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Reply to Josh A Stevens on nuclear power


@ Josh A Stevens

Now that Tunisia, and hopefully Libya and Egypt are moving towards a more democratic system of government (Especially Tunisia is looking like the most probable to be successful), that would be an excellent opportunity to:

1. help them develop through trade and cooperation (Something which the Muslims, have been absolute experts at for 1000 years), thus to help their people maintain a belief that democracy is a good idea (If things go badly, then the Islamic equivalent of Neo-Nazis will pop up, just like the neo-Nazis do in Greeec now);

2. to solve our energy problems;

3. get rid of nuclear power;

4. and get rid of oil dependency on dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and Iran.

How to do this? Very simple, we go to the Tunisians, the Libyans and the Egyptians and say to them: “Greetings, we Europeans wish that our support for your former oppressors could be undone, could we cooperate on a better future for all? You see, we noticed that you have a lot of sunshine, a lot of empty desert and a lot of unemployment, we in turn have a big energy problem, could we work something out?”

We actually already have the cable technology to bring electricity from the deserts of Libya under the Mediterranian to Europe! And if we could develop Concentrating Solar Power (That is, solar power used as a heat source for regular power plants) and place them in the vast deserts of North Africa (Only a tiny amount of space in total would be needed), then we’d have our energy problem solved in no time, and we’d be done with nuclear power, and cut our carbon emissions substantially, and hopefully made good friends with the Tunisians, Libyans and Egyptians.

Would be great to see an effort like that make the good parts of the history of Europe’s relationship with Islam renew our shared future:

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Installing LibreOffice on Debian Squeeze

About 1½ weeks ago or so, LibreOffice was released for Squeeze via Debian Backports. Obviously great news given what has been happening to OpenOffice.org after Oracle’s take-over of Sun. However, when I first tried installing it on my Squeeze-powered workstation, it insisted on installing AbiWord and a couple of other packages as well, which I thought was absurd, and I thought it was a bug in the LibreOffice packages.

Today I decided to dig around a little bit on some mailing lists and I figured out that, the problem was caused by the package gnome-office having abiword or openoffice.org as its dependencies. gnome-office is a meta-package that supplies GNOME with an office suite, either AbiWord/Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org, so when trying to remove OpenOffice.org in favor of LibreOffice, this thing thinks I am removing OpenOffice.org for good, as it is not aware of LibreOffice, so after having removed gnome-office, I could smoothly remove OpenOffice.org and install LibreOffice.

As I wanted LibreOffice to be a drop-in replacement for my current OpenOffice.org configuration I executed the following commands:

apt-get remove gnome-office

apt-get remove openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder-bin openoffice.org-style-galaxy openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us openoffice.org-writer

apt-get -t squeeze-backports install libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-emailmerge libreoffice-evolution libreoffice-filter-binfilter libreoffice-filter-mobiledev libreoffice-gcj libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-help-en-gb libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-math libreoffice-officebean libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-galaxy libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-writer

To install the exact equivalents of the OpenOffice.org packages I had previously installed.

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KDE annoyances and GNOME frustrations

I have been using the KDE desktop environment since 2004, when I first switched to Linux, however in recent days I have been planning to start using GNOME, because of the dysfunctionality of the 4.x versions of the central KDE applications that I have used for years.

In my case, Kontact has just been a dog for two years, and it looks to get even worse for a while before it gets better given that the next version will be using the Akonadi storage framework, which has just worked absolutely abysmally for something as simple as a 20-entry addressbook. How on earth that Akonadi is going to handle 2000+ email archives like mine is completely and totally beyond me comprehension.

Another big drag has been the various the bookmarks editor in Konqueror. I have at least 1000 bookmarks, and every damn time I have tried sorting and arranging them, the damn editor has crashed, and ruined all my bookmarks, and even after several versions it still did it (I am using 4.4.3, however I have tested 4.5 and the problems persisted, and so far I cannot imagine 4.6 being any better).

