doesn't reject his emails, but the public
mailing list does. I think the correct response here would have been to
direct him to the freebsd-test mailing list:
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-test
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A: It reverses
in the last four years), excellent. So is Samba support on,
for instance, Debian. I believe you'll have to look outside of Samba
support for reasons to pick one over the other.
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print substr('Just another Perl hacker', 0, -2
a decent Operating System ??
gnash all the way for me..
I've had better luck with swfdec than gnash.
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A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation.
Q: What's wrong with top-posting?
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,
such as rxvt-unicode.
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McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste
your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do.
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crossed out, or with a FreeBSD logo, or
something like that.
Of course, one of my favorite one-liners is one I made up:
Power corrupts. The command line corrupts absolutely.
. . . or, altneratively:
Power corrupts. Unix corrupts absolutely.
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any further
development. It does what it needs to do, and doesn't screw around with
a bunch of singing and dancing and backflips to distract me from the fact
it doesn't do anything fundamentally new.
Just one man's opinion. Yours is surely different.
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insidious ways. As
such, I'm not sure one's experience with KDE3 is the best litmus for
whether KDE4 is or will be a good choice.
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Quoth Bill McKibben: The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have
grown increasingly divergent
train-wreck of UI with a better UI.
I mean, come on -- just look at Info Pages. What a disaster area.
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Quoth Georg Hackl: American beer is the first successful attempt at
diluting water.
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complaining in
lieu of actually productively trying to identify and fix bugs.
If you want to get involved in bug fixing, using a beta version is a
great idea. If you don't have the time or inclination, a supposed
release version that feels like beta test software is not the answer.
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be
configured to do that by default rather than the tiling thing, if you so
desire. It's currently my second choice window manager, after AHWM
(which is *not* a tiling window manager).
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Quoth Bill McKibben: The laws of Congress
it considers
friends.
I don't remember who said that first, but I find it accurate.
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Quoth Malaclypse the Younger: 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
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Quoth Albert Camus: An intellectual is someone whose mind watches
itself.
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. . . or, as someone else pointed out, one could just learn to scroll to
the end before typing. It's not that difficult -- even in Outlook.
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Quoth Larry Wall: You can never entirely stop being what you once were.
That's why it's
will
never have the kind of connectivity found in a real data center at home.
Make sure the colocation facility of your choice is multi-homed before
simply assuming it is. Some aren't.
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Quoth Larry Wall: Just don't create a file
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:14:07PM -0500, Jerry wrote:
I usually just use:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
It seems to work on both Linux and FBSD.
That does work -- as long as you have bash installed. How portable do
you want your script to be?
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started out with my two cents on the matter, and ended up
rambling about a bunch of tangential nonsense. I think that means it's
time to close up this email.
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print substr('Just another Perl hacker', 0, -2);
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on FreeBSD if I switched to MS Windows than I do of MS Windows
software when I'm on FreeBSD.
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Quoth Niccolo Machiavelli: It is a common failing of man not to take
account of tempests during fair weather.
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that,
PC-BSD is doing an excellent job of becoming the definitive MS Windows
replacement OS without adopting MS Windows problems.
. . . and, as I said, FreeBSD is a great MS Windows replacement for me.
I don't miss MS Windows *at all* when I'm using FreeBSD on my laptop
every single day.
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.
That's all I have to say on the matter; I won't reply here on out.
That's a bummer. I'd like to know your thoughts on some of my above
commentary -- particularly on the subject of PowerShell.
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A: It reverses the normal flow
Unix. Cut and paste still doesn't work well in Unix GUIs.
Think about that.
Uh . . . what?
I'll try pasting something:
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Yep, works great. In fact, I *love* that middle-click paste thing, and
on the rare occasion that I find myself
and practice are the same. In practice, they
aren't.
. . . or something to that effect.
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Larry Wall: A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you
give the audience.
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Artisan 800. I'm happy
with my HP laser printer connected directly to the network.
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Quoth Albert Camus: An intellectual is someone whose mind watches
itself.
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:37:21PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
The same applies to the X Window System. It sucks. It is laden with
various and sundry big problems; annoyances and poor design decisions
litter the X Window System. The drawbacks of Luna, Aqua, and Aero are
all even worse than
to the
attrition of time. That seems to be your approach, and I find it quite
counterproductive, especially when you couple it with weirdly anti-Unix
statements like your continuing insistence that no Unix system can
effectively replace MS Windows.
