Jordan, I've been using FreeBSD since about '94. I can't really remember it being without ports. It shouldn't be to hard for a hacker of your class to make a GUI front end for it. Or at least some of the Apple hackers. Hell, I wish I could, but I've given up on anything more complex than a PHP/database driven website. All I know is, the FreeBSD style ports system has saved my ass many, many times. Thanks for all the cool stuff!
"Finally, my native tongue is not English so I consider it my God-given right to abuse it in any way I want."
Best laugh I've had in a week. Thank you.
I recently called Dell about getting a box (server) with Linux pre-installed. The box was the same price as a box with Win2k on it. No real savings there, is it? Anyway, I'm glad that HP is picking up the torch. Obviously, IBM has put a bug up everybody's ass about Linux. Cool
It actually appears to be starting now. I really think that the dark ages will be significantly worse that the earlier one(s). 10x population, intelligent non-humans. yikes!
How can you laugh at that? Obviously a feature needs to be secure all by itself and also be secure in the way it interacts with other features. Having a feature not be installed at all simply makes it even more secure. In fact, a feature that isn't installed is by default 100% secure. It can't be used, accesed, smurfed, or kidnapped for nefarious purposes. Thus, it's completely secure. Microsoft's practice of installing everything under the sun is probably it's biggest insecurity. Yes, you can choose not to install some stuff, but how many Joe Users install their own operating system?
Because one of the most basic tenent of the US constitution is the fact that as citizens, we have the right, if not the duty, to change the way we're governed. If the means to changing a corrupt government is to have a revolution, having our every move tracked is going to make that substantially more difficult. Similar to the way the Nazi's outlawed guns in the hands of private citizens was effective in letting them take over the entire country.
Personally, I demand my privacy and my right to bear arms.
Having closed-circuit cameras all over hell is possibly the greatest threat to our (American citizens) freedom I can imagine. At least as bad as tracking what books you check out. Oh wait, they're doing that. (shakes head) How come we're letting the police have so much power over our lives? I don't care about the arguments that say we need these things in order to protect ourselves against terrorists. A few cameras around public monuments, fine, these are crediblly threatened. It sounds like they want to setup a system similar to the ones in Britain. Have you seen how ubiquitious cameras are over there? You can barely fart without it being noticed. Yet people think they're being protected. I say it's tantamount to a dictatorship. 1984, if you will. I certainly hope the midwest never gets this crazy.
Damn, those look good. To bad we're still an NT shop. There're people here that would have a cow if I even started to install Mandrake on any work owned machine. If you've ever seen a cow get born, you'd understand where I'm coming from. Then again, I could copme in on a Sat. and install Mandrake on my main workstation, then vmware w/ NT 4 in it so I can run that marvelous M$ product called Outlook. One of the most evil products of human creativity ever assembled under one compile.
Well, give us the rest. Edit what file? I'd love to remove that stupid ass messenger thing from my laptop. Frankly, I'd love to install Mandrake on my laptop, but then my boss would be pissed. sigh...
First off, I was talking to the US crowd. Secondly, yer right, unless a letter comes stuffed with $, the congress critters are probably gonna ignore it. Realistically, a letter writing campaign is about all us US citizens can do to voice our opinion. Corporations can afford expensive TV commercials and even more expensive lobbying organizations. I was mainly venting my disgust at the level of shit we've allowed ourselves to wallow in.
The worst part is, most of this IP stuff affects everybody, not just the US folk. Without an effective world government, what can be done? Hell, for all I know, this IP stuff is directly related to terrorist attacks. "OOH, I can't steal Black Hawk Down, I think I'll blow up a bus." That's the kinda stuff that is starting to show me that we as a race (humans, not some sub-division of us) are at the end of our evolution and will possibly disappear in the next 10,000 years of so. Whew, rants feel good!
I suspect that the possibility of any outcome between Justice and the FTC is going to be a blatant corporate lovefest. Let's face it, Ashcroft is firmly in the pocket of big business, and the FTC, while trying to get a grip on reality, fails to do so much of the time. The big IP corps are goning to simply take the ball here and write their own rules. Is there any way to get in front of this bus and stop it? YES. Get off your dead ass and send snailmail to your congress critters. Write to the head of the FTC. I'm not even going to include links, your mostly smart people out there, you know how to use Google. Get after it!
That has always been my favorite Heinlein quote. If only most of the CEO's around the country had ever read any Heinlein. I suspect thay think anybody that's read that stuff is a commie-hippe-freak dope smoker who can't even afford to watch free TV. Speaking of free TV, I pay about $50 per month to watch it. I for one think it sucks ass that I have to still sit through some damn many commercials. I think the Discovery channels and TCL are the worst. Five minutes of show, followed by 7 minutes of commercial. Horrid commercials to. At least the ones on the big networks are mildly entertaining.
I can't wait until I can get this in something other than a $3,000 camera. The imagery I saw, even in jpeg format, was outstanding. Anyone wanna form a pool on when you can get a camera using this tech for $400? I say October, this year.
