Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote: Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds. That

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote: > > Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( > > (eg Papercut) > > > > Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper > > Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds. That doesn't let you go both ways though, alth

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread johan beisser
On Jan 12, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: A usenet<->forum bridge would be nice since news looks enough like email for oldies to use :) Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper Not too dif

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote: > > Sorry, but (especially in this case) that is nonsense as it's > > primarily an excuse and disparages the work done there. > > There's another element in play here -- FreeBSD.org is a mailing > list-centric community driven by people who are very much pa

Re: DTrace License Status

2008-01-12 Thread John Birrell
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:15:08AM +0900, Harrison Grundy wrote: > Does anyone here know the latest on the DTrace license situation? The DTrace license hasn't changed and won't change. Please don't flog horse any more. It's dead. I am currently working on an implementation that works around the

DTrace License Status

2008-01-12 Thread Harrison Grundy
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Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD community, but that's a different story). >>> Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be ignored; >> I agree completely, it shouldn't be ignore

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Jonathan Weiss
Robert Watson schrieb: I don't know if there are technical solutions to this problem, but if we want to "meet" many of these newer users of BSD, and hence build up the rapport needed to have a productive relationship, we're either going to have to lure them onto the mailing lists, find our way

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Timo Schoeler wrote: (I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD community, but that's a different story). Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be ignored; I agree completely, it shouldn't be ignored. (Whether it's the first, second or th

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:44:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > (I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD > > > > community, but that's a different story). > > > Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be i

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Timo Schoeler
Thus Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:44:06 +0100: > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have > > several other patches that I maintain on my own for > > various reasons. For example I have a local pa

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have > several other patches that I maintain on my own for > various reasons. For example I have a local patch set > that enables "-c none" in ssh, so I can scp large files > much faster between slow mac