But I ask here, as an honest interested person, why one would wait until SMP is correctly and efficiently implemented into OpenBSD when they could simply use any old recent version of Windows or Linux on SMP hardware to get symmetric multiprocessor support for a high-load server?
Because you like OpenBSD and would like to help them test the SMP-enabled version so that one day it runs properly?
Why would you purchase a set of discs to perform multiple installs when OpenBSD developers recommend against using a static copy?
They don't. OpenBSD releases come at regular 6 months intervals (3.2 was a month early). That's what you should be using. You can use the snapshots or even the current CVS if you feel brave.
Sure, I can understand buying copies to support OpenBSD. I buy Redhat for the same reason, it's more principle than the actual material in the box.
You are correct. There's a slight difference, though, OpenBSD is not trying to turn a profit, just cover the development costs.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead demo was also released recently. Spearhead is an add-on to MOH:AA and the demo includes two multiplayer maps - Malta (which is exclusive to this demo) and Druckkammern.
(It's Windows only.)
Oh, and BTW, could you please stop posting stories about the leaked Doom III alpha? One story about it being leaked was fine but posting about patches? WTF is wrong with you?
According to this article [mi2g.com] the most secure OS were SCO Unix, Mac OS and Tru 64.
That depends on what you mean by most secure. For me it's very important how fast they fix the bugs. And remote holes are much more important than local ones (I don't have local users I don't trust).
Look, I've seen interviews with Lara Croft and interviews with God on the Net.
This one was probably done via e-mail. Even Eugenia doesn't know who she really talked to. It might have been an Apple employee. It probably wasn't, but you'll never know.
OK, if they really didn't get any money then that makes them a bit more real. But nowadays people will do anything to get on TV. Do you have Big Brother (the TV show) in the US?
But OK, I guess I agree that the Apple switchers do seem a little bit more real. Even if it's just Apple covering their tracks really well.
I have a question to the guy who submitted this story: do you honestly believe that the people featured in Apple's Switch campaign are real? I mean, I know Tony Hawk is a real person. Ellen Feiss could be real, too. But when they speak about how cool macs are and how uncool PCs are, they do so because they got money from Apple. Their confessions are just about as real as those of the "fictional" and "composite" person from Microsoft.
The difference is that Apple paid someone to lie on TV and Microsoft put their story in the mouth of an imaginary person. Now who's more honest?
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned open source, because it has little to do with it.
Of course, even with good crypto, you have to trust the software running on your own computer - a good way of accomplishing that is using software that you have compiled after verifying the source.
And of course you're right when you say that the rules of the entire system must be publicly known - only then the outcome of the elections can be verified by anyone.
What I was trying to say was that with a good system you don't have to trust the software running on other people's computers.
If you're interested in real electronic voting (not just replacing the punch card with a keyboard in the voting booth) I suggest you start reading here.
You misunderstood me. I'm not telling you to use an inferior product to support open source. I'm telling you to use Mozilla because in my eyes the fact that it is open source makes it a superior product (well, it's one of the reasons; if it totally sucked then the fact that it was open source wouldn't mean much).
If there's something about Opera that makes it better than Mozilla, I'd be happy to hear about it from you.
Actually, what you're preordering at Tux Games is the Windows version - they might include an additional CD with the Linux binaries if they're available at the time (or perhaps the binaries will be on the main game CD, who knows). The whole point of this is that they (Tux Games) report the copies they sell to id Software as Linux sales - so that id knows that there is a market for Linux games (even though it will probably only show how small the market is).
But of course you're right when you say that there will be a Linux version of Doom III - John Carmack has stated that on several occasions. But it won't be a separate box on the shelf - just downloadable binaries (or in an 'unsupported' directory on the CD if they're ready on time).
After all those reassignments and reorganizations, will they let me keep my.org domain if I'm not a non-profit organization (I'm not a for profit organization either)?
Has it been decided yet? What if I paid for many years in advance?
The single most important feature that makes me use Galeon over Mozilla is the option to open popups in a new tab. I consider this better than completely banning unrequested popups, because some sites use the popups for stuff other than ads. I think every browser with tabs should have this option and I have only seen it in Galeon. (Does Konqueror have it? I don't have a recent enough version.)
The only time someone uses the word "religion" when referring to Jedi (or the Force, actually) is when Admiral Motti says something about Vader's "sad devotion to that ancient religion" and is nearly choked to death by the latter.
Jedi are an order, which doesn't necessarily mean they're a religious organization. They do not worship the Force, they study it. True, their place is called the Jedi Temple, but this word also has non-religious meanings (accordgin to Merriam-Webster, at least).
Of course it still does have many symptoms of a religion (achieving something by simply believing in it, the good vs. evil stuff).
BTW, I wonder how many Australians said that their religion is Sith.:)
Slashdot Mirror
"Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 7 years!"
:)
What puzzles me is how they jumped from "nearly 6 years" to "more than 7 years" in less than a year.
-jfedor
But I ask here, as an honest interested person, why one would wait until SMP is correctly and efficiently implemented into OpenBSD when they could simply use any old recent version of Windows or Linux on SMP hardware to get symmetric multiprocessor support for a high-load server?
:)
Because you like OpenBSD and would like to help them test the SMP-enabled version so that one day it runs properly?
What's an "old recent version of Windows", BTW?
-jfedor
Isn't it the OpenBSD folks who are telling people not to make ISOs because the codebase changes frequently enough?
No.
Perhaps you are confused by this.
Why would you purchase a set of discs to perform multiple installs when OpenBSD developers recommend against using a static copy?
They don't. OpenBSD releases come at regular 6 months intervals (3.2 was a month early). That's what you should be using. You can use the snapshots or even the current CVS if you feel brave.
