If you read my mail, you would have noticed that I was referring to the difficulty of jumping from version 4 to 5, and not incremental upgrades (such as from version 4.10 -> 4.11 for example)
All in all, trying to upgrade from version 4 to 5 is not supported (or recommended) from the FreeBSD team - and while it probably is possible to do in one form or another - from a support point of view it's simply not worth the hassle or risk.
Good to hear that an upgrade from 5 to 6 won't be painful or risky. (I hope)
Of course I read it.
Thing is, what the heck is the point of maintaining a FreeBSD 5.x machine when they're going to stop security patches in a year or two? At least FreeBSD 4.x had a run of... how many years?
I've been able to patch boxes running or 4.x for quite a while now, but jumping from 4 to 5, or in this case from 5 to 6 requires a complete reinstall. That sucks if you've just unrolled a 5.x server.
I'm going to have a guess and say the new iBook is going to be sub-notebook size - or smaller. Most Apple iBooks I have seen happen to be pretty big and wide, and a small more portable sub-notebook sized Mac would be pretty cool I think.
When the Xbox first came out in Japan, the Xbox section looked as big as the PS2 section, except that the Xbox section had huge TV screens and stacks of marketing glitz in an attempt to lure gamers cash.
Meanwhile, PS2 section had all the games everyone wanted to play - which I think was a far more effective display.
Nowadays, the Xbox section is barely visible, and the PS2 displays haven't really changed an bit. The old Xbox displays of old were obvious attempts at astroturfing, and nobody fell for it.
The Xbox (apart from all it's other issues) had TONS of crappy US games on it, which all had great graphics, zero gameplay, and themes which nobody in Japan could relate to. Aside from the locally produced Shogi and "Go" Xbox games, there was literally nothing else locally produced... and the PS2 had Shogi and Go as well.
For the Xbox to do well in Japan it has to have local content which isn't found anywhere else. Machines sell on the huge RPG licences (Final Fantaay, Dragon Quest, etc.) and all Xbox had to show for itself was Shogi, Go, and Halo (which was a FPS game which only marginally grabbed Japanese attention). The Xbox also needs more wacky, offbeat, cute, off-the-wall games.... rather than just yet-another-racing-shooting-sports-game. Maybe Jeff Minter should be doing more on the Xbox than making the psychadelic music visualizer on the hardware.
I think there is a slight bias against Microsoft here as well - thanks to brand recognition and consumer trust of Japanese companies more than foreign ones. Microsoft gets Windows onto Japanese computers by proxy of the Japanese companies here who make the hardware. If the Japanese companies didn't make PC hardware, Microsoft wouldn't even get a shoe in the door. Consumers trust Fujitsu, NEC, Sony, etc. to care for them when Windows goes bad.
Maybe if the Xbox hardware was developed by NEC or something..... or if Microsoft touted their hardware partners some more - such as IBM (IBM has a good rep here for notebooks)
In other news this week, several copies of the Bible were leaked. Matthew Mark, Luke, and John looking for an injunction to stop people reading it before it's due release date.
No sign yet of the Bible's popularity waning though.
Already, cracks of the Bible by notorious FUQ2 and B8TCH hacking groups have appeared on Usenet....
My experiences with installing Linux on Fujitsu equipment has been absolute hell recently.
The installation instructions for RedHat Linux on a lot of their sevrers force you to use a series of driver disks, then make a bunch of system hacks to get it to install. It takes forever to do, and it's a beeyatch to document it as well, and don't get me started on upgrading the kernel. I can't update it from RHN cause then I'll break all their little modules. So I'm stuck with an old kernel on their hardware.
Debian won't go on their BX300 blades... well, it does, but not until you've jigged with the Promise RAID a lot.
Also, BSD 5.4 is a PITA to install on a twin CPU RX300. You need to disable one of the CPUs to get it installed, then rebuild the kernel with SMP module.
