On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:27:32PM +0200, Peter Laufenberg wrote:
The only thing I miss is an X-less framebuffer in OpenBSD even
it'd support just a console and text editor. IMHO X has to die,
it's a huge pile of crap.
A lot of us are dreaming of a framebuffer console (and X), but
nobody
On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:35:40 -0600
Theo de Raadt wrote:
to realize I was talking to The Right People (even if they kept
saying they are not). For one of them, check out how the revolving
door works:
Fred Baker f...@cisco.com
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baker_(IETF_chair)
Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org writes:
If you are not a member of the ACM, you can read it in ACM
Queue, in which it
was published in January:
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2090149
Yes, and people can even comment there, too. Looks like a few already
have. However, it is
2012/5/31 Kostas Zorbadelos kzo...@otenet.gr:
I would definitely like to write them about it in complain, but I
certainly am not qualified to talk about the issue. The voice of the
main developers or OpenBSD project's representatives is much stronger
and authoritative.
Theo is already
With apologies for the we because I don't really speak for the
OpenBSD project, but maybe people will like this:
Port 112
KV demands that we atone
When we use ports we do not own
But leaves the corporate actors fine
Who take things that are yours and mine
KV sides with the corporate actor
Using
Alternatively:
KV sides with the corporate actor
Using the process to encumber
Or:
KV sides with the corporate actor
Killing the commons to encumber
On 30 May 2012 09:36, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote:
With apologies for the we because I don't really speak for the
OpenBSD project, but maybe
Unfortunately the A in ACM should really mean Academic instead of
Association. The article you quoted is despicable and unbecoming of any
serious publication/organization. Because of their academic bent, there is
political correctness gone amok. But this went too far. It was mean-
spirited,
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:10:34PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Unfortunately the A in ACM should really mean Academic instead of
Association.
Heh, I was going to say it reminds me of the efforts of the Unseen University,
to eradicate Sourcery from the Discworld.
On 2012-05-29 19:40, Theo de Raadt wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2011-10-2011-12.html#The-New-CARP
Look at that last entry about talking to IANA!
The entry in question is:
4. Work with IANA to get an official protocol number. gnn@ to handle.
This shows ignorance about how
Ad hominem attacks on people they obviously know nothing about
Actually it's this kind of slander that brought me to OpenBSD. While looking
for an OS that didn't embrace Trusted Computing, I came across Theo's
wikipedia entry which pounded on him so extensively that it raised a flag.
Extra
I'm not sure what you mean by social but Plan 9 development from Bell is pretty
slow/opaque and the rest of the community scattered and headless. I don't care
for Inferno and Rob Pike unfortunately took a job at Google (why Rob,
why??:-). Plan 9's file paradigm is great but their 3-button mouse
I was just reading the April's issue of the Communications of the ACM (the
flagship magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery), and noticed
that OpenBSD and its developers were mentioned in one article, in a rather
negative way:
Unfortunately, there is a segment of the open source
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:06:37PM +0100, Wilhelm Brandt wrote:
I was just reading the April's issue of the Communications of the ACM (the
flagship magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery), and noticed
that OpenBSD and its developers were mentioned in one article, in a rather
I was just reading the April's issue of the Communications of the ACM (the
flagship magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery), and noticed
that OpenBSD and its developers were mentioned in one article, in a rather
negative way:
Unfortunately, there is a segment of the open source
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org
wrote:
I was just reading the April's issue of the Communications of the ACM (the
flagship magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery), and noticed
that OpenBSD and its developers were mentioned in one article, in a
I let my membership expire years ago and haven't seen a reason to
rejoin...ever.
If you are not a member of the ACM, you can read it in ACM
Queue, in which it
was published in January:
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2090149
I somehow feel this is a very
distorted view of what really
I let my membership expire years ago and haven't seen a reason to
rejoin...ever.
If you are not a member of the ACM, you can read it in ACM
Queue, in which it
was published in January:
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2090149
Yes, and people can even comment there, too. Looks like a
Wow, and look at this:
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2011-10-2011-12.html#The-New-CARP
Look at that last entry about talking to IANA!
Yet we -- who wrote the protocol -- never received a mail from any
of them.
So it is OK for him to accuse of us not going through the proper
On 5/29/12 4:35 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
However, I myself will not send them a letter. If an organization with
the size and reputation of ACM cannot self-police their own authors
before publishing, then they do not have a high reputation after all,
and it is not worth my time writing a
And they came across so well themselves.
Ad hominem attacks on people they obviously know nothing about
except what they've been told. Real mature.
I thought it was pretty funny, actually.
Ya wanna know what really happened?
Big Corp came up with a good idea, but then implemented it
Badly and in
My favorite part is above. This shit cracks me up.
Now imagine if there were proprietary tcp protocols.
All sorts of different devices running there own version.
Yes it would be a nightmare.
I think you are mixing up things. TCP? No, that was another time, a
little later:
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