BSDi has never been touted as a Desktop OS, it's main purpose has always been Servers and mainframes. Besides that, the employees are probably forced to use Windows as interoperability is constantly being worked on by BSDi.
We're never going to have our own power stations when big corps. can product it, and sell it to us. If you are one of us that doesn't want to be Edison International's bitch than bit the bullet and get solar panels. They have improved a great deal, so you';ve got no reason not to... For some reason people just DON'T... Apparently it's in-vogue to complain.:-\
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remember that part of the purpose of the GPL is to motivate people to write free software;-)
Umm, don't you mean FORCE people to write free software. At least if they want to use GPLd software that's what they have to do. Even Linus is making special concessions like allowing loadable kernel modules, otherwise TiVO would be based on BSD because of the anti-commercial GPL license. Even with those special exceptions that have been allowed, developers want freedom, not code that decides their morals for them. This is why NetBSD is getting to be the OS of choice for Handhelds rather than Linux which works on few, and sucks on all.
You must be new to slashdot. Here we don't just make things up... Perhaps you'd like to try again... Don't worry, you'll get the hang of clicking the pretty buttons before too long.
And speech is only free if you are willing to give your life defending it... The FREE price tag on GNU/BSD is significantly less costly than speech itself.
And I'm ignoring the fact that the long term cost of ownership for UNIX OSes is far cheaper than anything M$ has produced.
You know, I'm absolutely amazed it took engineers around the world so damn long to think up something this simple. I had the idea myself when I was about 6 years old... Personally, I would do it first with Cars, then kids bic ycles, and so on. It's a very big deal to repaint your house, and people will be weary to try something experimental in such a long-term situation.
My MiniDisc player runs on a single 3.6v L-ion battery. With that, it gets 7 hours runtime. With two Ni-Cads in it's place, I get 12 hours of running time. However, I will admit that L-ion does better in Higher-Volage, lower-power applications, but for electronics of most kinds, it's high-amperage needed, not voltage.
You can't compare the OLD technology used in NI-CADs to the ones used today! I know the problems you're talking about, I've had them myself, but within the last 5 years, the technology has improved to a point that Ni-Cads can easially outlast Alkaline everytime.
I definately don't want the ISPs monitoring all the traffic generated, but my point is that most ISPs will tell you to get lost when you report spam comming from their clients. Now when they are made aware of violations and do nothing about it, then they should be responsible.
Until FreeNet has clustering and search capabilites, it's completely useless for any purpose. I admit that Caching data is a great feature that Gnutella could use, but other than that, FreeNet is much less funtional today, after quite a bit of work, than Gnutella was from the beginning. The one good thing about FreeNet is that you can claim you didn't know that you were sharing that movie, the software did it behind your back, but you, the PC user, is still responsible.
I do know about FreeNet, and I'll say that the MPAA will not have a hard time sticking it to users. The only way we can get around being kicked by ISPs, we must tell them to allow us to run our Gnutella's or else we won't use the service at all. That's why Napster was never blocked by ISPs, and that's the same reason the MPAA will not win this fight if we, the users, stick together, and basically form an End-User's Union that works as one and holds much more weight than one or two individuals.
Locally, we have a UHF translator that rebroadcasts the VHF signal that we can ALMOST recieve from Los Angeles, but not quite without our translator... While I'm on cable, I have been hearing that 2 of the 7 stations carried have been dropped (I believe there were some compensation demands by the networks which we would not meet, but that's speculation). These stations were KTLA and KABC. Two very large stations to be sure. Now those without cable or dish have even less choice, not to mention that, as HDTV propogates, soon recieving the VHF signal from 150+ miles away will not even be a possibility. Pretty soon, the big companies are all in for a challenging conversion to HDTV, and certanly some will fail and drop from the race. I don't doubt that soon all we will recieve will be KNBC and our local station. Meanwhile, the FCC is doing the exact opposite what it should, and is helping to monopolize the airwaves.
What people should be doing is to sue the actually ISP that allowed this to continue. Then, you don't make some tiny company go out of business, the ISP takes a big hit, and they will ensure it doesn't happen again.... After all, we wouldn't have spam if ISPs enforced their own TOS.
I believe that Apple is scared to death that the interface which took them so very long to develop will be stolen in two weeks by M$. It's the same reason iMac look-alikes were so harshly prosecuted. The things that make Apple, Apple(tm) are very easy to plagarize.
In other words, they are working so hard to prevent their past mistakes that they are causing new ones.
