Nicely played. :D

It gets hashed down to 28-64 characters and written into the database?

I'd say it's more of "bypassing the absolute worst of each worlds." The closer I can get to "apt-get upgrade", the better. But it looks like pkgng might have that mostly covered for most of what I'd need to set up.

When crunch-time passes, I'll experiment a little more deeply into it, but I'm glad to see there's been so much improvement. I loved me some FreeBSD back in the day.

I've been playing with pkgng/pkg a bit, it does look much nicer. That's a good change, imo. Ports are nice, and I know that back in the day they were FreeBSD's "thing", but when you've got a few dozen servers to update, waiting to compile each update is kind of a dealbreaker.

Playing with it a bit before bed tonight. Looks pretty slick.

Dear gods, though... they're still shipping it with sendmail? O_O

I finished that one just a few weeks ago. Thankfully the next one is due out in a month or so. :)

Hopefully there's not too much of a lag for the audiobook - they make the 4 hour drive to Dr. Girlfriend's place up north much more bearable, and Kobna Holbrook-Smith definitely does the writing justice.

And they're just fun to read. :) That's frequently missing these days, with all the crapsack countries and grimdark being all the rage.

Rivers of London series, by any chance?

Modern day gladiators. I.e. the "circuses."

VBA != VB.Net

If that were the case, PHP would have occupied all 5 slots.

Is this guy new here or what? Ostensibly useful ("friendly", since TFS apparently wants to anthropomorphize software) programs that carry a nasty payload that doesn't trigger immediately? How's that any different from 20 years ago, when they were called "trojans?"

This is literally the *only* reason we use Debian or derivatives for work. We're just too small to have that kind of time, which is depressing. Especially with this SystemD crap... One of these days soon, when my Copious Free Time makes another appearance, I need to re-evaluate FreeBSD. Hopefully, the upgrade process has improved since "make buildworld." :) Otherwise, I dunno what we're going to do...

If you were administering servers, even as a PFY, you'd have enough Clue to recognize why what you said is just so much dribbling bullshit.

Some parts, perhaps.

Other parts, like the idiocy that is the "working as intended" logging abomination, would be irredeemably bad, no matter how good the documentation. Plus, that adds a nice, seething element of ominous fear: if LP and co. are so out of touch that they don't understand *why* their way is "The Wrong Way," the gods only know what else they've buggered up beyond repair that hasn't been found yet.

I am?

Or did you mean the parent to my post?