XFree86 DRI support doesn't work if you don't install X11 CVS. So no ports for this.
I must admit I am rather unfamiliar with this, but according to
XFree86.org, ``Support for other operating systems, such as FreeBSD, is underway''.
Sound (emu10k) would often not work, needing a few reboots (mind you.. this never happened with Linux, so it shouldn't be a hardware issue).
I think I know what you are talking about. My machine (which runs FreeBSD only, and has for quite some time) will occasionally just play loud random noise instead of music. So far it has only happened a few times, and rebooting fixes it, which is very odd for something that isn't Windows. Could somebody point me in the direction of more information on this?
Ports would often not fetch or build, because they depend on some other port with a specific version, which in turn isn't available anymore.
Now that one is incredibly easy to fix, just modify the Makefile, and I have only run in to this about 5 or 6 times anyway, not often by any means of the word, and I have installed nearly everything in the ports tree (need to get a new hard drive soon because of it).
Securelevels are nice, but as soon as you rise em one above the lowest you cannot start X anymore, so this gets ruled out for workstations.
A lot of FreeBSD machines are not workstations. However, a few more levels where X is usable might be nice, that I will agree with.
CVSupping the source is nice, but what for? I got the same with apt-get upgrade and it finished faster.
I don't even know how long it takes, because I just have it run as a cron job weekly, so that I don't even need to deal with it. I don't see how that would be a real issue.
Compiling from source is nice, but I didn't see any improvements over binary packages.
You can download binary packages for FreeBSD as well as the source ports. See this page in The FreeBSD Handbook for a good explanation of the differences between packages and ports.
A degree doesn't nessesarily mean anything (I have an Art degree as well)
Correction: an art degree doesn't mean anything, excepting that your parents were middle-class. Any subject where your average student can miss more than 25% of the classes and still get an A is pure uselessness.
Also, you MUST have your own unix (linux) box at home where you can do serious damage and try stuff out before you try things at work.
Why not figure out what the hell you are doing before you do it? Oh, and by the way, Unix is not Linux. Getting Quake to work on your over-clocked Celeron through X11 does not qualify you to run real servers.
I have also found that though reading Orielly books cover to cover helps
Yes, reading is a good thing, especially in order to figure out what the hell you are doing before you do it, which is mentioned above. Other books that you should read may be found here.
Also, learn perl;)
Not to mention FORTRAN, C, C++, Forth, COBOL (yes, even COBOL), Pascal, shell scripting, how to program your HP calculator to play music, and of course the meanings of all of those stupid little smilies.
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More proof that we need to mobilize the power that is slashdot to write more GPL software. I love the BSD license as much as anybody, but it's obvious that Microsoft will hijack BSD licensed software, and use it for their own negative purposes...
The perfect example of this is how Microsoft hijacked the TCP/IP stack from BSD. However, I argue that this is a good thing. If they just take the code verbatim, then it most likely is going to be very compatible with everything else, unless they specifically go out of their way to break compatability. Notice that Microsoft is not planning to introduce a new.TCP/IP#, their use of the BSD code has shifted the issue to other things. They won't release any improvements back to the community, but they won't go out of their way to break a working system either.
Take the primary example used by most people against the BSD licence, that of Microsoft `stealing' an entire BSD system (whether FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or whatever) and releasing it as their operating system. I argue that this would be a good thing, both for Microsoft and for everybody else, although I seriously doubt that it would ever happen. A few people who work on the BSD stuff would be annoyed, but most would not mind, only the Linux crowd would raise a real stink about it. Think about it: Apple is doing it (MacOS-X) and all that is going to do is help the BSD software community. Sure, OS-X has a lot of unnecessary differences from any standard BSD, but nothing that isn't just a matter of minor re-configuration, small shell scripts, and carefully placed symbolic links. If Microsoft were to release Windows-X, or MS-BSD, or whatever stupid name their marketing division thought up, while they would make a lot of stupid changes just to be different, it would still fundamentally be a BSD system at its heart, and that would be a good thing for Microsoft, a good thing for the purchasers of Microsoft software, and a good thing for the BSD community.
The BSD license is not about insuring that oh-so-evil Bill Gates finally gets his company destroyed. It is not about insuring that I can read the source code to every single piece of software on the planet. It is not about world domination. It is about insuring that quality, compatible systems exist everywhere.
I have never actually used the real Napster program, but I still use gnapster, which I go on to the OpenNap servers with. Apparently there is something called Napigator which allows the Windows people to still use the Napster client, also via the OpenNap servers. So did Napster ever really die? Do we really need more services?
...AND, here comes the wrought irony, if you do contribute, you have to agree to the same ambiguous boilerplate contract that suckered Eric in the first place...
