so we go from a cute demon (or daemon?) to... what is that supposed to be? (yeah i know its supposed to be horns, but it aint).
augh.
BSD is STILL the ONLY OS I've EVER seen that has done a "DOUBLE kernel panic". WTF is that?!?
Linux uptime - years, solaris uptime - years, osx uptime - years, vms uptime - decades... BSD uptime - weeks at best, windows uptime - days at best...
yep that's why M$ uses BSD code...;)
PS- will BSD's hard disk management EVER get out of the dark ages? I mean, come on... slackware 1.x had better handling than this. solaris 2.5 was where this is, and BSD hasn't changed since then...
would it kill you guys to put in standardized device names? augh!
I was the FIRST person in the world to use the nick "MasterHacker" (with or without a space) since the first BBS days, I found it really annoying when people used it on IRC and stuff like that.
Now how about this one- I was the very FIRST person in the world to use the nick "Wanderer" anywhere for any reason. How can I make this claim?
I was using the damn nick in early 1976 ! And used it ever since then, from multiplayer games on atari 400s and 800s to vic-20s, TSR-80s, C64 hacking, later on PC BBSes, and onward.
its a weirdly personal thing. Something thats been *mine* for decades, literally, suddenly showing up somewhere by some gimp that doesn't know squat. It really does feel weird.
and then you try using odd names you think no one else will guess. "ByteMe", that is another one I coined first. It's fun. And it gets taken all the time now.
it got to the point where it was almost impossible to log onto an IRC server for a while, every single name I tried, they were all taken, I mean everything. Even my fabled "RouterSlayer" has been "stolen" by others, as well as my fabled "BitSlayer", yes even "NetSlayer". it was all me... used to be anyhow.
The point is, how the hell can you be original any more? Where's the uniqueness when every single name is already taken, how to identify YOU, you want your personality in there somewhere. something different from the norm.
I came up with a new nick recently, its actually borrowed from something. I will never say what it is or where I got it. But so far, no one has copied it. We'll see how long this lasts. Cuz after that, I dunno any more. Maybe I can think of something new, fresh, and unique.
But it's getting damn hard these days.
Also makes me wonder where all the old hackers I knew vanished off to... so, its been a few decades, but greets to- Trans-Net, PE, eaglesoft, KJ, The Cob! (heh), Shadow Rhyder, Covert Operations, TAPPS, TOPPS, and even TGI. God-damn I miss Sublime-Persuasion...
my +1 was already cancelled by someone else modding it as flamebait, so it didn't matter.
which is why I posted...
sigh...
weird tho, the score is the same as before I posted. so someone else modded it up +1 to cancel the cancel on my +1 ? erg, you're making my brain hurt! bad slashdot user, bad!;)
So how the hell is this a record? the company I used to work for (a spammer) - hey, I had to eat! they were sending on AVERAGE about 100 MILLION emails a day by using a cluster of 100 small (1U) racked machines. and we just used POSTFIX. running mostly K6-2 cpus, yeah real old stuff. lots of K6 cpus too.
so how the hell is this a new record? oh I guess because spammers don't do the SPECmail tests... hehehe
Well they're 1/3 of the way to a simple postfix config. keep working on it guys!
First of all, I've used just about every distro out there, and even some you've never heard of...
Way back since the slackware days, even kernel 1.0 days and before that... Yes floppies were great.
Mandrake has had its troubles, not the least of which has been the financial stuff that it's now finally out of...
But even before Red Hat 7.0 it was a better distro. Its always had better package management.
I see people whine that Debian is better JUST because of "apt get", well guess what? Mandrake has that too! so get a clue...
and RPM? well it does that... and it does it all better. I have yet to see a better packager than URPMI... ever.
also, through all my testing over the years, I have never, EVER seen a distro support all my hardware "out of the box", I mean, it JUST WORKS. On all the wierd laptops I've owned, it installs and runs like a charm, every time, supporting all the whacky devices without me having to do a thing. ever...
wireless? yep, it was there, done and work, weird ass DSL setups, it worked. and it detected it all and set it up right, the first time... during install.