Amarok has turned into the biggest hog I h ave ever seen, what the hell is with a 25 – 30 second start-up time? *sigh*

Kopete has been giving me problems for a while now, when adding people on MSN/WLM, they would not show up despite being online, and I would have to delete and re-add them several times.

So with all of these problems, I have been slowly gravitating towards replacing Kontact/Kopete/Konqueror with Thunderbird/Pidgin/Firefox, and I thought to myself, since all of these applications, which I spend the most of my time in, are GTK apps, why not just run GNOME and get a general GTK environment which would probably work and feel more integrated? It did not immediately occur to me, because I generally hate GNOME’s user interface philosophy of dumbing everything down to the lowest common denominator like the plague, however as a “shell” for applications, I find it usable. Having said that, there’s still some KDE applications that no GNOME equivalent even gets near in terms of functionality and power.

First of all is KWrite/Kate, because gedit just sucks, big time. Try writing some shell commands in gedit and skip through it using Ctrl and the arrow keys, and then do the same with KWrite, and you will see what I mean. A feature of KWrite I have always fond useful is the ability to quickly turn a bunch of lower case text to upper case, and vice versa.

Second is BasKet Note Pads, which is probably THE BEST note-taking program for Linux and UNIX, hands down.

During my research into using GNOME, which was done mainly with Debian Squeeze in mind, as that is what I am considering switching to. I wrote a small HOWTO for integrating Qt and KDE applications into GNOME or Xfce in case anybody out there finds it useful which can be found here: Integrating KDE applications into GNOME/Xfce on Debian Squeeze.

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Kommentar til Karina Lorentzens (SF) Facebook udmelding “Når seriøsiteten svigter, står oppositionen klar!”

Politik er af og til morsomt, og det bør det være, ellers ville verden da være grå, og kedelig. Problemet er bare når noget næsten er komisk af dårlige grunde. Følgende er endnu et klart bevis på noget, som egentlig er tæt på komisk, men pga. seriøsiteten, ikke er sjovt overhovedet!


"Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt vil lade statsministeren, hans parti og spinvennerne lege politik - så skal vi andre nok stå for at lave politik. Når seriøsiteten svigter, står oppositionen klar!"

Kilde: Facebook.

“Når seriøsiteten svigter, står oppositionen klar!”


Mit svar:

Som tekst:

Bare lad være med at fremsætte grundlovsstridige, ytringsfrihedsmyrdende, uigennemtænkte og unødvendige lovforslag, som kun spilder tid. Det der med at oppositionen “står klar”, finder jeg efterhånden noget utroværdigt. Fremfor at kæmpe for socialt progressive mærkesager, såsom ligeløn imellem mænd og kvinder, fuld lighed for homoseksuelle i samfundet, adskildelse af kirke og stat, ordenlig fokus på bekæmpelse af fattigdom, eliminering af skattelettelserne til de rige svindlere, ratificering af nye menneskerettighedstraktater, insisteren på undersøgelse af den ulovlige krig i Irak, NEJ, istedet støtter Socialdemokraterne et grundlovsstridigt burkaforbud, og du og SF foreslår, at man laver indirekte censur af internettet ved at straffe folk for at se på noget indhold, ikke for at udgive det. Alle som synes Karinas lille fikse idé er god, prøv at sætte en artikel om demokrati på kinesisk ind i den kontekst, jeg vil væde med at jeg kan høre jer skrige helt fra Sibirien. Det er ikke noget absurd eksempel, fordi principper testes kun når tingene bliver svære, principper er nemme at overholde når det er ting man i forvejen er enig i, eller synes om, det er kun når det modsatte er tilfældet at principperne træder i karakter eller bortfalder.

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Quick reminder for any oppressed people!

Given that the Danish politicians, yet again, dare even ponder the notion of censoring the Internet, and then try to dance around it like were they walking over a path of burning coal (And the Danish electorate seem to be too damn afraid of those oh so scary Muslims, and their minarets that they don’t care about another chunk of their freedom of expression going down the toilet!), I thought this might be a good opportunity to remind any oppressed Chinese, Burmese, Iranians etc., that if you are in need of computer software, to help you escape the dictator’s grip on your ability to express yourself, check my Encryption Software section.

