One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC
confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a
fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft
survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this
news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in
complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead
last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's
future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact
there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying.Things
are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues
to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most
endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users
of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on
Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400
NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD
posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put
FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are
(7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of
FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went
out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS.
Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel
house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is
very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to
survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to
decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all
practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Myth: The second Amendment of the US Constitution gives all Americans the
right to own guns, and it is our duty to keep ourselves well armed in case we
need to fight against our own government. Fact: 1996 gun murders in the US: 9390; in Great Britain: 30. If you
support the fascist conservatives who oppose gun control, these deaths are on
your head. Sleep tight. Also, we have a word for individuals who actively fight
against the government - terrorists.
Myth: Hahaha, those jocks who used to pick on me in high school are now
pumping my gas! HA. Fact: Those "jocks" are probably mid or upper-level management, e.g. your
bosses now. That is, if you're not unemployed, you dot-com open-source
loser.They probably all have wives/girlfriends now too, do you?
Myth: The MPAA is using our own government against us, and taking away
our freedoms! Fact: Typical Slashdot weenie: "I can't wait 'til the new Star Wars movie
comes out! Rock on!"
Myth: It's ok to download music because the RIAA only gives the artists
$0.10 per CD anyway. Fact: So you'd rather they get $0.00? You think that's a good way to
solve the problem?
Myth: Microsoft is going to collapse under it's own weight any day
now. Fact: You've been saying that for 5 years now, and it hasn't happened
yet. It won't happen any time soon. In fact, when you die, Microsoft will still
be around producing most of the world's software. Will "open-source" still be
around then?
I don't know what happened to trollaxor.com. I do know it was supposed to be back the 13th, then the 17th, and I haven't heard anything else since then. I fear something terrible has happened - perhaps CmdrTaco was in cahoots with Trollaxor's captors. We can only hope he's still alive.
Myth: Linux is ready for the desktop. Fact: Linux is not, and never will be, ready for the desktop. If you use
Linux as your desktop choice, you are an anti-social nerd who will never get
laid.
Myth: Open-source is a viable business strategy. Fact:No
it isn't.
Myth: Slashdot is a nice place to go for intelligent conversation
about technology and political issues. Fact: Slashdot is full of 14 year-old fanboys who toe the party line for
the "approval" of people they will never meet and fascist Janitors who resort to
low minded trickery and censorship to further their narrow world-view and
agenda. If you want to read posts that are Insightful and Funny, read at -1.
Myth: Information wants to be free. Fact: Musicians want to be paid.
Myth: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows your
uber-intelligence and good taste. Fact: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows you are a
stuck-up fuckwit with no friends.
Myth: The government is taking away our rights. WAAAAH!! Fact: While you're busy complaining and stuffing your fat face with pork
rinds and cheese puffs, the government is busy keeping you, and the American way
of life, safe from harm.
Myth: Libertarianism is a good solution to our problems. Fact: Libertarianism would result in a worse country than the USSR, with
political and economic instability, horrific human rights violations, and
exploitation of workers of a scale not seen since slavery was outlawed.
Myth: Microsoft is an evil monopoly bent on world domination. Fact: Microsoft is a software company based in Redmond, WA, that produces
fine software and believes that programmers should get paid for their
work.
As many of you know by now, Slashdot has had a new feature for some time of
separating out the sections. For example, all science stories go into
science.slashdot.org. Indeed, the sections are now color-coded, with the Apple section displaying a new "glossy" look.
Now, this is all fine, but the Slashdot Janitors are
missing out on a real opportunity to improve the site. Most of the people on
this site are Trolls and Crapflooders, but where, I ask, is the
fp.slashdot.org, containing an archived copy of every single legitimate fp? Or the locally cached image of hello.jpg on
goatsecx.slashdot.org for load times faster than people can hit the "stop"
button? If Slashdot wants to remain popular, it needs to focus on pleasing the
majority of it's user-base. Perhaps clicking on "Read More" would randomly
display a page full of "*BSD is dying" rather than the usual inane drivel
Slashbots spew forth.
These are the kinds of features I would expect of a professional web-site, and
as long as Slashdot doesn't have them, I'm not considering paying for a
subscription. I urge you to do the same.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
You are a hippie
You smell like skunk
I'm your arch-enemy
A middle class punk
Get out
Get a life
Get a job
Everyone's smoking grass
Everyone is an ass
Can't you afford to cut your hair?
