bsd-ftpd is listed as affected, but that's not the OBSD ftpd, it's the port of it to Debian, I believe. I could be wrong, but there is not bsd-ftpd w/openbsd, and when I search google the only results are the ported versions of open's ftpd. Thanks for helping me understand that further:)
You said: "Support of more exotic hardware still is more problematic in FreeBSD: No 3D graphics on nvidia because nvidia's driver has not been ported to FBSD yet"
Being ported has nothing to do with it. nvidia doesn't want it ported, and doesn't want to provide anything more than a binary driver for ONE os only, and only ONE version of XF86 (although XF4.01 seems to be everywhere nowadays anyway). Nvidia could just open up their specs a bit, let OpenGL happen for everyone, but I guess they feel like following Microsoft's business model for a time, heck the seem to want to be a PART of Microsoft...but that's another rant:)
but trying em all out is a blast. Glad to see that some of us here try different systems, so at least we can bitch about differences with some information and experience to back it up.
On a side note, I usually try to run each for months, using different installations & configurations (even changing the hardware in the machine) just to see what everything does. Fun stuff.
of course..I meant that command & switch should be used from an msdos boot diskette...but again, I may be assuming that you know too much (no offense, just don't know what type of user you may be)
you implicitly (I hope I got that right:) have given your son priviledge to install software on your behalf if he 1) has an account capable of installation of programs on the system and 2) have even just plainly allowed him access at all (i.e. did YOU have a disclaimer, that your underage son couldn't have legally signed anyway, as a requirement BEFORE being allowed access through the system in the first place?).
I think you get the idea..you're responsible for the USE and SECURITY of your own internet connection and/or system.
"but I don't know about the HTML and XML for all human readable text... "
sorry..but that is IMHO one very obtuse statement.
you ever open a.txt with IE or moz or Konq or Opera or whatever? I thoroughly enjoy hyperlinked help files and text (read any win32 game manuals or help files lately?) as they are quite efficient and just damn pretty....not to mention (I will probably get flamed for this one): go ahead and download some ebook or whatever that format is that is in html...
Damn nice eh? Ever read The Hobbit or LOTR with html, pics, bookmarks, etc? Doesn't sound like you have...oh yeah...btw it works in CONSOLE MODE *NIX (links/w3m/lynx)
you need to think about what you've said, course I could be wrong:)
my point being...so what. Great ideas and technical prowess have been proven to lose to good marketing (in the short term at least). I hate this fact as much as anyone, but it's true.
disagree with you..heck, I may even look for reasons if I can, but you have presented a solid argument. Nice, too bad that it's on/. and will be modded down below the radar where most won't see it anyway. Again, good job...solid...which is more than most ramblings on this site.
Perhaps we're the minority (you know...the one's that put their money where their mouth is:) but I stopped a few years back myself. I still go out to movies once in a while (yes, between all the Ben Affleck and teeny bopper Blair Witch crap there are actually a few good movies still coming out of Hollyweird), but I go to the twilight show because it's cheaper, and the theatre is making a killing off of selling me popcorn and nachos already:) As for music, I have been using Digital Music through @home, and though not great it does fine for me (music is mainly background noise anyway).
me: former USMC infantry, now with college degree and 10 years in the industry
them: (looking at me with long hair but previous experience, then eyeballing the LINE OUT THE FUCKING DOOR of 18 year olds who want to be Special Forces....we'll..uh...be in touch
They don't want coders or anyone like that now unless you have a degree and want to be an officer..sorry, but offices are now swamped with people of ALL kinds wanting to help or take advantage of the situation or kill or whatever...just wait until the dust settles. Course..I wasn't taking you seriously..but the advice is for others.
Seems that 'round here EVERYTHING should be opensource...but in the case of Brainfuck OS...all I can say is OUCH, we should be careful what we wish for;)
it does seem to have an "arbitrarily" ruled feel, just relax and take heart in the fact that some people seem to still want to create and think on their own. I don't get >1/2 of what they are talking about, but it's easy to see how cool it is (if not a little obfuscated by definition alone:)
You asked: "How important will PGP be to you when your entire home is destroyed by bombs/planes or wiped out by plague?"