Couldn't mabye some of the other people who contributed to the site before they made a book out of it sue CRC Press, since they probably never got signatures from all of the submitters? a few hundred mathematicians bringing lawsuits against them might teach them a lesson.
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My 1996 machine has a providence motherboard which was designed for use in servers...
A large part of the problem is that the disk drive manufacturers used one kludge after another to extend the IDE spec for another 18 months or so...
If the motherboard were actually designed for use in servers, then it would have SCSI in it, otherwise this is just marketer-speak for ``not as cheap as the rest of our crap''. I only use SCSI, because I do not want to deal with these sort of problems, and I am willing to pay extra to avoid them.
This really pissed me off, since I purchased the big CRC book back when I was taking organic chemistry, and I really liked that site. If I wasn't such a slacker, I would have probably written a letter to CRC about losing a customer. I am glad to see that it is back though.
Wasn't OS/2 first made with help from Microsoft? In that case, there's probably some Microsoft IP in there, and they may not be able to open souce it with MS's approval (fat chance).
Microsoft changed OS/2 into the original Windows NT, and I am quite sure that the agreements are written completely in IBM's favor, so they could open source it if IBM really wanted to (fat chance). Seriously though, OS/2 was pretty nice, as was the PS/2's that it was meant to run on. They were an attempt to return to a service-contract oriented computer sales model. This meant that they were very well built, because IBM did not want to send out a service technician at $15 -- $20 an hour just to jiggle a few loose cables. Most PS/2 stuff put out there still works, assuming that it hasn't been laying outside in some trash heap for 10 years. The keyboard I am using right now is from one of the very first PS/2's, from 1984. It still has no problems, and will probably outlast everything else on my computer. For a keyboard to last through 17 years of me spilling soda/soup/vodka/etc. into it is just plain amazing.
Just because the EULA that you clicked through says that Microsoft does not hold any responsibility for something does not mean that a court of law would not impose responsibility for that action. If your account information was actually abused due to a security flaw in Microsoft software, you should sue anyway.
I have been using the Hewlett Packard calculators since high school. I wrote a software package for the HP 49G that provides a lot of additional functions, and is free. I was using my HP 49G just this morning to get my MAT 3701 homework done. I will be using the HP 49G a lot longer then I had planned, apparently. I really prefer RPN. Anybody interested in providing startup capital for a new calculator company?
... The receptionist (who was new, and I did not know) voilated their own security policy by not stopping me when I walked bye. Keep in mind, I did not blend in, Policy there is slacks, and a tie. I was wearing blue jeans and a polar fleece sweater, plus I'm more or less a long haired hippy...
Assuming your don't look like one of the hippies that really need a bath, generally people will let you do anything and go almost anywhere. I look for the most part like a hippie myself, and most people seem to think I would be too busy hugging trees to want to plant bombs or steal stuff, and attribute my not having the proper ID/key/whatever to excessive use of marijuana on my part. The only people who ever don't assume I should just be there are cops, and a lot of them do too. But then, hippies are the only people that cops have to deal with on a regular basis who don't act like total jackasses.
... soldiers aren`t much threat if you blow them up in bulk while theyre aslep
That is one of the things that would probably help out the game design a lot. Real units need considerable down-time. Humans can generally only operate 8 hours per day (more if necessary, but quality goes way down after that), vehicles need refueling and repairs/maintainence, and this generally can not take place on the frontlines (let's see you try to change the oil on your Buick with people shooting at you). Also, special units are needed to perform these tasks in real life. In the army, most of the people are not soldiers, but rather support staff.
Actually, tkinter works cross-platform. I use Python a lot, and I have used tkinter on Macintosh (an old 68040, not a modern Mac) as well as UNIX. I am told that tkinter works in Windows, but I have never used it there myself. As far as I know, you don't need to change your code either, or at least I have never had to. If you are using Python to do something GUI-style, tkinter is an excellent choice, especially because of the easy cross-platform support.
Actually, it might be interesting to see just what the do allow in. I have generated a list of all the browser return strings that my web browser has recieved like this:
You can look at the list for more user agents at http://habakkuk.d2g.com/user_agents. I kind of like the idea of reporting that I am Googlebot, I kind of doubt that they will block that.
If this was actually an issue of making sure the browser conformed with the W3C standards, one would think that Amaya, the web browser produced by the W3C, might at least be allowed in. Amaya 5.1, which is the most recent version (or at least the most recent version in the FreeBSD ports tree), is not allowed in either. Am I to believe that MSIE is more W3C-compliant than the browser made by the W3C? All of you people who are actually going to the effort of changing your browser return strings (I am not, I don't really care) should click on the banner ads, search the advertiser's website for a contact email address, and inform the advertiser of MSN's actions. That is what will get this changed quickly.