I know a lot of people will say this same thing, but I really mean it:
I have been seriously considering getting a Mac. Mainly to educate myself and see where that leads. I was trying to make up my mind between Sun and Apple. Why not go with the Mac? Several really nice web browsers. All the multimedia software you could want ('ooohhhh, a legal DVD player you say?') and it's certanly got all of the features I miss about Window$ (Quicktime, Media Player, Macromedia, etc). It just seemed like the no-brainer choice for a desktop to replace Windows and compliment Linux.
After hearing this bull going on constantly... cripling opensource programers left and right, I'm going to steer clear of Apple. Not only that, I'm not going to venture into SUN territory either. I've learned my lesson but good this time! Never trust a company for your software. Be them Apple, Micro$oft, or RedHat. I get a Bare OS and I make it into the OS I want it to be.
We don't need anything OpenSource doesn't have to offer! Once there's an opensource clone of RealPlayer I'll be set. What else do we really need? If you can think of anything needed not available in OpenSource, le me know. Either I'll point you to it, or work on it myself!
Many Unix users still use Windows or Macs, claiming they have no choice because of program Z. There are always alternatives for us, and we need not look back to the EvilEmpire any more. People need to cut the cord and free themselves of propriety. Free Speech tastes better than free Beer, and a person willing to trade one for the other, doesn't deserve either. Once I settled on XFce as my desktop I've had no urge to use anything else.
If Apple wants to screw over developers, fine. I'll be in the promised land while others all complain about what is done, and little will be accomplished. Enjoy your strugles, I've seen the end of the rainbow, and it leads right back where we already have been.
I have many many sets of these batteries from about 2-3 years ago still working just as well as the brand-new ones I've recently bought. And I do use them long and often. I guarantee they have been recharged hundreds of times, very nearly 1000+.
I can't comment on the technical specs cause I've never actually tested an Alkaline AA, and I assume you're wrong for one simple reason:
In every device where I've used them, they last just slightly less than the Alkaline batteries I used previously (Energizer AAs if you really care to know). Besides that, on an equal mAh rating between Alkaline and NickelCadmium batteries, the NiCad should be significantly shorter because of the 1/4 volt less chrarge. This leads me to believe that the NiCad hold more charge than their alkaline couterparts.
Costco sells 6 packs of 1.25v AA size Panasonic Ni-Cad batteries. Nothing special right? No. These are 1100mAh high-capacity batteries! In case you don't know... That puts it at the same power point as Alkaline batteries, and since they are Ni-Cad, they're incredibly light. These store more power, are lighter, and can be rechared more times than any other rechargeables I've ever seen! We certainly don't need NEW battery technology, we need manufactures to use the CURRENT technology.
By now you should be reading the mAh rating on your laptop or handheld battery and just think how many 1100mAh AA batteries could fit in that area... I bet you'd get at least 2x the life and the battery would be lighter and cheaper!
I'm not skimping on my network (thirteen Ethernet jacks in the house) My goal is to make my home the perfect place for a LAN party.:-)
A LAN party with only 13 ethernet jacks! Sheesh! Personally, I use 3 where ever I plug in. One for my notebook, one to sync up my Handheld, and one to sync up my watch:-D.
While one program having a root exploit MAY not be a system root exploit, it doesn't mean it can't be. All the ACLs and such mean is that the exploit has to attach a much deeper level. I assure you, SELinux exploits will be found, and all the people that think their box is safe will be hit very hard.
First, they're probably paying to use Mp3 or Real audio's format, second, they're paying for the bandwidth, and third, they have to pay AFTRA's fee demands. You know... I can't emagine why napster got popluar;-)
For anyone with faster-than-a-modem-connection; visit http://gnutelliums.com and join the Gnutella network, which always has and always will be free (beer & speech).
Speaking of nullsoft... For those of you that didn't notice... Visit Nullsoft.com, and take a look at the:wq at the bottom left of each page! Is anyone else wondering why they make Windows Apps?
This should answer some questions people had and also explain how this is different from the "why don't audit everything instead" type posts.
Well Mr. Karma Whore, stay true to your statement and explain to all of us 'good code is secure code' advocates and tell me how any security model can compensate for a bug-ridden kernel?
And before any of you moderators decide that I'm evil and wrong, this is a valid question and squarely on-topic.
I really don't see why radio stations NEED to spend so much money that they need 20 commercials in a row to support themselves. If I was setting up a worldwide radiostation, I'd do it the same way mp3.com has (ar at least similarly). I'd play only songs that I wouldn't have to pay anything for (there are plenty of big time artists that would do so just for the radioplay, not to mention the tons of up-and-comming artists).
