I heard Linux LVM does snapshots too. So FreeBSD is actually behind Linux in this.
This is a prime example of what's wrong with slashdot today. Whoever modded this up is a fucking idiot. Let's break it down:
You heard linux LVM does snapshots. So basically, you have no idea. Shot in the dark. I don't know why you used your karma bonus on such an obvious gem of wisdom. But hey, you were right at least.
"So FreeBSD is actually behind Linux in this." I like how you made an assumption, and then stated a fact based on that. Karmaworthy indeed. The thing is, YOU'RE WRONG. But nevermind that, I knew you were an idiot already.
What really bothers me is, I know I'm not the only who followed this exact same train of thought, but here two days later I'm the only one replying to smack this guy down. So instead of the majority of people who read this then remembering the real facts, they're going to remember what this guy said and probably go around quoting it in a smug manner thinking they're oh-so-leet.
Is there any reason that the major news organizations don't PGP or MD5 sign their stories as posted on the web, to verify they are posted and mirrored correctly?
Well, for one thing is the media we're talking about, expecting them to have a clue is wishing thinking. Also, how many people would bother verifying them? You and I, perhaps, but certainly not the public in general. And certainly not one that favors backdoors in crypto.
If the author is out there in slashland email me, and I will publish the app for you publically and with my name. I will accept all responsibility for writing the program and distributing.
and believe me, there's no way nvidia's chip came anywhere remotely close to that of the movie.
Until their chip can produce a single frame that matches the image quality, they're still just making toys for quake fiends. Diffraction, interference, antialiasing...just a few of the photorealistic rendering staples, and nvidia has only recently been able to do antialiasing. They've got a long, long way to go before we're going to see actual movies rendered using their hardware.
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It's only a matter of time before CR4 hits, monopolizing off of CR2's success, and filling our web logs with GET/scripts/root.exe hits.
This would be a great point of view if it wasn't so full of shit. I am a degreed scientist (I'd like to know what you are) who has been following science news about global warming for close to a decade. In that time what I have seen is story after story, report after report, that affirms that global warming is occurring and, increasingly, that human activity is indicated in it's cause.
You're a degreed scientist who has read a bunch of reports instead of doing your own research/thinking on the issue. You're just a media blowhorn sporting a degree as a badge of elitism over people who are putting original thought to the subject instead of believing everything they read. If any argument is full of shit, it's most certainly yours.
The Justice League, God, Jesus, and Satan himself will also be siding with the EFF in this case to halt the DMCA's reign of terror.
Yeah, right. I highly doubt anything will ever come with this. Call me a cynic, but ever since the DeCSS case, I've lost all faith in the government using common sense when working on technology oriented legislation.
So you've lost faith, does that mean you give up? It's attitudes like this that will help the RIAA and MPAA take over our lives. If your favorite sports team is losing badly do you stop cheering them on?
I won't call you a cynic, I'll call you a quitter.
Well shit, guess I won't be updating my firewall from cvs.:)
Seriously though, this sucks. Big ones. Though it lacks a couple of features I'd like to see, all in all, ipf is pretty badass. I'll miss it. And even if Darren changes to a BSD license or GPL's it, chances are OpenBSD will never use it again. Theo can hold a grudge like that.
The question is, will FreeBSD and NetBSD follow suit?
Hilary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, said more deals could be reached between music labels and Web sites if both parties did not currently have to compete with the free service offered by Napster.
Ok, so Napster is preventing agreements between the labels and web sites so they can distribute music...yet Napster is the most popular way to distributed music right now. These people need to realize that free P2P services are always going to be the most popular, and to embrace them. If not Napster, then some other killer app will take its place.
VideoLan uses SDL and plays very smoothly on my 500Mhz laptop, can play directly from encrypted DVDs, and it doesn't require jumping through a lot of hoops to get compiled/running. It's usable now, releases come in reasonable timeframes, and it keeps getting better, I'll stick with it.
