Re: A theory on why microsoft makes such crappy stuff after all these years

2009-12-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com writes: Microsoft making crappy products is really a conspiracy. The fall of the Soviet Union proves you wrong. That it does ;-) DES ___ freebsd-chat

A theory on why microsoft makes such crappy stuff after all these years

2009-12-12 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Microsoft making crappy products is really a conspiracy. The actually know how to make good stuff but don't for the following reasons (only the first on is a new observation likely): * If they didn't have any bugs then people would think the program was counterfeit * Force people to

Re: A theory on why microsoft makes such crappy stuff after all these years

2009-12-12 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Randi Harper wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Microsoft making crappy products is really a conspiracy. The actually know how to make good stuff but don't for the following reasons (only the first on is a new observation likely

Re: [OT] looking for a algorithm

2008-05-25 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Tournoij wrote: | On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:10:01PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: | Lets say I have a string of n bits that needs to be filled by repeatedly | applying some function on k strings of m bits where |m||n|. Assuming | that m(i

Re: port management practices

2008-04-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Jason C. Wells wrote: christopher wrote: Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of keeping them up-to-date? I don't. It's too much work. I don't update ports for the duration of a major release's life. What ever ports came out for 6.3 (that's when I quit trying to manage

Re: port management practices

2008-04-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
christopher wrote: Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of keeping them up-to-date? I know about csup, portupgrade, etc., and I think they are great, but if you only have one app that you want to upgrade because it was buggy at a previous time, then it doesn't seem like a

Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing

2008-01-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
@ portion of the thread to make a -legal@ list... as the OP said there it is more then just this issue there are other legal issues that have nothing to do with this thread there are other more legit issues (see their post for details)... hopefully for everyone's sanity the list does get made. - -- Aryeh M

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

2008-01-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: [moved to -chat from -current] Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If one never tries to change something then it will never get changed and dismissing something as impossible from the get go is the hight

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

2008-01-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 conspiracy hat onIs Aryeh funded by Microsoft?/conspiracy hat off :) There are more direct ways to ruin FOSS then what I am purposing... for example make it so only8 certified OS's are allowed on any machine and other things... - -- Aryeh M

Re: strace broken in 7.0?

2008-01-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
out there are middle ground alternatives to completly FOSS or completely commercial and that was the core of the issue I brought up in the other thread and on my blog (I *DO NOT* wish to reopen the debate here so please either follow up to me privately or the other thread) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman

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

2008-01-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
gladelly use such a list if one existed (which it doesn't now so we have the current situtation) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. Free software != Free beer Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com

Re: JMJ for Village Idiot

2008-01-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
extracurricular activities beyond any sense of acceptable behavior even in a dysfunctional company)... side point the person I referred to several times as not using FreeBSD (or any BSD) any more is John Sokol (the owner dnull.com) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http

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

2008-01-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: redirected to -chat. I just do reply all's so it goes where it goes... For a more complete set of answers to the below issues see: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1424092+0+current/freebsd-current Aryeh M. Friedman

Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing

2008-01-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
... also if such a forum was created it should also include business issues (not just legal because the two are intertwined) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. Free software != Free beer Blog: http

Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing

2008-01-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
that particular person has told me he won't follow list rules because no one reads it otherwise. Beware, I still have that mail! And if you remember I asked specifically for all replies to go to the approriate list - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com

DB options in the base system

2007-12-22 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
/* layout (before someone flames me this is *NOT* an attempt to break backwards compatility just if adopted a goal to move towards) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment

where to put doc and www sources

2007-12-21 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
checkout doc to create it) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

results of ports re-engineering survey

2007-12-11 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *PLEASE ONLY REPLY TO ME OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few disclaimers: Neither I or anyone else is asking for FreeBSD to incorparate any modifications to the current base system and/or ports collection. If and when any code is developed from this

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
? - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHUo8i358R5LPuPvsRAihEAKCODsX8kX+lgQ5QfDbaM6VsyoIOqQCeOl8Z E

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Darren Pilgrim wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Too much talk from people not willing to do the heavy lifting. There have been a number of serious attempts and in depth research into various ports system issues (I still need to wade through

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel Mendez wrote: On Dec 2, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Hi, As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-26 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
and there is a direct correspondence to average TV watching hours. Does this include YouTube? - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-26 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
a bit. Comrad Stallman == Comrad Stalin ? - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHS84RJ9