Well I'm pretty new to FreeBSD since I was using it on and off for a year, then switched to using it full time 2 years ago, and in all honesty I don't find the rescue disks to be all that useful. Apparently I'm missing something because whenever I go into recovery mode, the root partition is always mounted as READ ONLY. Hard to fix a problem in/etc when you can't write to fucking files! Likewise the rescue disk has enough to get by with, but not much more.
Having a self contained live CD gives you enough room to get around the system. Generally as long as I have vim,bash,tar, and dd I'm okay, but the rest of the software is handy as well. Basically a Linux live CD won't give you the ability to write to ufs2 partitions, and the FreeBSD rescue/install disk doesn't give you enough to work with. Thus FreeSBIE fills in this gap really well.
ou knew a.com was a company, a.org was a non-profit, a.net was service provider etc
Well I think the nature of what you say is exactly why the meaning became diluted. I mean what kind of internet is it when only organizations, companies and service providers can have domain names? If I want to make a website I'm going to be a slave to whatever provider I choose because I don't want to change the address? (since I'd have to use a subdomain)
While it's true that new TLDs are pointless, this is the natural progression in the fact that we all of humanity fighting over the same namespace, and each one has to be unique. As such there is really never going to be a way to solve this mess.
That's why I'm holding out on it as well. But I figure by the time they support Ogg Vorbis they'll be powered by cosmic rays or something so you won't need batteries anymore.
If that's true, it sort of makes me wonder just what in the hell MS is doing. The other day I got an excel spreadsheet that was 5.4 Mb. I went through it trying to figure out why it was so large, but in the end just gave up. I tinkered with exporting it in Open Office. Then for the hell of it I resaved it to MS Excel. The size went down to 2.6Mb. Now that really puzzles me because I opened it up in Excel with no problems what-so-ever, I couldn't find anything wrong. So where are they getting the extra junk from? Saving it to native OpenOffice was a nice 640Kb BTW.
Especially when you consider that winamp can now look like whatever you want it to, and it has a fully extendable plugin arcetecture. Whatever pathetic player AOL comes up with, you'll be able to pretty much duplicate the interface with a winamp skin, and could have duplicated the functionality through a plugin. I'm willing to bet winamp will be faster too.
Classic case of left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing. Or the execs have their head up their ass. Probably both.
I was going to say "ha ha I bet there hasn't been an exploit for ed in 20 years, but according to Google there was one on Solaris in freaking 2004. Fuck man, I feel so disillusioned. I mean it's ed man, ED! What is there left to trust?!
I disagree. Anyone who wants to translate Open Office into Klingon shouldn't be a part of regular society and is best left to working hard in their basement on the "Klingon translation project" instead of wandering free and pestring the rest of the civilized world.
Sounds to me like your post is geared towards reproduction. You know most of that can be accomplished with simply leaving the computer on while it's compiling and making a donation to a sperm bank. Then you don't need to spend time dating or marrying, and someone else raises your kid. Now you have kids (but don't) and still get to use the computer as much as you want without having to share it with them =P
If any of them were to drop CVS support for Subversion, for instance, users would have to adapt, and with the significant user base of BSD, that's quite a disruption.
Well yes and no. Personally I don't use CVS in any shape or form unless you count cvsup on my ports-building server. CVS has always been in the base system, but does it need to be there? no. CVS has had it's share of security problems and being in the base system only makes it a pain in the ass to fix. Simply put CVS doesn't belong in the base system, it should be a port. FreeBSD moved Perl into the ports section with much success and little adaptation. Now we get to choose our Perl version and get the ease of updates through the port. CVS, BIND, Sendmail - they're all secuirity headaches that have better alternatives and thus are better off as options, instead of part of the install.
Let me know when they've finished with their GCC, Gnome, and KDE replacements. I'm looking forward to trying them out in 2012.
Judging by this commment I'm guessing you haven't used any BSD variant. The idea isn't to reimplement EVERY piece of GPLed code, only the stuff in the BASE SYSTEM. It's hard for many Linux users to make that distinction, but in BSD you have the base operating system (that's more than the kernel) and the add on software.
Would you be happy using Linux if it had random things that had proprietary licences in it? Of course not. By the same token BSD is about being free via the BSD licence, it's really a snag when you have a mix of tools using BSD and GPL licences.
I don't see stuff like GCC going away, but GCC isn't neccesary for a functioning system so it can be torn out if someone doesn't need it. Most of the base system has GNU utilities in odd spots (tar was recently replaced in FreeBSD for instance). When all of this is said and done you know that the base system is BSD, and the rest of the software is whatever you stack on top of it - no confusion as to what is where.