Package support? it has soo many different packages, for desktops, for servers, for whatever you want, even if you want everything. Me, of course, I experiment, so I literally install EVERYTHING, and it still works!
Today, for newbies I always point them at Mandrake, its dirt simple to install, and it gets it all correct, the first time, no weird questions, no BS, ever. it just works. period. and thats what people want.
for the hardcore people, I still recommend it, for servers, I still recommend it. always.
no matter what you are trying to do, it'll support it, no matter what your hardware, it'll work.
if it doesn't, you did something wrong. I hate people who say "Well I just installed it and it doesn't work" well guess what, it is STILL possible to do "something wrong" even then.
I watched friends do this, and they complain that whatever doesnt work afterwards, and I noticed during install they didnt select those packages... well, guess what? it wont work... duhhhh... and they even claim they selected "everything"... uh, no, I was watching bubba, you missed more than half of it. hello...
if you have a specific use, need a specific package, and specifically DONT choose it during install, of course it wont be there... jeez, get a clue...
I dont know of a better distro, I've been supporting them since way back when, and always will, I pay support, I buy extra stuff, you name it.
right now on the market there aren't many choices...
Debian - forget it. Fedora - this thing is a joke SUSE - I hate Yast with a passion slackware - they ruined it after 7.0 nuff said.
I've read a lot years ago that said there was some basic proof they did indeed exist or could be artificially created or something. but it's been ages since I've seen a single word on this subject.
so if tachyons are real, then they do travel faster than light. remember, there's nothing in einsteins ideas saying you CANT travel faster than light, from what I remember its just basically saying you can't accelerate to faster than light.
but if you "jump" (warp, etc) or whatever, then you kind of side-step the issue, not really breaking the physical laws. I mean all sorts of weird things happen inside black holes that violate our natural laws (hence a whole new section of physics just for black holes). like time moving backwards, etc...
but really I'd be curious if anyone had any updated info about tachyons or the like? are they debunked now or what?
Well as a person who's actually used YAST (and hated it)... I found it cumbersome, awkward, non-intuitive, annoying, and never seemed to do what I wanted it to, and could never really get it to do what I needed either. in short, it never worked, the interface sucked, and well, I guess thats about that.
URPMI on the other hand is an incredible interface, easy to use, simple, straight-forward, at least as far as I've found it to be anyways.
I've actually yet to find a better package handler than URPMI. even apt-get and that stuff on debian doesnt really come close to the ease of use and simplicity of urpmi. Yes its a front-end to RPMs, so what?
This is why, IMHO, that Mandrake is the best distro out there, not only does it have the best hardware support (I've never, ever seen a distro "just work" with my notebook, everything coming up perfectly with no configuration tweaks required), and Mandrake has RPM support for those who like it, and URPMI, and even has apt-get for those who like that, in short, it has everything you could ever possibly need.
YAST? well, the day it actually works, and does something useful I'll consider it. I mean, SUSE even required user accounts be managed through YAST, what kind of nonense is that? It cant be a total front end to everything... thats... oh wait... thats webmin... oops, but at least webmin is decent...
the power of open-source is the choices, more choices means more freedom, a democratic system, truly, and the market (we the users) will decide in the end what lives and what doesn't.
my prediction is also that Xfree v4.3 will spin off (already happened) and become the new defacto standard... but thats my 2cents worth...
excellent (best Mr. Burns impression)... I already buy and pre-order releases as they come, for quite a while now. Even more so when DVD versions came out.
The "shrink wrap" dvd power suites are great. I got the 9.1 DVD and 7 CD set for $59 US... I mean, my god! What a lot of stuff, the whole powerpack, pro suite, commercial apps, and more... No one, and I mean NO ONE has better value than this.
Mandrake should make a special bundle for club members, if they pre-order. maybe even allow their pre-orders to take priority or something. bah, who knows...
and yes, its very hard to argue with $60/yr for club membership, even if you are on a budget...
