Actually, you raise a very annoying point. It is illegal for parents to teach their children responsible alcohol use. In the state of Florida, a parent can not give an alcoholic beverage to an underage person even if that person is a child. And what are the odds that someone is still living with their parents at 21 to be taught to drink responsibly and in a safe location? It's not just at restaurants but at home also. If a parent was to give their 19 year old son a half glass of wine with a meal then they are criminals. How can a child honestly experience alcohol and learn to respect it when just about the only places they get it are parties? As an example, the first real access I had to alcohol also involved a stripper and a house party where just about everyone (except the stripper's protection) were under the legal age. Drinking to get sick was the expected norm in that place. Certainly not a good place. In fact, it was two years and a group of people who set out to teach responsible drinking before I learned how to drink without making a fool of myself. It would have been a lot better if I could have learned it at home and been taught moderation from the start.
Interestingly, it's illegal for a parent to provide alcohol to their own child but a priest can give alcohol to a child (of any age) as part of the communion process. So we have priests (and we all know they can be trusted with children!) legally giving them alcohol while their parents can't.
There's nothing better than finding out there are people on slashdot who are still capable of using their brains.
As confusing as it may seem, to the lawyer in the article, you are not required to pass along the permission to redistribute. You do need to include the three things the author mentions.
And, oddly enough, this conforms exactly to the common understanding... weird how things have a way of doing that.
lol, that's odd... it was my ability as an engineering student that gave me the opportunity to teach. The real thing that shocks me is not that I ended up teaching, as I highly enjoyed tutoring my peers and explaining the concepts involved in programming and computer engineering (like circuit design). The real shock is that I found an area even more interesting to myself than computers by an almost complete accident; I had to observe a classroom in one of my early education classes and I picked a teacher who was ESE.
From the start, I always saw myself teaching computers or programming at a college or high school level. I never actually planned to work as an engineer even though I was more than proficient at it. It often amazes me, when I look back at how I felt then, that my current plans don't involve teaching computers as a major component.
I realize you are trolling for attention here. But I figure you brought up a semi-valid point. My change of major was not related to ability (or lack thereof) at engineering. If I lacked ability I doubt my professors would have urged me to reconsider my degree change request as strongly as they did.
Actually, this is a movement designed to give the person a more enjoyable and productive life. Age appropriate activities can be anything from hands on experience shopping for food and health items (which is a lot more involved for this population then you would think) or getting them involved in a sports team.
The idea is that shoving these kids into a room and treating them like infants when they have the bodies of adults is not right. By selecting age appropriate activites the training works to give the person the most active and fulfilling life possible.
I left computer engineering to persue a major in Special Education. My main desire is to work with middle school or older persons with disabilities. And the problem described by the original poster is a common issue. Age appropriate activitied for the mentally handicapped are seriously lacking.
It just isn't right to have a 22 year old man putting colored blocks into the right shape holes -- no matter how severe the handicap. I think that technology can be useful (but most likely you, or someone with programming ability) are going to have to create it yourself. In a similar manner, it is often up to the family to be creative and create age-appropriate activities for their handicapped family member.
The schools, at least my program, are seriously working on approaching this issue and designing activites for people like your brother. But they fail as often as they succeed.
[Don't ask how I ended up in this major from computer engineering. I'm not sure myself.]
I'm not sure why he was taking so many jabs at Linux. Well, okay... I know exactly why but this seemed especially odd to me since I have disallowed passwords on all my computers unless the user is sitting at the keyboard. And that is mainly because I haven't got X to work with one time passwords yet (besides... how would I calculate them without being able to run the program to generate one?).
I use s/key or opiekey (depending on OS) for ALL my remote logins. Both of these programs use a pass phrase but (even better) this pass phrase is never transmitted across the network... encrypted or not. What happens is the pass phrase is used to generate a one time pass phrase.
In practice it looks like this: ssh localhost otp-md5 498 la7365 ext Password:
I then open another window: type in opiekey 498 la7365 ext Using the MD5 algorithm to compute response. Reminder: Don't use opiekey from telnet or dial-in sessions. Enter secret pass phrase:
type my passphrase at the prompt and it spits out: GIG DIRE EGG HISS HUB COOK I type that at the password prompt and go on my way (cut and paste between xterms is best here). Even if I was not using an encrypted protocol the password is useless once it is used. You can even hit enter once so the phrase will be echo'ed back to you on the screen so you don't mistype it. Doesn't matter if someone reads over your shoulder because GIG DIRE EGG HISS HUB COOK will never work again.
