Re: Google spyware on FreeBSD Web site?

2012-12-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:57:31 +0100 Katinka kati...@lavabit.com wrote: Thx for the heads up but I think that's a non-issue. If one dislikes Google, their scripts are already blocked. you got the point. Erich ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Superstitious users and the FreeBSD logo

2011-12-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 04 December 2011 16:01:16 Alejandro Camuñez wrote: I made a nice and family-friendly version. Here you have :P http://box.jisko.net/i/de9679fd.png this is really offending. I would have to give up on FreeBSD if this would become the logo. Why do people feel offended by the

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 02 February 2010 pm 19:38:23 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Erich Dollansky er...@ovitrap.com writes: The hydro power? Yes, but they also have to operate nuclear power plants and fossile fuled power plants. Hydro power plants are nearly a perfect source of electricity if there would

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 01 February 2010 pm 20:28:52 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Erich Dollansky er...@ovitrap.com writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Erich Dollansky er...@ovitrap.com writes: burning wood, oil or gas is in most regions cheaper than electricity which is most likely

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 27 January 2010 pm 20:16:05 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net writes: Not the cheapest way to heat a room, but it's probably the most fun! Elementary thermodynamics: a computer and an electric heater produce the exact same amount of heat per unit of

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 27 January 2010 pm 21:40:32 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Erich Dollansky er...@ovitrap.com writes: burning wood, oil or gas is in most regions cheaper than electricity which is most likely produced out of the same fuel but all the losses during generation and transport reduce its

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 10:44:03 Programmer In Training wrote: I just got done with my first install, from CD, no net connection (currently) to the box. I was kind of concerned depending on your needs, this is all you need to get a running machine. You can download additional precompiled

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

2009-12-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 12 December 2009 pm 19:42:55 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Microsoft making crappy products is really a conspiracy. The no, it is what happens to all large organisations. The basic idea - at least for NT - was not this bad. Guys who worked on RSX or VMS cannot be that bad. But then they

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support from Yahoo's side at all anymore. Erich

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news. they said that a federal investigation was going to decide if there were

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Allen wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! Wo ist dass? I didn't know it was still there! Only one 's' in dass is the correct spelling. man loader.conf will give you the hints

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erich said: I also wonder how Google earns so much monez with its search engine. Is it just the adds? Is it reallz this simple? On the other side, Google must be so much better than other search engines to get so much more hits to earn money with this free service

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

2007-11-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Hitler was a good facist, he did his job well. no, he was a bad one. He finally lost Flame war anyone? Verbrannte Erde was the motto of his final campaign. The mother of all flame

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

2007-11-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Hitler was a good facist, he did his job well. no, he was a bad one. He finally lost But he lost in due part

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

2007-11-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Beastie's Law: Any demand of a modification of FreeBSD or it's website using political incorrectness as the justification is automatically wrong. Political Incorrectness is very subjective

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

2007-11-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: both terms are offensive here. I am a foreign talent. Really? Cool! Which planet are you from? third rock from the sun. This brings up a new question: what is with the local talent. The Earthlings started going downhill about 60 years ago when they

Re: The Unix Haters Handbook

2006-06-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andreas Davour wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Kyrre Nygard wrote: At 09:20 01.06.2006, Rico wrote: Hi all. I had not before seen this book, but doing some Unix research I found it at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html Loving Unix I found the book hilarious and quite

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Efficiency is of prime importance in systems programming. The only language in which one can write more efficient programs than in C, is assembler, but it's not portable. This is a myth. I'm surprised to see it a Lisp

Re: [scam: You have received a postcard !]

2006-04-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me or is the amount of phishing on FreeBSD lists getting to be absurd? absurd? Because they use Windows programs on FreeBSD? Absurd? Because they all come through the filter? This will always happen as long as you do not screen every registration