Like A Rock(TM) Try Chevy. For a while, all Chevy's were Like A Rock, then they decided it's more of a truck message, so now all Checy trucks are built Like A Rock. Fords are built Ford Tough.
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Jokes aside, the iDrive in the BMW 7 series is Windows CE, and that had a host of problems, including just stopping randomly, and locking people in their cars. I forgot who it was, but some high up Asian government official got locked in his car, they had to break the window and have him crawl out. He was surprisingly NOT pleased.
He's referring to some dork troll that keeps posting about how (some OS/Hardware config, usually MAcOS) is pitifully slow copying one 17Mb file from one place to another and how his P.O.S. 486 can do it so much faster.
hate to metamod the mod to my own post (I usually say anyone who complains about mods is a whiner, deal with the fact that imperfect, sometimes stupid humans are in charge of moderation) but it's kind of strange that it was marked offtopic. I'd have taken an "overrated" better.
OOG, Hot Grits Guy, Haiku guy, and yes, even goatse.cx and Penis Bird guy are part of this entity we call slashdot. The germ of the idea was created by Taco et. al., but what made it work, what made it fun to read and post were the people commenting. It brought in people like me, and others, to this board. Slashdot is built by people who are willing to put forth effort to post comments. Sometimes the reward for that effort was a laugh or two. In some ways, all funny comments could be marked offtopic, since they don't advance the technical discussion, but they do advance the community that is slashdot. Hmm, don't lose any sleep; it's likely that the people who modded me has no idea who I'm even talking about.
OK, soapbox mode off, time to have Natalie Portman pour hot grits down OOGs caveman fur-skins pants,.
Wired: Sept 2003 page 80 bottom half article titled "Will This Man Kill Linux"
Link to (very short) interview Umm, nice Ryder reference, maybe. Umm, not really... Ryder was convicted of a crime, SCO has proven nothing yet. The state brought something we around here like to call "evidence" into court to get the conviction, while McBride shows nothing but some obscure code references that he so far hasn't proven ownership of.
Nice of him to save Open Source tho. He must be smart; silly me, I was unaware it needed saving.
Wasn't quite an easter egg; it was both out in the open, and had a use. That was there first version of their installer that supported multiple languages. At that time, they didn't have translators to do a polished second language, so they came up with Redneck. I always installed in Redneck, and put them thar shiny thing in that fancy cupholder tray.
I doubt if "corporate" RedHat would do this now. I doubt if many folks shelling out $2500 for Linux would appreciate the beauty that is Redneck.
Hydrogen bombs are fusion bombs. They are triggered by an initial fission reaction, then the main core is fusion. The U238 is just "hey, we have some extra neutrons, and all this depleted Urianium we can't use in radioactive shell casings as fast as we make it, lets put it where it can explode stuff". The U238 is a tertiary explosive force, not the main charge which is fusion.
Public Enemy released There's a Poison Going On online for $8, for $10 you could get an autographed physical CD. I got the CD just for Chuck's autograph.
PE's actually been part of the vanguard of downloaded music, releasing Bring The Noise 2000 online when it's label didn't want to release it in stores, the downloadable There's a Poison Going On, and the "open source" Revolverlution in which PE made tracks and other samples available to other DJs, had them remix it as they liked, submitted to PE, and had the best tracks on the album.
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Me senseth a troll...
Why is csh still the default on FreeBSD? You don't even know what you're talking about. The only account that has tcsh is root. If you go to single user mode, the prompt actually asks you whjat shell to run. You only see it if you log in or su. The default config also has a toor account (uid 0) that defaults to bash shell. As far as normal users go, the first time you run adduser it asks you what should be the default shell for new users, getting a list from/etc/shells. tcsh is not the default, just takes a little work (cd/usr/ports; make install clean) to get bash before running adduser for the first time.
To be taken seriously Taken seriously? What, it has a bad image because Krusty the Klown endorses tcsh?
this should change to bash, which is a superior shell Agreed, I hate tcsh, thats why my machine defaults to bash for all new accounts.
BTW: some would debate that zsh is superior to bash (I actually agree, but zsh isn't universally available to me on all systems I need to be on). Should I run around to RedHat and gentoo and tell them they should change their shell because zsh is better?
with a superior license. Debateable. And you just answered your own question, the license issue. If Stallman can have his whole snitfit about GPL code and saying the only true license is the GNU license EVEN when the license has been cerified Open Source, then BSD can do what it wants.
1) I shouldn't be answering to trolls, but the whole "my free x86 based UNIX OS that runs tons of software is SOOOO much better than your free x86 based UNIX OS that runs tons of software that you must be a luser and i rock!" thing is pathetically old. See a tree. Pet a dog. get laid. Get a life outside of petty arguments about free OSes showing "heh, I said BSD sucks, on a BSD FORUM, I sooooo rule".
