On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:53:58PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote:
Now this is strange... it should be available. See the sem(4) manpage.
No idea how to help from this point except to advice you
unsubscribed from freebsd-ports@ a while ago, so I can't
just respond in-thread to the www/firefox35 coredumps discussion there.
Would it be better for me to start a new thread on freebsd-ports@ rather
than continue discussing it here?
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So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the
risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab session, et cetera)? For
some reason, it seems that the upgrade has to be made by deleting 3.0 and
installing 3.5 afterward. What's up with that?
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:43:47AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without running the
risk of losing everything (bookmarks, a 100-tab session, et cetera)?
Well, I don't
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 02:28:22AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:07:36 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Do you know this from personal experience, or are you just assuming that
I won't pull out all my hair five seconds after I discover it deleted a
bunch
, and liked it, but
eventually decided I liked Sawfish slightly more, then that I liked AHWM
a *lot* more.
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Quoth Alan Kay: I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell
you I did not have C++ in mind.
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kldunload works for me as well. If you turn debug up on ifconfig does that
give you any clues?
I dunno. Maybe I'm using the debug parameter incorrectly, but it isn't
giving me *anything*. How is it supposed to be used?
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:20:25PM +0200, Maciej Milewski wrote:
Dnia wtorek 14 lipiec 2009 o 07:38:49 Chad Perrin napisał(a):
I'm having a real bitch of a time trying to figure out how to shut down
the wireless adapter's radio. The driver module won't unload as long as
the adapter
on the computer or something
like that.
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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 Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:53:42PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote:
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 12:28:40 Chad Perrin wrote:
At first glance, it looks like the iwi equivalent is dev.iwi.0.radio,
where 1 is on and 0 is off. It won't let me set it to 0, though,
claiming it's a read-only sysctl setting
away!
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Quoth Larry Wall: You can never entirely stop being what you once were.
That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it
off till tomorrow.
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) an Intel
wireless adapter, with if_iwi.ko as my driver module. It's an Intel
PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection according to pciconf -lv.
Thanks in advance.
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Quoth Peter Norvig: Use the most natural notation available
was
screwed gently with a chainsaw by the Ubuntu team.
Of course, that's only almost tolerate, as you said. Even Debian
annoys the crap out of me, now that I've gotten familiar enough with
FreeBSD to realize what I was missing.
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on an OS I quite dislike on the rare occasion I need to do cross-platform
Web development testing.
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Quoth Alan Perlis: LISP programmers know the value of everything and
the cost of nothing.
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the implications.
I think the intent was to do away with /bin/ed and /rescue/vi in favor of
/bin/vi -- not to do away with /bin/ed and /rescue/vi and replace them
with nothing.
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Quoth Alan Kay: I invented the term
.
On the other hand, I don't see any reason to refuse to offer an optional
install of /bin/vi for those who prefer it and don't want to have to
brute-force install it by manually copying it, thus eliminating
relatively simple and easy upgrades when security concerns demand it.
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the original vi is insufficient for my needs, but that Vim's
development doesn't exactly match my preferences. FreeBSD's nvi seems to
have moved in exactly the right direction from the original vi, but not
far enough for my needs. As a result, I'm pretty much stuck with Vim for
now.
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:41:34PM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
Nvi is not Vi, and Vim is not Nvi clone.
I thought that was self-evident.
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Quoth Steve McConnell: Good code is its own best documentation. As
you're about
, lo these many moons ago when the world was young and dinosaurs
roamed the Earth.
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Quoth H. L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory that the common people
know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:33:05AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:13:47 -0600
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
If 0.111% of customers are unfortunate enough to end up with something
entirely beyond their control causing something to happen that can be
imagined
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:31:12PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:55:49 -0600
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce the likelihood that I
will be forced to learn from my own. If you really want to learn from
your own mistakes
business practices.
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Quoth Paul Graham: Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way
to write spaghetti code.
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around concern five or six when I'm choosing a
domain name registrar.
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Quoth Robert Martin: Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later?
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snowing users in with stupidity long enough to see if the problem goes
away (even if only by the customer going away in annoyance). Clearly,
individual customers aren't important to ISP management these days.
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Quoth Martin
different from closed source software in the end,
because there's no guarantee that the officially blessed binary wasn't
compiled from code modified to do things that the source provided to you
doesn't do.
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Quoth Marvin Minsky
, such perfidy *can* occur even in open source software, but it's
easier to discover and, I believe, less likely to occur because of that
ease of discovery.
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Quoth Malaclypse the Younger: 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds
that is
specifically suited primarily for a mouse-driven interface.
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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 on their
technology too.
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developers and vendors,
where many such failings of secure development may go unnoticed due to
the inability to determine exactly what's going on under the hood once
you've noticed there's something wrong with the application.
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Microsoft does wrong with software development, of course.
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Quoth Dennis Miller: Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian Cat away
from being the villain in a James Bond movie.
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:06:18PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
Whatever happened to BeOS?
Be went out of business. There have been a couple of clone projects to
spring up since then. As mentioned, there's Haiku, the heir apparent to
BeOS at this point.
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.
Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by
that site when the bright yellow irradiated my retinas still hasn't
entirely faded.
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Quoth Georg Hackl: American beer is the first successful attempt
to run screen.
screen bash
(Press Control-A then d)
(Logout from shell)
(Log back in)
screen -r
. . . or use tmux instead of GNU Screen, if you like.
I got the impression this question was about a script backgrounding
itself, though -- possibly creating a daemon using bash.
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so use text mode links/elinks :)
Maybe I will, if I ever visit that site again.
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Quoth Richard Pattis: If you cannot grok the overall structure of a
program while taking a shower, e.g., with no external memory aids, you
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:17:17PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
2009/6/5 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com:
That's horrifying. Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages.
Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by
that site when the bright yellow irradiated my
a
moving works well.
It works in a slow, tedious fashion, without much fine-grained control.
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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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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:33:28PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text
console based browser I've ever encountered. Moving around within a
page and selecting a link
that doesn't trust the user isn't trustworthy
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=362
The article is particular to encryption, of course, but the same
priniciples are easily generalized to other software types.
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On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:03:19AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
so you like to moderate me, being against moderation
I think GT would like you to moderate yourself, as would I.
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Quoth Larry Niven: That's the thing
-related problems because
they don't have the time or resources to test on different OSes to nail
down the points of departure between different OSes? Are they just SOL
in your estimation? Should we tell them FOAD because FreeBSD is the only
OS they use?
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perspectives -- since
I'm sure we're assuming a strictly moderated list would be intended to
help rather than merely control.
So . . . you have the same choice in a dictatorship that you have in a
benign dictatorship: leave.
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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:00:49AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
So . . . you have the same choice in a dictatorship that you have in a
benign dictatorship: leave.
That should have said:
So . . . you have the same choice in a moderated mailing list that you
have in a benign dictatorship
happens to have a Linux-based
system handy.
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Quoth FreeBSD Secure Programming Guidelines: In fact, never ever use
gets() or sprintf(), period. If you do - we will send evil dwarfs after
you.
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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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the question in the first place then?
Maybe he's trolling. Look how successful he was at instigating a flame
war. . . .
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Quoth Bill McKibben: The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have
grown increasingly divergent
on the matter of what does and does not constitute
opinion so that people who disdain what others observe but cannot
necessarily prove will not find it as easy to dismiss things as mere
opinion.
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Quoth Anonymous: Why do we never have
itself, and I'm happy being here. I can
understand how some of the failures in the community to be a perfect ray
of sunshine might put off some users, though, without immediately jumping
to the conclusion that those users don't give a crap about the quality of
the OS at all.
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that started this thread. Why
do you relentlessly ignore not only the actual wording of the original
email, but also the corrections offered by others?
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Quoth Yasir Arafat on religious wars: You're basically killing each
other
between the server
machine and the ISP. The ISP is Comcast.
Using the proxy, trying to reach freebsd.org just gives me a blank page
and (Untitled) in the Firefox tab.
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Quoth Larry Niven: That's the thing about people who
. Puchar flame war was in full swing. Please give it a
little time.
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A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation.
Q: What's wrong with top-posting?
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FreeBSD page then
ssh -C -L 8000:69.147.83.33:80 yourhost
and browse http://localhost:8000
it certainly work ;)
I use the proxy to protect my entire browsing session when on a public
network -- not just for accessing freebsd.org.
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by your own personal
standards of off-topic (which appear to be significantly more strict
than those of the list itself). Perhaps you shouldn't contribute to the
problem.
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Quoth Colleen McManus: still, if you cut through all
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:03:58PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chris Rees googlemail.com!utis...@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
2009/5/14 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com:
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:38:30AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
I think the problem with that is he meant changing
off using /bin/sh if you want a
Bourne-type shell, or using toor with /usr/local/bin/bash.
I've never understood the resistance to just use toor instead of root if
one wants a nonstandard administrative shell.
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Quoth
in and re-attach to the screen session later to check up on
it.
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Quoth Larry Wall: Just don't create a file called -rf.
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:26:10AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
Also, thanks, everyone for the tip about screen.
Don't forget tmux.
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Quoth Colin McFadyen: Unix is not an 'a-ha' experience, it is more of a
'holy-shit
attitude. I wish you the best of luck in coming to an
equitable and satisfying decision about licensing, and in future coding
efforts.
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Mike Maples, as quoted by James Gleick: My job is to get a fair share
of the software
of a rejection of both copyright and copyleft.
Check out the canonical explanation:
http://copyfree.org/policy/
Both the BSD license and the Open Works License are copyfree licenses, as
are a number of other popular and widely used licenses.
I hope you get some value from my rambling.
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it
sleeps and wakes reliably when I remember to do stuff in the right order,
my uptime isn't limited by staying in one place. The uptime isn't very
impressive right now, though, since I shut it down during a three day
drive across the country a few days ago.
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with
the BSD license that requirement does not exist.
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Quoth The Financial Times: As an ultimate incentive to solve the
millennium bug computer problem, China has ordered its airline
executives to take a flight on January 1
http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=622
+ Choose the right licensing model for security software
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=610
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for an alternative?
