ld. In fact,
one of the biggest problems in the Linux world is the fact that GNU
projects have a tendency to degrade in quality over time and pretty
thoroughly undermine the Unix philosophy in egregious ways, which means
that the sooner we can divest ourselves of GNU tools (including GCC) the
red to
> Clang.
>
> That would help explain why FreeBSD is switching to Clang.
Related (perhaps somewhat indirectly):
Advancement Through License Simplicity
http://univacc.net/?page=license_simplicity
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ve you a mistaken
impression that there was not much discussion of the matter.
. . . and thanks for calling the concerns of everyone who wants to be
able to use FreeBSD as the basis of other projects without having to deal
with problematic licensing restrictions as "stupid" and &qu
everyone else at
fault for the fact you cannot see past your nose to note that the whole
world does not revolve around some dubious benchmarks.
I doubt you're convincing anyone of anything you seem to think we should
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ahead, as long as it doesn't perpetuate this wholly unnecessary griping
on the mailing list.
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e for any help I can get in figuring this out.
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are all you see. It is
ludicrous to watch you close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears,
and shout "lalalalalalalala" so consistently to prevent any other factors
involved in compiler choice from entering your mind -- such as good
output from a compiler that will be stable and
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:16:09PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > i already proposed (but not publically) to turn FreeBSD into
> > > commercial system.
> > >
>
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:24:57AM -0500, Reid Linnemann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I disagree with the assessment by others that FreeBSD is in some way
> > effectively a subsidiary of its corporate users, but it does have
> > corporate
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:47:40PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:09:03AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I'm setting up a "new" backup server using FreeBSD. It will be used for
> > backing up laptops, which will not be connected to the netwo
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:14:34PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> > I'm setting up a "new" backup server using FreeBSD. It will be used for
> > backing up laptops, which will not be connected to the ne
not that it provides features that can't be managed
> directly by rsync.
Actually, a Wake-On-LAN feature is not at all necessary for me in this
case. It's a simple enough task to just trigger a backup manually at the
command line via a script that automates the process
ry emailing Dillon for clarification, too.
In any case, I'll take a closer look at cpdup. Thanks for bringing it to
my attention.
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:18:13PM +0800, lei yang wrote:
>
> Aha,I just want to learn want to know how to build the netcat for
> freebsd version on a no-freebsd platform
I'm really curious, now:
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d if you've ever seen 'ps' report that it had
> itself been swapped out. Yep, again.
>
> Ah, good times.
>
> I think I still have some memory _chips_ (zip scrams, not dips) around
> here somewhere
You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand wit
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:33:36PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair
> of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two
> pieces of metal stuck in it as a power source.
s/bar/bare/
Now
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:04:27PM -0700, Ryan Noll wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Jul 25, 2012 7:34 PM, "Chad Perrin" wrote:
> > You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair
> > of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a pota
s far as the FreeBSD project or any
FreeBSD users before things come crashing down.
(disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Et cetera.)
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO -- into its grave,
> > having hung all its hopes on litigation. Along the way, though, it will
> >
ovement/change to it to not qualify under that, then they would
> be well within patent law to apply for a patent.
. . . in theory. In practice, if you don't have the resources to mount a
serious defense against a deep-pockets patent holder, prior art isn't
going to get you far.
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> fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat"
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>
> The european patent office system pressures examiners towards granting
> if they can't quickly find prove the application is already known.
The same applies in the US.
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:14:33AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:57:59 -0600
> Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:39:21PM +, Traiano Welcome wrote:
> > > >
> > Unfortunately, patent law and copyright
peed will
> gonna be the differentiator.
The idea that ZFS is faster than XFS is certainly a new one for me. Do
you have some benchmarks for that?
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he opposite of a free market. In fact,
the socialistic "labor theory of value" is a much more effective basis
for justifying a patent system than any concepts of economic schools of
thought more oriented toward free market capitalism, because patents are
designed to "protect" a l
really fair one. If the word "fair" can be used for lawyers at all.
>
> Most often they just want court cases to have "work".
I'm not sure you understood what I said, because what *you* said here
seems irrelevant to what I said.
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reward someone receives; in all too many cases that is just
> not so. The socialists still feel they are entitled to something for
> nothing.
. . . which need not have *anything* at all to do with a discussion of
whether a system of patents
quot;.
The more we can avoid code written by Poettering and anything remotely
like it, the better off we will be, I'm sure. Luckily, he wants to help
us; he has stated that he believes writing quality, portable code somehow
hinders "innovation", and
t a pdf viewer from ports that might help.
>
> evince? Did you try it? I do not have it installed at the moment, so I
> am not able to tell you.
Zathura might be worth a try, too.
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Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD
servers for software updates? I'm curious about the direct comparison of
numbers between FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE for this metric.
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 07:45:12PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote:
> Must resist the urge to post...
>
> 10
>
> (I am weak)...
There are 10 types of people in the world. . . .
(You're the 10nd type.)
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:57:49PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD
> > servers for software updates? I'm curious about the direct comparison of
> &g
pair is really a
helpful form of verbosity.
