And in case you missed it in my first post- I have never walked out of a movie before- not even Battlefield Earth- and that movie got a 2.4 on IMDB for gods sake.
Did you actually read any of the reviews? Fully half of them are so overtly glowing that you have to ask yourself what movie they saw. The other half rated the movie between 1 and 4 and all said the exact same thing- it wasn't funny.
You DO NOT RATE SOMETHING YOU HAVE NOT ACTUALLY SEEN! Sheesh.
I rated the parts I saw- all of which were absolutely dreadful.
And BTW, there is a wonderfully hilarious moment near the end that had the Douglas Adams feel to it to an incredible degree, and you MISSED it!
Oh damn! I didn't waste another hour sitting through a painful movie to witness one funny scene. What the hell is wrong with me?
I read H2G2 on a regular basis- all 5 books probably once a year or so. I will call myself a fan and I will happily defend that title. The movie- no matter how hard you try to pretend- simply is not funny. Deal with it.
from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 12:
Wow. Zaphod was a LOT smarter in the books than he was in the movie. If you can't tell the difference then I can't help you. Zaphod in the books was diabolical. Zaphon in the movie was just dumb. And holding his other head hostage? WTF?
Btw, thanks for quoting a book to me that I keep on my shelf and reread on a regular basis.
He was a Jatravartid. The narrator pretty much read the first chapter of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe including the whole "in the beginning the Universe was created" bit.
I know _WHO_ he was supposed to be. a) It was not funny. b) It did not fit into the plot of the first book. c) It was a fucking brief and off handed reference even when it did come in to play in Restaurant.
(I thought the Ah-choo; Bless You line was hilarious.)
You would. This was humour so far below what Adams was capable of that I can't believe it made it into the movie. Then again I can't believe the entire movie so what should I expect. Ah-choo; bless you is the type of joke I would expect from Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers or in Monty Python but not from DA. (In fact- I'm sure this _was_ in an Abrahams movie- probably Naked Gun or Airplane).
(Every version of H2G2 has a slightly different plot.)
I am well aware of all the different incarnations of H2G2. The thing is- they are all funny. 1 long, stupid and pointless scene involving John Malkovich is not excused by a quick joke later on.
Why not explain how ravenous the Ravenous Buggblatter Beast of Traal actually is? The entire rescue on Vogsphere scene was just... well... unfunny and pointless.
I've heard stories about people walking out of movies. I really have to question their ability to enjoy life.
In that case I question your sexuality! Ah-ha! Got you there! Am I making any sense? No? Well now you know how I felt throughout the entire movie. The fact is the movie was _BORING_. I saw it with several people- some of them even stayed for the whole thing- and our collective reaction was- What the hell did we just witness?
Instead of wasting another 45 minutes watching a movie I was not enjoying I left. I went home, jumped in my car, turned up the music and went for a ride. It was a lot more enjoyable than the movie:) Then again since you probably do not own an old Austin Mini Cooper S you would not know what I am talking about. Perhaps next time an awful movie like this comes out I can jump onto the old Triumph I restored and go enjoy a ride on that:)
As an aside- my girlfriend went with me to see the movie and as soon as we had left asked why we stayed as long as we did. It had been obvious to her from the dolphin opening scene that this was going to be a movie with Monty Python like humour and would hold no enjoyment for a real fan.
Just because it was based on a book we love does not mean we have to accept the horror that was created by Disney.
Dear lord... I've read all the books and I get the dolphins- I just don't get what they were doing in book 1- and more iportantly- why did I think I was watching Monty Python?
What movie did you see? I walked out halfway through. I have _never_ done that before- not even Battlefield Earth!
Zaphod was not supposed to be stupid- a "frood" sure. Hip definitely. Zany ok. But not stupid.
Where was the remotely funny dialog? It was not funny in the slightest. It was just- dumb. The humour was Disney-eque slapstick of the type I would expect from Will Ferrel- i.e. the kind of humour that makes me nauseous.
The movie had only a couple of redeeming points- Marvin was funny. The guide was pretty good although the voice-over just sounded... wrong I guess. The heart or gold externally looked cool. Internally it was mind bogglingly boring.
What the hell was with John Malkovich? Why was that scene there at all? It did nothing to advance the plot and was not in the book that I remember reading.