I was working for a major consultancy here in the midwest and got laid off last March. I was having a bitch of a time even getting call-backs, much less interviews. I put in for a state job and was asked to get interviewed about a month later. Middle-tier administration, pretty cool tech, a possibility of getting Linux in here (we're totally an M$ shop -yuck-), some asp and Java development work, but mostly project management and sysadmin work. I was accepted over 28 other candidates, I suspect because I was willing to commit to staying long term. I took a 19% paycut, but dammit, I'm fully employed, with _great_ benefits and a excellent retirement, in 25 yrs. I've decided to stay and retire from here. So, my sugesstion is, if you need to be steady, pay the mortgage, feed the kids, and so on, look into a State gov job. I'm pretty happy I did!
Gehenna_Gehenna, that is absolutely my favorite.sig so far "I say to our enemies, 'We are coming. God may show you mercy. We will not."
--Sen. John McCain
That totally says how I _still_ feel after September. Thanx for the reminder.
Now, on to the on-topic bit. Bob Young is prbably right. The good news is, the desktop will become less usefull as a metaphor over the next few years. Let's face it, all most people use it for is to hold a few terminals, or other apps. I have no idea what's going to replace it, but, damn, I really wish I did. Think about betting on the Superbowl, knowing the results prior. If I could figure out where we're going next on the client side, I could potentially be as rich as hillbilly Bill.
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Who want's to watch video on such a small screen? Hell, I can't stand watching anything longer than about a minute, except for nakednews.com on my 21" Trinitron monitor. That's why I bought a giant ass TV set for. Even if I was bored to death in a line or on a train or something like that, I'd much rather play a game than try and watch a postage stamp sized video stream. I really don't buy into the whole "mobile video" thing.
In order to meet C2, the NT box can't be connected to a network, a serial connection, or a modem. Well, you can, but you can't allow anybody access to it, same thing. What the hell good is it? I remember this from when an employer bribed me to go to a NT class by letting me keep the FreeBSD 1.7 box as the webserver/dns. Heh. I'm not sure about Win2k and C2, though.
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Jordan, I've been using FreeBSD since about '94. I can't really remember it being without ports. It shouldn't be to hard for a hacker of your class to make a GUI front end for it. Or at least some of the Apple hackers. Hell, I wish I could, but I've given up on anything more complex than a PHP/database driven website. All I know is, the FreeBSD style ports system has saved my ass many, many times. Thanks for all the cool stuff!
I googled for Unibol(36/400) and Baby(36/400). Didn't get any hits. Do you have links to info about these?
"Finally, my native tongue is not English so I consider it my God-given right to abuse it in any way I want."
Best laugh I've had in a week. Thank you.
I recently called Dell about getting a box (server) with Linux pre-installed. The box was the same price as a box with Win2k on it. No real savings there, is it? Anyway, I'm glad that HP is picking up the torch. Obviously, IBM has put a bug up everybody's ass about Linux. Cool
Political correctness creates new dark age - 2050
It actually appears to be starting now. I really think that the dark ages will be significantly worse that the earlier one(s). 10x population, intelligent non-humans. yikes!
I'd rather not say, because it could be construed that I'm writing to /. from work, even though I'm not.
Thank, I had fun getting that to go. Not really, but I'm the one responsible for us looking into a shorter domain name, instead of what we have now.
Cool. I checked on what the DOJ is running their webserver on, check it out:
www.usdoj.gov.
Netscape on Solaris. Quite nice, thank you. I'm very happy to see they're not running IIS on Win2k...
How can you laugh at that? Obviously a feature needs to be secure all by itself and also be secure in the way it interacts with other features. Having a feature not be installed at all simply makes it even more secure. In fact, a feature that isn't installed is by default 100% secure. It can't be used, accesed, smurfed, or kidnapped for nefarious purposes. Thus, it's completely secure. Microsoft's practice of installing everything under the sun is probably it's biggest insecurity. Yes, you can choose not to install some stuff, but how many Joe Users install their own operating system?
May you both have a long and happy live together.
OK, everybody back to the salt mine. No move it!
Because one of the most basic tenent of the US constitution is the fact that as citizens, we have the right, if not the duty, to change the way we're governed. If the means to changing a corrupt government is to have a revolution, having our every move tracked is going to make that substantially more difficult. Similar to the way the Nazi's outlawed guns in the hands of private citizens was effective in letting them take over the entire country.
Personally, I demand my privacy and my right to bear arms.
Having closed-circuit cameras all over hell is possibly the greatest threat to our (American citizens) freedom I can imagine. At least as bad as tracking what books you check out. Oh wait, they're doing that. (shakes head) How come we're letting the police have so much power over our lives? I don't care about the arguments that say we need these things in order to protect ourselves against terrorists. A few cameras around public monuments, fine, these are crediblly threatened. It sounds like they want to setup a system similar to the ones in Britain. Have you seen how ubiquitious cameras are over there? You can barely fart without it being noticed. Yet people think they're being protected. I say it's tantamount to a dictatorship. 1984, if you will. I certainly hope the midwest never gets this crazy.