Next time my password might be: KNEW LARD ARGO LARD BARE YOGA
Or whatever. The point is that it is a mixture of pass phrases with the ability to avoid sending your pass phrase over an untrusted connection. You can even print out a list of the next 10 pass phrases you will have so you can log in from a computer where you wouldn't trust it enough to run the opiekey program.
How exactly is this an insecure linux system, at least in regards to passwords?
lol, besides that... I think pass phrases are a good idea. Just a little anoying at first.
Seriously, this is definitly news to me. I have been able to find this commercial on the web for the last 5 years. Amazing that it just came out today.
I must have the browser from the future or something!
Even better... go find the SNL spoof with the Macintosh Jr. It is usually on the same 10 pages that have had this 1984 ad for the last couple of years. And at least it is funny.
Note: Yes I do have my own copy of the 1984 commericial... for historical reasons. But this is not a new thing. It seriously has been on the web for years. In the same 22MB file as well. I'll try and turn up one of the older pages...
Dude, the Albertsons in my area makes you display a driver's license when you fill one of those out. I was going to fill one out but when they demanded my ID I had second thoughts and decided to take my business elsewhere.
I know it is dumb, but I am so tired of every move I make being tracked.
To be fair, FreeBSD has its share of the NEWEST kernel people. You can tell these people... they brag that they are running CURRENT and they compiled it today... or they say stuff like, "Dude, I am running the newest version of STABLE!" [This isn't talking about the people who buildworld for the first time and are excited about how cool it is.] Some of these did come from Linux to FreeBSD but I am sure that a few might not have. Many, many of these people grow out of it quickly because the FreeBSD response usually is, "Okay... and your reason for bringing this up is?" For the majority of *BSD users, since we have constant incremental upgrades to everything and not leaps and jumps in parts, upgrading is more common and not a big deal. The majority of times you have someone mention that they just built world you expect them to mention how it is broken. Not that it is broken often but THAT would be something to mention. A successful build is something that is plain.
I will admit to being a lover of BSD. I try very hard not to preach at people. I do upgrade fairly often... I used to upgrade every two-three weeks when I first started using it. But something happened. I forgot to upgrade and before I knew it three months had passed without a system upgrade. Everything just worked so I didn't think about it. I have never had a real bad problem upgrading.
There is no reason to bash Linux or BSD. I prefer BSD because it does everything I need it to do and rarely gives me problems. The only thing I have ever disliked was the read only floppy issue. Mounting a floppy that is read only can cause a kernel panic. That sucked the one time it happened to me. Linux was also a very good operating system and I enjoyed it every time I used it. To each his/her own.
Well, chalk up another un-american point for me.
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I realized a long time ago that Americans are expected to watch the superbowl just as much as we expect Mexicans to eat beans. Not being offensive or anything here but this is the sterotype. I hate football even though I possess a y chromosome. It may be because I am short or it may be because the game is just stupid. But that is besides the point... because I don't want to watch the game I am not a true American Male. I must be either gay or a terrorist (I am neither).
This is one year that I don't mind being unpatriotic. When we start associating patriotism with supporting war -- count me out. But this is not the only reason I don't care about how people think of guys who don't watch sports. The main reason is that I have better things to do with my life than worry about what other people think. Besides that, it would be more painful to watch the freaking game than to deal with explaining why I don't watch it. And lastly... the type of people I would watch it with don't really make-up the type of people I like to hang out with.
Three hours talking trash with trailer-trash; no thanks.
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I also agree that the lack of human contact would be a bad thing. First off, we could not drink anymore as popular definition defines someone who drinks alone as an alcoholic. But seriously, I think that we are moving away from personal contact which is very important to mental health. It is true that you can converse with people online but it is not the same as sitting around a table with a pitcher of beer and shooting the sh?t for a few hours.
Although I think that this new technology is going to take away from those accidental meetings I hope that, if it delivers on its promise, it will provide more time to create opportunities for human interaction. But then again, all the technology that we create to save time seems to require more time than we save to keep the technology saving us time. Wordy but true. I don't advocate a return to simpler times... I would die without my connection to the internet. But a week or two where I could just focus on getting to know the people around me while also getting to know more about the earth I am on would be a great thing.
