Theo de Raadt is hardldy representative of the over-all BSD community. That said, even though he may not be the most likable of characters, he is eminently capable.
Besides, the GP didn't mention either Linus or Theo by name. Everyone knows that Linus is a practical kind of guy who has made some decisions that have been unpopular with the wider gnu-esque community, such as his choice of repository software, his comments about gplv3, etc.
But, again, if you put Stallman vs de Raadt, then you basically have Hamas vs Israel -- two sets of grand-standing browbeaters that will never be happy as long as the other is there. I may not use Linux (although I have to work with linux servers) for my personal machines (FreeBSD here), but I must say, at least Linus is more-or-less unobtrusive.
NASA guideline isn't enough and it's *REALLY* hard to prevent failure when a perfect storm of multiple systems experience failure at the same time.
I'm not saying that saving Apollo 13 wasn't hard, or an extremely great accomplishment, however I am going to say "slick and pretty" (the shuttle) is generally the opposite of "robust" or "fault tolerant." Slick and pretty is also usually more expensive.
The basic, non-pimped xserve is $2999. An identically configured node from eRacks, running your choice of BSD (the default on these quad-core Xeons seems to be OpenBSD) or Linux, $1894 -- leaving you with plenty of room in the budget to build a bigger, badder node, or replace one when it fails.
I suppose the point i'm trying to make is that if you're going for function over form (Apollo capsul), it easier to plan for more contingencies on the same budget you'd otherwise be spending on gee-whiz factor (shuttle).
ditto on the blackberry storm. I'm actually using mine To type this right now. Its a bit awkward by virtue of being a phone But I do like the click screen.
It had more to do with poor communications infrastructure than education, frankly. You voted for electors from your local area -- people that you knew and trusted, and who you knew understood your concerns because they were your neighbors.
They then made the multi-day trek to to the state capital to decide whom to support for president. THEN all the votes had to make their way to new york and later DC. This took significantly longer in those days.
So, much like we elect representatives to Congress to vote on our behalf rather than having direct vote on every issue, we elect electors to vote on our behalf for president, because conducting a national election on a count-everyone's-vote-and-try-to-get-them-in-on-time basis was completely and totally impractical back then. Hell, if you remember a few more recent elections is almost impractical today!
So, the reasons were a lot less nefarious than you make them out to be with your John Adams-esque, Federalist, the-people-are-tards attitude that you prescribe to it.
I got tagged to write a "25 thing" note fairly late in the game. I was mostly interested in seeing if I would get tagged at all. Once I did though, I was able to resist the urge to actually post it.
There's enough crap about me on FB already if anyone is actually interested.
Grammar isn't taught in English class, its taught in Latin class. Frankly, I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't take Latin that knew the difference between who and whom... except old people. And most of them probably learned Latin in church.
I don't know what system or school you're referring to, but that is most certainly not how it went down at mine, at least not in any class past a freshman survey
If they have nuclear power, they don't have to burn petrol for electricity, which means more is available on the market and so the price can go down for us. It's kind of like us giving them the means to carry out the advise of "don't get high off your own supply."
p.s. I know you're talking about dropping the bomb on them, but seriously... why not let them have nuclear power stations?
panic driven, idiots who are swayed by rumour, non existent trends, and computer predictions!
Sounds like we should be using Macs to predict the economy -- that's their main source of operating power anyway:-p
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Please don't confuse Theo with the BSD camp. There is always one person who digs the latrine, but none of the other kids care if he makes it onto the bus to go home at the end of the summer.
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Or, how the/usr/share/doc tree has the handbook (user and admin), all the programmer documentation (kernel internals, libraries, etc), all in html format, and all on the hard disk.
FreeBSD has all sorts of stuff that comes with it that Linux distributions don't, and people often forget.
come now, i mean look at the links he posted to support his claims!? I mean, Prison Planet? We're talking about a site that is so insane and disreputable that, when it served to introduce me to Ron Paul (back in 2005), I refused to believe that Ron Paul could possibly exist and had to go off and independently confirm his existence. And lets not even get started on 911 truth sites...
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Theo de Raadt is hardldy representative of the over-all BSD community. That said, even though he may not be the most likable of characters, he is eminently capable.
Besides, the GP didn't mention either Linus or Theo by name. Everyone knows that Linus is a practical kind of guy who has made some decisions that have been unpopular with the wider gnu-esque community, such as his choice of repository software, his comments about gplv3, etc.
But, again, if you put Stallman vs de Raadt, then you basically have Hamas vs Israel -- two sets of grand-standing browbeaters that will never be happy as long as the other is there. I may not use Linux (although I have to work with linux servers) for my personal machines (FreeBSD here), but I must say, at least Linus is more-or-less unobtrusive.
http://eracks.com/products/General%20Purpose/config?sku=QUADPREM
or you're doing it wrong?