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If, like me, you've been looking for a free NFS solution, you'll definitely want to try 2.4. There's really no other option at the moment if you need NFSv3 support, as well as reliable file locking (lockd on *BSD doesn't work worth a damn.) Client side NFS never worked completely correctly until 2.2.18, and as a server...I had to reboot it more than a Windows box and deal with stale NFS handles multiple times due to "soft down" situations. I've been using 2.4.0-test11 for about a month and a half now, and it has been solid. Granted, when I benchmarked it's performance against FreeBSD it got owned badly, but at least it can lock files correctly.
Bottom line, if you need a free high availability NFS server, 2.4 is a godsend. If you have the cash, I still recommend sticking with Solaris, however.
I think I can sum up the one and only advantage (if you can call it that) that iptables has over ipf (aka ipfilter) in one short sentence...
You can run iptables in Linux.
Actually, non-glibc Linux 2.0.x kernels can use ipfilter as a kernel module.
Linux has its uses, don't get me wrong, but I'll take an OpenBSD firewall over any Linux firewall, regardless of which distro, or firewalling software it runs.
I completely agree, ipfilter has done stateful firewalling for a long time now, where Linux has just added it. I'll take the more tested codebase any day, it's only logical.
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I heard Linux LVM does snapshots too. So FreeBSD is actually behind Linux in this.
This is a prime example of what's wrong with slashdot today. Whoever modded this up is a fucking idiot. Let's break it down:
You heard linux LVM does snapshots. So basically, you have no idea. Shot in the dark. I don't know why you used your karma bonus on such an obvious gem of wisdom. But hey, you were right at least.
"So FreeBSD is actually behind Linux in this." I like how you made an assumption, and then stated a fact based on that. Karmaworthy indeed. The thing is, YOU'RE WRONG. But nevermind that, I knew you were an idiot already.
What really bothers me is, I know I'm not the only who followed this exact same train of thought, but here two days later I'm the only one replying to smack this guy down. So instead of the majority of people who read this then remembering the real facts, they're going to remember what this guy said and probably go around quoting it in a smug manner thinking they're oh-so-leet.
Until they meet me, and I kill them.
This begs the question: Why isn't there an opensource antivirus project?
My girlfriend's mom watches MSNBC so much, the logo is burned into her television. Now it's hard to tell if you're NOT watching it. :)
Time to use another vhost...
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Is there any reason that the major news organizations don't PGP or MD5 sign their stories as posted on the web, to verify they are posted and mirrored correctly?
Well, for one thing is the media we're talking about, expecting them to have a clue is wishing thinking. Also, how many people would bother verifying them? You and I, perhaps, but certainly not the public in general. And certainly not one that favors backdoors in crypto.
If the author is out there in slashland email me, and I will publish the app for you publically and with my name. I will accept all responsibility for writing the program and distributing.
:)
No, don't email to him, he's using hotmail!
and believe me, there's no way nvidia's chip came anywhere remotely close to that of the movie.
Until their chip can produce a single frame that matches the image quality, they're still just making toys for quake fiends. Diffraction, interference, antialiasing...just a few of the photorealistic rendering staples, and nvidia has only recently been able to do antialiasing. They've got a long, long way to go before we're going to see actual movies rendered using their hardware.
It's only a matter of time before CR4 hits, monopolizing off of CR2's success, and filling our web logs with GET /scripts/root.exe hits.
Here.
Can be found here.
This would be a great point of view if it wasn't so full of shit. I am a degreed scientist (I'd like to know what you are) who has been following science news about global warming for close to a decade. In that time what I have seen is story after story, report after report, that affirms that global warming is occurring and, increasingly, that human activity is indicated in it's cause.
You're a degreed scientist who has read a bunch of reports instead of doing your own research/thinking on the issue. You're just a media blowhorn sporting a degree as a badge of elitism over people who are putting original thought to the subject instead of believing everything they read. If any argument is full of shit, it's most certainly yours.
