I currently run FreeBSD 5.3 on the home server. "It just works".
I suppose you could go with 5.4. I will do, soon.
If you have broadband, just download 3 floppies, then install from the network. Quick'n'easy.
Firewall is disabled by default. To enable it, you will need to recompile a kernel (you need to install with sources). Note that you need a firewall if you intend to do some sort of NAT/masquerading/diverting.
Be warned that this isn't straightforward as in Linux : you need to manually change configuration files.
Some "howtos" here and here
SMP works well (but wasn't tuned for SMT/HT not a long time ago). Don't know if it is working out-of-the-box, I don't need it on a pentium 166 MMMX, but as you're going to compile a kernel anyway...
I read an article in the Scientific American back in 1996 or 1997 which presented an algorithm to compute any digit of pi in decimal. It is possible it was based on algorithms similar to those you linked to (one reference dates back to 1995).
I just remember that it was possible because pi was periodic in some obscure fractional base.
> The Hybrid Hard Drive, developed by Samsung and Microsoft, is meant for mobile PCs running Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system.
So the other hard drive manufacturers will have a loooong time to do the same...
> It seems very odd that you have to pay "compensation" for exercising a right.
OK, it was a bad choice of words. You have NO right to copy a copyrighted material. I do not completely agree but it is the way it is... Then it's a tradeoff : you're accepting to pay a fee and producers agree to let you copy their material if you aren't widely distributing those copies. The matter is that majors are agreeing less and less... and the fee is higher and higher...
> Maybe you should have to pay compensation on every musical instrument you buy, because you might play copyrighted songs on it?
AFAIK youre paying for music scores:P
> Or worse yet, you might not buy commercial CDs because you're too busy creating your own music! Definitely requires compensation, they have a right to your money!
Uh, sorry, I'm not sure I'm getting it, seems a joke... you mean you should pay for creating your music because as a side-effect you are buying less/no CDs ?
> Your reply seems to indicate that you subscribe to the proposition that creating a copy for personal backup use of an item that you have already bought and paid for constitutes "abuse" that must be compensated.
No. If you have a legitimate license you shouldn't be taxed to make a copy. I didn't use the term of "personal backup" on that very purpose.
I agree that's a blind tax, and that's the reason I think it's a lot too much expensive.
My point is that it's more convenient for the user to pay a small fee than to be sued because he borrowed a film from a friend and did an illegal copy.
I understand you might disagree, but, as another exemple (of blind tax), a TVset owner pays a tax financing public TV channels, even if he doesn't watch those channels in some countries (France, AFAIK UK)... (and as a benefit, there is much less advertising on these channels).
I don't know what is the law in Denmark, but I suppose that, like in France, you have a right of private copy ("copie à usage privé"), that allows you to copy as long as you aren't (mass) redistributing. You're theoretically allowed to do a copy of a media you're seeing (rented video, TV broadcast, media rent by a friend...), you just can't put the copy "into the wild" (broadcasting - including putting on a website, open a rent shop,...)
As I see it, the tax is just a compensation for that "fair use" right.
It's not that illogical, because it would be naive to think nobody would "abuse".
I think however that the tax is too expensive here in France, and is seems it's expensive in other countries as well...
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 28, @08:00AM
from the library-wars dept.
hisheadisdead writes "Two days after Microsoft marginally improved their next Operating System, Deutsche-Welle carry the story that the a whole host of large community of European developpers (with Richard Stallman's tacit support) have joined an EU-based operating system project as a counter to Microsoft's own operating system project. The project is the brainchild of OSDL employee Linus Torvalds, a sort of mild-mannered Jose Bove for the developpers out there. Divisive pride, or healthy competition?"
I remember when I could not afford a 2 gig hard drive. I remember how hard it was filling my hard drive with useless programs and games. Now I have 2 gigs for email!!
That gives me an idea. What about GMail-Root in replacement of NFS-Root ?
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I currently run FreeBSD 5.3 on the home server. "It just works".
I suppose you could go with 5.4. I will do, soon.
If you have broadband, just download 3 floppies, then install from the network. Quick'n'easy.
Firewall is disabled by default. To enable it, you will need to recompile a kernel (you need to install with sources). Note that you need a firewall if you intend to do some sort of NAT/masquerading/diverting.
Be warned that this isn't straightforward as in Linux : you need to manually change configuration files. Some "howtos" here and here
SMP works well (but wasn't tuned for SMT/HT not a long time ago). Don't know if it is working out-of-the-box, I don't need it on a pentium 166 MMMX, but as you're going to compile a kernel anyway...
