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  1. Re:Might be a stupid question, but... on FreeBSD 5.4 Released · · Score: 1
    there is some interesting stuff in /usr/share/examples:
    % ls /usr/share/examples
    BSD_daemon bootforth drivers ipfw mdoc pf printing smbfs
    FreeBSD_version cvs etc isdn meteor portal scsi_target startslip
    IPv6 cvsup find_interface kld netgraph ppi ses sunrpc
    atm dialog ibcs2 libdialog nwclient ppp slattach tcsh
    bc diskless ipfilter libvgl perfmon pppd sliplogin worm
    Look in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ and there should be some "templates" or use as-is SUPfiles. Oh and watch stable-supfile, it's 5-STABLE, not 5.4-STABLE "Patch/Fix branch.
  2. Re:RISCy on Is the x86 Architecture Less Secure? · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...are they bad for maintaining backward compatiblity that is less secure/less stable, or are they bad for tightening things up and thus breaking a few badly written 3rd party programs people rely on...
    you obviously haven't seen the list: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884 130&product=windowsxpsp2/ more info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842 242/ Enjoy..
  3. Re:rr on First 500 Terabytes Transmitted via LHCGlobal Grid · · Score: 1

    ..or binary business weeks ;o)

  4. Re:No problem... on Carnegie Mellon Says Computers Breached · · Score: 1

    Neither do the other 99.999% of the basement geeks here..

  5. Re:just when OpenBSD i386 started to move to 3.x on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The *BSD's do have there own compiler (at least, in license form) called none other than TenDRA. Just a shame the *BSD's don't all collaborate and get TenDRA in to a useable alterantive to GCC -- I've seen how much work it takes for the *BSD's to get GCC into a useable toolchain. hmmm.

  6. Re:Memory bandwidth on Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking · · Score: 1

    All AMD K8's (Opterons, Athlons, Semprons [socket 754]) have One memory controller, including dual cores as there is more then enough aggregate bandwidth.

  7. Re:Why isn't this already out? on Next Generation X11 · · Score: 1

    yeah, you got it in one, why windows(r)?

  8. Re:More misplaced effort on Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released · · Score: 1

    As to quote "Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. -- Dennis Ritchie"

    Now let's say you, the user, spent as much time as you have in the Windows or Mac OS, to learn something like OpenBSD, Linux or HP-UX - a "Unix" of some sort, you would have no problem grasping the simplicity of Unix and Unix-like Opertaing Systems. Also, OpenBSD is user-friendly, it is just that your perspective of user-friendly-ness has been distorted by the view of Windows or Mac OS.

    The above could be said if a user is switching from Windows to Mac OS or vice-versa, purely because you have got used to Microsoft's/Apple's idea of what user-friendly-ness is.

    Are you expecting a GUI or Curses front-end? - neither of which can make any program/operating system more useable by adding a point and click interface.

    And on another note: OpenBSD is for the Developers, it says so on http://www.openbsd.org/ - it just so happns other people use it.

    those "stupid geek songs no one cares about" had all bee explained in plain english, ie the currents lyrics are about:

    What is up with some free software providers?! They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind." While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is going to remember them in the end. This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their offerings in the last few years: * David Dawes worked for years with a team of developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use, called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a replacement effort. Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date... * OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf, and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the one he wrote. And other projects are switching too... * The Apache group started from the humble beginnings of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them, and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom. So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any others who will follow them: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will replace it.
    and if "stupid geek songs" bother you so much, maybe you sould get off /. ? :o)
  9. Re:More misplaced effort on Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how you can say

    "User-friendly" and "secure" mostly don't go together.
    when in fact, they can, as long as the USER thinks before they type! get a clue, please! people like you and Michael Robertson need shooting.

    Living in a world without root, is not hard

  10. Re:spyware beta on MS: Beta Software Good Enough for Production Use · · Score: 1

    WHAT? M$ has a beta pro0n dialer, and will be availble on windows update, with "root" like privileges??? So that is what the second core is fore.

