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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:17:05PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Tue 29 Dec 2009 at 14:51:23 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:39:01PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
> >>
> >>One question, however. Are we prepared to back up the claim that the
&g
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:39:01PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Tue 29 Dec 2009 at 06:38:23 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:56:51 -0700, Chad Perrin
> >wrote:
> >>Update:
> >>
> >>I confirmed that the scheduled publication d
Update:
I confirmed that the scheduled publication date for my article will be
Tuesday the 29th.
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tors happy, I wouldn't mind suggestions from FreeBSD advocates for
what other FreeBSD-related topics might make for good security article
content in the future -- especially if they tie in strongly with more
"mainstream" security topics.
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 08:11:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
> I found the phrase "everything developed before 1970" particularly
> amusing, as it translates to approximately zero, plus or minus zero.
Wait . . . that wasn't a typo?
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0400, telmn...@757.org wrote:
>
> I'd be willing to bet there is little to no commercial demand for Oracle
> on FreeBSD.
I wonder how much difference Oracle availability on FreeBSD would make,
here.
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h looking into. It's easy (relative to most DMBS-to-DBMS
migrations) to migrate a database from Oracle to PostgreSQL, too, thanks
to substantial feature parity between the two.
There's a slightly different write-up of the FTD migration on
EnterpriseDB's "success stories"
e bluffing, and they call you on it,
I guess). What if you're the 101st to ask, and they finally decided to
do something about it?
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can't get anything
from the .ar site, unfortunately, other than what the images convey.
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Quoth Scott McNealy: "Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous
system. I guess I would be nervous if my system was built
ce idol! People can vote here: http://
> www.groundworkopensource.com/community/lwce08.html
>
> The contest ends tomorrow at 11:59 PM PDT and the winner will be
> announced next Tuesday morning.
Hmm . . . they misspelled "daemon".
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Paul Graham: "Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to
write spaghetti code."
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ng to pay 'em to get our business, we might as well go for
the gold.
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Paul Graham: "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts."
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:07:07AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I wonder how much of a bounty it would take to get Amazon to release a
> > FreeBSD version of the Flash player under the terms of the BSD license.
>
>
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:40:33PM +0200, Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote:
> > Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Actually, a more probable explanation is simply that Sun -- as a
> > > monolithic economic power base in the form of a tech corporation --
> >
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:02:23PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Actually, a more probable explanation is simply that Sun -- as a
> > monolithic economic power base in the form of a tech corporation --
> > has more inf
swayed Adobe
or Macromedia before it -- and the same can be said of the Adobe Acrobat
viewer (except for the part about Macromedia). At this point, I'm not
really prepared to make any predictions about whether either the Acrobat
viewer or the Flash player will have its source opened in the for
27;t have to personally
inspect all the source code of something to enjoy the security benefits
of the open source development model. Either you're intentionally
playing dumb to ridicule someone's desire for greater security benefits
in his software choices, or you need to educate yours
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:55:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> this appears to me as spam
That's only because it *is* spam.
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Anonymous: "Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait
u
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:25:05AM +0200, Shimon Panfil wrote:
>
> Good job Julian. I was also interested in comparison of OSes. Now I am
> convinced
> not to use freeBSD.
> Many thanks, Shimon
That's an odd response.
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S. So . . . how does
this disqualify Gentoo?
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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Marvin Minsky: "It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could
actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game."
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OS in that it, um,
isn't an OS.
3. What the heck *is* an OS?
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They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade.
I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life doesn't give
yo
binaries (e.g. the above listed) on a 64-bit system?
I still haven't used FreeBSD on a system with a 64b processor, so I'm
afraid you'll have to get answers to this one from someone else, too.
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g against any rapid changes in market
realities. Visibility is a pretty handy tool for resisting those
influences of course -- and that's what Shuttleworth is bringing to
Ubuntu (as you've pretty much pointed out): visibility. None of that or
anything related to it means that the &q
ion got limited functionallity.
There's a lot of stuff you can miss in the commercial world, too.
Another note:
Often, people choose open source software for reasons of idealism. I,
for instance, and not a huge fan of software patents and copyright
restrictions (which serve as a sort of i
arn
something about ports they're installing for the first time, or changes
to the ports. On the other hand, it might require a little more work on
the part of port maintainers.
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MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the
/ports
> were the ones that took alot report in ...
Thanks much. I appreciate the effort.
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MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessa
hership,
sucking up bandwidth and system resources). I just wish that, succeed or
fail, it wasn't so damned slow. I don't need my bootup time or my
networking restart time slowed down by several minutes.
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Leon Festinger: "
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:49:30PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> >I always take "Linux" as a proxy for "Open-Source OS" in these type
> >of polls.
>
> Linux: The xerox of the open-source OS community.
. . . or maybe the kleen
>
> ... listed as a Linux distro. :|
I bet if it got a substantial showing in that poll more people would
start noticing things like the fact FreeBSD isn't a Linux distribution.
Maybe not may more -- but it'd be a step in the right direction.
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, though, is any existing efforts to count
FreeBSD users, even if such efforts are prone to error.
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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Baltasar Gracian: "A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from
his friends."
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:36:31PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> I was using the linuxpluginwrapper port successfully with Flash video on
> 6.1 not long ago. I couldn't want YouTube videos in the browser at the
> time (though I can now, with nspluginwrapper on 6.2), but t
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:23:09PM -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 01:36:21 -0600
> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > It also appears to work fine in the browser using the
> > > > FreeBSD-native Firefox
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 07:52:33PM -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:44:58 -0600
> Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It also appears to work fine in the browser using the FreeBSD-native
> > Firefox using the Linux Flash 7 plugin a
gt;
> Work fine with Seamonkey, Firefox and Linux-firefox. With the last
> one you can even look at it inside the browser instead of having
> to download it seperately.
It also appears to work fine in the browser using the FreeBSD-native
Firefox using the Linux Flash 7 plugin and the nsp
rtcomings.
Well worth its *volume* in gold . . . ? Maybe that's what you mean.
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:40:21AM -0400, Dru wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> >Thanks for the information. Is that going to be another O'Reilly book?
>
> Nope, this time it is through Jeremy Reed's publishing company:
>
> http
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:52:34PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> > I think the format of this new article may have been a bit of a clone of
> > articles by Dru Lavigne at ONLamp, the author of O'Reilly's "BSD Hacks"
;s articles in the comments at OSNews.
Umm . . .
Here they are:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html
Also, the URL of the OSNews item (since it's not at the top of the list
any longer):
http://www.osnews.com/comment
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