I run a lot of nightlies, so I just install mozilla as my login user after making/usr/local/mozilla owned by me. Works great and saves having to su every time I install a plugin or new release.
...but the bind guys rewrote from the ground up for bind 9 and came out more bloated and insecure:)
Re:UNIX 'tradition' is part of what hold Linux bac
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Telnet and ftp still serve secure purposes.
ftp is useful in scripting shell scripts. If you're d/l'ing files via anonymous ftp in a script do you need the features of ncftp, nah. I suppose wget or similar would work there tho. However, FreeBSD ftp has been improved to where it has most of the ncftp features, so it would make a better, smaller base system choice
telnet is useful for things like cisco routers and such that haven't had ssh support until recently (and for scripting queries to said routers), but especially for not telnetting but connecting to ports (telnet host port). Telnet has been immensely helpful in connecting to pop3, smtp, http, and issuing the commands manually to see the exact output when you're trying to debug a server.
It was a PPro 200 w/ 1 gig ram originally. They said it had power to spare handling 1800 users.
Later, the machine was replaced with a Xeon 450 on a dual board with only 1 cpu and 4 gigs of ram. At that point, the user limit was raised to 5000, though later revised down to 3500 - possibly to reduce bandwidth usage. And it's running David Greenman's modified version of wu-ftpd, which is pretty amazing for that he could squeeze that kind of performance out of it.
FreeBSD also includes a few other gnu tools. grep, tar, binutils and awk are all FSF versions. While they'd like to have BSD licensed versions, they either were removed from the 4.4-lite sources or the gnu versions were much better than the alternatives at the time.
There are quite a few others like cvs, groff, etc. that aren't really essential but are part of the system too.
One interesting thing I just noticed is that the version of IPFilter that's in the tree has a new license that does allow redistribution:
Redistribution and use, with or without modification, in source and binary
forms, are permitted provided that this notice is preserved in its entirety
and due credit is given to the original author and the contributors.
You shouldn't have any difficulty if you use the sea (self extracting installer) and put it in say,/usr/local/mozilla and run/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla to start it. It won't even know the other copy is there.
Sorry about the bad example, it wasn't my intent to argue for absolute freedom but rather just refute the previous poster's assertion that the GPL is more free than the BSD using the logic that the GPL is the freedom not to get fucked by what he considers an abusive company.
Absolute freedom could exist in theory, it's just not practical for society.
I can't believe this got modded-up, it's an out and out troll, but I feel the obligation to respond.
>Well, the BSD licence forces you to release your
>code to the likes of microsoft who can take it,
>and use it for whatever they like, without
>merging the changes back.
Umm, no. The BSD license doesn't force you to do much of anything. You take the code, do whatever the hell you like with it - modify, sell, relicense to your heart's content, etc. and release whatever you please. If that means making changes, forking, and re-releasing under the GPL, so be it. Or taking and releasing in binary format. Whatever, so long as you maintain the copyright notice.
It gets me off to see GPL bigots talk about the GPL being more free than than the BSD license. Nope, it ain't - and I release my code under the GPL. Things start out in a state of freedom - one that allows total freedom of action or motion and by applying restrictions, suprise suprise, you move into a state of less freedom.
Whether that freedom is viewed in a positive or negative context, is irrelevant. By your argument, by making drugs illegal, we end up with a society that has "freedom from drugs" (ignore your stand on the War on Drugs here) or some such tripe. It may be a more desirable societal condition, but when you apply rules, you don't have 'more' freedom. It's just a moniker used by politicians to remove opposition by it look like rights are being expanded when in reality absolute freedom is being impinged on.
FWIW, most people who release code under the BSD license are quite aware what the freedom of the license implies. It may suprise a bigot like you, but sometimes people want to allow others to take and modify code without restriction. Some of them are even pleased if their code is useful to a corporation like Microsoft. The BSD license tends to maximize code use, the GPL code return.
