I am a firewall engineer/tech. As bad as I hate to say it, but, especially with the tech industry being in the shape it's in right now, things like this help assure that I will have a job for the foreseeable future.
Also here's another article about the worm, for those who care.
Your computer will be fine for playing around with OpenBSD. You should even be able to run X as long as you can live without GNOME or KDE. To put things in perspective: I am currently running OpenBSD 3.0 as a firewall/router for my DSL on a P133 with 32 MB ram, and even with tcp and udp buffers cranked up to 65535, rtadvd, route6d, and altqd running, I still have 15 MB ram free. Not too long ago (Spring 2001) I was running OpenBSD 2.7 on a 486SX/25 with 16 meg ram as a an email server with about 8 users, several of us who subscribed to some high volume mailing lists, and while retrieving mail via IMAPS was sometimes slow, it was still definitely tolerable.
Damn straight it's about time. If you read the NANOG or inet-access mailing lists you've probably read *tons* of complaints about this marketing tactic. I didn't know that anybody had finally taken them to court over it, though. Good for you!!!
Pirate network? How so? By this logic, then all of your major ISPs would be the worlds largest "pirate network." Down with UUNet! For they have warez traders and skript kiddies as part of their customer base! This is seriously a case of "shoot the messenger." And Napster tried, they really did, to control what was on their network, but they just couldn't satisfy Rosen.
I have about 300 CDs in my collection, and a lot of these would have never gotten purchased had I not had access to the material on Napster and other P2P systems. So yeah...it really hurt record sales.
Let's all install two different versions of perl on our boxes. One for the system, and one for the user. I've dealt with this hell on HP-UX 10.20 (which ships with perl 4) and I don't like it much. I know that disk space isn't all that expensive nowadays but still, there's some of us out there who like having a semi-clean filesystem and directory structure.
I applaud FreeBSD for finally starting to do what NetBSD has done since the beginning: Install a base OS and let the user decide what else they want or need. Is it really that hard to install perl from source/pkgsrc/ports or whatever? I run several NetBSD machines, and it never was much of an issue building perl from source and installing it. This is even true for the old VAXServer 3100 that I used to run. Yeah, it took a long time (this thing took 6 hours to compile bash), but wasn't "hard."
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I am a firewall engineer/tech. As bad as I hate to say it, but, especially with the tech industry being in the shape it's in right now, things like this help assure that I will have a job for the foreseeable future.
Also here's another article about the worm, for those who care.
Your computer will be fine for playing around with OpenBSD. You should even be able to run X as long as you can live without GNOME or KDE. To put things in perspective: I am currently running OpenBSD 3.0 as a firewall/router for my DSL on a P133 with 32 MB ram, and even with tcp and udp buffers cranked up to 65535, rtadvd, route6d, and altqd running, I still have 15 MB ram free. Not too long ago (Spring 2001) I was running OpenBSD 2.7 on a 486SX/25 with 16 meg ram as a an email server with about 8 users, several of us who subscribed to some high volume mailing lists, and while retrieving mail via IMAPS was sometimes slow, it was still definitely tolerable.
Damn straight it's about time. If you read the NANOG or inet-access mailing lists you've probably read *tons* of complaints about this marketing tactic. I didn't know that anybody had finally taken them to court over it, though. Good for you!!!
Pirate network? How so? By this logic, then all of your major ISPs would be the worlds largest "pirate network." Down with UUNet! For they have warez traders and skript kiddies as part of their customer base! This is seriously a case of "shoot the messenger." And Napster tried, they really did, to control what was on their network, but they just couldn't satisfy Rosen.
I have about 300 CDs in my collection, and a lot of these would have never gotten purchased had I not had access to the material on Napster and other P2P systems. So yeah...it really hurt record sales.
Yeah!
Let's all install two different versions of perl on our boxes. One for the system, and one for the user. I've dealt with this hell on HP-UX 10.20 (which ships with perl 4) and I don't like it much. I know that disk space isn't all that expensive nowadays but still, there's some of us out there who like having a semi-clean filesystem and directory structure.
I applaud FreeBSD for finally starting to do what NetBSD has done since the beginning: Install a base OS and let the user decide what else they want or need. Is it really that hard to install perl from source/pkgsrc/ports or whatever? I run several NetBSD machines, and it never was much of an issue building perl from source and installing it. This is even true for the old VAXServer 3100 that I used to run. Yeah, it took a long time (this thing took 6 hours to compile bash), but wasn't "hard."
-J