Douglas Adams was all about dialog and this movie had none of it. How did cutting out "Beware of the Leopard" make the movie better? Did saving those three seconds of dialog make the movie short enough to include some other joke? What was with the damned Dolphins at the beginning? Was I watching Monty Python or Douglas Adams? Just because it is British does not mean it has to be Monty Python. And the scene with Mr. Prosser and the bulldozers- Why change it? It was _hysterical_ in the book. It set the entire tone for the story. In the movie- it's just- stupid- boring- pointless...
The book is ecclectic. It seems almost random but at least it is funny. The movie is so far beyond random as to be senseless. More importantly it is not funny.
I rated this on IMDB and actually gave it a 1. And I LOVED the books. I own several copies and have read all 5 books and the short story. I've also read his other books and I just do not think he would have thought this movie was good.
Well hell- why require the cops to know anything. Let's just arrest anyone for anything at any time! I think you are hacking into slashdot- I want you arrested. The cop doesn't know so you should be taken to jail?
This country was built on the bedrock of freedom- innocent until proven guilty. Arresting a man, leaving him cuffed in front of a store full of people and then taking him to the police station makes him look guilty and clearly infringed on his right to liberty.
Any fucking person who is not brain dead and actually looked at a new bill has seen the ink smudge. I've never worked in retail or in a bank and I've seen the ink smudge. Christ 20 years ago in my elementary school we were taught about counterfiting and that ink can and will smudge on new bills.
Before you arrest someone you had damned sure better have probable cause and slightly smudged ink sequential serial numbers should _never_ be enough to deprive someone of their freedom- even for a short while. They could have called the secret service and asked them if the ink can smudge and found out the answer right then and there.
Oh well- I guess it is to be expected in the fascist neo-conservative country formerly know as the land of the free.
Why not? Most self-respecting hackers are not hacking to steal.
Then save it for Defcon. Or write a paper on the vulnerability and get a better job. Or impress your friends. Or use it at your job when you do a penetration test. Do anything with it more userful than a sham hack contest where the authors are just going to dump your exploit, write about it and get the praise you deserve.
The assumption you're making is that all "self-respecting hackers" are only interested in farming zombies or stealing data. Have you considered the possibility that there may be skilled people out there who would like to demonstrate their skills, but do so without breaking any laws?
I make no such assumption. I never tried to imply that they "are only interested in farming zombies or stealing data." That comment I made regarding banks was to express the waste of time I consider hacking constests to be rather than an approval of for profit hacking (except when done legally as part of a penetration test). I consider anyone who farms zombies to be nothing more than a troll. The idea of wasting 0-day on this contest, however, is still silly. Save it for the defcon hacking contests or to impress your friends or for your job. Write a paper and become famous. But waste it here? Hell no.
Nice know-it-all answer. Unfortunately, that's more of a gameplan if you're serious about pissing money away.
Nice well reasoned response.
The reality is that the vast majority of Internet security companies consist of SATAN tied to a web frontend.
It's a fucking shame you never dealt with any of the good companies back in the day. Companies like IFSec and Breakwater before they became big and got bought out use to do everything by hand. Some companies still do. I can not help it if you do not want to find those companies for your self.
And a "full audit of the source code"? Do you have any idea how expensive (and fruitless) that would be?
It depends on the application and how critical it is. Moreover I would never call it fruitless. Look at all the holes the OpenBSD team found by a code audit. It is a viable option for some applications and it certain proves a hell of a lot more about the security of a system than one of these sham hack contests.
I'm sorry, but what you've suggested is not a viable solution to most organizations that actually have to generate a profit.
It is a viable option and I've worked for and with plenty of companies to perform code audits on critical code. Plenty of serious bugs have been found that no 4 day hack contest ever would have found.
Furthermore, the simple fact that it all comes down to humans staring bleary eyed at thousands of lines of source code means that many bugs and exploits *will be missed*.
Then develop some tools to help you. Look for commonly exploited library calls like sprintf(). Do something more useful than a "hack" contest.
The best security practice is to assume that your company's security systems will be compromised and to have plans in place to mitigate the damage.
No- the best security practice is to be so confident in your own security prowess that you do not even bother securing your systems because you know no one could break in. This works best when you have your head in the sand at the same time.