NASA guideline isn't enough and it's *REALLY* hard to prevent failure when a perfect storm of multiple systems experience failure at the same time.
I'm not saying that saving Apollo 13 wasn't hard, or an extremely great accomplishment, however I am going to say "slick and pretty" (the shuttle) is generally the opposite of "robust" or "fault tolerant." Slick and pretty is also usually more expensive.
The basic, non-pimped xserve is $2999. An identically configured node from eRacks, running your choice of BSD (the default on these quad-core Xeons seems to be OpenBSD) or Linux, $1894 -- leaving you with plenty of room in the budget to build a bigger, badder node, or replace one when it fails.
I suppose the point i'm trying to make is that if you're going for function over form (Apollo capsul), it easier to plan for more contingencies on the same budget you'd otherwise be spending on gee-whiz factor (shuttle).
ditto on the blackberry storm. I'm actually using mine
To type this right now. Its a bit awkward by virtue of being a phone
But I do like the click screen.
It had more to do with poor communications infrastructure than education, frankly. You voted for electors from your local area -- people that you knew and trusted, and who you knew understood your concerns because they were your neighbors.
They then made the multi-day trek to to the state capital to decide whom to support for president. THEN all the votes had to make their way to new york and later DC. This took significantly longer in those days.
So, much like we elect representatives to Congress to vote on our behalf rather than having direct vote on every issue, we elect electors to vote on our behalf for president, because conducting a national election on a count-everyone's-vote-and-try-to-get-them-in-on-time basis was completely and totally impractical back then. Hell, if you remember a few more recent elections is almost impractical today!
So, the reasons were a lot less nefarious than you make them out to be with your John Adams-esque, Federalist, the-people-are-tards attitude that you prescribe to it.
I got tagged to write a "25 thing" note fairly late in the game. I was mostly interested in seeing if I would get tagged at all. Once I did though, I was able to resist the urge to actually post it.
There's enough crap about me on FB already if anyone is actually interested.
Thatcher was just Ronald Reagan dressed in drag -- the iron lady, wrapped in the butcher's apron with John Bull's bollocks down "her" throat.
The construct of "end users" separate from people who are in some way contributors in the foss world is a somewhat new one.
That's because that's the they that killed Kenny, and they're bastards.
No wifi, garbage collection not as good as Lisp; Lame.
Grammar isn't taught in English class, its taught in Latin class. Frankly, I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't take Latin that knew the difference between who and whom... except old people. And most of them probably learned Latin in church.
2007 BCE?
I don't know what system or school you're referring to, but that is most certainly not how it went down at mine, at least not in any class past a freshman survey
"Tea -- Earl Gray -- Hot." /patrickstewartvoice
If they have nuclear power, they don't have to burn petrol for electricity, which means more is available on the market and so the price can go down for us. It's kind of like us giving them the means to carry out the advise of "don't get high off your own supply."
p.s. I know you're talking about dropping the bomb on them, but seriously... why not let them have nuclear power stations?
panic driven, idiots who are swayed by rumour, non existent trends, and computer predictions!
Sounds like we should be using Macs to predict the economy -- that's their main source of operating power anyway :-p
Please don't confuse Theo with the BSD camp. There is always one person who digs the latrine, but none of the other kids care if he makes it onto the bus to go home at the end of the summer.
Or, how the /usr/share/doc tree has the handbook (user and admin), all the programmer documentation (kernel internals, libraries, etc), all in html format, and all on the hard disk.
FreeBSD has all sorts of stuff that comes with it that Linux distributions don't, and people often forget.
I'd suggest a counter-point that wiping your drive is definitely a good idea, but not as a replacement for encrypting it in the first place.
Step 1: Encrypt drive
Step 2: ??? (may or may not be illegal)
Step 3: shred -uz
Step 4: no more evidence, la-la-la-la-lala
No, he'll bring Linux to the desktop, cure cancer, and get Adobe to release 64-bit Photoshop for the Mac... in that order.
Maybe if RMS would use damned HURD it would actually be done by now...
For everything else, there's Mastercard.
come now, i mean look at the links he posted to support his claims!? I mean, Prison Planet? We're talking about a site that is so insane and disreputable that, when it served to introduce me to Ron Paul (back in 2005), I refused to believe that Ron Paul could possibly exist and had to go off and independently confirm his existence. And lets not even get started on 911 truth sites...
I think so, but I didn't read it because after I shot the mail boy who brought it, I used it to sop up the blood on my office floor.
Wouldn't that be "From Nigeria by way of Hawaii"?