The Justice League, God, Jesus, and Satan himself will also be siding with the EFF in this case to halt the DMCA's reign of terror. Yeah, right. I highly doubt anything will ever come with this. Call me a cynic, but ever since the DeCSS case, I've lost all faith in the government using common sense when working on technology oriented legislation.
So you've lost faith, does that mean you give up? It's attitudes like this that will help the RIAA and MPAA take over our lives. If your favorite sports team is losing badly do you stop cheering them on?
I won't call you a cynic, I'll call you a quitter.
Well shit, guess I won't be updating my firewall from cvs. :)
Seriously though, this sucks. Big ones. Though it lacks a couple of features I'd like to see, all in all, ipf is pretty badass. I'll miss it. And even if Darren changes to a BSD license or GPL's it, chances are OpenBSD will never use it again. Theo can hold a grudge like that.
The question is, will FreeBSD and NetBSD follow suit?
Run a linux NFS server in a serious production environment, then ask yourself the question again.
Client-side, NFS was broken until ~2.2.16. That's not so old.
Server-side, it's finally not crashing in 2.4, but hit it with a big tar pipe and it crawls.
Solaris makes Linux it's bitch and forces it to like it where NFS is concerned. It makes sense, they did invent it.
actually i think i got black listed. my karmas 25, and still no +1.
It has to be over 25, I believe.
Getting a karma above 20 allows one to post with a +1 bonus, and from there on there are no rewards.
:)
Hmm, unless it has quite recently changed, I'm pretty sure it's 25, not 20.
No rewards after that? Being a karma whore is it's own reward!
Geeze, with 20 gig drives less than $100 what's the point?
Two words: embedded linux.
Hilary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, said more deals could be reached between music labels and Web sites if both parties did not currently have to compete with the free service offered by Napster.
Ok, so Napster is preventing agreements between the labels and web sites so they can distribute music...yet Napster is the most popular way to distributed music right now. These people need to realize that free P2P services are always going to be the most popular, and to embrace them. If not Napster, then some other killer app will take its place.
VideoLan uses SDL and plays very smoothly on my 500Mhz laptop, can play directly from encrypted DVDs, and it doesn't require jumping through a lot of hoops to get compiled/running. It's usable now, releases come in reasonable timeframes, and it keeps getting better, I'll stick with it.
Qmail only supports maildir, and claims that mbox is slow and dangerous! Who is right? Why?
Qmail can use mbox, though mbox is definitely slow. Why? It's a flat file of untokenized data, wtf do you expect?
Did they also make a robotic canary to let the other robots know when to get the hell out?
No more waiting for reiserfs patches....it's about time.
Yet among its competition as a mega-portal -- AOL and MSN -- Yahoo! is different, and not just because it relies on free software like FreeBSD and Linux.
AOL runs on aolserver, also free and open source.
If, like me, you've been looking for a free NFS solution, you'll definitely want to try 2.4. There's really no other option at the moment if you need NFSv3 support, as well as reliable file locking (lockd on *BSD doesn't work worth a damn.) Client side NFS never worked completely correctly until 2.2.18, and as a server...I had to reboot it more than a Windows box and deal with stale NFS handles multiple times due to "soft down" situations. I've been using 2.4.0-test11 for about a month and a half now, and it has been solid. Granted, when I benchmarked it's performance against FreeBSD it got owned badly, but at least it can lock files correctly.
Bottom line, if you need a free high availability NFS server, 2.4 is a godsend. If you have the cash, I still recommend sticking with Solaris, however.
I think I can sum up the one and only advantage (if you can call it that) that iptables has over ipf (aka ipfilter) in one short sentence...
You can run iptables in Linux.
Actually, non-glibc Linux 2.0.x kernels can use ipfilter as a kernel module.
Linux has its uses, don't get me wrong, but I'll take an OpenBSD firewall over any Linux firewall, regardless of which distro, or firewalling software it runs.
I completely agree, ipfilter has done stateful firewalling for a long time now, where Linux has just added it. I'll take the more tested codebase any day, it's only logical.