Seriously though: the best security practice is to have several layers of security coupled with stringent monitoring and strong procedures in place to ensure timely application of updates and patches. Then again that's pretty expensive too and from your post it does not sound like you care to spend any money on security.
Compared to having 1,000 customers pay a bunch of people to monitor your systems 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year for years the cost of a little up front security analysis is hardly unjustifiable.
First off- I did read the article- all 2 dozen sentences of it.
Second, all I was doing was listing how you go about correctly assessing the security of a system. I was not trying to imply that they were doing _everything_ wrong- just most things.
That said- have you ever written an exploit? Do you honestly believe 48 hours is sufficient time for someone who also has to work and sleep to test anything? If they truly believe in their system then it should be open for 2 weeks not 2 days.
The set up your own system. Or have a friend do it. I use to practice on my friends systems. It annoyed the hell out of them. Not that I broke in but that they screwed up enough to let me in:)
has taken the worst anyone could throw at it and survived.
Let me get this straight- 96 hours allows people to try "the worst anyone could throw at it?" In your wildest dreams perhaps. Furthermore how does this prove anything? Do you honestly think a real attacker would waste a 0-day exploit on such a lame contest? Why not wait until several banks have deployed this system and then make some money with such an attack:)
The hack contests are silly. Any admin with half a brain can set up a secure system and the only way to root it would be 0-day that no self respecting hacker would waste on this system.
If you are serious about security you pay for a full audit of the source code, professional penetration testing over a 2 week period, and you test for root exploits using a local account- on the assumption that somewhere down the line the system will be misconfigured and an attacker will gain non-root privileges.
The server is not being set up as a production system so what is the point to a successful compromise. Furthermore- anyone with any sysadmin experience should be able to set up a server that can not be compromised except by 0-day - and honestly- who would waste 0-day on a lame contest?
At least initially. It's easy to install, fast, simple to configure and has a plethora of software available. It also has some of the best documentation of any OS out there in the form of the FreeBSD handbook. While I agree you should give all the BSD's a try- you should probably start with FreeBSD.
The difference between the BSD variants are small and tend more towards implementation details and installation than general system maintenance. If you log in to a running BSD system and were asked to administer it- chances are it would not matter what BSD it was. It is nothing like trying to switch between slackware and debian or debian and redhat.
set hw.pci.enable_io_modes="0" You should try looking this up.
5.3 is the first in the 5.x -STABLE branch. It's kind of like using the 1.0 version of software. It's the first branch considered to be stable but even then there could be gotcha's that no one has found. I'd wait until 5.4 before moving to it if this is a production machine or you are not willing to play with the system.
I was just about to post this same comment. Honestly I am forced to wonder about someone who writes an article like that. Is he, by chance, employed by HP?
I played Halo 1 for years and could not have been more disappointed. There are so many flaws in Halo 2 they can not be listed in one post. That said-
The boards blow. Zanzibar, Burial Mounds, Foundation, lockout, collosus, they all suck for one reason or another. Zanzibar and Burial mounds are always used for single flag CTF and assault and if the teams are _any_ good the game is always a tie.A myriad of comments can be made about the other boards as well.
WHY THE FUCK DOES RED WIN IF THERE IS A TIE AND THEY SCORE ON THEIR SECOND ATTEMPT IN A CTF OR ASSAULT GAME???????? There is NO logic behind this! None whatsoever!
The weapons- The sniper rifle is basically unstoppable now on a number of boards. If someone on ascension gets in the banshee and gets on top of the tower then they can't be killed because the other weapons are now so much weaker.
You can not switch between Halo 1 and Halo 2. Believe me I try. Between the differences in the way the weapons operate (the rocket launcher for one), the fact that you have to drop weapons twice when dual wielding you almost can not switch between the games regularly without going mad. And the feel of the sniper rifle is so disgustingly different it makes me cry to use the new one.
There are about a thousand other problems but they have been covered by so many people on bungie.net that it isn't worth repeating here.
/stand/sysinstall may not have every bell and whistle in the world but damned if it doesn't do everything I need to and very quickly. I can go from sysinstall coming up to the OS starting to be installed with the options and partitioning I want in under 2 minutes. I haven't found another installer that comes close. I have a netboot image which installs a complete version of FreeBSD customized with the packages I want including partitioning and formatting in under 7 minutes from the time I boot the computer to the point at which it reboots and is ready for use.
