Notice that the thread pertained to OpenBSD. The FreeBSD installation system is more friendly (though it segfaults on me with wild abandon), but then you have to go through the trouble of setting up crypto and securing the system.
And if America followed your advice, what would we have? America would become England or -- worse -- Canada, bankrupting itself on ineffectual social programs and depending on the good graces of a military superpower for protection against anyone with a slingshot and a rock.
"The entire concept of having a standind military is outdated..." I laughed my head off when I heard this one. Obviously the product of someone who's grown much too accustomed to not having guerillas or angry neighbors pointing assault weapons at their ass on a daily basis. Go live in Hebron or South Korea and tell me how you feel.
Never mind the American military pulled Europe out of the fire -- twice -- and kept the Soviets at bay (as inefficient as their weapons might have been, when you're outnumbered 10 to 1, things tend to even out). Never mind the scientific, technological, and medical advances that military-sponsored research has brought.
this way, I can comment on morons with names like "Bruce Perens." (and the need to do better username filtering) without bothering The Real Bruce to follow me around and write little "That's not me!" posts.
Who would you prefer that I abused? Sorry, but "not arcade" just doesn't have a nice ring to it.:)
Ask Taco to write even a simple compiler. For that matter, ask him to use Perl to write a full parser. He'll probably run screaming from the room and send Jon Katz in to berate you...
As time passes,/. operators seem to think that their website's popularity is somehow related to the size of their... egos. Does this make any sense?
It would be as much a problem as getting a virus in your BIOS...i.e. not much. The code morphing software itself would need to be in upgradable firmware, probably copied into some fast on-chip memory on boot -- also much like a BIOS. Since you can't diddle it from an OS (unless running some kind of special upgrade program, again like a BIOS), you don't have to worry about a malicious program modifying the code morphing software to switch all the ones to zeros every 100 ns or something.
Well, yeah...Real Media's been much too busy accumulating your personal information and selling it to God knows where to actually work on their code.:)
There's a *reason* not many OS's come with crypto...it's called US export regulations. You might have seen them mentioned on this site once or twice before.
Yes, RedHat installs too much crap. But it's considerably easier to uninstall software after installation than to have to explicitly install things like bash.
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Notice that the thread pertained to OpenBSD. The FreeBSD installation system is more friendly (though it segfaults on me with wild abandon), but then you have to go through the trouble of setting up crypto and securing the system.
And if America followed your advice, what would we have? America would become England or -- worse -- Canada, bankrupting itself on ineffectual social programs and depending on the good graces of a military superpower for protection against anyone with a slingshot and a rock.
"The entire concept of having a standind military is outdated..." I laughed my head off when I heard this one. Obviously the product of someone who's grown much too accustomed to not having guerillas or angry neighbors pointing assault weapons at their ass on a daily basis. Go live in Hebron or South Korea and tell me how you feel.
Never mind the American military pulled Europe out of the fire -- twice -- and kept the Soviets at bay (as inefficient as their weapons might have been, when you're outnumbered 10 to 1, things tend to even out). Never mind the scientific, technological, and medical advances that military-sponsored research has brought.
Give me a call when your eyes open.
aw, buck up.
:)
this way, I can comment on morons with names like "Bruce Perens." (and the need to do better username filtering) without bothering The Real Bruce to follow me around and write little "That's not me!" posts.
Who would you prefer that I abused? Sorry, but "not arcade" just doesn't have a nice ring to it.
Ask Taco to write even a simple compiler. For that matter, ask him to use Perl to write a full parser. He'll probably run screaming from the room and send Jon Katz in to berate you...
/. operators seem to think that their website's popularity is somehow related to the size of their ... egos. Does this make any sense?
As time passes,
gee, why didn't Transmeta think of that? darn! now every system's going to be infectable! Andy, go an' git that Opie off the development team. moron.
It would be as much a problem as getting a virus in your BIOS...i.e. not much. The code morphing software itself would need to be in upgradable firmware, probably copied into some fast on-chip memory on boot -- also much like a BIOS. Since you can't diddle it from an OS (unless running some kind of special upgrade program, again like a BIOS), you don't have to worry about a malicious program modifying the code morphing software to switch all the ones to zeros every 100 ns or something.
Well, yeah...Real Media's been much too busy accumulating your personal information and selling it to God knows where to actually work on their code. :)
Just great. So the CEO gives a cool speech, and instead of talking to clueful undergrads, he stops at the first *Junior* College down the street.
:)
Come on, Transmeta, I think you can afford plane fare
There's a *reason* not many OS's come with crypto...it's called US export regulations. You might have seen them mentioned on this site once or twice before.
Yes, RedHat installs too much crap. But it's considerably easier to uninstall software after installation than to have to explicitly install things like bash.