I’ll have to remember to update and expand it in the near future, because hell, maybe I or my neighbor might be needing it one of these days!

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Kommentar til Karina Lorentzens (SF) blog-indlæg “Ingen censur af internettet”

I tilfælde af at sf.dk’s moderatorer ikke bryder sig om, min meget tilspidsede tone, er her hvad jeg skrev som svar på Karina Lorentzens (Fra Socialistisk Folkeparti, SF) blog-indlæg “Ingen censur af internettet”, hvor hun på fuldstændig fantastisk (For at bruge Villys udtryk) vis, forsøger at bortforklare Internet censur.


Karina skriver:

“Man kan ikke censurere internettet – og det skal man heller ikke. Men man kan godt stille krav til folks adfærd på nettet. Det gør man allerede i dag når det gælder pædofili, som det er strafbart at opsøge og downloade. Det samme kan man gøre med opfordringer til vold og terror.”

Hvis man kan straffes for aktivt at opsøge og surfe efter og downloade børneporno, som er til ubodelig skade for tusindvis af børn verden over – så kan man også straffes for aktivt og med forsæt at opsøge opfordringer til vold og terror – der koster tusindvis af mennesker, herunder også mange børn, livet verden over, hvert år – altså at nuancere muligheden for, hvornår man forbereder en forbrydelse.

Der er altså ikke tale om censur af hjemmesider. Ej heller er der tale om at teleudbydere skal holde justits med terrorhjemmesider. Det betyder derfor ikke øget overvågning, ej heller filtre og anden teknologi – men at politiet skal kunne gribe ind, når de har en konkret person i kikkerten med de midler, de allerede har.

Men der er tale om at PET og politiet får mulighed for at slå til, hvis en person aktivt og systematisk har været opsøgende i fht. terrorgruppers opfordringer og brugsanvisninger til vold, drab, terror.

Når det gælder fænomenet ”hate-crime” – altså forbrydelser der som motiv har had til f.eks andre etniske grupper, seksuelle minoriteter, anderledes politisk tænkende etc., så er hate-crime en skærpende omstændighed. Det er noget SF har kæmpet for!

Mange af disse terrorhjemmesider har et budskab om død over bestemte nationaliteter, holdninger, minoriteter, trosretninger. Det er altså organiseret ”hate-crime”.

Hvad så med den almindelige net-bruger, der surfer rundt på må og få? Det SF har foreslået at vi undersøger, er at man skal udvise omtanke når man færdes på nettet. Som i alle mulige andre sammenhænge i tilværelsen kan skødesløshed eller grov uagtsomhed blive et problem for den enkelte, når man skal stå til ansvar for domstolene. Men fordi man til en skoleopgave eller i sin forskning frekventerer visse sider – så er det jo ikke dét PET har brug for at slå ned på. De har nok at gøre med de virkeligt farlige personer.

Men PET kan have brug for et redskab til at kunne anholde en person, som med sandsynlighed, og når andre indikationer peger i samme retning, kan være ved at tilegne sig viden der skal bruges til terror. Derfor har vi spurgt jusitsministeren om dette allerede er kriminaliseret eller om der kan være behov for at gøre noget på et tidligere tidspunkt.

På pædofili-området har vi allerede i dag en række strafferegler i vores lovgivning – hvor ufuldstændig og uperfekt den end er – som kunne overføres til terrorområdet: At man enten forholder sig klogt, når man færdes på nettet – ligesom i trafikken. Eller hvis man vil tilegne sig terrorviden, risikerer at måtte stå til ansvar for domstolene. For den enkelte skal jo, på fuldstændig vanlig vis, for en dommer og have vurderet sin sag.”

Kilde: Ingen censur af internettet


Jeg skriver i min kommentar:

“så kan man også straffes for aktivt og med forsæt at opsøge opfordringer til vold og terror ”

Karina, jeg vil meget gerne at du forklarer mig hvordan et forbud mod det du her påpeger, ikke ville ramme folk som måske af ren interesse for biologi osv. opsøger det man kunne kalde “bombeopskrifter”, for af vide hvilke stoffer der bruges i bomber eller fyrværkeri, af ren videnskabelig interesse. Nu er det ikke alle som interesserer sig for biologi som vælger det som levebrød, eller har mulighed for det gøre så, og tage en universitetsuddannelse o.l.!

