cpan and POE

2005-03-21 Thread Random
First off stats FreeBSD 4.10 Release Now to buissness, Im trying to install POE and so I go installing perl -MCPAN -eshell cpan> install POE now it does the fun scrolling then after a little bit dies on this 64 tests and 2 subtests skipped. Failed 45/125 test scripts, 64.00% okay. 454/2693 subtests

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Usr Random
Hi dear sirs! Correct please if me wrong, but as i know the source tree of FreeBSD already split into two parts - Servers-oriented (FreeBSD) and PC-BSD (Desktop oriented) ? Or team from PC-BSD is not FreeBSD peoples? WBR ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the > > point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to > > run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own? It's time to

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > anyway NOBODY are forced to buy micro-soft software. That's almost correct but not quite. In 99% of the cases any Intel commodity mafiaware comes with a preinstalled Winblows. You're paying for it whether you want it or not. You can get a refund in many cases but it's mo

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Dave U . Random
Mark Felder wrote: > Yes, let's all run ALPHA and MIPS hardware. I'll just jam my Nvidia card > into one of the available slots and everything should work OK, right? Dear Numbskull, It's co-dependent hostages like you who enable Intel Mafiaware. According to your logic we should all be using

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-14 Thread Dave U . Random
> If you read Fedora's page they were planning to tighten their boot > sequence to then only boot their approved binary kernels. Save your old copies of lilo and grub. You're gonna need them if you want to stay on Intel Mafioso hardware. > Risk of key revocation later > If hardware manufac

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Dave U . Random
> My assessment is still being built so thanks for sharing your thoughts on > this, Jerry Not that I paid attention to the proposal, because I decided a few decades ago governments were the root of all evil and nothing they do is for anybody's good. There isn't enough time in the universe to read