Re: OpenBSD in April's issue of the CACM

2012-05-30 Thread Nomen Nescio
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,

Re: puffy copyright infringement?

2012-05-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- [++-]+++.+++[---].+++[+ +++-].++[-]+.--.[-] I love that .sig, I think it is the only one in brainf*ck I have seen. Did you code that by hand or generate it somehow?

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Nomen Nescio
You wrote: On Friday 09 March 2012 13:10:13 Nomen Nescio wrote: Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy Windows and too stupid to figure out how to find a free copy of XP or Win 7 on the net

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Nomen Nescio
Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy Windows and too stupid to figure out how to find a free copy of XP or Win 7 on the net and do the activation or find a password. That's a pretty small user space.

Re: Trusting the Installation

2012-03-05 Thread Nomen Nescio
This mailing list is not about snake oil products on sale somewhere. The post I replied to asked how one can be sure he runs trusted software and my reply was it doesn't help you if you aren't 100% sure your hardware is kosher. And for all practical purposes you can't. True but I think it

Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?

2012-01-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:10:19 +0100, Nomen Nescio nob...@dizum.com wrote: Why not? They're using their own chip design. I doubt they pay MIPS.inc for a license but maybe they do. FYI, they has a MIPS license. Thank you. I stand corrected.

Re: Please help me

2012-01-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
I never mean to disturb you with what is going on in my family but I am crying out loud to request your help. My twin sister has been suffering from breast cancer for a while and its become worse so we had to conclude on her surgery for her to get cured as said by the doctors but the cost is

Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?

2012-01-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
Apple's iPhone is slave-labor hardware too: how much does it cost? Too right. How many people have thrown themselves from Foxconn's towers? ...As well as all the other electronic gadgets on the market, btw... Not all but many. It is worthwhile looking into how what we buy affects people.

Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?

2012-01-03 Thread Nomen Nescio
Are we a tourette treatment center? Why don't you add it to your .sig shithead ;-) -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. Securing

Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?

2012-01-02 Thread Nomen Nescio
1) you have no idea what it costs them to make one And you do, right? 2) pure production cost isn't the entire picture Why not? They're using their own chip design. I doubt they pay MIPS.inc for a license but maybe they do. So what? A license costs 200 dollars per unit? I don't think so. 3)

Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?

2012-01-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
These words you keep on using... I don't think they mean what you think they mean. That's ok because I'm the one who keeps on using them, not you. But I meant what I wrote just so you know. Noone is holding you at gunpoint until you are buying a Lemote device. No but the factory is making

Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?

2011-12-31 Thread Nomen Nescio
most netbooks with Intel Atom retail in the $250 to $400 range; what's your damage? Because the Longsoon stuff is not on the level of refinement of Intel, not by a long shot. Longsoon is supposed to be cheap. So far it's not.

Re: Where to buy Lemote FuLoong MIPS boxes?

2011-12-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
The fulong is selling for 1800 RMB, which is the same price as tekmote.nl is charging. Thanks for the data point, Rob. I'll wait until prices come down.

Re: Where to buy Lemote FuLoong MIPS boxes?

2011-12-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
I just got a quote from alibaba.com to import an 8089-B from Lemote for $190 + $48 (I think that's 182E (where's that darn Euro key?)) Thanks but that is still too damn high. I'll wait until the Chinese decide to dump these on the market in some trade war and buy ten when they hit 50 bucks a

Where to buy Lemote FuLoong MIPS boxes?

2011-12-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
The prices at the official European shop in the Netherlands are sky high. I thought this was supposed to be a 150 dollar PC. Does anybody have a good cheap source for these or other MIPS boxes? Thanks.

Re: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on computers equipped with AMD Athlon64

2011-12-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
I've built up several of the Supermicro SYS-5015A-EHF boxes (1U rack, dual core 1.66G Atom, dual Gb Intel LAN, IPMI) with 4GB and an SSD, uses less than 25w at idle and less than 30w doing a-j3 userland build (according to my cheap little wattage testing device). At first I said sweet! but

Re: What generates the OpenBSD page?

2011-12-10 Thread Nomen Nescio
Oh man, you are drastically reducing the average intelligence of any group you join. But I liked this admission on your blog: Just for the record, I make no illusions about being a complete jerk. Nor have I ever tried to be nice to a stranger once in my life, unless it was a homeless person whom

Re: RAM seen vs. RAM available HP ML 570 G2

2011-12-07 Thread Nomen Nescio
Yes, exactly. OpenBSD supports 4GB RAM only on 64-bit architectures. Isn't that a limitation of Intel x32 rather than an OpenBSD limitation?

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Nomen Nescio
See changes below: Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:30 AM Subject: help me To: netbsd-us...@netbsd.org I am a seasoned expert at OpenBSD. I downloaded the IA64 version for my new Intel Quad and burned a CD. I got some stupid warning about burning a 5.2G ISO as data on a 80 minute CD but I