Anyone for a camping trip? If you have 15 km of optical cable just laying around... we could run it down to our site and not miss/. around the campfire.
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Drinking at noon? You must be a sysadmin (or an alcoholic). Either way, I recommend that you seek help.
gcc -Wall is for wimps -- you should follow the Tao and *just know* when you have a possible security problem. Besides everyone knows that MS codes in INTERCAL... what does the error
240 ERROR HANDLER PRINTED SNIDE REMARK
ON THE WAY TO %d
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222 BUMMER, DUDE!
ON THE WAY TO %d
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Am I the only person who is hesitent about this?
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In Bill Gates' version of the way things will be, we will all carry around hand-held computers that will allow us to access our e-mail, trade our stocks, send video and photos to the family and generally manage our daily lives. Those hand-helds will also be phones and navigation units, and will carry our electronic wallets. They'll communicate with our computers at home to manage the heating, order the groceries and, when we get home, set just the right ambience for that all-important date with a mix of appropriate mood lighting and Barry White.
Am I the only person who is just a little afraid to have all of my personal information online? There is just too little right now to keep it secure. Maybe when we are on IPv6 it will be better. But it becomes too easy to hit a few buttons and accidentally abort your new baby instead of inform your parents.;-)
You should never NEED to compile GNOME or KDE for FreeBSD. They come precompiled and are an option during the install if you want one. Personally I did compile GNOME because I was bored.;-)
But even if there was some reason that you could not use the code the way it is, FreeBSD has a very good ports tree that will download the current source, patch it for FreeBSD, compile it for your system, install it, and then clean up after itself. VERY SEXY... YEAH!
Well, I need to clean my underpants again. So I guess I am done ranting here.
Why should we bother feeding the poor when people are dying of AIDS? Why should be bother curing AIDS when people are dying of cancer?
You equate these problems to not having a computer? Man, you need to get your priorities straight. I used food as an example; I believe that there are more important problems to be solved than getting a computer in everybodies' hands. I know that a bunch of people can work on a bunch of problems at once, but just how worthwhile would cable TV be if people try to get it out before their target buyers have electricity?
This is a great idea! I would love to see a computing device in the hands of every person on the planet. But first I would like to see full stomaches on all of them. How are they going to market these to people who can't afford to feed their children? [Free bag of rice with every purchase.] I am not saying these are a bad idea. Or that they cannot work. Hell, I would love to see them all over in countries that could afford them. But I believe that we should at least try and be socially conscience of the thousands of people who not only have never heard of a computer -- they are dying because of starvation.
Okay, I realize that I am endangering my karma here. I am taking a stance that may be seen as flamebait. But I really believe that this should be said by someone. But anyway, what are our plans to bring food to people who need it? Those should be more important than computers.
No I am not perfect in this area. I give a little to help a person but not much. I am not encouraging you to go out and start throwing money at these people. But it would be great if we could find a way to have these computers help solve some of their larger problems.
Well, this would make for a fine filter. It would also keep all of that Democratic evil away from your mailbox. And god forbid you have a friend that works for the government. You would never get any of his mail, but I bet the Chinese government would.;-) Not that this would be all bad. It would create some interesting hassles when I try and read cnn.com or some other news site. And I really wish that picture of the Chinese flag would stop popping up every five minutes while playing the chinese national anthem.
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Well, enough said about that. I guess I should go and finish taking my medications before I wind up naked in the park fountain again.
I have never heard of a really successful plan to censer an entire country. And while I am not an expert I believe that China has a pretty large black market. How long before you have black market internet cafes?
When will countries finally realize that hiding information only makes people want to find it more? Of course, if they were absolutely positive that their citizens were happy they would have nothing to fear. I think this just shows that they know they are giving their citizens the shaft -- and they want to hide it as long as possible.
Well, enough of a rant for now. Who wants to start bombing Bejing with old 386s.... anyone?
LISP, what can I say? This is one of the coolest languages you will ever suddenly understand while writing code in it. I don't know everything in the language yet. But I have to agree that this language is very good.
I would advise any person who wants to develop their own language to take a good look at LISP first. You may not need a new language, but even if you do -- you will have a bunch of great ideas to start with.
