to stop here or I'm not going to get any sleep.
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replied to me off-list something like the following, as if to help me
unpack some of what I wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Joel Rees wrote:
What problem were you trying to solve when you decided there had to be a
switch
2014/09/22 5:21 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org:
Hi Joel,
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
(6) systemd and cgroups (at minimum) end up overriding the permissions
system. It's bad enough having SELinux and ACLs brought in to knock
holes in the permissions system, but when arbitrary
installable on PPC Macs when I last
looked. Just about any Linux should be installable or runnable as a VM on
an Intel Mac.
openbsd and netbsd are probably also options. Last time I checked, Freebsd
for PPC was still only for the adventurous, etc.
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it comfortably. gedit works. If I had more room on the internal flash for
installing things, I could probably install enough to get it to be stable
enough to read and write e-mail and browse the web.
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-at-a-time
that you definitely should avoid trying to do both-at-once, if you
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Hi.
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:12:38 +0900
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I will acknowledge that there are some things that we could do to
improve the current (sysv) init in debian.
* Get rid of run levels
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote:
On 23/09/14 00:22, Joel Rees wrote:
I think you are saying that there is an implementation of cgroups
independent of systemd?
systemd does not implement cgroups. The kernel implements them; systemd just
uses them.
Does
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/22/2014 10:27 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:35:59AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
When I can, I'll file a bug report. If ever.
I know the theory, so I don't use those, so it's not a high priority
what you deserve -- a system
full of bugs, because no one dares disagree with the developers.
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:16 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
(2) When I was a college student, when we talked about modularity, we
talked about something called implicit linkage. I don't know what
the current term for it is, but it is the generalized
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Chris Bannister
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:35:59AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
2014/09/22 5:21 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org:
Hi Joel,
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
(6) systemd and cgroups (at minimum) end up
, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
2014/09/23 2:24 Danilo Sampaio danilo.samp...@gmail.com:
Hi guys,
I know this topic is somewhat out of debian context, but someone knows a
opensource project like a SSH Server for Android, with X11 Session Forward
Support?
Thanks
linked to and thinking it may well not.
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for this task :)
Glibc maintainer style was the main reason of glibc → eglibc transition
in Debian.
Just for fun, I did a search on gnu vs. redhat.
One of the more amusing links that popped up:
http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=red_hat_linux7seqNum=12
Irony abounds.
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Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:16 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:
I could guess that implicit linkage might refer to side effects of
intentional entanglement which may be undesirable or may occur without
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Andrei POPESCU
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On Jo, 25 sep 14, 21:27:30, Joel Rees wrote:
There is always that possibility. It's one of the reasons for the old
adage, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
Sigh.
Andrei, I
or collusion.
I used to thing that the problem was judges and lawyers who didn't
understand the tech. Groklaw was one of the things that taught me the
reality: The industry itself was in collusion. And it still is.
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could run this application on, Wheezy
and Squeeze. What would people's preferred webserver package be for this
type of application?
Not sure why you wouldn't want to use apache or lighttpd.
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On 27/09/2014 15:35, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Joel Rees wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote:
List, good afternoon,
What package would list members suggest for a small webserver that
would
enable co
with the box off-line tonight and check things carefully.
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Lee's point.
Moral justification is not the only reason to want people to work together
with.
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2014/09/28 20:17 Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com:
On 9/27/14, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the
appropriate
apt-get commands up from history. (I'm lazy, okay?)
Had a bunch of unicode proxies and a reference
2014/09/28 20:40 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA512
On 09/28/2014 at 07:17 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
On 9/27/14, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the
appropriate apt-get
microkernel.
NetBSD's anykernel and DragonFlyBSD's hybrid kernel designs could
be considered at least to incorporate parts of the microkernel design.
L4, among others.
It's worth looking at wikipedia's article on microkernels for starters, if
you're interested in the subject.
Joel Rees
Computer memory
whining about the anti-systemd
noise won't really be able to see that that is what they've been doing.
Joel Rees
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excuse to actually join the dev team, in spite of
my misgivings about systemd and the API creep?
Is your third going to need to run jessie with systemd? How much and what
kind of hardware/OS resources does he or she need to be able to bring to
the table?
Joel Rees
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2014/10/01 21:29 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org:
On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Joel Rees wrote:
Should I use this as my excuse to actually join the dev team, in spite
of
my misgivings about systemd and the API creep?