Sure, I can understand buying copies to support OpenBSD. I buy Redhat for the same reason, it's more principle than the actual material in the box.
You are correct. There's a slight difference, though, OpenBSD is not trying to turn a profit, just cover the development costs.
-jfedor
It doesn't matter which CD set you buy, what's important is that the project gets the money.
You can always get the latest release by FTP.
So why don't you just buy the current release now.
-jfedor
he was Polish.
What do you mean, was?
He's still alive, you know.
-jfedor
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead demo was also released recently. Spearhead is an add-on to MOH:AA and the demo includes two multiplayer maps - Malta (which is exclusive to this demo) and Druckkammern.
(It's Windows only.)
Oh, and BTW, could you please stop posting stories about the leaked Doom III alpha? One story about it being leaked was fine but posting about patches? WTF is wrong with you?
-jfedor
According to this article [mi2g.com] the most secure OS were SCO Unix, Mac OS and Tru 64.
That depends on what you mean by most secure. For me it's very important how fast they fix the bugs. And remote holes are much more important than local ones (I don't have local users I don't trust).
-jfedor
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg (please use a mirror)
This time it's a Bond-movie theme, which matches the new logo.
-jfedor
So, where's the Xbox emulator for the PC?
-jfedor
Maybe. Maybe they didn't pay them at all. I don't know. Do you?
-jfedor
OK, and what makes you so sure that these e-mails weren't written by Apple?
-jfedor
Look, I've seen interviews with Lara Croft and interviews with God on the Net.
This one was probably done via e-mail. Even Eugenia doesn't know who she really talked to. It might have been an Apple employee. It probably wasn't, but you'll never know.
-jfedor
Hmm...
OK, if they really didn't get any money then that makes them a bit more real. But nowadays people will do anything to get on TV. Do you have Big Brother (the TV show) in the US?
But OK, I guess I agree that the Apple switchers do seem a little bit more real. Even if it's just Apple covering their tracks really well.
-jfedor
I have a question to the guy who submitted this story: do you honestly believe that the people featured in Apple's Switch campaign are real? I mean, I know Tony Hawk is a real person. Ellen Feiss could be real, too. But when they speak about how cool macs are and how uncool PCs are, they do so because they got money from Apple. Their confessions are just about as real as those of the "fictional" and "composite" person from Microsoft.
The difference is that Apple paid someone to lie on TV and Microsoft put their story in the mouth of an imaginary person. Now who's more honest?
-jfedor
When you play Quake 3, it sends the so called renderer string to the master. Mine looks like this:
Mesa DRI Voodoo3 20010501 x86/MMX
So they know I'm running Linux. I wouldn't be surprised if UT2003 did something similar.
BTW, there are no keygens for Q3A.
-jfedor
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned open source, because it has little to do with it.
Of course, even with good crypto, you have to trust the software running on your own computer - a good way of accomplishing that is using software that you have compiled after verifying the source.
And of course you're right when you say that the rules of the entire system must be publicly known - only then the outcome of the elections can be verified by anyone.
What I was trying to say was that with a good system you don't have to trust the software running on other people's computers.
-jfedor
If you're interested in real electronic voting (not just replacing the punch card with a keyboard in the voting booth) I suggest you start reading here.
Open source is not the solution. Good crypto is.
-jfedor
You misunderstood me. I'm not telling you to use an inferior product to support open source. I'm telling you to use Mozilla because in my eyes the fact that it is open source makes it a superior product (well, it's one of the reasons; if it totally sucked then the fact that it was open source wouldn't mean much).
If there's something about Opera that makes it better than Mozilla, I'd be happy to hear about it from you.
-jfedor
Mozilla is open source. (I don't know if that's a good reason for you.)
Also, I don't use Opera so I don't know but I'm under the impression that if you don't pay for it then it displays ads. Is that correct?
-jfedor
In Poland, we've had "free" dial-up like this for about five years now.
But I wouldn't call it free in the presence of people that still are in this dial-up hell if I were you.
-jfedor
Actually, what you're preordering at Tux Games is the Windows version - they might include an additional CD with the Linux binaries if they're available at the time (or perhaps the binaries will be on the main game CD, who knows). The whole point of this is that they (Tux Games) report the copies they sell to id Software as Linux sales - so that id knows that there is a market for Linux games (even though it will probably only show how small the market is).
But of course you're right when you say that there will be a Linux version of Doom III - John Carmack has stated that on several occasions. But it won't be a separate box on the shelf - just downloadable binaries (or in an 'unsupported' directory on the CD if they're ready on time).
-jfedor
No, I'm simply not an organization.
When was the last time you've seen an organization posting on Slashdot anyway?
-jfedor
After all those reassignments and reorganizations, will they let me keep my .org domain if I'm not a non-profit organization (I'm not a for profit organization either)?
Has it been decided yet? What if I paid for many years in advance?
Thanks.
-jfedor
The single most important feature that makes me use Galeon over Mozilla is the option to open popups in a new tab. I consider this better than completely banning unrequested popups, because some sites use the popups for stuff other than ads. I think every browser with tabs should have this option and I have only seen it in Galeon. (Does Konqueror have it? I don't have a recent enough version.)
-jfedor
The only time someone uses the word "religion" when referring to Jedi (or the Force, actually) is when Admiral Motti says something about Vader's "sad devotion to that ancient religion" and is nearly choked to death by the latter.
:)
Jedi are an order, which doesn't necessarily mean they're a religious organization. They do not worship the Force, they study it. True, their place is called the Jedi Temple, but this word also has non-religious meanings (accordgin to Merriam-Webster, at least).
Of course it still does have many symptoms of a religion (achieving something by simply believing in it, the good vs. evil stuff).
BTW, I wonder how many Australians said that their religion is Sith.
-jfedor