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Comment Re:Let's not forget (Score 3, Interesting) 241

Yup. In fact, back in the day, the IPv6 support in FreeBSD was the determining factor in my choice to run FreeBSD rather than any then-current distribution of GNU/Linux. Being focused on networking, I didn't have a dog in the OS race, I just needed IPv6 support, and FreeBSD won hands-down. I have enjoyed the blessings of FreeBSD ever since. Even so many years later, IPv6 support on my DD-WRT (Linux) access point is quite non-intuitive and hackish.

Big shout-out to the fine KAME team, especially the late Itojun.

Comment Re:Show attached block devices (Score 1) 2362

# managing multiple history files in bash
#
for each in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f; do ln -s .bash_history .bash_history.dev.ttyp${each}; done
#
# then add the following to the .bash_profile
#
SHELLID=$(tty | sed 's!/!.!g')
HISTFILE=${HISTFILE}${SHELLID}

That works for my FreeBSD servers very well, allowing all open shells to read from and write to a common history file. Unless you are on a really busy box where you are sharing with hundreds of users, this may be useful to you. It certainly has been to me.

Comment bye bye R&D... (Score 1) 576

You know, I love capitalism and letting the market do it's thing, but in those few cases where you have a great company that does all the right things and takes the profits from their admittedly expensive product and invests it in neat tech like Mindstorms, or my beloved Ferrari F1 cars, this makes me sad. All this will really do is take the R&D money out of Lego's pockets and send it to the lowest bidder. I, and I hope many others, will stick with the Lego brand if for no other reason than the superior products and devotion to expanding minds instead of pockets.

I have seen their manufacturing plants on TV (can't remember if it was How Do They Do It? or one of the other shows like it) and the tolerances, rate of part rejection, etc. are just astounding. Also, the white rooms where the creative minds sit and play with Lego pieces all day, dreaming up new toys... it is simply wonderful.

Quality before quantity, please.

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