The article gives the impression that BSD users are opposed to the GPL. While this is true of some vocal usenet posters, it's not true in general.
Many BSD contributors and users are quite happy with the GPL, and see no need to replace GPL'd programs. Much GNU software was and is still developed on BSD systems.
...without actually looking at a real person's mail, just use one of those addresses you get spam from. pplegal for example - it's full of bounced spam, of course.
People who talk of Linux winning the war, or FreeBSD not having good enough PR, are missing the point.
I use FreeBSD because it's BSD, and that's what I've been using since 1983. If FreeBSD became more like Linux (aiming to be a better Windows, for example), there would be less choice, and no-one would be better off.
Diversity is good. Operating systems are not washing powders. If you want Linux, you know where to find it.
It seems pretty clear to me that in several of these stories it's the tech support guy who is too stupid to realise that the customer is having fun with them.
The claim that if there's a secret, it's not STO, assumes that it's clear-cut what is and is not a secret.
Suppose I hide the exam answers in/home/ebcdic/old/letters. That's STO. But the way you find them is exhaustive search through my directory, just as the way you find my login password is by exhaustive search of character sequences.
The difference of course is the scale of the search. A one character password is no better than an obscure directory.
The important thing is to be able to quantify, or at least make explicit, the effort needed to break in to the system. With prime-product based public key, you can say something like "breaking this requires either solving the discrete log problem or X amount of work using the best known algorithm".
The AMD Athlon processor is a totally new architecture and system platform demanding a new set of thermal and electrical specifications and enclosure requirements to match its leading-edge performance capabilities.
Does this mean that standard cases won't provide enough cooling? Or does "enclosure" mean something else?
The 293/118 produced lasted for 120 S according to the diagram. Does anyone have an estimate for the half-life of 298/118 which would have the "ideal" 184 neutrons?
Shlashdot: you should add "SUP" to the list of allowed HTML tags!
There are an increasing number of "free" ISPs in the UK - they don't charge you anything, but they are tied in to a phone network company and receive a share of the call charge (which is typically about 1 penny per minute, off peak).
The next development is likely to be a return to ISPs charging a monthly fee, but providing an 0800 (free) number for dial up. This can work because the cost to the phone companies of each call is so small
So even if they don't make standard local calls unmetered, they will be unmetered for internet connections.
How peculiar - to complain about people wanting a "windows clone" and then spend your time working on file managers, "app launchers", and other pointless desktop drivel.
Just think what Linus could have done if he'd had "non square 64x64 dock apps".
How many of those 100-200,000 are actually in use? I suspect most people install it, find that it's uninteresting, and never touch it again. That's what I did, anyway.
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The term IMP stands for *Interface* Message Processor, not Internet Message Processor. See (eg) the glossary in RFC 760.
Many BSD contributors and users are quite happy with the GPL, and see no need to replace GPL'd programs. Much GNU software was and is still developed on BSD systems.
...without actually looking at a real person's mail, just use one of those addresses you get spam from. pplegal for example - it's full of bounced spam, of course.
I use FreeBSD because it's BSD, and that's what I've been using since 1983. If FreeBSD became more like Linux (aiming to be a better Windows, for example), there would be less choice, and no-one would be better off.
Diversity is good. Operating systems are not washing powders. If you want Linux, you know where to find it.
It seems pretty clear to me that in several of these stories it's the tech support guy who is too stupid to realise that the customer is having fun with them.
Suppose I hide the exam answers in /home/ebcdic/old/letters. That's STO. But the way you find them is exhaustive search through my directory, just as the way you find my login password is by exhaustive search of character sequences.
The difference of course is the scale of the search. A one character password is no better than an obscure directory.
The important thing is to be able to quantify, or at least make explicit, the effort needed to break in to the system. With prime-product based public key, you can say something like "breaking this requires either solving the discrete log problem or X amount of work using the best known algorithm".
Is there any problem here that isn't solved by LBX?
... how long before people start saying "we don't need to protect endangered species because we can always clone them later"?
AMD's FAQ says:
Does this mean that standard cases won't provide enough cooling? Or does "enclosure" mean something else?
"Athlon" is ancient Greek for "competition". Which is what AMD will finally be giving Intel...
The 293/118 produced lasted for 120 S according to the diagram. Does anyone have an estimate for the half-life of 298/118 which would have the "ideal" 184 neutrons?
Shlashdot: you should add "SUP" to the list of allowed HTML tags!
There are an increasing number of "free" ISPs in the UK - they don't charge you anything, but they are tied in to a phone network company and receive a share of the call charge (which is typically about 1 penny per minute, off peak).
The next development is likely to be a return to ISPs charging a monthly fee, but providing an 0800 (free) number for dial up. This can work because the cost to the phone companies of each call is so small
So even if they don't make standard local calls unmetered, they will be unmetered for internet connections.
How peculiar - to complain about people wanting a "windows clone" and then spend your time working on file managers, "app launchers", and other pointless desktop drivel.
Just think what Linus could have done if he'd had "non square 64x64 dock apps".
How many of those 100-200,000 are actually in use?
I suspect most people install it, find that
it's uninteresting, and never touch it again.
That's what I did, anyway.