As for installation size, well- I am not sure what you are talking about. FreeBSD has a number of preset system types which include certain packages. I do minimal installs as a starting point for my own embedded work. Other times I do complete installs. Do I want apache installed as part of my base system? Ye gods no. I prefer to install just a few small packages on my system and do not want 34 hidden packages installed for every one I select in an installer. I would like to know exact version numbers and specific compile time options. You may not care. I do.
As for the package problems- why is X part of the base system and yet installed as a package? Probably so that FreeBSD can move the whole base system into a series of packages to make it more modular. I don't know that for sure but it certainly makes sense.
I could not believe the arrogance of this statement. I've never audited a company without at least a few major security holes. Then again, I could not believe the arrogance of their entire release. Do they really believe they need to threaten people? Do they honestly believe that anyone who was going to pirate the game is going to be stopped by their little rant? Do they think this does anything but make them look like a buncha whiners?
I happen to love Halo. I play it entirely too often. That said, who are these people kidding? Tarnish the virgin experience of the game by seeing screenshots? Honestly if anyone actually feels this way they probably need to get out a bit more and stop playing quite so much Halo.
Tank systems have a problem with dissolved solids because the water slows and has time to discharge the solid material into the tank where it can collect. A tankless system has no where for the solids to collect. They are constantly being flushed and it keeps them operating well.
The very reason I switched to a tankless system was because I was sick and tired of replacing my water heater every few years. I put in a tankless system 15 years ago and it still worked perfectly when I upgraded to a newer version last year. When we pulled it apart, the pipes were clean as a whistle despite well water with a very high TDS level.
We lost power for 2 days and were able to take hot showers every day for hours at a time. You obviously have an electric hot water heater and we have gas. Then again, I only know of one company that makes a tankless electric system and their dealers don't recommend it so there is no point in arguing.
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The thing is, I think I could have given it a high score even if it had not been a faitful adaptation. All it has to do was be funny...
-sirket
And in case you missed it in my first post- I have never walked out of a movie before- not even Battlefield Earth- and that movie got a 2.4 on IMDB for gods sake.
-sirket
Did you actually read any of the reviews? Fully half of them are so overtly glowing that you have to ask yourself what movie they saw. The other half rated the movie between 1 and 4 and all said the exact same thing- it wasn't funny.
-sirket
You DO NOT RATE SOMETHING YOU HAVE NOT ACTUALLY SEEN!
Sheesh.
I rated the parts I saw- all of which were absolutely dreadful.
And BTW, there is a wonderfully hilarious moment near the end that had the Douglas Adams feel to it to an incredible degree, and you MISSED it!
Oh damn! I didn't waste another hour sitting through a painful movie to witness one funny scene. What the hell is wrong with me?
I read H2G2 on a regular basis- all 5 books probably once a year or so. I will call myself a fan and I will happily defend that title. The movie- no matter how hard you try to pretend- simply is not funny. Deal with it.
-sirket
from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 12:
... well ... unfunny and pointless.
:) Then again since you probably do not own an old Austin Mini Cooper S you would not know what I am talking about. Perhaps next time an awful movie like this comes out I can jump onto the old Triumph I restored and go enjoy a ride on that :)
Wow. Zaphod was a LOT smarter in the books than he was in the movie. If you can't tell the difference then I can't help you. Zaphod in the books was diabolical. Zaphon in the movie was just dumb. And holding his other head hostage? WTF?
Btw, thanks for quoting a book to me that I keep on my shelf and reread on a regular basis.
He was a Jatravartid. The narrator pretty much read the first chapter of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe including the whole "in the beginning the Universe was created" bit.
I know _WHO_ he was supposed to be. a) It was not funny. b) It did not fit into the plot of the first book. c) It was a fucking brief and off handed reference even when it did come in to play in Restaurant.
(I thought the Ah-choo; Bless You line was hilarious.)
You would. This was humour so far below what Adams was capable of that I can't believe it made it into the movie. Then again I can't believe the entire movie so what should I expect. Ah-choo; bless you is the type of joke I would expect from Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers or in Monty Python but not from DA. (In fact- I'm sure this _was_ in an Abrahams movie- probably Naked Gun or Airplane).
(Every version of H2G2 has a slightly different plot.)