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causation -- just as repeating something many
times doesn't make it true.
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O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of
anything.
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experience, at least.
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Quoth Naguib Mahfouz: You can tell whether a man is clever by his
answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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it.
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Quoth Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
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of the quality of a replacement for a given
class of OS.
I'm also not sure I see how virtualization makes or breaks the quality of
any Unix-like system, or qualifies it as high end.
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Zat was zen, dis is tao. http://tao.apotheon.org
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:25:24PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
On Behalf Of Chad Perrin
While I agree that, without some kind of supporting argument, the
statement that Linux systems are low end Unix replacements are kind
of
spurious sounding, I don't think that market share is really
somehow complete.
What are you -- a troll?
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Quoth Larry Wall: Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized
version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'.
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. Python 3.0, there are always ways to arrange your
benchmark tests to favor whatever you want to favor. That doesn't change
the fact that FreeBSD vs. MS Windows benchmark tests can be every bit as
(un)useful as any other benchmark tests. They're not just too
different.
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, stories to the contrary are pretty
hard to find.
Of course, that seems to be more about PostgreSQL vs. Oracle than FreeBSD
vs. MS Windows.
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Quoth Thomas McCauley: The measure of a man's real character is what he
would do if he knew
product, especially in the 64-bit systems, which
are the future of computing.
Please explain your use of the word improve in this context.
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Mediocrity corrupts. Bureaucracy corrupts absolutely.
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we are to never have a FreeBSD that offers broad, stable
support for 3D accelerated graphics. I would like it if you'd stop
trying to convince people that my favorite OS shouldn't be improved.
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Quoth Henry Spencer: Those who don't
no legitimate use for 3D accelerated graphics,
for some reason -- and yes, that's pretty damned narrow-minded.
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Anonymous quoth: Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator
of human intelligence.
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is not a problem.
Those who need to do actual work, we have FreeBSD for example
Bullshit:
http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=335
Please stop trolling.
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print substr('Just another Perl hacker', 0, -2);
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something can be done about
making installing and upgrading from packages simpler and easier without
further damaging that unification.
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Quoth Edmund Burke: Your representative owes you, not his industry
only, but his judgement; and he
in the package. Such is life.
Actually, I'd love to drop OO.o too, but I haven't gained the level of
familiarity with LaTeX yet to do the things I do with OO.o when making
invoices.
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Quoth Sterling Camden: The Church doesn't want people
someone brings up anything related to migration from some
other OS to FreeBSD, you basically tell them to go away. This is
unproductive, leads to endless argument on the mailing list, and
generally makes everyone unhappy. That sounds suspiciously like trolling
to me.
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for compiling OO.o, so I live
with whatever's in the package. Such is life.
simply make your own package somewhere and then use pkg_add
Sometimes, that isn't an option.
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Quoth Georg Hackl: American beer is the first successful
.
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Quoth Marvin Minsky: . . . anyone could learn Lisp in 1 day, except
that if they already knew Fortran, it would take 3 days.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:24:19PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:12:19 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Please stop trolling.
chad, i don't think this is fair to wojciech. he is expressing his
feelings and considerable knowledge about an os that he doesn't want
system?
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Quoth Paul Graham: SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a
gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.)
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:47:23PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:11:25 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
His manner of expressing his feelings seems to be to try to crush
others' beneath his heel. Try examining the definition of the word
fair before you use
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Can we stop trying to dissuade people
from improving FreeBSD, and from advocating for improvements?
i don't think that's really what is happening, chad.
i
-- and not as a reference to
the concept of talking to you at all. If I find I have more to say, I'll
send it off-list, as you suggest.
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My first programming koan: If a lambda has the ability to access its
context, but there isn't any
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:45:20PM -0600, Tyson Boellstorff wrote:
On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:58:14 Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700
i don't think that's really what is happening, chad.
i think
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:50:36PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:58:14 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated
graphics is not an improvement, and should therefore not be
considered a worthy goal
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:44:27PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
michael writes:
why don't we all just say it. freebsd sucks because it isn't cp/m.
CP/? Poser. I want my TWENEX back.
:-)
What do you have against ITS?