From the point of view of people actually choosing to roll out a Linux or BSD, most people don't really care about the licence. They only care about how secure it is, how flexible it is, and how much it's going to cost.
From one point of view, BSD is superior to Linux as a server - which is why I'd probably choose BSD over Enterprise RedHat where I could get away with it. The only time I have to resist using BSD is when there's some proprietary software that's supported under Linux and not BSD.
Statler: Bravo! Waldorf: Well it was quite good! Statler: Well they could have been better! Waldorf: Actually it wasn't all that great! Statler: In fact some parts of it were really bad Waldorf: It was quite TERRIBLE! Statler: It was horrible! Together: BOOOOO!
The only reason why I'm even using Postfix at the moment is because Trend Micro went and basically made their whole Interscan Messenging Security Suite co-dependant on it... and since customer wants support, we pretty much have to do what Trend wants in that regard.
I managed to hack it to work on qmail and qmail-scanner, and it turned out to be much faster than postfix. It's just that Postfix is a safer bet than qmail I guess.
(DJB, if you are reading this then PLEASE update qmail and try to incorporate other people's patches. Your codebase is slowly being patched to hell and is slowly becoming a PITA to administer. Thanks.)
It seems to me (and I'm just guessing so correct me if I'm missing the plot) that most people just don't *care* to understand people who act messed up. Nobody wants to deal with or understand what the real problem *could* be. Everyone just wants to crush the weak people, whereas it's also quite possible to fix what is broken.
I agree, it happens all the the time. People get offended when their opinions are challenged, or they are encouraged to discuss possibilities which may contradict their long held beliefs.
It's a risk that every teacher has to take, that they have to try to help the student find understanding without depriving them of the satisfaction of discovering it for themselves. By explaining too much (pretty much like I'm doing now) you risk showing the other person up.
Teaching is hard... I've tried.
How this related to homework? Well, most kids seem to feel that homework is forced upon them - without understanding why their teachers and parents set them so much - or why they have to attempt to slog through it. There is always the risk that the child will resent that pressure. Of course, not all kids do, but I'm sure you knew people in school who hated homework.... but I could be wrong.
but what is a sociopath? What happens in someone's life to make it get to that point? Why is it that some people are all too willing to dismiss what the "real" problem is?
Back to Star wars though, I think the first three episodes simply HAD to suck due to the themes they had to deal with. Anakin had to be weak and badly acted. The love scenes had to be a farce. The first episode had to be sickly childish complete with JarJar - or at least I think I might be able to understand why Lucas doesn't care that people hate the earlier trilogy.
I think people hated the first trilogy because there was no obvious evil guy. It was too uneasy. It's much easier to enjoy the movie when you can point the finger at the bad guy and give him a name like "sociopath" so you don't have to deal with the fact that good and evil is in reality, not very clear cut at all. After all, nobody wants to assume that they *might* be in the wrong, that they *might* possibly be doing the wrong thing. Oh no, everyone wants to be self-righteous....
Obi wan Kenobi and the rest of the Jedi Council is, in my opinion, actually the unwitting "bad guys" in the first trilogy! (at least I consider it a possibility, I have no idea what Lucas was really thinking) Nobody saw that coming! Mace Windu proves the fact that the Jedi were too authoritarian and too self-righteous. I don't think it was a mistake that Obi Wan is an annoying twat to Anakin in the first three movies. Remember the saber fight between Obi Wan and Vader in the original Star Wars? "Now the circle is complete? I am the master?". Perhaps Anakin was the chosen one because he actually had to wipe out the Jedi to bring balance to the force. Damned if I fully comprehend what Lucas was getting at with this whole "chosen one" business he set up for Anakin. I may as well guess....or perhaps I'm reading far too much into what is supposed to be an entertaining movie, and I've missed the mark completely. Anyway I find it enlightening to discuss the moral possibilities with an analogy most people are familiar with.