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BSDi has never been touted as a Desktop OS, it's main purpose has always been Servers and mainframes. Besides that, the employees are probably forced to use Windows as interoperability is constantly being worked on by BSDi.
Umm, I think you posted to the wrong thread... If not I don't know what the hell you are talking about...
We're never going to have our own power stations when big corps. can product it, and sell it to us. If you are one of us that doesn't want to be Edison International's bitch than bit the bullet and get solar panels. They have improved a great deal, so you';ve got no reason not to... For some reason people just DON'T... Apparently it's in-vogue to complain. :-\
Umm, don't you mean FORCE people to write free software. At least if they want to use GPLd software that's what they have to do. Even Linus is making special concessions like allowing loadable kernel modules, otherwise TiVO would be based on BSD because of the anti-commercial GPL license. Even with those special exceptions that have been allowed, developers want freedom, not code that decides their morals for them. This is why NetBSD is getting to be the OS of choice for Handhelds rather than Linux which works on few, and sucks on all.
Don't you mean Real bastardized Unix? Besides, ever since it came out, BSD was proclaimed as far better than AT+T's code.
All lies!
1. DSL sucks and is unstable/unusable at any promised speed
2. Who gives a flying rats ass about how pretty the installer is? (Maybe winblows users...)
3. SMP is working great.
You must be new to slashdot. Here we don't just make things up... Perhaps you'd like to try again... Don't worry, you'll get the hang of clicking the pretty buttons before too long.
And speech is only free if you are willing to give your life defending it... The FREE price tag on GNU/BSD is significantly less costly than speech itself.
And I'm ignoring the fact that the long term cost of ownership for UNIX OSes is far cheaper than anything M$ has produced.
You know, I'm absolutely amazed it took engineers around the world so damn long to think up something this simple. I had the idea myself when I was about 6 years old... Personally, I would do it first with Cars, then kids bic ycles, and so on. It's a very big deal to repaint your house, and people will be weary to try something experimental in such a long-term situation.
My MiniDisc player runs on a single 3.6v L-ion battery. With that, it gets 7 hours runtime. With two Ni-Cads in it's place, I get 12 hours of running time. However, I will admit that L-ion does better in Higher-Volage, lower-power applications, but for electronics of most kinds, it's high-amperage needed, not voltage.
You can't compare the OLD technology used in NI-CADs to the ones used today! I know the problems you're talking about, I've had them myself, but within the last 5 years, the technology has improved to a point that Ni-Cads can easially outlast Alkaline everytime.
I definately don't want the ISPs monitoring all the traffic generated, but my point is that most ISPs will tell you to get lost when you report spam comming from their clients. Now when they are made aware of violations and do nothing about it, then they should be responsible.
Is my point clear now?
Until FreeNet has clustering and search capabilites, it's completely useless for any purpose. I admit that Caching data is a great feature that Gnutella could use, but other than that, FreeNet is much less funtional today, after quite a bit of work, than Gnutella was from the beginning. The one good thing about FreeNet is that you can claim you didn't know that you were sharing that movie, the software did it behind your back, but you, the PC user, is still responsible.
I do know about FreeNet, and I'll say that the MPAA will not have a hard time sticking it to users. The only way we can get around being kicked by ISPs, we must tell them to allow us to run our Gnutella's or else we won't use the service at all. That's why Napster was never blocked by ISPs, and that's the same reason the MPAA will not win this fight if we, the users, stick together, and basically form an End-User's Union that works as one and holds much more weight than one or two individuals.
Locally, we have a UHF translator that rebroadcasts the VHF signal that we can ALMOST recieve from Los Angeles, but not quite without our translator... While I'm on cable, I have been hearing that 2 of the 7 stations carried have been dropped (I believe there were some compensation demands by the networks which we would not meet, but that's speculation). These stations were KTLA and KABC. Two very large stations to be sure. Now those without cable or dish have even less choice, not to mention that, as HDTV propogates, soon recieving the VHF signal from 150+ miles away will not even be a possibility. Pretty soon, the big companies are all in for a challenging conversion to HDTV, and certanly some will fail and drop from the race. I don't doubt that soon all we will recieve will be KNBC and our local station. Meanwhile, the FCC is doing the exact opposite what it should, and is helping to monopolize the airwaves.
What people should be doing is to sue the actually ISP that allowed this to continue. Then, you don't make some tiny company go out of business, the ISP takes a big hit, and they will ensure it doesn't happen again.... After all, we wouldn't have spam if ISPs enforced their own TOS.
