If its rock solid why did it crash on him? If this had been a windows article there would have been dancing in the streets but because its BSD its conveniently ignored. Ok , maybe the driver was at fault BUT , you can't claime to be a solid system AND crash when the user tries to run video which has worked fine on Windows and Linux for years.
" After hitting a few random buttons on its window to make it stop, FreeBSD would just crash "
So much for their claims. Or is it only rock solid as long as you don't touch it or try and do anything with it? Yeah , this'll get modded down as a troll , see if i care.
I've never had an problems connecting to ftp.kernel.org to get the latest version of the linux kernel but then thats using bog standard ftp, not some lash up semi-automated system a la BSD.
"you would know what a trivial joke it is to keep a FreeBSD box current. "
In theory. In practice I was always getting ftp timeouts and other obscure errors whatever site I tried to connect to. This was with 4.6, maybe things have changed since then but I got so fed up with it I gave up. So please , give the "BSD is so easy to maintain" spiel a rest. It isn't always the case.
This isn't meant to be a troll but I'm genuinely confused about all the fuss thats made about wi-fi. Ok , so you can have a digital connection between machines. Wooo, advanced concept! Back in 1970. Its 2004 now people, this is nothing new even if Joe Sixpack has just crawled out of his cave and discovered it. Please can we have some stories that actually demonstrate something new and radical , not warmed over 1980s technology in shiny new clothes.
I bet he really shelled out for that system. Mind you , all the software should help him thread his way through traffic driven by the usual zombies
and the GPS will help with those confusing forks() in the road which can be very awk-ward sometimes. I don't imagine his passengers will have normal regular expression when they get in the car for the first time but I'm sure he'll mktime() to explain it all to them.
Down at the Xlib level it doesn't even do that. The client side code (usually in a widget library) has to check which text has been selected where when the mouse was pressed and moving (or whatever the policy is) and keep it in a buffer. All the X server itself does is provide selection request and selection notify events which do nothing more than allow clients to grab chunks of data from each other via the server. They could be used for anything really, not just cut-n-paste.
The masquerading is a neat feature: it allows me to type in any user's name and my admin password, and be logged in as that user. It's not something I'd use often, but it could be handy. Some have complained that this is a security hole."
Why would this be any more of a security hole than someone being logged in as root and then doing "su - " ?
"Auburn University scientists 'realized there is already a lot of hydrogen in hydrocarbon fuel'"
Wow, theres no fooling with these guys. Those sharp megawatt intelligences are really on the ball, I mean its only been over a hundred years since most chemists realised the very same thing and even put "hydro" in the name of hydrocarbon as clue.
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I'm actually using an ISDN modem. There is no ethernet or any kind of NIC card in the PC.
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PPP via a serial link. Or theres SLIP. Or theres other forms of network card such as token ring. What makes you think every PC is connected to an ethernet network?
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"device will concatenate that prefix with its own MAC address"
Superb. And if you're not using ethernet what does it concatenate onto it then? Random numbers? Your CPUs serial number?
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Because its a damn site easier if you only got a few machines to spend 60 seconds entering 10.0.0.1 etc into a hosts file than setting up DHCP. With IP6 this will no longer be the case.
You sure about that? Seems a bit pointless since it'll only apply to ethernet cards which means that if your PC isn't connected to a router etc via an ethernet card then you've got nothing to worry about anyway.
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If you have trouble with IP4 then just imagine the hours of fun you'll have with IP6.
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With ip4 its failry easy to set up a box yourself with dns, hosts file etc because of the simplicity of the numeric addresses. However good ip6 might be in other respects , in this respect however its a nightmare. A 128 bit number converted to hexadecimal is NOT a pretty site and leaves a huge scope for typos and other cock-ups. Ok , this isn't a reason not to use it but it should have been something the designers could have addressed other than just having:: as a shortcut for a block of zeros and leaving it at that.
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What cretin moderator made this a troll?? Mod up please.
So knowing what the roads signs mean, what stopping distances are etc is trivia? Hmm , wonder they all drive round in pickups out there , other vehicles probably wouldn't survive being crashed once a week.
"But if it fails by ramming something, then would you not be in the same realm as the possessed cruise control?"
Not really. If the parking system ran over someone while operating normally its no different to you having the cruise on doing 65 and not braking if someone steps out into the road. The car is just operating normally, YOU are who is in control of the machine and its YOUR responsibility to operate it correctly.
I live in london and if a car is parked with one wheel up on the kerb and the backend of the car sticking out into the road you can almost guarantee a woman parked it especially if its one of those "lifestyle" 4x4s that only tiny women with kids seem to drive. Maybe female ex-pats park well abroad because they're the good parkers who got fed up with their car being bashed every time they went shopping and decided to emigrate:)
"Now imagine what happens when that user is running as root"
And just how many users in a business setup run as root? VERY few. And how many run with the equivalent level of privs as root for certain operations on a Windows machine because of the way the OS works. A LOT. Go figure.
What are the odds that this game will now be seen to be so bad its good and actually sell (or at least be copied) quite a bit more than it would have otherwise?
Ok, so this 3rd system uses magnetic field to levitate the train body and optionally provide the driving force. Umm , how exactly this is so different from the other 2? You're still going to have to provide power for the superconductor and god help you if some of that liquid helium escapes. Sounds to me like the reason it hasn't been used is that the technology doesn't really exist yet.
Am I missing something, or could you get a top of the range PC, a MIDI keyboard, pro hi-fi setup and all the sequencer and sound generation software you could ever want for about half that price? oh , but wait, they've put the PC motherboard INSIDE the a keyboard case, of course, silly me, that entirely justifies the absurd price. Yeah right.