For some reason FSF people seem to feel a need to make everything free and force it on everyone, willing or not. I don't agree with this, code is the property of the author, and it's up to him/her to decide what sorts of use and license should be allowed - BSD, GPL, or proprietary. Personally, I hate proprietary software and use vary little of it. I don't support proprietary software (outside of games) with my dollars, but I sure as hell don't campaign to put commercial software houses out of business. The right to my discretion as to how I license my code is a far more important right than how I choose to exercise it. Now respect the damn software authors choice.
This is not the end of Loki yet. Their president issued a statement that they will be continuing operations and putting out new titles, while trying to pay off their debt. I don't know if they'll pull off or not, but best of luck to them.
Why not use vim seeing as how there is a Windows version and it has lots of useless/full features (multi undo, syntax highlighting) that plain vi doesn't.
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You want q2hack which gives you full screen mode and DGA mouse input.
It's available from:
http://staff.xmms.org/zinx/q2hack/
You forget one important thing - MP3 is thoroughly entrenched in the market and people aren't going to ditch their existing collections.
The problem that is that Ogg doesn't offer hardware manufacturers any new advantage. It's not possible to ditch mp3 and only support ogg. At best, they support mp3 and ogg, still paying the mp3 licensing fee. They gain nothing.
The only people who would benefit from ogg would be software companies providing encoders. Creating only new material, dropping legacy mp3 support would not be as much of an issue.
Ignoring the absurd idea that they can't already copy dvds in China, what's to keep the evil Chinese pirating triad from flying to the US, buying 5 or 6 PS2 units, and flying them back to China to analyze them. Or even just going to Hong Kong and buying them off the street.
I can just imagine what U.S. customs might say: "Uh no sir, you may not export these video game systems, they are weapons of mass destruction. Here, why don't you take this used Pong machine instead."
They responded by setting their dns to point back to slashdot, except for bagley.org, which they forgot to change and still points to the site. Interesting way of dealing with the slashdot effect, maybe they're trying to save bandwidth costs or punish slashdot.
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Just realized I made a mistake and it turns out Asa was right after all. The pref used to go into user.js, but now it works in prefs.js. Sorry if I confused anyone.
It'll be added to the Image Manager soon anyway.
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is whether this guy actually got anything for playing.
I got stripped naked, locked in a room for a year with no toilet paper, nothing but rice and dogfood to eat, with millions of people watching me and all I got was this stupid comedy video.
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It is working, the secret is to put that line in user.js (which you'll probably have to create) instead of prefs.js, if you put it in prefs.js it'll get erased.
The best setting is:
user_pref("image.animation_mode", "none");
since that way it only will show you the starting frame and not even loop once
This should really have a pref, because it's darn useful. It's the next best thing to installing junkbuster, and doesn't make you feel guilty of depriving sites of money.
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Other big improvements are:
1. libpr0n now displays images properly in linux, before gifs would get blanked out fairly often
2. new autocomplete widget - now works like a combo of IE and NS 4.x complete, but better than both (uses any site in your history file). Has an option to search for keywords thru Netscape at the bottom of the list, tho i wish this were google instead.
3. fix for the can't delete ie favorites bug
4. the preferences window is a fixed size now. Before if you were using large fonts, it made it impossible to access the pulldown menu for fixed size font size.
Overall, it's more polished than the 0.9 release, a lot of the new features were cleaned up and work a lot better.
Would it be possible to change it so it only blocks annoying javascript popups, say block javascript popups on page open and close. Automatic popups are the ones that are ads, whereas target= is often useful (as are the popups that a lot of sites use when you click on an image to examine it).
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Hey, no fair, it's news for us BSD people too, and don't forget about those 2 Solaris X86 people.
I agree, when a fairly major release like this comes out, I like to know. It's not like XFree gets updated every week or anything. And this affects everybody, now if only they'd actually do a little research and tell us what we might be interested in in this release...oops, but this is Slashdot. I guess that's asking too much.
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Are you a CS160 student at UCSB as well? I just did my project using linux-sdk out of ports.
I run a lot of nightlies, so I just install mozilla as my login user after making /usr/local/mozilla owned by me. Works great and saves having to su every time I install a plugin or new release.
