Surely noone would put up with that kind of a trick, for a non-computer product. But in the software world it's become accepted and expected that, hey, the user is a computer-illiterate anyway. You're _expected_ to sell him/her snake oil, rape his/her privacy as hard as you can, never test or debug the product first, and generally be as annoying or dishonest as possible if it makes you money. etc. How did this happen?
One word: Democrats.
The pre-bust Real fortune was used to finance the US Senate candidacy of one Maria Cantwell, D-WA, former 'Senior Vice President of Consumer Products at RealNetworks':
It's a pretty good rule of thumb that whenever you're dealing with something so sleazy it just makes you want to go take a shower and wash yourself of it, there's a Democrat lurking in the background.
PS: All the RIAA and MPAA types that you people hate so much are Democrats [what we out here in fly-over country would call 'Limousine Liberals'].
My annual salary is the high 30s at a college where the student population is around 600 full-time equivilant students. I consider this salary to be in-line with that of other small business owner/operators. I dont drive a fancy car or own an expensive/fancy home. I work, on average, about 53 hours per week.
Seriously, get the hell out of this profession. 53 hours a week for, what, $39,999?
You work 53 hours a week as a carpenter, and you're gonna gross something like $53,000.
53 hours a week as a plumber and you're gonna gross more like $79,500.
It's abso-god-damned-lutely insane to work 53 hours a week [ad infinitum, or at least ad excessus] and gross under $40K.
Enjoy life. Earn the big bucks. Get your wife back in the kitchen and make some babies with her.
What kind of authentication does NASA employ on deep space transmissions? Surely nothing as complicated as SSL. Probably not even anything as simple as frequency division multiplexing.
My guess would be no authentication whatsoever [think 1970s protocols, like SMTP, and the attendant proliferation of SPAM], so it seems like anyone with a big dish could just point and shoot.
Stuff running in such environments is damn near bug-free. It's not like, say, Mozilla, or even the Linux kernel, or even/bin/ls. These things get tested rigourously, not as an afterthought deligated to the junior programmer.
In this case it looks like extensive testing didn't include checking that the filesystem could handle all of the data files that would be generated during the mission?
I know there's a hell of a lot to test, but a limitation in the filesystem should have been identified before launch.
Hell, it should have been identified before lunch.
If you were to logically verify all the code to prove there were no bugs anywhere (yes, this is possible), it would cost orders of magnitude more to develop (which is why nobody ever verifies an entire program).
Here's what I've discovered: If you're on a Windows platform, invoke Start | Run | winmsd.exe, then click on System Summary to get the Family, Model, and Stepping of your K6. [It beats the hell out of unscrewing the case, prying off the heat sink, and reading it directly from the processor.]
Anyway, it looks like we have [and these are PDF documents, by the way]
I discovered that I'm running a combination of Model 8's and Model 13's [the laptop K6-III+ that I slapped in the EPoX motherboard] here at home, so I'll have to remember to use the Model 13 for my calculations. [Actually, I can't find any official info on the Model 13, so I'll have to hope that it received the 32 bit FPU.]
There's a lot of modern medical equipment which can definitely use the 4GB. MRI machines, CT scanners, ultrasound machines ("sonographs" if you prefer the term) and so on do tend to chew up memory. Particularly the first two, because you often need to hold whole voxel sets in memory while you compute a bunch of cross-sections at odd angles.
We're about to up our Doppler sampling rate to
(3 channels) X (24 bit samples stored as 8 byte doubles) X (125 K Samples/second) = 3MB/sec
Since it takes the technician a good ten minutes or more to find the signal, we're looking at
10 X 60 X 3MB = 1.8GB
without batting an eyelash.
Granted, that's not in the same league as the three dimensional stuff, but it ain't exactly peanuts, either.
PS: I haven't done the math yet, but if 8 byte doubles don't give us sufficient granularity to store 24-bit samples, we may need to up our storage to 12 byte [96 bit] or even 16 byte [128 bit] doubles.
While you're at it, you might also throw in a healthy dose of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead & Laura Schlessinger.