I am well aware of all the different incarnations of H2G2. The thing is- they are all funny. 1 long, stupid and pointless scene involving John Malkovich is not excused by a quick joke later on.
Why not explain how ravenous the Ravenous Buggblatter Beast of Traal actually is? The entire rescue on Vogsphere scene was just
I've heard stories about people walking out of movies. I really have to question their ability to enjoy life.
In that case I question your sexuality! Ah-ha! Got you there! Am I making any sense? No? Well now you know how I felt throughout the entire movie. The fact is the movie was _BORING_. I saw it with several people- some of them even stayed for the whole thing- and our collective reaction was- What the hell did we just witness?
Instead of wasting another 45 minutes watching a movie I was not enjoying I left. I went home, jumped in my car, turned up the music and went for a ride. It was a lot more enjoyable than the movie
As an aside- my girlfriend went with me to see the movie and as soon as we had left asked why we stayed as long as we did. It had been obvious to her from the dolphin opening scene that this was going to be a movie with Monty Python like humour and would hold no enjoyment for a real fan.
Just because it was based on a book we love does not mean we have to accept the horror that was created by Disney.
Dear lord... I've read all the books and I get the dolphins- I just don't get what they were doing in book 1- and more iportantly- why did I think I was watching Monty Python?
-sirket
What movie did you see? I walked out halfway through. I have _never_ done that before- not even Battlefield Earth!
Zaphod was not supposed to be stupid- a "frood" sure. Hip definitely. Zany ok. But not stupid.
Where was the remotely funny dialog? It was not funny in the slightest. It was just- dumb. The humour was Disney-eque slapstick of the type I would expect from Will Ferrel- i.e. the kind of humour that makes me nauseous.
The movie had only a couple of redeeming points- Marvin was funny. The guide was pretty good although the voice-over just sounded... wrong I guess. The heart or gold externally looked cool. Internally it was mind bogglingly boring.
What the hell was with John Malkovich? Why was that scene there at all? It did nothing to advance the plot and was not in the book that I remember reading.
Douglas Adams was all about dialog and this movie had none of it. How did cutting out "Beware of the Leopard" make the movie better? Did saving those three seconds of dialog make the movie short enough to include some other joke? What was with the damned Dolphins at the beginning? Was I watching Monty Python or Douglas Adams? Just because it is British does not mean it has to be Monty Python. And the scene with Mr. Prosser and the bulldozers- Why change it? It was _hysterical_ in the book. It set the entire tone for the story. In the movie- it's just- stupid- boring- pointless...
The book is ecclectic. It seems almost random but at least it is funny. The movie is so far beyond random as to be senseless. More importantly it is not funny.
I rated this on IMDB and actually gave it a 1. And I LOVED the books. I own several copies and have read all 5 books and the short story. I've also read his other books and I just do not think he would have thought this movie was good.
-sirket
Well hell- why require the cops to know anything. Let's just arrest anyone for anything at any time! I think you are hacking into slashdot- I want you arrested. The cop doesn't know so you should be taken to jail?
This country was built on the bedrock of freedom- innocent until proven guilty. Arresting a man, leaving him cuffed in front of a store full of people and then taking him to the police station makes him look guilty and clearly infringed on his right to liberty.
Any fucking person who is not brain dead and actually looked at a new bill has seen the ink smudge. I've never worked in retail or in a bank and I've seen the ink smudge. Christ 20 years ago in my elementary school we were taught about counterfiting and that ink can and will smudge on new bills.
Before you arrest someone you had damned sure better have probable cause and slightly smudged ink sequential serial numbers should _never_ be enough to deprive someone of their freedom- even for a short while. They could have called the secret service and asked them if the ink can smudge and found out the answer right then and there.
Oh well- I guess it is to be expected in the fascist neo-conservative country formerly know as the land of the free.
-sirket
I agree- but then again I own an original Mini Cooper.
-sirket
Why not? Most self-respecting hackers are not hacking to steal.
Then save it for Defcon. Or write a paper on the vulnerability and get a better job. Or impress your friends. Or use it at your job when you do a penetration test. Do anything with it more userful than a sham hack contest where the authors are just going to dump your exploit, write about it and get the praise you deserve.
