You can get a reasonably responsive BASH shell on a 386sx with 8 megs of RAM. And a highly usable system it will be. TeX typesetting, the vi editor, sed, awk, compilers, etc. You are sitting on a machine that is more powerful than a classic UNIX machine that would host 10-20 users simultaneously.
People have a really poor perspective on computers these days. I think it in part is due to an infestation of framebuffers.
there is no evidence whatsoever that restricting su to wheel helps security; it may actually hurt it.
Huh? You're going to hand-wave like that and assume you've made your point?!?
RMS has historically deplored passwords. Back in the day at MIT he actively campaigned against passwords on the timesharing system. He is an anti-password ideologue. The GP was citing an instance.
Theo still makes his name by hacking code. Peek into an OpenBSD mailing list, and you'll see him actively involved in the discussions with the other developers.
Stallman seems to have retired to a career of giving speeches. When did he last hack any code that runs in the main body of any significant project?
Personally, though I don't use OpenBSD at present, I am glad that Theo keeps the priorities that he does.
The GPL version would become a dead fork, unless a whole new community became involved in the project. The original community seem to like the BSD license, so they're not gonna wander off onto the new GPL licensed fork.
When I first started BBSing all I had was an acoustic coupler and a printing DecWriter. So the 'costly' part of my bandwidth usage was fanfold paper and ribbons. The 300 baud modem was a bit of a bottleneck, too. It sure was cool awhile later when I got 1200 baud.
Possibly your office has no local connection to the Internet at all. Many companies use a VPN to connect all locations together and the gateway to the Internet is at one location for the whole corporation.
My company is headquatered in a different state, and I am pretty sure that's how our 'web' connection is maintained. It's heavily proxied and all, of course. Windoze all the way through, it seems. (and obviously very unreliable)
My idea of a good 'netizen' is someone with a 0:0 p2p ratio. Since most of the traffic is in stuff you could rip locally (go to the bloody library and check out DVDs and CDS, and share your collection locally with friends!) a good 'netizen' doesn't clog up the communications channels passing the same pre-recorded 'content' back and forth.
I'm guilty of downloading a lot of source code to build NetBSD packages, but really, that's different from hoarding MP3 files of common pop music that your nextdoor neighbor is also hoarding, separately.
To be pedantic: Most Americans have never, ever, touched a penny. They are likely to have handled examples of the US Cent. The Penny is a traditional British unit of coinage. The United States has NEVER issued a 'penny' as a unit of coinage. The term 'penny' is often misapplied by people ignorant in the topic of numistmatics.
Yes. It's like if Encyclopedia Britannica came to your door and said "We understand you have written an article about Widgets that is truly the definitive work on the subject. We are going to publish it in our encyclopedia. We have decided to publish the encyclopedia for free (except we will completely control distribution and will get revenue from advertising accompanying it) and we will pay you NOTHING. We have no interest in the agreement you may have had with the prior publisher of your article, who was paying you royalties."
That about sums up Google in a nutshell. They want to be the world's middleman and information distributor, and by cornering the market on 'smart guys who gather it all up' they hope to be the only middleman (for however long they can hold onto that role.)
They have NO respect for 'the order of things' as it presently stands. They can't AFFORD to respect it. They want to dump everybody's marbles into one bag. Everbody will be allowed to look at the new big bag of marbles, but the new bag will belong to Google (and there will be expensive advertising printed on the outside of the bag where it's unavoidable to see it.)
You and many others in this forum are arguing a form of 'Manifest Domain.' Because the ignorant savages aren't fully using their resources/knowledge in the way that Western Civilization wants them used, they should be taken away.
That's a pretty workable solution for taking away land from indigenous cultures. It worked pretty well to steal the Native (north) Americans' land.
Basically, it can be translated to modern terms as a 'gimme that stuff, you aren't using it right' claim to somebody else's property.
Agreed. Arbitrarily forbidding a thing doesn't work. Just as 'anything goes' parenting doesn't work. There's a happy medium.
Ballmer is a nut. He's a shill. Everybody knows that. His kids probably laughed their gut out when they heard the stupid white lie he told at work that day.
Of course I don't. They're all working in the United States.
Until people like you 'close that loop' by socializing medicine here.
And yes, 'doctor flight' is a problem and there are people who consider the solution to be 'closing the loophole' by socializing medicine everywhere.
At which point in time the same kind of lacksidasical civil servants who work at the DMV or the Post Office will be the only people who want to be doctors anymore.