BTW to those people that post club packs to BT (you know who you are), think about what you are doing... I mean, would $5/month really be all that much? didn't think so...
does anyone have one yet? if not, can someone start sharing it now please? I'll be buying the DVD, (already pre-ordered) but I dont want to wait several months just to see it.
someone please share and post a torrent link, thanks!
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OMFG! what the hell is that?
...
;)
so we go from a cute demon (or daemon?) to... what is that supposed to be?
(yeah i know its supposed to be horns, but it aint).
augh.
BSD is STILL the ONLY OS I've EVER seen that has done a "DOUBLE kernel panic".
WTF is that?!?
Linux uptime - years, solaris uptime - years, osx uptime - years, vms uptime - decades
BSD uptime - weeks at best, windows uptime - days at best...
yep that's why M$ uses BSD code...
PS- will BSD's hard disk management EVER get out of the dark ages? I mean, come on... slackware 1.x had better handling than this. solaris 2.5 was where this is, and BSD hasn't changed since then...
would it kill you guys to put in standardized device names? augh!
BSD is the suckiest OS ever...
no, really.
it sucks.
FP!
ahahahahahahah!
I was the FIRST person in the world to use the nick "MasterHacker" (with or without a space) since the first BBS days, I found it really annoying when people used it on IRC and stuff like that.
Now how about this one- I was the very FIRST person in the world to use the nick "Wanderer" anywhere for any reason. How can I make this claim?
I was using the damn nick in early 1976 ! And used it ever since then, from multiplayer games on atari 400s and 800s to vic-20s, TSR-80s, C64 hacking, later on PC BBSes, and onward.
its a weirdly personal thing. Something thats been *mine* for decades, literally, suddenly showing up somewhere by some gimp that doesn't know squat.
It really does feel weird.
and then you try using odd names you think no one else will guess. "ByteMe", that is another one I coined first. It's fun. And it gets taken all the time now.
it got to the point where it was almost impossible to log onto an IRC server for a while, every single name I tried, they were all taken, I mean everything.
Even my fabled "RouterSlayer" has been "stolen" by others, as well as my fabled "BitSlayer", yes even "NetSlayer". it was all me... used to be anyhow.
The point is, how the hell can you be original any more? Where's the uniqueness when every single name is already taken, how to identify YOU, you want your personality in there somewhere. something different from the norm.
I came up with a new nick recently, its actually borrowed from something. I will never say what it is or where I got it. But so far, no one has copied it. We'll see how long this lasts. Cuz after that, I dunno any more. Maybe I can think of something new, fresh, and unique.
But it's getting damn hard these days.
Also makes me wonder where all the old hackers I knew vanished off to...
so, its been a few decades, but greets to-
Trans-Net, PE, eaglesoft, KJ, The Cob! (heh), Shadow Rhyder, Covert Operations, TAPPS, TOPPS, and even TGI. God-damn I miss Sublime-Persuasion...
Actually the reason is that anyone who actually uses FreeBSD is a fsck-tard!
no... really... BSD sucks, get over it already.
Which reminds me,
;)
where the hell is that freebsd virus?
The one that would infect windows systems, and once infected reformat the drive and install freebsd?
I've always wanted to actually see this thing...
so where is it?
my +1 was already cancelled by someone else modding it as flamebait, so it didn't matter.
;)
which is why I posted...
sigh...
weird tho, the score is the same as before I posted.
so someone else modded it up +1 to cancel the cancel on my +1 ? erg, you're making my brain hurt!
bad slashdot user, bad!
the best damn piece on slashdot and some moron marked it flamebait. I've modded it up as much as I can (a big +1 whoo!)
It's sad to see slashdotters trod on brilliant posts like this one...
omfg! this is sooooo obviously fake, it's not funny
;)
on second-hand it IS funny... omfg!
a couple of photoshop enhanced pics... augh!
there are so many problems with the info shown its hard to tell where to start.