Actually I quite prefer Ctrl-[, since unless you remap your keyboard, Esc. is out of the way.
...but the bind guys rewrote from the ground up for bind 9 and came out more bloated and insecure :)
Telnet and ftp still serve secure purposes.
ftp is useful in scripting shell scripts. If you're d/l'ing files via anonymous ftp in a script do you need the features of ncftp, nah. I suppose wget or similar would work there tho. However, FreeBSD ftp has been improved to where it has most of the ncftp features, so it would make a better, smaller base system choice
telnet is useful for things like cisco routers and such that haven't had ssh support until recently (and for scripting queries to said routers), but especially for not telnetting but connecting to ports (telnet host port). Telnet has been immensely helpful in connecting to pop3, smtp, http, and issuing the commands manually to see the exact output when you're trying to debug a server.
It was a PPro 200 w/ 1 gig ram originally. They said it had power to spare handling 1800 users.
Later, the machine was replaced with a Xeon 450 on a dual board with only 1 cpu and 4 gigs of ram. At that point, the user limit was raised to 5000, though later revised down to 3500 - possibly to reduce bandwidth usage. And it's running David Greenman's modified version of wu-ftpd, which is pretty amazing for that he could squeeze that kind of performance out of it.
FreeBSD also includes a few other gnu tools. grep, tar, binutils and awk are all FSF versions. While they'd like to have BSD licensed versions, they either were removed from the 4.4-lite sources or the gnu versions were much better than the alternatives at the time.
There are quite a few others like cvs, groff, etc. that aren't really essential but are part of the system too.
One interesting thing I just noticed is that the version of IPFilter that's in the tree has a new license that does allow redistribution:
Redistribution and use, with or without modification, in source and binary
forms, are permitted provided that this notice is preserved in its entirety
and due credit is given to the original author and the contributors.
You shouldn't have any difficulty if you use the sea (self extracting installer) and put it in say, /usr/local/mozilla and run /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla to start it. It won't even know the other copy is there.
Sorry about the bad example, it wasn't my intent to argue for absolute freedom but rather just refute the previous poster's assertion that the GPL is more free than the BSD using the logic that the GPL is the freedom not to get fucked by what he considers an abusive company.
Absolute freedom could exist in theory, it's just not practical for society.
I can't believe this got modded-up, it's an out and out troll, but I feel the obligation to respond.
>Well, the BSD licence forces you to release your
>code to the likes of microsoft who can take it,
>and use it for whatever they like, without
>merging the changes back.
Umm, no. The BSD license doesn't force you to do much of anything. You take the code, do whatever the hell you like with it - modify, sell, relicense to your heart's content, etc. and release whatever you please. If that means making changes, forking, and re-releasing under the GPL, so be it. Or taking and releasing in binary format. Whatever, so long as you maintain the copyright notice.
It gets me off to see GPL bigots talk about the GPL being more free than than the BSD license. Nope, it ain't - and I release my code under the GPL. Things start out in a state of freedom - one that allows total freedom of action or motion and by applying restrictions, suprise suprise, you move into a state of less freedom.
Whether that freedom is viewed in a positive or negative context, is irrelevant. By your argument, by making drugs illegal, we end up with a society that has "freedom from drugs" (ignore your stand on the War on Drugs here) or some such tripe. It may be a more desirable societal condition, but when you apply rules, you don't have 'more' freedom. It's just a moniker used by politicians to remove opposition by it look like rights are being expanded when in reality absolute freedom is being impinged on.
FWIW, most people who release code under the BSD license are quite aware what the freedom of the license implies. It may suprise a bigot like you, but sometimes people want to allow others to take and modify code without restriction. Some of them are even pleased if their code is useful to a corporation like Microsoft. The BSD license tends to maximize code use, the GPL code return.
For some reason FSF people seem to feel a need to make everything free and force it on everyone, willing or not. I don't agree with this, code is the property of the author, and it's up to him/her to decide what sorts of use and license should be allowed - BSD, GPL, or proprietary. Personally, I hate proprietary software and use vary little of it. I don't support proprietary software (outside of games) with my dollars, but I sure as hell don't campaign to put commercial software houses out of business. The right to my discretion as to how I license my code is a far more important right than how I choose to exercise it. Now respect the damn software authors choice.