Anakin falls to the dark side, because Obi wan gives him all the right answers and never challenges Anakin to think about what the right answers were....until he finally figures it out in Episode VI, but by then, it's a bit late.
The there's also the issue of student motivation to actually study in the first place. Unless you have an active and ongoing interest in a particular topic, you are usually not particularly motivated to study it. Nobody at home forced me to take an interest in computers and electronics. Nobody gave me homework
You can only thrust so much work at kids, but the REAL learning starts happening when the kids start LEARNING FOR THEMSELVES and feel comfortable coming to the teacher with all sorts of difficult questions. Rather than the current top->down method of throwing facts around, hoping they stick, and asking the students questions they have no motivation to answer for themselves.
The main problem is, at a young age kids aren't motivated to want to slug away at homework... little do they realise that sooner or later their formative years are going to be gone and the workforce will be waiting for them. In a way I guess they have to be forced, but it is not the best way to learn IMHO.
All in all, teaching is not an easy job. Teaching kids to think, rather than giving them all the answers is tricky.
They tried that in the Commodore 64. And back then, the entire kernel (all 8K of it) was in ROM. Actually a bastardized version of MS-BASIC wound up with it's own ROM as well in that system.
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If you read my mail, you would have noticed that I was referring to the difficulty of jumping from version 4 to 5, and not incremental upgrades (such as from version 4.10 -> 4.11 for example)
All in all, trying to upgrade from version 4 to 5 is not supported (or recommended) from the FreeBSD team - and while it probably is possible to do in one form or another - from a support point of view it's simply not worth the hassle or risk.
Good to hear that an upgrade from 5 to 6 won't be painful or risky. (I hope)
Of course I read it. Thing is, what the heck is the point of maintaining a FreeBSD 5.x machine when they're going to stop security patches in a year or two? At least FreeBSD 4.x had a run of... how many years? I've been able to patch boxes running or 4.x for quite a while now, but jumping from 4 to 5, or in this case from 5 to 6 requires a complete reinstall. That sucks if you've just unrolled a 5.x server.
Whaaa.... I just installed 5.4 and they're already thinking of jumping ship to a PRODUCTION version of FreeBSD 6.0 already?
I'm going to have a guess and say the new iBook is going to be sub-notebook size - or smaller. Most Apple iBooks I have seen happen to be pretty big and wide, and a small more portable sub-notebook sized Mac would be pretty cool I think.
Come on, there's got to be a lame gag about flipping, dropping, kicking, scrunching up windows and installing Linux in here somewhere.
When the Xbox first came out in Japan, the Xbox section looked as big as the PS2 section, except that the Xbox section had huge TV screens and stacks of marketing glitz in an attempt to lure gamers cash.
Meanwhile, PS2 section had all the games everyone wanted to play - which I think was a far more effective display.
Nowadays, the Xbox section is barely visible, and the PS2 displays haven't really changed an bit. The old Xbox displays of old were obvious attempts at astroturfing, and nobody fell for it.
The Xbox (apart from all it's other issues) had TONS of crappy US games on it, which all had great graphics, zero gameplay, and themes which nobody in Japan could relate to. Aside from the locally produced Shogi and "Go" Xbox games, there was literally nothing else locally produced... and the PS2 had Shogi and Go as well.
For the Xbox to do well in Japan it has to have local content which isn't found anywhere else. Machines sell on the huge RPG licences (Final Fantaay, Dragon Quest, etc.) and all Xbox had to show for itself was Shogi, Go, and Halo (which was a FPS game which only marginally grabbed Japanese attention).
The Xbox also needs more wacky, offbeat, cute, off-the-wall games.... rather than just yet-another-racing-shooting-sports-game. Maybe Jeff Minter should be doing more on the Xbox than making the psychadelic music visualizer on the hardware.