I could see Jobs going for this. Why did/does Apple offer discounts to schools and such if they ONLY want to be the "BMW" of the home computer market? Because they need the mindshare. One of the biggest factors that determines what people use at home is what they use at work. Right now Apple is poised in a unique position in having the most user friendly OS along with a Unix back-end. That gives the IT department power and flexibility, while it gives users a nice system to use. If IBM could manage Linux on the servers, and Apple on the desktops, they really might have a winner if it all actually works together.
Well that's all speculation, but I think in the end IBM is just going to step away from the desktop business for a while. You have cheap commodity hardware with little margin, and it's driven by an OS which you have no control over (Microsoft). It's probably a better move just to concentrate on servers and services and wait to see how the desktop arena pans out.
It depends on what you are using Outlook for. Now for typical usage, it doesn't make much sense. But on a large scale corperate enviornment, having these things together is actually smarter than you might initally suppose. For some places, email isn't just a messaging tool it IS the collaboration tool. A friend of mine was marketing director for a tech company and would tell me about getting 200 emails PER DAY. Now when you use email on that level, you will quickly need 1) contacts to keep track of who is who 2) a "todo" list because you'll probably never remember all that on your own. 3) scheduling, because realistically that's what a fair portion of corperate email is about, getting together and having worthless meetings.
As an aside I'd like to say that resource scheduling in Exchange is a joke. It makes no sense AT ALL, and looks like a sorry cheap hack which is pretty pathetic comming from Microsoft.
Outlook isn't a bad in theory, but there are a lot of things which could be improved upon. I think the approach of "stuffing" it all together is probably the wrong way to do it. With a modular program like Kontact you have a choice at least. You can use Kontact for mail/scheduling/etc, which includes Kmail, or use Kmail as the stand alone mail client.
1) I don't think you're required to buy a MySQL licence unless you need other licence requirements or support from the company.
2) You have any proof that Postgres is faster than mysql? Everything I've seen indicates that mysql is still *slightly* faster than postgres. Most of the systems I've worked with I haven't seen much of a difference. Personally I only use Postgresql for everything, but on other systems mysql seems to be about the same.
Windows firewall was one of the "New features" of windows xp, but you have to turn it on first - no need for service pack 1.
You can get an unpatched windows 2000 machine to connect to the internet [without being comprimised] to download updates just fine, (from my experience, your milage may vary) Just enable TCP/IP filtering in advanced networking and set TCP to permit only (nothing). Can do this on XP as well.
chroot basically changes what a process sees on the filesystem (changes the root seen). Jail goes a step farther by imprisoning and restricting what processes are allowed to do. I think jail also requires binding to an ip address, but I'm not sure about that. Most people I know using BSD (including myself) just use chroot since it's easier to configure.
That depends on what you mean by strong and weak. Economically the south is of course much stronger. But are the materialistic tech obsessed people stronger than those who lead an impoverished life and have a powerful will to survive? I hardly think so.
Realistically neither will invade. The south can't afford it because the instantanious retaliation of artilery would destroy a vast ammount of their country within minutes - and that's a price NO country is willing to pay. The north can't afford it because the exposure to what the south has (or had) would be the kiss of death to the regime there.
It's basically a stalemate at the border, although both take it deathly seriously. The north will eventually collapse, but that could take a long time or happen in a year or two.
Is there any reason you can't use a card with TV out? I've thought about perhaps setting something like this up, but using a VGA monitor doesn't really appeal to me - yet no one seems to bring up the TV out aspect so apparently I'm missing something?
That should open up a lot of possibilities in KDE by using dcop then. I'm certainly looking forward to that! I wonder if this will improve loading times as well.
it _might_ be a good idea to mix systems a bit so that whatever happens to one system, you still have some significant percentage of the network still running
Or at least segment your network. I think the loss of 'maintainability' from segmenting the network into 10000 PC clusters might be better than risking something like say, an update that goes wrong and f's up 60000 PC's.
Although it doesn't look as impressive for those full page Microsoft e-week ads like:
Mr. I fucked up 60000 PC's in a couple minues on accident
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Well I'm pretty new to FreeBSD since I was using it on and off for a year, then switched to using it full time 2 years ago, and in all honesty I don't find the rescue disks to be all that useful. Apparently I'm missing something because whenever I go into recovery mode, the root partition is always mounted as READ ONLY. Hard to fix a problem in /etc when you can't write to fucking files! Likewise the rescue disk has enough to get by with, but not much more.