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:15:35PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
cropping up and saying the equivalent of If we work on that stuff,
FreeBSD will just become MS Windows, and it'll suck. I disagree with
because linux got exactly that way and it sucks now.
Are you reading this, prad?
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:07:45AM -0800, prad wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:11:48 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
I don't recall anyone saying I'm with such-and-such a FreeBSD
development team, and these are the reasons we aren't going to do
anything about that at this time
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:35:46PM -0500, Michael Powell wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated
graphics is not an improvement, and should therefore not be considered
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:02:28PM -0500, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:32:59 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
NVidia MUST INCLUDE full documentation of their hardware.
this is normal - hardware manufacturer produces hardware, programmers
do make
in my day to day life, either, but it sure is an eye
opener and fun to look at every once in a while.
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Quoth James Madison: If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it
will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy
of value.
Interestingly, my random signature generator seems to have something to
say about this topic as well.
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Quoth Jon Postel, RFC 761: [B]e conservative in what you do, be liberal
in what you accept from others.
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.
Also . . . it appears that, after reading all these posts, you've
forgotten how to crop quotes.
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Power corrupts. The command line corrupts absolutely.
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. it's just fact.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
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O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of
anything.
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.
So, no . . . PC-BSD isn't good enough for my purposes, because it's
serving someone else's purposes entirely.
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Quoth Henry Spencer: Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to
reinvent it, poorly.
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FreeBSD do what one wants
it to do isn't a FreeBSD topic.
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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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some vague, unsupported (but stubborn) notion
that secrets are good for business. At least it *seems* they all think
so.
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A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation.
Q: What's wrong with top-posting?
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like the
peripheral projects associated with it, and its users.
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Quoth Naguib Mahfouz: You can tell whether a man is clever by his
answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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...@?
indeed. with this and other non-freebsd topics
You, yourself, spawn this kind of digression into off-topicness every now
and then. Perhaps *you* should reserve some of *your* comments for
freebsd-chat, too.
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Mike Maples, as quoted
such a contentious trojan
horse of an enemy to the FreeBSD project?
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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
you any sugar
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:37:09AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
On Sat 13 Dec 2008 at 01:44:03 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
I rather suspect that a much stronger, and more common, reason for
obstinate refusal to open specs is the short-sightedness and general
ignorance of daycoders and pointy
, I hope someone else
can help you, because I don't know.
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Quoth Alan Perlis: LISP programmers know the value of everything and
the cost of nothing.
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to them to give some BSD
Unix variant a try -- and if they haven't been poisoned against BSD Unix
systems by GNU/FSF propaganda in the meantime.
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Quoth Edward Murphy, Jr. (Murphy's Law): If there's more than one way
to do a job and one
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:57:28PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
bad (TM).
No -- at *any* level:
you are wrong.
for example you WILL like to control what oficially your employees
ktalk about your company.
That's not censorship -- it's a nondisclosure agreement.
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:26:21PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:43:02 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
I'll
provide a technical example, as opposed to a social example, so maybe
you'll be able to understand my point ...
good illustrative examples, chad!
i
and not others. But
removing off-topic messages, that are 95% now or more.
1. When moderation is increased, so too are false positives -- like
removing statements of opinion that shouldn't be removed.
2. Your idea of off topic seems to include stuff relevant to FreeBSD.
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that moderator's
job will be just removing posts that classify to NTG. NOTHING else.
As long as neither you, nor anyone that thinks like you, is in charge of
moderation, it might not be a *complete* disaster.
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Quoth Peter Norvig: Use
thinking about trying out FreeBSD, you immediately assume
the person doesn't want to learn without bothering to read any further, I
don't think you actually have any way of knowing whether anyone wants to
learn most of the time.
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Quoth Colin
(ictionary).
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John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also
use words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that
pointing has not made words obsolete, there will always be command
lines
with a base-sys...@freebsd.org list where you can
hang out and be happy.
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Power corrupts. The command line corrupts absolutely.
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subthread. I don't
remember exactly where, but I mentioned terms like laptop and package
deal (or something to that effect) a bit. Please address that before
you go bandying this weak argument around any more.
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Quoth William Gibson
performance per dollar in their class. Pentium 4, though,
certainly sucks.