You need to have COME FROM, gotos are for wussies who need their hands held. If you are a real programmer you know where you should be looking for the next instruction. And this should be the only control construct. I prefer a language where I don't have to spend too much time thinking about which way I want to implement a loop. Having only one way to get something done is better. We don't want another mess like perl becoming popular.
Data type: we don't need no stinking data types. ['nuff said]
Comments are for simps, don't allow them. I prefer a language like BRAINF*** where anything that is not a valid command is ignored by the compiler -- but it would be even better if anything that was not a valid command crashed the compiler with obscure messages. ::ERROR 324234092 -- YOU ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED YET!
And whatever you do, make sure all the commands cannot be understood by any person will less than 7 doctorates. We don't want Visual Basic programmers to think about using our new language of choice. Make sure the language is also impossible to read even if you understand it. [For an example look at INTERCAL].
As a few final pointers on your way to language success. Make sure your documentation consists only of the following line:
Just do what you are supposed to do and you will be fine.
Then release the source to the compiler -- of course it must be written in the language and no others [to prove it is not a toy language. Toy languages cannot be used to write their own compilers.] And after that all you need to do is refuse to update any bugs that might show up. It will be as popular as Java within the week.
I would also recommend that you find a way to make large random prime numbers and integeral part of the binary -- but I have not worked that part out yet.
Okay, that is much better than my part of the GPL and I will agree with you. And when put that way, I think everyone can agree that both do have their merits.
I am pro-BSD but that does not require me to be anti-GPL.
lol, wow I guess you are right -- now where did I put that medication?
But seriously folks, you are still just talking out of your bum. Please I don't agree or disagree with you but some content would be wonderful. Word of mouth doesn't mean crap to me. So you have heard some people say somethings. Doesn't mean much. Why don't you find out some facts and post them. You say that 5.0 will bring FreeBSD equal to 2.2 Linux in SMP support. How, what have they added -- what have they ignored that makes it lag behind 2.4? Just what are they doing wrong that Linux is doing right? And are their goals even the same?
I am willing to admit that Linux probably has better SMP support than FBSD. I would admit this because FBSD is much more likely to provide a stable solution that is a little behind than a cutting edge solution that is not stable. Personally, I agree with FBSDs priorities myself -- but that doesn't make it better. Show me something as proof of your claim.
I am proud that you probably do know more than me. But you could show it by posting some of that knowledge and not just making unsupported claims. And my goal when I "flamed" you, was to try and encourage you to do just that. Support your statements. If you are going to pretend you have a good reason to feel a certain way, share that reason and be prepared to back it up.
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Actually, you raise a very annoying point. It is illegal for parents to teach their children responsible alcohol use. In the state of Florida, a parent can not give an alcoholic beverage to an underage person even if that person is a child. And what are the odds that someone is still living with their parents at 21 to be taught to drink responsibly and in a safe location? It's not just at restaurants but at home also. If a parent was to give their 19 year old son a half glass of wine with a meal then they are criminals. How can a child honestly experience alcohol and learn to respect it when just about the only places they get it are parties? As an example, the first real access I had to alcohol also involved a stripper and a house party where just about everyone (except the stripper's protection) were under the legal age. Drinking to get sick was the expected norm in that place. Certainly not a good place. In fact, it was two years and a group of people who set out to teach responsible drinking before I learned how to drink without making a fool of myself. It would have been a lot better if I could have learned it at home and been taught moderation from the start.
Interestingly, it's illegal for a parent to provide alcohol to their own child but a priest can give alcohol to a child (of any age) as part of the communion process. So we have priests (and we all know they can be trusted with children!) legally giving them alcohol while their parents can't.
There's nothing better than finding out there are people on slashdot who are still capable of using their brains.
As confusing as it may seem, to the lawyer in the article, you are not required to pass along the permission to redistribute. You do need to include the three things the author mentions.
And, oddly enough, this conforms exactly to the common understanding... weird how things have a way of doing that.
lol, that's odd... it was my ability as an engineering student that gave me the opportunity to teach. The real thing that shocks me is not that I ended up teaching, as I highly enjoyed tutoring my peers and explaining the concepts involved in programming and computer engineering (like circuit design). The real shock is that I found an area even more interesting to myself than computers by an almost complete accident; I had to observe a classroom in one of my early education classes and I picked a teacher who was ESE.
