I was mearly pointing out how quick to look down on other countries most Americans are. And how unhelpful that attitude is.
our founding father's.
Yours, not mine. I try not to live in the shadow of others. Believe it or not, these were normal, mortal, men. They could not see the results of their actions hundreds of years later any more than you or I can.
The US supported saddam in his war against Iran.
They gave his troops training and supplies.
Bush Snr described Saddam as "our kind of guy" ( his words, look it up. ) whilst he was gasing Kurds.
The majority of Americans seem to believe that other countries hate america because of the freedom it allows its citizens. I believe the countries that hate america the most hate it because of the freedom it takes away from their nation states.
(For the skeptics: yes, you really only need four wires (two pairs) for 100 Mbps fast ethernet. Eight-wire cables are a big fat waste of copper!)
Yes the eight wire cables are a waste of copper.
Thats not the only differance between cat-3 and cat-5. The distance between the twists in the cable is differant. Cat-3 isn't meant to run at 100Mbps, you might be getting all sorts of data loss TCP is covering up for. And it might get worse as the cable gets older.
Because microsoft is big it gets picked on. Sorry, that just doesn't hold up. It's a weak excuse to produce third rate code.
Isn't is just as valid to say that because microsoft has the most to lose they would spend more fixing bugs?
The simple truth is microsoft code is badly written. UNIX ( any version ) is far from perfect, but it's better written and suffers far less from these virii problems.
Look at the number of cisco switches in the world. Do they get hacked weekly? Do they spend 6 days a week spewing out the latest virius? no, don't think so.
When will all the Linux, UNIX, OS/390, VMS and Novell people realise that microsoft systems simply can't be trusted. They should not be allowed to connect to an open network such as the internet if they are so open to abuse. Can't we just cut their connections and drop every network packet from them?
Our sister office is in London. Having worked with my UK based compatriots for a few years now,
I can safely say that while they have no objections about working late hours THEY DON'T DO S**T DURING THEIR ENTIRE WORK DAY.
I work in the UK.
I hate to say it, but you are right in a lot of cases.
I see a lot of people talk about football and do very little work all day. They then start working at 5 pm just so they can be seen to be working hard when the boss walks past later.
I don't do this, I work when I'm paid to work. But I see people getting pay raises for this.
Yes there are advantages to teleworking. Yes it would save company money.
It will never catch on though. Bosses like to have their staff lined up in little cubicles. They like to feel in control. In the minds of most bosses empire building, politics, and wanting to look like they are in charge is important. Company money isn't.
How many times has your company wasted money on stupidity because some overpaid fool thought it was a good idea??
That may be partly true, but only partly. India isn't one big slum from end to end.
Why should any inteligent people be happy sending truckloads of money out of the country?
India has good programmers, lots of cheap, good, programmers. Perhaps the president knows that you can't build a good house ( software ) on rubbish foundations ( the OS ).
There will always be people willing to do anything for money, and people wanting spam sent. There will always be international borders to hide behind.
The best way I can see to fix the current spam problem is to use tarpits like spamd. My OpenBSD mail system will tarpit any incoming SMTP connection on the spews list, and any connection from a netblock that I don't like the look of.
Tarpits make sending spam a very slow process, a few more of these would make spamming too expensive to be worth the effort.
America does want to cure disease, explore space and feed the hungry.
But the first priority is to live in peace.
Once the rest of the world has either:
- Pledged loyalty to America. or - Died.
Then the world will be a more peaceful and less diverse place and America will be free to work on the other things you mentioned.
In the mean time it would only take a few dirty bombs or one good biological attack to wipe out the entire american power base. Lets hope that doesn't happen eh?
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I agree totally.
I was mearly pointing out how quick to look down on other countries most Americans are. And how unhelpful that attitude is.
our founding father's.
Yours, not mine. I try not to live in the shadow of others. Believe it or not, these were normal, mortal, men. They could not see the results of their actions hundreds of years later any more than you or I can.
The US tends to overthrow dictators.
Only where it is in its interest to do so.
The US supported saddam in his war against Iran. They gave his troops training and supplies.
Bush Snr described Saddam as "our kind of guy" ( his words, look it up. ) whilst he was gasing Kurds.
The majority of Americans seem to believe that other countries hate america because of the freedom it allows its citizens. I believe the countries that hate america the most hate it because of the freedom it takes away from their nation states.
BTW - If you believe what you say why post as AC?
What is it americans like saying to people from other countries again?
Something like:
If you don't like the god-dam laws of your god-dam country get the hell out.
You think so?
With the highest prison population in the world,
since when was the US government on the side
of the US public?
(For the skeptics: yes, you really only need four wires (two pairs) for 100 Mbps fast ethernet. Eight-wire cables are a big fat waste of copper!)
Yes the eight wire cables are a waste of copper.