  11. DRM == on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again · · Score: 1

    DRM is like lotsoffarts.wav

  12. Re:USB Device I'd like to see.. on Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Certainly what I was looking for, cheers ...now if only I had mod points..

  13. Re:let's see!!! on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1

    ermm, it's quite possible as all a "small program" has to do is take over/exploit a root owned process and then this "small program" becomes god-like!.. ...he says in the Unreal Tournament announcer voice *laughs*

  14. USB Device I'd like to see.. on Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Had this idea for a while and hopefully a company will pick this up: How about a USB device the same size/dimensions as a normal USB flash drive but you can swap SD/MMC/XD Cards in & out, this way I can carry pretty much un-limited portable storage? least, makes more sense to me and wouldn't have to carry like three USB Flash drives. Well, If this device does exsist (No wires), where is it in the UK? (yes, I did have a portable 2.5" drive but that's too bulky)

  15. ZoE on Benioff and Weiss To Write Ender's Game Script · · Score: 1

    are we talking, Zone of the Enders here? that is the only Enders (except EastEnders) that I know off..

  16. Re:Search Engines Spiders Crawling on What Can Yahoo Do To Compete with Google? · · Score: 1
    spider is running around in circles

    M$ Incy Wincy spider climbing up the spout
    Down came the rain and washed the spider out
    Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
    Now M$ Incy Wincy spider went up the spout again!
  17. Re:Apple??? on OpenBSD CVS RAID Array Failing, Needs Replacement · · Score: 0, Troll
    Did you finally wakeup from a long sleep and smell the roses.
    Although, really..
    but blindly ripping the work of others without giving back is gross
    has always been happening! we are talking about
    3. PROFIT!!!

    How many companies are guilty of this and worse; those that do give back are actually saying STFU and make the company look good from there perspective

    In another perspective: how many people will walk passed someone who got stabbed before they actually get the attention of someone -- yeah, my sentiments exactly.

  18. Looks "Okay" on Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Looks "Okay".. certainly does it for me.. ermm

    is it April 1st yet?

  19. Re:Strange... on SysInternals Releases RootkitRevealer · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you are using Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP1, you'll need to turn off DEP (Data Execution Prevention) by editing your BOOT.INI and have change from
    /noexecute=optin
    to
    /noexecute=AlwaysOff
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/ddtools/hh/ddtools/BootIni_aff45176 -bd02-43cf-9895-c212fa392de2.xml.asp I had this problem with Daemon tools and Acohol 120%
  20. Re:Gee... on Huge Star Quake Rocks Milky Way · · Score: 1

    No, I'm still here, thanks!

  21. Re:bah! on Open Source Code Maintainability Analyzed · · Score: 1

    I guess my 5 1/4" is pretty big then? and thats floppy -- all things considering..

  22. Minesweep/Solitare on Dual Core Intel Processors Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm Minesweep/Solitare on SMP, sooner then I thought possible :oP

    All I need now is another pair of hands, keyboard and mouse -- maybe that was what USB was for in the first place.

  23. Re:Jeez man on Apple Website Points to PowerBook G5 · · Score: 1
    Shut your iHole...

    A few anagrams come to mind...
  24. Much like links in Spam on Apple Website Points to PowerBook G5 · · Score: 1
    Well, I am not sure if it just me but erm, dosen't the whole thing seem not much different following links in those stupid spam emails
    Click here.. amazing deals, penis enlargement, cheap viagra
    etc, etc.
    For those who were apparently "paranoid" and followed those atdmt.com's links -- woopsie; because you should of known better :o)
    To combat this, Firefox has a handy setting under Web Features - [X] Load Images - [X] for the originating web site only -- otherwise use Lynx/Links.
    </FlameOff>
  25. Screws? on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just outta curiousity, was there *any* left over screws?

    Dosen't matter how many things I've taken apart, there always seems to be atleast one extra screw!