From the start, I always saw myself teaching computers or programming at a college or high school level. I never actually planned to work as an engineer even though I was more than proficient at it. It often amazes me, when I look back at how I felt then, that my current plans don't involve teaching computers as a major component.
I realize you are trolling for attention here. But I figure you brought up a semi-valid point. My change of major was not related to ability (or lack thereof) at engineering. If I lacked ability I doubt my professors would have urged me to reconsider my degree change request as strongly as they did.
Actually, this is a movement designed to give the person a more enjoyable and productive life. Age appropriate activities can be anything from hands on experience shopping for food and health items (which is a lot more involved for this population then you would think) or getting them involved in a sports team.
The idea is that shoving these kids into a room and treating them like infants when they have the bodies of adults is not right. By selecting age appropriate activites the training works to give the person the most active and fulfilling life possible.
I left computer engineering to persue a major in Special Education. My main desire is to work with middle school or older persons with disabilities. And the problem described by the original poster is a common issue. Age appropriate activitied for the mentally handicapped are seriously lacking.
It just isn't right to have a 22 year old man putting colored blocks into the right shape holes -- no matter how severe the handicap. I think that technology can be useful (but most likely you, or someone with programming ability) are going to have to create it yourself. In a similar manner, it is often up to the family to be creative and create age-appropriate activities for their handicapped family member.
The schools, at least my program, are seriously working on approaching this issue and designing activites for people like your brother. But they fail as often as they succeed.
[Don't ask how I ended up in this major from computer engineering. I'm not sure myself.]
I'm not sure why he was taking so many jabs at Linux. Well, okay... I know exactly why but this seemed especially odd to me since I have disallowed passwords on all my computers unless the user is sitting at the keyboard. And that is mainly because I haven't got X to work with one time passwords yet (besides... how would I calculate them without being able to run the program to generate one?).
I use s/key or opiekey (depending on OS) for ALL my remote logins. Both of these programs use a pass phrase but (even better) this pass phrase is never transmitted across the network... encrypted or not. What happens is the pass phrase is used to generate a one time pass phrase.
In practice it looks like this:
ssh localhost
otp-md5 498 la7365 ext
Password:
I then open another window: type in
opiekey 498 la7365 ext
Using the MD5 algorithm to compute response.
Reminder: Don't use opiekey from telnet or dial-in sessions.
Enter secret pass phrase:
type my passphrase at the prompt and it spits out:
GIG DIRE EGG HISS HUB COOK
I type that at the password prompt and go on my way (cut and paste between xterms is best here). Even if I was not using an encrypted protocol the password is useless once it is used. You can even hit enter once so the phrase will be echo'ed back to you on the screen so you don't mistype it. Doesn't matter if someone reads over your shoulder because GIG DIRE EGG HISS HUB COOK will never work again.
Next time my password might be:
KNEW LARD ARGO LARD BARE YOGA
Or whatever. The point is that it is a mixture of pass phrases with the ability to avoid sending your pass phrase over an untrusted connection. You can even print out a list of the next 10 pass phrases you will have so you can log in from a computer where you wouldn't trust it enough to run the opiekey program.
How exactly is this an insecure linux system, at least in regards to passwords?
lol, besides that... I think pass phrases are a good idea. Just a little anoying at first.
STRIKE THAT.
I was thinking the commercial -- of which I do have a 22MB version. This video is different.
It was taking a while to download but seemed to be the same thing I had already on my computer.
I still recommend the Mac Jr. Commericial.
http://www.uriah.com/apple%2Dqt/
One of which is found here... very funny.
Seriously, this is definitly news to me. I have been able to find this commercial on the web for the last 5 years. Amazing that it just came out today.
I must have the browser from the future or something!
Even better... go find the SNL spoof with the Macintosh Jr. It is usually on the same 10 pages that have had this 1984 ad for the last couple of years. And at least it is funny.
Note: Yes I do have my own copy of the 1984 commericial... for historical reasons. But this is not a new thing. It seriously has been on the web for years. In the same 22MB file as well. I'll try and turn up one of the older pages...
I don't know who thought this was news.
Dude, the Albertsons in my area makes you display a driver's license when you fill one of those out. I was going to fill one out but when they demanded my ID I had second thoughts and decided to take my business elsewhere.