Du siger du ikke vil censurere hjemmesider, nej okay, men du foreslår noget der i såfald har næsten samme effekt, vi gør ikke hjemmesiderne ulovlige, men vi forbyder dælme folk at læse dem!

Der er MILLIARDER af websites på nettet, skulle en lille censurkommitée hos PET, Folketinget eller andre, nogensinde kunne holde styr på dem alle? Enhver fornuftig person, skulle nok kunne indse er det er helt umuligt. De egentlige forbrydere som vil slå andre ihjel ved at smide bomber, skal sgu nok finde en måde at få den nødvendige viden på, hvis ikke ved at finde en hurtig opskrift på nettet, så ved at studere noget biologi, og så er det da, at vi for alvor ikke kan kende forskel på bombemanden og biologinørden.
Vi ved at mange terrorister langt fra er dårligt uddannede, nogle vi har set har haft høje uddannelser i mange ting, det kan japanerne også fortælle os lidt om. da de terrorister som lavede saringas angrebe på Tokyos metro i 1995 havde store universitetsuddannelser i biologi og mange andre videnskaber.

Selv HVIS vi antog at Folketingets Censurudvalg eller hvad pokker vi skal kalde det, kunne holde styr på hvornår en person i Chile lægger noget ud på sin blog som en bombemand kan bruge, så tager det altså ikke mere end 10 minutters snak med en computernørd med samme viden som mig (Og der findes mange med mere viden indenfor feltet end jeg, sikkert også folk med en forskruet moral) for at bombemanden har alle de anonymiseringsteknikker han/hun skal bruge, for at undgå den konstruktion som dit frygts-masturberende forslag ville stille op. Jeg undskylder udtrykket, men det du foreslår giver kun en falsk følelse af sikkerhed. Og en falsk følelse af sikkerhed er meget værere end slet ingen, fordi når man ikke har nogen, så ved man at man ikke sikker, hvis man “TROR” man er sikker, så har man tilbøjelighed til ikke at være kritisk overfor sine egne konstruktioner, og så går man bombemandens ærne.

Lige en sidste ting, hvis det var Iran eller Kina som gjorde noget i den her stil og henviste til tibetanske websites med “farlig information”, så hvinede vi i vesten, med god grund, til vi ikke kunne trække vejret.
Lad nu for pokker være med at give ultra-liberalisterne alt hvad de skal bruge for at erklære SF for “NORDKOREA PARTIET”.

For at opsummere, og jeg undskylder min tone, men det forslag her er godt nok det mest useriøse, uigennemtænkte jeg har hørt siden de Konservatives burkaforbud, MEN VENT det var jo ikke så længe siden!!! Er det kun mig eller kommer de her “intellekts-udhuglede” (Man fristes til at bruge stærkere ord) forslag efterhånden bare på linje, og i stimer fra politikkerne på Christiansborg?

Jeg tror og mange andre vælgere i disse dage tænker følgende:
SÅ TAG JER DOG SAMMEN!!!

Hvor ærger jeg mig dog af og til over, at vi i Danmark har et så umoderne demokrati, at vælgerne i de forskellige valgkredse ikke har mulighed for indsamle underskrifter så vi tiltider kunne få nogle recall-valg, synes simpelthen der er så meget useriøsitet i Folketinget, at var det en almindelig arbejdsplads, offentlig eller privat, så var mange blevet fyret for længe siden!


Jeg tilføjede som en hurtig opfølgende kommentar:

Jeg skulle måske også lige understrege, at forslag og snak som det her, er ting som for første gang, efter kun 1½ års medlemsskab af SF, har fremprovokeret de første udmeldelsesovervejelser. Jeg er i forvejen politisk mere på linje med Enhedslisten, men tilslutter mig, af forskellige årsager, partipolitisk til SF, men hvis man bliver ved med så elendige, useriøse, og “intellekts-udhuglende” (Sjovt ord, men tror godt man kan gætte, udfra det, hvilket ord jeg egentlig gerne ville bruge, men pga. kommentarfeltets advarsel ikke bruger) forslag, så vil jeg ihvertfald hurtigt tage konsekvensen!