Thats not the only differance between cat-3 and cat-5. The distance between the twists in the cable is differant. Cat-3 isn't meant to run at 100Mbps, you might be getting all sorts of data loss TCP is covering up for. And it might get worse as the cable gets older.
Running cat-3 at 100Mbps is asking for trouble.
1-Install OpenBSD
2-Configure PF.
3- ???
4- Profit!!
Because microsoft is big it gets picked on.
Sorry, that just doesn't hold up. It's a weak excuse to produce third rate code.
Isn't is just as valid to say that because microsoft has the most to lose they would spend more fixing bugs?
The simple truth is microsoft code is badly written. UNIX ( any version ) is far from perfect, but it's better written and suffers far less from these virii problems.
Look at the number of cisco switches in the world. Do they get hacked weekly? Do they spend 6 days a week spewing out the latest virius? no, don't think so.
When will all the Linux, UNIX, OS/390, VMS and Novell people realise that microsoft systems simply can't be trusted. They should not be allowed to connect to an open network such as the internet if they are so open to abuse. Can't we just cut their connections and drop every network packet from them?
Oh, and BEos too.
And QNX.
Chainload the FreeBSD partiton.
Or to put it another way RTFM.
...one of the most secure
AFAIK it's the most secure by a long way.
I only know two more secure OS's -
Wang XTS ( UNIX based and impossible to get hold of ).
Any OS without any input/output devices at all.
You could give a presentation without your pants on!
Never again!
Our sister office is in London. Having worked with my UK based compatriots for a few years now, I can safely say that while they have no objections about working late hours THEY DON'T DO S**T DURING THEIR ENTIRE WORK DAY.
I work in the UK.
I hate to say it, but you are right in a lot of cases.
I see a lot of people talk about football and do very little work all day. They then start working at 5 pm just so they can be seen to be working hard when the boss walks past later.
I don't do this, I work when I'm paid to work. But I see people getting pay raises for this.
Yes there are advantages to teleworking.
Yes it would save company money.
It will never catch on though. Bosses like to have their staff lined up in little cubicles. They like to feel in control. In the minds of most bosses empire building, politics, and wanting to look like they are in charge is important. Company money isn't.
How many times has your company wasted money on stupidity because some overpaid fool thought it was a good idea??
My company does this often.
That may be partly true, but only partly. India isn't one big slum from end to end.
Why should any inteligent people be happy sending truckloads of money out of the country?
India has good programmers, lots of cheap, good, programmers. Perhaps the president knows that you can't build a good house ( software ) on rubbish foundations ( the OS ).
Your using OpenBSD 5.0?
How on earth did you manage you install FreeBSD thinking it was OpenBSD??
Why is it that all these forign governments are all looking into linux? I believe BSD would serve a government better.
I've wondered about this for a long time. Linux gets all the press, The BSD's get very little.
I can only think that the GPL makes linux a more distinct product. BSD licences just lead to people taking the parts they want for their own products.
If you can pick up a pirated version of XP on the market, next to the durians, for $3, how much of a price advantage does Linux have?
A big one, the cost of additional software, support, and the costs caused by crashes and corrupted data.
HP won't be willing to use pirated software anyway.
There will always be people willing to do anything for money, and people wanting spam sent. There will always be international borders to hide behind.
The best way I can see to fix the current spam problem is to use tarpits like spamd. My OpenBSD mail system will tarpit any incoming SMTP connection on the spews list, and any connection from a netblock that I don't like the look of.
Tarpits make sending spam a very slow process, a few more of these would make spamming too expensive to be worth the effort.
Spammers - My email is spamme@our-police.co.uk
Good idea, so how do get spamme@our-police.co.uk
on a few spammers lists?
...But who cares?
So a load of nasty evil-empire staff are being nasty to a load of contract evil-empire staff.
Who cares? Not me.
Maybe contracters are seen as second class because they have not yet given their souls to the dark master.
I disagree about the installer. I've found the OpenBSD installer to be just about the cleanest and simplest OS installer anywhere.
Just because it's text doesn't make it bad.
I'm sure Theo and the OpenBSD team will concentrate on far more important things. Like SMP..
You can mike your own iso images.
Instructions are at:
http://www.shockley.net/obsd-bootcd.asp
Personally I'd say FreeBSD is faster and a lot easier to get software for ( ports ).
But don't take my word for it, Why don't you try both of them on the same hardware and see what you think?
Don't come to slashdot for answers, we only do opinions.
Ok I can find the isos on ftp.freebsd.org,
but wheres CHECKSUM.MD5?
It seems a waste of time downloading these things if I don't even know if they are different to the iso's I downloaded three days ago.
America does want to cure disease, explore space and feed the hungry.
But the first priority is to live in peace.
Once the rest of the world has either:
- Pledged loyalty to America.
or
- Died.
Then the world will be a more peaceful and less diverse place and America will be free to work on the other things you mentioned.
In the mean time it would only take a few dirty bombs or one good biological attack to wipe out the entire american power base. Lets hope that doesn't happen eh?