As of 2.9 I believe that it shares the ports collection with FreeBSD too.
I am not sure this is right. The number of ports increased in 2.9 and the ports originally came from FreeBSD (way back) but I am pretty sure that OpenBSD doesn't simply share the FreeBSD ports tree.
I had better luck with mozilla/NS6 on administering the BEFSR41. I found that you could get it into a hung state with netscape 4.7x, so I only administer the device using mozilla now.
You can still experiment if you get a dedicated router. I previously used linux based NAT on an old P133; the linksys is simply way easier. Now I keep the old P133 around as an openbsd web server (port 80 exposed) and for nfs serving (internal network only).
Another thing I found was that by using the router , it was relatively easy to switch from Cable (Rogers@home) to DSL (DSL.ca). PPPoE in hardware? Great! It wasn't quite "unplug and change a few numbers in a web page", but it was close.
I liked this movie because I was a high school exchange student in this tiny little town, way back in the late 1980s. It was genuine and warmm and so is the movie. One problem is that I had heard many conflicting approximations of the "Story" while living there. I was very excited to hear about a movie version, so that I might actually know what happened. After seeing the movie opening at Toronto last summer, I'm not sure that I understand I really know what went on either!
Supposedly, the packaging issue was that big cardboard boxes were expensive to ship. Instead, they are going to ship plastic "DVD" style cases, and this change took way longer than they expected. That's the story, anyway!
Re:Where does the name red hat comes from?
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It has something to do with a family member's lacrosse cap (Grandfather?). The hat is colored from Cornell University's school colors.
Theo DeRaadt is not the lead developer at NetBSD. He is not a graphics guy, either. X was based on multiple button mice from a long time ago -- apple omitted multiple buttons as a simplification on Xerox's WIMP paradigm.
I remember hearing about how you could override the standard time functions by using an LD_PRELOAD trick. That is, you can supposedly fool a time limited program into thinking that it's really a date inside the valid period. But I've never seen an implementation. Does anybody have a pointer on how to do this?
Why does slash run death stories? Does no-one remember why moderation was implemented?
Since it is clear that Slashdot trolls cannot behave themselves, it is simply inappropriate for Slashdot to cover deaths. At the very least, ban AC's (like this I guess) from commenting on death notices. Let's not strip the poor guy of his dignity by letting asocial jerks run riot.
Can the Russian crackers tell us...
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What NSAKEY is all about anyway? Did MS lie, and leave a big fat backdoor for spooks? This is the only thing in the w2k source that even vaguely interests me.
I looked into getting a 12 month "optional training visa" following my F1 status visa in the US. From the Cornell International Students web page:
Eligibility Requirements
Students must have been in valid F-1 status at least 9 consecutive months.
The employment must be directly related to your major area of study, and must be equivalent with your educational level.
The maximum amount of time granted to work in F-1 practical training status will be 12 months.
You may change jobs during the 12 months.
The problems with it were that ISSO takes 3 months or more to process the forms, and you really need to submit 3-4 months in advance of graduation. And then there were potential problems leaving the country in between. Since I was Canadian, I looked into getting a TN (NAFTA) visa. Much simpler. You just need a letter offering employment, $56, proof of education, and a profession on the approved list. It took fifteen minutes to get the visa, but make sure your appointment letter says the exact same job title as the jobs list (e.g. Computer Systems Analyst, Engineer, Mathematician, Scientific technician/technologist, Technical publications writer, Astronomer, Biochemist, Biologist, Geneticist, Physicist). The disadvantages to the TN visa
Limited to 12 months, but renewable
Job title must match TN job list
Not supposed to apply for Green card while TN status
Only available to Canadians or Mexicans (but I don't know if the Mexican rules differ).
Did anyone read the DVD trial excerpt on page 28 of October's Harper's Magazine?
In it, Martin Garbus grills Jack Valenti in the 2600 DVD case (which Valenti won). In it, Valenti answers "I don't know" or similarly more than 30 times in a row. The guy did not have a clue about the case he was pressing. A typical exchange:
Garbus: Do you know what a DVD burner is?
Valenti: I'm not sure -- I've heard the term, but I really don't know what it means.
This is probably online somewhere, so if anybody knows a link, please post it.
Actually, I think the original was an mp3, and CNN decided to convert to a wav file to make it listenable for people without mp3 players. They must have too much bandwidth at cnn.
San Jose (August 11, 1999) -- Linus Torvalds wants more battery life from his Sony Corp. Vaio notebook, so naturally, better power management is among the improvements planned for the next version of the Linux kernel. Apparently that's how it goes when you've been anointed "the leader of the free world" by your open source peers.