The first generation of Celeron processors were kick-ass x86-compatible
CPUs for their time, too -- actually better than Intel intended them to
be. Weird how that happens.
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:50:00PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:25 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
I think he's trying to say that open source drivers would be preferable,
and to develop them we'd need the hardware specs so we'd have a target
toward which to develop drivers
is that Stallman and friends have very strange notions about
what constitutes freedom -- strange, but all too common.
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print substr('Just another Perl hacker', 0, -2);
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under the same patent.
Be very careful. Even in the US, where there's a presumption of
innocence built into criminal law, the presumption of innocence doesn't
apply in civil court.
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Principle of Exclusion: The strength of any system
, it might not be a *complete* disaster.
of course it should be you to remove all my posts:)
I wouldn't remove all your posts. You've said five or six things that
were on-topic.
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Quoth Friedrich Nietzche: Those who know
haven't noticed, but it doesn't say about the FreeBSD
Base System.
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Quoth H. L. Mencken: In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always
something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a
Republican
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:14:10PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 19:21 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:39:26AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
Hence why I tend to send really green unix newbies to linux school than
grind their teeth on FreeBSD straight up. Let
the link to:
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies
sorry, i was sure it exist, but wasn't aware because i never wanted to
subscribe to freebsd-newbies.
Funny -- I read you suggesting that it might exist, and wanted to go sign
up for it so I could help out.
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/
|
/ \
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Quoth Larry Wall: Just don't create a file called -rf.
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that backwards.
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Quoth James Madison: If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it
will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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, judging
by what I've read. By all accounts, though, it got back on track.
I wonder if NetBSD got better again after you left, if it ever got worse
in the first place.
And i really want to keep it that way, because there is no alternative
now!
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are intentionally written in a somewhat vague way so they can be
extended via case law at a later date.
Nothing is legal under the current US system unless you can defend it
in civil court. That's my general rule of thumb.
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Quoth markinct
offering tower system motherboards that accept Pentium M processors in
2003, but alas, they were just rumors.
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Mediocrity corrupts. Bureaucracy corrupts absolutely.
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do get patented all the time.
Anyway . . . as it happens, patenting a method provides far more broad
power than patenting an algorithm, anyway, in practice. That's one of
the reason (software) patents are so damaging.
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Quoth Reginald
by
stopping middlemen from stripping it away.
Please don't spam the FreeBSD list with such propaganda. That's a
personal request -- I don't pretend to speak for the entire list.
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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Naguib Mahfouz: You can tell whether a man is clever
to Linux instead by people like you.
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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Principle of Inclusion: The strength of any system is directly
proportional to the power of the tools it provides for the general
public.
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 02:22:31PM -0800, Brian Whalen wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
Tell that to the uncountable hordes of dedicated Linux users who don't
know what they're missing and, as such, see no reason to even give
FreeBSD a try.
Many Linux people I know still think FreeBSD SMP
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:07:36AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 13:43 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 02:16:34AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Unfortunately, anything covered by a patent, as I hinted
above, is verboten.
Er, doesn't
for this idea?
In general, I think FreeBSD is an *excellent* choice for this. You
should consider specifics of your particular case, of course, but based
on what you said I see no reason that FreeBSD shouldn't meet your needs
exceedingly well.
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash
will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround.
What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer?
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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http
, and configure
it all to precise specifications, with a minimum of effort -- using
FreeBSD itself. With PC-BSD, on the other hand, you won't even know what
all is installed, and will have to spend a lot of time crawling through
the system figuring out what to uninstall.
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in
flight?
Okay . . . feel free to ignore the last two or three questions.
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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Henry Spencer: Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to
reinvent it, poorly.
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wanted. It seems odd to me that there isn't an option for that in
portinstall (ignoring -m for the moment).
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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin: The decisions that
really matter are made outside the democratic process
.
how can I solve this?
Is it impossible to list and also name files with accented letter?
I believe it is possible to name files with unicode characters, but in
general I'd advise against it.
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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Robert Martin: Would you
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[2] http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p#571
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Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Anonymous: Why do we never have time to do it right, but always
have time to do it over?
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:11:52AM -0900, Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 06 January 2009 10:31:26 Chad Perrin wrote:
Out-of-band corroboration of a certificate's authenticity is kind of
necessary to the security model of SSL/TLS. A self-signed certificate,
in and of itself, is not really
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