Hint: it has 256mb of ram, and a 1gb drive
hell, bring back the whole freaking genre! please!
I want more "Monkey Island" and "Sam & Max" games,
and "SpaceQuest"...
These were the best games of all time.
FPS RPGs just suck...
PLEASE have him say "nuclear vessels" !
ROFLMAO!
Seriously, that was the best line in futurama episode!
btw why did they have "welshy" ? was it just a gag, or what?
I remember using the first versions of linux, especially slackware on floppy in and around these dates...
isnt linux due for an anniversary some day soon?
or did I miss it?
where is the anniversary of the very first linux kernel?
so as I thought, it's still unbroken.
I still like it, even with the patent nonsense.
although I truly believe nothing is really unbreakable, in a sense. i mean, even quantum cryptography, key stealing and brute-force are still there.
social engineering, getting access to the source or destination, keyboard loggers, spyware. there are many other ways.
mind-boggling encryption with unbreakable properties, with stupid human frailties like everything else.
I see tons of articles, but no one talks about "IDEA" any more.
from my research so far it hasn't been cracked. it was a european standard, so I guess it's not favorable in the US or north america.
it's still my favorite. and maybe it enjoys a bit of "security through obscurity" these days. But I'd really like to know.
and oh, if you're going to say it was cracked, please provide reliable references with links.
Seriously, I'd really like to know.
So how the hell is this a record?
the company I used to work for (a spammer) - hey, I had to eat!
they were sending on AVERAGE about 100 MILLION emails a day by using a cluster of 100 small (1U) racked machines.
and we just used POSTFIX. running mostly K6-2 cpus, yeah real old stuff. lots of K6 cpus too.
so how the hell is this a new record?
oh I guess because spammers don't do the SPECmail tests... hehehe
Well they're 1/3 of the way to a simple postfix config. keep working on it guys!
1) get IPV8, you'll thank me later
;)
2) try FOUNDRY, they kill cisco any day
www.foundrynet.com
you'll thank me later
oh ocme on ipv6 sucks rocks.
go check out ipv8 already and be done with it
omfg! people, get a clue!
go with IPV8 already!
sheesh... ipv6 has been dead for years!
you can try www.ipv8.org or do a google search.
hey bud, get a clue, IPV8 is REAL!
go to www.ipv8.org
its a hell of a lot better than ipv6 will be any day
go check www.ipv8.org
get a clue.
IPv6 is dead, has been for years
IPV8 is the future.
seriously.
Hey guys, how about you get a clue?
Try IPV8! its a hell of a lot better!
its backward compatible with IPv4 - not necessary to change all the internet hardware or BS
and it has a LOT more addresses than Ipv6 ever will.
Dont like it? then try IPV16 !!!
sheesh you guys are behind the times... really!
First of all, I've used just about every distro out there, and even some you've never heard of...
Way back since the slackware days, even kernel 1.0 days and before that... Yes floppies were great.
Mandrake has had its troubles, not the least of which has been the financial stuff that it's now finally out of...
But even before Red Hat 7.0 it was a better distro. Its always had better package management.
I see people whine that Debian is better JUST because of "apt get", well guess what? Mandrake has that too! so get a clue...
and RPM? well it does that... and it does it all better. I have yet to see a better packager than URPMI... ever.
also, through all my testing over the years, I have never, EVER seen a distro support all my hardware "out of the box", I mean, it JUST WORKS. On all the wierd laptops I've owned, it installs and runs like a charm, every time, supporting all the whacky devices without me having to do a thing. ever...
wireless? yep, it was there, done and work, weird ass DSL setups, it worked. and it detected it all and set it up right, the first time... during install.
Package support? it has soo many different packages, for desktops, for servers, for whatever you want, even if you want everything. Me, of course, I experiment, so I literally install EVERYTHING, and it still works!
