No-one (very few) care about whether BSD is "genuine UNIX" or "genuinely free software".
I administer three UNIX servers, all FreeBSD, and here's what I can tell you about the differences between it and Linux and Windows Server (which are also decent server OSes):
It's free
BSD is really simple; the kernel and OS are maintained by the same group, so they go step by step.
It doesn't change much; this is as much a great thing for servers as it is a terrible thing for everything else.
The ports system. This is a really big plus for BSD; I've tried many *nix distros and none are quite as consistent and reliable (for servers) as the ports system
pf. Although originally an OpenBSD thing this is a firewall which has a beautifully simple syntax. It's just so easy to express solid firewall rules, with queuing and everything. (Tbh iptables is probably at least as configurable, but last I checked pf definitely offered more power / learning-effort.)
Good community: You'll almost always find the solution to your problem, and it'll almost always be tailored to your BSD installation, rather than this or that flavor of Linux.
YMMV, Im sure many people here maintain great Linux servers, but for my humble needs I really like my three FreeBSD servers.
I work in a large EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management) company, which builds mainly iron ore mines, and Excel is absolutely vital.
Of course we have strictly templated work documents, we give presentations, we do visio diagrams, (and we have an intranet, and a software dev team), and they're all important, but they don't come close to Excel.
For all its flaws, and the inevitable difficulties when it comes time to scale spreadsheets up into database driven software, the business would be massively less productive without Excel, and it has improved a lot in the last 20 years (and that's just the most important) so you just can't say that people don't need an Office suite.
Take Trine as an example; it is one of the best looking games I've ever seen, and it runs wonderfully even on mediocre hardware (by today's standards):
It doesn't look like anything else. It's not just Postal or one of those games that are reskins, those are boring
If they had just put a new story and artwork on an existing engine anyone could see their success and just do the same thing; they've got their own engine so only they could release Trine 2, and reap the benefits
With stuff like game engines the reason they're so massive and expensive is because yes they are incredible technology, but also because they're so adaptable to so many different games. (Relatively speaking) If your make an engine for your company's game it might serve that game beautifully even though it took nowhere near $200k to write, just because they didn't need the huge depth and flexibility of a full engine
Or at least that's how the coke addict would phrase it. Mathematics as Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Who needs peas? No candy cane construction permitted by the Chocolate Port Authority if less intriguing that Dessin d'enfant.
I think that is how "the coke addict" would phrase it.
Microsoft Flight – Terms of Use and Nondisclosure Agreement ... 3. Do not describe any part of the beta software on any venue except the official Flight Beta Connect website.
Maybe if we install Linux in the prison monitoring systems? I'm pretty sure studies have shown that in trial studies in German prisons there was a high correlation with lower recidivism rates
Oh, and WHAT exactly can't you do with BASIC? I seriously doubt that you can answer that question, or have even put a moments thought into your ridiculous comment.
Based on this article I would say you can't develop for a phone with it.. And frankly I wouldn't want to see peoples BASIC scripts up alongside actual applications in any app store.
The Users are responsible for keeping their data backed up.
Definitely not the approach we take, and our users love that we can always restore old data. There's nothing that makes the people you work with quite as appreciative as being able to undo a major crisis that would otherwise have cost them several hours of work.
Of course in an software company there might be a different relationship, the role of the IT department varies depending on the needs of the organization, so you're not wrong but neither are the people who disagree with you.
1. To write one's signature on the back of (a check, for example) as evidence of the legal transfer of its ownership, especially in return for the cash or credit indicated on its face.
2. To place (one's signature), as on a contract, to indicate approval of its contents or terms.
3. To acknowledge (receipt of payment) by signing a bill, draft, or other instrument.
4. To give approval of or support to, especially by public statement; sanction: endorse a political candidate
i.e. the license says; you have to give us credit for our work, but don't claim we approve of your work.. Doesn't the BSD license itself contain a simlar clause?
The reason that your not melting solder in a shanty town is not because of the grace of the business elites allowed it to be so. It is because in the past labor organized and demanded better working conditions, weekends and an 8 hour work day.
It's because they can't afford to hire equally skilled labor for less.
If you start trying to fight market forces all you do is delay the inevitable, and drag your business down with you, instead of changing with the times.
There are so many issues with the proposal and precious few advantages.
So many issues like "I need to add log2txt to my pipe chain", and precious few advantages like "it doesn't need a dedicated machine to be tamper-proof"?
I take it you don't gzip any of your logs.. That would make them binary logs, after all..
Because the right way to fight pollution / fight companies that sell something you can get for free is by denying facts? Aren't there better ways to do that than lying?