Cause Frank and I will cut it off for free
Never trust a hippie
They'll sell you bad drugs
First, take a piece of floss about 20-24+ inches in length
Wind the floss around your 2 middle fingers and grasp 1/2 inch of floss
tightly between your thumbs and forefingers.
Insert the floss between your teeth
carefully
Hold the floss taught and curve it around one of the teeth.
Scrape the floss up and down against one tooth and then the other (not in a
sawing motion) The main purpose is to remove the film of plaque on your teeth,
not just food particles!
Using a new part of the floss, continue flossing, even
tooth surfaces which have no tooth next to them.
Rinse thoroughly to remove any
loosened particles.
Street-savvy schoolgirls peddling sex and socks for big bucks
Rina finished junior high school just a few months ago. With the exaggerated curves of her carefully plucked eyebrows, shoulder-length dyed locks and heavy eye shadow, she resembles any typical Tokyo teen-age girl. Where she differs from her peers, according to Yomiuri Weekly (5/26) is that Rina spent her junior high school days as the ringleader of a group of schoolgirl prostitutes.
A normal day for Rina during junior high was to head out after school, provided she hadn't cut classes, change out of her uniform in a public toilet and ride a train to an area in the Tokyo suburbs that was known as a popular hangout joint for kids.
Once there, Rina sauntered over to the sixth floor of a building where her regular telephone club was located. Being a girl, she got in for free. She entered to a room bare except for a single telephone and a chair. She would sit down and wait for the guys to call.
A typical conversation went along the following lines:
"Let's meet."
"Take me to karaoke."
"OK"
"Can my friends come too?"
"How many of them."
"How many can I bring? We'll let you touch our titties for 5,000 yen each."
"Can't just the two of us meet?"
"After karaoke."
Rina's group was made up of six girls, all of whom were in the same class at school. At times, all six would work toward catching a customer. Other times, only two or three went on the prowl while the others manned the telephones at the dating club. Each time a client was snared, the others would be alerted.
Once the customer had been reeled into a karaoke room, negotiations would begin anew.
Selling the loose socks that are a ubiquitous part of the Japanese schoolgirl's uniform could see the girls pocket anywhere from 20,000 yen to 40,000 yen. Panties started at 40,000 yen, but could cost much more.
"We'd sting anybody who looked really weak. We'd charge 40,000 yen for loose socks and 100,000 yen for panties," Rina tells Yomiuri Weekly. "Some guys'd stick their fingers in or film you with a camera while they took the panties off."
Rina's girls didn't just operate out of telephone dating clubs. They also took turns posting messages on Internet sites offering to sell their panties. If an answer came, girls were free to act alone or call on their colleagues for support.
"If you were willing to sell your panties," Rina says, "You were willing to head off to a hotel."
Doing so would earn the girl up to 50,000 yen.
"I really wanted 50,000 yen a shot," Rina says, "but, depending on the guy, I'd go for 30,000 yen."
Rina started selling herself during summer vacation after she finished her second year of junior high school. She'd spend hours with friends hanging out at local sites, but was sick of not having any money to buy clothes or cosmetics. That all changed when she met a man who paid her and her friends 5,000 yen to go to a karaoke box with him and sing.
Soon, Rina was asking other men to pay her to accompany them. If her asking price was too high, she'd soften it up with a promise to let them grope her. Finally, she got together a man in his 40s who, after a few meetings, took her maidenhead... for 150,000 yen.
"It really hurt and I threw a tantrum. We couldn't get it right at first. We were at the hotel for six hours," Rina recalls for Yomiuri Weekly, adding that she felt no guilt or regret at what she was doing. "It just hurt and that's why I hated it. I wanted to get out of there as soon as I could."
Rina had little trouble enlisting classmates into her group. She simply showed them all the wonderful clothes, accessories and bags she'd bought and made sure she picked up the bill each time they gathered at karaoke or a family restaurant. Yumi, one of the girl's in Rina's group, says there were few second thoughts.
"Of 16 girls in our class, six were selling sex," she tells Yomiuri Weekly. "There was nothing rare about that. Most of the girls doing it were the students with average grades."