I think there is a slight bias against Microsoft here as well - thanks to brand recognition and consumer trust of Japanese companies more than foreign ones. Microsoft gets Windows onto Japanese computers by proxy of the Japanese companies here who make the hardware. If the Japanese companies didn't make PC hardware, Microsoft wouldn't even get a shoe in the door. Consumers trust Fujitsu, NEC, Sony, etc. to care for them when Windows goes bad.
Maybe if the Xbox hardware was developed by NEC or something..... or if Microsoft touted their hardware partners some more - such as IBM (IBM has a good rep here for notebooks)
In other news this week, several copies of the Bible were leaked. Matthew Mark, Luke, and John looking for an injunction to stop people reading it before it's due release date.
No sign yet of the Bible's popularity waning though.
Already, cracks of the Bible by notorious FUQ2 and B8TCH hacking groups have appeared on Usenet....
My experiences with installing Linux on Fujitsu equipment has been absolute hell recently. The installation instructions for RedHat Linux on a lot of their sevrers force you to use a series of driver disks, then make a bunch of system hacks to get it to install. It takes forever to do, and it's a beeyatch to document it as well, and don't get me started on upgrading the kernel. I can't update it from RHN cause then I'll break all their little modules. So I'm stuck with an old kernel on their hardware. Debian won't go on their BX300 blades... well, it does, but not until you've jigged with the Promise RAID a lot. Also, BSD 5.4 is a PITA to install on a twin CPU RX300. You need to disable one of the CPUs to get it installed, then rebuild the kernel with SMP module.
Actually it could mean in Japanese Fu-jitsu, which if you wrote it in a different set of kanji, could mean "No-Skill"
From the point of view of people actually choosing to roll out a Linux or BSD, most people don't really care about the licence. They only care about how secure it is, how flexible it is, and how much it's going to cost.
From one point of view, BSD is superior to Linux as a server - which is why I'd probably choose BSD over Enterprise RedHat where I could get away with it.
The only time I have to resist using BSD is when there's some proprietary software that's supported under Linux and not BSD.
Statler: Bravo!
Waldorf: Well it was quite good!
Statler: Well they could have been better!
Waldorf: Actually it wasn't all that great!
Statler: In fact some parts of it were really bad
Waldorf: It was quite TERRIBLE!
Statler: It was horrible!
Together: BOOOOO!
It's only fun cause you just destroyed your one and only backup!
The only reason why I'm even using Postfix at the moment is because Trend Micro went and basically made their whole Interscan Messenging Security Suite co-dependant on it... and since customer wants support, we pretty much have to do what Trend wants in that regard.
I managed to hack it to work on qmail and qmail-scanner, and it turned out to be much faster than postfix. It's just that Postfix is a safer bet than qmail I guess.
(DJB, if you are reading this then PLEASE update qmail and try to incorporate other people's patches. Your codebase is slowly being patched to hell and is slowly becoming a PITA to administer. Thanks.)
Why should we care about this OS?
(Ok, apart from the fact it's fast on old hardware and can't get any virus or trojan known to man, yet)
(Serious question. Not trolling.)
Well say goodbye to the age when Apple made the hardware and the OS as a complete system.
Apple has now just become another Microsoft by the looks of it. What will the Mac fanatics think now?
Because Ubuntu IS Debian. The Ubuntu installer was swiped directly from Debian Sarge. Ubuntu is just profiting from Debian's slow release cycle IMHO.
That's the Korean translation of "All your stones are belong to us"
1. Say they're going to switch
2. Then deny they're going to switch
3. Then they do it anyway
4. Supposedly with profit about here somewhere
It seems to me (and I'm just guessing so correct me if I'm missing the plot) that most people just don't *care* to understand people who act messed up. Nobody wants to deal with or understand what the real problem *could* be. Everyone just wants to crush the weak people, whereas it's also quite possible to fix what is broken.
I agree, it happens all the the time. People get offended when their opinions are challenged, or they are encouraged to discuss possibilities which may contradict their long held beliefs.