Having a self contained live CD gives you enough room to get around the system. Generally as long as I have vim,bash,tar, and dd I'm okay, but the rest of the software is handy as well. Basically a Linux live CD won't give you the ability to write to ufs2 partitions, and the FreeBSD rescue/install disk doesn't give you enough to work with. Thus FreeSBIE fills in this gap really well.
but how come there's python but no ruby?
ou knew a .com was a company, a .org was a non-profit, a .net was service provider etc
Well I think the nature of what you say is exactly why the meaning became diluted. I mean what kind of internet is it when only organizations, companies and service providers can have domain names? If I want to make a website I'm going to be a slave to whatever provider I choose because I don't want to change the address? (since I'd have to use a subdomain)
While it's true that new TLDs are pointless, this is the natural progression in the fact that we all of humanity fighting over the same namespace, and each one has to be unique. As such there is really never going to be a way to solve this mess.
That's why I'm holding out on it as well. But I figure by the time they support Ogg Vorbis they'll be powered by cosmic rays or something so you won't need batteries anymore.
If that's true, it sort of makes me wonder just what in the hell MS is doing. The other day I got an excel spreadsheet that was 5.4 Mb. I went through it trying to figure out why it was so large, but in the end just gave up. I tinkered with exporting it in Open Office. Then for the hell of it I resaved it to MS Excel. The size went down to 2.6Mb. Now that really puzzles me because I opened it up in Excel with no problems what-so-ever, I couldn't find anything wrong. So where are they getting the extra junk from? Saving it to native OpenOffice was a nice 640Kb BTW.
Especially when you consider that winamp can now look like whatever you want it to, and it has a fully extendable plugin arcetecture. Whatever pathetic player AOL comes up with, you'll be able to pretty much duplicate the interface with a winamp skin, and could have duplicated the functionality through a plugin. I'm willing to bet winamp will be faster too.
Classic case of left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing. Or the execs have their head up their ass. Probably both.
I was going to say "ha ha I bet there hasn't been an exploit for ed in 20 years, but according to Google there was one on Solaris in freaking 2004. Fuck man, I feel so disillusioned. I mean it's ed man, ED! What is there left to trust?!
I disagree. Anyone who wants to translate Open Office into Klingon shouldn't be a part of regular society and is best left to working hard in their basement on the "Klingon translation project" instead of wandering free and pestring the rest of the civilized world.
So by all means, translate away! =)
uh.... 42?
Can I be his sidekick now?
Sounds to me like your post is geared towards reproduction. You know most of that can be accomplished with simply leaving the computer on while it's compiling and making a donation to a sperm bank. Then you don't need to spend time dating or marrying, and someone else raises your kid. Now you have kids (but don't) and still get to use the computer as much as you want without having to share it with them =P
If any of them were to drop CVS support for Subversion, for instance, users would have to adapt, and with the significant user base of BSD, that's quite a disruption.
Well yes and no. Personally I don't use CVS in any shape or form unless you count cvsup on my ports-building server. CVS has always been in the base system, but does it need to be there? no. CVS has had it's share of security problems and being in the base system only makes it a pain in the ass to fix. Simply put CVS doesn't belong in the base system, it should be a port. FreeBSD moved Perl into the ports section with much success and little adaptation. Now we get to choose our Perl version and get the ease of updates through the port. CVS, BIND, Sendmail - they're all secuirity headaches that have better alternatives and thus are better off as options, instead of part of the install.
Let me know when they've finished with their GCC, Gnome, and KDE replacements. I'm looking forward to trying them out in 2012.
Judging by this commment I'm guessing you haven't used any BSD variant. The idea isn't to reimplement EVERY piece of GPLed code, only the stuff in the BASE SYSTEM. It's hard for many Linux users to make that distinction, but in BSD you have the base operating system (that's more than the kernel) and the add on software.
Would you be happy using Linux if it had random things that had proprietary licences in it? Of course not. By the same token BSD is about being free via the BSD licence, it's really a snag when you have a mix of tools using BSD and GPL licences.
I don't see stuff like GCC going away, but GCC isn't neccesary for a functioning system so it can be torn out if someone doesn't need it. Most of the base system has GNU utilities in odd spots (tar was recently replaced in FreeBSD for instance). When all of this is said and done you know that the base system is BSD, and the rest of the software is whatever you stack on top of it - no confusion as to what is where.