This past summer, I damn near got in a fist fight with one of these Stalinist university professors; we were at a dinner party, and I remarked that our society is becoming more tyrannical as it becomes more feminine, and then quickly corrected myself to say that, no, that's not entirely fair to women - it's becoming more tyrannical as it becomes more feminist. Apparently this offended his little lady friend so much that we almost came to blows over it. [As an aside, is there anything more oppressive than trying to coexist with people who spend their entire lives in a perpetual state of offendedness?]
There's some dude here at Slashdot who's sig is a Ennio Flaiano quote - "Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists." It's impossible to describe these people more accurately than that.
Digging up personal dirt on your business opponents, although it's done all the time, is simply not kosher tactics, and if an industry lobby and interest group is publicly admitting that it engages in this sort of unsavory activity to get its points across, then the average slob should know about it.
Okay, so it's wrong for a private enterprise to be snooping through somebody's trash.
Let me ask you this: Is it okay for Bill, Hill, Betsy Wright, and the rest of the Bimbo Eruption squad to hire a small army of goons [Terry Lenzner, Anthony Pellicano, Anthony Marceca, and friends] to intimidate and harrass Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Gennifer Flowers, Dolly Kyle Browning, Kathleen Willey, Paula Corbin Jones, and countless other women who's names we'll never learn?
There's a point in the Starr transcripts where Monica Lewinsky is seriously worried that she's gonna be offed Arkancide-style.
...they're going to have to really pick up their index size if they hope to compete with Google and ATW on finding anything that isn't on a site's home page.
PS: I just can't resist making a little political observation: Yahoo! knows what they're doing. They're run by people who understand that a businessman's fundamental resonsibility is to ensure that gross income exceeds gross expenditures.
Hint to investors the world over: If you see a once proud corporation with Eric Schmidt at the helm [Novell, anyone?], then short it.
And don't think for a second that the timing of this Yahoo!/Google announcement was a coincidence. There's no way in hell the boyz at Yahoo! were gonna let Schmidt get his grubby socialist paws on $4 Billion in IPO capital if they could do anything about it.
PPS: Overture had purchased both ATW and Altavista, so now Yahoo! owns Inktomi, ATW, and Altavista. Together the three of them might not equal Google's market share, but that's a lot of history, a lot of technology, and a lot of brainpower that Yahoo! has very quietly amassed.
PPPS: And it's all gonna run on FreeBSD! THE GPL SUX DONKEY DIX! LONG LIVE THE ANTI-LICENSE LICENSE!!
I was going to say "Mod him up," but you're already flirting with +5.
That's not to say that Open Source developers can't also be innovative, but I do claim that anything you can offshore successfully you'll probably be able to Open Source successfully as well, for exactly the same reason -- the expensive up-front design work has already been done.
Can't agree enough: The pioneers take the arrows, the settlers make the profits.
Kudos to Stallman for starting the movement, but it would have happened eventually anyway I think, because eventually society gets wise to the fact that corporations are re-selling the same zero-cost product over and over again, and somebody somewhere will get the idea into their head that there is an obviously better way: write it once and for all and then just give it away.
Here we might part ways: Stallman is a marxist whose goal is the abolition of private property rights; the abolition of intellectual property rights is just a first step towards that goal. And Stallman doesn't "give it away"; the GPL is infinitely more tyrannical than any file [or file system] format [.DOC,.XLS,.PPT, FAT32, NTFS] that Redmond ever tried to foist on you.
A friend of mine asked me last week if I could "stop by and install Windows 2000" on her computer. She has Windows 98 right now. Right, I'll just stop by, on my way to somewhere, and spend an entire day with an OS upgrade. In return, I will probably get a free dinner.
A free dinner?!?!?!?
At a minimum, you should get
1) Laid.
2) A pregnant "friend," also known as a "wife."
3) Thirty years worth of orthodontist bills, college tuition, and miscellaneous bail bonds for resulting progeny.
And do you want to show me a government that doesn't have some obscure policy which is utterly absurd?
