Though you should know that doing drugs is still way more likely to get you laid than this...
Didn't work very well for me (but that's because of other reasons) but it surely kept me from going utterly and completely insane.
Oh and contrary to popular myth, drugs don't affect your grades all too much. I was stoned rather big part of highschool and still graduated upwards 95th percentile. Then again I was living in a free country, not a fascist one.
Sure they exist. But in general, they are an even bigger PITA to deal with than the so called normal ones. Oh and except for a few exceptions, they tend to be ugly or fat or both.
I think that should read OSS OS. Cause Windows undisputedly is the most popular OS, sadly. (Personally, I use it as workstation cause I can't be bothered with XFree and some apps, most notably Quickbooks, still aren't available on Unix).
I might be alone on this, but for most tasks (webservers esp.), you're better of spending the cash for SMP on another machine. Gets you redundancy if you do it right.
Of course that's not really an option for heavily loaded backend DBMS but for frontend servers, we've found it to be the ideal solution!
Today we feature an in-depth interview with three members of FreeBSD's Core (Wes Peters, Greg Lehey and M. Warner Losh) and also a major FreeBSD developer (Scott Long). It is a long read, but we touch a number of hot issues, from the Java port to corporate backing, the Linux competition, the 5.x branch and how it stacks up against the other Unices, UFS2, the possible XFree86 fork, SCO and its Unix IP situation, even re-unification of the BSDs. If you are into (any) Unix, this interview is a must read.
Intro, Java, Corporate Support 1. What is the status of the Java 1.4.x port to FreeBSD? How has its absence impacted FreeBSD's market penetration? (Editor's Note: Java patchset 3 for BSD was just released)
Scott Long: Several months ago the FreeBSD Foundation funded a contract to bring Java 1.4.1 to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the process of gaining certification from Sun is quite lengthy, and the money available for the contract ran out before it was complete. Still, the work that was done is quite impressive. Most users have reported that it is relatively bug-free for common applications like tomcat, and some have also reported that it is measurably faster than the Linux version. It is even in production use by a very large internet portal company. The FreeBSD Foundation is currently working to raise funds to complete the contract and have it certified by Sun.
Wes Peters: The current status has been answered well by Scott Long.
As for the market penetration, the only possible answer is "we don't know," at least partly because we don't have a marketing department. I know of a few embedded development firms who use FreeBSD and Java successfully, but cannot comment on how they use it or on their performance needs, etc. I and a number of other developers are very much looking forward to being able to distribute Java 1.4.x in binary, but in the meantime the source distribution works well.
Developments in FreeBSD 5.x may have a strong positive effect on the performance of Java threads once we have time to sort out the interactions between the JVM and the new threading capabilities found in FreeBSD 5, but this work will be completed after the 5.1 release.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey: It's interesting that this is your first question: I would have considered it relatively uninteresting.
M. Warner Losh: I find this answer a little rude.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey: Scott has described the status. As others have said, it's difficult to assess the impact, but I would suspect that Sun's current licensing strategy would have more of an effect on the use of Java under FreeBSD: it's a real pain just getting the software. Possibly Linux users are more accustomed to jumping through hoops to get software installed, but FreeBSD users expect to be able to type 'make install' and have things done automatically. Sun's licensing conditions make this impossible.
2. A few years ago, companies like WindRiver/BSDi were helping out the FreeBSD project in many ways, including PR, handling relationships with other companies regarding drivers, etc. Now that the FreeBSD project is completely autonomous, how do you handle these issues? PR, tech specs for drivers that might require NDAs (e.g. an ATi/nVidia relationship) etc...
Scott Long: The loss of corporate backing from BSDi has slowed FreeBSD down without a doubt. Without a central focus point anymore, FreeBSD has relied on a more distributed set of backers. This includes NAI Labs, Yahoo!, The Weather Channel, and Apple, among others. They have provided employment for key developers, helped coordinate NDA deals with other companies, and donated server space and bandwidth to the project. Our experience with PR issues is also growing over time and we hope to make a good PR splash with the 5.1 release.
Wes Peters: Scott also answered this quite well. I want to note that FreeBSD was not ever a "division of" BSDi, or Wind River, nor was it ever a product of either of those companies. It is inaccurate to say
Because a very big bit of the security of OpenBSD comes from simply disabling features you're gonna go enable later on yourself.