Aside from food and water, and picking a safe automobile to drive, and getting fire extinguishers and smoke detectors, and, yes, keeping asprin in the medicine cabinet. It is a ridiculous assertion that 'medical care' is in a special class all its own. I used to work for a medical device manufacturer, and 9-volt batteries to run some of the devices are 'essential' for the device to do it's work. The device becomes a 'quality of life' issue, as most of medical expenditures is. So now we can add 9-volt batteries to the list of 'essentials' too and even stay within your category of 'medical care.'
You're all cranked out on the notion that Medical Care is this special category of expenditure. It isn't.
In ILM's data center, latency is essentially irrelevant. Big chunks of data are sent to the rendering machines. They churn on the data. Big chunks of data are passed back. It's not a real time task.
Target is a store run by Liberal fascists, which is different from the Conservative fascists who run WalMart. It has to do with what part of the country each corporation was founded and is headquartered in.
Really, it's more of a Coke/Pepsi difference, though.
Here where I live, there is a shop a few miles away on the highway where you take your lawn mower to get it serviced. I understand they're really good at it. I don't know why the place that sells lawn mowers should necessarily be good at servicing them, when there's a shop so near that does a good job of it.
What shops offer that you can't get from 'buying online' should be pretty obvious when we're talking about lawn mowers. Or do you get UPS delivery for free where you live?
The remainder of US manufacturing jobs are either underpaid, or soon to be laid off because they dare to ask for above minimum wage, are unionized, or because a CEO needs to buy another yacht.
Yes, and the 'CEO' looks exactly like that 'rich guy' depicted on the Community Chest cards in the game Monopoly.
Your cartoon-comic caricature world is somewhat lacking in reality, dude.
Don't worry. When you graduate and get a job, you'll figure it out. Don't leave a long paper trail of your present opinions. And no, it's not 'selling out' no matter what a few idealists with trust funds tell you it is.
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You can get a reasonably responsive BASH shell on a 386sx with 8 megs of RAM. And a highly usable system it will be. TeX typesetting, the vi editor, sed, awk, compilers, etc. You are sitting on a machine that is more powerful than a classic UNIX machine that would host 10-20 users simultaneously.
People have a really poor perspective on computers these days. I think it in part is due to an infestation of framebuffers.
there is no evidence whatsoever that restricting su to wheel helps security; it may actually hurt it.
Huh? You're going to hand-wave like that and assume you've made your point?!?
RMS has historically deplored passwords. Back in the day at MIT he actively campaigned against passwords on the timesharing system. He is an anti-password ideologue. The GP was citing an instance.
Theo still makes his name by hacking code. Peek into an OpenBSD mailing list, and you'll see him actively involved in the discussions with the other developers.
Stallman seems to have retired to a career of giving speeches. When did he last hack any code that runs in the main body of any significant project?
Personally, though I don't use OpenBSD at present, I am glad that Theo keeps the priorities that he does.
The GPL version would become a dead fork, unless a whole new community became involved in the project. The original community seem to like the BSD license, so they're not gonna wander off onto the new GPL licensed fork.
....the property of the community and cannot be stolen and then sold back to us. That is all.
Good. Now stop preaching to everybody about it, then.
When I first started BBSing all I had was an acoustic coupler and a printing DecWriter. So the 'costly' part of my bandwidth usage was fanfold paper and ribbons. The 300 baud modem was a bit of a bottleneck, too. It sure was cool awhile later when I got 1200 baud.
Possibly your office has no local connection to the Internet at all. Many companies use a VPN to connect all locations together and the gateway to the Internet is at one location for the whole corporation.
My company is headquatered in a different state, and I am pretty sure that's how our 'web' connection is maintained. It's heavily proxied and all, of course. Windoze all the way through, it seems. (and obviously very unreliable)
My idea of a good 'netizen' is someone with a 0:0 p2p ratio. Since most of the traffic is in stuff you could rip locally (go to the bloody library and check out DVDs and CDS, and share your collection locally with friends!) a good 'netizen' doesn't clog up the communications channels passing the same pre-recorded 'content' back and forth.
I'm guilty of downloading a lot of source code to build NetBSD packages, but really, that's different from hoarding MP3 files of common pop music that your nextdoor neighbor is also hoarding, separately.
spelling correction: numismatics
To be pedantic: Most Americans have never, ever, touched a penny. They are likely to have handled examples of the US Cent. The Penny is a traditional British unit of coinage. The United States has NEVER issued a 'penny' as a unit of coinage. The term 'penny' is often misapplied by people ignorant in the topic of numistmatics.
