Yes! That is exactly what it means. Australians have very few 'rights'. The free speech thing.. forget it.
There is a big issue with blogs, because, by Australian Law any presentation that may encourage dissent is illegal (remember: we were originally a penal colony). So the very nature of blogs.. ie opinionated ranting, ensures that they can be shut off without notice if anyone says they were offended. Indeed we have already seen this with wikipedia, wikileaks, yahoo and google group pages. Essentially, any ideas that have not been vetted by the govt is open to any misinterperetation and repurcusions..
Any time I install a FreeBSD box I have to jam pack it full of ports before it is useful... so what's the point?
So many things I could say, but...
This sounds more like a user issue. The idea of a minimal install (OS independant) is that you can build the box exactly how you want it, rather than dropping some stinking great GUI lump on it. If you want a desktop in FreeBSD, start with minimal, then pkg_add CTWM, OO, Mplayer, Firefox, and Thunderbird, keeping in mind that any deps are automatically matched and installed. Voila! a fully funtioning desktop that runs like crazy, and fits on your phone if you must do.
I am curious though, what ports do you feel you 'must' you pack into FreeBSD that you dont 'need' on Linux?
I must say, when I saw the details in your reply, I was glad that someone had read my post and taken it seriously. But, I noticed quite quickly that very few of your comments seemed relevant. To the point that I think you read a different article (?).
Performance monitoring, of course is old hat to all (?) OS's. The specifics, as discussed in TFA are way over my head, but I don't mind trying to understand for the sake of conversation. I don't mean to be argumentative when I say that the interview discusses particular updates to the monitoring services, if these details are worth discussing, please continue:)
I'm not sure where the number of CPU's-handled was mentioned as being increased.
Tmpfs, was not discussed, AFAIK.
Olivier Houchard: Just to nitpick, technically the ARM port first appeared in RELENG_6:)
I am not familiar with Wow, but there is no mention of fine grain permissions in TFA.
Agreed: Hi-Def audio would have to be a welcome addition for those who use the desktop, and long overdue I dare say!:)
You completely lost me at SATA, I reread the article, and searched every page, but there is no reference to SATA at all. Am I missing an inference?
Ditto with iSCSI
MSI support was simply updated, not added.
I was really looking forward to some insight here, perhaps it was so deep I missed it? I am trying to not be a smart arse here, cos I have a feeling in my stomach I have missed something, but if I haven't then I am very confused. Please clarify why you made mention of so many things that were not mentioned in TFA.
After 48 posts, not one has opened a discussion specific to TFA. Other than to say RTFA.
Linux Vs BSD is a moot argument, I have my preference, and I'm not going to change because yours differs. Similarly, no amount of bible bashing is going to convince me that man and dinosaurs walked together 2000 years ago!
To get on topic... (no I am not new here):p
I am running RC1 ATM, and will upgrade to the final as soon as it is out. I'd like to know if anyone has successfully implemented RAID-z yet, and if so, what should I be aware of that is not documented.
Also, can anyone confirm the increased performance claimed by the upgraded TCP handling?
Perhaps an unbiased, or at least well reasoned comparison of Linux Vs FreeBSDs' Multi-thread handling? I would be very interested to know the details here.
Opinions on STCP Vs TCP?
If you must, be all 'Linux it t3h gr34t357', I would love to know what upgrades in TFA are old hat to Linux users.
I dunno the last time you opened the OSX terminal, but I had to install asterisk on my sisters mac. I could have sworn I was on a UNIX box... what did I miss?
Before I hear mention of any gui-licious goodness... how about we all just forgo even mentioning; X, Aqua, Gnome, KDE or TWM when comparing *nix's. It's simply pointless to use a graphical interface as a contention. Aside from Aqua, they will all work on all OS's; so no, a screenshot of KDE is not a screenshot of randomnix-b it is a screenshot of KDE, the fact that it is running on randomnix-b it not evident or relevant.
