His software *would be* a viable alternative if linux distributions would start caring more about performance and security than they did about branding.
Alas, that will never happen. So, we poor admins are forced to actually compile something. The humanity.
For two reasons. First, they're both good examples of the huge, monolithic, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach. Secondly, they're both competing with small, secure, engineered-for-security programs written by Dan Bernstein, qmail and djbdns, which is what this thread is about.
DJB's whole notion of breaking these things up into seperate programs is the unix philosophy. You may argue that the unix philosophy is weird, but "do one thing and do it well" has always been what the UNIX culture stands for, and DJB understands it better than most, I think.
That's not what I'm talking about. I fear for the children of anyone who actually *prefers* or takes pride in the fact that their guns don't have safties on them. Not only is it macho bullshit, it's dangerous.
If it's macho not to have safties, wouldn't it be macho to keep one by your headboard, loaded, while you sleep? That's what my dad did.
I think DJB understands the unix philosophy more than even a lot of the oldschoolers like vixie.
In any case, it's a lot easier to write a secure program from scratch with security in mind than it is to take a huge monolithic program without a single concern for security and make it secure.
There have been a few MoM wannabes but no game has come close to it. I prefer MoM to Alpha Centauri. A MoM remake would be one of the few "remakes" I think I'd actually get excited about.
You're right, it's far less complicated to believe that one atom exploded into an entire universe, that a mass of chemicals in exactly the right amounts happened to glob together under exactly the right conditions to create single cells of life where before there was none, that atmospheric conditions just happened to be in the exact range required to support this life, that these single-celled organisms by virtue of absolutely random mutations eventually became upright, walking, thinking beings than it is to believe that someone came along and created it all. Say what you want about the evils of organized religion, but it's pretty clear that it makes one's view of the universe more simplified, not more complicated.
Kids with lots of video games have richer parent(s), which means they have access to better schools and less keeping them from their education (except, perhaps, for the video games). Therefore, they achieve more academically than their poor schoolmates. How in the hell would video games make people smart; that's a geek fantasy. If you mean, someone playing video games vs someone with absolutely no mental stimulation whatsoever, maybe.. But video games can hardly be congratulated for that.
A. I hate to shatter your delusions, but you're not the spokesperson speak for the O-G Old Scool K-Rad Internet. You are not "we" and I am not "they." So spare your rabble-rousing bullshit.
B. This isn't about 0ld 5k3wl vs. Big Evil Corporation, as much as that false dichotomy makes the world easier for you to understand.
C. There's still the issue of domain. As many many people pointed out when the suit went the other way around, eToys.com would never get confused with etoy.com
D. Moral equality doesn't fucking matter under the law. The law matters under the law, because everyone has their own code of morality, but there's only one code of law.
Sounds like a ridiculous lawsuit filed to get revenge over another ridiculous lawsuit. Revenge-based crap like this wastes the court's time, and one thing our court system doesn't have an excess of is free time. I hope the/. crew doesn't become a fan of these types of lawsuits just because now it's the underdog filing one. I don't see what the big deal is, anyway. Trademarks have domains, and I think it's pretty safe to say that these two entities are in fairly different domains.
That's what I like: a distro that isn't afraid to thumb their noses at slashdot and tell them that their method of "report story, find out truth of story, report truth of story as another story as if you were mislead," is bunk. Any linux distribution which has representatives who are willing to tell slashdot off, man, that's a distro with balls. If slackware weren't already my distro, I might actually try it over this.
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I suppose there's two types of posters out there.. Adolescent chest-thumpers and people that agree with Jon Katz.
Stop Picking On Me! (Score:4, Posted by Jon Katz)
His software *would be* a viable alternative if linux distributions would start caring more about performance and security than they did about branding.
Alas, that will never happen. So, we poor admins are forced to actually compile something. The humanity.
For two reasons. First, they're both good examples of the huge, monolithic, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach. Secondly, they're both competing with small, secure, engineered-for-security programs written by Dan Bernstein, qmail and djbdns, which is what this thread is about.
