Agree with everything you said. People complain about government regulation all the time without thinking that 1. it's the only thing that keeps corporations in check and 2. it's their government for them(though it might not seem like it sometimes), made up of their representatives who are their peers.
Unfortunately it takes constant vigilance to defend against greed. And some goverments attempt to pass legislation that give tax breaks to the richer. eg. the recent share tax breaks in the US.
Just tried out the new SCHED_ULE scheduler and so far it is awesome on my SMP machine. XFree86 uses half the CPU it used to and it was very smooth running other apps whilst rebuilding the kernel with -j6, eg. FXTV.
With IceWM I do almost everything on the keyboard; the only time I need a mouse is for some X apps. The keyboard shortcuts are completely configurable but I must admit the windows-like defaults helped to get me going right away.
As long as it doesn't bloat up I'll be sticking with IceWM.
The other one that really stuck with me is:
Smith: "You're empty"
Neo: "So are you"
Because it raises the question what am I and what am I filled with. Besides of course, chemically, us being mostly space.
I concur. RTFM is is not encouraging to newbies. I realise that some people get frustrated at answering the same questions over and over. Well the answer to that is to leave it to someone else to answer. Eg. a keen newbie who has just learnt the answer him/her-self and is happy to pass on their new knowledge. A bit of civility will earn you more respect and friends.
He's wrong - he can't change license. It's not a problem to use BSD code in anything with any license but just slap GPL on it kind of unethical.
You were correct at the start of the sentence. It is not just unethical to change a license on BSD licensed code, it is illegal.
From the COPYRIGHT file in my root directory:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Same goes for binaries
If that is not enough, well without the permission of the license or copyright holder, the license can't be just swapped for your favourite license because that's copyright law.
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Or convince the LUG to become a general UUG like my local group HUMBUG (Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group) which is for Linux, BSD, or any Unix for that matter.
Is something I would like to see. For example if I buldworld with NOUUCP in/etc/make.conf, I don't want the old binaries hanging around. A make deinstall UUCP option in/usr/src/Makefile would be handy:)
Well, the answer is quite easy really isn't it: don't answer. If someone wants to answer let them. I am as pissed off by by idiots who repeatly do not use documentation as I am by people who jump on newbies with 'RTFM' without any link to the 'M'. There is probably someone who is quite willing to help out a newbie with the answer to a question. If you don't want to answer a question, then DON'T.
True libertarians are fuckwits without 1/2 a clue, there is no such thing as total freedom, and there are rules in the BSD license too. You must include the license with a binary or source redistribution. Also, common copyright law means you can't slap a GPL license on it because you felt like it. The freest code is Public Domain.
the support for video and some other multimedia things like TV cards is even worse on freebsd than on linux.
The Brooktree TV chipset support is pretty freakin' good IMHO. I have Windows PCs if I want to play games. (Which leads me to add that I find FreeBSD users appear to be less bigotted towards Windows than Linux users in general).
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Seems to work in other countries. Maybe you should look to the idjits running it instead of the systems/ideas themselves.
Looks to me like you haven't been vigilant enough.
Agree with everything you said. People complain about government regulation all the time without thinking that 1. it's the only thing that keeps corporations in check and 2. it's their government for them(though it might not seem like it sometimes), made up of their representatives who are their peers.
Unfortunately it takes constant vigilance to defend against greed. And some goverments attempt to pass legislation that give tax breaks to the richer. eg. the recent share tax breaks in the US.
Except the Linux compatibility layer will be illegal thanks to SCO :( Oh well, time for native BSD ports of commercial games :)
And of course, Borland's Delphi is "Objective Pascal" and it's a fine product.
We'll be settling that at the rugby world cup this year thank you mister. Just don't expect to watch it cheaply over broadband.
Go you good thing, Wallabies! :P
They are returning a profit, a healty profit. Their share price has dipped is all.
Just tried out the new SCHED_ULE scheduler and so far it is awesome on my SMP machine. XFree86 uses half the CPU it used to and it was very smooth running other apps whilst rebuilding the kernel with -j6, eg. FXTV.
I think it says a lot about how insecure and threatened (some/Linux?) folk feel when they continue to troll in this way.
Let me just say 'Me Too'.
With IceWM I do almost everything on the keyboard; the only time I need a mouse is for some X apps. The keyboard shortcuts are completely configurable but I must admit the windows-like defaults helped to get me going right away.
As long as it doesn't bloat up I'll be sticking with IceWM.
There is no such branch; snapshots are not branched. Nor are they tagged.
Until -stable will be split off around 5.2 release, it's still HEAD, or for the purpose of cvsup, tag=.
There is already a RELENG_5_0 for 5.0-RELEASE patches. There will be a RELENG_5_1 branch created around the end of the month.
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The other one that really stuck with me is: Smith: "You're empty" Neo: "So are you" Because it raises the question what am I and what am I filled with. Besides of course, chemically, us being mostly space.
Likewise.
But Rene DesCarte was a drunken fart who was very rarely stable.
And so on ad infinitum...
I concur. RTFM is is not encouraging to newbies. I realise that some people get frustrated at answering the same questions over and over. Well the answer to that is to leave it to someone else to answer. Eg. a keen newbie who has just learnt the answer him/her-self and is happy to pass on their new knowledge. A bit of civility will earn you more respect and friends.
You were correct at the start of the sentence. It is not just unethical to change a license on BSD licensed code, it is illegal.
From the COPYRIGHT file in my root directory:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Same goes for binaries
If that is not enough, well without the permission of the license or copyright holder, the license can't be just swapped for your favourite license because that's copyright law.
Or convince the LUG to become a general UUG like my local group HUMBUG (Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group) which is for Linux, BSD, or any Unix for that matter.
Is something I would like to see. For example if I buldworld with NOUUCP in /etc/make.conf, I don't want the old binaries hanging around. A make deinstall UUCP option in /usr/src/Makefile would be handy :)
Well, the answer is quite easy really isn't it: don't answer. If someone wants to answer let them. I am as pissed off by by idiots who repeatly do not use documentation as I am by people who jump on newbies with 'RTFM' without any link to the 'M'. There is probably someone who is quite willing to help out a newbie with the answer to a question. If you don't want to answer a question, then DON'T.
True libertarians are fuckwits without 1/2 a clue, there is no such thing as total freedom, and there are rules in the BSD license too. You must include the license with a binary or source redistribution. Also, common copyright law means you can't slap a GPL license on it because you felt like it. The freest code is Public Domain.
What the fuck is wrong with using "they", after all it used in common speech, and language is created by its speakers.
the support for video and some other multimedia things like TV cards is even worse on freebsd than on linux.
The Brooktree TV chipset support is pretty freakin' good IMHO. I have Windows PCs if I want to play games. (Which leads me to add that I find FreeBSD users appear to be less bigotted towards Windows than Linux users in general).
Ask not for whom the Dell trolls, it trolls for thee.