2) FreeBSD is not about speed really, though it is fast, and in many ways faster than Linux. FreeBSD is about a system. Not a kernel with 24 vendor specific patches (I honestly can't read the patch version on my current RH kernel, nor do I bother to look it up) with a billion RPMs each with their own vendor specific patches or apt dpkges and a few tarballs here and there, but a cohesive system. The problem that "BSD SUXXORS" dorks have with FreeBSD is that its beauty is subtle; you don't really get it until you've had the system for a while and you realize how everything just feels right. They don't switch scheduler and VMs in the middle of a "stable" branch. They don't make you change firewall code with every major kernel release. It just works, and works well. If chasing every RPM, worrying abut what vendor has what is what you like doing, cool, go for it. But BSD users (like myself) will be quite happy with what we chose, for reasons you can't seem to understand.
Gentoo already forked; the coder base is split, though not sure about the user base.
ports vs. portage is a debate of utility. Its a meta-tool; how do I get the tools that I need in a better manner (* Better to be defined by the user). I sincerely doubt that the tipping point between selecting gentoo and FreeBSD is the difference in a metatool.
Back when the Pentium (Original Pentium) F00F bug came out, Intel had people send their chips for replacement. One guy, a fairly geek savvy one, tried to get his chip out, manufacturer glued it in. They found out the hard way that Zero Insertion Force also meant Zero Removal Force and doc workers were walking away with thousands of dollars in chips, so they glued them in. What to do.. what to do... Then - inspiration. This is a PENTIUM. He removed the heatsink, the chip ran hot enough that it melted the glue in minutes, he pulled it out, sent to Intel.
1) The racist term you're referring to is Sambo, not samba. 1b) This is more of an american term, and Tridge is Aussie, so he's probably unaware of Sambo anyway. 2) samba is a dance style and a snake.
He named it by thinking "well, this does smb" and picking what he liked from grep s.*m.*b in a dictionary file.
If and when they happen, it's a simple matter to clear up a person's real identity. It's not like they shoot first and ask questions later.
Not quite, but they can hold you indefinitely, without access to a lawyer, without notifying your family, without even charging you. Better, but not by much. Thats OK, because terrorists are ++ungood and we'll trample any rights needed to preserve freedom.
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Like A Rock(TM)
Try Chevy. For a while, all Chevy's were Like A Rock, then they decided it's more of a truck message, so now all Checy trucks are built Like A Rock. Fords are built Ford Tough.
Jokes aside, the iDrive in the BMW 7 series is Windows CE, and that had a host of problems, including just stopping randomly, and locking people in their cars. I forgot who it was, but some high up Asian government official got locked in his car, they had to break the window and have him crawl out. He was surprisingly NOT pleased.
He's referring to some dork troll that keeps posting about how (some OS/Hardware config, usually MAcOS) is pitifully slow copying one 17Mb file from one place to another and how his P.O.S. 486 can do it so much faster.
I agree with this man, 100%. All people should be as prepared as this man. Our country would be much better off.
Signed:
Hank Hill, seller of propane and propane accessories.
hate to metamod the mod to my own post (I usually say anyone who complains about mods is a whiner, deal with the fact that imperfect, sometimes stupid humans are in charge of moderation) but it's kind of strange that it was marked offtopic. I'd have taken an "overrated" better.
OOG, Hot Grits Guy, Haiku guy, and yes, even goatse.cx and Penis Bird guy are part of this entity we call slashdot. The germ of the idea was created by Taco et. al., but what made it work, what made it fun to read and post were the people commenting. It brought in people like me, and others, to this board. Slashdot is built by people who are willing to put forth effort to post comments. Sometimes the reward for that effort was a laugh or two. In some ways, all funny comments could be marked offtopic, since they don't advance the technical discussion, but they do advance the community that is slashdot. Hmm, don't lose any sleep; it's likely that the people who modded me has no idea who I'm even talking about.
OK, soapbox mode off, time to have Natalie Portman pour hot grits down OOGs caveman fur-skins pants,.
I'm still waiting for FreeBDSM. We've already got the devil mascott...
I miss OOG and "the Haiku guy". There were giants in the earth in those days.
Wired: Sept 2003 page 80 bottom half article titled "Will This Man Kill Linux"
Link to (very short) interview Umm, nice Ryder reference, maybe. Umm, not really...
Ryder was convicted of a crime, SCO has proven nothing yet. The state brought something we around here like to call "evidence" into court to get the conviction, while McBride shows nothing but some obscure code references that he so far hasn't proven ownership of.
Nice of him to save Open Source tho. He must be smart; silly me, I was unaware it needed saving.
UNIX is an expert friendly operating system.
> > We are the knights who say nee
> This one flew over my head...
Monty Python's The Holy Grail
Some supposedly scary knights that really only say "ni" (or nee, not sure how it's spelled) and people are supposed to run scared.
Wasn't quite an easter egg; it was both out in the open, and had a use. That was there first version of their installer that supported multiple languages. At that time, they didn't have translators to do a polished second language, so they came up with Redneck. I always installed in Redneck, and put them thar shiny thing in that fancy cupholder tray.
I doubt if "corporate" RedHat would do this now. I doubt if many folks shelling out $2500 for Linux would appreciate the beauty that is Redneck.