I know it is dumb, but I am so tired of every move I make being tracked.
To be fair, FreeBSD has its share of the NEWEST kernel people. You can tell these people... they brag that they are running CURRENT and they compiled it today... or they say stuff like, "Dude, I am running the newest version of STABLE!" [This isn't talking about the people who buildworld for the first time and are excited about how cool it is.] Some of these did come from Linux to FreeBSD but I am sure that a few might not have. Many, many of these people grow out of it quickly because the FreeBSD response usually is, "Okay... and your reason for bringing this up is?" For the majority of *BSD users, since we have constant incremental upgrades to everything and not leaps and jumps in parts, upgrading is more common and not a big deal. The majority of times you have someone mention that they just built world you expect them to mention how it is broken. Not that it is broken often but THAT would be something to mention. A successful build is something that is plain.
I will admit to being a lover of BSD. I try very hard not to preach at people. I do upgrade fairly often... I used to upgrade every two-three weeks when I first started using it. But something happened. I forgot to upgrade and before I knew it three months had passed without a system upgrade. Everything just worked so I didn't think about it. I have never had a real bad problem upgrading.
There is no reason to bash Linux or BSD. I prefer BSD because it does everything I need it to do and rarely gives me problems. The only thing I have ever disliked was the read only floppy issue. Mounting a floppy that is read only can cause a kernel panic. That sucked the one time it happened to me. Linux was also a very good operating system and I enjoyed it every time I used it. To each his/her own.
I realized a long time ago that Americans are expected to watch the superbowl just as much as we expect Mexicans to eat beans. Not being offensive or anything here but this is the sterotype. I hate football even though I possess a y chromosome. It may be because I am short or it may be because the game is just stupid. But that is besides the point... because I don't want to watch the game I am not a true American Male. I must be either gay or a terrorist (I am neither).
This is one year that I don't mind being unpatriotic. When we start associating patriotism with supporting war -- count me out. But this is not the only reason I don't care about how people think of guys who don't watch sports. The main reason is that I have better things to do with my life than worry about what other people think. Besides that, it would be more painful to watch the freaking game than to deal with explaining why I don't watch it. And lastly... the type of people I would watch it with don't really make-up the type of people I like to hang out with.
Three hours talking trash with trailer-trash; no thanks.
I also agree that the lack of human contact would be a bad thing. First off, we could not drink anymore as popular definition defines someone who drinks alone as an alcoholic. But seriously, I think that we are moving away from personal contact which is very important to mental health. It is true that you can converse with people online but it is not the same as sitting around a table with a pitcher of beer and shooting the sh?t for a few hours.
/. around the campfire.
Although I think that this new technology is going to take away from those accidental meetings I hope that, if it delivers on its promise, it will provide more time to create opportunities for human interaction. But then again, all the technology that we create to save time seems to require more time than we save to keep the technology saving us time. Wordy but true. I don't advocate a return to simpler times... I would die without my connection to the internet. But a week or two where I could just focus on getting to know the people around me while also getting to know more about the earth I am on would be a great thing.
Anyone for a camping trip? If you have 15 km of optical cable just laying around... we could run it down to our site and not miss
Drinking at noon? You must be a sysadmin (or an alcoholic). Either way, I recommend that you seek help.
gcc -Wall is for wimps -- you should follow the Tao and *just know* when you have a possible security problem. Besides everyone knows that MS codes in INTERCAL... what does the error
240 ERROR HANDLER PRINTED SNIDE REMARK
ON THE WAY TO %d
or
222 BUMMER, DUDE!
ON THE WAY TO %d
really tell you?
In Bill Gates' version of the way things will be, we will all carry around hand-held computers that will allow us to access our e-mail, trade our stocks, send video and photos to the family and generally manage our daily lives. Those hand-helds will also be phones and navigation units, and will carry our electronic wallets. They'll communicate with our computers at home to manage the heating, order the groceries and, when we get home, set just the right ambience for that all-important date with a mix of appropriate mood lighting and Barry White.
;-)
Am I the only person who is just a little afraid to have all of my personal information online? There is just too little right now to keep it secure. Maybe when we are on IPv6 it will be better. But it becomes too easy to hit a few buttons and accidentally abort your new baby instead of inform your parents.