No, obviously it is in the nature of governments to impose tyranny on their citizens [Since we're on the subject of polite euphemisms, "to govern" is just a polite euphemism for "to enslave."]
My problem with the crowd at/. is that they're so susceptible to the sentiment that goes something like, "Yippee! Israel has outlawed intellectual property rights! Let's all move there, join hands, sing Kum-bay-a, and live happily ever after in our little socialist sun bather's haven, topless beaches and all!" But they don't stop to consider the human toll that will accompany the inevitable loss in productivity.
And without her people, Israel ain't got much to offer. As far as I can tell, she ain't even got a reliable source of fresh water, much less billions of barrels of crude oil to finance all that frolicking in the sun.
Absolutely. Those godless-commies in Israel need to just put up with Office's flaws. They need to start writing left-to-right in good, capitalist, Roman letters, damn-it, rather than their pinko-marxist "Hebrew" alphabet.
What are you? Nuts?
If Israel were to outlaw a piece of private property like, I dunno, a vaccine with 90% effectiveness against the prions that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob, or with 90% effectiveness against the virus that causes SARS, simply because that vaccine was owned by, say, Merck, and Merck wanted a $5 per dose royalty fee, and were to instead impose upon her people a public domain vaccine, without royalty problems, but with only about a 10% rate of effectiveness [efficacy], thereby saving a few bucks, but also dooming thousands of her citizens to death or crippling injuries, what would you call her leaders? Nuts? Or fellow travelers?
But Israel is quickly becoming the new China, and I'd frankly rather have a MS friendly, but reasonable government (because, lets face it, with the issues Israel is facing, office suite choice is not as great an indicator of intelligence and penis size as we'd like to think), than the current OSS embracing religious zealots.
Disclaimer: Jewish by blood and upbringing, been to and love the Middle-East
My guess would be that we're in agreement here. For the 55+ years of her existence, Israel has never seemed to shake her dogged infatuation with marxism.
When I glanced at this/. header, my initial thought was "Gee whiz [which, by the way, is a polite euphemism for - oh, never mind]: All they're doing is handicapping their people with an inferior product; sure, the initial costs are a little [well, a lot] greater with Microsoft, but those initial costs are more than compensated for by the accompanying gain in human productivity."
It's pretty easy to predict that Stallman's campaign against the idea of intellectual property rights would be lent a willing ear by a people with [what seems to be] a predisposed affinity for marxism, but, in the long run, if they succomb to this latest bit of utopian wheedlery, they will be, like socialists always and everywhere, just shooting themselves in the foot [feet?] yet again.
One of the goals for 5.3 (and indeed something that Sam has been doing some wonderful and hard work on) is cleaning up the IP stack. Getting IPFW pfil(9) ready (if I understood correctly) is also one of these goals and will mean that using any software firewall solution such as pf, IPFW or ipfilter would be a question of loading the module. At which point you wouldn't have to recompile the kernel for this functionality.
Hope this was of help.
I can't tell you how welcome this sort of functionality will be. I know I'll get flamed for this, but some of us out here in the real world just don't have the time to spend a couple of weeks trying to recompile a kernel. [And no, it's obviously not the actual compile time - it's the fiddling: What happens if I set this flag? What happens if I don't set that flag? Oops, that didn't work - maybe if I were to change that to this... Getting the configuration just right can take nigh unto forever.] Loadable modules for filtering, NATing, and SSHing will be MOST appreciated.
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
PS: If I can be a little greedy, the other thing that really benefits a firewall-ish device is rock solid support [i.e. drivers] for hardware-accelerated encryption [SSL, SSH, and the like]. Of course, rock solid drivers are one of FreeBSD's fortes, but if you're redesigning the stack, I'd just say: Redesign it with hardware acceleration very much in mind.
What's the status of pf on FreeBSD? And what's the preferred packet filtering/firewall setup these days?
The last I checked, circa 4.8, you had to recompile the kernel just to get a NAT "router."
Has NAT-ing and filtering drawn any attention in the 5.x series?