Only if you promisse me you are never going to mention systemd again
, and not noticing a slipped lead can cost hours of
unnecessary work.And there are tests you really don't want to try
without a breakout box or the equivalent.
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On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
On 10/3/2014 8:19 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
On 10/2/2014 8:24 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
[...]
In addition to Dan's comments - is your cable OK
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
On 10/3/2014 9:52 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
On 10/3/2014 8:19 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc
2014/10/04 17:30 Curt cu...@free.fr:
On 2014-10-03, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
I like this one, because it makes me smile. I like pieces of softwares
with play on words (this translation sounds strange... is it the
correct one?)
It's the
also be due to errors in the download. Slow connections can
sometimes be less reliable -- old equipment, etc., and checksums are
statistical objects.
Nothing drastic, but I just wondered.
Charlie
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as it is, let's try not to get sucked
into this kind of baiting. (Speaking as one who got a little bit
sucked into it last week or so.)
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If you think you have found a problem, then as a user of testing you
should report it. You may have found an obscure bug which should be
fixed *before* Jessie
was wondering that myself, but since he seemed to
understand what he was doing in upgrading from wheezy, I assumed he'd
understand that Jessie would likely have issues requiring a bit of patience
and nursing on a slow connection.
Charlie, care to enlighten us?
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is for some reason set up to only allow outbound mail
from that server, in which case you probably do want to authenticate on the
lan, too. (Think, for example, about the possibility of malware on a local
box.)
Incoming mail may make sense to cache on a local server. Or maybe not.
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2014/10/06 15:13 Charlie aries...@ipstarmail.com.au:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 13:30:32 +0900 Joel Rees sent:
snip
Charlie, care to enlighten us?
Thanks for your time with this.
Joel I think you're right. I just didn't understand the way that the
netinstall CD's work. The disk or rather
! here,
And this post will still not be blocked.
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On lkml, they block html.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:28 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote:
On 10/07/2014 at 02:58 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
As Don pointed out, it's the threads that have been clipped, as it
were, not the topics: I think it's probably just as well, as those
threads themselves were started by either
of documentation, how can systemd ever be
considered ready until pid 1 is stripped down to the bare minimum? Greater
than 1M is two orders of magnitude beyond too big.
Does that help you see what Steve and others interpret as railroading?
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mi, 08 oct 14, 11:41:05, Joel Rees wrote:
2014/10/08 6:07 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com:
On Ma, 07 oct 14, 12:00:57, Steve Litt wrote:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708
to be talking about VMs as much as (or more than) an
actual network with physical boxes on it. 30 VMs, I think he said. So
he is going to be getting practice.
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Does jessie still provide /dev/disk/by-id , etc.?
as in
ls -la /dev/disk/by-id
ls -la /dev/disk/by-label
etc.?
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2014/10/09 10:58 lee l...@yagibdah.de:
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
2014/09/25 9:15 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de:
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
Hmm. So linkage is a result of complexity,
What is complexity?
Complexity is not a simple topic. :-\
Indeed. And one
2014/10/10 8:47 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:27:30 +0900
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
Complexity is not a simple topic. :-\
Can I quote you on that?
Heh.
I was quoting several teachers and co-workers, I don't know if anyone has
figured out who said
2014/10/10 9:03 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
[...]
LOL, the more people bust old features putting in new features, the
more I kludge.
And that sums the entire argument up nicely, perhaps.
:-(
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Testing, here.
Just want to check whether I get filtered out from here, as well.
(Two responses to a thread that invites discussion of the /usr merge
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Or you could talk about the difference between the jobs of distributor and
integrator, if you're completely anti-DIY.
[...]
Although, some of us don't really care all that much for IKEA furniture.
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mind watching and learning while they do, that's not necessarily a bad
thing, given courtesy and quid-pro-quo, of course.
[...]
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2014/10/13 2:45 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com:
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:33:43 +0100
Martin Read zen75...@zen.co.uk wrote:
On 12/10/14 04:12, Peter Zoeller wrote:
But the nice
thing is shell scripting is simplistic easy to learn and understand.
I refer the audience to David A.
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Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
(But in this case, absolutely requiring a response would be building a
DOS and potential privacy vulnerability into the message
infrastructure. The RFCs really should be stored with a summary
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Chris Bannister
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:53:03AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
2014/10/13 2:14 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com:
On Du, 12 oct 14, 10:30:52, The Wanderer wrote:
On 10/12/2014 at 10:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU
for their money, the more
they switch to legitimate work.
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themselves working
together.