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to find out what's going on with the wait. That doesn't mean I want
anyone prioritizing speed over quality, though.
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finally get this
> sorted out.
>
> So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example,
> evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey
> buggy *&^%$#@ acroread ?
The first thing to do should simply be to uninstall acro
=c {print
> $4;}{a=$1;b=$2;c=$3}' \
I'm never comfortable calling something like that a "one-liner". If it
runs over 80 columns of width, that (to me) doesn't really qualify as a
one-liner.
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o I set fetchmail and sendmail to fetch
> such emails?
You might want to try out the mail/fdm port instead of fetchmail. I have
found fetchmail to be obtuse and cantankerous; I stopped using it a long
time ago.
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ot;, which is what
should be showing during DST in the Eastern (US) time zone. When it's
not DST, what should be showing in the Eastern time zone is "EST"
instead. From what you said, though, it seems you had set it to "EDT"
when it was not yet daylight saving time.
o mind that wouldn't involve
writing some code -- so if it would take you weeks to write code to do
the work for you, I guess you're stuck with taking weeks to do it, unless
you want to just do it all by hand.
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s actually a derivative of the
FreeBSD Documentation License. There may be a couple here and there
distributed under other licenses as well.
I'm not anyone officially associated with the documentation project,
though, so don't just take my word for it if you have reason to question
wha
r than xterm. And it has transparancy
> > or
> > backgrounds if you like that.
>
> It's not "a lot lighter" - I made a table recently to investigate.
> See
>
> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_rxvt
Thanks for the research. I
e is called.
If it's too late to plan ahead, as in the case of -elDeJaPWGg.flv, you
can just use a filename glob:
rm *PWGg.flv
Whether this works depends on your shell, though. In tcsh, for instance,
it won't work, and you'll have to use the -- option as suggest
hat end?
>
> Every modern system that can run awk can also run Perl. Why not
> concentrate on Perl?
Maybe he wants to understand Awk well enough to translate a bunch of Awk
scripts to Perl.
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ctly) -- but they also
prohibit copyleft projects that use a different copyleft license from
using their code.
I find the hypocrisy rather odious. I suppose your tastes may differ.
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no idea if Vista and Windows7 are still using the BSD
> networking stack).
It's true either way, because Garry said "(or used to use)". It is true
that MS Windows used to use a BSD licensed network stack.
My understanding is that this got replaced in Vista, however, in case
you
rs
> should work amounts to near anarchy
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html>.
I do not think "anarchy" is the correct term so much as "chaos".
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TCP/IP
stack source code is quite clean and readable -- and therefore easily
reused.
There may be other reasons involved. FreeBSD does tend to rate fairly
well in network performance benchmarks, by the way, but those benchmarks
are not typically tuned for testing the TCP/IP stack *specifical
tart looking to figure out the problem? Unfortunately,
it looks like the FreeBSD Handbook only deals with lpd.
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not particular to the printer, since my
girlfriend's laptop (running Ubuntu) prints the same PDF just fine.
I'll send the specific PDF I've been trying to print lately, off-list.
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rint using /usr/local/bin/lpr to print, the same
problem occurs -- so it's not specific to either of those tools. I
really do seem to be having a problem with CUPS behavior itself.
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:12:40PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> >CUPS is a black box to me, filled with black magic.
>
> Me too. That's why I use lpd.
I'm considering it, at least for this laptop. Still, it would
27;t seem to make a difference. Did I need to
> restart something to get that to take effect?
I suspect those correspond to the margin settings in GtkLP, but fiddling
with those settings has zero observable effect on printing.
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> # pdf2ps test.pdf - | nc lj4050hostname 9100
>
> If that has cut off margins, it's a setting within the printer.
> If it prints fine, it's CUPS.
That test worked out beautifully. Apparently, it is a problem with CUPS
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case. I'd still
like to understand how to solve the problem I'm having with CUPS, for my
own edification, but whether I use the fix on this laptop in the long run
or end up switching to lpd (with or without apsfilter) is still under
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:42:18PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> >I was not entirely sure before today whether the 4050N could handle
> >straight PostScript instead of PCL, but the test I performed using nc to
> >see if it would
ent on the page, but when either the PDF or
the PS output of either of those tools is printed using CUPS the same
problem arises. Using pdf2ps to produce PS output, which is then sent to
the printer using netcat, produces a neatly printed page with no
problems, however -- other than the mino
and transfer the file to the server without Internet connection;
> finally extract it there.
Is that supposed to say this?
tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port
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On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:36:18PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:07:45 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > Is that supposed to say this?
> >
> > tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port
>
> I think the - infront of the options string isn't necc
d ask here whether anyone knows of something off the top of
his/her head.
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On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 10:31:54AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 08:57:11AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 05:09:20PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be
> >
termine they don't offer any support for exporting
to other formats. I'd love to find out I'm wrong. I've been meaning to
sort out how to use SWISH::Filter::Pdf2HTML as a possibility, but haven't
gotten around to it yet.
Isn't PECL for PHP, though?
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ls -lD "%F %T %Z" does nicely.
. . . and you can easily alias that to lsd for easier use (and a
chuckle).