I ask because FreeBSD has about the best host adapter/hard drive support in the business [possibly better even than NetWare] - if you've got an old hba and an old hd, FreeBSD will load the drivers and do the LBA translations to perfection. I've seen countless motherboard/HBA/HD combinations where e.g. Windows 2000 just can't get the LBA translation right. Or OpenBSD, for that matter.
Which brings me to the question of Theo. Since I'm interested in NATing/PFing/SSHing, most people would say, "Then you want OpenBSD," to which I say, Yeah, some of Theo's goals are laudable, but, quite frankly, the guy's a kook, and guts of his operating system don't work all that well.
I'm kind of new at this game [having just registered], but why in the world would someone mark this as "Off Topic"?
Isn't Cmdr Taco the "owner" of Slashcode? And doesn't Slashcode power the world's most popular threaded/nested bulletin board? And isn't a threaded/nested backend/frontend precisely what Microsoft is after here?
And isn't Richard Stallman's whole beef that there's something impure or pedestrian about earning an honest living writing software?
It's hard for me to imagine anything that could possibly be more On Topic than this.
And lighten up, a little, will ya? There's nothing wrong with earning a living. As I recall, Taco has a wife to feed and cloth now. Imagine that, a married life: For those of you who don't know, it's what you become eligible for when you finally earn enough money to move out of your parents' basement and into a house of your own.
1) Release next version of SlashCode under "NOT-GPL"
2) Integrate Active Directory Support, rename it "SlashCode.NET"
3) ???
4) Sell to Redmond for use in Outlook-Longhorn-2005.NET
5) Cmdr Taco... PROFIT!!!
i especially like the built in queing and multi processor support
How is this any different than a Java or C# Virtual Machine? And what does BOINC do for a language? Is its language scripted, or run-time "compiled" into virtual machine language, or what? Can you call BOINC a language unto itself, in the same way that people tend to gloss over the distinction between Java/C# the languages and Java/C# the runtime virtual machines?
A rack is just a piece of anodized metal with some screw holes that are 19" apart. It's insane how much people spend on these things [$3000, $5000???].
In theory you could machine one yourself, but if you value your time at all, there's one and only one name you need to know in affordable racks: Middle Atlantic [aka DataTel].
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Surely noone would put up with that kind of a trick, for a non-computer product. But in the software world it's become accepted and expected that, hey, the user is a computer-illiterate anyway. You're _expected_ to sell him/her snake oil, rape his/her privacy as hard as you can, never test or debug the product first, and generally be as annoying or dishonest as possible if it makes you money. etc. How did this happen?
One word: Democrats.
The pre-bust Real fortune was used to finance the US Senate candidacy of one Maria Cantwell, D-WA, former 'Senior Vice President of Consumer Products at RealNetworks':
It's a pretty good rule of thumb that whenever you're dealing with something so sleazy it just makes you want to go take a shower and wash yourself of it, there's a Democrat lurking in the background.PS: All the RIAA and MPAA types that you people hate so much are Democrats [what we out here in fly-over country would call 'Limousine Liberals'].
My annual salary is the high 30s at a college where the student population is around 600 full-time equivilant students. I consider this salary to be in-line with that of other small business owner/operators. I dont drive a fancy car or own an expensive/fancy home. I work, on average, about 53 hours per week.
Seriously, get the hell out of this profession. 53 hours a week for, what, $39,999?
You work 53 hours a week as a carpenter, and you're gonna gross something like $53,000.
53 hours a week as a plumber and you're gonna gross more like $79,500.
It's abso-god-damned-lutely insane to work 53 hours a week [ad infinitum, or at least ad excessus] and gross under $40K.
Enjoy life. Earn the big bucks. Get your wife back in the kitchen and make some babies with her.
What kind of authentication does NASA employ on deep space transmissions? Surely nothing as complicated as SSL. Probably not even anything as simple as frequency division multiplexing.
My guess would be no authentication whatsoever [think 1970s protocols, like SMTP, and the attendant proliferation of SPAM], so it seems like anyone with a big dish could just point and shoot.
Hell, it should have been identified before lunch.
