Just one quick question: why would you search for FreeBSD when looking for information about the OpenBSD fork? OpenBSD descended from NetBSD, which as you have already said, is entirely different than FreeBSD.
YES! I was entirely serious. As another person commented, there are already unrelated organizations and taskforces, but we need one single international Internet police force!
I think the solution we need is some sort of "CyberCop" organization. This group could be involved in tracking down online criminals who engage in DoS attacks, web defacing, and other terroristic acts. The FBI is obviously not doing their job, so someone new that is completely dedicated to Internet crime could help.
Additionally, this organization could set guidelines for ISPs, like requiring them to keep tracking information on certain packets for a period of time, or requiring them to block packets from unrouteable addresses. @Home is horrible about this. I've noticed routers in the 10.x.x.x subnet upstream from me on the @Home network! That is unacceptable. What happens if that router tries to send information to my computer? It gets blocked by my firewall because I don't allow IP spoofing!
Anyway, we NEED CyberCops to enforce laws on the Internet. Maybe we can get other countries besides America to help pay for it too. That could give them some say in the rules were.
What is the point on the FD32? Superdisks already have 120 MB capacity. Why not just use that for your linux routers? Superdisk also supports the normal 1.44 MB disks.
Fine. Let people trade their privacy for money. We do it already with these ad banners that send cookies that track what sites you visit and what ads you click. We do it with "free" internet service providers and "free" services like hotmail that require cookies and javascript and the latest browsers. Consumer profiling is BIG business because advertisers want to target the right audience. You know what? Fine. All I care about is the ability to opt out. Let me pay to NOT see ads. Let me pay to NOT be tracked and profiled. You know what? I have a policy of not doing business with anyone that can't win my business based on the merits of their product.
Fight Club is tied with Natural Born Killers as my all time favorite movie. I thoroughly enjoyed both the book and the movie, although to be honest, I liked the ending in the movie better than the book (first time ever that i've liked something about a movie more than the book). It's not just about a generation of men raised by women. It's also about a society that brainwashes people into being a consumer slave for 40 years so they can buy shit they don't need.
I think it speaks to a much broader audience than young men. I know a lot of young women who also loved the movie.
Something else. Remember when Tyler says "I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better"? Well, I can see a very real possibility of people who SEE what Tyler saw (that is that we are all just cogs in the great capitalist clockwork) creating a loser/slave personality to be able to deal with all other people who DON'T get it.
The truly daring will compile from source. Of course that doesn't usually work too well with complex graphical programs. Ever tried to compile Enlightenment without the BSD-specific patches? It's uber-kludgy and slow.
Macs have little use for floppy drives. They've all booted from CDs for waaaay longer than PCs, so there is no need for boot floppies. Additionally, many Macs have CDRW/DVD-Rs these days. Why use inferior media on a top-of-the-line artist graphical workstation?
Maybe since I use multiple Unix(-like) operating systems, (linux, *BSD, solaris, irix), and use GNU tools on most of them, I don't think of those GNU tools as Linux. They are NOT linux, they just share the same license. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's GNU, not linux, that lives on if people give up on the linux kernel.
I've been to the emergency room (in the US where I'm from) a couple of times in the last five years. Both times I had to WAIT to see a doctor until the payment stuff was all filled out... At the EMERGENCY room of a hospital!! Once while I was suffering an allergic reaction and another while I sat bleeding with a 2 inch long by half inch deep gash on one of my wrists.
Yes, that's true. In high school I refused to stand up and say the "Pledge of Allegiance" and was threatened daily by my school teachers. I was eventually allowed to merely stand at attention quietly while the other people rattled off that same disgusting piece of propaganda every morning.
I had a problem when they upgraded to perl 5.6 because it didn't upgrade all the perl packages properly. After a little research, I found the proper package and everything works wonderfully again.
well, in my personal experience (which is admittedly limited), debian "stable" doesn't seem to be any more stable than "unstable".
they both seem to be about as stable as any other linux distro. because of this (and my need for newer packages), i always use unstable these days. sometimes unstable isn't even new enough though. XFree 4 wasn't included in unstable for a long time. i had to compile it myself for a while (yech...).
If the operating systems Amiga is running on top of are not real-time, how does it achieve real-time status? Or is it one of those shutdown your OS and restart with another things? Does anyone know?
Maybe this will dispel a few of the myths about Theo and the OpenBSD project. It's nice to see a pleasant view of OpenBSD and even BSD in general in the media. Doesn't seem to happen often enough.
the reason openbsd doesn't post all the fixes they find in the security audit has been discussed before. basically, if the openbsd guys posted everything they found in their audit, bugtraq would have to change its name to potential-openbsd-holes.
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bah. cheap talk from anonymous cowards.
Just one quick question: why would you search for FreeBSD when looking for information about the OpenBSD fork? OpenBSD descended from NetBSD, which as you have already said, is entirely different than FreeBSD.
YES! I was entirely serious. As another person commented, there are already unrelated organizations and taskforces, but we need one single international Internet police force!
