RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I must have missed something, how would running the Chrome browser collect our valuable data? What other purpose would Google have for creating this software? Everything Google does is attempt to collect more data, whether it's collecting the world'

RE: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Seriously, what Google is doing is exactly like what AT&T did when they sent out source of the early UNIX to all those colleges and universities, so many years ago. This isn't about creating software, it's about collecting our data. I don't underst

Re: messagebus user

2008-08-28 Thread jef moskot
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: You should be able to change its uid by deinstalling dbus, then editing /usr/ports/devel/dbus/pkg-install, changing the uid in that script to an unused ID, and reinstalling. That worked fine, thanks. Still don't know what this thing does (the things dep

messagebus user

2008-08-26 Thread jef moskot
We just upgraded to a new server (FreeBSD 7.0) and in our passwd file is the user "messagebus" (there's also a group). What's this for and can the UID be changed? It's got the same number as one of our oldest users and we're trying to determine which UID would be easier to switch. While thi