Jeg har grinet min *** i laser over folk, som sammenlignede SFs nyere kurs med Dansk Folkepartis konstante, fremmedfjenske populisme, og det vil jeg nok blive ved med lidt endnu, men synes godt nok det her fortjener at gå planken ud og direkte ned i en gylletank fyldt til bristepunktet!

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European Pokémon fans, unite!

On December 24th, Yule/Winter solstice celebration/Christmas day here in Denmark, I launched an ambitious new project of mine, which I have planning been for, for about a month, which I call the United European Pokémon Communities.

The basics of it is, that it’s a phpBB3-based forum, with a ton of language packs, some small hacks to make language support even more smooth, a unique structure of governance, and the goal of attempting to bring Pokémon fans from across Europe together on one forum, to supplement national forums and make for a bridge between our nations.

The forum has national sections, currently Danish, Germany, Greek, British (English) and international forums, so that people can come and discuss things in their native language and if they feel like it, through the same site, trivially communicate across national borders.

United European Pokémon Communities

Latin:

Est Europa nunc unita
et unita maneat;
una in diversitate
pacem mundi augeat.

Semper regnant in Europa
fides et iustitia
et libertas populorum
in maiore patria.

Cives, floreat Europa,
opus magnum vocat vos.
Stellae signa sunt in caelo
aureae, quae iungant nos.

English:

Europe is united now
United may it remain;
Our unity in diversity
May it contribute to world peace.

May there forever reign in Europe
Faith and justice
And freedom of the people
In a greater homeland

Citizens, may Europe flourish,
A great task calls on you.
Golden stars in the sky are
The symbols that shall unite us.

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Voyage through cyberspace run aground!

Last Wednesday (4th of March, 2009) when I sat down in front of my computer, after watching TV in the living room, I noticed that the Internet had mysteriously dropped off completely. Applications I use that depend on Internet connectivity had throw up error messages etc. I tried resetting my ADSL modem, my routers, everything, but nothing worked, the Internet was dead. So on Friday I called my ISP, and they ran a test on my connection and it showed that there’s a cabling problem somewhere. They did book a technician to look into it, but that wouldn’t happen for another 6 – 10 days. Really, really, really, REALLY annoying, when you pretty much use the Internet all-day everyday.

It’s said that you take stuff for granted until you loose it, or are otherwise without it. And holy crap, that statement really holds some truth in it! Except for the fact that loss of Internet connectivity is not life threatening, right now I feel like I was out, by myself, sailing on the open ocean, and my engine broke down, I called for help on the radio, but assistance wouldn’t come for another 6 – 10 days! It’s tough in many ways. I would probably feel lonely a lot more than I do without the Internet, it’s like it enables me to be on my own, but not be alone or lonely.

Now, I’m sure you’re asking “If your Internet connection is out, how the hell can you post on your blog?!!?!?”, well, desperate situations call for desperate action! I’ve snuck into the computer room of the school I went to last year, and with my laptop in hand, is snooping on their Internet connection. Think of it as you wish! :P

I’m a big dreamer, both in terms of actual dreams when I’m asleep, and also day-dreams. Of course I’m looking forward to be back online for real, but also in a slightly dreamy sense. At home I have also erected a computer lab in my room, I run a very sophisticated firewall, a DNS server, a web server, and many other things, fairly massive given the location. When I can reconnect to the Internet, it’s gonna be like in episode 15 of the anime series Last Exile, when the Silvana (Big-ass, steam-powered, airborne capital ship), after almost being sunk, and some on-spot repairs by crew-mechanics, can finally take off again.

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Blobs suck!!!