In other words, they are working so hard to prevent their past mistakes that they are causing new ones.
I know a lot of people will say this same thing, but I really mean it:
I have been seriously considering getting a Mac. Mainly to educate myself and see where that leads. I was trying to make up my mind between Sun and Apple. Why not go with the Mac? Several really nice web browsers. All the multimedia software you could want ('ooohhhh, a legal DVD player you say?') and it's certanly got all of the features I miss about Window$ (Quicktime, Media Player, Macromedia, etc). It just seemed like the no-brainer choice for a desktop to replace Windows and compliment Linux.
After hearing this bull going on constantly... cripling opensource programers left and right, I'm going to steer clear of Apple. Not only that, I'm not going to venture into SUN territory either. I've learned my lesson but good this time! Never trust a company for your software. Be them Apple, Micro$oft, or RedHat. I get a Bare OS and I make it into the OS I want it to be.
We don't need anything OpenSource doesn't have to offer! Once there's an opensource clone of RealPlayer I'll be set. What else do we really need? If you can think of anything needed not available in OpenSource, le me know. Either I'll point you to it, or work on it myself!
Many Unix users still use Windows or Macs, claiming they have no choice because of program Z. There are always alternatives for us, and we need not look back to the EvilEmpire any more. People need to cut the cord and free themselves of propriety. Free Speech tastes better than free Beer, and a person willing to trade one for the other, doesn't deserve either. Once I settled on XFce as my desktop I've had no urge to use anything else.
If Apple wants to screw over developers, fine. I'll be in the promised land while others all complain about what is done, and little will be accomplished. Enjoy your strugles, I've seen the end of the rainbow, and it leads right back where we already have been.
I have many many sets of these batteries from about 2-3 years ago still working just as well as the brand-new ones I've recently bought. And I do use them long and often. I guarantee they have been recharged hundreds of times, very nearly 1000+.
I can't comment on the technical specs cause I've never actually tested an Alkaline AA, and I assume you're wrong for one simple reason:
In every device where I've used them, they last just slightly less than the Alkaline batteries I used previously (Energizer AAs if you really care to know). Besides that, on an equal mAh rating between Alkaline and NickelCadmium batteries, the NiCad should be significantly shorter because of the 1/4 volt less chrarge. This leads me to believe that the NiCad hold more charge than their alkaline couterparts.
Costco sells 6 packs of 1.25v AA size Panasonic Ni-Cad batteries. Nothing special right? No. These are 1100mAh high-capacity batteries! In case you don't know... That puts it at the same power point as Alkaline batteries, and since they are Ni-Cad, they're incredibly light. These store more power, are lighter, and can be rechared more times than any other rechargeables I've ever seen! We certainly don't need NEW battery technology, we need manufactures to use the CURRENT technology.
By now you should be reading the mAh rating on your laptop or handheld battery and just think how many 1100mAh AA batteries could fit in that area... I bet you'd get at least 2x the life and the battery would be lighter and cheaper!
My goal is to make my home the perfect place for a LAN party.
A LAN party with only 13 ethernet jacks! Sheesh! Personally, I use 3 where ever I plug in. One for my notebook, one to sync up my Handheld, and one to sync up my watch
While one program having a root exploit MAY not be a system root exploit, it doesn't mean it can't be. All the ACLs and such mean is that the exploit has to attach a much deeper level. I assure you, SELinux exploits will be found, and all the people that think their box is safe will be hit very hard.
First, they're probably paying to use Mp3 or Real audio's format, second, they're paying for the bandwidth, and third, they have to pay AFTRA's fee demands. You know... I can't emagine why napster got popluar ;-)
For anyone with faster-than-a-modem-connection; visit http://gnutelliums.com and join the Gnutella network, which always has and always will be free (beer & speech).
Speaking of nullsoft... For those of you that didn't notice... Visit Nullsoft.com, and take a look at the :wq at the bottom left of each page! Is anyone else wondering why they make Windows Apps?
Well Mr. Karma Whore, stay true to your statement and explain to all of us 'good code is secure code' advocates and tell me how any security model can compensate for a bug-ridden kernel?
And before any of you moderators decide that I'm evil and wrong, this is a valid question and squarely on-topic.
I really don't see why radio stations NEED to spend so much money that they need 20 commercials in a row to support themselves. If I was setting up a worldwide radiostation, I'd do it the same way mp3.com has (ar at least similarly). I'd play only songs that I wouldn't have to pay anything for (there are plenty of big time artists that would do so just for the radioplay, not to mention the tons of up-and-comming artists).