That depends, did PGP, without a doubt, have something to do with my home's destruction or my getting the plague? DOUBTFUL, as most people are already in consensus that w/out pgp, or the internet, or carrier pigeon or whatever that terrorists will STILL find another way to transmit messages and coordinate attacks.
I'll repeat it again as I'm sure you've heard it numerous times already, there are far more positive uses for encryption than negative. Evildoers (god I HATE that term) will just find/use whatever tools are NECESSARY for them to carry out their plans. Simple as that. In the meantime (as you are so sure that a nice little warm sunset clause will insure and protect us from this legislation in the long run), law abiding citizens may have their livelihoods altered or potentially outlawed by non-citizen criminals! By that logic, if I want to change a law in a different country, maybe I should do what their citizens cannot, and that's just show up in their land and BREAK the laws there. Their legislators will do my dirty work for me and change their citizens way of life. Lovely. I don't think that you're thinking this through (and you obviously put too much faith in the "good word" of our congressmen).
Most people probably are having an angry reaction before they've even thought it through. As accurate as that reaction may be, I think that most people just don't realize that anything NOT related to consumerism/industry may be altered soon
This whole thing is extremely depressing if you think about it (don't think too much:)
You know, one organization here decides to pursue their "cause", another committee over here thinks that now is a good time to push their agenda, and so on and so forth. Before we know it, layers of beauracracy and an inconsistent, "built-from-spare-parts Frankenstein's Monster" are all that's left of America.
As you can see, I am not so bitter that I believe it's a giant conspiracy of corporations vs. the individual. I feel that would require too much organization and participation on the part of corporations:) I do, however, feel that after big business, then the "million screaming voices, no two of which are alike" are not only getting their way, but they are drowning out the remaining rare and softly spoken rational thinkers (collectively referred to as "the voice of reason").
I've also heard it said that "if you think about something enough it will happen" and of course we're all familiar with the notions of determinism and "self-fulfilling prophecies"
You may now return to the real world, the one based in science Fact, not science fiction ; )
Tempest. Guess it's for real, do some looking on Google and you can probably find rough plans with directions to build it out of parts from RadioShack. No, seriously.
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I wrote/spoke too soon I believe, here's the post:
Brad's link at Buqtraq
bsd-ftpd is listed as affected, but that's not the OBSD ftpd, it's the port of it to Debian, I believe. I could be wrong, but there is not bsd-ftpd w/openbsd, and when I search google the only results are the ported versions of open's ftpd. Thanks for helping me understand that further :)
thanks for pointing that out...Rox is fast and friendly. Even works well on OpenBSD, seems as if everything else is so linux-centric these days :(
you'd have seen that a recent snapshot of 3.0 revealed the word "beta" if you did a uname -a
You said: "Support of more exotic hardware still is more problematic in FreeBSD: No 3D graphics on nvidia because nvidia's driver has not been ported to FBSD yet"
:)
Being ported has nothing to do with it. nvidia doesn't want it ported, and doesn't want to provide anything more than a binary driver for ONE os only, and only ONE version of XF86 (although XF4.01 seems to be everywhere nowadays anyway). Nvidia could just open up their specs a bit, let OpenGL happen for everyone, but I guess they feel like following Microsoft's business model for a time, heck the seem to want to be a PART of Microsoft...but that's another rant
j/k
but trying em all out is a blast. Glad to see that some of us here try different systems, so at least we can bitch about differences with some information and experience to back it up.
On a side note, I usually try to run each for months, using different installations & configurations (even changing the hardware in the machine) just to see what everything does. Fun stuff.
of course..I meant that command & switch should be used from an msdos boot diskette...but again, I may be assuming that you know too much (no offense, just don't know what type of user you may be)
fdisk /mbr ? p
then maybe you could reinstall FBSD...ohwell...you'll figure it out
that's right...it's just a comment....make a REAL POINT and I may have more to say....man, what's happened to discussion on /. ?
I think you get the idea..you're responsible for the USE and SECURITY of your own internet connection and/or system.
kudos...very well thought out. You've made me reconsider my anti-handheld stance all of a sudden.