That said, I am not a mac fanboy in any shape or form. If I was gifted with a macbox I would never let Aqua even touch my monitor beyond the install. The question is: Would that cripple my system? Aside from flashy graphics, would it result in the loss of any abilities whatsoever? Would the lack of Aqua mean any loss of performance? Of course not! ergo, aqua is not and can not be a part of the 'is OSX UNIX' equation.
O'course what's left is so obviously not a flavour of Linux, and is so clearly UNIX compliant that arguing about it becomes pointless.
In Oz we must have a PI license for, basically, anything that involves looking at a persons private details without their knowledge. And for good reason. Do you want anyone to just hack your stuff cos they 'suspect' something?
As for forensics, it's one of the things keeping a handle on, and retaining some respectability for, an industry that is still niche here. Rather than letting it devolve to a situation where any shmo with an encase certificate can claim to be forensically sound.
You can obtain it by fraud and you can misuse it in a wide variety of ways. But you can not be charged with 'theft' of electronic information... why you ask? Because to be found guilty of theft you must 'deprive' or 'intend to deprive' the owner of that item.
Making a copy is not theft, how you accessed it is another issue entirely.
I assume that is the case here, with some sensationalising for added clicks.
It really must be an Aussie thing. My mate is a cop, last month he had to tell a nun, that her wheelchair-bound brother had lost control down a hill and drowned in a duck pond.
But when she asked how he died, he could barely hold a straight face so he told her to ask at the hospital.
Later she saw him and said, "No wonder you couldn't tell me how he died". Seems, she nearly pissed herself laughing at the hospital. She also told him to practice more, he'd given himself away with a tiny lift at the corner of his mouth when she asked.
Personally, I don't get what a period of mourning achieves. Losing someone leaves any empty place, but I wouldn't want anyone to waste a moment of their life mourning the loss of mine. Why is it that the west treats death as some kind of divine punishment, and the east tend to celebrate it?
AFAIK Australia is the only country where 'opt-out' options are illegal. Obviously not in this context, but its nice to know that Australian site, by-law, must not add you to any advertising lists unless you have opted-in. So if you find any sites ending.au that require you to 'untick' the spam box when you register, they are wide open for legal repercussions.
I'm sorry, but your point, as full-of-bluster as it was, is moot. Sony owns the product, Sony sells the product. Thats the entire breadth, width and depth of their involvement in this issue as far as we know.
Just because they were dumb enough to do it in the first place, and compound the issue by selling it, does not automatically make them responsible for every vendor who decides to buy it.
You think there was any kind of board meeting when they sold the license? You think an exec even knew about it? no... A rep called another rep, and the deal was done. No, men in black suits. No, conspiracy, just a dumb move.
I was trying to explain to me sister how to use the TV as a 2nd monitor (over the phone). After some time, she asked the classic question "So I close Google?"! I can't even begin to figure out how she was expecting google, or the interweb to assist her with this task.
While I do agree on the whole (mostly), I have one counter; I work in a corporate environment that blocks everything but newspapers and.google.com (go figure). So of course, I tend to spend alot of time on google vids. If you restrict the search to 20minutes you will find allot of commercial TV. I watch Horizon (BBC Doco series) regularly, and recently watched Hyperdrive series 1. There are other examples as well, but my point is that if you don't have torrents or just need a quick flick to keep your mind from rotting it works a treat.
Firstly: If a Forensic examiner EVER boots up from an HD he is working on then he should be shot. Anyone worth their salt knows to mount a suspect HD on bit-locker (for eg) before doing anything else.
Secondly: The longer something takes to be encrypted (and it will be) the harsher you will be treated. Cough up the pw and your guarranteeing yourself an easier time than if you don't.
This should be marked down for redundant, but it looks like some ppl need this spelled out: Its very rare (lets say: never, outside a military court) that any one piece of evidence is 'all' you need. But, each piece goes toward building a picture of events and a 'likely scenario'.
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Yes! That is exactly what it means. Australians have very few 'rights'. The free speech thing.. forget it.
