Yeah, it's too bad because the work being done here looks very interesting. However, after using FreeBSD 5.x (following current except during major imports) for a while I've grown rather attached to some of the new things introduced in 5; devfs, newbus, ACPI, MUCH new hardware support, etc. etc.
While these, or suitable equivalents will probably make it into Dragonfly at some time, who knows when that will be with all the major work being done. Still, I'm fascinated by some of the concepts (especially working VFS layering) and will definately be playing with this on a spare machine when I get some time...
because there's only one real use for cocaine: getting high.
Back when I was having sinus problems my specialist would sometimes use this killer decongestant that was in bottles hand-labeled "6% solution substitute". One day I asked what it was a substitute for and he said that they used to use Cocaine solution because it's a very effective decongestant and antisthetic... Of course the "war on drugs" made it much harder to get certain substances, even for medicinal purposes, so it was easier and cheaper to just come up with something else that had a similar effect.
Not as universally cross-platform as NFS is. OpenAFS is moving in that direction, but it's still difficult-to-impossible to run AFS on some platforms (AFS server on BSD for example).
There's also some cruft in the authentication tied to kerberos IV that desparately needs to go away.
I routinely use Mozilla or Opera on Linux to access sites that are labelled "Windows/IE only". Sure, there are some that don't work because of fancy plug-ins, extensions and such, but the vast majority pose no problems. I suspect this is all a tempest in a teapot...
BUT... What prevents somebody from dropping your vote from the system and, if anyone found out (unlikely), saying it's because it was made from a platform not officially supported?
You're probably thinking of Core War. It was an old virtual-machine based game where two Redcode (a very simplistic assembly-style language) programs battled to try to get the other to crash. Great fun!:)
? I'm talking about the Kerberized rlogin, of course (possibly known as krlogin to some of you linux users). The -x means to force encryption of the entire session.
Did anyone else think of that subject as the title of a new Harry Potter book instead?
The funny thing is that the fourth book was in a way about the entertainment industry. It showed how the media can make people believe things that aren't necessarily true.
The latest one (#5) continued this thread, and also delved into the world of politics and corrupt (i.e. self-serving) governments.
In fact, even if we suddently stop using bronze and the current makers slowly die leaving no successors, we may still be able to recreate bronze because the best mix is recorded somewhere.
Yeah, but it's probably covered under the latest copyright extensions, so the corporation that owns the bronze copyright (even though they're not producing any bonze themselves) will sue the pants off anybody who tries to make any.
I think it is hight time that we discovered Naquadria and developed a stable chain-reaction whereas we could conduct space travel. The power produced should create rip in sub-space to permit sub-space travel in the X-303.
It already has been, of course. Why else would they name it Project Prometheus and say that it's to research "nuclear" powered craft?
And even in the modern PC era, it's not exactly anything new. Journal is a descendent of Aha! InkWriter, something that Microsoft didn't develop but simply bought. And X11 has had pen input support years before Windows XP.
It's not even new in the Windows world. I remember reading articles years ago about pen input support for Windows 3.1.
They don't hold much, but they're nice and quiet, and with no moving parts, you have that much less to worry about. Search google for CF-to-IDE adapters.
The adapters are usually really cheap since CF is actually just a miniture ATA connector. There are a couple problems with it though:
Flash works in cells that have to be erased a whole cell at a time, so writes that don't cover an entire cell are slow (copy existing data to empty cell, write new data, erase old cell). If the OS is smart enough, this can be mitigated by lazy cache writes and using the right block size for your filesystem.
Flash memory has a limited number of write cycles. This is usually in the millions, but at an average rate of one write every 5 seconds (for say,/var), cells will start failing after a couple of months of use. Putting busy data like swap on a CF card will burn through it much quicker.
That said, I use a CF-to-IDE adapter in my router/firewall and am very happy with it. It's extremely useful for embedded systems where you don't need to store anything and can treat the flash as a read-only media while the system is running. Combine with ramdisks for best results. Even my 486 with 20 MB of RAM can handle router/firewall/VPN/DNS server duty under FreeBSD without needing a swap disk.
Better yet, get a fanless mini-ITX board with DC power brick and have everything be solid state -- it'll last pratically forever (well past obsolescence anyway).
BSD? They've already been through all this. IIRC, the primary reason Linux became the dominant Free UNIX clone is because BSD was tied up in legal problems at the time, all of which have now been resolved (and the tables are turned).
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Yeah, it's too bad because the work being done here looks very interesting. However, after using FreeBSD 5.x (following current except during major imports) for a while I've grown rather attached to some of the new things introduced in 5; devfs, newbus, ACPI, MUCH new hardware support, etc. etc.
While these, or suitable equivalents will probably make it into Dragonfly at some time, who knows when that will be with all the major work being done. Still, I'm fascinated by some of the concepts (especially working VFS layering) and will definately be playing with this on a spare machine when I get some time...
because there's only one real use for cocaine: getting high.