DJB's whole notion of breaking these things up into seperate programs is the unix philosophy. You may argue that the unix philosophy is weird, but "do one thing and do it well" has always been what the UNIX culture stands for, and DJB understands it better than most, I think.
That's not what I'm talking about. I fear for the children of anyone who actually *prefers* or takes pride in the fact that their guns don't have safties on them. Not only is it macho bullshit, it's dangerous.
If it's macho not to have safties, wouldn't it be macho to keep one by your headboard, loaded, while you sleep? That's what my dad did.
Score:-1, Pompous
God, I hope you don't have children..
I think DJB understands the unix philosophy more than even a lot of the oldschoolers like vixie.
In any case, it's a lot easier to write a secure program from scratch with security in mind than it is to take a huge monolithic program without a single concern for security and make it secure.
Wow, so he's kinda like RMS, except actually writes software I'd use?
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, there is such a competitor:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
I couldn't answer one way or the other, save to say that I remember playing it for the first time and going, "Wow, they ripped of M:TG!"
Who knows how long it'd been out, though.
Age of Wonders was utter crap, man. Was that really supposed to be a honest-to-god sequel?
There have been a few MoM wannabes but no game has come close to it. I prefer MoM to Alpha Centauri. A MoM remake would be one of the few "remakes" I think I'd actually get excited about.
You're right, it's far less complicated to believe that one atom exploded into an entire universe, that a mass of chemicals in exactly the right amounts happened to glob together under exactly the right conditions to create single cells of life where before there was none, that atmospheric conditions just happened to be in the exact range required to support this life, that these single-celled organisms by virtue of absolutely random mutations eventually became upright, walking, thinking beings than it is to believe that someone came along and created it all. Say what you want about the evils of organized religion, but it's pretty clear that it makes one's view of the universe more simplified, not more complicated.
Kids with lots of video games have richer parent(s), which means they have access to better schools and less keeping them from their education (except, perhaps, for the video games). Therefore, they achieve more academically than their poor schoolmates. How in the hell would video games make people smart; that's a geek fantasy. If you mean, someone playing video games vs someone with absolutely no mental stimulation whatsoever, maybe.. But video games can hardly be congratulated for that.
Awesome, so I can go around murdering rich people?
A. I hate to shatter your delusions, but you're not the spokesperson speak for the O-G Old Scool K-Rad Internet. You are not "we" and I am not "they." So spare your rabble-rousing bullshit.
B. This isn't about 0ld 5k3wl vs. Big Evil Corporation, as much as that false dichotomy makes the world easier for you to understand.
C. There's still the issue of domain. As many many people pointed out when the suit went the other way around, eToys.com would never get confused with etoy.com
D. Moral equality doesn't fucking matter under the law. The law matters under the law, because everyone has their own code of morality, but there's only one code of law.
Sorry my subject wasn't more completely spelled out for your sake. Let me finish it. "Two wrongs don't make a right."
Sounds like a ridiculous lawsuit filed to get revenge over another ridiculous lawsuit. Revenge-based crap like this wastes the court's time, and one thing our court system doesn't have an excess of is free time. I hope the /. crew doesn't become a fan of these types of lawsuits just because now it's the underdog filing one. I don't see what the big deal is, anyway. Trademarks have domains, and I think it's pretty safe to say that these two entities are in fairly different domains.
I know several women coders. And yes, they do. Women are a lot less magical once you actually get to know some of them.
"The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
Because god knows, being called "Insightful" by someone on slashdot is a rare honor, reserved only for the brightest minds.
I say don't dignify someone who hasn't earned professionalism (and has, in fact, earned the opposite) with any sort of professionalistic behavior.
They had a chance to be professional? You mean, like slashdot?
They told off someone who needed to be told off, and for that, I applaud them. Slashdot doesn't deserve a "professional" response.
That's what I like: a distro that isn't afraid to thumb their noses at slashdot and tell them that their method of "report story, find out truth of story, report truth of story as another story as if you were mislead," is bunk. Any linux distribution which has representatives who are willing to tell slashdot off, man, that's a distro with balls. If slackware weren't already my distro, I might actually try it over this.