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Comment FreeBSD 9.1 Is Unix Heaven (Score 5, Insightful) 149

by AddisonW (#42428363) Attached to: New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD

I've got FreeBSD 9.1 running on my machine now and it is absolute Unix heaven.

The NVidia drivers work perfectly with my 580 card. The rest of my hardware was recognized and works properly.

All my gaming is done on my PS3 and Wii and a little bit on my Android devices. So my FreeBSD is primarily used for development and some webbrowsing. Working on a system that is stable and free from the crazy and random crap that plagues the various Linux distros is wonderful. The only negative I've found so far is the desktop's ports aren't as fully setup as you get as with something like Ubunut or Mint since the major focus of most of the FreeBSD devs is on server use.

I would like to thank all the lame people who have so diligently been posting their lame 'is dying' posts. I would never have checked out BSD if it wasn't for them. And it looks like the latest attempt at BSD FUD about funding massively backfired and led to a huge surge in project donations.

I usually hate these type of cute little sayings but after having switched from Linux to FreeBSD it really rings true:

Linux is for people who hate Microsoft
BSD is for people who love Unix

Comment Like There Were No Rectangles With Round Corners (Score 0) 90

by AddisonW (#42427165) Attached to: Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling

Claims like that are simply bizarre.

The Blackberry 5810 - March 2002:

http://cdn.crackberry.com/files/u3/evo3BlackBerry5810.jpg

Status bar along the top - power,signal strenth,clock
Grid of app icons
Keyboard along the bottom

It really is amazing how Apple came up with the iPhone when there was NOTHING like it out there...

Comment The Rise Of Truly Free Open Source Licensing (Score 3, Interesting) 150

by AddisonW (#41800093) Attached to: The Past, Present, and Future of OSS

The most important change is the maturation of open source developers and open source development.

Use of the viral and restrictive GPL is falling dramatically and truly free licensing like BSD is on the rise. Fading away are the days of the open source world being dominated by 15 years screaming about 'possibly GPL violation!!!' on Slashdot.

Everywhere that open source is succeeding is thanks to BSD licensed software:

* BSD based Chrome over the GPL based Mozilla

* Partially BSD based OS X on the desktop over the clusterfuck of GPL Linux desktops

* BSD based(outside the kernel) Android dominating the cellphone market over the effectively dead GPL based Linux cellphone efforts
Microsoft

Submission + - Startup Saves $100,000 by NOT supporting Internet Explorer (internetnews.com) 2

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Guess what — you don't have to support Microsoft's IE web browser any more to build a successful website. In fact, you might just be able to save yourself a pile of cash if you avoid IE altogether. That's the story in Canada's National Post today and to make this even sweeter — no one complained about the lack of IE support either.

Submission + - Will Google challenge VeriSign for operation of the dot-com registry? (circleid.com)

Submitted by
GeorgeK
GeorgeK writes: "Google has noted that their free Public DNS service is handing an average of 70 billion requests/day, which tops VeriSign's latest numbers for dot-com DNS requests.

Since Google does nothing without thought, is this demonstration by them that they can handle a greater DNS load than VeriSign a subtle sign that they might challenge for operation of the dot-com registry?

Certainly Google could be a formidable competitor if ICANN was to open the .com registry to a public tender process. A public tender would lead to lower prices for .com domains at the wholesale level, from $7.85 to perhaps below $2/yr.

Would you want Google to take over operation of the .com registry from VeriSign?"
Privacy

Submission + - Apple Bug Lets You Spy on Stranger's iPhone (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by skywolf86
skywolf86 writes: From the article:
The story is simple: a friend's son had some trouble with his iPhone 4. Being an awesome mom, our friend took it into the Apple Store when her kid was at school. School. Not college or grad school, but I'm-under-18 school. When she got it back, her kid's phone was in perfect working order—but it had also become a portal into another man's private life. No matter how many times we've reset the phone and entered our friend's information, every incoming and outgoing iMessage meant for Wiz shows up on her child's phone. His phone had become her son's phone—and there was an iMessage bevy of stuff you wouldn't want your child to see.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft risking more EU problems?

Submitted by whoever57
whoever57 writes: While doing some work on a couple of Windows 7 PCs in the United Kingdom, I (after discussion with the owners) tried to add Google as the default search engine for IE. I went through the normal procedure to do this and was taken to a web page of search providers. Missing from the list? Google! I saw the same behavior on 2 machines and another person reported that he had also seen this while installing and setting up Windows 7. In all cases, the ISP was BT. This may be limited to the UK only and conceivably, it could be limited to BT. Is this type of action likely to lead to more wrath from the EU commission?
Google

Submission + - Nginx overtakes Microsoft as No. 2 Web server (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
tsamsoniw
tsamsoniw writes: "With financial backing from the likes of Michael Dell and other venture capitalists, open source upstart Nginx has edged out Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) to hold the title of second-most widely used Web server among all active websites. What's more, according to Netcraft's January 2012 Web Server Survey, Nginx over the past month has gained market share among all websites, whereas competitors Apache, Microsoft, and Google each lost share."
Piracy

Submission + - GoDaddy continues to bleed customers over SOPA (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by bdking
bdking writes: Despite a transparent reversal of policy regarding its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, domain registrar GoDaddy continues to lose customers to a reddit-inspired boycott. That GoDaddy was the No. 1 target of SOPA opponents — despite much larger companies also supporting the legislation — speaks to the Achilles heel of most Internet companies.
Businesses

Submission + - Israeli Spyware Sold to Iran 1

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Bloomberg reports that Israeli trade, customs and defense officials say they didn't know that systems for performing “deep- packet inspection” into Internet traffic, sold under the brand name NetEnforcer, had gone to a country whose leaders have called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Allot Communications Ltd., an Israel-based firm which reported $57 million in sales last year, sold its systems to a Randers, a Denmark-based technology distributor where workers at that company, RanTek A/S, repackaged the gear and shipped it to Iran. The sales skirted a strict Israeli ban that prohibits “trading with the enemy,” including any shipments that reach Iran, Syria and Lebanon. Although Allot officials say they had no knowledge of their equipment going to Iran and are looking into RanTek’s sales, three former sales employees for Allot say it was well known inside the Israeli company that the equipment was headed for Iran. ““Israel considers Iran quite possibly its greatest threat, and so the Israeli government would come down very strong against any company that exported to Iran,” says Ira Hoffman. “Iran is also considered by the U.S. as one of its most strategic threats.” Israeli lawmaker Nachman Shai has called for a parliamentary investigation and the country’s Defense Ministry has begun to examine the report."

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