Note that this doesn't work with GNU ls, because Stallman and MacKenzie
in their infinite wisdom decided GNU ls needed -D to produce output
tailored to some Emacs
still has these commands (I haven't
> installed X11 in at least 10 years), but I have my own
> versions of them. Let me know if you can't find them, and
> I'll send you copies of my scripts.
I'd like to see what you have, even if the OP doesn't need them. Ar
like the last change to it was done in 1993. It is
> pretty simple:
[snip]
Thanks for the information and the breakln script.
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n.
Who still uses Java in the browser without some alternative for those who
don't have it, these days? These days, it seems like the only places
people *really* think they still need Java are smartphones and
"enterprise" systems running on overpriced servers -- neither of whi
tenment. If I
*had* to choose a complete DE, rather than just a window manager, I'd
probably go with Enlightenment. Since I don't have to, though, I stick
with something *truly* lightweight like AHWM.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
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such a great benefit by the Scrotwm
developer(s)? Earlier today, I read this on the site:
"On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and
xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C."
What's up with that? How does Haskell "cripple" xmon
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If you like xmonad,
Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a
java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the
Erlang VM really should *not* depend on Java. Right?
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 09:50:02AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Friday, 24 September 2010:
> > Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a
> > java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the
> > Er
cedent. As such, out of
the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty
much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for
software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice.
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t years ahead" of FreeBSD for "the ease of maintaining the
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7;ll have to take your word for it
when it comes to creating ports.
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or ports without breaking normal
operation. If there's a tutorial out there that would explain how to do
something like this, I have not yet found it.
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directly with the base system without licensing issues, but it can
certainly be distributed and installed when appropriate. It is, in fact,
for this reason of compatibility that FreeBSD has had ZFS support where
Linux-based systems have not.
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:23AM +0700, Phan Quoc Hien wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Which laptop vendor is best support for FreeBSD ?
I've had good luck with ThinkPads.
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great,
even if I don't touch it for a week or so, at least for me. There are
benefits to a rolling release process, too:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4150
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:18:54PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
[stuff]
Thanks! That gives me a lot to look into. I appreciate the information.
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t;Sure, go ahead, we don't
care," I'd still be inclined to seek further advice more concerned with
my own legal safety before removing any legal notices though -- aside
from the tags on my matresses and pillows (for instance).
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> download it as a binary package... Just my $0.02...
. . . without Java, given Java's licensing restrictions.
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The problem I'm having is that I can't get a vi-like keybindings
extension to work. I guess it's likely that most extensions haven't been
tested for compatibility on FreeBSD, though.
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:30:28AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 18 October 2010:
> > The problem I'm having is that I can't get a vi-like keybindings
> > extension to work. I guess it's likely that most extensions haven't been
>
, if any, exist between these two ports aside from the
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tphone is
wasted on useless crap that only gets in my way.
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eresting" while I'm writing shell scripts I tend to just use
a more robust language like Perl. Please let me know if there's some way
to use a simple idiom like the Perl example to get the same results in
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in vi or Vim and give it this command:
:%s/$/^M/
Note that you don't type in that ^M by using the ^ and M keys on the
keyboard. Instead, you first type ctrl-v then press the Enter key.
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regex than \n, and only require one newline
character in the substitution part as a result:
perl -pie 's/$/\n/' filename.txt
Plus . . . I like pie.
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mple use cases, and it works well. Thanks for
saving me a little trouble.
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Vimium
does not install on FreeBSD's Chromium browser port.
If you want details about how I got Vimium to install, and on Vimium plus
FreeBSD in general, I chronicled the experience in my personal devlog:
http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2010.308.12.13.14
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like
> keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience.
> Unfortunately, it is not quite up to the standards of Vimperator on
> Fir
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome
> as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D
Well . . . I have no idea what pla
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:55:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome
> &
egree and, considering the change in ownership, I'm unlikely
to start using it if I do not have an immediate, specific use-case that
calls for the capabilities of ZFS in particular.
. . . on top of which, I don't feel a need to do Oracle any favors. Your
mileage may vary, of course
f the CDDL is "dangerous" somehow.
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er, or have you switched MUAs when you started using ssmtp?
Chris Brennan suggested you send more information; in addition to
answering my question, it might be useful to give us the information
Chris requested -- but make sure you obscure any username/password
information.
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7;m glad they've both been forked following Oracle's
acquisition, if only because they can serve as tests of Oracle's
readiness to sue people for forking the company's "intellectual
property".
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Microsoft Java VM
> was abandoned because of this and everyone had to switch to the Sun
> one.
I think Steven was saying that people are still using Java the language,
not that they're still using Microsoft's Java implementation.
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people
> >who aren't paying for ZFS or who are using it on platforms other than
> >Solaris from using it
out whether maillog has anything to offer for hints, you
might want to paste its contents into pastebin and give us a link to it
there so we can give it a look (after checking to make sure you are not
pasting any sensitive data, of course).
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btrfs (as compared with ZFS).
>
> Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra
> features of zfs. Personally I cant see how anyone with any important data
> can do without checksuming.
I guess that depends on what you're doing with the data and what kind of
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