There is a big issue with blogs, because, by Australian Law any presentation that may encourage dissent is illegal (remember: we were originally a penal colony). So the very nature of blogs.. ie opinionated ranting, ensures that they can be shut off without notice if anyone says they were offended. Indeed we have already seen this with wikipedia, wikileaks, yahoo and google group pages. Essentially, any ideas that have not been vetted by the govt is open to any misinterperetation and repurcusions..
Behold ... the future
Ha! Thanks for the correction. :)
You should ask the FreeBSD mail list, this is /. no one even Rs'TFA, let alone research outside the material provided.
So many things I could say, but ...
This sounds more like a user issue. The idea of a minimal install (OS independant) is that you can build the box exactly how you want it, rather than dropping some stinking great GUI lump on it. If you want a desktop in FreeBSD, start with minimal, then pkg_add CTWM, OO, Mplayer, Firefox, and Thunderbird, keeping in mind that any deps are automatically matched and installed. Voila! a fully funtioning desktop that runs like crazy, and fits on your phone if you must do.
I am curious though, what ports do you feel you 'must' you pack into FreeBSD that you dont 'need' on Linux?
It's so that only the ppl who care will visit it. This way people who are only here to troll are inclined to go elsewhere ;p (Usually anyway)
I must say, when I saw the details in your reply, I was glad that someone had read my post and taken it seriously. But, I noticed quite quickly that very few of your comments seemed relevant. To the point that I think you read a different article (?).
Performance monitoring, of course is old hat to all (?) OS's. The specifics, as discussed in TFA are way over my head, but I don't mind trying to understand for the sake of conversation. I don't mean to be argumentative when I say that the interview discusses particular updates to the monitoring services, if these details are worth discussing, please continue :)
I'm not sure where the number of CPU's-handled was mentioned as being increased.
Tmpfs, was not discussed, AFAIK.
I am not familiar with Wow, but there is no mention of fine grain permissions in TFA.
Agreed: Hi-Def audio would have to be a welcome addition for those who use the desktop, and long overdue I dare say! :)
You completely lost me at SATA, I reread the article, and searched every page, but there is no reference to SATA at all. Am I missing an inference?
Ditto with iSCSI
MSI support was simply updated, not added.
I was really looking forward to some insight here, perhaps it was so deep I missed it? I am trying to not be a smart arse here, cos I have a feeling in my stomach I have missed something, but if I haven't then I am very confused. Please clarify why you made mention of so many things that were not mentioned in TFA.
peas
Can I call it the cornflake paradox? :)
After 48 posts, not one has opened a discussion specific to TFA. Other than to say RTFA.
:p
Linux Vs BSD is a moot argument, I have my preference, and I'm not going to change because yours differs. Similarly, no amount of bible bashing is going to convince me that man and dinosaurs walked together 2000 years ago!
To get on topic... (no I am not new here)
I am running RC1 ATM, and will upgrade to the final as soon as it is out. I'd like to know if anyone has successfully implemented RAID-z yet, and if so, what should I be aware of that is not documented.
Also, can anyone confirm the increased performance claimed by the upgraded TCP handling?
Perhaps an unbiased, or at least well reasoned comparison of Linux Vs FreeBSDs' Multi-thread handling? I would be very interested to know the details here.
Opinions on STCP Vs TCP?
If you must, be all 'Linux it t3h gr34t357', I would love to know what upgrades in TFA are old hat to Linux users.
peas
I dunno the last time you opened the OSX terminal, but I had to install asterisk on my sisters mac. I could have sworn I was on a UNIX box... what did I miss?
Before I hear mention of any gui-licious goodness... how about we all just forgo even mentioning; X, Aqua, Gnome, KDE or TWM when comparing *nix's. It's simply pointless to use a graphical interface as a contention. Aside from Aqua, they will all work on all OS's; so no, a screenshot of KDE is not a screenshot of randomnix-b it is a screenshot of KDE, the fact that it is running on randomnix-b it not evident or relevant.