There are other goals I should mention, but I don't imagine Lennart
Poettering is even the slightest interested in what we have to say
here, so I won't bother.
No matter how much better it is now than last year, the code is still
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org wrote:
Hi,
On 10/13/2014 12:14, Joel Rees wrote:
Get pid 1 down to 100 lines of C, no loops, no functions called, then
I'll be impressed.
[...]
Setting aside initialization code, pid 1 should target less than 1000
lines of C
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Chris Bannister
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:10:11PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
Which is another way of saying that you want others to have already made
the mistakes for you.
No it isn't! Ponder why most people take
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Chris Bannister
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:14:29PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:48:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
On Sun, 12 Oct
problems with
non-issues is not a good idea.
Step 5: A chorus of boos rises aganst the whole thread, because there is no
whitepaper, and no clairvoyance, and besides, it looks just like this
non-issue.
Presto: All dissent is fud.
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CPUs just fancy
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Miles Fidelman
mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:14:29PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:48:55PM -0400, Steve Litt
of a book on
Quantum Chromodynamics.
Can I recommend a thesis on analyzing execution paths of critical processes?
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 08:02:28 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote:
This list is the perfect place for such things
it to be like
snail-mail, only automatic, but don't realize that having people in
the loop is what provides the desired feature.
I mean, you really can't have certified delivery without someone to certify it.
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any idea what the problem is, and how to solve?
thanks for any help,
Jan
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Oh, dear. Somebody is WRONG on the Internet!
You're talking past each other.
Still, the current standard e-mail protocols were never meant to be
either reliable or secure, and their is a very good reason for that. People
may not be as reliable as machines in executing protocols, but they cannot
% reliable.
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further than that will, again, invite people to call Foul!, so
I'll refrain.
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2014/10/16 5:46 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com:
On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company
Caldera became SCO (oversimplification, but you know what I mean).
Wonderful Linux company Corel changed their CEO, and promptly
the package to manage
it within the standard unix permissions model?
:-(
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existing alternatives exist and how well they work,
With enough discussion, we might be able to get enough mass to get a
project started and get it (mostly) off-list.
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by now.
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that would rather see
your version of SMTP rules be followed by everyone than try to follow
the RFC yourself.
Where are your SMTP rules spelled out, by the way?
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote:
* On 2014 15 Oct 19:39 -0500, Joel Rees wrote:
systemd's problems would best be discussed at the systemd project. (Modulo
the willingness of the devs over there to discuss them.)
What I'm thinking is to talk about specific
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 10/16/2014 7:40 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 10/15/2014 8:37 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:
Tanstaafl
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote:
* On 2014 16 Oct 07:54 -0500, Joel Rees wrote:
Would that be debian's sysv-init?
That link is from the sysvinit-core package's description in Sid's
Aptitude. Presumably it is the upstream project.
Thank you. I was under
-calling, etc., is a bit more than playground antics?
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And the discussion continued from there.
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apt-get clean
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it was.
You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.
Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
Heh.
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is receptive or not.
I dunno. That sounds a little cynical to me.
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anything bc-ish.)
What menus should I be looking in?
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote:
Am 29.10.2014 12:35, schrieb Joel Rees:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote:
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Quite a few packages ship Debian menu files and/or freedesktop.org
.desktop files
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote:
Am 2014-10-29 15:42, schrieb Joel Rees:
And that tells me exactly zip about why bc doesn't show up in my XFCE4
menus. (I mean the pointy-clicky ones.)
I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG
now that most of
those who didn't like it jumped ship. It works for the Mint crowd.
I don't think it works for more than about half the debian crowd.
(I personally would have chosen a metaphor about cars with built-in
entertainment/communication/navigation systems, but that's me. :)
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote:
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de
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I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG .desktop
files, and doesn't parse Debian's menu
did the trick, or it
might have been mingw I did that on.
Wheezy, FWIW.
(And thanks to The Wanderer for reminding us about the help command. I
keep forgetting that.)
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On 11/02/2014 at 03:23 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
2014/11/02 11:19 Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com:
When I wanted the options for umask, I typed 'man umask' and got
the man page for it as a C header diretive? (I'm not a C
about. And we probably should be a little less
prickly about it when we give our patches to the devs.
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:26 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote:
On 11/02/2014 at 10:12 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
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Seems to be done, not by symlink, but in the man db.
What leads you to that conclusion?
AFAIK, if 'man xyz' brings up a man page from section 1, then there is
an xyz
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