Ace quote from Bruce Schneier’s book Secrets and Lies:
The first firewalls were on trains. Coal-powered trains had a large furnace in the engine room, along with a pile of coal. The engineer would shovel coal into the engine. This process created coal dust, which was highly flammable. Occasionally the coal [...]
Lousy licensing click throughs:
[root@two /usr/ports-work/distfiles ] 0 # curl –referer http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/JDK15JRLConfirm.html -v -d”patchset=6″ -d “accept=ACCEPT” -O http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/download_patchset15_jrl.cgi
Anecdotally people recommend not using libpthread with Ruby on FreeBSD. I’ve duly always told the port to not use it, but ldd has always shown that it’s linked. autoconf insists on configuring the build with it, despite the –disable-pthread flag.
My long time response to this was *shrug* - Ruby seems fine. Until a weird production [...]
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