If you were to logically verify all the code to prove there were no bugs anywhere (yes, this is possible), it would cost orders of magnitude more to develop (which is why nobody ever verifies an entire program).
Tell that to Professor Turing...
Thanks!
Here's what I've discovered: If you're on a Windows platform, invoke Start | Run | winmsd.exe, then click on System Summary to get the Family, Model, and Stepping of your K6. [It beats the hell out of unscrewing the case, prying off the heat sink, and reading it directly from the processor.] Anyway, it looks like we have [and these are PDF documents, by the way]
I discovered that I'm running a combination of Model 8's and Model 13's [the laptop K6-III+ that I slapped in the EPoX motherboard] here at home, so I'll have to remember to use the Model 13 for my calculations. [Actually, I can't find any official info on the Model 13, so I'll have to hope that it received the 32 bit FPU.]Anyway, thanks again!
There's a lot of modern medical equipment which can definitely use the 4GB. MRI machines, CT scanners, ultrasound machines ("sonographs" if you prefer the term) and so on do tend to chew up memory. Particularly the first two, because you often need to hold whole voxel sets in memory while you compute a bunch of cross-sections at odd angles.
We're about to up our Doppler sampling rate to
Since it takes the technician a good ten minutes or more to find the signal, we're looking at without batting an eyelash.Granted, that's not in the same league as the three dimensional stuff, but it ain't exactly peanuts, either.
PS: I haven't done the math yet, but if 8 byte doubles don't give us sufficient granularity to store 24-bit samples, we may need to up our storage to 12 byte [96 bit] or even 16 byte [128 bit] doubles.
Where's that IEEE standard when you need it?
Some of this gets extreme. - pardon the commercial reference.
Compare:
While you're at it, you might also throw in a healthy dose of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead & Laura Schlessinger.This past summer, I damn near got in a fist fight with one of these Stalinist university professors; we were at a dinner party, and I remarked that our society is becoming more tyrannical as it becomes more feminine, and then quickly corrected myself to say that, no, that's not entirely fair to women - it's becoming more tyrannical as it becomes more feminist. Apparently this offended his little lady friend so much that we almost came to blows over it. [As an aside, is there anything more oppressive than trying to coexist with people who spend their entire lives in a perpetual state of offendedness?]
There's some dude here at Slashdot who's sig is a Ennio Flaiano quote - "Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists." It's impossible to describe these people more accurately than that.
Digging up personal dirt on your business opponents, although it's done all the time, is simply not kosher tactics, and if an industry lobby and interest group is publicly admitting that it engages in this sort of unsavory activity to get its points across, then the average slob should know about it.
Okay, so it's wrong for a private enterprise to be snooping through somebody's trash.
Let me ask you this: Is it okay for Bill, Hill, Betsy Wright, and the rest of the Bimbo Eruption squad to hire a small army of goons [Terry Lenzner, Anthony Pellicano, Anthony Marceca, and friends] to intimidate and harrass Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Gennifer Flowers, Dolly Kyle Browning, Kathleen Willey, Paula Corbin Jones, and countless other women who's names we'll never learn?
There's a point in the Starr transcripts where Monica Lewinsky is seriously worried that she's gonna be offed Arkancide-style.
Inktomi and Overture's bots belong to Yahoo now.
And ATW's bots belong to Overture.
PS: I just can't resist making a little political observation: Yahoo! knows what they're doing. They're run by people who understand that a businessman's fundamental resonsibility is to ensure that gross income exceeds gross expenditures.
Google, on the other hand, is run by one Eric Schmidt, who believes that a businessman's fundamental responsiblity is to give blow jobs to Elton John, who in turn gives blow jobs to The Inventor of the Internet [TIOTI] himself.
Hint to investors the world over: If you see a once proud corporation with Eric Schmidt at the helm [Novell, anyone?], then short it.
And don't think for a second that the timing of this Yahoo!/Google announcement was a coincidence. There's no way in hell the boyz at Yahoo! were gonna let Schmidt get his grubby socialist paws on $4 Billion in IPO capital if they could do anything about it.