Aren't there other drinks that claim things like 20mg of ginseng will "improve focus" that you could clamp down on, instead of making it illegal to say that water prevents dehydration?
If you're worried about them saying "ColaCo water helps prevent dehydration" that's something that shouldn't be allowed, but it's important bureaucrats don't use bureaucracy to fight companies they don't like; they should be impartial.
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I administer three UNIX servers, all FreeBSD, and here's what I can tell you about the differences between it and Linux and Windows Server (which are also decent server OSes):
YMMV, Im sure many people here maintain great Linux servers, but for my humble needs I really like my three FreeBSD servers.
Of course Windows has user and admin account types..
The person who sent you that probably made a mistake when saving the file extension..
I work in a large EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management) company, which builds mainly iron ore mines, and Excel is absolutely vital.
Of course we have strictly templated work documents, we give presentations, we do visio diagrams, (and we have an intranet, and a software dev team), and they're all important, but they don't come close to Excel.
For all its flaws, and the inevitable difficulties when it comes time to scale spreadsheets up into database driven software, the business would be massively less productive without Excel, and it has improved a lot in the last 20 years (and that's just the most important) so you just can't say that people don't need an Office suite.
If what I think happened happened.. did I really not read about it until now?
They made $4.27bn in revenue last year, I think you've got Facebook and Twitter confused.
Or at least that's how the coke addict would phrase it. Mathematics as Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Who needs peas? No candy cane construction permitted by the Chocolate Port Authority if less intriguing that Dessin d'enfant.
I think that is how "the coke addict" would phrase it.
Microsoft Flight – Terms of Use and Nondisclosure Agreement
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3. Do not describe any part of the beta software on any venue except the official Flight Beta Connect website.
Maybe if we install Linux in the prison monitoring systems? I'm pretty sure studies have shown that in trial studies in German prisons there was a high correlation with lower recidivism rates
"Don't shoot at ghosts, rookie. It gets you laughed at."
Oh, and WHAT exactly can't you do with BASIC? I seriously doubt that you can answer that question, or have even put a moments thought into your ridiculous comment.
Based on this article I would say you can't develop for a phone with it.. And frankly I wouldn't want to see peoples BASIC scripts up alongside actual applications in any app store.
The Users are responsible for keeping their data backed up.
Definitely not the approach we take, and our users love that we can always restore old data. There's nothing that makes the people you work with quite as appreciative as being able to undo a major crisis that would otherwise have cost them several hours of work.
Of course in an software company there might be a different relationship, the role of the IT department varies depending on the needs of the organization, so you're not wrong but neither are the people who disagree with you.
18km wide, I dont think GP was talking about the radius.
What a gigantic pile of steaming FUD. You win the FUD award of the decade.
I tried hard, but I could not find a single factual statement in anything you wrote. Every single statement is a lie. Wow.
1. To write one's signature on the back of (a check, for example) as evidence of the legal transfer of its ownership, especially in return for the cash or credit indicated on its face.
2. To place (one's signature), as on a contract, to indicate approval of its contents or terms.
3. To acknowledge (receipt of payment) by signing a bill, draft, or other instrument.
4. To give approval of or support to, especially by public statement; sanction: endorse a political candidate
i.e. the license says; you have to give us credit for our work, but don't claim we approve of your work.. Doesn't the BSD license itself contain a simlar clause?
As long as $0.27 goes to X.Org, those guys do great work.
Thousands of workers monitoring a centrifuge cascade?
The reason that your not melting solder in a shanty town is not because of the grace of the business elites allowed it to be so. It is because in the past labor organized and demanded better working conditions, weekends and an 8 hour work day.
It's because they can't afford to hire equally skilled labor for less.
If you start trying to fight market forces all you do is delay the inevitable, and drag your business down with you, instead of changing with the times.
But you're forgetting the most important thing; is it writing to disk in ASCII encoding?!
There are so many issues with the proposal and precious few advantages.
So many issues like "I need to add log2txt to my pipe chain", and precious few advantages like "it doesn't need a dedicated machine to be tamper-proof"?
I take it you don't gzip any of your logs.. That would make them binary logs, after all..
I think the idea isn't that you can''t forge new messages, but that you can't alter past messages.
Because the right way to fight pollution / fight companies that sell something you can get for free is by denying facts? Aren't there better ways to do that than lying?
Aren't there other drinks that claim things like 20mg of ginseng will "improve focus" that you could clamp down on, instead of making it illegal to say that water prevents dehydration?
If you're worried about them saying "ColaCo water helps prevent dehydration" that's something that shouldn't be allowed, but it's important bureaucrats don't use bureaucracy to fight companies they don't like; they should be impartial.
Uh this is slashdot.. People with power don't "get things right".. they are idiots.
Performs fine here..