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If its rock solid why did it crash on him? If this had been a windows article there would have been dancing in the streets but because its BSD
its conveniently ignored. Ok , maybe the driver was at fault BUT , you can't claime to be a solid system AND crash when the user tries to run video which has
worked fine on Windows and Linux for years.
" After hitting a few random buttons on its window to make it stop, FreeBSD would just crash "
So much for their claims. Or is it only rock solid as long as you don't touch it or try and do anything with it? Yeah , this'll get modded down as
a troll , see if i care.
I've never had an problems connecting to ftp.kernel.org to get the latest version of the linux kernel but then thats using bog standard ftp, not some
lash up semi-automated system a la BSD.
"you would know what a trivial joke it is to keep a FreeBSD box current. "
In theory. In practice I was always getting ftp timeouts and other obscure errors whatever site I tried to connect to. This was with 4.6, maybe
things have changed since then but I got so fed up with it I gave up. So please , give the "BSD is so easy to maintain" spiel a rest. It isn't always the case.
This isn't meant to be a troll but I'm genuinely confused about all the fuss thats made about wi-fi. Ok , so you can have a digital connection
between machines. Wooo, advanced concept! Back in 1970. Its 2004 now people, this is nothing new even if Joe Sixpack has just crawled out of his cave and discovered it.
Please can we have some stories that actually demonstrate something new and radical , not warmed over 1980s technology in shiny new clothes.
I bet he really shelled out for that system. Mind you , all the software should help him thread his way through traffic driven by the usual zombies
and the GPS will help with those confusing forks() in the road which can be very awk-ward sometimes. I don't imagine his passengers will have normal regular expression when they get in the car for the first time
but I'm sure he'll mktime() to explain it all to them.
"X merely marks the text as selected"
Down at the Xlib level it doesn't even do that. The client side code (usually in a widget library) has to check which text has been selected
where when the mouse was pressed and moving (or whatever the policy is) and keep it in a buffer. All the X server itself does is provide selection request and selection notify events
which do nothing more than allow clients to grab chunks of data from each other via the server. They could be used for anything really, not just cut-n-paste.
That should have read "su - (username)"
The masquerading is a neat feature: it allows me to type in any user's name and my admin password, and be logged in as that user. It's not something I'd use often, but it could be handy. Some have complained that this is a security hole."
Why would this be any more of a security hole than someone being logged in as root and then doing "su - " ?
"Auburn University scientists 'realized there is already a lot of hydrogen in hydrocarbon fuel'"
Wow, theres no fooling with these guys. Those sharp megawatt intelligences are really on the ball, I mean its only been over a hundred years since
most chemists realised the very same thing and even put "hydro" in the name of hydrocarbon as clue.
I'm actually using an ISDN modem. There is no ethernet or any kind of NIC card in the PC.
PPP via a serial link. Or theres SLIP. Or theres other forms of network card such as token ring. What makes you think every PC is connected to an ethernet network?
"device will concatenate that prefix with its own MAC address"
Superb. And if you're not using ethernet what does it concatenate onto it then? Random numbers? Your CPUs serial number?
Because its a damn site easier if you only got a few machines to spend 60 seconds entering 10.0.0.1 etc into a hosts file than setting up DHCP. With IP6 this will no longer be the case.
"Its in the IPv6 headers"
You sure about that? Seems a bit pointless since it'll only apply to ethernet cards which means that if your PC isn't connected to a router etc
via an ethernet card then you've got nothing to worry about anyway.
If you have trouble with IP4 then just imagine the hours of fun you'll have with IP6.
With ip4 its failry easy to set up a box yourself with dns, hosts file etc because of the simplicity of the numeric addresses. However good :: as a shortcut for a block of zeros and leaving it at that.
ip6 might be in other respects , in this respect however its a nightmare. A 128 bit number converted to hexadecimal is NOT a pretty site and leaves a huge scope for typos and other cock-ups.
Ok , this isn't a reason not to use it but it should have been something the designers could have addressed other than just having
What cretin moderator made this a troll?? Mod up please.
So knowing what the roads signs mean, what stopping distances are etc is trivia? Hmm , wonder they all drive round in pickups out there
, other vehicles probably wouldn't survive being crashed once a week.
"But if it fails by ramming something, then would you not be in the same realm as the possessed cruise control?"
Not really. If the parking system ran over someone while operating normally its no different to you having the cruise on doing 65 and not
braking if someone steps out into the road. The car is just operating normally, YOU are who is in control of the machine and its YOUR responsibility to operate it correctly.
I live in london and if a car is parked with one wheel up on the kerb and the backend of the car sticking out into the road you can almost :)
guarantee a woman parked it especially if its one of those "lifestyle" 4x4s that only tiny women with kids seem to drive. Maybe female ex-pats park well
abroad because they're the good parkers who got fed up with their car being bashed every time they went shopping and decided to emigrate
"Now imagine what happens when that user is running as root"
And just how many users in a business setup run as root? VERY few. And how many run with the equivalent level of privs as root for certain operations on a Windows machine
because of the way the OS works. A LOT. Go figure.
What are the odds that this game will now be seen to be so bad its good and actually sell (or at least be copied) quite a bit more than it would
have otherwise?
Ok, so this 3rd system uses magnetic field to levitate the train body and optionally provide the driving force. Umm , how exactly this is
so different from the other 2? You're still going to have to provide power for the superconductor and god help you if some of that liquid helium escapes. Sounds to me like the reason
it hasn't been used is that the technology doesn't really exist yet.
Am I missing something, or could you get a top of the range PC, a MIDI keyboard, pro hi-fi setup and all the sequencer and sound generation software
you could ever want for about half that price? oh , but wait, they've put the PC motherboard INSIDE the a keyboard case, of course, silly me, that
entirely justifies the absurd price. Yeah right.