PPS: Overture had purchased both ATW and Altavista, so now Yahoo! owns Inktomi, ATW, and Altavista. Together the three of them might not equal Google's market share, but that's a lot of history, a lot of technology, and a lot of brainpower that Yahoo! has very quietly amassed.
PPPS: And it's all gonna run on FreeBSD! THE GPL SUX DONKEY DIX! LONG LIVE THE ANTI-LICENSE LICENSE!!
I was going to say "Mod him up," but you're already flirting with +5. Can't agree enough: The pioneers take the arrows, the settlers make the profits. Here we might part ways: Stallman is a marxist whose goal is the abolition of private property rights; the abolition of intellectual property rights is just a first step towards that goal. And Stallman doesn't "give it away"; the GPL is infinitely more tyrannical than any file [or file system] format [.DOC,
A friend of mine asked me last week if I could "stop by and install Windows 2000" on her computer. She has Windows 98 right now. Right, I'll just stop by, on my way to somewhere, and spend an entire day with an OS upgrade. In return, I will probably get a free dinner.
A free dinner?!?!?!?
At a minimum, you should get
And a lifetime's worth of "free" dinners.And do you want to show me a government that doesn't have some obscure policy which is utterly absurd?
No, obviously it is in the nature of governments to impose tyranny on their citizens [Since we're on the subject of polite euphemisms, "to govern" is just a polite euphemism for "to enslave."]
My problem with the crowd at /. is that they're so susceptible to the sentiment that goes something like, "Yippee! Israel has outlawed intellectual property rights! Let's all move there, join hands, sing Kum-bay-a, and live happily ever after in our little socialist sun bather's haven, topless beaches and all!" But they don't stop to consider the human toll that will accompany the inevitable loss in productivity.
And without her people, Israel ain't got much to offer. As far as I can tell, she ain't even got a reliable source of fresh water, much less billions of barrels of crude oil to finance all that frolicking in the sun.
Absolutely. Those godless-commies in Israel need to just put up with Office's flaws. They need to start writing left-to-right in good, capitalist, Roman letters, damn-it, rather than their pinko-marxist "Hebrew" alphabet.
What are you? Nuts?
If Israel were to outlaw a piece of private property like, I dunno, a vaccine with 90% effectiveness against the prions that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob, or with 90% effectiveness against the virus that causes SARS, simply because that vaccine was owned by, say, Merck, and Merck wanted a $5 per dose royalty fee, and were to instead impose upon her people a public domain vaccine, without royalty problems, but with only about a 10% rate of effectiveness [efficacy], thereby saving a few bucks, but also dooming thousands of her citizens to death or crippling injuries, what would you call her leaders? Nuts? Or fellow travelers?
But Israel is quickly becoming the new China, and I'd frankly rather have a MS friendly, but reasonable government (because, lets face it, with the issues Israel is facing, office suite choice is not as great an indicator of intelligence and penis size as we'd like to think), than the current OSS embracing religious zealots.
Disclaimer: Jewish by blood and upbringing, been to and love the Middle-East
My guess would be that we're in agreement here. For the 55+ years of her existence, Israel has never seemed to shake her dogged infatuation with marxism.
When I glanced at this /. header, my initial thought was "Gee whiz [which, by the way, is a polite euphemism for - oh, never mind]: All they're doing is handicapping their people with an inferior product; sure, the initial costs are a little [well, a lot] greater with Microsoft, but those initial costs are more than compensated for by the accompanying gain in human productivity."
It's pretty easy to predict that Stallman's campaign against the idea of intellectual property rights would be lent a willing ear by a people with [what seems to be] a predisposed affinity for marxism, but, in the long run, if they succomb to this latest bit of utopian wheedlery, they will be, like socialists always and everywhere, just shooting themselves in the foot [feet?] yet again.
One of the goals for 5.3 (and indeed something that Sam has been doing some wonderful and hard work on) is cleaning up the IP stack. Getting IPFW pfil(9) ready (if I understood correctly) is also one of these goals and will mean that using any software firewall solution such as pf, IPFW or ipfilter would be a question of loading the module. At which point you wouldn't have to recompile the kernel for this functionality.