Hydrogen bombs are fusion bombs. They are triggered by an initial fission reaction, then the main core is fusion. The U238 is just "hey, we have some extra neutrons, and all this depleted Urianium we can't use in radioactive shell casings as fast as we make it, lets put it where it can explode stuff". The U238 is a tertiary explosive force, not the main charge which is fusion.
Not to start a TdR flamewar, but wasn't systrace targetted for OpenBSD, they got in a snit with TdR so first got put into NetBSD?
Can't do it for free, have to get a sub.
Thanks for the link. I read this article years ago and never stumbled on the link again.
Public Enemy released There's a Poison Going On online for $8, for $10 you could get an autographed physical CD. I got the CD just for Chuck's autograph.
PE's actually been part of the vanguard of downloaded music, releasing Bring The Noise 2000 online when it's label didn't want to release it in stores, the downloadable There's a Poison Going On, and the "open source" Revolverlution in which PE made tracks and other samples available to other DJs, had them remix it as they liked, submitted to PE, and had the best tracks on the album.
Me senseth a troll...
/etc/shells. tcsh is not the default, just takes a little work (cd /usr/ports; make install clean) to get bash before running adduser for the first time.
Why is csh still the default on FreeBSD?
You don't even know what you're talking about. The only account that has tcsh is root. If you go to single user mode, the prompt actually asks you whjat shell to run. You only see it if you log in or su. The default config also has a toor account (uid 0) that defaults to bash shell. As far as normal users go, the first time you run adduser it asks you what should be the default shell for new users, getting a list from
To be taken seriously
Taken seriously? What, it has a bad image because Krusty the Klown endorses tcsh?
this should change to bash, which is a superior shell
Agreed, I hate tcsh, thats why my machine defaults to bash for all new accounts.
BTW: some would debate that zsh is superior to bash (I actually agree, but zsh isn't universally available to me on all systems I need to be on). Should I run around to RedHat and gentoo and tell them they should change their shell because zsh is better?
with a superior license.
Debateable. And you just answered your own question, the license issue. If Stallman can have his whole snitfit about GPL code and saying the only true license is the GNU license EVEN when the license has been cerified Open Source, then BSD can do what it wants.
1) I shouldn't be answering to trolls, but the whole "my free x86 based UNIX OS that runs tons of software is SOOOO much better than your free x86 based UNIX OS that runs tons of software that you must be a luser and i rock!" thing is pathetically old. See a tree. Pet a dog. get laid. Get a life outside of petty arguments about free OSes showing "heh, I said BSD sucks, on a BSD FORUM, I sooooo rule".
2) FreeBSD is not about speed really, though it is fast, and in many ways faster than Linux. FreeBSD is about a system. Not a kernel with 24 vendor specific patches (I honestly can't read the patch version on my current RH kernel, nor do I bother to look it up) with a billion RPMs each with their own vendor specific patches or apt dpkges and a few tarballs here and there, but a cohesive system. The problem that "BSD SUXXORS" dorks have with FreeBSD is that its beauty is subtle; you don't really get it until you've had the system for a while and you realize how everything just feels right. They don't switch scheduler and VMs in the middle of a "stable" branch. They don't make you change firewall code with every major kernel release. It just works, and works well. If chasing every RPM, worrying abut what vendor has what is what you like doing, cool, go for it. But BSD users (like myself) will be quite happy with what we chose, for reasons you can't seem to understand.
Gentoo already forked; the coder base is split, though not sure about the user base.
ports vs. portage is a debate of utility. Its a meta-tool; how do I get the tools that I need in a better manner (* Better to be defined by the user). I sincerely doubt that the tipping point between selecting gentoo and FreeBSD is the difference in a metatool.
Reminds me of a story....
Back when the Pentium (Original Pentium) F00F bug came out, Intel had people send their chips for replacement. One guy, a fairly geek savvy one, tried to get his chip out, manufacturer glued it in. They found out the hard way that Zero Insertion Force also meant Zero Removal Force and doc workers were walking away with thousands of dollars in chips, so they glued them in. What to do.. what to do... Then - inspiration. This is a PENTIUM. He removed the heatsink, the chip ran hot enough that it melted the glue in minutes, he pulled it out, sent to Intel.
Yeah, a troll but I'll bite.
1) The racist term you're referring to is Sambo, not samba.
1b) This is more of an american term, and Tridge is Aussie, so he's probably unaware of Sambo anyway.
2) samba is a dance style and a snake.
He named it by thinking "well, this does smb" and picking what he liked from
grep s.*m.*b
in a dictionary file.
Seriously, the only deadline ms has ever made was the important one. Dos 1.0.
And that was with them taking someone else's code, tweaking it, and still coding on the plane on the way over to IBM.
DUCA - Digital Universe Copyright Act.
the fact is that you're completely wrong about holding people without charging them
If and when they happen, it's a simple matter to clear up a person's real identity. It's not like they shoot first and ask questions later.
Not quite, but they can hold you indefinitely, without access to a lawyer, without notifying your family, without even charging you. Better, but not by much. Thats OK, because terrorists are ++ungood and we'll trample any rights needed to preserve freedom.