-sirket
The assumption you're making is that all "self-respecting hackers" are only interested in farming zombies or stealing data. Have you considered the possibility that there may be skilled people out there who would like to demonstrate their skills, but do so without breaking any laws?
I make no such assumption. I never tried to imply that they "are only interested in farming zombies or stealing data." That comment I made regarding banks was to express the waste of time I consider hacking constests to be rather than an approval of for profit hacking (except when done legally as part of a penetration test). I consider anyone who farms zombies to be nothing more than a troll. The idea of wasting 0-day on this contest, however, is still silly. Save it for the defcon hacking contests or to impress your friends or for your job. Write a paper and become famous. But waste it here? Hell no.
Nice know-it-all answer. Unfortunately, that's more of a gameplan if you're serious about pissing money away.
Nice well reasoned response.
The reality is that the vast majority of Internet security companies consist of SATAN tied to a web frontend.
It's a fucking shame you never dealt with any of the good companies back in the day. Companies like IFSec and Breakwater before they became big and got bought out use to do everything by hand. Some companies still do. I can not help it if you do not want to find those companies for your self.
And a "full audit of the source code"? Do you have any idea how expensive (and fruitless) that would be?
It depends on the application and how critical it is. Moreover I would never call it fruitless. Look at all the holes the OpenBSD team found by a code audit. It is a viable option for some applications and it certain proves a hell of a lot more about the security of a system than one of these sham hack contests.
I'm sorry, but what you've suggested is not a viable solution to most organizations that actually have to generate a profit.
It is a viable option and I've worked for and with plenty of companies to perform code audits on critical code. Plenty of serious bugs have been found that no 4 day hack contest ever would have found.
Furthermore, the simple fact that it all comes down to humans staring bleary eyed at thousands of lines of source code means that many bugs and exploits *will be missed*.
Then develop some tools to help you. Look for commonly exploited library calls like sprintf(). Do something more useful than a "hack" contest.
The best security practice is to assume that your company's security systems will be compromised and to have plans in place to mitigate the damage.
No- the best security practice is to be so confident in your own security prowess that you do not even bother securing your systems because you know no one could break in. This works best when you have your head in the sand at the same time.
Seriously though: the best security practice is to have several layers of security coupled with stringent monitoring and strong procedures in place to ensure timely application of updates and patches. Then again that's pretty expensive too and from your post it does not sound like you care to spend any money on security.
Compared to having 1,000 customers pay a bunch of people to monitor your systems 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year for years the cost of a little up front security analysis is hardly unjustifiable.
-sirket
First off- I did read the article- all 2 dozen sentences of it.
Second, all I was doing was listing how you go about correctly assessing the security of a system. I was not trying to imply that they were doing _everything_ wrong- just most things.
That said- have you ever written an exploit? Do you honestly believe 48 hours is sufficient time for someone who also has to work and sleep to test anything? If they truly believe in their system then it should be open for 2 weeks not 2 days.
-sirket
The set up your own system. Or have a friend do it. I use to practice on my friends systems. It annoyed the hell out of them. Not that I broke in but that they screwed up enough to let me in :)
-sirket
has taken the worst anyone could throw at it and survived.
:)
Let me get this straight- 96 hours allows people to try "the worst anyone could throw at it?" In your wildest dreams perhaps. Furthermore how does this prove anything? Do you honestly think a real attacker would waste a 0-day exploit on such a lame contest? Why not wait until several banks have deployed this system and then make some money with such an attack
The hack contests are silly. Any admin with half a brain can set up a secure system and the only way to root it would be 0-day that no self respecting hacker would waste on this system.
If you are serious about security you pay for a full audit of the source code, professional penetration testing over a 2 week period, and you test for root exploits using a local account- on the assumption that somewhere down the line the system will be misconfigured and an attacker will gain non-root privileges.
-sirket
The server is not being set up as a production system so what is the point to a successful compromise. Furthermore- anyone with any sysadmin experience should be able to set up a server that can not be compromised except by 0-day - and honestly- who would waste 0-day on a lame contest?
-sirket
At least initially. It's easy to install, fast, simple to configure and has a plethora of software available. It also has some of the best documentation of any OS out there in the form of the FreeBSD handbook. While I agree you should give all the BSD's a try- you should probably start with FreeBSD.