It's a risk that every teacher has to take, that they have to try to help the student find understanding without depriving them of the satisfaction of discovering it for themselves. By explaining too much (pretty much like I'm doing now) you risk showing the other person up.
Teaching is hard... I've tried.
How this related to homework? Well, most kids seem to feel that homework is forced upon them - without understanding why their teachers and parents set them so much - or why they have to attempt to slog through it. There is always the risk that the child will resent that pressure. Of course, not all kids do, but I'm sure you knew people in school who hated homework.... but I could be wrong.
but what is a sociopath? What happens in someone's life to make it get to that point? Why is it that some people are all too willing to dismiss what the "real" problem is?
...or perhaps I'm reading far too much into what is supposed to be an entertaining movie, and I've missed the mark completely. Anyway I find it enlightening to discuss the moral possibilities with an analogy most people are familiar with.
Back to Star wars though, I think the first three episodes simply HAD to suck due to the themes they had to deal with. Anakin had to be weak and badly acted. The love scenes had to be a farce. The first episode had to be sickly childish complete with JarJar - or at least I think I might be able to understand why Lucas doesn't care that people hate the earlier trilogy.
I think people hated the first trilogy because there was no obvious evil guy. It was too uneasy. It's much easier to enjoy the movie when you can point the finger at the bad guy and give him a name like "sociopath" so you don't have to deal with the fact that good and evil is in reality, not very clear cut at all. After all, nobody wants to assume that they *might* be in the wrong, that they *might* possibly be doing the wrong thing. Oh no, everyone wants to be self-righteous....
Obi wan Kenobi and the rest of the Jedi Council is, in my opinion, actually the unwitting "bad guys" in the first trilogy! (at least I consider it a possibility, I have no idea what Lucas was really thinking) Nobody saw that coming! Mace Windu proves the fact that the Jedi were too authoritarian and too self-righteous.
I don't think it was a mistake that Obi Wan is an annoying twat to Anakin in the first three movies.
Remember the saber fight between Obi Wan and Vader in the original Star Wars? "Now the circle is complete? I am the master?". Perhaps Anakin was the chosen one because he actually had to wipe out the Jedi to bring balance to the force.
Damned if I fully comprehend what Lucas was getting at with this whole "chosen one" business he set up for Anakin. I may as well guess.
Have you ever asked yourself what kind of person goes around killing at random?
Hmm... that one will take you a while to figure out. I won't rob you of the discovery you're going to make by telling you.
Anakin falls to the dark side, because Obi wan gives him all the right answers and never challenges Anakin to think about what the right answers were. ...until he finally figures it out in Episode VI, but by then, it's a bit late.
The there's also the issue of student motivation to actually study in the first place. Unless you have an active and ongoing interest in a particular topic, you are usually not particularly motivated to study it.
Nobody at home forced me to take an interest in computers and electronics. Nobody gave me homework
You can only thrust so much work at kids, but the REAL learning starts happening when the kids start LEARNING FOR THEMSELVES and feel comfortable coming to the teacher with all sorts of difficult questions. Rather than the current top->down method of throwing facts around, hoping they stick, and asking the students questions they have no motivation to answer for themselves.
The main problem is, at a young age kids aren't motivated to want to slug away at homework... little do they realise that sooner or later their formative years are going to be gone and the workforce will be waiting for them. In a way I guess they have to be forced, but it is not the best way to learn IMHO.
All in all, teaching is not an easy job. Teaching kids to think, rather than giving them all the answers is tricky.
What? A PC with it's entire OS in ROM?
They tried that in the Commodore 64. And back then, the entire kernel (all 8K of it) was in ROM. Actually a bastardized version of MS-BASIC wound up with it's own ROM as well in that system.
It was fun to crash C64 BASIC with PRINT""+-0
There WAS a game of "fahrenheit 451"! This article is wrong for suggesting that it never existed.
It was a text with graphics adventure game on the Commodore 64.
http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=2650&d=18&h=0