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Quoth Larry Wall: It's more important to be a good driver than to have
seven feet of sponge rubber all around your car.
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:47:41AM -0900, Mel wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2009 10:56:20 Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote:
http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-n
ow/
I think it might for a great
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:28:20PM -0900, Mel wrote:
Ah that site. It wouldn't, my apologies.
Oh -- you thought I was talking about the first site. Sorry, I guess I
wasn't as clear about what I meant.
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Quoth Colleen
/index.php?showtopic=129263
It's disappointing that I haven't seen any responses to this. I'm
curious about the existence of such tools as well. Have you gotten any
answers off-list that you can share with those of us on the list who
might also like to know?
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:03:15PM +0530, Mehul Ved wrote:
Compile it on P1 90MHz? :( I can't install FreeBSD on any other PC.
I can totally understand not wanting to compile software on a 90MHz
Pentium 1.
Why can't you install FreeBSD on any other PC?
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:01:54PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote:
What I find ironic, is that the talent drifts either to fully
commercial projects, or those which are licensed under BSD - and in
many cases even both.
What's so ironic about that?
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is
split into two domains (core and ports) -- and thus have a place outside
the FreeBSD handbook for the same, more-than-professional quality of
documentation, but covering things we wouldn't be comfortable putting in
the FreeBSD Handbook itself.
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their foot off, however, then it's
fine with me, as long as they know what they are doing when they point
the cvs update gun backwards in time :)
Wait -- what? Keeping it out of the core isn't good enough . . . ?
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Quoth Larry Wall
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote:
http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-now/
I think it might for a great official stool for FreeBSD as soon as the
designer's site is usable without Flash.
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.
That's because /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and
/usr/local/browser_plugins aren't in your home directory.
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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
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:09:51PM -0500, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
[snip]
I can see both sides of this argument. Maybe we need to split up
FreeBSD documentation into two domains, similarly to the way FreeBSD
software is split
writing by pushing myself to use it for personal notes.
Maybe we can wikify some of the stuff that is not really Handbook-material?
I can definitely try doing that :)
I'd definitely support such an effort.
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Quoth Anonymous C
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:28:51AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:00 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Wait -- what? Keeping it out of the core isn't good enough . . . ?
I'm sorry Chad. I lost you there. What 'core' are we talking about?
I'm
quoting techniques still cause me some anguish. :)
That's a pretty good idea.
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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 on their
technology too
have something
valuable to contribute to the world of FreeBSD, with only a brief stop in
the land of Gentoo/BSD.
I guess time will tell.
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Quoth Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but
having to build programs out
before. For example, I have seen
significantly better framerates for World of Warcraft using Wine than
using MS Windows XP, on the same machine.
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Power corrupts. The command line corrupts absolutely.
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Quoth Philip Machanick: caution: if you write code like this,
immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your
code after you leave will resign
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. If you were
starting Firefox from the shell, you probably just needed to enter
`rehash` to get it to recognize changes to what's in the execution path.
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Quoth Sean Reifschneider: If java had real garbage-collection, it would
delete
of GNU userland as the
best of the Debian world. Of course, you seem to question that yourself
with that parenthesized question mark.
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Quoth Sean Reifschneider: If java had real garbage-collection, it would
delete most programs before
that
doesn't clutter up my workspace with a bunch of unnecessary cruft makes
it more difficult to use the mouse when it's appropriate and helpful to
do so.
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Quoth Larry Wall: Just don't create a file called -rf.
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. . . if I'd known that, I might have considered voting for him.
Maybe.
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Quoth FreeBSD Secure Programming Guidelines: In fact, never ever use
gets() or sprintf(), period. If you do - we will send evil dwarfs after
you.
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name me Jewish lover, well, I'm Asian, that means I'm a chink. But
it's Mr. Chink to you, thank you very much.
Technically, chink is a slur for Chinese -- not Asian in general.
Just tryin' ta help.
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Quoth Sterling Camden: The Church
system, then move
them from the MS Windows system to the FreeBSD system and import them to
Thunderbird there?
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Quoth Niccolo Machiavelli: It is a common failing of man not to take
account of tempests during fair weather
, it works great -- I just hit
scroll lock twice, and it switches between a FreeBSD desktop tower and an
MS Windows desktop tower.
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Quoth Antony Jay: In corporate religions as in others, the heretic must
be cast out not because
sabotaged the authentication process this time.
Authentication of an entity and the decision whether to trust that entity
are two separate things, and should be treated as such.
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Quoth Anonymous C Professor: To work on a program
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:08:56PM -0800, Walt Pawley wrote:
At 12:31 PM -0700 1/6/09, Chad Perrin wrote:
On the other hand, I don't trust Verisign, either.
What's to trust? If you pay them, you in.
Exactly. That's why I -- as the guy sitting in front of the *browser* --
don't trust
/~perspectives/index.html
[2] http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p#571
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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
.
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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Quoth Robert Martin: Would you
in
flight?
Okay . . . feel free to ignore the last two or three questions.
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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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Quoth Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin: The decisions that
really matter are made outside the democratic process
, 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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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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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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