Recently I’ve been messing with my new media center computer, trying to get it to work with XBMC and that good stuff. However, XBMC requires 3D acceleration, and radeonhd doesn’t yet support the 3D features of my graphics adapter (Radeon HD 3200). So I tried using AMD’s proprietary fglrx driver, and I can say is that blobs freaking suck! It doesn’t work at all on Fedora (My preferred distribution), and that’s over a month after the distro came out, giving AMD time to fix their damn driver.

All I have to say is to echo the release song of OpenBSD 3.9: Blob!.

 Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby
 when we found him on the beach,
 there was nothin' shady
 you could bounce him on your knee
 like a ba-ba-ball
 and his first little word was adorable
 
 He said a blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah
 Blah!
 
 
 Thin edge of the wedge?
 But everybody was so happy - about Blob
 
 
 Blob was popular at school he was helpful too
 He could get your motor runnin'
 with a drop of goo
 He was givin' it away never charged a dime
 But by the time he graduated
 Blob was business slime!
 
 He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah
 
 
 He's givin' you the Evil Eye!
 
 
 Now everybody had it
 they was drivin' around
 They was givin' up their freedoms
 for convenience now
 Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch
 And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!
 
 
 He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah
 
 
 It's linkin' time!
 
 
 Now it was out of control
 n' fishy's came to depend
 on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end
 Then his empire spread and to their surprise
 Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!
 
 
 He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b
 
 
 Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein
 And he battled the Blob
 who had crossed the line
 He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"
 I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!
 
 
 But it was too late!
 Blob was takin' over the world!
 He wants your video!
 Ya he wants your net!
 He wants your drive!
 He wants it all!!
 
 
 Somebody help us!
 Noooooooo!
 NVIDIA!
 Intel!
 Atheros!
 3-Ware!
 VIA!
 ATI!
 Broadcom!
 TI!
 Myricom!
 HighPoint!
 Adaptec!
 Mylex!
 ICP Vortex!
 and IBM!
 Takin' over the world!

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Always avoid x.0 releases of software!

Since Fedora dropped KDE 3.5.x for Fedora 9 and thereby future releases, I was kind of squatting what operating system to use for my main computer. I was getting so desperate that I even considered going back to openSUSE (Which supports KDE 3.5.x in 11.0, which is supported with security updates for two years), which I left in the first place because Novell started to just piss me off with their laissez-faire attitude towards the free software community. Their deal with Microsoft and other things show this to a great degree. Other technical things also annoyed me back then, such as their reluctance to include applications such as Azureus, despite them being completely legal.

I know that Debian 5.0 Lenny, probably coming out in a month or two (Debian loves their delays!), but I REALLY don’t like Debian at all, so that was not a good option.

So what I picked was FreeBSD, since KDE 3.5.x is in the ports system, and looks like it isn’t going away any time soon. Also FreeBSD, in general, is a very solid operating system.
So for the last 10 days I have been messing with FreeBSD on my main computer. However, I discovered how true the saying “Always avoid .0 releases of software” is! I first picked FreeBSD 7.0, and I ran into some serious bugs, the area of networking, where the vr network driver would drop-out as I tried to transfer files to other machines on my local network, or had intensive traffic to the Internet going. I also ran into problems with sound, where the sounded output of KDE’s artsd sub-system would skip and drop. While artsd is very cruddy these days, it still barely works. So I tried installing FreeBSD 6.3 and did a quick test setup, and I didn’t run into those problems. The 6.x series of FreeBSD, has been out for a good while now, and it shows, the system seems more solid than 7.x, I was actually flabbergasted that something as simple as the vr ethernet driver for VIA-adapters was broken, because it’s such basic hardware as 10/100 ethernet networking. I decided to have a look in CVS, to see whether it might have been fixed for 7.1, and I did notice a bunch of changes, so hopefully it will be fixed in FreeBSD 7.1, and if not, hopefully 7.2, because this sort of basic issue would tarnish FreeBSD’s otherwise very good record of solidity, reliability and stability. But anyway, I’m willing to cut them some slack, since 7.0 was exactly that, a “dot zero” release, which often with any operating system and any category of applicaiton, often is a good example of something to avoid, until childhood illnesses are rooted out.

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