None of them seemed particularly perturbed about what they were doing.
"They never thought about things like that. Like whether it was good, or bad, or whatever. All they wanted was the money," Yumi says.
Two of the girls ended up pregnant. One cajoled a client into paying for an abortion after she told him the baby was his. The other girl's pregnancy became public knowledge, but that was terminated after classmates passed a hat around. Her teacher didn't believe the girl was pregnant, simply telling her to make sure that such rumors never got around.
Rina tells Yomiuri Weekly she has serviced clients ranging in age from about 25 to truly old men.
"Most of them tell me they're company presidents," she says. "But usually, they're fat, or bald, or got something weird about them."
Yomiuri Weekly notes that men who'd usually be shunned by most of society bring the most delight to teen-age prostitutes.
"We can milk him for all his worth," a gleeful Rina tells Yomiuri Weekly, "and guys who aren't used to being with women don't last too long once they've gone to a hotel, anyway."
Please correct the moderation error on the parent post. It should be +5(Insightful) or +5(Interesting). The question it presents is both insightful and interesting, and should not be mislabelled as flamebait.
She adlibs like stereo,
With the bass and treble down.
She's got tits like microwaves
Burritos that explode.
What I wouldn't give to see her pee...
Between 2 parked cars,
On a well lit street,
5th and main.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning
developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP
and Mac OS
X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3
incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD,
which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD,
which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided
the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux
came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with
its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't
enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in
what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit
the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is
now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work,
as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows
XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Myth: The second Amendment of the US Constitution gives all Americans the
right to own guns, and it is our duty to keep ourselves well armed in case we
need to fight against our own government. Fact: 1996 gun murders in the US: 9390; in Great Britain: 30. If you
support the fascist conservatives who oppose gun control, these deaths are on
your head. Sleep tight. Also, we have a word for individuals who actively fight
against the government - terrorists.
Myth: Hahaha, those jocks who used to pick on me in high school are now
pumping my gas! HA. Fact: Those "jocks" are probably mid or upper-level management, e.g. your
bosses now. That is, if you're not unemployed, you dot-com open-source
loser.They probably all have wives/girlfriends now too, do you?
Myth: The MPAA is using our own government against us, and taking away
our freedoms! Fact: Typical Slashdot weenie: "I can't wait 'til the new Star Wars movie
comes out! Rock on!"
Myth: It's ok to download music because the RIAA only gives the artists
$0.10 per CD anyway. Fact: So you'd rather they get $0.00? You think that's a good way to
solve the problem?
Myth: Microsoft is going to collapse under it's own weight any day
now. Fact: You've been saying that for 5 years now, and it hasn't happened
yet. It won't happen any time soon. In fact, when you die, Microsoft will still
be around producing most of the world's software. Will "open-source" still be
around then?
Slashdot Mirror
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying.Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
Fact: 1996 gun murders in the US: 9390; in Great Britain: 30. If you support the fascist conservatives who oppose gun control, these deaths are on your head. Sleep tight. Also, we have a word for individuals who actively fight against the government - terrorists.
Myth: Hahaha, those jocks who used to pick on me in high school are now pumping my gas! HA.
Fact: Those "jocks" are probably mid or upper-level management, e.g. your bosses now. That is, if you're not unemployed, you dot-com open-source loser.They probably all have wives/girlfriends now too, do you?
Myth: The MPAA is using our own government against us, and taking away our freedoms!
Fact: Typical Slashdot weenie: "I can't wait 'til the new Star Wars movie comes out! Rock on!"
Myth: It's ok to download music because the RIAA only gives the artists $0.10 per CD anyway.
Fact: So you'd rather they get $0.00? You think that's a good way to solve the problem?
Myth: Microsoft is going to collapse under it's own weight any day now.
Fact: You've been saying that for 5 years now, and it hasn't happened yet. It won't happen any time soon. In fact, when you die, Microsoft will still be around producing most of the world's software. Will "open-source" still be around then?
Yes, sometimes the truth hurts.
I don't know what happened to trollaxor.com. I do know it was supposed to be back the 13th, then the 17th, and I haven't heard anything else since then. I fear something terrible has happened - perhaps CmdrTaco was in cahoots with Trollaxor's captors. We can only hope he's still alive.