Who cares about bang for the MHz when you don't get bang for the buck. A 1.4 GHz T-bird is well under half the cost of a top-end G4 system.
MHz simply doesn't matter. You get like 4x the MHz per buck with x86 that you do of a G4.
This is not the end of Loki yet. Their president issued a statement that they will be continuing operations and putting out new titles, while trying to pay off their debt. I don't know if they'll pull off or not, but best of luck to them.
Why not use vim seeing as how there is a Windows version and it has lots of useless/full features (multi undo, syntax highlighting) that plain vi doesn't.
You want q2hack which gives you full screen mode and DGA mouse input.
It's available from:
http://staff.xmms.org/zinx/q2hack/
You forget one important thing - MP3 is thoroughly entrenched in the market and people aren't going to ditch their existing collections.
The problem that is that Ogg doesn't offer hardware manufacturers any new advantage. It's not possible to ditch mp3 and only support ogg. At best, they support mp3 and ogg, still paying the mp3 licensing fee. They gain nothing.
The only people who would benefit from ogg would be software companies providing encoders. Creating only new material, dropping legacy mp3 support would not be as much of an issue.
That's cause he ain't got no thumbs to press space with.
Ignoring the absurd idea that they can't already copy dvds in China, what's to keep the evil Chinese pirating triad from flying to the US, buying 5 or 6 PS2 units, and flying them back to China to analyze them. Or even just going to Hong Kong and buying them off the street.
I can just imagine what U.S. customs might say: "Uh no sir, you may not export these video game systems, they are weapons of mass destruction. Here, why don't you take this used Pong machine instead."
They responded by setting their dns to point back to slashdot, except for bagley.org, which they forgot to change and still points to the site. Interesting way of dealing with the slashdot effect, maybe they're trying to save bandwidth costs or punish slashdot.
Just realized I made a mistake and it turns out Asa was right after all. The pref used to go into user.js, but now it works in prefs.js. Sorry if I confused anyone.
It'll be added to the Image Manager soon anyway.
But Plastic.com has Oog the Open Source Caveman.
What else do you need?
is whether this guy actually got anything for playing.
I got stripped naked, locked in a room for a year with no toilet paper, nothing but rice and dogfood to eat, with millions of people watching me and all I got was this stupid comedy video.
It is working, the secret is to put that line in user.js (which you'll probably have to create) instead of prefs.js, if you put it in prefs.js it'll get erased.
The best setting is:
user_pref("image.animation_mode", "none");
since that way it only will show you the starting frame and not even loop once
This should really have a pref, because it's darn useful. It's the next best thing to installing junkbuster, and doesn't make you feel guilty of depriving sites of money.
Other big improvements are:
1. libpr0n now displays images properly in linux, before gifs would get blanked out fairly often
2. new autocomplete widget - now works like a combo of IE and NS 4.x complete, but better than both (uses any site in your history file). Has an option to search for keywords thru Netscape at the bottom of the list, tho i wish this were google instead.
3. fix for the can't delete ie favorites bug
4. the preferences window is a fixed size now. Before if you were using large fonts, it made it impossible to access the pulldown menu for fixed size font size.
Overall, it's more polished than the 0.9 release, a lot of the new features were cleaned up and work a lot better.
Would it be possible to change it so it only blocks annoying javascript popups, say block javascript popups on page open and close. Automatic popups are the ones that are ads, whereas target= is often useful (as are the popups that a lot of sites use when you click on an image to examine it).
Hey, no fair, it's news for us BSD people too, and don't forget about those 2 Solaris X86 people.
I agree, when a fairly major release like this comes out, I like to know. It's not like XFree gets updated every week or anything. And this affects everybody, now if only they'd actually do a little research and tell us what we might be interested in in this release...oops, but this is Slashdot. I guess that's asking too much.