Dupe or Yet Another FireFox Flaw ? Nah, easy to guess on Slashdot...
You don't have ordered your alienwared Star Wars iMac with liquid metal cooling yet !
Can launchd be covered by some submarine patent ?
-- I'm not closing the paranoia mode publicly so YOUR heads will blow soon... --
made in Michigan in 1897.
It says pi=3.
I just remember that it was possible because pi was periodic in some obscure fractional base.
> Yeah, and you are repeating a poster from 5 minutes ago.
Haaa, but... there is a difference !
He is getting an insightful mod while I'm getting a funny !
So when you're going out of battery, it's like your session(*) never was...
(*) and the work you did, too
10 GiB ought to be enough for everyone...
> The Hybrid Hard Drive, developed by Samsung and Microsoft, is meant for mobile PCs running Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system.
So the other hard drive manufacturers will have a loooong time to do the same...
Not exactly. P2P sharing of copyrighted material is illegal, but using P2P to download copyrighted material isn't.
> It seems very odd that you have to pay "compensation" for exercising a right.
:P
OK, it was a bad choice of words. You have NO right to copy a copyrighted material. I do not completely agree but it is the way it is...
Then it's a tradeoff : you're accepting to pay a fee and producers agree to let you copy their material if you aren't widely distributing those copies.
The matter is that majors are agreeing less and less... and the fee is higher and higher...
> Maybe you should have to pay compensation on every musical instrument you buy, because you might play copyrighted songs on it?
AFAIK youre paying for music scores
> Or worse yet, you might not buy commercial CDs because you're too busy creating your own music! Definitely requires compensation, they have a right to your money!
Uh, sorry, I'm not sure I'm getting it, seems a joke... you mean you should pay for creating your music because as a side-effect you are buying less/no CDs ?
> Your reply seems to indicate that you subscribe to the proposition that creating a copy for personal backup use of an item that you have already bought and paid for constitutes "abuse" that must be compensated.
No. If you have a legitimate license you shouldn't be taxed to make a copy. I didn't use the term of "personal backup" on that very purpose.
I agree that's a blind tax, and that's the reason I think it's a lot too much expensive.
My point is that it's more convenient for the user to pay a small fee than to be sued because he borrowed a film from a friend and did an illegal copy.
I understand you might disagree, but, as another exemple (of blind tax), a TVset owner pays a tax financing public
TV channels, even if he doesn't watch those channels in some countries (France, AFAIK UK)...
(and as a benefit, there is much less advertising on these channels).
It's somewhat a matter of culture...
I don't know what is the law in Denmark, but I suppose that, like in France, you have a right of private copy ("copie à usage privé"), that allows you to copy as long as you aren't (mass) redistributing. You're theoretically allowed to do a copy of a media you're seeing (rented video, TV broadcast, media rent by a friend...), you just can't put the copy "into the wild" (broadcasting - including putting on a website, open a rent shop, ...)
As I see it, the tax is just a compensation for that "fair use" right.
It's not that illogical, because it would be naive to think nobody would "abuse".
I think however that the tax is too expensive here in France, and is seems it's expensive in other countries as well...
from the library-wars dept.
hisheadisdead writes "Two days after Microsoft marginally improved their next Operating System, Deutsche-Welle carry the story that the a whole host of large community of European developpers (with Richard Stallman's tacit support) have joined an EU-based operating system project as a counter to Microsoft's own operating system project. The project is the brainchild of OSDL employee Linus Torvalds, a sort of mild-mannered Jose Bove for the developpers out there. Divisive pride, or healthy competition?"
Are you behind a NAT ? I have the same problem, but I thought it's because my FreeBSD router does masquerade / divert.
The car analogy is dead, long live the plane analogy !
It might not be signifiacant, but at least it may give ideas to some slashdot reader of the msn search dev team.
That gives me an idea. What about GMail-Root in replacement of NFS-Root ?
If Longhorn really needs to ship, I think it will be like WinFS, they will reverse to the old one and keep the new mantra for the next version...
But it's an acronym : PEOPEL
Not "fragment-resistant filesystems".
Just "background-defragmenting".
That's what MacOS X already does since 10.3
Linux doesn't. But as you say, with fragment-resistant filesystems, this isn't as much a need.
I'm glad you noticed I did mention neither OSS nor commercial software, both being able to produce 'bloatware' (and good software too).
And by the time Linux 10.0 is out, the HURD might be a good usable OS...
When does bloatware reach the critical mass ?