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  1. Re:No weapons! on Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up · · Score: 1

    I love how the camera guy asks if they're ok and what's wrong. Apparently taking a 12 ft jump onto your butt is a great way to relieve hemhorroids and has no side effects until this freak incident they caught on camera.

  2. Re:This may be a hit! on Porn Industry Trials Burnable DVDs · · Score: 1

    You in tri-cities?

  3. Re:Trillian 0.74E -- transitory solution on Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients · · Score: 1

    Actually, the best way is to edit your yahoo.ini so that auto connect=0 instead of 1.

  4. Re:Think *wealth*, not *dollars* on Tech Rich Get Richer · · Score: 2, Informative

    I recently went to Roatan, Honduras, where this is especially true. On the small island where I was for a couple weeks this summer, I saw the effect of a free clinic that has existed for only seven years. While the locals used to have children one after the other, just to account for the high mortality rate, now there is a huge number of children under 5 (compared to the number of teenagers). Women live through childbirth, something all but the youngest members of that society know that they are blessed with. That is only one (albeit a very important one) aspect of their life, I'm sure you can extrapolate that to other aspects as well.

  5. Re:linux sucks donkey dick on New FreeBSD, NetBSD Security Advisories · · Score: 1

    put
    OPENSSH_OVERWRITE_BASE= true
    in your /etc/rc.conf. I'll leave it to you to figure out what that does to the port...

  6. Re:Still no on FreeBSD September-October 2002 Development Status · · Score: 4, Informative

    Um, look into atapicam. It's in -STABLE right now, and has been in -CURRENT for even longer. (I'm assuming you're talking about being able to use cdrecord on ide cd-r(w)'s)

  7. Re:Heh jsut in time :) on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is better to track RELENG_4_7, as you then get all the bugfixes and security updates, but none of the tweaks that accompany RELENG_4.

  8. Re:What is the relevance of FreeBSD today? on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, there was an article awhile back on the highpoint driver being stolen. Stolen, meaning that the BSD license wasn't adhered to, as credit wasn't given to the original author.

  9. Re:The best? on Official FreeBSD nVidia Drivers · · Score: 1
    Neither OS is inherently more secure.

    Au contraire, bonjour...OpenBSD is inherently more secure. When you take a look at the performance record of both OBSD and Linux, I think the numbers will speak for themselves. Of course, this isn't to say it's perfect, but it is a good sight better than just the "Silly luser, *nix is for admins!" approach that you hear on the various #linux's, mailing lists, etc.

  10. Re:I'm still waiting on PHP on Sites Rejecting Apache 2? · · Score: 1

    Especially considering it's a documented problem with solaris...

  11. Lucent? on A Highly Portable Sandbox Facility For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember Lucent making something similar to this a few years back that could encapsulate a binary to stop buffer overflows. I know that's not the same, but it is similar. I'm too lazy to look for a link, so one of you karma whores (smnolde) can dig up a link.

  12. Re:Gilmore Patent on Red Hat Files for Software Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IBM and HP are two companies that are beginning to use linux extensively, yet they also have numerous patents, both in their posession and pending. Are you sure you want to alienate the two largest friends linux has on a religious basis?

  13. Re:money or principle? on Red Hat Files for Software Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you not find it ironic that with the problems you have had in the past with the US Patent Office, that you have two patent applications that you are writing up? This would seem to be like how Rosie O'Donnell is an anti-firearm advocate, yet she employs armed bodyguards.

  14. Re:Why don't they just use Firebird? on California + Oracle = $95 Million Fiasco · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is you're probably serious...

  15. Re:IBM HDs on No Hassle RAID 5 Implementations? · · Score: 1

    It's worth noting that the linux drivers were ripped off of FreeBSD. I say ripped off, because that's exactly what they were, taken with no credit given to the author, in violation of the BSD license.

  16. Re:5.0 is a pretty big change. on Updated FreeBSD Release Schedule · · Score: 1
    ...will the FreeBSD code used by Apple in Darwin/MacOS X be sync'ed with FB5.x???


    Most likely not. The FreeBSD code that Apple used in OS X is from the 3.x line of FBSD, and in the future jkh has said they'd update to 4.x. (or something to that effect)

  17. Re:Maybe _not_ such a good thing on Questions over the Windows Trademark · · Score: 1

    Dell and Ford would be protected from another company using those words in their name, AFAIK, BUT if there was an unrelated business (like Ford Plumbing), they have no reason to bitch.

  18. Re:leading to new metamoderation categories . . . on FreeBSD XP^H^H 4.5 available now · · Score: 1

    I would have nailed him as a troll too. The real Jordan Hubbard is known as jkh, and has a uid of 3999. Anyone who impersonates someone else like this, whether they do it for good or bad, should be modded down.

  19. Re:Why? on FreeBSD on New Architectures · · Score: 1

    This wasn't a troll, I just would hate to see FBSD go the way of linux with it's "let's see if this microwave will run 2.4" attitude.

  20. Why? on FreeBSD on New Architectures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can understand the IA-64 port, as most of the x86 crowd will eventually be there, but why PPC and SPARC? Those are even more major changes, and makes a lot more work for drivers etc. Given that the SMP code in FBSD is nowhere near that of Solaris, it would make more sense to stick to the workgroup server sized market, with 4-8 CPU machines on x86 (what really needs 1 or 2 proc sun hardware that can't be accomplished on 1-2 way x86 or even 4-way x86?).

  21. Re:*BSD is dying on Seeking Commerical Telephone Support for FreeBSD? · · Score: 1

    Please don't feed the trolls. :)

  22. Re:Can one make a good living as a FreeBSD guy? on Seeking Commerical Telephone Support for FreeBSD? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There aren't that many jobs out there where you can learn one thing and say you can earn a living off of it. Not NT, not Cisco, not anything. Of course, there are exceptions, but you really need to learn half a dozen things to be a well-rounded admin, and that's what's truely valuable to a company, because then you can adapt to changes in technology much easier.

  23. http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/consulting.html on Seeking Commerical Telephone Support for FreeBSD? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you look here? I'd find it hard to believe that there aren't three there that would be willing to draft up something for phone support, especially that many of them consult network/server installations.

  24. Re:off topic? on Daemon News Publishing FreeBSD CDs · · Score: 1

    I can't say about the modem, the list archives are the best place for that. About the kernel though, go to the freebsd handbook and you'll find the latest instructions on kernel compilation.

  25. Re:the nice thing about the bsd section... on FreeBSD Security Fundamentals Presentation at Toor · · Score: 1

    And where might we find this report?