I'll wager that they don't drop RPN -- they've already gone to great lengths to make infix users feel comfortable. As a concession to the infix (1 + 2) TI crowd, in the last hp calc (the 49g) RPN could be buried in a way so that you didn't have to see it if you didn't want to. But the calc was still RPN (1 2 +) underneath, or else the core hp fans would have gone nuts. Many people have reservations about RPN because they learned infix notation first. RPN is fast and natural, but switching is weird. But pretty much everyone who uses RPN had to switch from infix notation, and it's not very hard. Knowing RPN can also come in handy when learning new computer languages (like postscript).
HP decided early on that "RPN-vs-infix" debates are difficult to win, so the HP's since the 28s (maybe earlier) have included full algebraic (infix) notation support. You can always type
'1+(2+4*SIN(3.14))^2'
and get what you expect. (i.e. the shorter RPN version:
3.14 SIN 4 * 2 + 2 ^ 1 +
)
Some posters are not remembering why the phrase "Linux sux" was mentioned. Moody wrote a previous flamebait article with this line back in 1998 and got roasted on slashdot. Moody had claimed to have a secret informant who had to use Linux but was afraid to speak out the "truth", that "Linux sux". He never substantiated this informant, of course.
Chittick uses science to attack science, a curious position. Let's examine his credentials. Chittick got his PhD at a tier 3 school. He taught a two private colleges, the University of Puget Sound (a tier 3 school)and George Fox College (a highly rated private religious school with 1700 students).
Chittick also championed the Coso Artifact as a kind of Geode that was proof against evolution. Later the artifact was revealed to be a 1920s era Champion Spark plug. Chittick is not a brilliant scientist who is challenging the scientific norm. He is a buffoon with a little bit of knowledge and a whole lot of willingness to overlook inconvenient facts in favor of his faith.
All this, and more, can be learned by starting at the talk.origins site.
Anyone even thinking of sending mail should read the Advocacy HOWTO, particularly the part about canons of conduct, before doing it. Moody made a lot of hay in a previous column about how rude and abusive the Linux crowd can be when he defends Microsoft.
Don't make the bad press even worse by giving him a mailbox full of fresh bile, which he can then turn into next week's column.
A thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a posting will not only provide insight for your readers, but will also increase their respect for your knowledge and abilities. - Linux Advocacy HOWTO
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As of 2.9 I believe that it shares the ports collection with FreeBSD too.
I am not sure this is right. The number of ports increased in 2.9 and the ports originally came from FreeBSD (way back) but I am pretty sure that OpenBSD doesn't simply share the FreeBSD ports tree.
I had better luck with mozilla/NS6 on administering the BEFSR41. I found that you could get it into a hung state with netscape 4.7x, so I only administer the device using mozilla now.
You can still experiment if you get a dedicated router. I previously used linux based NAT on an old P133; the linksys is simply way easier. Now I keep the old P133 around as an openbsd web server (port 80 exposed) and for nfs serving (internal network only).
Another thing I found was that by using the router , it was relatively easy to switch from Cable (Rogers@home) to DSL (DSL.ca). PPPoE in hardware? Great! It wasn't quite "unplug and change a few numbers in a web page", but it was close.
I liked this movie because I was a high school exchange student in this tiny little town, way back in the late 1980s. It was genuine and warmm and so is the movie. One problem is that I had heard many conflicting approximations of the "Story" while living there. I was very excited to hear about a movie version, so that I might actually know what happened. After seeing the movie opening at Toronto last summer, I'm not sure that I understand I really know what went on either!
Supposedly, the packaging issue was that big cardboard boxes were expensive to ship. Instead, they are going to ship plastic "DVD" style cases, and this change took way longer than they expected. That's the story, anyway!
It has something to do with a family member's lacrosse cap (Grandfather?). The hat is colored from Cornell University's school colors.
Theo DeRaadt is not the lead developer at NetBSD. He is not a graphics guy, either. X was based on multiple button mice from a long time ago -- apple omitted multiple buttons as a simplification on Xerox's WIMP paradigm.
According to the Canadian space channel, this Miniseries doesn't air in Canada until 2001. Unfortunately they do not give a date for the actual showing. From the www page:
Dune
Originally aired: brand new series. Will first air on the Sci-Fi network in the USA, December 2000.
number of episodes: 6
I remember hearing about how you could override the standard time functions by using an LD_PRELOAD trick. That is, you can supposedly fool a time limited program into thinking that it's really a date inside the valid period. But I've never seen an implementation. Does anybody have a pointer on how to do this?
Why does slash run death stories? Does no-one remember why moderation was implemented?
Since it is clear that Slashdot trolls cannot behave themselves, it is simply inappropriate for Slashdot to cover deaths. At the very least, ban AC's (like this I guess) from commenting on death notices. Let's not strip the poor guy of his dignity by letting asocial jerks run riot.
