Are my expectations set too high here?
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FreeBSD 5.2 Review
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Am I wrong to expect that a journalist might possess a rudimentary grasp of English? A couple of examples:
"Regarding the USB2 card, I could not test it because I couldn't see any EHCI option ("device ehci") on the FreeBSD configuration kernel file except of OHCI and UHCI and so I didn't bother recompiling the kernel (especially now that the 5.x kernels come precompiled for sound there is little incentive to mess with it anymore)."
"Once upon a time this was a big bragging point for the Linux/Unix folks, but today is nothing that would make any new user or "switcher" awe."
Since when was 'awe' a verb? Have these been throught Babelfish and back again? Where did this guy learn to write? Or is it just another sorry case of the only editorial control being "does it get past the spellchecker on Word"?
Quite frankly, whatever he has to say about FreeBSD is severely tainted by the knowledge that he is clearly illiterate.
Has it occured to you that this might have very little to do with preventing terrorism, and a great deal to do with crushing your civil rights? All of the intelligence gathering / data mining / snooping / call-it-what-you-will in the world is never going to be enough to stop somebody who is willing to give their life in order to kill me, and the Governments of the world know this. But the ever present threat of something (currently 'terrorism', it used to be 'communism') is a great cover for tearing up the constitution and feeding the ravenous military-industrial beast
We ran a Tomcat based website using the linux JVM on FreeBSD. It rarely stayed up for more than a day at a time (someone told me it's a good way to expose bugs in the emulation layer;). However, with the native FreeBSD JVM (and the Shujit JIT compiler) it's rock solid.
How many of this guys customers will even notice what he's up to? How many will understand? The Windows-using masses are probably quite used to clicking 'Agree' on every EULA they see anyway. They're just going to think 'he's the technical guy, he knows what he's doing, I'll let him get on with it while I go and make him a cup of tea'.
It's not dissimilar from the guy who knocked on my door attempting to get me to switch electricity suppliers. He already had my name, he spoke for about five minutes then asked me to sign his form WHILE HE HELD HIS THUMB over the text reading 'I hereby agree to change to CrapCo Electricity' or whatever. I presume that this tactic must work on some people.
It comes down to the quite astonishing lack of clue in the population at large, I'm afraid...
Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today?
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FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
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Recommend you use FreeBSD for a while, and you probably won't want to go back to Linux anyway...
I picked up an old IBM Pentium 200 MMX box (64 megs 'o' ram, onboard NIC, no CD or HDD) for 16UKP. It's now running FreeBSD under my stairs. It's doing samba, nis & nfs, apache, cvs, ircd and a few other things besides. How much power do you need for this thing?
Erm, seems to me that RSA discovered their lucrative little algorithm (after the GCHQ people discovered it, of course)... unless they invented number theory, of course...
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Am I wrong to expect that a journalist might possess a rudimentary grasp of English? A couple of examples:
"Regarding the USB2 card, I could not test it because I couldn't see any EHCI option ("device ehci") on the FreeBSD configuration kernel file except of OHCI and UHCI and so I didn't bother recompiling the kernel (especially now that the 5.x kernels come precompiled for sound there is little incentive to mess with it anymore)."
"Once upon a time this was a big bragging point for the Linux/Unix folks, but today is nothing that would make any new user or "switcher" awe."
Since when was 'awe' a verb? Have these been throught Babelfish and back again? Where did this guy learn to write? Or is it just another sorry case of the only editorial control being "does it get past the spellchecker on Word"?
Quite frankly, whatever he has to say about FreeBSD is severely tainted by the knowledge that he is clearly illiterate.
We have this, too.
The US and UK governments: bringing freedom and democracy to the world.
"It is the most god awful spaghetti mess of all time when it comes to its dependancies."
Unless, of course, you're running it on FreeBSD...
like this guy
Has it occured to you that this might have very little to do with preventing terrorism, and a great deal to do with crushing your civil rights? All of the intelligence gathering / data mining / snooping / call-it-what-you-will in the world is never going to be enough to stop somebody who is willing to give their life in order to kill me, and the Governments of the world know this. But the ever present threat of something (currently 'terrorism', it used to be 'communism') is a great cover for tearing up the constitution and feeding the ravenous military-industrial beast
We ran a Tomcat based website using the linux JVM on FreeBSD. It rarely stayed up for more than a day at a time (someone told me it's a good way to expose bugs in the emulation layer ;). However, with the native FreeBSD JVM (and the Shujit JIT compiler) it's rock solid.
Why is this marked as Funny? It's an extremely valid point...
How many of this guys customers will even notice what he's up to? How many will understand? The Windows-using masses are probably quite used to clicking 'Agree' on every EULA they see anyway. They're just going to think 'he's the technical guy, he knows what he's doing, I'll let him get on with it while I go and make him a cup of tea'.
It's not dissimilar from the guy who knocked on my door attempting to get me to switch electricity suppliers. He already had my name, he spoke for about five minutes then asked me to sign his form WHILE HE HELD HIS THUMB over the text reading 'I hereby agree to change to CrapCo Electricity' or whatever. I presume that this tactic must work on some people.
It comes down to the quite astonishing lack of clue in the population at large, I'm afraid...
Recommend you use FreeBSD for a while, and you probably won't want to go back to Linux anyway...
I picked up an old IBM Pentium 200 MMX box (64 megs 'o' ram, onboard NIC, no CD or HDD) for 16UKP. It's now running FreeBSD under my stairs. It's doing samba, nis & nfs, apache, cvs, ircd and a few other things besides. How much power do you need for this thing?
is belong to us
You seem to be labouring under the assumption that they know what they are doing. Why do you assume this? Owning lots of IP != clue
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Erm, seems to me that RSA discovered their lucrative little algorithm (after the GCHQ people discovered it, of course)... unless they invented number theory, of course...
Who the hell is Abode? Is that like Adobe? ;)
Do you think these things will ever make it to the UK? I kind of feel that we're missing out on a lot of fun ;)
several of these were featured on ntk.net weeks ago! do try and keep up guys...