Hope this was of help.
I can't tell you how welcome this sort of functionality will be. I know I'll get flamed for this, but some of us out here in the real world just don't have the time to spend a couple of weeks trying to recompile a kernel. [And no, it's obviously not the actual compile time - it's the fiddling: What happens if I set this flag? What happens if I don't set that flag? Oops, that didn't work - maybe if I were to change that to this... Getting the configuration just right can take nigh unto forever.] Loadable modules for filtering, NATing, and SSHing will be MOST appreciated.
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
PS: If I can be a little greedy, the other thing that really benefits a firewall-ish device is rock solid support [i.e. drivers] for hardware-accelerated encryption [SSL, SSH, and the like]. Of course, rock solid drivers are one of FreeBSD's fortes, but if you're redesigning the stack, I'd just say: Redesign it with hardware acceleration very much in mind.
and guts of his operating system don't work all that well
and the guts of his operating system don't work all that well
What's the status of pf on FreeBSD? And what's the preferred packet filtering/firewall setup these days?
The last I checked, circa 4.8, you had to recompile the kernel just to get a NAT "router."
Has NAT-ing and filtering drawn any attention in the 5.x series?
I ask because FreeBSD has about the best host adapter/hard drive support in the business [possibly better even than NetWare] - if you've got an old hba and an old hd, FreeBSD will load the drivers and do the LBA translations to perfection. I've seen countless motherboard/HBA/HD combinations where e.g. Windows 2000 just can't get the LBA translation right. Or OpenBSD, for that matter.
Which brings me to the question of Theo. Since I'm interested in NATing/PFing/SSHing, most people would say, "Then you want OpenBSD," to which I say, Yeah, some of Theo's goals are laudable, but, quite frankly, the guy's a kook, and guts of his operating system don't work all that well.
I'd rather use something designed by grown-ups.
I'm kind of new at this game [having just registered], but why in the world would someone mark this as "Off Topic"?
Isn't Cmdr Taco the "owner" of Slashcode? And doesn't Slashcode power the world's most popular threaded/nested bulletin board? And isn't a threaded/nested backend/frontend precisely what Microsoft is after here?
And isn't Richard Stallman's whole beef that there's something impure or pedestrian about earning an honest living writing software?
It's hard for me to imagine anything that could possibly be more On Topic than this.
And lighten up, a little, will ya? There's nothing wrong with earning a living. As I recall, Taco has a wife to feed and cloth now. Imagine that, a married life: For those of you who don't know, it's what you become eligible for when you finally earn enough money to move out of your parents' basement and into a house of your own.
1) Release next version of SlashCode under "NOT-GPL"
2) Integrate Active Directory Support, rename it "SlashCode.NET"
3) ???
4) Sell to Redmond for use in Outlook-Longhorn-2005.NET
5) Cmdr Taco... PROFIT!!!
Nah, that just makes WAY too much sense...
i especially like the built in queing and multi processor support
How is this any different than a Java or C# Virtual Machine? And what does BOINC do for a language? Is its language scripted, or run-time "compiled" into virtual machine language, or what? Can you call BOINC a language unto itself, in the same way that people tend to gloss over the distinction between Java/C# the languages and Java/C# the runtime virtual machines?
Details please! Thanks!
I'm getting zero hits on this mystery technique called "static ARP association": Doe it have another name?
A rack is just a piece of anodized metal with some screw holes that are 19" apart. It's insane how much people spend on these things [$3000, $5000???].
In theory you could machine one yourself, but if you value your time at all, there's one and only one name you need to know in affordable racks: Middle Atlantic [aka DataTel].
All products here:
Very nice wall mounted rack series here: I've found that an excellent low cost supplier is Syndat, out of Oklahoma [and I'm on the east coast]: Even though they don't list all the Middle Atlantic parts on their website, they stock them.PS: DANGER, WILL ROBINSON: Never run a computer in a closet!!! FIRE HAZARD! FIRE HAZARD!