The difference between the BSD variants are small and tend more towards implementation details and installation than general system maintenance. If you log in to a running BSD system and were asked to administer it- chances are it would not matter what BSD it was. It is nothing like trying to switch between slackware and debian or debian and redhat.
-sirket
set hw.pci.enable_io_modes="0"
You should try looking this up.
5.3 is the first in the 5.x -STABLE branch. It's kind of like using the 1.0 version of software. It's the first branch considered to be stable but even then there could be gotcha's that no one has found. I'd wait until 5.4 before moving to it if this is a production machine or you are not willing to play with the system.
-sirket
I was just about to post this same comment. Honestly I am forced to wonder about someone who writes an article like that. Is he, by chance, employed by HP?
-sirket
I played Halo 1 for years and could not have been more disappointed. There are so many flaws in Halo 2 they can not be listed in one post. That said-
The boards blow. Zanzibar, Burial Mounds, Foundation, lockout, collosus, they all suck for one reason or another. Zanzibar and Burial mounds are always used for single flag CTF and assault and if the teams are _any_ good the game is always a tie.A myriad of comments can be made about the other boards as well.
WHY THE FUCK DOES RED WIN IF THERE IS A TIE AND THEY SCORE ON THEIR SECOND ATTEMPT IN A CTF OR ASSAULT GAME???????? There is NO logic behind this! None whatsoever!
The weapons- The sniper rifle is basically unstoppable now on a number of boards. If someone on ascension gets in the banshee and gets on top of the tower then they can't be killed because the other weapons are now so much weaker.
You can not switch between Halo 1 and Halo 2. Believe me I try. Between the differences in the way the weapons operate (the rocket launcher for one), the fact that you have to drop weapons twice when dual wielding you almost can not switch between the games regularly without going mad. And the feel of the sniper rifle is so disgustingly different it makes me cry to use the new one.
There are about a thousand other problems but they have been covered by so many people on bungie.net that it isn't worth repeating here.
-sirket
100% agreed.
/stand/sysinstall may not have every bell and whistle in the world but damned if it doesn't do everything I need to and very quickly. I can go from sysinstall coming up to the OS starting to be installed with the options and partitioning I want in under 2 minutes. I haven't found another installer that comes close. I have a netboot image which installs a complete version of FreeBSD customized with the packages I want including partitioning and formatting in under 7 minutes from the time I boot the computer to the point at which it reboots and is ready for use.
As for installation size, well- I am not sure what you are talking about. FreeBSD has a number of preset system types which include certain packages. I do minimal installs as a starting point for my own embedded work. Other times I do complete installs. Do I want apache installed as part of my base system? Ye gods no. I prefer to install just a few small packages on my system and do not want 34 hidden packages installed for every one I select in an installer. I would like to know exact version numbers and specific compile time options. You may not care. I do.
As for the package problems- why is X part of the base system and yet installed as a package? Probably so that FreeBSD can move the whole base system into a series of packages to make it more modular. I don't know that for sure but it certainly makes sense.
-sirket
I could not believe the arrogance of this statement. I've never audited a company without at least a few major security holes. Then again, I could not believe the arrogance of their entire release. Do they really believe they need to threaten people? Do they honestly believe that anyone who was going to pirate the game is going to be stopped by their little rant? Do they think this does anything but make them look like a buncha whiners?
I happen to love Halo. I play it entirely too often. That said, who are these people kidding? Tarnish the virgin experience of the game by seeing screenshots? Honestly if anyone actually feels this way they probably need to get out a bit more and stop playing quite so much Halo.
-sirket
Do you know the manufacturer of your parents system? I'd like to research their product.
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Tank systems have a problem with dissolved solids because the water slows and has time to discharge the solid material into the tank where it can collect. A tankless system has no where for the solids to collect. They are constantly being flushed and it keeps them operating well.
The very reason I switched to a tankless system was because I was sick and tired of replacing my water heater every few years. I put in a tankless system 15 years ago and it still worked perfectly when I upgraded to a newer version last year. When we pulled it apart, the pipes were clean as a whistle despite well water with a very high TDS level.
-sirket
We lost power for 2 days and were able to take hot showers every day for hours at a time. You obviously have an electric hot water heater and we have gas. Then again, I only know of one company that makes a tankless electric system and their dealers don't recommend it so there is no point in arguing.
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If you had gas you would have been fine
-sirket