Fact: Linux is not, and never will be, ready for the desktop. If you use Linux as your desktop choice, you are an anti-social nerd who will never get laid.
Myth: Open-source is a viable business strategy.
Fact: No it isn't.
Myth: Slashdot is a nice place to go for intelligent conversation about technology and political issues.
Fact: Slashdot is full of 14 year-old fanboys who toe the party line for the "approval" of people they will never meet and fascist Janitors who resort to low minded trickery and censorship to further their narrow world-view and agenda. If you want to read posts that are Insightful and Funny, read at -1.
Myth: Information wants to be free.
Fact: Musicians want to be paid.
Myth: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows your uber-intelligence and good taste.
Fact: Constantly putting down popular music and culture shows you are a stuck-up fuckwit with no friends.
Myth: The government is taking away our rights. WAAAAH!!
Fact: While you're busy complaining and stuffing your fat face with pork rinds and cheese puffs, the government is busy keeping you, and the American way of life, safe from harm.
Myth: Libertarianism is a good solution to our problems.
Fact: Libertarianism would result in a worse country than the USSR, with political and economic instability, horrific human rights violations, and exploitation of workers of a scale not seen since slavery was outlawed.
Myth: Microsoft is an evil monopoly bent on world domination.
Fact: Microsoft is a software company based in Redmond, WA, that produces fine software and believes that programmers should get paid for their work.
Have I missed any?
As many of you know by now, Slashdot has had a new feature for some time of separating out the sections. For example, all science stories go into science.slashdot.org. Indeed, the sections are now color-coded, with the Apple section displaying a new "glossy" look.
Now, this is all fine, but the Slashdot Janitors are missing out on a real opportunity to improve the site. Most of the people on this site are Trolls and Crapflooders, but where, I ask, is the fp.slashdot.org, containing an archived copy of every single legitimate fp? Or the locally cached image of hello.jpg on goatsecx.slashdot.org for load times faster than people can hit the "stop" button? If Slashdot wants to remain popular, it needs to focus on pleasing the majority of it's user-base. Perhaps clicking on "Read More" would randomly display a page full of "*BSD is dying" rather than the usual inane drivel Slashbots spew forth.
These are the kinds of features I would expect of a professional web-site, and as long as Slashdot doesn't have them, I'm not considering paying for a subscription. I urge you to do the same.
Good Day.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
You are a hippie
You smell like skunk
I'm your arch-enemy
A middle class punk
Get out
Get a life
Get a job
Everyone's smoking grass
Everyone is an ass
Can't you afford to cut your hair?
Cause Frank and I will cut it off for free
Never trust a hippie
They'll sell you bad drugs
Street-savvy schoolgirls peddling
... for 150,000 yen.
sex and socks for big bucks
Rina finished junior high school just a few months ago. With the exaggerated curves of her carefully plucked eyebrows, shoulder-length dyed locks and heavy eye shadow, she resembles any typical Tokyo teen-age girl. Where she differs from her peers, according to Yomiuri Weekly (5/26) is that Rina spent her junior high school days as the ringleader of a group of schoolgirl prostitutes.
A normal day for Rina during junior high was to head out after school, provided she hadn't cut classes, change out of her uniform in a public toilet and ride a train to an area in the Tokyo suburbs that was known as a popular hangout joint for kids.
Once there, Rina sauntered over to the sixth floor of a building where her regular telephone club was located. Being a girl, she got in for free. She entered to a room bare except for a single telephone and a chair. She would sit down and wait for the guys to call.
A typical conversation went along the following lines:
"Let's meet."
"Take me to karaoke."
"OK"
"Can my friends come too?"
"How many of them."
"How many can I bring? We'll let you touch our titties for 5,000 yen each."
"Can't just the two of us meet?"
"After karaoke."
Rina's group was made up of six girls, all of whom were in the same class at school. At times, all six would work toward catching a customer. Other times, only two or three went on the prowl while the others manned the telephones at the dating club. Each time a client was snared, the others would be alerted.
Once the customer had been reeled into a karaoke room, negotiations would begin anew.
Selling the loose socks that are a ubiquitous part of the Japanese schoolgirl's uniform could see the girls pocket anywhere from 20,000 yen to 40,000 yen. Panties started at 40,000 yen, but could cost much more.
