OpenBSD audits their code for security, and the auditing gets rid of the worst of the poorly written code, but sometimes, the most secure design is horrifically unintuitive. The newer bits (like OpenSSH) show this the most: you'll need to make a sanity check after looking at some bits of that code.
I can't speak to the code, but I use OpenSSH and it's attendant transfer goodies every day and find the whole Hee Haw gang to be extremely useful and possed of a very logical interface.
In the end, I don't have an opinion one way or another on how the code looks to people, as long as it gets the job done and keeps the hottentots out of my business.
Holy leaping sheepshit. When I opened my bookstore in 1994, I had three copies of "Big U" that I had bought from some Notre Dame students. It had the yellow infinite-regression-and-college-boobs cover and I sold them for 30% off cover.
One really cool thing that RatShak/MS have done with the Starband (Gilat-to-home) system is bundle it in a uniform system.
The hardware/OS are all the same, so what you get will work- for sure (or break predictably which amounts to the same thing;-)
This is also cool because the posited hackers will all be on the same page during development, thereby speeding things up a tad.
I have used and participated in beta testing of the Hughes DirecPC system (which once had a commercially available driver for linux) and have found it to be flaky, flaky pastry. Like all systems that use a land line return (the Hybrid Cable Modem in one incarnation springs to mind) tend to blow monkeys with relish. (The Hybrid in bi-directional wireless mode, is most fast and reliable, authentication security aside...)
All reports from Beta testers of the Starband/Gilat systems are much more positive.
I read in Technology Review that Stephenson can be seen hanging around the Micros~1 campus. Slumming? Drugged and hypnotized? Or waiting.... just waiting.... One of his characters would be carrying an emp weapon made out of an old Amana RadarRange magnetron. Maybe that is why nothing is shipping on time. Huummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Hmmmm.... I have never heard of this "man foo" style you describe. I am a high adept of the "Chi Ken" school of "Run Fu".
OpenBSD audits their code for security, and the auditing gets rid of the worst of the poorly written code, but sometimes, the most secure design is horrifically unintuitive. The newer bits (like OpenSSH) show this the most: you'll need to make a sanity check after looking at some bits of that code.
I can't speak to the code, but I use OpenSSH and it's attendant transfer goodies every day and find the whole Hee Haw gang to be extremely useful and possed of a very logical interface.
In the end, I don't have an opinion one way or another on how the code looks to people, as long as it gets the job done and keeps the hottentots out of my business.
Holy leaping sheepshit. When I opened my bookstore in 1994, I had three copies of "Big U" that I had bought from some Notre Dame students. It had the yellow infinite-regression-and-college-boobs cover and I sold them for 30% off cover.
There ain't no loathing like self-loathing.
One really cool thing that RatShak/MS have done with the Starband (Gilat-to-home) system is bundle it in a uniform system.
The hardware/OS are all the same, so what you get will work- for sure (or break predictably which amounts to the same thing ;-)
This is also cool because the posited hackers will all be on the same page during development, thereby speeding things up a tad.
I have used and participated in beta testing of the Hughes DirecPC system (which once had a commercially available driver for linux) and have found it to be flaky, flaky pastry. Like all systems that use a land line return (the Hybrid Cable Modem in one incarnation springs to mind) tend to blow monkeys with relish. (The Hybrid in bi-directional wireless mode, is most fast and reliable, authentication security aside...)
All reports from Beta testers of the Starband/Gilat systems are much more positive.
Heh. I don't know. One might think that BNL's ads might be protected under satire. Or just smartasstire.
I always liked Grand Theft Canoe better anyway...
The OpenBSD Daemon Cop will supply a beat-down corps... armed with blowfish-hide covered batons.
I swear to god I'm gonna ground both you kids!
I guess "neat" is relative. The thing reminds me of a Renault Alliance...
I read in Technology Review that Stephenson can be
seen hanging around the Micros~1 campus. Slumming?
Drugged and hypnotized? Or waiting.... just waiting.... One of his characters would be carrying an emp weapon made out of an old Amana RadarRange magnetron. Maybe that is why nothing is shipping on time. Huummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.