I think the solution we need is some sort of "CyberCop" organization. This group could be involved in tracking down online criminals who engage in DoS attacks, web defacing, and other terroristic acts. The FBI is obviously not doing their job, so someone new that is completely dedicated to Internet crime could help.
Additionally, this organization could set guidelines for ISPs, like requiring them to keep tracking information on certain packets for a period of time, or requiring them to block packets from unrouteable addresses. @Home is horrible about this. I've noticed routers in the 10.x.x.x subnet upstream from me on the @Home network! That is unacceptable. What happens if that router tries to send information to my computer? It gets blocked by my firewall because I don't allow IP spoofing!
Anyway, we NEED CyberCops to enforce laws on the Internet. Maybe we can get other countries besides America to help pay for it too. That could give them some say in the rules were.
What is the point on the FD32? Superdisks already have 120 MB capacity. Why not just use that for your linux routers? Superdisk also supports the normal 1.44 MB disks.
People who don't have money are less likely to spend it on advertised products anyway, so probably not.
I don't know about you, but I consider privacy to be an important liberty.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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http://www.informamerica.com/They_Told_The_Trut
Fine. Let people trade their privacy for money. We do it already with these ad banners that send cookies that track what sites you visit and what ads you click. We do it with "free" internet service providers and "free" services like hotmail that require cookies and javascript and the latest browsers. Consumer profiling is BIG business because advertisers want to target the right audience. You know what? Fine. All I care about is the ability to opt out. Let me pay to NOT see ads. Let me pay to NOT be tracked and profiled. You know what? I have a policy of not doing business with anyone that can't win my business based on the merits of their product.
Fight Club is tied with Natural Born Killers as my all time favorite movie. I thoroughly enjoyed both the book and the movie, although to be honest, I liked the ending in the movie better than the book (first time ever that i've liked something about a movie more than the book). It's not just about a generation of men raised by women. It's also about a society that brainwashes people into being a consumer slave for 40 years so they can buy shit they don't need.
I think it speaks to a much broader audience than young men. I know a lot of young women who also loved the movie.
Something else. Remember when Tyler says "I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better"? Well, I can see a very real possibility of people who SEE what Tyler saw (that is that we are all just cogs in the great capitalist clockwork) creating a loser/slave personality to be able to deal with all other people who DON'T get it.
The truly daring will compile from source. Of course that doesn't usually work too well with complex graphical programs. Ever tried to compile Enlightenment without the BSD-specific patches? It's uber-kludgy and slow.
Macs have little use for floppy drives. They've all booted from CDs for waaaay longer than PCs, so there is no need for boot floppies. Additionally, many Macs have CDRW/DVD-Rs these days. Why use inferior media on a top-of-the-line artist graphical workstation?
Maybe since I use multiple Unix(-like) operating systems, (linux, *BSD, solaris, irix), and use GNU tools on most of them, I don't think of those GNU tools as Linux. They are NOT linux, they just share the same license. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's GNU, not linux, that lives on if people give up on the linux kernel.
Not ESR, RMS. Eric S. Raymond is the proponent of Open Source, while Richard M. Satllman is the creator of GNU and the proponent of Free Software.
I've been to the emergency room (in the US where I'm from) a couple of times in the last five years. Both times I had to WAIT to see a doctor until the payment stuff was all filled out... At the EMERGENCY room of a hospital!! Once while I was suffering an allergic reaction and another while I sat bleeding with a 2 inch long by half inch deep gash on one of my wrists.
Yes, that's true. In high school I refused to stand up and say the "Pledge of Allegiance" and was threatened daily by my school teachers. I was eventually allowed to merely stand at attention quietly while the other people rattled off that same disgusting piece of propaganda every morning.
Please. It's as much of a troll as the troll he's trolling.
well for one, i didn't know that's what it was. for another, those things don't bother me because i can kill it very quickly.
actually, the link doesn't go anywhere. i clicked it and got a server not found error.
I don't remember for sure, but I have the following packages installed...
perl-5.6
perl-5.6-base
perl-5.6-debug
perl-5.6-doc
perl-5.6-suid
It was either perl-5.6 or perl-5.6-base. After I did an "apt-get install" on the one that was missing, apt started working again.
I had a problem when they upgraded to perl 5.6 because it didn't upgrade all the perl packages properly. After a little research, I found the proper package and everything works wonderfully again.
well, in my personal experience (which is admittedly limited), debian "stable" doesn't seem to be any more stable than "unstable".
they both seem to be about as stable as any other linux distro. because of this (and my need for newer packages), i always use unstable these days. sometimes unstable isn't even new enough though. XFree 4 wasn't included in unstable for a long time. i had to compile it myself for a while (yech...).
If the operating systems Amiga is running on top of are not real-time, how does it achieve real-time status? Or is it one of those shutdown your OS and restart with another things? Does anyone know?
Maybe this will dispel a few of the myths about Theo and the OpenBSD project. It's nice to see a pleasant view of OpenBSD and even BSD in general in the media. Doesn't seem to happen often enough.
the reason openbsd doesn't post all the fixes they find in the security audit has been discussed before. basically, if the openbsd guys posted everything they found in their audit, bugtraq would have to change its name to potential-openbsd-holes.