Sure, there's a number of cool things under the hood but FreeBSD for one got working ACLs by default (still nowhere to find on Linux) and Mandatory Acces s Control is in beta stage (I'm probably just too stupid to get it to work as others were raving about it for months).
It's just you and some other Linux zealots. I've dealt with Greg on various issues and he's always been a pleasure to work with. I got his book in an older edition here and I learnt much more from it than from the countless other so called Unix books that stand on the shelf.
Additionally, he wrote a lot of very important and very nicely working code.
As to him not knowing about Java, I very well believe he knows more than any of you, being responsible for the port of Java to FreeBSD.
Technically, I'm still a CS major (first year) but practically, I'm out of it. We had about 10% women out of 260 students (one of them is drop dead gorgeous) but all in all I can really understand why they don't go there: I mean I've been interested in computing pretty much since I was 10 or so, graduated a generally very well regarded high school upwards the 95th percentile in almost every topic (sure as hell in math) yet I found the math to burn me out.
If you want more women in CS, cut down the math you're never ever gonna need anyway and replace it with loosely defined projects where one can be creative. That would help. It would have certainly helped me, too.
Actually, I prefer girls that move on their own.
Then again, woman are such a pain to deal with. ROI is hardly ever anywhere near ok (and I'm not talking about $ here, primarily).
Sure it was a joke (contrary to popular belief, the concept exists in German as well).
Essentially I was trying to say that there are actually countries that rely on renewable electricity sources for a great deal of their consumption.
At the moment, the Green party is fighting for decommission of the 5 nukes but I can't see how this should work in the next 20 years...
Actually, we don't. We are only of the happy countries to have abundant water supply thanks to all the rain the alps catch.
Still the water we dump back into rivers and lakes is basically drinking water (you can safely drink water from the lake of Zurich. It doesn't taste too yummy, but sick you won't be after it).
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Though you should know that doing drugs is still way more likely to get you laid than this... Didn't work very well for me (but that's because of other reasons) but it surely kept me from going utterly and completely insane. Oh and contrary to popular myth, drugs don't affect your grades all too much. I was stoned rather big part of highschool and still graduated upwards 95th percentile. Then again I was living in a free country, not a fascist one.
Sure they exist. But in general, they are an even bigger PITA to deal with than the so called normal ones. Oh and except for a few exceptions, they tend to be ugly or fat or both.
Maybe I should substitute girls with Prozac...
Or maybe FreeBSD port based (oh wait Gentoo)...
Mhh so all the other material that gets "mirrored" here is in the public domain?
Technically, most of the content was written by the FreeBSD guys. Now go figure.
I think that should read OSS OS. Cause Windows undisputedly is the most popular OS, sadly. (Personally, I use it as workstation cause I can't be bothered with XFree and some apps, most notably Quickbooks, still aren't available on Unix).
I might be alone on this, but for most tasks (webservers esp.), you're better of spending the cash for SMP on another machine. Gets you redundancy if you do it right. Of course that's not really an option for heavily loaded backend DBMS but for frontend servers, we've found it to be the ideal solution!
Still working for me.
Today we feature an in-depth interview with three members of FreeBSD's Core (Wes Peters, Greg Lehey and M. Warner Losh) and also a major FreeBSD developer (Scott Long). It is a long read, but we touch a number of hot issues, from the Java port to corporate backing, the Linux competition, the 5.x branch and how it stacks up against the other Unices, UFS2, the possible XFree86 fork, SCO and its Unix IP situation, even re-unification of the BSDs. If you are into (any) Unix, this interview is a must read.
Intro, Java, Corporate Support
1. What is the status of the Java 1.4.x port to FreeBSD? How has its absence impacted FreeBSD's market penetration? (Editor's Note: Java patchset 3 for BSD was just released)
Scott Long: Several months ago the FreeBSD Foundation funded a contract to bring Java 1.4.1 to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the process of gaining certification from Sun is quite lengthy, and the money available for the contract ran out before it was complete. Still, the work that was done is quite impressive. Most users have reported that it is relatively bug-free for common applications like tomcat, and some have also reported that it is measurably faster than the Linux version. It is even in production use by a very large internet portal company. The FreeBSD Foundation is currently working to raise funds to complete the contract and have it certified by Sun.
Wes Peters: The current status has been answered well by Scott Long.