/me grabs HP-48G sitting next to me
mmmmm....
sorry..but that is IMHO one very obtuse statement.
you ever open a
Damn nice eh? Ever read The Hobbit or LOTR with html, pics, bookmarks, etc? Doesn't sound like you have...oh yeah...btw it works in CONSOLE MODE *NIX (links/w3m/lynx)
you need to think about what you've said, course I could be wrong
my point being...so what. Great ideas and technical prowess have been proven to lose to good marketing (in the short term at least). I hate this fact as much as anyone, but it's true.
disagree with you..heck, I may even look for reasons if I can, but you have presented a solid argument. Nice, too bad that it's on /. and will be modded down below the radar where most won't see it anyway. Again, good job...solid...which is more than most ramblings on this site.
Everyone who is still unsure of Elias's use of Aleph1 should read the definition of Aleph from the William Gibson Aleph.
Perhaps we're the minority (you know...the one's that put their money where their mouth is :) but I stopped a few years back myself. I still go out to movies once in a while (yes, between all the Ben Affleck and teeny bopper Blair Witch crap there are actually a few good movies still coming out of Hollyweird), but I go to the twilight show because it's cheaper, and the theatre is making a killing off of selling me popcorn and nachos already :) As for music, I have been using Digital Music through @home, and though not great it does fine for me (music is mainly background noise anyway).
them: (looking at me with long hair but previous experience, then eyeballing the LINE OUT THE FUCKING DOOR of 18 year olds who want to be Special Forces
They don't want coders or anyone like that now unless you have a degree and want to be an officer..sorry, but offices are now swamped with people of ALL kinds wanting to help or take advantage of the situation or kill or whatever...just wait until the dust settles. Course..I wasn't taking you seriously..but the advice is for others.
Seems that 'round here EVERYTHING should be opensource...but in the case of Brainfuck OS...all I can say is OUCH, we should be careful what we wish for ;)
it does seem to have an "arbitrarily" ruled feel, just relax and take heart in the fact that some people seem to still want to create and think on their own. I don't get >1/2 of what they are talking about, but it's easy to see how cool it is (if not a little obfuscated by definition alone :)
That depends, did PGP, without a doubt, have something to do with my home's destruction or my getting the plague? DOUBTFUL, as most people are already in consensus that w/out pgp, or the internet, or carrier pigeon or whatever that terrorists will STILL find another way to transmit messages and coordinate attacks.
I'll repeat it again as I'm sure you've heard it numerous times already, there are far more positive uses for encryption than negative. Evildoers (god I HATE that term) will just find/use whatever tools are NECESSARY for them to carry out their plans. Simple as that. In the meantime (as you are so sure that a nice little warm sunset clause will insure and protect us from this legislation in the long run), law abiding citizens may have their livelihoods altered or potentially outlawed by non-citizen criminals! By that logic, if I want to change a law in a different country, maybe I should do what their citizens cannot, and that's just show up in their land and BREAK the laws there. Their legislators will do my dirty work for me and change their citizens way of life. Lovely. I don't think that you're thinking this through (and you obviously put too much faith in the "good word" of our congressmen).
This whole thing is extremely depressing if you think about it (don't think too much :)
You know, one organization here decides to pursue their "cause", another committee over here thinks that now is a good time to push their agenda, and so on and so forth. Before we know it, layers of beauracracy and an inconsistent, "built-from-spare-parts Frankenstein's Monster" are all that's left of America.
As you can see, I am not so bitter that I believe it's a giant conspiracy of corporations vs. the individual. I feel that would require too much organization and participation on the part of corporations :) I do, however, feel that after big business, then the "million screaming voices, no two of which are alike" are not only getting their way, but they are drowning out the remaining rare and softly spoken rational thinkers (collectively referred to as "the voice of reason").
You may now return to the real world, the one based in science Fact, not science fiction ; )
but what do I know...I don't use linux anymore for my *nix experiences...too many linuxisms for my tastes
Tempest. Guess it's for real, do some looking on Google and you can probably find rough plans with directions to build it out of parts from RadioShack. No, seriously.