That said, I am not a mac fanboy in any shape or form. If I was gifted with a macbox I would never let Aqua even touch my monitor beyond the install. The question is: Would that cripple my system? Aside from flashy graphics, would it result in the loss of any abilities whatsoever? Would the lack of Aqua mean any loss of performance? Of course not! ergo, aqua is not and can not be a part of the 'is OSX UNIX' equation.
O'course what's left is so obviously not a flavour of Linux, and is so clearly UNIX compliant that arguing about it becomes pointless.
QED
In Oz we must have a PI license for, basically, anything that involves looking at a persons private details without their knowledge. And for good reason. Do you want anyone to just hack your stuff cos they 'suspect' something?
As for forensics, it's one of the things keeping a handle on, and retaining some respectability for, an industry that is still niche here. Rather than letting it devolve to a situation where any shmo with an encase certificate can claim to be forensically sound.
You can obtain it by fraud and you can misuse it in a wide variety of ways. But you can not be charged with 'theft' of electronic information... why you ask? Because to be found guilty of theft you must 'deprive' or 'intend to deprive' the owner of that item.
Making a copy is not theft, how you accessed it is another issue entirely.
I assume that is the case here, with some sensationalising for added clicks.
It really must be an Aussie thing. My mate is a cop, last month he had to tell a nun, that her wheelchair-bound brother had lost control down a hill and drowned in a duck pond.
But when she asked how he died, he could barely hold a straight face so he told her to ask at the hospital.
Later she saw him and said, "No wonder you couldn't tell me how he died". Seems, she nearly pissed herself laughing at the hospital. She also told him to practice more, he'd given himself away with a tiny lift at the corner of his mouth when she asked.
Personally, I don't get what a period of mourning achieves. Losing someone leaves any empty place, but I wouldn't want anyone to waste a moment of their life mourning the loss of mine. Why is it that the west treats death as some kind of divine punishment, and the east tend to celebrate it?
AFAIK Australia is the only country where 'opt-out' options are illegal. Obviously not in this context, but its nice to know that Australian site, by-law, must not add you to any advertising lists unless you have opted-in. So if you find any sites ending .au that require you to 'untick' the spam box when you register, they are wide open for legal repercussions.
I'm sorry, but your point, as full-of-bluster as it was, is moot. Sony owns the product, Sony sells the product. Thats the entire breadth, width and depth of their involvement in this issue as far as we know.
Just because they were dumb enough to do it in the first place, and compound the issue by selling it, does not automatically make them responsible for every vendor who decides to buy it.
You think there was any kind of board meeting when they sold the license? You think an exec even knew about it? no... A rep called another rep, and the deal was done. No, men in black suits. No, conspiracy, just a dumb move.
Saw that one coming, from a mile away! lol
Thats not such a bad idea, they even crackle! Now if we can just squeeze that fusion generator into your phone...
What would u expect? royalties? lol
I was trying to explain to me sister how to use the TV as a 2nd monitor (over the phone). After some time, she asked the classic question "So I close Google?"! I can't even begin to figure out how she was expecting google, or the interweb to assist her with this task.
You forgot to mention paying 'trace' fees.
While I do agree on the whole (mostly), I have one counter; I work in a corporate environment that blocks everything but newspapers and .google.com (go figure). So of course, I tend to spend alot of time on google vids. If you restrict the search to 20minutes you will find allot of commercial TV. I watch Horizon (BBC Doco series) regularly, and recently watched Hyperdrive series 1. There are other examples as well, but my point is that if you don't have torrents or just need a quick flick to keep your mind from rotting it works a treat.
I meant 'de-crypted' lol
Secondly: The longer something takes to be encrypted (and it will be) the harsher you will be treated. Cough up the pw and your guarranteeing yourself an easier time than if you don't.
This should be marked down for redundant, but it looks like some ppl need this spelled out: Its very rare (lets say: never, outside a military court) that any one piece of evidence is 'all' you need. But, each piece goes toward building a picture of events and a 'likely scenario'.
I'd have thought you were all used to that by now anyway.
FACT: Plants are the height of evolutionary success. Name another life form that can live for hundreds of years without ever having to do a single thing. Its what every self respecting /.'r strives for.