Sorry, ClamAV is not merely usable, ClamAV is awesome. They update quickly, and one can set up regular updates and scans with cron in seconds. It catches stuff McAfee misses and it has a nearly transparent milter. The milter's a bit tough to set up from scratch, but you can still scan your maildirs with cron if you like. That might be good enough for some orgs. But by and large ClamAV is all you need.
I don't see how this is not an "information wants to be free" issue. In this case, free software was incorporated into a proprietary program, thereby "imprisioning" the free software. Most people can see this is a greater offense than taking proprietary code and releasing it to the public as free. I'm sure you can see the distinction, but decided to ignore it as to troll.
The grand parent comment was, in my opinion, a sarcastic remark about the double standards often seen on/. regarding copyrights holders rights. You seem to have no problems with violating some copyright holders rights, and this happened to Miranda developers rights as well.
Actually, this is not what needs to be done. Lawsuits, yes, w/ plenty of media attention, but the point should not be to attack businesses. Instead it should be to legally strengthen the GPL and show that open source code is of such high quality that businesses use it in their own commerical products. Suing business for astronomical payouts would result in short term gains for open source, but would scare many businesses away from trying open source legitamatemly for fear that they expose themselves to legal risk.
That something is Open Source does not imply that it has a GPL license. One should inform the companies that there are other more free licenses, like the BSD license, and they may freely use such licensed software. I find it pretty dumb of a company to use Linux in, say a wireless router, when they don't want to release the source code for their drivers. They could quite simply have used OpenBSD or NetBSD, and saved themselves some major embarrasedment.
I just much prefer the file locations under Linux. Not because I'm more familiar with them, but just because they make sense to me, anyway.
Erh, these locations varies depending on distro, and is usually even internally inconsistent. A nice thing about *BSD is that the locations is predictable.
OpenBSD put much effort into producing updated and relevant documentation, so there is very little need to hund to various HOWTOS on the Inernet. As a former Linux user, I very, very much appreciate this effort, and as one of the major reasons for using OpenBSD. A "man somerandomconfigfile" will always give a man page for the base system, usually with some examples. For me OpenBSD is easier to maintain, even as a desktop.
This seems to me more like a desperate cry for attention in which Zawinski says he is switching platform in the hope that the Linux mob will cry "Don't leave us Jamie!" and he can then return in a blaze of glory.
Who is this fellow anyway? I've never heard about him before, so why should I care what some random blogger is writing?
If you find FreeBSD 5 disappointing, you may want to wait for FreeBSD 6, which was code-frozen a few days ago and should be out by August.
Hope they fix the installer, though. I just installed FreeBSD 5.4 today for testing, and the installer would not recreate filesystems if there was an existing partition of same size before. Real annoying as the installation will bork due to filesystem filled up. Just deleting and then recreate the old partitons (from an earlier 5.2.1 installation) was not enough. I actually had to give / a different size than earlier to make the installation work.
In order to technologically leapfrog the space program to global "control and domination," a new agreement has been signed by NASA, U.S. Strategic Command, the NRO, and the Air Force Space Command to mesh their efforts together. Thus, we witness the takeover of the U.S. space program by military and weapons corporations.
America plans to actually dominate space, and space is a global commons according to the United Nations law. It belongs to all of us, not just 5 percent of the earth's population. So, this is an absolute violation of international law. It could in fact trigger a nuclear war, as could the National Missile Defense plans, because Russia and China have both said, "If you build a missile defense system against our missiles -- which are targeted on you, we'll just build thousands more hydrogen bombs, so we can supersaturate your system."
As for ignoring treaty obligations, a google for "rumsfeld+geneva+convention+torture" should give some interesting quotes (like, "Geneva Convention is irrelevant").
As Neil Postman wrote, and you confirm
Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people in the world.
Now all of it has been buried and forgotten. Advancement? We've buried our collective heads in the sand. That's why Bush's CEV program [wikipedia.org] actually makes sense.
Bush want's to extend the arms race into space, and quite simply ignore existing treaties (they're irrelevant, like the Geneva Convention, go figure). This is extremely dangerous for our survival. With WMD in orbit, USA have the ability to launch a devastating first-strike attack with no warning while the "enemy" having no time to launch any counter offensive/defense. Will USA do so? All that matters that they have the capability to do so, and other states will take that into account and might decide to launch a pre-emptive attack on their own.