As for the market penetration, the only possible answer is "we don't know," at least partly because we don't have a marketing department. I know of a few embedded development firms who use FreeBSD and Java successfully, but cannot comment on how they use it or on their performance needs, etc. I and a number of other developers are very much looking forward to being able to distribute Java 1.4.x in binary, but in the meantime the source distribution works well.
Developments in FreeBSD 5.x may have a strong positive effect on the performance of Java threads once we have time to sort out the interactions between the JVM and the new threading capabilities found in FreeBSD 5, but this work will be completed after the 5.1 release.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey: It's interesting that this is your first question: I would have considered it relatively uninteresting.
M. Warner Losh: I find this answer a little rude.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey: Scott has described the status. As others have said, it's difficult to assess the impact, but I would suspect that Sun's current licensing strategy would have more of an effect on the use of Java under FreeBSD: it's a real pain just getting the software. Possibly Linux users are more accustomed to jumping through hoops to get software installed, but FreeBSD users expect to be able to type 'make install' and have things done automatically. Sun's licensing conditions make this impossible.
2. A few years ago, companies like WindRiver/BSDi were helping out the FreeBSD project in many ways, including PR, handling relationships with other companies regarding drivers, etc. Now that the FreeBSD project is completely autonomous, how do you handle these issues? PR, tech specs for drivers that might require NDAs (e.g. an ATi/nVidia relationship) etc...
Scott Long: The loss of corporate backing from BSDi has slowed FreeBSD down without a doubt. Without a central focus point anymore, FreeBSD has relied on a more distributed set of backers. This includes NAI Labs, Yahoo!, The Weather Channel, and Apple, among others. They have provided employment for key developers, helped coordinate NDA deals with other companies, and donated server space and bandwidth to the project. Our experience with PR issues is also growing over time and we hope to make a good PR splash with the 5.1 release.
Wes Peters: Scott also answered this quite well. I want to note that FreeBSD was not ever a "division of" BSDi, or Wind River, nor was it ever a product of either of those companies. It is inaccurate to say
Because a very big bit of the security of OpenBSD comes from simply disabling features you're gonna go enable later on yourself. Sure, there's a number of cool things under the hood but FreeBSD for one got working ACLs by default (still nowhere to find on Linux) and Mandatory Acces s Control is in beta stage (I'm probably just too stupid to get it to work as others were raving about it for months).
It's just you and some other Linux zealots. I've dealt with Greg on various issues and he's always been a pleasure to work with. I got his book in an older edition here and I learnt much more from it than from the countless other so called Unix books that stand on the shelf.
Additionally, he wrote a lot of very important and very nicely working code.
As to him not knowing about Java, I very well believe he knows more than any of you, being responsible for the port of Java to FreeBSD.
Technically, I'm still a CS major (first year) but practically, I'm out of it. We had about 10% women out of 260 students (one of them is drop dead gorgeous) but all in all I can really understand why they don't go there: I mean I've been interested in computing pretty much since I was 10 or so, graduated a generally very well regarded high school upwards the 95th percentile in almost every topic (sure as hell in math) yet I found the math to burn me out. If you want more women in CS, cut down the math you're never ever gonna need anyway and replace it with loosely defined projects where one can be creative. That would help. It would have certainly helped me, too.
So can I just recompile existing C code with cyclone to make it safe? Sounds like a dream...
Easy.
Take a pro (should not be too good to be true, geeks aint that stupid) and give her unlimited allowance for drinks on top of her regular fee.
Actually, I prefer girls that move on their own. Then again, woman are such a pain to deal with. ROI is hardly ever anywhere near ok (and I'm not talking about $ here, primarily).
Ok, it already got hands so it can go get me beer out of the fridge (my fridge is slightly higher than the robot so that works).
Now if you also add a pussy this thing WILL be sold even at 50K. Maintenance sure would be cheaper than with a girl.
Sure it was a joke (contrary to popular belief, the concept exists in German as well). Essentially I was trying to say that there are actually countries that rely on renewable electricity sources for a great deal of their consumption. At the moment, the Green party is fighting for decommission of the 5 nukes but I can't see how this should work in the next 20 years...
You obviously never tried watching H264 Vid on your 2Ghz
Just so that you know, we already use 50% hydropower here, so we don't really need to do catch up with you guys in the US.
Actually, we don't. We are only of the happy countries to have abundant water supply thanks to all the rain the alps catch.
Still the water we dump back into rivers and lakes is basically drinking water (you can safely drink water from the lake of Zurich. It doesn't taste too yummy, but sick you won't be after it).