What NSAKEY is all about anyway? Did MS lie, and leave a big fat backdoor for spooks? This is the only thing in the w2k source that even vaguely interests me.
I second this recommendation. I use the Royal Bank with no difficulties on older netscape and netscape 6 for linux. Stay away from Scotiabank.
Yes but the effort to isolate it is so painstaking that in practice the way water runs down a drain is random.
s/ISSO takes 3 months/INS takes 3 months/
Eligibility Requirements
The problems with it were that ISSO takes 3 months or more to process the forms, and you really need to submit 3-4 months in advance of graduation. And then there were potential problems leaving the country in between. Since I was Canadian, I looked into getting a TN (NAFTA) visa. Much simpler. You just need a letter offering employment, $56, proof of education, and a profession on the approved list. It took fifteen minutes to get the visa, but make sure your appointment letter says the exact same job title as the jobs list (e.g. Computer Systems Analyst, Engineer, Mathematician, Scientific technician/technologist, Technical publications writer, Astronomer, Biochemist, Biologist, Geneticist, Physicist). The disadvantages to the TN visa
Did anyone read the DVD trial excerpt on page 28 of October's Harper's Magazine?
In it, Martin Garbus grills Jack Valenti in the 2600 DVD case (which Valenti won). In it, Valenti answers "I don't know" or similarly more than 30 times in a row. The guy did not have a clue about the case he was pressing. A typical exchange:
Garbus: Do you know what a DVD burner is?
Valenti: I'm not sure -- I've heard the term, but I really don't know what it means.
This is probably online somewhere, so if anybody knows a link, please post it.
Do they want to crush CNN's webserver or what?
Actually, I think the original was an mp3, and CNN decided to convert to a wav file to make it listenable for people without mp3 players. They must have too much bandwidth at cnn.
This is a pretty a funny way for them to use napster to promote the album.
w trojan.wav
There is a 50MB download called "newtrojan.wav" which you can listen to on the CNN web page:
http://www. cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/18/trojan.music/ne
Banter:
Do I have to write "run"?
I spilled a coffee on my flow chart.
We fooled you, huh? We're sneaky like that. You can never trust a Canadian. Next thing we'll be supplying your natural resources.
SSH can, but doesn't always, use the RSAREF library.
I'll wager that they don't drop RPN -- they've already gone to great lengths to make infix users feel comfortable. As a concession to the infix (1 + 2) TI crowd, in the last hp calc (the 49g) RPN could be buried in a way so that you didn't have to see it if you didn't want to. But the calc was still RPN (1 2 +) underneath, or else the core hp fans would have gone nuts. Many people have reservations about RPN because they learned infix notation first. RPN is fast and natural, but switching is weird. But pretty much everyone who uses RPN had to switch from infix notation, and it's not very hard. Knowing RPN can also come in handy when learning new computer languages (like postscript).
HP decided early on that "RPN-vs-infix" debates are difficult to win, so the HP's since the 28s (maybe earlier) have included full algebraic (infix) notation support. You can always type
'1+(2+4*SIN(3.14))^2'
and get what you expect. (i.e. the shorter RPN version:
3.14 SIN 4 * 2 + 2 ^ 1 +
)
Some posters are not remembering why the phrase "Linux sux" was mentioned. Moody wrote a previous flamebait article with this line back in 1998 and got roasted on slashdot. Moody had claimed to have a secret informant who had to use Linux but was afraid to speak out the "truth", that "Linux sux". He never substantiated this informant, of course.
Also in space, I seem to recall that the mars rover used a radiation hardened IBM PowerPC chip.
You are referring to the chemist who resigned from science in 1980 and now serves as the "adjunct professor of chemistry at the Institute for Creation Research"?
Chittick uses science to attack science, a curious position. Let's examine his credentials. Chittick got his PhD at a tier 3 school. He taught a two private colleges, the University of Puget Sound (a tier 3 school)and George Fox College (a highly rated private religious school with 1700 students).
Chittick also championed the Coso Artifact as a kind of Geode that was proof against evolution. Later the artifact was revealed to be a 1920s era Champion Spark plug. Chittick is not a brilliant scientist who is challenging the scientific norm. He is a buffoon with a little bit of knowledge and a whole lot of willingness to overlook inconvenient facts in favor of his faith.
All this, and more, can be learned by starting at the talk.origins site.
Anyone even thinking of sending mail should read the Advocacy HOWTO, particularly the part about canons of conduct, before doing it. Moody made a lot of hay in a previous column about how rude and abusive the Linux crowd can be when he defends Microsoft.
Don't make the bad press even worse by giving him a mailbox full of fresh bile, which he can then turn into next week's column.
A thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a posting will not only provide insight for your readers, but will also increase their respect for your knowledge and abilities. - Linux Advocacy HOWTO