Yeah, we enter a new era of doomsday weapons controlled by paranoid commanders with hair-trigger nerves.
What advantages does it have over other distros (Debian, por ejemplo)?
On one hand the Fedora is nothing more than a beta version of an upcomming commercial version from Redhat. You do all the testing, but on the other hand you get to download it for free. On the gripping hand you may use other BSD/distros that name a beta version a beta version and a release version a release version.
IMO, Americans have a much better "just do it" approach to life/work and tend to value personal freedom. Europeans OTOH are more focussed on social values, society is more hierarchical and people tend to have a higher regard for style. Britain is halfway between the two.
Hey, guess what: the social class into which you are born matters a lot when it comes to where you stand on the American socioeconomic ladder. It matters more in the United States, the supposed land of upward mobility, than it does in Europe. The American Dream of "rags to riches" is less livable in America than it is in the aristocratic Old World that America rejected when its founding document proclaimed that "All Men Are Created Equal."
If you don't believe me, check out the front page of the capitalist Wall Street Journal two weeks ago. In an article titled "As Rich-Poor Gap Widens in the U.S., Class Mobility Stalls: Those on Bottom Rung Enjoy Better Odds in Europe" (May 13th), Journal reporter David Wessel notes that recent scholarship does NOT bear out "the notion that the US is...a meritocracy where smarts and ambition matter more than parenthood and class." In reality, Wessel finds, the odds that a child born into poverty will climb into the middle or upper class are slighter in the U.S. than they are in "class bound Europe." According to the latest and best research, the Journal reports, the U.S. and its junior partner England are "the least mobile societies" among the world's "rich countries." France and Germany "are somewhat more mobile than the U.S.; Canada and the Nordic countries are much more so."
This is yet another classic case of anti-Semitism on Slashdot.....
And your reply is the classic tactic of naming anyone that dares critize actions of Israel, or Israeli citizens, as anti-semitic :
Dissent and anti-semitism
I know that this is going to start a religious flame war. And I apologize in advance. But since I started using challenge/response (specifically TMDA [tmda.net]) I just don't care. I give anyone my email whenever they want.
Greylisting is a very powerful spam reduction
technique that works transparently.
The OpenBSD spamd daemon has a greylisting modus, and has reduced my spam to a trickle.
Challenge/response can be quite irritating, in particular when someone post to a public mailing list and uses C/R. Any C/R request goes to my trash folder.
Absorbing antiquated business models in lateral merger never makes for a good formula unless you plan to do something with the antiquated business model (you know, innovation and the like?).
Most of these huge mergers fails to deliver. However, many decsion makers profited personally from it.
Indeed, that is correct (I speak Norwegian natively).
For a supposed geek site, many/.'ers shows an alarming ineptitude to find/verify information. For the controller in question, he could quite simply use Google, or go to the LSI home page. The tools used are standard, the controllers/hardware are standard, which Linux kernels used should be apparent. Understanding the conclusions, of course, means understanding Norwegian, but he should be able to interpret the output himselves.
Speaking from experience, i've used both hardware and software RAID. I don't think there is a single person here who doesn't understand the disadvantages of software RAID.
Erh, I'm pretty sure that the majority here is only using IDE/SATA and believes that RAID0 is a huge speedup on a gaming machine.
ozilla isn't obligated to offer you support. You are an idiot for firing an employee simply over a small software issue.
It's a no-brain-no-headache copy-paste-failure troll you replied to. You'll see a variation of this post on the Slashdot story for OpenBSD 3.7 release.
Don't sell them a Gentoo box with Samba, Apache and Postfix. They'll say "WTF?!?!"
I would too, if you try to sell Gentoo to a Mom and Pop shop. Much better to sell them SuSE (bought by Novell) or some other commercial distribution. I'm sure Debian is fine too.
Of course, OpenbSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD are excellent choises too if you want stability.
Slashdot Mirror
There is an easy way : Maildroid - an OpenBSD based Mail Filtering Gateway made easy!
