Maybe you should check out the sites before passing judgment about them. Actually, I was about to reply to your comment with another snarky jab, but I decided to check out some of the sites and I actually found a bunch of movies that I can't wait to watch once I get home from work.
Granted, I'll still probably go to other torrent sites too, but don't knock it until you try it. =)
I never had a BB gun when I was a kid (mom wouldn't let us have toy guns at all, actually), but I saw "a christmas story" and I know what happens, dammit!
Kids took guns to school for 200 years in this country without turning them on one another.
Clearly, I must have been enrolled in the wrong school district... all I got was a few lousy Pee-Chee folders and those pencils that never erase quite right. =/
I found it ironic that he attacked OSS advocates by using the same language he found so "unprofessional" of them. Yes, it's hypocritcal of him as well, but goddammit, I know what the word irony means.;)
You realize that when you mock OSS advocates as "rabid", "nouveau-hippies", and "nut-cases" whilst critizicing them for their fanaticism against Microsoft, it's.... hrms, what's the word I'm looking for again?
You know, the president the US admitted to abusing both cocaine and pot, and look where he is now. Where exactly are you going that would "tarnish your reputation" from lifting a file from a P2P network?
I'm waiting until it's 50$, I won't pay a penny more! Well shit, after paying taxes, even 50$ seems a bit steep... lets make it an even 20$ and call it a day.
Nonsense. Look at all the "terraforming" going on here on earth these days. After we've figured out how to properly warm up this planet, we'll be ready to "civilize" mars.
omg, no kidding?! I'll meet you at the shuttleport, and we'll catch the next transport out! You don't think that the IRS has any jurisdiction on Mars City, do you?
Just read osnews for tech stories that will be published in/. tomorrow (with user comments even more idiotic than those found here, believe it or not), and then hit up boingboing for all the "humor" stories that will be reposted after a 6 hour delay.
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Re:My experience with logfinder
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Did you catch the part about "(This requires lsof to be installed, and lsof's ability to report open files accurately may depend on your operating system. So far, we've had success with Linux and MacOS X, and some difficulty with FreeBSD and OpenBSD.)".... ?
Martin, Many major companies such as IBM and Apple have learned that they can benefit from OSS software by taking an existing OSS product, refining it to fit their needs, and then redistributing the finished product and giving some source back to the community. In this manner, for instance, Apple was able to produce Safari, which is IMO a high-quality and stable web browser, that was produced much faster than it would have taken Apple to write an equivilent product from scratch.
Why has Microsoft not taken similar approaches to software development? I guess that in the past, OSS code has been used in Windows (TCP stack, for starters), but why does Microsoft insist on resisting innovation rather than contributing to it?
My experience with logfinder
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Running openbsd 3.6 on x86:
tresor:src$ tar xfvz logfinder-0.1.tar.gz logfinder-0.1 logfinder-0.1/logfinder.py logfinder-0.1/README logfinder-0.1/COPYING tresor:src$ cd logfinder-0.1 tresor:logfinder-0.1$ sudo./logfinder.py Scanning for open files systemwide... [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)'
(repeats several dozen more times...)
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd1a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/raid0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/raid0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd1a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd1a)' Scanned sizes of 30 files. Waiting for log activity; please allow time to elapse. Press Enter to continue. [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd1a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/wd0a)' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '(/dev/raid0a)' tresor:logfinder-0.1$ cd.. tresor:src$ rm -rf logfinder*
At least the EFF's lawyers are better than their programmers.;)
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No, because then it would be a "kazaa-killer".
Ditto. =) Very rarely do I read posts on /. that make me laugh aloud like this.
If Fox News is considered journalism in this day and age, then sure, why the hell not?!
The major improvement in my eyes is that some models have an FM tuner.
Well, I guess that's -kind- of like the shuffle... I mean, you still know exactly what songs are going to be played, you just don't know the order.
Maybe you should check out the sites before passing judgment about them. Actually, I was about to reply to your comment with another snarky jab, but I decided to check out some of the sites and I actually found a bunch of movies that I can't wait to watch once I get home from work.
Granted, I'll still probably go to other torrent sites too, but don't knock it until you try it. =)
I never had a BB gun when I was a kid (mom wouldn't let us have toy guns at all, actually), but I saw "a christmas story" and I know what happens, dammit!
Give credit where it's due
From TFA:
Kids took guns to school for 200 years in this country without turning them on one another.
Clearly, I must have been enrolled in the wrong school district... all I got was a few lousy Pee-Chee folders and those pencils that never erase quite right. =/
I found it ironic that he attacked OSS advocates by using the same language he found so "unprofessional" of them. Yes, it's hypocritcal of him as well, but goddammit, I know what the word irony means. ;)
You want free as in beer.
You're goddamn right we do!
You realize that when you mock OSS advocates as "rabid", "nouveau-hippies", and "nut-cases" whilst critizicing them for their fanaticism against Microsoft, it's.... hrms, what's the word I'm looking for again?
Oh yeah, IRONIC.
You know, the president the US admitted to abusing both cocaine and pot, and look where he is now. Where exactly are you going that would "tarnish your reputation" from lifting a file from a P2P network?
I dunno; ask Elton John. I heard he's pretty wicked with a joust, too.
I'm waiting until it's 50$, I won't pay a penny more! Well shit, after paying taxes, even 50$ seems a bit steep... lets make it an even 20$ and call it a day.
See you at the apple store!
I betcha Jon Katz just changed his name and thought nobody here would notice...
Nonsense. Look at all the "terraforming" going on here on earth these days. After we've figured out how to properly warm up this planet, we'll be ready to "civilize" mars.
...we can go RIGHT NOW.
omg, no kidding?! I'll meet you at the shuttleport, and we'll catch the next transport out! You don't think that the IRS has any jurisdiction on Mars City, do you?
4. Profit!
('???' step omitted as having been already actualized by companies in step 1).
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 16, 2005 -- Microsoft Corp. has for decades been on the cutting-edge of technological innovation...
This is where I stopped reading TFA. =)
Just read osnews for tech stories that will be published in /. tomorrow (with user comments even more idiotic than those found here, believe it or not), and then hit up boingboing for all the "humor" stories that will be reposted after a 6 hour delay.
Nothin' to it!
If having nuclear weapons makes a state inherently evil, then that'd make USA, France, UK and Russia all evil.
Were you trying to be sarcastic here?
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Did you catch the part about "(This requires lsof to be installed, and lsof's ability to report open files accurately may depend on your operating system. So far, we've had success with Linux and MacOS X, and some difficulty with FreeBSD and OpenBSD.)".... ?
Martin,
Many major companies such as IBM and Apple have learned that they can benefit from OSS software by taking an existing OSS product, refining it to fit their needs, and then redistributing the finished product and giving some source back to the community. In this manner, for instance, Apple was able to produce Safari, which is IMO a high-quality and stable web browser, that was produced much faster than it would have taken Apple to write an equivilent product from scratch.
Why has Microsoft not taken similar approaches to software development? I guess that in the past, OSS code has been used in Windows (TCP stack, for starters), but why does Microsoft insist on resisting innovation rather than contributing to it?