"We'd sting anybody who looked really weak. We'd charge 40,000 yen for loose socks and 100,000 yen for panties," Rina tells Yomiuri Weekly. "Some guys'd stick their fingers in or film you with a camera while they took the panties off."
Rina's girls didn't just operate out of telephone dating clubs. They also took turns posting messages on Internet sites offering to sell their panties. If an answer came, girls were free to act alone or call on their colleagues for support.
"If you were willing to sell your panties," Rina says, "You were willing to head off to a hotel."
Doing so would earn the girl up to 50,000 yen.
"I really wanted 50,000 yen a shot," Rina says, "but, depending on the guy, I'd go for 30,000 yen."
Rina started selling herself during summer vacation after she finished her second year of junior high school. She'd spend hours with friends hanging out at local sites, but was sick of not having any money to buy clothes or cosmetics. That all changed when she met a man who paid her and her friends 5,000 yen to go to a karaoke box with him and sing.
Soon, Rina was asking other men to pay her to accompany them. If her asking price was too high, she'd soften it up with a promise to let them grope her. Finally, she got together a man in his 40s who, after a few meetings, took her maidenhead
"It really hurt and I threw a tantrum. We couldn't get it right at first. We were at the hotel for six hours," Rina recalls for Yomiuri Weekly, adding that she felt no guilt or regret at what she was doing. "It just hurt and that's why I hated it. I wanted to get out of there as soon as I could."
Rina had little trouble enlisting classmates into her group. She simply showed them all the wonderful clothes, accessories and bags she'd bought and made sure she picked up the bill each time they gathered at karaoke or a family restaurant. Yumi, one of the girl's in Rina's group, says there were few second thoughts.
"Of 16 girls in our class, six were selling sex," she tells Yomiuri Weekly. "There was nothing rare about that. Most of the girls doing it were the students with average grades."
None of them seemed particularly perturbed about what they were doing.
"They never thought about things like that. Like whether it was good, or bad, or whatever. All they wanted was the money," Yumi says.
Two of the girls ended up pregnant. One cajoled a client into paying for an abortion after she told him the baby was his. The other girl's pregnancy became public knowledge, but that was terminated after classmates passed a hat around. Her teacher didn't believe the girl was pregnant, simply telling her to make sure that such rumors never got around.
Rina tells Yomiuri Weekly she has serviced clients ranging in age from about 25 to truly old men.
"Most of them tell me they're company presidents," she says. "But usually, they're fat, or bald, or got something weird about them."
Yomiuri Weekly notes that men who'd usually be shunned by most of society bring the most delight to teen-age prostitutes.
"We can milk him for all his worth," a gleeful Rina tells Yomiuri Weekly, "and guys who aren't used to being with women don't last too long once they've gone to a hotel, anyway."
Thank you.
Enjoy.
She adlibs like stereo,
With the bass and treble down.
She's got tits like microwaves
Burritos that explode.
What I wouldn't give to see her pee...
Between 2 parked cars,
On a well lit street,
5th and main.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.
How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."
Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
RIP *BSD.
Fact: 1996 gun murders in the US: 9390; in Great Britain: 30. If you support the fascist conservatives who oppose gun control, these deaths are on your head. Sleep tight. Also, we have a word for individuals who actively fight against the government - terrorists.
Myth: Hahaha, those jocks who used to pick on me in high school are now pumping my gas! HA.
Fact: Those "jocks" are probably mid or upper-level management, e.g. your bosses now. That is, if you're not unemployed, you dot-com open-source loser.They probably all have wives/girlfriends now too, do you?
Myth: The MPAA is using our own government against us, and taking away our freedoms!
Fact: Typical Slashdot weenie: "I can't wait 'til the new Star Wars movie comes out! Rock on!"
Myth: It's ok to download music because the RIAA only gives the artists $0.10 per CD anyway.
Fact: So you'd rather they get $0.00? You think that's a good way to solve the problem?
Myth: Microsoft is going to collapse under it's own weight any day now.
Fact: You've been saying that for 5 years now, and it hasn't happened yet. It won't happen any time soon. In fact, when you die, Microsoft will still be around producing most of the world's software. Will "open-source" still be around then?
Yes, sometimes the truth hurts.
HAND.
That suicidegirls.com link is very interesting. Perfect for amateur stalkers like myself.
Good Day.