The grand parent comment was, in my opinion, a sarcastic remark about the double standards often seen on /. regarding copyrights holders rights. You seem to have no problems with violating some copyright holders rights, and this happened to Miranda developers rights as well.
That something is Open Source does not imply that it has a GPL license. One should inform the companies that there are other more free licenses, like the BSD license, and they may freely use such licensed software. I find it pretty dumb of a company to use Linux in, say a wireless router, when they don't want to release the source code for their drivers. They could quite simply have used OpenBSD or NetBSD, and saved themselves some major embarrasedment.
Erh, these locations varies depending on distro, and is usually even internally inconsistent. A nice thing about *BSD is that the locations is predictable.
As for pf :
pf.conf
pf FAQ
An actual license text is appreciated.
Who is this fellow anyway? I've never heard about him before, so why should I care what some random blogger is writing?
Hope they fix the installer, though. I just installed FreeBSD 5.4 today for testing, and the installer would not recreate filesystems if there was an existing partition of same size before. Real annoying as the installation will bork due to filesystem filled up. Just deleting and then recreate the old partitons (from an earlier 5.2.1 installation) was not enough. I actually had to give / a different size than earlier to make the installation work.
Are you unable to read or something?
May I suggest that only watching Fox "News" does not give you the best fundament for making informed opinions about the world at large?
Google is a nice tool for searching a quality site (I'm sure other sites have quelity too) :
Bush Space Plans :
Nuclear Proliferation Threat of Global Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Met by U.S. Development of New Atomic Arms and Militarization of Space
As for ignoring treaty obligations, a google for "rumsfeld+geneva+convention+torture" should give some interesting quotes (like, "Geneva Convention is irrelevant").
As Neil Postman wrote, and you confirm
Bush want's to extend the arms race into space, and quite simply ignore existing treaties (they're irrelevant, like the Geneva Convention, go figure). This is extremely dangerous for our survival. With WMD in orbit, USA have the ability to launch a devastating first-strike attack with no warning while the "enemy" having no time to launch any counter offensive/defense. Will USA do so? All that matters that they have the capability to do so, and other states will take that into account and might decide to launch a pre-emptive attack on their own.
Yeah, we enter a new era of doomsday weapons controlled by paranoid commanders with hair-trigger nerves.
On one hand the Fedora is nothing more than a beta version of an upcomming commercial version from Redhat. You do all the testing, but on the other hand you get to download it for free. On the gripping hand you may use other BSD/distros that name a beta version a beta version and a release version a release version.
As social upwards mobility goes, you'll have better chance of this in Europe than in USA, according to Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches : The American Dream is More Livable in the Old World :
Orwell was an optimist.
And your reply is the classic tactic of naming anyone that dares critize actions of Israel, or Israeli citizens, as anti-semitic : Dissent and anti-semitism
Greylisting is a very powerful spam reduction technique that works transparently. The OpenBSD spamd daemon has a greylisting modus, and has reduced my spam to a trickle.
Challenge/response can be quite irritating, in particular when someone post to a public mailing list and uses C/R. Any C/R request goes to my trash folder.
The last remote hole was in OpenSSH, if I remember correctly.
Most of these huge mergers fails to deliver. However, many decsion makers profited personally from it.
For a supposed geek site, many /.'ers shows an alarming ineptitude to find/verify information. For the controller in question, he could quite simply use Google, or go to the LSI home page. The tools used are standard, the controllers/hardware are standard, which Linux kernels used should be apparent. Understanding the conclusions, of course, means understanding Norwegian, but he should be able to interpret the output himselves.
Erh, I'm pretty sure that the majority here is only using IDE/SATA and believes that RAID0 is a huge speedup on a gaming machine.
It's a no-brain-no-headache copy-paste-failure troll you replied to. You'll see a variation of this post on the Slashdot story for OpenBSD 3.7 release.
Of course the technologies that is part of the solution are of importance.
They like the excitement of servers possibly not booting after a power failur.e
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/0 8/ 224225&tid=163
Slashdot is even shorter on cash, and needs more revenue from ads.
I would too, if you try to sell Gentoo to a Mom and Pop shop. Much better to sell them SuSE (bought by Novell) or some other commercial distribution. I'm sure Debian is fine too.
Of course, OpenbSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD are excellent choises too if you want stability.