Yes. It's like if Encyclopedia Britannica came to your door and said "We understand you have written an article about Widgets that is truly the definitive work on the subject. We are going to publish it in our encyclopedia. We have decided to publish the encyclopedia for free (except we will completely control distribution and will get revenue from advertising accompanying it) and we will pay you NOTHING. We have no interest in the agreement you may have had with the prior publisher of your article, who was paying you royalties."
That about sums up Google in a nutshell. They want to be the world's middleman and information distributor, and by cornering the market on 'smart guys who gather it all up' they hope to be the only middleman (for however long they can hold onto that role.)
They have NO respect for 'the order of things' as it presently stands. They can't AFFORD to respect it. They want to dump everybody's marbles into one bag. Everbody will be allowed to look at the new big bag of marbles, but the new bag will belong to Google (and there will be expensive advertising printed on the outside of the bag where it's unavoidable to see it.)
You and many others in this forum are arguing a form of 'Manifest Domain.' Because the ignorant savages aren't fully using their resources/knowledge in the way that Western Civilization wants them used, they should be taken away.
That's a pretty workable solution for taking away land from indigenous cultures. It worked pretty well to steal the Native (north) Americans' land.
Basically, it can be translated to modern terms as a 'gimme that stuff, you aren't using it right' claim to somebody else's property.
Which is a pretty ugly human tendency.
Agreed. Arbitrarily forbidding a thing doesn't work. Just as 'anything goes' parenting doesn't work. There's a happy medium.
Ballmer is a nut. He's a shill. Everybody knows that. His kids probably laughed their gut out when they heard the stupid white lie he told at work that day.
Of course I don't. They're all working in the United States.
Until people like you 'close that loop' by socializing medicine here.
And yes, 'doctor flight' is a problem and there are people who consider the solution to be 'closing the loophole' by socializing medicine everywhere.
At which point in time the same kind of lacksidasical civil servants who work at the DMV or the Post Office will be the only people who want to be doctors anymore.
Aside from food and water, and picking a safe automobile to drive, and getting fire extinguishers and smoke detectors, and, yes, keeping asprin in the medicine cabinet. It is a ridiculous assertion that 'medical care' is in a special class all its own. I used to work for a medical device manufacturer, and 9-volt batteries to run some of the devices are 'essential' for the device to do it's work. The device becomes a 'quality of life' issue, as most of medical expenditures is. So now we can add 9-volt batteries to the list of 'essentials' too and even stay within your category of 'medical care.'
You're all cranked out on the notion that Medical Care is this special category of expenditure. It isn't.
Well, the secretary in the film director's office used a computer, too.
Only in the same sense that the 1GB of data was already 'moving' since the earth is rotating.
The rate of the data is plain old USB 2.0 (or 1.1) at either end of the 'high speed transfer.'
In ILM's data center, latency is essentially irrelevant. Big chunks of data are sent to the rendering machines. They churn on the data. Big chunks of data are passed back. It's not a real time task.
Dunno, either. But I am a little perplexed. I hardly ever see 'BMW' or 'Lexus' mentioned on Slashdot, unless someone is shilling for Apple.
You don't even have to read to enjoy such materials.
Just turn on cable and tune to the Home Shopping Network.
I dunno for sure that they'll be selling Snapper(tm) mowers, however.
That's just because you apparently don't own a lot of Herman Miller stock.
(and- I agree)
In any case, now I think I'll buy a Snapper if and when I own my own home.
So, basically, the infomercial format works.
(look into a LawnBoy, and look at some of the other fine brands available)
Target is a store run by Liberal fascists, which is different from the Conservative fascists who run WalMart. It has to do with what part of the country each corporation was founded and is headquartered in.
Really, it's more of a Coke/Pepsi difference, though.
Here where I live, there is a shop a few miles away on the highway where you take your lawn mower to get it serviced. I understand they're really good at it. I don't know why the place that sells lawn mowers should necessarily be good at servicing them, when there's a shop so near that does a good job of it.
What shops offer that you can't get from 'buying online' should be pretty obvious when we're talking about lawn mowers. Or do you get UPS delivery for free where you live?
The remainder of US manufacturing jobs are either underpaid, or soon to be laid off because they dare to ask for above minimum wage, are unionized, or because a CEO needs to buy another yacht.
Yes, and the 'CEO' looks exactly like that 'rich guy' depicted on the Community Chest cards in the game Monopoly.
Your cartoon-comic caricature world is somewhat lacking in reality, dude.
Don't worry. When you graduate and get a job, you'll figure it out. Don't leave a long paper trail of your present opinions. And no, it's not 'selling out' no matter what a few idealists with trust funds tell you it is.