Back when I was having sinus problems my specialist would sometimes use this killer decongestant that was in bottles hand-labeled "6% solution substitute". One day I asked what it was a substitute for and he said that they used to use Cocaine solution because it's a very effective decongestant and antisthetic... Of course the "war on drugs" made it much harder to get certain substances, even for medicinal purposes, so it was easier and cheaper to just come up with something else that had a similar effect.
What about AFS?
Not as universally cross-platform as NFS is. OpenAFS is moving in that direction, but it's still difficult-to-impossible to run AFS on some platforms (AFS server on BSD for example).
There's also some cruft in the authentication tied to kerberos IV that desparately needs to go away.
Better make it a bootable CD. Many computers being sold now don't come with a floppy drive.
Congratulations, you've just proved that marketing people are stupid. You win a cookie.
I routinely use Mozilla or Opera on Linux to access sites that are labelled "Windows/IE only". Sure, there are some that don't work because of fancy plug-ins, extensions and such, but the vast majority pose no problems. I suspect this is all a tempest in a teapot...
BUT... What prevents somebody from dropping your vote from the system and, if anyone found out (unlikely), saying it's because it was made from a platform not officially supported?
Remember, Linux is a european operating system.
How about BSD? California not American enough for you?
Because I don't have points today.
Preach on brother! I was wondering why this article was excluding BSD systems (which I NEVER install bash on) from "Unix".
You're probably thinking of Core War. It was an old virtual-machine based game where two Redcode (a very simplistic assembly-style language) programs battled to try to get the other to crash. Great fun! :)
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Which is why state nullification has itself become null and void
And we call it "nullification nullification", or metanullification for short.
mNull?
...also said that they were planning on adding IPv6 support on their new backbone. Woohoo!
So exactly what advantage does this have over
rlogin -x $HOSTNAME
? I'm talking about the Kerberized rlogin, of course (possibly known as krlogin to some of you linux users). The -x means to force encryption of the entire session.
Did anyone else think of that subject as the title of a new Harry Potter book instead?
The funny thing is that the fourth book was in a way about the entertainment industry. It showed how the media can make people believe things that aren't necessarily true.
The latest one (#5) continued this thread, and also delved into the world of politics and corrupt (i.e. self-serving) governments.
Not to mention that IP stood for "Internet Protocol" long before people ever used it for "Intellectual Property".
Those asshats need to get their own acronym.
Neo: Whoa, deja vu.
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing, I just had a little deja vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: Someone posted about Xerox, and then there was another post that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it, was it the same post?
Neo: Might have been, I'm not sure.
Morpheus: Switch, Apoc.
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: Deja vu is usually a glitch in the Slashcode. It happens when they change something.
Shamelessly stolen from an Anonymous Hero
In fact, even if we suddently stop using bronze and the current makers slowly die leaving no successors, we may still be able to recreate bronze because the best mix is recorded somewhere.
Yeah, but it's probably covered under the latest copyright extensions, so the corporation that owns the bronze copyright (even though they're not producing any bonze themselves) will sue the pants off anybody who tries to make any.
We are talking about people who think the universe began in 4004 BC, a belief that is just as ludicrous as thinking pi equals 3.
No, silly, the universe began 7 minutes ago. All evidence to the contrary (including your false memory) was planted as a test of faith.
I think it is hight time that we discovered Naquadria and developed a stable chain-reaction whereas we could conduct space travel. The power produced should create rip in sub-space to permit sub-space travel in the X-303.
It already has been, of course. Why else would they name it Project Prometheus and say that it's to research "nuclear" powered craft?
And even in the modern PC era, it's not exactly anything new. Journal is a descendent of Aha! InkWriter, something that Microsoft didn't develop but simply bought. And X11 has had pen input support years before Windows XP.
It's not even new in the Windows world. I remember reading articles years ago about pen input support for Windows 3.1.
Yes. However, quantum mechanics is an extremely well-established theory.
"Ah! Quilebrium physics. An atom state is indeterminate until measured by an outside observer."
"We call it quantum physics. You know the theory?"
"Yeah, I've studied it... it among other misconceptions of elementary science."
(bonus points to the first person to name the reference)
They don't hold much, but they're nice and quiet, and with no moving parts, you have that much less to worry about. Search google for CF-to-IDE adapters.
The adapters are usually really cheap since CF is actually just a miniture ATA connector. There are a couple problems with it though:
That said, I use a CF-to-IDE adapter in my router/firewall and am very happy with it. It's extremely useful for embedded systems where you don't need to store anything and can treat the flash as a read-only media while the system is running. Combine with ramdisks for best results. Even my 486 with 20 MB of RAM can handle router/firewall/VPN/DNS server duty under FreeBSD without needing a swap disk.
Better yet, get a fanless mini-ITX board with DC power brick and have everything be solid state -- it'll last pratically forever (well past obsolescence anyway).
HuRD or Minix are probably the best alternatives.
BSD? They've already been through all this. IIRC, the primary reason Linux became the dominant Free UNIX clone is because BSD was tied up in legal problems at the time, all of which have now been resolved (and the tables are turned).
Hahahaha, oh, how I wish I had mod points today...