It's been done. It is called geotrace, it's webpage is http://geotrace.sourceforge.net. It is currently only at version 0.0.4, but it works decently anyway. I just performed a trace from me to www.yahoo.com, which you can look at here.
Because then the developers feel more important. Actually that is one of the things that has really annoyed me about KDE, any program that is not k***** is referred to as a ``legacy app'', it is an incredibly biased and egotistical assertion.
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Actually, FreeBSD was based on BSD 4.4-lite, so calling Slackware ``BSD-lite'' could be a little bit confusing to some people.
I must admit I am rather unfamiliar with this, but according to XFree86.org, ``Support for other operating systems, such as FreeBSD, is underway''.
Sound (emu10k) would often not work, needing a few reboots (mind you.. this never happened with Linux, so it shouldn't be a hardware issue).
I think I know what you are talking about. My machine (which runs FreeBSD only, and has for quite some time) will occasionally just play loud random noise instead of music. So far it has only happened a few times, and rebooting fixes it, which is very odd for something that isn't Windows. Could somebody point me in the direction of more information on this?
Ports would often not fetch or build, because they depend on some other port with a specific version, which in turn isn't available anymore.
Now that one is incredibly easy to fix, just modify the Makefile, and I have only run in to this about 5 or 6 times anyway, not often by any means of the word, and I have installed nearly everything in the ports tree (need to get a new hard drive soon because of it).
Securelevels are nice, but as soon as you rise em one above the lowest you cannot start X anymore, so this gets ruled out for workstations.
A lot of FreeBSD machines are not workstations. However, a few more levels where X is usable might be nice, that I will agree with.
CVSupping the source is nice, but what for? I got the same with apt-get upgrade and it finished faster.
I don't even know how long it takes, because I just have it run as a cron job weekly, so that I don't even need to deal with it. I don't see how that would be a real issue.
Compiling from source is nice, but I didn't see any improvements over binary packages.
You can download binary packages for FreeBSD as well as the source ports. See this page in The FreeBSD Handbook for a good explanation of the differences between packages and ports.
Correction: an art degree doesn't mean anything, excepting that your parents were middle-class. Any subject where your average student can miss more than 25% of the classes and still get an A is pure uselessness.
Also, you MUST have your own unix (linux) box at home where you can do serious damage and try stuff out before you try things at work.
Why not figure out what the hell you are doing before you do it? Oh, and by the way, Unix is not Linux. Getting Quake to work on your over-clocked Celeron through X11 does not qualify you to run real servers.
I have also found that though reading Orielly books cover to cover helps
Yes, reading is a good thing, especially in order to figure out what the hell you are doing before you do it, which is mentioned above. Other books that you should read may be found here.
Also, learn perl ;)
Not to mention FORTRAN, C, C++, Forth, COBOL (yes, even COBOL), Pascal, shell scripting, how to program your HP calculator to play music, and of course the meanings of all of those stupid little smilies.
The perfect example of this is how Microsoft hijacked the TCP/IP stack from BSD. However, I argue that this is a good thing. If they just take the code verbatim, then it most likely is going to be very compatible with everything else, unless they specifically go out of their way to break compatability. Notice that Microsoft is not planning to introduce a new .TCP/IP#, their use of the BSD code has shifted the issue to other things. They won't release any improvements back to the community, but they won't go out of their way to break a working system either.
Take the primary example used by most people against the BSD licence, that of Microsoft `stealing' an entire BSD system (whether FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or whatever) and releasing it as their operating system. I argue that this would be a good thing, both for Microsoft and for everybody else, although I seriously doubt that it would ever happen. A few people who work on the BSD stuff would be annoyed, but most would not mind, only the Linux crowd would raise a real stink about it. Think about it: Apple is doing it (MacOS-X) and all that is going to do is help the BSD software community. Sure, OS-X has a lot of unnecessary differences from any standard BSD, but nothing that isn't just a matter of minor re-configuration, small shell scripts, and carefully placed symbolic links. If Microsoft were to release Windows-X, or MS-BSD, or whatever stupid name their marketing division thought up, while they would make a lot of stupid changes just to be different, it would still fundamentally be a BSD system at its heart, and that would be a good thing for Microsoft, a good thing for the purchasers of Microsoft software, and a good thing for the BSD community.
The BSD license is not about insuring that oh-so-evil Bill Gates finally gets his company destroyed. It is not about insuring that I can read the source code to every single piece of software on the planet. It is not about world domination. It is about insuring that quality, compatible systems exist everywhere.
I have never actually used the real Napster program, but I still use gnapster, which I go on to the OpenNap servers with. Apparently there is something called Napigator which allows the Windows people to still use the Napster client, also via the OpenNap servers. So did Napster ever really die? Do we really need more services?
