I think they mean "snarf", but more likely they're trying to invent jargon.
snarf/snarf//vt./
1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also BLT. 2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also blast. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning `to eat piggishly'. It may still have this connotation in context. "He's in the snarfing phase of hacking -- FTPing megs of stuff a day." 3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them." 4. Syn. for slurp. "This program starts by snarfing the entire database into core, then...." 5. [GEnie] To spray food or programming fluids due to laughing at the wrong moment. "I was drinking coffee, and when I read your post I snarfed all over my desk." "If I keep reading this topic, I think I'll have to snarf-proof my computer with a keyboard condom." [This sense appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers --ESR]
Also, this is no where near anything you could classify as "cracking" or even inaccurately as "hacking" unless the USB device is used to upload a virus to the computer, in which case there is no "snuffling" about it.
I had GeoWorks Ensemble on my first 386 and GEOS on my C64. I remember the first time I saw Windows 3.1 and thinking, what a crappy GeoWorks knockoff...
So they dropped support for basic authentication by making "@" an invalid character, what about the problem with having "%01" in a url?
Also, in making "@" an invalid character, did they actually take out the basic authentication code or leave it in there to rot like so much forgotten leftovers in the refrigerator?
For those new to Plan 9, it's a continuation of some core UNIX ideas like everything is a file, most services can be handled by fileservers, anything can be accomplished with a few simple operations (read, write, open, close, fork, exec). Nore notable concepts in Plan 9 are individual process namespaces and no root user per se.
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This is the next step in the World Domination of Open Source/Free Software that we've been talking about for years.
The good news is this is the kind of World Domination that isn't bad.
Free (beer) solaris x86 makes it accessable to poor college students. Whether or not Linux is the only relevent unix-like OS for x86, exposure to various systems, ie *BSD, Linux, Plan9, Solaris x86, is a good learning experience. I'm sure many/.ers got their start in computing that way.
Some boneheaded admin who locked himself out and is too embarrased to admit he can't login to restart apache calls up Darl and says, "Hey we're being hit!! OMG!!"
"Red Hat has aggressively lobbied Congress to eliminate software patents and copyrights. (see http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html )."
How is Redhat aggressively lobbying to eliminate copyrights? McBride is constantly confusing terminology, either purposefully to obfuscate the truth, or out of utter ignorance. Likely the latter.
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heh, I meant snarfing in general, not using the obviously contrived cam- prefix..
I think they mean "snarf", but more likely they're trying to invent jargon.
/snarf/ /vt./
snarf
1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission. See also BLT. 2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network. See also blast. This term was mainstream in the late 1960s, meaning `to eat piggishly'. It may still have this connotation in context. "He's in the snarfing phase of hacking -- FTPing megs of stuff a day." 3. To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). "They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them." 4. Syn. for slurp. "This program starts by snarfing the entire database into core, then...." 5. [GEnie] To spray food or programming fluids due to laughing at the wrong moment. "I was drinking coffee, and when I read your post I snarfed all over my desk." "If I keep reading this topic, I think I'll have to snarf-proof my computer with a keyboard condom." [This sense appears to be widespread among mundane teenagers --ESR]
Also, this is no where near anything you could classify as "cracking" or even inaccurately as "hacking" unless the USB device is used to upload a virus to the computer, in which case there is no "snuffling" about it.
All posts are owned by Anonymous Coward?
It would have taken an infinite number of monkeys to come up with the something better
I had GeoWorks Ensemble on my first 386 and GEOS on my C64. I remember the first time I saw Windows 3.1 and thinking, what a crappy GeoWorks knockoff...
So they dropped support for basic authentication by making "@" an invalid character, what about the problem with having "%01" in a url?
Also, in making "@" an invalid character, did they actually take out the basic authentication code or leave it in there to rot like so much forgotten leftovers in the refrigerator?
For those new to Plan 9, it's a continuation of some core UNIX ideas like everything is a file, most services can be handled by fileservers, anything can be accomplished with a few simple operations (read, write, open, close, fork, exec). Nore notable concepts in Plan 9 are individual process namespaces and no root user per se.
The good news is this is the kind of World Domination that isn't bad.
Nothing to see, move along.
You're next.
Free (beer) solaris x86 makes it accessable to poor college students. Whether or not Linux is the only relevent unix-like OS for x86, exposure to various systems, ie *BSD, Linux, Plan9, Solaris x86, is a good learning experience. I'm sure many /.ers got their start in computing that way.
The only information people want to see is the same information they don't want anyone to have: evidence of their claims.
Some boneheaded admin who locked himself out and is too embarrased to admit he can't login to restart apache calls up Darl and says, "Hey we're being hit!! OMG!!"
"Red Hat has aggressively lobbied Congress to eliminate software patents and copyrights. (see http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html )." How is Redhat aggressively lobbying to eliminate copyrights? McBride is constantly confusing terminology, either purposefully to obfuscate the truth, or out of utter ignorance. Likely the latter.