Today, for newbies I always point them at Mandrake, its dirt simple to install, and it gets it all correct, the first time, no weird questions, no BS, ever. it just works. period. and thats what people want.
for the hardcore people, I still recommend it, for servers, I still recommend it. always.
no matter what you are trying to do, it'll support it, no matter what your hardware, it'll work.
if it doesn't, you did something wrong. I hate people who say "Well I just installed it and it doesn't work" well guess what, it is STILL possible to do "something wrong" even then.
I watched friends do this, and they complain that whatever doesnt work afterwards, and I noticed during install they didnt select those packages... well, guess what? it wont work... duhhhh... and they even claim they selected "everything"... uh, no, I was watching bubba, you missed more than half of it. hello...
if you have a specific use, need a specific package, and specifically DONT choose it during install, of course it wont be there... jeez, get a clue...
I dont know of a better distro, I've been supporting them since way back when, and always will, I pay support, I buy extra stuff, you name it.
right now on the market there aren't many choices...
Debian - forget it.
Fedora - this thing is a joke
SUSE - I hate Yast with a passion
slackware - they ruined it after 7.0
nuff said.
I've read a lot years ago that said there was some basic proof they did indeed exist or could be artificially created or something. but it's been ages since I've seen a single word on this subject.
so if tachyons are real, then they do travel faster than light. remember, there's nothing in einsteins ideas saying you CANT travel faster than light, from what I remember its just basically saying you can't accelerate to faster than light.
but if you "jump" (warp, etc) or whatever, then you kind of side-step the issue, not really breaking the physical laws. I mean all sorts of weird things happen inside black holes that violate our natural laws (hence a whole new section of physics just for black holes). like time moving backwards, etc...
but really I'd be curious if anyone had any updated info about tachyons or the like? are they debunked now or what?
Well as a person who's actually used YAST (and hated it)... I found it cumbersome, awkward, non-intuitive, annoying, and never seemed to do what I wanted it to, and could never really get it to do what I needed either. in short, it never worked, the interface sucked, and well, I guess thats about that.
URPMI on the other hand is an incredible interface, easy to use, simple, straight-forward, at least as far as I've found it to be anyways.
I've actually yet to find a better package handler than URPMI. even apt-get and that stuff on debian doesnt really come close to the ease of use and simplicity of urpmi. Yes its a front-end to RPMs, so what?
This is why, IMHO, that Mandrake is the best distro out there, not only does it have the best hardware support (I've never, ever seen a distro "just work" with my notebook, everything coming up perfectly with no configuration tweaks required), and Mandrake has RPM support for those who like it, and URPMI, and even has apt-get for those who like that, in short, it has everything you could ever possibly need.
YAST? well, the day it actually works, and does something useful I'll consider it. I mean, SUSE even required user accounts be managed through YAST, what kind of nonense is that? It cant be a total front end to everything... thats... oh wait... thats webmin... oops, but at least webmin is decent...
the power of open-source is the choices, more choices means more freedom, a democratic system, truly, and the market (we the users) will decide in the end what lives and what doesn't.
my prediction is also that Xfree v4.3 will spin off (already happened) and become the new defacto standard... but thats my 2cents worth...
excellent (best Mr. Burns impression)...
I already buy and pre-order releases as they come, for quite a while now. Even more so when DVD versions came out.
The "shrink wrap" dvd power suites are great. I got the 9.1 DVD and 7 CD set for $59 US... I mean, my god! What a lot of stuff, the whole powerpack, pro suite, commercial apps, and more... No one, and I mean NO ONE has better value than this.
Mandrake should make a special bundle for club members, if they pre-order. maybe even allow their pre-orders to take priority or something. bah, who knows...
and yes, its very hard to argue with $60/yr for club membership, even if you are on a budget...
BTW to those people that post club packs to BT (you know who you are), think about what you are doing... I mean, would $5/month really be all that much? didn't think so...
does anyone have one yet?
if not, can someone start sharing it now please?
I'll be buying the DVD, (already pre-ordered) but I dont want to wait several months just to see it.
someone please share and post a torrent link, thanks!