I could see Jobs going for this. Why did/does Apple offer discounts to schools and such if they ONLY want to be the "BMW" of the home computer market? Because they need the mindshare. One of the biggest factors that determines what people use at home is what they use at work. Right now Apple is poised in a unique position in having the most user friendly OS along with a Unix back-end. That gives the IT department power and flexibility, while it gives users a nice system to use. If IBM could manage Linux on the servers, and Apple on the desktops, they really might have a winner if it all actually works together.
Well that's all speculation, but I think in the end IBM is just going to step away from the desktop business for a while. You have cheap commodity hardware with little margin, and it's driven by an OS which you have no control over (Microsoft). It's probably a better move just to concentrate on servers and services and wait to see how the desktop arena pans out.
It depends on what you are using Outlook for. Now for typical usage, it doesn't make much sense. But on a large scale corperate enviornment, having these things together is actually smarter than you might initally suppose. For some places, email isn't just a messaging tool it IS the collaboration tool. A friend of mine was marketing director for a tech company and would tell me about getting 200 emails PER DAY. Now when you use email on that level, you will quickly need 1) contacts to keep track of who is who 2) a "todo" list because you'll probably never remember all that on your own. 3) scheduling, because realistically that's what a fair portion of corperate email is about, getting together and having worthless meetings.
As an aside I'd like to say that resource scheduling in Exchange is a joke. It makes no sense AT ALL, and looks like a sorry cheap hack which is pretty pathetic comming from Microsoft.
Outlook isn't a bad in theory, but there are a lot of things which could be improved upon. I think the approach of "stuffing" it all together is probably the wrong way to do it. With a modular program like Kontact you have a choice at least. You can use Kontact for mail/scheduling/etc, which includes Kmail, or use Kmail as the stand alone mail client.
1) I don't think you're required to buy a MySQL licence unless you need other licence requirements or support from the company.
2) You have any proof that Postgres is faster than mysql? Everything I've seen indicates that mysql is still *slightly* faster than postgres. Most of the systems I've worked with I haven't seen much of a difference. Personally I only use Postgresql for everything, but on other systems mysql seems to be about the same.
Windows firewall was one of the "New features" of windows xp, but you have to turn it on first - no need for service pack 1.
You can get an unpatched windows 2000 machine to connect to the internet [without being comprimised] to download updates just fine, (from my experience, your milage may vary) Just enable TCP/IP filtering in advanced networking and set TCP to permit only (nothing). Can do this on XP as well.
That's one way to force development to get Gimp to load as fast as possible.
which will most likely be curses-based only
;)
ho ho ho, beccoming more like BSD all the time aren't we
chroot basically changes what a process sees on the filesystem (changes the root seen). Jail goes a step farther by imprisoning and restricting what processes are allowed to do. I think jail also requires binding to an ip address, but I'm not sure about that. Most people I know using BSD (including myself) just use chroot since it's easier to configure.
being smart or stupid doesn't neccesarily mean you are or are not gullable.
The strong dominates the weak
That depends on what you mean by strong and weak. Economically the south is of course much stronger. But are the materialistic tech obsessed people stronger than those who lead an impoverished life and have a powerful will to survive? I hardly think so.
Realistically neither will invade. The south can't afford it because the instantanious retaliation of artilery would destroy a vast ammount of their country within minutes - and that's a price NO country is willing to pay. The north can't afford it because the exposure to what the south has (or had) would be the kiss of death to the regime there.
It's basically a stalemate at the border, although both take it deathly seriously. The north will eventually collapse, but that could take a long time or happen in a year or two.
I have learned that until you are the one person keeping someone's computer alive, you never really completely control or own that person.
I think I'll keep that one as the quote of the month for slashdot.
Heh, only on slashdot would people note a hackers name in the background of a defaced website, and totally overlook a chick in a picture.
Is there any reason you can't use a card with TV out? I've thought about perhaps setting something like this up, but using a VGA monitor doesn't really appeal to me - yet no one seems to bring up the TV out aspect so apparently I'm missing something?
That should open up a lot of possibilities in KDE by using dcop then. I'm certainly looking forward to that! I wonder if this will improve loading times as well.
it _might_ be a good idea to mix systems a bit so that whatever happens to one system, you still have some significant percentage of the network still running
Or at least segment your network. I think the loss of 'maintainability' from segmenting the network into 10000 PC clusters might be better than risking something like say, an update that goes wrong and f's up 60000 PC's.
Although it doesn't look as impressive for those full page Microsoft e-week ads like:
Mr. I fucked up 60000 PC's in a couple minues on accident