Couldn't mabye some of the other people who contributed to the site before they made a book out of it sue CRC Press, since they probably never got signatures from all of the submitters? a few hundred mathematicians bringing lawsuits against them might teach them a lesson.
If the motherboard were actually designed for use in servers, then it would have SCSI in it, otherwise this is just marketer-speak for ``not as cheap as the rest of our crap''. I only use SCSI, because I do not want to deal with these sort of problems, and I am willing to pay extra to avoid them.
This really pissed me off, since I purchased the big CRC book back when I was taking organic chemistry, and I really liked that site. If I wasn't such a slacker, I would have probably written a letter to CRC about losing a customer. I am glad to see that it is back though.
Microsoft changed OS/2 into the original Windows NT, and I am quite sure that the agreements are written completely in IBM's favor, so they could open source it if IBM really wanted to (fat chance). Seriously though, OS/2 was pretty nice, as was the PS/2's that it was meant to run on. They were an attempt to return to a service-contract oriented computer sales model. This meant that they were very well built, because IBM did not want to send out a service technician at $15 -- $20 an hour just to jiggle a few loose cables. Most PS/2 stuff put out there still works, assuming that it hasn't been laying outside in some trash heap for 10 years. The keyboard I am using right now is from one of the very first PS/2's, from 1984. It still has no problems, and will probably outlast everything else on my computer. For a keyboard to last through 17 years of me spilling soda/soup/vodka/etc. into it is just plain amazing.
Just because the EULA that you clicked through says that Microsoft does not hold any responsibility for something does not mean that a court of law would not impose responsibility for that action. If your account information was actually abused due to a security flaw in Microsoft software, you should sue anyway.
I have been using the Hewlett Packard calculators since high school. I wrote a software package for the HP 49G that provides a lot of additional functions, and is free. I was using my HP 49G just this morning to get my MAT 3701 homework done. I will be using the HP 49G a lot longer then I had planned, apparently. I really prefer RPN. Anybody interested in providing startup capital for a new calculator company?
I most certianly agree. See hier(7) for a good explanation of how the filesystem hierarchy is supposed to look.
>I'm afraid it can't compete with the ease of use of a banana.
Obvious solution: genetically engineer a watermelon in a container similar to a banana. Result: the Waternana!
Assuming your don't look like one of the hippies that really need a bath, generally people will let you do anything and go almost anywhere. I look for the most part like a hippie myself, and most people seem to think I would be too busy hugging trees to want to plant bombs or steal stuff, and attribute my not having the proper ID/key/whatever to excessive use of marijuana on my part. The only people who ever don't assume I should just be there are cops, and a lot of them do too. But then, hippies are the only people that cops have to deal with on a regular basis who don't act like total jackasses.
That is one of the things that would probably help out the game design a lot. Real units need considerable down-time. Humans can generally only operate 8 hours per day (more if necessary, but quality goes way down after that), vehicles need refueling and repairs/maintainence, and this generally can not take place on the frontlines (let's see you try to change the oil on your Buick with people shooting at you). Also, special units are needed to perform these tasks in real life. In the army, most of the people are not soldiers, but rather support staff.
Actually, tkinter works cross-platform. I use Python a lot, and I have used tkinter on Macintosh (an old 68040, not a modern Mac) as well as UNIX. I am told that tkinter works in Windows, but I have never used it there myself. As far as I know, you don't need to change your code either, or at least I have never had to. If you are using Python to do something GUI-style, tkinter is an excellent choice, especially because of the easy cross-platform support.
chris % cat ~apache/logs/combined_access_log | cut -d \" -f 6 | sort | uniq > ~apache/htdocs/user_agents
You can look at the list for more user agents at http://habakkuk.d2g.com/user_agents. I kind of like the idea of reporting that I am Googlebot, I kind of doubt that they will block that.
If this was actually an issue of making sure the browser conformed with the W3C standards, one would think that Amaya, the web browser produced by the W3C, might at least be allowed in. Amaya 5.1, which is the most recent version (or at least the most recent version in the FreeBSD ports tree), is not allowed in either. Am I to believe that MSIE is more W3C-compliant than the browser made by the W3C? All of you people who are actually going to the effort of changing your browser return strings (I am not, I don't really care) should click on the banner ads, search the advertiser's website for a contact email address, and inform the advertiser of MSN's actions. That is what will get this changed quickly.
It's been done. It is called geotrace, it's webpage is http://geotrace.sourceforge.net. It is currently only at version 0.0.4, but it works decently anyway. I just performed a trace from me to www.yahoo.com, which you can look at here.
Because then the developers feel more important. Actually that is one of the things that has really annoyed me about KDE, any program that is not k***** is referred to as a ``legacy app'', it is an incredibly biased and egotistical assertion.