Damn, those look good. To bad we're still an NT shop. There're people here that would have a cow if I even started to install Mandrake on any work owned machine. If you've ever seen a cow get born, you'd understand where I'm coming from. Then again, I could copme in on a Sat. and install Mandrake on my main workstation, then vmware w/ NT 4 in it so I can run that marvelous M$ product called Outlook. One of the most evil products of human creativity ever assembled under one compile.
Well, give us the rest. Edit what file? I'd love to remove that stupid ass messenger thing from my laptop. Frankly, I'd love to install Mandrake on my laptop, but then my boss would be pissed. sigh...
First off, I was talking to the US crowd. Secondly, yer right, unless a letter comes stuffed with $, the congress critters are probably gonna ignore it. Realistically, a letter writing campaign is about all us US citizens can do to voice our opinion. Corporations can afford expensive TV commercials and even more expensive lobbying organizations. I was mainly venting my disgust at the level of shit we've allowed ourselves to wallow in.
The worst part is, most of this IP stuff affects everybody, not just the US folk. Without an effective world government, what can be done? Hell, for all I know, this IP stuff is directly related to terrorist attacks. "OOH, I can't steal Black Hawk Down, I think I'll blow up a bus." That's the kinda stuff that is starting to show me that we as a race (humans, not some sub-division of us) are at the end of our evolution and will possibly disappear in the next 10,000 years of so. Whew, rants feel good!
I suspect that the possibility of any outcome between Justice and the FTC is going to be a blatant corporate lovefest. Let's face it, Ashcroft is firmly in the pocket of big business, and the FTC, while trying to get a grip on reality, fails to do so much of the time. The big IP corps are goning to simply take the ball here and write their own rules. Is there any way to get in front of this bus and stop it? YES. Get off your dead ass and send snailmail to your congress critters. Write to the head of the FTC. I'm not even going to include links, your mostly smart people out there, you know how to use Google. Get after it!
I'm assuming that someone is porting the mono project to FreeBSD also. Should be interesting.
That has always been my favorite Heinlein quote. If only most of the CEO's around the country had ever read any Heinlein. I suspect thay think anybody that's read that stuff is a commie-hippe-freak dope smoker who can't even afford to watch free TV. Speaking of free TV, I pay about $50 per month to watch it. I for one think it sucks ass that I have to still sit through some damn many commercials. I think the Discovery channels and TCL are the worst. Five minutes of show, followed by 7 minutes of commercial. Horrid commercials to. At least the ones on the big networks are mildly entertaining.
I can't wait until I can get this in something other than a $3,000 camera. The imagery I saw, even in jpeg format, was outstanding. Anyone wanna form a pool on when you can get a camera using this tech for $400? I say October, this year.
I was working for a major consultancy here in the midwest and got laid off last March. I was having a bitch of a time even getting call-backs, much less interviews. I put in for a state job and was asked to get interviewed about a month later. Middle-tier administration, pretty cool tech, a possibility of getting Linux in here (we're totally an M$ shop -yuck-), some asp and Java development work, but mostly project management and sysadmin work. I was accepted over 28 other candidates, I suspect because I was willing to commit to staying long term. I took a 19% paycut, but dammit, I'm fully employed, with _great_ benefits and a excellent retirement, in 25 yrs. I've decided to stay and retire from here. So, my sugesstion is, if you need to be steady, pay the mortgage, feed the kids, and so on, look into a State gov job. I'm pretty happy I did!
Think "bean burritos". heh
Don't forget "Hey baby, let's eron".
*ducks*
Gehenna_Gehenna, that is absolutely my favorite .sig so far "I say to our enemies, 'We are coming. God may show you mercy. We will not."
--Sen. John McCain
That totally says how I _still_ feel after September. Thanx for the reminder.
Now, on to the on-topic bit. Bob Young is prbably right. The good news is, the desktop will become less usefull as a metaphor over the next few years. Let's face it, all most people use it for is to hold a few terminals, or other apps. I have no idea what's going to replace it, but, damn, I really wish I did. Think about betting on the Superbowl, knowing the results prior. If I could figure out where we're going next on the client side, I could potentially be as rich as hillbilly Bill.
Who want's to watch video on such a small screen? Hell, I can't stand watching anything longer than about a minute, except for nakednews.com on my 21" Trinitron monitor. That's why I bought a giant ass TV set for. Even if I was bored to death in a line or on a train or something like that, I'd much rather play a game than try and watch a postage stamp sized video stream. I really don't buy into the whole "mobile video" thing.
I've got a IIIx and don't see any reason to upgrade. It does what I need, that's why I bought it in the first place.
In order to meet C2, the NT box can't be connected to a network, a serial connection, or a modem. Well, you can, but you can't allow anybody access to it, same thing. What the hell good is it? I remember this from when an employer bribed me to go to a NT class by letting me keep the FreeBSD 1.7 box as the webserver/dns. Heh. I'm not sure about Win2k and C2, though.