FreeBSD-Stable: aprox. 77,000 lines of code (wc -l
Both these numbers are smaller than they are in real-life as not all device drivers are included and the asm code was not counted in the FreeBSD code.
Just wanted to get your hand out of you-know-who's oriface.
Why do I feel like I have read this interview before? Hmm, July 2001. A little older than I expected. I guess that Linux magazine just put this up.
Well, the interview is cool anyway. I really like the attitudes of most people who develop free software.
You should never NEED to compile GNOME or KDE for FreeBSD. They come precompiled and are an option during the install if you want one. Personally I did compile GNOME because I was bored. ;-)
But even if there was some reason that you could not use the code the way it is, FreeBSD has a very good ports tree that will download the current source, patch it for FreeBSD, compile it for your system, install it, and then clean up after itself. VERY SEXY... YEAH!
Well, I need to clean my underpants again. So I guess I am done ranting here.
You equate these problems to not having a computer? Man, you need to get your priorities straight. I used food as an example; I believe that there are more important problems to be solved than getting a computer in everybodies' hands. I know that a bunch of people can work on a bunch of problems at once, but just how worthwhile would cable TV be if people try to get it out before their target buyers have electricity?
Seriously, I don't know what you are thinking.
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Okay, I realize that I am endangering my karma here. I am taking a stance that may be seen as flamebait. But I really believe that this should be said by someone. But anyway, what are our plans to bring food to people who need it? Those should be more important than computers.
No I am not perfect in this area. I give a little to help a person but not much. I am not encouraging you to go out and start throwing money at these people. But it would be great if we could find a way to have these computers help solve some of their larger problems.
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Not that censership is bad, it is just
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Well, enough said about that. I guess I should go and finish taking my medications before I wind up naked in the park fountain again.
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When will countries finally realize that hiding information only makes people want to find it more? Of course, if they were absolutely positive that their citizens were happy they would have nothing to fear. I think this just shows that they know they are giving their citizens the shaft -- and they want to hide it as long as possible.
Well, enough of a rant for now. Who wants to start bombing Bejing with old 386s.... anyone?
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I would advise any person who wants to develop their own language to take a good look at LISP first. You may not need a new language, but even if you do -- you will have a bunch of great ideas to start with.
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Data type: we don't need no stinking data types. ['nuff said]
Comments are for simps, don't allow them. I prefer a language like BRAINF*** where anything that is not a valid command is ignored by the compiler -- but it would be even better if anything that was not a valid command crashed the compiler with obscure messages.
::ERROR 324234092 -- YOU ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED YET!
And whatever you do, make sure all the commands cannot be understood by any person will less than 7 doctorates. We don't want Visual Basic programmers to think about using our new language of choice. Make sure the language is also impossible to read even if you understand it. [For an example look at INTERCAL].
As a few final pointers on your way to language success. Make sure your documentation consists only of the following line:
Just do what you are supposed to do and you will be fine.
Then release the source to the compiler -- of course it must be written in the language and no others [to prove it is not a toy language. Toy languages cannot be used to write their own compilers.] And after that all you need to do is refuse to update any bugs that might show up. It will be as popular as Java within the week.
I would also recommend that you find a way to make large random prime numbers and integeral part of the binary -- but I have not worked that part out yet.
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I am pro-BSD but that does not require me to be anti-GPL.
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But seriously folks, you are still just talking out of your bum. Please I don't agree or disagree with you but some content would be wonderful. Word of mouth doesn't mean crap to me. So you have heard some people say somethings. Doesn't mean much. Why don't you find out some facts and post them. You say that 5.0 will bring FreeBSD equal to 2.2 Linux in SMP support. How, what have they added -- what have they ignored that makes it lag behind 2.4? Just what are they doing wrong that Linux is doing right? And are their goals even the same?
I am willing to admit that Linux probably has better SMP support than FBSD. I would admit this because FBSD is much more likely to provide a stable solution that is a little behind than a cutting edge solution that is not stable. Personally, I agree with FBSDs priorities myself -- but that doesn't make it better. Show me something as proof of your claim.
I am proud that you probably do know more than me. But you could show it by posting some of that knowledge and not just making unsupported claims. And my goal when I "flamed" you, was to try and encourage you to do just that. Support your statements. If you are going to pretend you have a good reason to feel a certain way, share that reason and be prepared to back it up.
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