the_brobdingnagian - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How are upgrades handled? (Score 3, Informative) 176

by the_brobdingnagian on Monday November 01, 2010 @10:49PM (#34097560) Attached to: OpenBSD 4.8 Released

I'm curious. Having never used a BSD-based system, how are upgrades managed? I understand that instead of installing packages, one uses ports. My impression of that is that you run a file in a ports directory and it compiles the software and installs it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Ports are meant for building packages. Users should only use packages normally. You can update your packages after you upgraded your base system with "pkg_add -ui -D update -D updatedepends"

But how does one upgrade from, say, OpenBSD 4.7 to 4.8?

OpenBSD has excellent docs and FAQ's: http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade48.html

Comment Re:Audio Pipeline API!! (Score 1) 188

by the_brobdingnagian on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @06:20PM (#33954106) Attached to: Details of Android 3.0, SIP, Video Chat

Observational bias?

Comment Re:Serve them right (Score 1) 274

by the_brobdingnagian on Sunday September 19, 2010 @11:19AM (#33627542) Attached to: Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights

Get your facts straight: We OpenBSD users are a bunch of masturbating monkeys.

Comment Re:Come on folks... (Score 1) 454

by the_brobdingnagian on Monday August 23, 2010 @07:57AM (#33339154) Attached to: Sweden Defends Wiki Sex Case About-Face

Is there a direct quote from these two girls? And you are of course right when you say that it is possible for Assange to have done these things. However the correct approach is _allways_ to assume innocence until proven otherwise. And the fact that there are people with the motive and the means to try to discredit Assange in this way should make you even more suspicious.

Comment Re:MOD PARENT UP PLEASE (Score 1) 341

by the_brobdingnagian on Sunday August 22, 2010 @08:55PM (#33336114) Attached to: The Case For Oracle

The dalvik runtime will eventually support transcoded javascript, php, python, etc.,

What is your source for this?

Comment Re:Come on folks... (Score 1) 454

by the_brobdingnagian on Sunday August 22, 2010 @08:50PM (#33336082) Attached to: Sweden Defends Wiki Sex Case About-Face

As far as I know Hans Reiser didn't have powerful enemies. It would be correct to state that Assange is innocent until proven otherwise, but in this situation I think it is also fair to say that the timing of the allegations is at least highly suspicious.

Comment Re:Try this (Score 1) 825

by the_brobdingnagian on Thursday August 05, 2010 @07:32PM (#33156098) Attached to: Where To Start With DIY Home Security?

I've never had a problem with theft.

Or dates.....

Comment Reminds me of TON (Score 1) 117

by the_brobdingnagian on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @11:46AM (#32827174) Attached to: Online Poll-Based Party Seeks Election Win

Reminds me of the Dutch party TON (Trots op Nederland / Proud of The Netherlands). They tried to write the official election program on a public wiki. That was a disaster! All I can remember was "free toothpaste for everyone". Asking the general public for an opinion on everything is nice, but they should be able to make an informed decision.

Comment Re:Sounds rather disappointing, really (Score 1) 322

by the_brobdingnagian on Friday March 12, 2010 @11:21AM (#31451916) Attached to: Hollow Spy Coins

No, you will have spy pants. To become the spy you wil have to put the MicroSD card in ......

Comment That grumpy BSD guy (Score 1) 497

by the_brobdingnagian on Saturday March 06, 2010 @09:21PM (#31385344) Attached to: Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures?

Peter N. M. Hansteen has written a nice article about a similar atack. http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2009/11/rickrolled-get-ready-for-hail-mary.html The first thing I would do (at install time) is to disable root login over ssh.

Comment Re:Also (Score 1) 54

by the_brobdingnagian on Monday January 25, 2010 @03:46PM (#30894558) Attached to: Data Breach Costs Top $200 Per Customer Record

....and having a competent human watch over everything and set the security policies.

Ha!

Comment Re:Just say "no" to dumbasses (Score 1) 410

by the_brobdingnagian on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @07:08PM (#30371790) Attached to: Saying No To Promotions Away From Tech?

Your life can only suck as much as you're willing to allow it to.

- by pushf popf (741049) on Tuesday December 08, @11:07PM

Comment Re:Who would use this? (Score 1) 179

by the_brobdingnagian on Thursday September 24, 2009 @07:57PM (#29535267) Attached to: Intel Connects PCs To Devices Using Light

You would have a p-wave traveling over the rope. Guessing from the equation[1] for the speed of a p-wave, the speed of your signal will be pretty low. You would probably be measuring ping times in hours instead of milliseconds.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-wave

Comment Scare them away (Score 1) 695

by the_brobdingnagian on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @08:21AM (#28180391) Attached to: Keeping a PC Personal At School?

Use some kind of user interface that's different from what they know.

I use OpenBSD, xdm, scrotwm (tiling window manager) and lots of xterms. This is the way I like to work with the added bonus that nobody wants to use your machine. But it's a great way to get attention.

Comment Re:Processing / "Visualizing Data" (Score 1, Interesting) 46

by the_brobdingnagian on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @07:08PM (#28116817) Attached to: Beginning Python Visualization

A processing like environment in Python would be awsome!

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