open the occasional header file and inserting a "#include or somesuch.
i can't believe i'm the only one.
si
(ps, excuse the lower case, but my shift button has broken and i can't be bothered to use the left one for anything but brackets)
Check out Company Flow's "America" if you want some music that will insight revolutionary thought while sending pleasant shivers down your spine.
Si
> Great, but can I grow that third arm I've always wanted? NO! Damn hippy scientists.
I have one for spanking the monkey and one for moving the mouse and clicking the buttons.
What do I need a third one for?
Si
I want scandal damn it!
OS/2... hand wave... GPL violation... OS/2...
Si