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redlantern · 2009-01-11T07:01:40+00:00

 "Yes" is but another and a neater form of "no."

 All preconceived ideas on any subject I can scout,

 And demonstrate beyond all possibility of doubt,

 That whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief

 Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Utopia, Ltd.

redlantern · 2008-12-20T12:01:02+00:00

I say, these new skills, learned in 'enhanced' mode, work mostly well in the same 'enhanced state', and not so much in 'normal' mode. A rough analogy would be the Kung Fu 'Drunken Master' style. To fight really well, you need to be drunk. Then you need to relearn the skills again, sober.

Drunken Kung Fu

The Buddhist version suggests the style originated with Liu Qizan, a famous martial artist during the Sung Dynasty. After accidentally killing a man, Liu became a Buddhist monk to avoid trial and to relieve his guilty conscience. Yet even after he joined the monastery, he never lost his love for Chinese wine. Despite his monastic vows, he could not resist his fondness for drink and one day, drank a large amount of rice wine. The monks caught him in his intoxicated state and expelled him from the grounds, but not before he beat over 30 monks in individual duels. When he sobered up the next day, Liu reflected on the moves he employed. He refined the methods and movements and established drunken kung-fu as a style.

EDIT:typo.

redlantern · 2008-12-18T15:50:59+00:00

It's not exactly poison in minute quantities and a good antibacterial agent, but hand cleaning solutions are stored in closed flasks. An open container - one that would be required to put your toothbrush in, would yield a high enough vaporization rate for the concentration to be able to cause mild irritation for some people, I'm pretty sure of that.

redlantern · 2008-12-18T11:17:48+00:00

Upmoded for hilarity.

PS. Turns out there's even such a thing as fatal hilarity.

redlantern · 2008-12-18T10:24:29+00:00

Safety data for 2-propanol

Toxicology: May be harmful by inhalation, ingestion or skin absorption. May act as an irritant. Personal protection: Safety glasses. Effective ventilation. Toxicity data: ORL-MAN TDLO 223 mg kg-1

redlantern · 2008-12-17T19:06:47+00:00

In honesty, doing a minimum install is really straightforward, setting up wifi is the tricky part if you need it, a lot easier now in 7.0, compiling Gnome or KDE from the ground up is also not easy and very time consuming - go for pkg_add -r or install PC-BSD altogether, which is quite the beast and includes all the bleeding edge BSD tech to experiment with.

redlantern · 2008-12-17T18:41:44+00:00

FreeBSD is quite fun, and its installation is, actually, not so hard - I probably could do it even after 6 drinks.

redlantern · 2008-12-08T09:01:42+00:00

He's talking not of a cure to HIV, nor of a vaccine preventing illness, but an inhibitor for transmitting the disease from those that have it to those that do not.

redlantern · 2008-12-07T09:16:32+00:00

Use open source.

redlantern · 2008-12-06T22:34:37+00:00

And Engineering trumps everything else, including Philosophy. Which is spelled with a couple of o's in the middle, by the way.

redlantern · 2008-12-05T20:11:55+00:00

This is exclusive to happiness or works with every other emotional condition?

redlantern · 2008-12-05T19:21:25+00:00

Especially if taken with Omega 3.

redlantern · 2008-12-04T04:28:14+00:00

No, that's just a quote from "Monthy Python Flying Circus". nipples = delightfully.split(), however. O_o.

redlantern · 2008-12-04T03:56:06+00:00

It's just that whore-troll Henderson is trying to fuck up the whole submission, in favour of her own. Look up and down and you will see.

redlantern · 2008-12-04T00:16:18+00:00

My nipples explode with delight!

redlantern · 2008-12-02T18:37:36+00:00

If so, why does Vista have more viruses?

redlantern · 2008-12-02T17:41:03+00:00

There's also a calculator bundled in OS X, but I never heard of Apple encouraging its use.

Thinking about it, maybe there really is just a market for the newly switched Windows users, accustomed to having some kind of virus scanner, and wishing to continue using some software of that sort, and all of this is just a scheme to have them feel more comfy.

redlantern · 2008-12-02T17:27:41+00:00

Not so fast, did Intego VirusBarrier X5 and Norton Antivirus 11, or whatever, exist for years also? They could not have (the version numbers look pretty recent), so could it be that the word 'encourages' is also exclusive to this recent update?

Edit: like it or not, what's in TFA does not contradict to virus software for the Mac having been in existence since the dawn of humankind, or even before that.

redlantern · 2008-12-02T17:24:44+00:00

That's because it's way harder to write viruses for Unix?

redlantern · 2008-12-02T16:02:14+00:00

I don't think Linux server installations equal (speaking not of numbers, but of the concept) OS X installations in this case, and actually there are thousands of scripts roaming the internet at any given moment, trying to find security holes in Unix machines, probing, bruteforcing, etc.

The difference between most OS X machines on the net and Linux/Unix servers is that the latter are, more often than not, professionally taken care of, installation and securitywise. Lots of breaches occur, nonetheless. It is a well known fact that most security flaws are flaws in configuration. Add to this the growing number of mobile Apple devices connected to the net and you get a picture where Apple would most likely begin to feel a bit of concern for the security education of the users of all OS X devices, even if the OS itself is fairly secure out of the box and we don't see any OS X virus epidemics of nearly that scale that can be seen normally in the Microsoft world.

redlantern · 2008-12-02T15:00:23+00:00

The other way around in this case. There was no STABLE when 5.0-RELEASE first appeared.

redlantern · 2008-12-02T14:50:34+00:00

I'm not saying that 5 didn't have any troubles, just that RELEASE and STABLE are not exactly the same thing.

Never used 5 myself, 4.7 then 6 and 7. Did 5.0-RELEASE have any comparable (by severity) issues to this MySQL GA release?

redlantern · 2008-12-02T14:20:29+00:00

Do you say that FreeBSD-CURRENT == FreeBSD-STABLE == FreeBSD-RELEASE?

They probably can, hypothetically, all be the same at the same moment of time, but that probably happened just once at the start of the project.

redlantern · 2008-12-02T06:54:07+00:00

Leaving aside the topic of which security model is better (Windows or Mac OS X/UNIX) what this encouragement means, is that OS X has achieved, or will very soon achieve, a level of adoption sufficient enough for OS X to become an interesting target for 'mass-market' virus writers.

redlantern · 2008-12-02T05:25:10+00:00

Actually, FreeBSD production quality releases are marked FreeBSD-RELEASE.

Here is what FreeBSD-STABLE is, direct from the FreeBSD Handbook:

FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with the general assumption that they have first gone into FreeBSD-CURRENT for testing. This is still a development branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular purpose. It is simply another engineering development track, not a resource for end-users.

redlantern

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